History in the Making — Swearing In Our First Socialist President: a speech analysis

Just as the papers I read in England are divided between the comically conservative (The Daily Mail) and the absurdly liberal (The Guardian), so too are divided the papers in the United States. Reader reactions in The New York Times to President Jesus’ speech span the gauntlet from hand job to out-right worship of a demi-god, divine made flesh on earth. Meanwhile, the readers at The Wall Street Journal heard a message of a different kind — fire and brimstone, the Whore of Babylon riding through the streets, and saw the spector of four horsemen on the horizon as they headed to Lowes, Home Depot, and the nearest supermarket to stock up on hand-crank radios and canned goods.

I heard neither the end of the world nor the second coming in President Jesus’ speech today. I did, however, hear an eerie message that gives credence to the insane ramblings of a lunatic and the chipping away of what made our country great in the name of “progress” and “freedom” but what should be given the name of that which it is: socialism.

A recap of President Obama’s speech:

“My fellow Americans…blah blah blah [socialism] blah blah blah [redistribution of wealth] blah blah blah [take care of the lazy, the weak, those that cannot and will not contribute to our nation's glory] blah blah blah [new world order].

What?

“And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders;”

Thus spoke Zarathustra.

With those words, President Jesus implied something more powerful than most — other than conspiracy theorists like David Icke — can comprehend. We have to take care of other nations, says President Jesus. We have to not just redistribute the wealth [AKA Socialism] within our borders, but outside as well. And when we start treating all nations as one, we have one world power — the power of he or she who’s charge is the redistribution of that wealth. And he who holds that power holds the world and all of its nations under his control.

That, my friends, is the concept of The New World Order; that, my friends, is what Barack Obama has promised to bring about.

Are you as sick as I am? Did any lingering glimmers of hope die for you with that? Or did your hope vanish with President Jesus’ other promises, as did mine?

“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works – whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. And those of us who manage the public’s dollars will be held to account – to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day – because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.”

There, my friends, is where my heart turned cold and the skys drew dark on my horizon, where the specter of all that I loathe about the liberal guilt-trip and socialism in shepard’s clothing is given a name and face. No liberal wants to ask if our government is too big because the answer is a resounding yes. Yet for socialism to work — and that is President Jesus’ goal — then we must have big government. So he couched his vision of American government in terms of “does it work?” But for whom does it work is the better question. For people who cannot save for their own retirement, he wants government to work. For those who cannot pick up the pieces of a job terminated, dream deferred, marriage dissolved and move forward under their own power, Mr. Obama wants the government to work. For those who are intellectuals and artists of varying work, our socialist president will provide health care and wages to create ideas and art that may well be worth less than the paper they are not printed upon.

For those who work and are industrious, you are fools under the regime of President Jesus.

“Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control”

President Jesus ignores the SEC and FTC regulators who watched and fiddled while Rome burned and Madoff made off with so many fortunes and continues to roam free to redistribute that wealth in the way he sees fit. He ignores that government is, by and large, corrupt and that corrupt government cannot regulate even itself, let alone private industry.

“The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our Gross Domestic Product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart – not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.”

And here he is again, adorning his socialist policies in fine words while never giving their true name. Today, his speech revealed that the Emperor wears no clothes, that he is a socialist despite his best efforts to dress it to the contrary. President Jesus will raise your taxes to pay for the food, shelter, education, retirement, and health care of those who choose not to work, of children you did not give birth to and parents who did not bear you.

“As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience’s sake.”

And yet, I believe that we will see new waives of censorship in the name of playing nice, of not offending anyone, of bringing back the Clinton-era Thought Police who searched for thoughts against the government, as Bush did, and for thoughts that weren’t nice or politically correct or in line with what others believe.
“The false choice between our safety and our ideals.” He danced around the word freedom, because we will not be free under a man, a president, who believes freedom is something that can be granted by government. Freedom, my President Jesus, is intrinsically free. You are not giving freedom when you dole out benefits to the undeserving or the unfortunate. You are not spreading freedom in your social programs any more than Bush spread freedom in Iraq and the middle east. Freedom comes from being able to think or say or do whatever one wishes. Freedom is my ability to take my wages earned with my blood, my sweat, my tears, and give it to those whom I think deserving, not you, Mr. President, not you. Freedom is not compromising, not backing down, the ability to say that 2+2=5, as George Orwell put it; the freedom to know that if I buy a TV and the man next door to me cannot feed his family, he does not have the right to take my TV to sell to buy a proverbial loaf of bread because it is mine, free and clear. Yet all that freedom is would be sacrificed by President Jesus, to make sure we all have the security of retirement, food on every plate, and a roof over every head — the later promise being the promise of several presidents that caused the housing market bubble (that could only burst) in the first place.

I think Benjamin Franklin answered President Jesus best when he said “those who sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither.” Your social programs do exactly that, President Jesus–sacrifice freedom in the form of private property rights for personal security that can be attained, a point which you yourself are proof of–and per Mr. Franklin, I believe that you and your supporters deserve neither.