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Lee Y.
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Obama For America?
March 24, 2012 01:07 AM UTC
(Updated: April 23, 2012 11:42 AM UTC)
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I was reading Gig's February 19, 2012 Gather article titled, Obama Will Replace Hope and Change Slogan, and as I skimmed through the comments one stood out for me. Okay, several stood out, but this one just clicked something in my mind for some reason. It's just a three word suggestion from an Obama supporter of what his new slogan should be...  "Obama For America" . . .  That clicked, then after I finished reading through the article and all the comments, some other related things came to mind ... |
  A Promotion for Obama: From Candidate to Messiah, Savior and Almighty and round and round we go.   Mm, mmm, mm! Barack Hussein Obama He said that all must lend a hand To make this country strong again Mmm, mmm, mm! Barack Hussein Obama He said we must be fair today Equal work means equal pay Mmm, mmm, mm! Barack Hussein Obama He said that we must take a stand To make sure everyone gets a chance Mmm, mmm, mm! Barack Hussein Obama He said red, yellow, black or white All are equal in his sight Mmm, mmm, mm! Barack Hussein Obama Yes! Mmm, mmm, mm Barack Hussein Obama |
   The Barack Obama Song Who is our 44th President? Obama is our 44th President Who is a DC resident? Obama is a DC resident Resident, President Who’s favorite team is the Chicago White Sox? Obama’s favorite team is the Chicago White sox Who really thinks outside the box? Obama really thinks outside the box Outside the box, Chicago White Sos Resident, President Who really likes to play basketball? Obama really likes to play basketball Who’s gonna answer our every call? Every Call, Basketball Outside the box, Chicago White Sox Resident, President Who’s famous slogan is Yes we can? Obams’s famous slogan is Yes we can Who do we know is the man? Barack Obama is the man He’s our man, Yes we can! Every Call, Basketvall Outside the box, Chicago White Sox Resident, President Who won a grammy for “Dreams of my Father� Obama won a grammy for “Dreams of my Father� Now can you guess who’s a famous author Barack Obama is a famous author Famous Author, Dreams of my Father He’s our man, Yes we can! Every Call, Basketball Outside the box. Chicago White Sox Resident President Who wants to go to college at Yale? Malia & Sasha will go to college at Yale Who’ll make sure they won’t fail? Barack & Michelle know they won’t fail They won’t fail, they’re going to Yale Famous Author, Dream of my Father He’s our man, Yes we can! Every Call, Basketball Outside the box, Chicago White Sox Resident, President |
    Address at National Urban League Convention Obama was addressing the National Urban League Convention’s presidential forum in St. Louis when he was asked what he could do to stop racial polarization in the U.S. Holding up his hand like he was taking the oath, the Illinois senator said, "The day I'm inaugurated, this country looks at itself differently and the world looks at America differently. If you believe that we've got to heal America and we've got to repair our standing in the world, then I think my supporters believe that I am a messenger who can deliver that message around the world in a way that no other candidate can do."
  From Obama's Nomination Victory Speech "Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal... "   The following repurposed ditty brings it all together for me.   You got lucky You better watch what you say You better watch what you do to me  Don't get carried away . . . People, if you can do better than me, go Yeah go, but remember An electable Progressive is hard to find An electable Progressive is hard to find You got lucky babe Yeah, you got lucky, babe When I found you --
You rub your hand across your forehead And then you roll your eyes But if you don't feel complete If I don't take you all of the way go
Yeah go, but remember Social Justice Is hard to mandate.
So, remember ... You got lucky babe Yeah you got lucky babe When I found you. |
 It always did seem a bit self-agrandizing even in it's orginal version, and in light of everything we learn about B.O. above, it seems appropriate as commentary on how he (er... He?) is viewed by others as well as how he possibly views himself.  But for the rest of us . . . are we really all that lucky now that he's found us? Hmmm?  pp
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While you and jj were commenting here, I was trying to edit this article. However, some glitch or other keeps me from continuuing the edit as the article no longer shows an edit or delete button; only the spotlight this button shows.
Anyway, I simply did the article over and put it here. So if either of you (or anyone else) is interested in the actual finished article (there are one or two changes ---- which I hope clarifies my thoughts a little more), I hope you'll click on over.
Also, feel free to copy and paste your comments to that article.
Got any comments in regard to it?
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Jared G. Apr 23, 2012, 12:45pm EDT
Definitely not as patriotic and peaceful as Ted Nugent's stuff.
You're rehashing Fox News-sponsored controversies from 2010. These arguments were weak and overblown two years ago, and they're even more pathetic to use today.
Weak and overblown? Fox News sponsored? I wish that was the subject. I have a ton of "Fox News sponsored" examples of news stories that turned out to be totally accurate despite the left's accusations of lies and misrepresentation at the time they broke.
In those examples 'lie' and 'misrepresentation' both take on the definition of 'something progressives are not yet ready to reveal.' But when they do reveal it they somehow forget to give Fox News credit for being the first ( and sometimes only) outlet to report what has miraculously (under their message control timetable) become the 'truth'.
