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obama the repo man

MsSage

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August 19, 2009
Obama the Repo Man
By Robin of Berkeley
American Thinker

Cezanne painted most of his masterpieces as a senior. Woody Allen still cranks out a movie each year though he's in his 70's. McCain at 72 and Ron Paul at 73 held their own on the campaign trail.

Quadriplegic Christopher Reeve inspired the world with his courage and perseverance. FDR, though disabled with polio, served three terms in office. JFK appeared in perfect health, but was often debilitated by an adrenal disease.

And then there are the countless anonymous folks living lives of quiet dignity though aged or ill. Grandparents who still travel and play tennis; women who keep their small room clean and tidy in an assisted care facility. The girl with Down's Syndrome whose smile lights up the neighborhood.

We all know people like this. Maybe we are people like this. I know I am: I am over 50, and I struggle with a chronic medical condition.

If you live in your heart, you look around and see the kaleidoscope of humanity. People of different abilities, ages, challenges all trying to live happy and meaningful lives.

But if you don't live in your heart, if you live in your ideology, then your eyes see a different reality. You divide the world up into those who can serve the state and those who cannot.

In the world of Obama and his friends, there are able bodied people who can be used. Then there are the clunkers, the parasites and sponges. The welcome mat has been pulled out from under us; the Statue of Liberty is sinking.

For Obama, the only needy people are the invented victims, casualties of what Michelle Obama has deemed a "mean country." These sufferers deserve special status and help; for the rest of us, the sands of time may be running out.

People often say that Obama is a ham, who relishes the limelight. I question this. I actually think that his love of the camera is an act, just another page lifted from the Left's rule book. It's what all socialist/communist regimes do: foster dependence on the Leader; plaster his face everywhere. Make it all Obama, all the time.

I actually don't think Obama likes people very much. He enjoys playing Messiah, the Savior. But real, live human beings -- no.

Humans are polluters, "cancers," as Simone de Beauvoir, a famous lefty, called us. All we've done is pillage and destroy and oppress. We take up space on earth for no good reason.

Obama and his friends are the ultimate Repo Men. They want to recall our income, liberty, and freedom, because they don't think we deserve it. If they control our health care, they may repossess our very lives.

The country is in an uproar because we oppose the government accumulating so much power. We want to preserve our private relationship with our physicians. But it's more than this: we don't want people controlling our bodies who detest us. Only a fool would have coronary bypass surgery by a physician who long ago lost his heart.

Obama and his cohorts smile and charm; but it's an elaborate masquerade. They feel nothing but contempt. Rev. Wright bellowed, "God Damn America," when 3,000 of our citizens died. Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn beseeched youth to go home and kill their parents, and they admired Charles Manson.

I've heard speeches by Michelle Obama that emanate hostility. Obama's Science Czar advocates putting sterilizer in the water and implanting us with birth control devices -- that's how much he despises humans.

One of the most callous of Obama's friends is Zeke Emanuel, Rahm's brother, who is shaping health care reform. A doctor, Zeke mocks the Hippocratic Oath, which he considers as retro as an Edsel.

Zeke calls himself a "communitarian," and believes health care policy should enforce "social justice." His twisted views: the young and healthy should go to the head of the line, and health care should be eliminated for most of the disabled, for instance, people with dementia.

All socialist/communist regimes operate with the same mindset. People are disposable like pieces of a machine, to be trashed when the parts start showing wear. Humans are interchangeable things, with price tags hanging from our arms.

They pretend to be caring, selfless souls, but their arrogance is so grotesque it borders on delusion. Here's Zeke from August's Psychology Today: "In my family, trying to change the world is high on our priority list." Growing up, his family would brainstorm how to solve all of the world's problems. "No harebrained idea went unsupported."

Why in the world would the Powers that Be value an endangered lizard more than us? Because they look at the world through the lens of resentment and rage and only see good and bad, black and white. In their distorted world, there is no Truth, no Higher Power, no "time for every season under heaven."

