1.) The first 10 minutes was dedicated to offsetting the damage of the Joe Plumber. A great number of “average Americans” who love B. Hussein Obama. Joe the Plumber really hurt Obama.
2.) The whole thing masked Obama’s big government creed as he sought to come across as moderate to conservative. However, if one could get past the sentimental malarkey it was clear he was big government. More on this later.
3.) Fairness was a big issue in the commercial. The whole system is unfair. Subtext is that Barack is going to make it all fair. The Messiah Obama is going to come to the rescue and settle all the unfairness that people contend against.
4.) B. Hussein Obama insisted that this is the worst economy since the great depression. This is the same thing that Clinton said in 1992 when he ran for President. The fact of the matter is that this economy is the worst since the Jimmy Carter years.
5.) B. Hussein Obama promised that he would solve our energy problem. Said he would give money to Car manufacturers in order to make cars that conserve and give money to those who buy those cars. This point, once cleared of the sentimental smoke, made it clear that Obama believes the government, quite contrary to the parameters of the constitution, is responsible to involve itself in the free market.
6.) B. Hussein Obama said that he is going to shrink government. What a liar. How can he shrink government when he promises that he is going to get involved with the auto industry, be responsible to make sure everybody can get a college education, and socialize the health care industry.
7.) B. Hussein Obama promised to get out of Iraq. This is easier said than done. How is he going to get out of Iraq without creating a vacuum that Iran will fill — to the point that Iran becomes a regional hegemon? Going into Iraq was a idiotic mistake but leaving Iraq in a way that Iran forms a new caliphate that stretches across the Arab world is not particularly wise.
8.) My sense is that this informerical was designed to help Democrats down ticket on the ballot. He had a great number of Democrat politicians in his infomercial.
9.) His commercial was heavily weighted with white people. This was not accidental. Obama must win enough of the white vote to put him over the top. Obama can’t win with minority votes. Obama has to convince white people that his close and intimate alliances with Jeremiah Wright, Rashid Khalidi, Bill Ayers, and Tony Rezko aren’t characteristic of who he is.
10.) He kept focusing on families that were having a hard go of it. The message that was communicated by both the families zeroed in on and by the B. Hussein infomerical is that the Federal government is responsible to bail out these families of their problems. Of course sane people know that the Federal Government can’t be the one to save people from their problems. Historically all government has ever known is to screw up whatever it puts its hands to.
11.) Obama went out of his way to say that his Mother used to say, “my son is an American.” This was not accidental as Obama’s citzenship is seriously in question. The reference was made quickly and quite subtly. Mentioned to make the point, but not dwelt upon to communicate insecurity. I honestly believe that B. Hussein Obama’s recent trip to Hawaii was concerned with the citizenship issue.
12.) Obama promised that the government would pay for their education if students would serve as slaves to the country for a set amount of time. Obama is going to be a great friend to the National Education Teachers Association. He is going to force children to stay in government schools. That is his record.
13.) Obama promised universal health care.
14.) Obama is angry at insurance companies that hurt his mom while she was ill.
15.) Obama read all the Harry Potter books to his daughter.
16.) Obama was sold as a real family man. Another appeal to white people that he is not a wild eyed radical.
17.) Obama say’s, “I am my brother’s keeper.” When the government says that they are endorsing socialism. It is not the job of the US Government to be the keeper of their brother. The State is not the Father of the people. If the US Government’s powers are enumerated and delegated then the US government, constitutionally has no place being “their brother’s keeper.” This idea that “the government is my brother’s keeper,” can be so blithely sold is indicative how thick the American people are regarding the role of the US government according to the constitution.
18.) Democratic Senate colleagues lied through their teeth in order to try and suggest that Obama had an incredible influence on the US Senate. This is recorded as abundantly not true.
19.) B. Hussein Obama tried to sell himself as a tough guy who can handle the job of commander in chief.
20.) Infomercial ended with people testifying on what a great guy Obama is. Tearjerker moment. Obama is the post-racial candidate. He will bring people together.
21.) Final scene was live. Obama speaking about change. Big themes about how he is going to help the middle class. Hope over fear. Unity over division. We can choose our better history. This is such claptrap. Politics is the art of lying well.
22.) Obama said he wouldn’t be a perfect President but that he would always tell people the truth. This is itself a lie. He hasn’t been truthful at all thus far. A liar doesn’t suddenly become someone who tells the truth. The emphasis on truth telling in the infomerical was likely because that is an issue with focus groups.
Background had about 10 white people and two black people. This is not accidental.
We will change the country and change the world. I’m sure he will if he gets the chance.
Impressions.
I’m kind of surprised. I expected more set scenes. I expected more of a context where Obama was set in a Presidential setting. I’m sure this will convince those already in the tank for B. Hussein Obama, but I have serious doubts that this infomercial will move the undecideds. The attempt of the infomercial was to show Obama as just an average American, fighting for the little guy. Little guys like Jeremiah Wrigyht, Bill Ayers, Father Pfleger, Rashid Khalidi, Tony Rezko, Frank Marshall Davis, and who knows how many other radical terrorist leftists.
Hey Heldveld,
Yeah, when I heard about that “Kalamazoo Promise” several years ago I just rolled my eyes and groaned. I keep telling family members who were big on the “Kalamazoo Promise” that their children would be better off growing up completely ignorant then attending government school.
Secondly, given the State’s maliciousness I would prefer to break the State’s arms then have them be my keeper.