I used people's *own quotes* to show examples of who said what and in what context. Perhaps the mindset is attributable only to those I have quoted, but the fact is it was and seems to still be a continuing mindset at the very least for some people.
Hitler? Of course he isn't.
Muslim? Even if he was, so what? We would be better off with someone who claims to be Muslim who understands, supports, and embraces the tenets on which our Constitutional Republic is foundationed, than we are under the virtual "tutelage" of someone who (by his own words) embraced /embraces? the exact opposite type of ideology (At Occidental... "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”
Then at Columbia he "sometimes attended" socialist conferences.
We could say he was young and we all experiment when we are young ... However, when he launched his political career he did it in Bill Ayers living room; and word on him is that in 2002 he is quoted as proclaiming, "I am a Marxist").
Jimmy Carter.... Well, for a while he reminded me of Jimmy I have to admit. Not so much anymore, though.
The *leader* of the NBPP'S? Doubtful... I never even thought he was a member of that repugnant group. However I am not sure he thinks of them as all that repugnant... +shrug+
*If* he is "scrambling closer and closer to the center" it's only because of one or both of these things --- It's an election year, he knows his numbers are slipping and he has to try to reach toward the center (toward Independents and Republicans) or he'll lose a large chunk of voters he seems to have either insulted one too many times or taken for granted. And/ or, his supporters are themselves many of them so far to the left it just seems to them as if he is moving toward the center, when in fact he is simply moving just a tad right of left but is still far from what used to be the traditional "center".
What stations do you listen to? I have never heard anything even close to resembling that on the stations or channels I watch or listen to...
Then again it was never me you were talking to here ... Never really talking to my actual article or the actual quotes etc I brought up. You were not talking to an individual you were making mistaken soundbyte generalizations from the beginning, and this statement seems to be no different.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2011/11/21/fox-news-viewers-uninformed-npr-listeners-not-poll-suggests/
He may indeed not be your messiah... However there are those on the left who seem to have felt differently. And there are those even currently who use phraseology that seems to reveal a messianic tilt to their approval of Obama.
It's not me or Fox saying this... I gave examples from their own words.
You made just that many comments to which I had answer. Unlike you who answered nothing in any useful way...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2011/11/21/fox-news-viewers-uninformed-npr-listeners-not-poll-suggests/
My comment was too long, so if youor anyone is interested, Check this out.
Conservatives Pronounce; Democrats Denounce; Time passes and Truth Outs time and time again ...
Will America fall for this cult of personality again? I hope not.
Thanks Winston ... here is a more updated version of the same article.
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Winston Smith Apr 23, 2012, 1:56pm EDT
The Secular Savior, The One.
Will America fall for this cult of personality again? I hope not.
Suspect: I Beat Up White Man Because I Am Mad About Trayvon Martin Case
Never in a Presidents history have I seen more than one story of some Obama idiot, beat the crap out his kid because he wouldn't sit down and watch Obama speak.
Wake the hell up. .... you people for Obama can't be possibly that blind , so deeply that you can't at sense something not good is going to happen ... in many areas economics, and race... more to come wait until the times comes for as " BIDEN PUT IT< OBAMA NEEDS ANOTHER 911" Hope they don't decide NY again. I'd stay away and alert where ever you are in a big city, fun event, you just never know when our " INSIDE JOB BANKERS" will strike again.
Good luck in waking up yall are going to need it badly.
What you dont get about NDAA and why we are having so many overseas troops here is because they dont give a crap about the Constitution and will do to AMericans what our own soldiers wouldn't dare do under their oath and the country they know.
Thanks to the many morons who have already destroyed part of the Constitution these soldiers have also DIED FOR NOTHING and it will be nothing because FOOLISH FOOLS choose to believe the very lies put in their face and refuse to become the resistance to a Government who doesn't know you from their jack azz in a hold and a ground...
To think how many of you to are so selfish on this so called great destroyer of our Country and your leaving your children and grand kids to fight in life every single day of their lives.
" Just like those movies". Ever stop to think how many subliminal messages are really in those movies.... deep research needed for that one...
but oh well.. good luck
It would not surprise me if both sides used subliminal messages.
http://www.infowars.com/fox-news-caught-flashing-mccain-tv-subliminal/
While I am not a fan of Fox News, this just seems far reaching.. Too many conspiracy theories and this one is, at least in my opinion, pointless.
When was a child "The Ballad Of Davy Crockett" was so popular that three different artists had top ten hits.
Daniel Boone was a man, yes a biiigg maannn
What fun! However as far as I am able to tell, neither song was sung by children while they were even alive much less while Crockett served in government. In fact neither was even written (as far as I can tell) until 1954 or so (Davey Crockett) and some time in the 1960's (Daniel Boone).
As for Daniel Boone ... haven't found where he ever served in government; seems he was seen as a man much like we would view what's 'is name ... Bear Grylls in "Man vs. Wild"; not the POTUS.