There is no karma to work out, no crosses to bear, no grand design. The world is absurd, and they must reconstruct it, engineer a new and improved Genesis. Because they reside in the miserable, illogical world of the Self, they have no other path to redemption.

The person of faith beholds the world through the eyes of the Divine -- in brilliant, electrifying technicolor. For him or her, life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved, as Kierkegaard, a profoundly religious man, phrased it.

I heard a lovely tale once about a convent at risk of closing because there were so few younger nuns taking vows. A nun traveled to a nearby village to ask the Mother Superior for assistance. The Mother said that this was a common problem and she had no guidance. Disappointed, the nun started to leave when the Mother added, "One thing I do know, though, is that Jesus lives among you in your convent."

When the nun returned and recounted the Mother's words, each sister was greatly affected. One nun's thoughts went like this, "Who could be Jesus? It couldn't be Sister Mary; she can be very terse. But then again, Sister Mary was so loving to me when my mother died. Maybe it is Sister Mary.

"I know it couldn't be me. I am such a simple nun. But then again, I am quite good with the children. Maybe it's me!"

As each nun started beholding each other, and themselves, as holy, they became transformed. The townspeople noticed the changes, and soon there were many young women coming to the convent to bask in the nuns' warmth and love. Before long, there were many new nuns taking vows, and the convent was saved.

When you view people as bodies that are utilitarian and disposable, your heart is as absent as the cold, metal tin man's in the Wizard of Oz. You are like the condemned souls in Dante's Inferno whose punishment was to never know God. To hide the emptiness, you try desperately to control the world.

But if you live in the Divine, then every day is a miracle, and human lives are precious gifts to be guarded and protected like newborn babes.

So, who is the next poet among us? The next artist, scientist, builder, adoring parent?

Who is the holy person in our midst?

Is it your grandchild whose laughter is brighter than the most incandescent star? Is it your mother, trying so valiantly to live on without her husband? Is it the girl with Down's Syndrome who lights up the neighborhood with her smile?

Is it me?

Is it you?

I don't know. It is not for me to know.

But one thing I am certain of: it is the height of hubris and moral blindness for the Powers that Be to dare to determine this for us.

A frequent contributor to AT, Robin is a recovering liberal and psychotherapist in Berkeley.
 

don

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keep blaming all your problems on obama and you'll miss seeing the real problems and will never be able to deal with them. it's interesting watching americans contribute to the demise of their own country.
 

Sandhusker

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don said:
keep blaming all your problems on obama and you'll miss seeing the real problems and will never be able to deal with them. it's interesting watching americans contribute to the demise of their own country.

You can't fix a problem until you identify the source.
 

don

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wouldn't it be nice if you could find that one seminal moment when everything changed? good luck with that. you've got thirty years of rot to clean up starting with reagan. every administration since then has taken you further along the road to where you are now. your economy (along with most of the world) won't work until it gets flushed out and that hasn't happened yet. it's fine to hate but it isn't fixing anything.
 

MsSage

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don I can see you never even read the piece.....if you did you would see where it says the problem solved is started with each of us ......
I really dont like the eye rolling cuz that is not what I am doing its shaking my head ....
ALl you did was see it was from me and respond....oh well your loss not mine.
 

don

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then why put the onus on obama to clean it up in your subject line? you just want another excuse to hate obama and blame him for all your troubles. it's interesting watching people like you walk further out into the quicksand because you don't like the people who are supposed to get you out of there. i've lost nothing compared to you.
 

