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Exploiting kids for Obama; 2 minutes hate – UPDATED

Exploiting kids for Obama; 2 minutes hate – UPDATED

Last updated on: March 16, 2017 at 5:09 pm by Elizabeth Scalia

Exploiting kids for Obama; 2 minutes hate – UPDATED 2017-03-16T17:09:40+00:00 Elizabeth Scalia

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I sniff the wind of change, and it smells noxious and it seems suffocating

This child has a lovely voice. The song is creeping me out.

“We’re gonna spread happiness! We’re gonna spread freeeeeeedom! Obama…”

It creeped me out in 2000 when people stood on a streetcorner handing out lyrics and singing songs about how Hillary Clinton was “a human statue of liberty…” who would solve all the world’s problems.

It creeps me out even more to see children exploited – to serenade and “lighten the community” – about Dear Leader Obama, and the glorious “we” who are going to spread “happiness.” Or, more accurately, the glorious “they” who will spread happiness – partly, it seems, through control of media.

Because “spreading happiness,” apparently, is the role of government. Not to protect the shores, build the infrastructure and get out of the way, but to make us “happy.”

This has more than a little whiff of Havana and Moscow about it, sorry.

And why is it that – in the end – these campaigns always go to the children? The Daisy Ad. The “Mr. Bush can I have more arsenic in my water,” ad.

Milk and meat must be rationed to stave off the looming and disastrous “climate change.”

“We’re gonna spread happiness….Obama…”

This writer says the bailout marks Karl Marx’s comeback.

I don’t know about that imperative bailout. The market is calming down all by itself, without congress passing a dubious bill. What will it mean for congress if – before they can pass the thing – we see the beginnings of a turnaround? What will it mean for the candidates?

To paraphrase Mark Steyn: when this many people I don’t trust are telling me something must be done for my own good…I don’t want it. I want to be far away from it.

We’re being sold a bill of goods, I think. I look at that beautiful child, with her lovely, lilting voice and her open mien, and I see lines for bread, lines for shoes, lines for meat, lines, lines, lines. I see the privileged few driving by the lines and giving the raised fist, encouraging the proletariat to “keep it real.”

There are extremists who behave in extreme ways – and with extreme hate – on both sides. The truth is the far right and the far left are so alike in their excesses that they are mirrors of each other, or twins of hate.

But we have never had such an extreme “leader” so close to the White House. Oh, I know, we’ve heard for 8 years about “the fascist Bush” but reasonable people know it’s hooey; they know that Bushbots have not actively organized to shut down liberal talk radio, they have not tried to intimidate, harass or suppress the many who have told lies and untruths about him. For all of the preening rhetoric about “Bushhitler” the ones spouting it have known full well that Bush was no fascist; that he was not going to shut them down, or make their ideas and films unavailable. They’ve known it. They know, too, that they’ve been projecting their own instincts to silence “patriotic dissent” on a guy who would never do it.

I think they won’t have to project for much longer.

Attention Comrades! Your glorious leader announces yet another success in calming the raging markets in our decades long international economic crisis. All praise the dear leader, and remember who the real enemy is.

I wonder if we’ll be allowed a two minutes hate?. Remember when Howard Dean said, “the enemy is George W. Bush?

Wanna bet Goldstein is Dubya?

Spreading happiness….

I’m more and more convinced that only prayer will rid the world of this constant menace. But it can’t be a prayer along the lines of “destroy them,” so much as “let Your light, and Your goodness prevail.”

Unfortunately, we can’t control how all that may come about. As I’ve said before, the church is never more fervent and holy than when it is suppressed. Heaven only knows what is ahead. Apparently, another election full of fraud is on tap.

Ed Morrissey is as creeped out and disgusted as I am, and he has more creepy videos, and smarter thoughts. He wonders when the Sing for Change “grassroots” effort will get an hour long television special.

UPDATE: I’ve already had my first email from someone telling me that the “so-called exploitation” of children for the purpose of politics is less creepy than the “indoctrination of children to prop up religion.”

Interesting. One is about teaching children about worship and the love of a merciful God. The other is assigning all-goodness (and placing all-hope) unto a mere human being. But Jonah Goldberg has the definitive response to that nonsense.

Kim at Wizbang sees nothing grassroots about the pedigree of the vid
Confederate Yankee says yes, the source is pretty elite
Bookworm:is not liking the way this feels and what it reminds her of.
Pursuing Holiness is co-incidentally thinking about the two-minutes hate, too.
AJ: Paging Goebbels!
Roger L. Simon says this video disturbs him more than anything he has seen in recent years. Yup.
Jammie Wearing Fool calls them future members of the MSM
Malkin: creeeeepy
Fausta: if this ain’t “dear leader” talk, what is?

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