And while one or both certainly may have sent a thrill into the bosom of some woman or other here or there ... neither was (again, as far as I can tell), ever seriously described as having the power to slow the rise of the oceans. More important, neither was ever referred to as Messiah, Savior, or "sort of God..."
+shrug+
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Mary Ann S. Apr 23, 2012, 7:44pm EDT
Songs have been written about Washington. Lafayette, Andrew jackson, Daniel Boone and other great Americans.
When was a child "The Ballad Of Davy Crockett" was so popular that three different artists had top ten hits.
I am now reading Unbroken by Laura Hillebrand. She writes about Berlin in the 1936 Olympics. Jews are all ready being arrested and their property seized. Then I think about modern America where people hate Moslems, hate drug addicts, hate immigrants and the unemployed. The property of drug addicts is being seized and drug addicts fill our prisons.
This is no longer the land of the free. It is the land of hatred.
I mourn for the America of my youth when the neighbors were Italian immigrants and we sang "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" and we did not worry about what the man on the street corner might be smoking.
I dont remember any songs being sang by school kids for any other president but this narcistic one...
Let's discuss the issues.
Dragon Warrior Lee P. says: "Other countries across the world have allowed themselves to be seduced by the dragons’ hypnotic words and lies. The dragons make grand promises of wealth and prosperity to the people...."
"... I must summon the other remaining Dragon Warriors to help me ..."
... "The dragons know the people in these countries will soon lose the desire to work or produce or achieve anything worthwhile because all they will want to do is revel in the dragons’ lavish gifts and worship them. All desire to succeed is striped from them as they let the dragons feed them and take care of them. They become addicted. They become slaves. . ."
Wonderful writing and great illustration as usual Ms Lee P.
I have heard the call, and present myself for service ... And I suspect, we are not alone. :)
Char "...just a targeted regulation..."
You don't do that without other plans. what are their plans? I can't discern his goals yet. I'm assuming sort of one worldish destination. Maybe they think pigs would be easy for the uneducated in other countries to raise.
Do they not give any reasons?
At one time I felt selfish not wanting to give our wealth up for others, but, for the main part, any help we send them seems to go to those that are rich all ready. It takes a lot of people and money invested in many places long ago for a country to run. Some countries never get there.
Hey ... a thought, do Muslim eat pork?
I'm going to go look for that information on the land seizures. Hope they don't actually do it till another president gets in.
Here's a short article from last year showing just giving to the poor doesn't work. Especially in countries that don't have the protection of a Democracy. (You know, like ours :)
I put the link in the right place but I don't know where it is now. It's short article, big writing. Just an example.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2022014/Mugabes-land-seizures-white-farmers-cost-Zimbabwe-7bn.html
Vickey they will help but I don't think it will be enough to drown out the independents who are disgusted with the lightweight. Ultimately they are the ones who got him into office tnd they are the ones who will be giving him the boot with the rest of us.
Remember when MSNBC was saying that if Obama didn't get elected it was because he was black? Now they are saying if he doesn't get reelected it's because he is black. So much for transcending race...
Sucks to be you.
Obama had his chance.
Economics 101: The nations wealth isn't a fix number. It is created and acquired through invention, production, labor, and innovation, unless you are skirb, then it's handed out to you in the form of a welfare check.
Liberal ignorance on the economy is stunning but that's why the economy is sputtering under Obama. Like Carter and that ship of fools they just don't get it.
And he kept all his promises too. How lucky you are. You must be so proud of the wise decision you made and the hard work that got you the first democratic filibuster proof congressional super-majority with a liberal president. All your problems have been solved. Man you are smart!
""he raised more taxes more than he lowered, borrowed like a drunken sailor to get out of recession and left office with a greater debt than at any time in the nation's history ""
That honestly doesn't sound familiar to you genius?
Chaange he has not provided, he's made things worse.
The policies hes enacting are not in the best interest of the United States.
I'm sorry but I don't subscribe to this line of thinking, and I don't think people are seeing that Obama is NOT for America, he is Anti America!,
He is trying to put this country into a financial crisis. And after that comes the VAT, and socialism at best.
The government is not responsible for creating jobs, we need to leave that to the private sector, when private sector expands, the economy will grow, jobs will be created. Its simple
But forcing Obama crap down everyone's throat when they don't subscribe to it, is taking the country down paths that we don't want to go.
people compare that song to Hitler,
Whatever, give me a break,
"If"" Obama is re-elected its by the design of the Lord, and not man.
It is childish when everyone here calls citizens commie and so on.
Come on people, get it together and look around and listen to the grand play of all times.
I agree; but if it was only one song we might be able to move on from this ridiculousness. However, it is not just one song, and not just one errant remark in regard to Obama's possibly messiahlike vision and abilities ... it's many.
I've gathered a few more examples and pulled the conclusion together a bit better in this completed version of the "Obama for America" article.
Luckier than if Savings and loan scandal McCain had found us, and luckier than Silver Spoon Romney finding us, enough for me....