Print this post.The Obama Zone
By Ernest Stewart [print_link]
“And who’s that standing by the signpost up ahead? Why it’s… Rod Serling! Uh oh!” Uncle Ernie’s Hollywood Daze— On The Road To Los Angeles
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” —1984, George Orwell
“I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its Gross National Product on health care cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody.” ~~~ President B.H. Obama
“I have not said that I was a single payer supporter….” ~~~ President B.H. Obama
As Alice exclaimed after falling down the rabbit hole, “Curiouser and curiouser!” I know what little Alice was feeling after I fell down into the Obama Zone. It’s a strange land full of sound bites and rhetoric signifying nothing!
Many see Obama’s presidency as one misstep after another but to anyone paying attention it’s never been a misstep. Every step has been carefully calculated. Obama’s latest step ought to remove any remaining doubt about what Barry is up to but I’m sure his supporters are even now denying reality with carefully chosen rhetoric about how he’s sending in more troops to create peace. This latest influx will bring peace and democracy to Afghanistan even if they have to kill everybody to do it! I’ll bet those dimwits in Oslo are beginning to have second thoughts about giving their peace prize to a war criminal!
Barry has failed the Truman test and has bowed down to pressure from the Pentagoons and, as rumor has it, is preparing to send 40,000 more of our children into the meat-grinding morass of a money pit that is Afghanistan. You can almost hear the clinks from glasses full of Stolichnaya held high at the Kremlin as they watch us make the very same empire ending mistakes that they, the English, and the Persians made in Afghanistan. Dasvidaniya, tovarich!
Meanwhile the Chinese and Indians are licking their lips anticipating the power vacuum that will be created by our fall and how they can best take advantage of it. Goodbye Taiwan, goodbye Kashmir! While all over Europe and in Tel Aviv politicians are fast learning Mandarin and Hindi! And suddenly doesn’t the 12-21-2012 date seem a whole lot less fantastic than it did before? You betcha!
In Other News
Isn’t it funny how there is no money for Medicare type healthcare for the masses but there’s plenty of money for oppression at home and our many illegal wars throughout the world? Funny thing that, huh? Barry recently signed a bill allotting $724 billion for the Pentagoons and Fatherland..er..Homeland Security for next year, while less than 10% of that would assure Americans have the same chance at seeing a doctor that the rest of the industrial world gets without going bankrupt.
Of course, the measly $130 billion slice of the pie for Afghanistan and Iraq isn’t enough according to Field Marshal Mullen, who would beg another $50 billion just to make sure we can kill everyone in Afghanistan ten times over, thus assuring democracy comes to Kabul!
On the home front Frau Napolitano of Homeland Security has $44 billion to keep track of you and yours just as she kept track of all those pesky Mexican Americans when she was governor of Arizona. Money to track your every move in cyber space, on your telephone, your cell phone (Did you know that they can listen in and track your every move even when your cell phone is turned off?). Your every move on Twitter, your every keystroke when you text. Not to mention all those cameras on every street corner in every city, all for your own safety and for no other reason. (If you buy that then you might want to buy this bridge that I own in Brooklyn? It’s a real money maker!) All Hail Big Brother… or else!
And Finally
Seems old Barry can’t do a thing without my approval, not only my approval but my money as well. Here’s his latest ploy and my reply…
From: President Barack Obama info@barackobama.com
To: Ernest Stewart Uncle-ernie@journalist.com
Sent: Sun, Nov 8, 2009 1:42 am
Subject: Making history
“Ernest —
This evening, at 11:15 p.m., the House of Representatives voted to pass their health insurance reform bill. Despite countless attempts over nearly a century, no chamber of Congress has ever before passed comprehensive health reform. This is history.
But you and millions of your fellow Organizing for America supporters didn’t just witness history tonight — you helped make it. Each “yes” vote was a brave stand, backed up by countless hours of knocking on doors, outreach in town halls and town squares, millions of signatures, and hundreds of thousands of calls. You stood up. You spoke up. And you were heard.
So this is a night to celebrate — but not to rest. Those who voted for reform deserve our thanks, and the next phase of this fight has already begun.
The final Senate bill hasn’t even been released yet, but the insurance companies are already pressing hard for a filibuster to bury it. OFA has built a massive neighborhood-by-neighborhood operation to bring people’s voices to Congress, and tonight we saw the results. But the coming days will put our efforts to the ultimate test. Winning will require each of us to give everything we can, starting right now.
Please donate $5 or whatever you can afford so we can finish this fight.
Tonight’s vote brought every American closer to the secure, affordable care we need. But it was also a watershed moment in how change is made.
Even after last year’s election, many insider lobbyists and partisan operatives really thought that the old formula of scare tactics, D.C. back-scratching and special-interest money would still be enough to block any idea they didn’t like. Now, they’re desperate. Because, tonight, you made it crystal clear: the old rules are changing — and the people will not be ignored.
In the final phases of last year’s election, I often reminded folks, “Don’t think for a minute that power concedes without a fight,” and it’s especially true today. But that’s okay — we’re not afraid of a fight. And as you continue to prove, when all of us work together, we have what it takes to win.
Please donate to OFA’s campaign to win this fight and ensure that real health reform reaches my desk by the end of this year:
https://donate.barackobama.com/History
Let’s keep making history,
President Barack Obama
Yo Barry,
Oh yippee, so we passed the “Health Insurance Company Protection Act of 2009” and you want me to send you money? No, you send me money to pay for this act of treason because we’re going to need it lest we be sent to a “Happy Camp” by some insurance company death panel for not buying enough of their product. Who needs food and shelter when you have worthless insurance? Thanks Barry, thanks for selling us out.
Let’s examine sections 7203 and 7201 of this outrage.
Section 7203: – misdemeanor willful failure to pay is punishable by a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year.
Section 7201: – felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years.
Minimum cost is about $6,000 a year for a single person and $15,000 a year for a family. If this is your idea of affordable Heath Care then the Republicans were right, we don’t need any Health Care changes. All this will do is send 48,000,000 Americans to the Happy Camps and drain what little is left in the treasury into the pockets of the Insurance Goons. This seems to me to be an act of war against the poorest American citizens. Those 48,000,000 Americans didn’t have insurance not because they didn’t want it but because they couldn’t afford it and we both know with this Act the insurance prices are only going to sky rocket making even more Americans without insurance and thanks to your bill criminals!
Ernest
As always, I’ll post any reply! Meanwhile, I’m keeping a sharp lookout for any silent, black helicopters in my neighborhood!
Veteran radical commentator ERNEST STEWART helms Issues & Alibis, and distributes a free newsletter on current affairs.