Obama’s Godfather Speech

…[Barack Obama] has chosen a strategy based on fear and loathing of an opposition he identifies simply as, “They.” …

The president sounds more like a Corleone than a Roosevelt.

Daniel Henninger
The Wall Street Journal
12/8/2011

Most press accounts of Barack Obama’s speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, Tuesday described it as delivered by the “president of the United States.” And indeed the person delivering it analogized himself to Presidents Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and Bill Clinton. In fact, the Osawatomie speech was not given by the President of the United States. It was given by the leader of the Democratic Party.

Most of the time, this distinction isn’t a problem in the United States because historically people have tended to think that the office of the presidency represents “all the people.” This doesn’t mean everyone expects to benefit from a president’s policies. What it means is that in some informal way no one has to worry that the presidential motorcade, so to speak, will drive off the road so that it can plow into you. That is no longer the case in the U.S.

The Osawatomie speech sounded like what you’d expect to hear in Caracas or Buenos Aires. As in: “The free market has never been a license to take whatever you can from whomever you can.” (Applause.) And: “Their philosophy is simple. We are better off when everybody is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules.”…

…Strong growth is the only solution to the Osawatomie catalog of horrors. If he wins, five years from now, the president’s base will be about where it and nearly everyone else is today, trying to stay afloat in Barack Obama’s still waters…

The complete article, with video, is at The Wall Street Journal.

H/T Weasel Zippers

RelatedObama: Limited Gov’t That Preserves Free Markets ‘Doesn’t Work. It Has Never Worked’

…President Barack Obama argued that while a limited government that preserves free markets “speaks to our rugged individualism” as Americans, such a system “doesn’t work” and “has never worked” and that Americans must look to a more activist government that taxes more, spends more and regulates more if they want to preserve the middle class.” …

H/T Hump Day Report

Stuart Varney on Facebook:

At last count, President Obama said the word “fair” 15 times in his big re-election speech in Kansas yesterday. And at last count, President Obama received $9,300 and the DNC received $1.8M in campaign contributions from Jon Corzine. Is that fair?

And…

Does Obama Know What’s Fair?

 

 

The Osawatomie Coincidence:

Why would Barack Obama choose to give a controversial speech attacking American capitalism in Osawatomie, Kansas?

Hang on? Where have I heard that name before? Osawatomie? ….back in the ’70s? Weather Underground terrorists… Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn. Didn’t Obama used to hang out with those guys?

I remember! Osawatomie was the publication of the Weather Underground!…

Read the whole thing!

 

Update: Obama Channels “Mediocre” Lies; As Glenn Beck’s Head Explodes, at Emerging Corruption

The view from our porches, according to our Fearless Leader, (as his minions chant “Hope & Change, Hope & Change….”), is to “reach and stay in the middle class”.  Sit down on the American porch and listen. Do you hear the “channeling of Teddy Roosevelt” or the channeling of Joseph Stalin?  Ok, Joseph Stalin channeling Barack Obama channeling Lenin, channeling a mixture of Jim Jones and Trovesky? Confused? Me too…

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