The following quotes are from The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer, Simon & Schuster
EDUCATION
Hitler speaking:
{“When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ “ he said in a speech on November 6, 1933, “I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already … What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.’ “ And on May 1, 1937, he declared, “This new Reich will give its youth to no one, but itself will take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing.” It was not an idle boast; that was precisely what was happening.}
P 249
“The concordat of July 20, 1933, had specifically provided for the unhindered continuance of the Catholic youth Association. On December 1, 1936, Hitler decreed a law outlawing it and all other non-Nazi organizations for young people.
‘… All of the German youth in the Reich is organized within the Hitler Youth. The German youth, besides being reared within the family and schools, shall be educated physically, intellectually and morally in the spirit of National Socialism … the Hitler youth.’ ” P 253
“Every person in the teaching profession, from kindergarten through the universities, was compelled to join the National Socialist Teachers’ League which, by law, was held ‘responsible for the execution of the ideological and political co-ordination of all teachers in accordance with the national Socialist doctrine.’ “ p 249
“At ten, after passing suitable tests in athletics, camping and Nazified history, he graduated into the Jungvolk (Young Folk), where he took the following oath: ‘In the presence of this blood banner, which represents our Feuhrer, I swear to devote all my energies and my strength to the savior of our country, Adolf Hitler. I am willing and ready to give up my life for him, so help me god.’ “ p 253
THE CHURCHES
“The *German Christians* ardently supported the Nazi doctrines of race and the leadership principle and wanted them applied to a Reich Church which would bring all Protestants into one all-embracing body. In 1933 the *German Christians* had some three thousand out of some seventeen thousand pastors, though their lay followers probably represented a larger percentage of churchgoers.
Opposed to the *German Christians* was another minority group which called itself the *Confessional Church.* It had about the same number of pastors and was eventually led by Niemoeller. It opposed the Nazification of the Protestant churches, rejected the Nazi racial theories and denounced the anti-Christian doctrines of Rosenberg and other Nazi leaders. In between the majority of the Protestants, who seemed too timid to join either of the two warring groups, who sat on the fence and eventually, for the most part, landed in the arms of Hitler accepting his authority to intervene in church affairs and obeying his commands without open protest.
It is difficult to understand the behavior of most German Prostestants in the Nazi years unless one is aware of two things; their history and the influence of Martin Luther.” pp 235-236
THE PRESS
“The Reich Press Law of October 4, 1933, which made journalism a ‘public vocation,’ regulated by law, stipulated that all editors must posses German citizenship, be of Aryan descent and not married to a Jew. Section 14 of the Press Law ordered editors ‘to keep out of the news papers anything which in any manner is misleading to the public, mixes selfish aims with community aims, tends to weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly, the common will of the German people, the defese of Germany, its culture and economy” p 245
Think Abe Lincoln and his version of the “Fairness Doctrine”.
Good book. Highly recommend it! Portions brought tears to my eyes.
Familiarity with that book and many books like that is what has me seriously unhinged. I sense I am watching something unfold in my country that I have read about unfolding in different countries (France during French Revolution, Germany during Weimar Republic and rise of National Socialism, Russia and the communists, These United States during the Second War For American Independce, among others.)
I know God is sovereign. Because He is sovereign I scream about those things that are currently happening that are a denial of his sovereignty.
And one more thing ….
Winston Churchill’s Six volume series on WWII brings out some of the same points that Shirer does on education and the military as institutions that shape the people. The rememberance and reality of this stokes my blood pressure even more towards those who want to insist that education isn’t religious. That position is willful ignorance on metabolic steroids.
I heartily agree.
In those quotes we have indoctrination by the state (education), Messiahship, Lutheran (2k) theology regarding the state and the Fairness Doctrine. Things going on right now. The media really has a dislike for Jonah Goldberg for simlarities he has noted between the Nazi’s and today’s liberals.
Anyone interested in the roots of Nazism might be interested in *FROM DARWIN TO HITLER: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany* by Richard Weikart published by Palgrave. Henry Morris also picked up on this in *The Long war Against God*.
Bret, Do you know of anything that actually details the revsionist history of Germany that the Nazi’s wrote? North picks up on American historical revisionism in *Political Polytheism* regarding liberal Christian historians like Noll and Marsden. But I haven’t been able to put my finger on anything detailing the changes. I’ve taught on this (the Nazi’s) before but I’d like the details of the revisions to be able to lay them out for the future if I can get my hands on them.
Thanks
I agree with you completely that education is religious. Obama himself understands that all things are religious, “I am my brothers keeper” and more importantly he desires to educate (proselyte) any and all for a pittance (a few years) to install a worldview (education).
Evolution is a worldview therefore it is a religion
Jerry,
Off the top of my head, “no.” However I might start by looking to authors like Niehbur, Niemoller, and Shirer. Does Shirer include a biblio in the Rise and Fall Of Nazi Germany? I don’t remember.
Let me check out my library and come back to this. I have a couple books in the que right now that might deal with this.
Bret
Yes, Obama wants the children.
He doesn’t want to let them out of government schools with vouchers.
He wants to educate them in colleges in exchange for a brief time of enslavement to the state. This will have the effect of putting tentacles of Gov’t. even more in the Universities since the Universities will not be able to receive the student tuition from the State without dancing to the curriculum tune of the State.
Beware the State.
A two edged sword
Proverbs 22:6
6 Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.
Hosea 5:6-7
6 “ With their flocks and herds
They shall go to seek the LORD,
But they will not find Him;
He has withdrawn Himself from them.
7 They have dealt treacherously with the LORD,
For they have begotten pagan children.
Now a New Moon shall devour them and their heritage.
Positive side of the two edged sword
Pr 22:6
“Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it”.
Genesis 18:19
YHWH speaking here of Abraham
“For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice, that the LORD may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.”