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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pompsander who wrote (8420)	3/5/2009 3:40:43 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 103300

Obama’s Need To Control Starts With Destroying Limbaugh by John Romano According to James Carville, someone I’m sure 20 year-olds are swooning over, Rush Limbaugh is the most unpopular man in America with the under-40 set. Obama and his minions in the press have decided to focus on this and paint Rush as the leader of the Republican party. They may be doing so at their own peril. Remember there is no such thing as bad press; well, I’m not sure what the photo-shopped .jpg of me in the underwear will do for my career, but the axiom stands. By hammering Rush, the Democrats are telling us who they fear most. And I lay out here that the reason Rush is so unpopular with the Jonas Brothers through Pearl Jam crowd is that he is mostly unknown to them. I guarantee that Rush has changed more than a few minds since this mock enemies list began. The mistake ideologues make, from the most outlandish right winger to the leftiest lefty, is that they need to assert total control over a populace. Converting people to their point of view is not enough, the people must bow before them. Obama, by all indications, unfortunately falls into this group. He didn’t need to beat Hillary at the caucuses; he needed to destroy her. The result was Obama winning 14 out of 15 caucuses while splitting the primaries basically down the middle. Winning wasn’t the goal. Domination was. That is a story that needs to be looked into. Statistically it is a near impossibility that nothing untoward took place in the caucuses, but I digress. (GiGi Gaston made a film about this issue.) Obama needed Republicans on board for the “stimulus” package more for the image of control than anything to do with policy. The Republicans were in no place to actually stop the darn thing, so why should they have mattered at all? Moreover, the reason Obama is trying to complete a total makeover of American life, under the guise of “crisis,” is again about control. I think the Obama team will get nasty if a sector of American life remains outside their purview. Could be interesting, yet terrifying, to watch. The core “hope and change” crowd, special interest groups and age 40-50 urban liberals, will never question anything Obama says or does. They have found their oasis of political thought in Obama. Once the 20 year olds get a real taste of this new “control,” they may form different opinions than the ones they took to the ballot box last November. That is a great cause for genuine hope. Obama’s and Rahm Emmanuel’s push for national service has the hint of keeping 20-somethings under the watch of the PC collective for another few years after college. Don’t kid yourself that it’s only about “serving the nation.” It’s one last crack at them before allowing them the freedom to think in the private sector. If all goes according to plan most will take jobs with the government or highly connected unions. Sorry, SAG doesn’t rate in this calculation. Enter Rush Limbaugh, the perfect foil for Obama’s push for control. Rush covers the news with a freedom that Wolf Blitzer and his pen could only dream of. In the game of politics, to know Rush is to love Rush or at least respect him. He is very good at what he does. Even those that disagree with him tend to become his fans. Not everyone who listens to Rush will be “turned,” but many will start asking questions they didn’t ask before. It is in Obama’s DNA to attempt to influence all aspects of American life, not just the parts that traditionally fall to the government. It is just who he is. Some people like mini-wheats for breakfast, others like to jail political opponents. Until designer babies with pre-chosen genes outnumber the rest if us, that is the way it will be. Uncertainty of outcome at birth. George W. Bush’s Achilles heal was his unabashed resoluteness. Obama’s will be his need for total control. Regardless of either man’s motivations, which are probably love of country in both cases, we the American public need to keep our leaders from indulging in their own worst character flaws. If Rush didn’t exist, the American psyche would need to invent him. In Italy and in Germany an overreaching politician’s end comes with a hanging or a cyanide pill in a bunker. Thankfully, in America it ends with one term in office. That, my amigos, in the end, is why this country will survive and continue to thrive. Happy fishing.