MsSage

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You have lost alot ...you just not feeling it yet.
As for blaming obama what has he done to HELP? Raise the debit with NO real stimulas. Cash for clunkers is a bust for the dealers. The dealers were to be paid but most have not gotten any money that they have already given to the buyers. We are deeper in debit and will be getting deeper with no new spending. They are not looking to cut anything to help lower the debit.
Why in Gods name would you go to Montana and have Main lobsters flown in? I guess the steak wasnt good enough.

don do you really think that you will not feel any effects from this country going broke?
The only way I can see that is if you have atleast a years worth of food and other supplies and can start growing your own food. If you dont have any need of fuel and have an endless supply of wood to keep warm and cook.
 

don

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oh we're feeling the effects of what's happening, no doubt, but we do grow most of our food, have cut our reliance on gas and oil and would like to get more self-sufficient because as i said in my first post on this thread the cleanup is going to take a long time and won't be pretty. i just don't see how you think electing john mccain, sarah palin, ron paul or anybody else would have made it less painful. don't focus on obama; focus on the problems and real solutions.
 

Sandhusker

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I don't think any of the others you mentioned would of campaigned on fiscal responsibility and then spent more than all the other presidents combined in their first month in office.

Obama IS one of the problems. A real solution would be to boot his lying socialist arse out of office and then elect somebody who respects the Constitution. That would be a great start.
 

don

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everybody's responsible for increasing spending. it's been happening for a long time. put mccain in obama's place and most of the same things would have been done because it's washington government mentality that's being followed. a president could not be seen to be doing nothing and all a politician knows how to do is invent programs and spend money.
 

Sandhusker

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don said:
everybody's responsible for increasing spending. it's been happening for a long time. put mccain in obama's place and most of the same things would have been done because it's washington government mentality that's being followed. a president could not be seen to be doing nothing and all a politician knows how to do is invent programs and spend money.

don, the man spent more IN ONE MONTH than the ALL THE PREVIOUS GUYS COMBINED.
 

don

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well just keep telling yourself that obama is the problem. you guys are in for one hell of an awakening.
 

don

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take everything that's happened to your economy including being stuck in two unnecessary wars, deduct the obama effect and you'd still have a huge deficit. your economy has slowed so much that govt revenues are way down for a long time.
 

Sandhusker

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don said:
take everything that's happened to your economy including being stuck in two unnecessary wars, deduct the obama effect and you'd still have a huge deficit. your economy has slowed so much that govt revenues are way down for a long time.

I think I've already stated that Obama is not the sole problem. There's a lot of weeds in the field, he's just the biggest one that needs pulled ASAP.
 

Sandhusker

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reader (the Second) said:
Sandhusker you're monotonous, boring, and obsessed. And as wrong as can be.

How do you think we got where we are?

You think it all happened from January 20 to now?

I have to wonder about your common sense and boast of understanding economics.

And again, (sigh) ..."Obama is not THE problem, he is A problem - a major problem.
 

MsSage

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so since it was done before then its ok to keep on going down the wrong road? keep spending money we dont have? To keep trying to increase government control?
When does it stop? When the left feels they have had thier fair shot at spending?
 

hopalong

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reader (the Second) said:
MsSage said:
so since it was done before then its ok to keep on going down the wrong road? keep spending money we dont have? To keep trying to increase government control?
When does it stop? When the left feels they have had thier fair shot at spending?

This is a sensible post Sage.

I am not an economist and don't know whether the stimulus package was in time, enough, or the right approach.

I have asked people who are economists and heard from some that it was necessary and should have happened months earlier. That it will take time for the effects to be seen.

I continue to support the concept of the stimulus package and refuse to pick it to bits.

Healthcare has been put off too long but I agree the timing is frightening given the recession and the spending on two wars, TARP, and the stimulus package. The ultimate goal is to fix something that is broken and is affecting our economy, our businesses, and our ability to be competitive. And makes the U.S. more savage than scores of other countries nowhere near as wealthy as we are.

Just because it has been put off for too long does not mean we should just jump on any old plan that boama tosses out there just to satisfy his ego!!!
I got to where I am by not WASTING money with out doing a little research on what I am buying, seems like obama wants to spend and THEN do the research!!!!!Problem is too many of the liberal backers want to spend MY money and look at what they bought later!
 
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