Didn’t Barack Obama claim that community organizing was the most important part of his early political life? Wasn’t his work for ACORN presented as one of the chief qualifications for his becoming president? So, now that he’s won, how can this administration rail against Americans coming together in community organizations to oppose his healthcare policies? Isn’t organizing good?
This is the same man that during the late campaign for president told his voters to “argue” with your neighbors and “get in their faces.” Now, all of a sudden, this is a president that is urging people to turn in their neighbors for having the temerity of “getting in the faces” of Congressmen that support a government take over of our healthcare system?
Now all of a sudden Obama and his community organizing left wing say it is gauche, even “scary” and “dangerous,” to oppose Obama’s nationalized, single payer healthcare ideas by organizing against them.
It is interesting that Obama pushed Linda Douglass forward to rail about anti-Obamacare conspiracies, too. She is claiming that Obama is being taken out of context and the White House is claiming that fake protest groups are being organized to gin up people against the president. It’s all a grand conspiracy, you see. There are shadowy people behind these protests Obama is now claiming.
Yet, Linda Douglass herself is a “journalist” turned political operative. She, just like some 12 other so-called journalists that have suddenly found themselves working for the White House, used to look askance at such cozy relationships with government that they now enjoy. We all know how the Old Media is in the tank for this president and the fact that over a dozen journalists have abandoned their careers as reporters to work for Obama proves it.
Furthermore, how hypocritical is it for the left to claim that organized protests are somehow illegitimate simply because they have been organized? The truth is, there are no shadowy conservative organizations creating fake protesters, but even if there were, so what? How could the left be against such a practice? After all, the American left has spent 60 some years organizing in precisely that way.
ACORN is intimately intertwined with the unions, the unions are connected to the Democrat Party. Code Pink is intimate with MoveOn.org. MoveOn.org is connected to Media Matters. And foreign and domestic communist groups have been interconnected with each of the aforementioned groups since the 1940s. The left has specialized in using shadowy groups that fund large protests busing in union thugs from all across the country to fill the streets.
So, how could these hypocrites on the left act as if it is illicit that the right finally tries to get organized to oppose a socialist government take over of our entire economy, energy sector, and heatlhcare system?
Remember when Obama wanted people to get in the faces of their neighbors to argue politics?
In his own words, the president tells us how he wants private healthcare eliminated…
The folks at Reason Magazine have some fun with Obama…
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