President Obama’s horrendous political gaffe last week—“You didn’t build that”—triggered the same reaction I had when he insisted on pushing through Obamacare. Then, I had the creepy feeling that I was living in an occupied country. American politics didn’t work that way. Neither Democrats nor Republicans had ever forced through a transformative piece of legislation without substantial bipartisan support. A major American politician had never (to my knowledge) been indifferent to the kind of voter sentiment so clearly expressed in the Massachusetts senatorial election.
“You didn’t build that” is another example of the president’s tone-deafness when it comes to the music of the American culture. The phrase is not taken out of context. It didn’t come after a celebration of the inventiveness and risk taking of individual Americans that has made this country great. The president gave the mildest of acknowledgements to the role of the individual, followed by a paragraph of examples that cast American history as a series of collective accomplishments.
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The MOST Un-American and collective idiot in this country IS barakkk obama
For God’s sake, Lassie has the IQ to notice that Barak Hussien O’bwana isn’t an American. Hell, all you need is 20/400 vision. But nobody’s going broke under-estimating Americans’ stupidity or blindness these days.
Author is right, you’re living in an OCCUPIED country.
You are owned by the government.
You do not live in a Republic.
You do NOT have Due Process.
The politicians are bought and paid for by the elitists, the bankers and businessmen.
You do NOT even own the paper money in your pockets, the Federal Reserve does!
You pay taxes as “indentured servants.” The paperwork proving such, chiefly being your SSN and your tax forms.
Obama is NOT your main enemy, though he is currently the point man and the focus of your problems…. Romney will be little different.
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
You are living in a white country occupied by many non-white peoples. The USA is not a nation. It is not a society. The USA is a geo-political entity, inhabited by numerous different peoples, societies, nations. Only one people can be dominant. Right now, whites have lost their advantage and the scamble for dominance continues daily. It is interesting to watch the ebb and flow of battle. I’m set up to leave the instant non-whites consolidate their control.
@Jacobite
I generally agree with your statements…
Really can’t see anything worth disagreeing with of value..
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
Obama recently said, “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” His statement caused much outrage, but it’s just one more indicator of his Marxist roots and those of his insurgents whom we’ve allowed to infiltrate all levels of our government. Why is this important?
The Marxists’ historic and deadly conquest strategy has been to promote class warfare between the bourgeois (business owners) and the proletarians (employees). They also exploit and intensify many other conflicts of opportunity, e.g., race, religion, political, environment, gender, and economy. The Marxists, as communists, then rush in to save the day by setting up a classless society through their dictatorship. Of course the classless society can never happen, so they use it to justify staying in power trying to make it happen — usually by conning millions of their adversaries into murdering each other in “revolutions.” The classic, “Let’s you and him fight,” ploy a horrendous scale.
Many Americans know this is incrementally happening but are afraid to publicly admit it, because then they’d have to fight it. I’m fighting it. http://elect.ErnestHuberForCongress.com/
All Boons are lazy and want everything handed to them for free. That’s why their ancestors from africa, were weeded out as lazy stupid boons and sold off by their village tribal chiefs to rid their tribe of the lazy garbage and sold to the spainish and brittish for shiney trinkets and food, send them all back to where their ancestors came from, rid America of all the lazy garbage boons, then America will be a better place
Does Our President Hate America?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/does-our-president-hate-america/
“Food For Thought”
Semper Fi!
I don’t agree with many of you after listening to the speech, I believe he was pointing out that along the way, others have helped us. NONE of us have become who we are solely on our own. So, if we work together, we will get it done. Infighting is getting this country nowhere. It has come down to “sides” rather than us all remembering it is OUR country and Republican or Dem, we have to work together to accomplish anything. Heck, if you have a couple of employees squabbling all the time you tell them to either work it out or take a hike. Our present Congress is as much to blame for what’s not happening as the President is ….omg, at least TRY to work together!!!!!
The individual [with responsibility] -v- the collective [without responsibility, IE. communism/socialism] This is for the rest of us. Now for Obama [or whatever his name really is] it’s all about I, me, mine and one can hear it daily in his speech. If you don’t believe me, ask him.
It’s amusing to see how you ascribe incredible abilities to this President and then say he isn’t accomplishing anything.
If he were secretly hypnotizing people, he would have had no trouble passing anything he wanted to. The Repubs are not so immune to hypnosis as a group as to be able to withstand his eerie powers of persuasion.
This is why you folks keep getting called paranoid.
You’d rather believe someone is forcing people against their will to vote for and believe Barack Obama.
In all your research on hypnosis did you overlook the part where Milton Erikson (and every other respected hypnotist) makes it very clear that no one can be hypnotized to do something that is against their basic character?
I’ll be fascinated to see if you actually post this debunking of your entire two-article, rational-sounding but completely hysterical thesis.