We’re From The Government and We’re Here To Help You Run Your Life
May 18th, 2008 at 2:02 pm by Brian“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.
“That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added.
No longer will we leave the room with the television on, use disposable batteries, attend insufficiently integrated churches that discriminate against same-sex marriages, be allowed to drive one person to a vehicle, mow your yard once a week, have more than one punishment child, eat whatever you want, use log burning fireplaces, get married in a differently sexed union without even trying to be gay once, own non-hunting firearms, spend more than two hours a day on the internet, not maintain a healthy exercise schedule, take hot showers daily, or keep your home heated at 72 degrees during the winter.
It’s one thing for him to say that he’s going to tell us how we’re going to live and yet another that we need permission from the rest of the world to tell us what our thermostat should be set.
I’d ask who in the hell this guy thinks he is if we didn’t already have a category devoted to it.
“Leadership” tells you how to run every detail of your life. It listens to people in other countries tell you how to live. And it knows that if you think you can stand up against it that “it’s not going to happen”.
May 18th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
You know the irony of this — and it is especially delicious…
The “cling to guns, God, xenophobia, etc” quote that may have been the initial crack in his not getting the Presidency only became known because Arianna Huffington, one of his biggest (obnoxious) supporters, was not able to effectively vent the post where it became known because she was currently in Tahiti, on 500 ft yacht owned by David Geffen.
And yet he talking about mere SUVs….
Priceless.
May 19th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Geez, this guy would make Karl Marx blush. I wonder if Obama has ever considered why the US has become the world’s greatest super power. It was because we have a govermental, educational, legal, and economic system set up to let citizens create wealth and they have succeeded beyond all expectations. Now there are those who have inherited the fruits of that wealth feel guilty about it and like Obama aren’t interested in creating a global worker’s paradise. They don’t think it possible because of limited resources. Their solution is to take the US down to third world levels out of a sense of “fairness”. This goes against all instincts of human nature. I’m sure that there are a lot of Africans who could give a sh*t whether or not we turn of our air conditioners. What they want is the opportunity to put one in their windows.
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:53 pm
once again, OsamaHusseinIslamObama 08′! I’m having bumper stickers made.