Rob Oplawar
August 19th, 2009, 11:28 AM
After my grandpa (who I am quite fond of, but he's the most obnoxiously far right person I know of) sent me this e-mail:
Ben Stein writes (who is Ben Stein? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Stein
The American Spectator
We've Figured Him Out
By Ben Stein
Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?
Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:
The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008. They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.
They ignored his anti-white writings in his books. They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.
They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student. They ignored his ultra-left record as a "community organizer," Illinois state legislator, and Senator.
The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.
Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East, way beyond naïveté, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future.
The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.
Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.
The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never will be -- a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go up or the free society goes away.
These are perilous times. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to "protect us" from global warming, itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.
Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms.
There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America .
, I had to set the record straight. This is the reply I sent him:
http://i28.tinypic.com/2exslxe.jpg
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tinfoil+hat
Sorry, but I can't take any more of it. That's some of the most paranoid BS I've heard yet.
Sigh, political discussions always turn into a mud-flinging contest between the left and the right. I have to get it out of my system.
Barack Obama is a US citizen, he is not a communist nor a socialist, so-called "socialized" medicine will not destroy our health-care system, Obama is not a racist, he is not anti-American, he is far better spoken than George Bush (no criticism on President Bush, but I cite it as evidence that Barack Obama is not poorly educated as Stein implied), and he is not "cozy" with terrorists (perhaps he would have considered a more effective alternative than launching two long, painful wars in the middle-east).
And for the love of god, if you're going to compare government-run health-care to the DMV, stop and think for a moment about the fact that with the insurance we get from private companies comes the same plodding impolite bureaucracy you get from the DMV, and the fact that the private health-care bureaucracy is apallingly misregulated.
As for global warming, here's the deal: if pollution doesn't cause global warming, that doesn't mean pollution is fine and dandy now! The question is not directly "have we have caused the planet's temperature to go up?" but "are we having a negative impact on our environment such that it will cause major problems for us down the line if we continue at this rate?" to which the answer is a resounding "YES."
Stop talking about loss of freedom and privacy when the government tries to save us from a collapsing economy and failing industries, since our last president cited fear of terrorists as reason enough to cause more loss of freedom and privacy.
Ben Stein writes (who is Ben Stein? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Stein
The American Spectator
We've Figured Him Out
By Ben Stein
Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?
Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:
The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008. They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.
They ignored his anti-white writings in his books. They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.
They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student. They ignored his ultra-left record as a "community organizer," Illinois state legislator, and Senator.
The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.
Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East, way beyond naïveté, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future.
The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.
Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.
The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never will be -- a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go up or the free society goes away.
These are perilous times. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to "protect us" from global warming, itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.
Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms.
There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America .
, I had to set the record straight. This is the reply I sent him:
http://i28.tinypic.com/2exslxe.jpg
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tinfoil+hat
Sorry, but I can't take any more of it. That's some of the most paranoid BS I've heard yet.
Sigh, political discussions always turn into a mud-flinging contest between the left and the right. I have to get it out of my system.
Barack Obama is a US citizen, he is not a communist nor a socialist, so-called "socialized" medicine will not destroy our health-care system, Obama is not a racist, he is not anti-American, he is far better spoken than George Bush (no criticism on President Bush, but I cite it as evidence that Barack Obama is not poorly educated as Stein implied), and he is not "cozy" with terrorists (perhaps he would have considered a more effective alternative than launching two long, painful wars in the middle-east).
And for the love of god, if you're going to compare government-run health-care to the DMV, stop and think for a moment about the fact that with the insurance we get from private companies comes the same plodding impolite bureaucracy you get from the DMV, and the fact that the private health-care bureaucracy is apallingly misregulated.
As for global warming, here's the deal: if pollution doesn't cause global warming, that doesn't mean pollution is fine and dandy now! The question is not directly "have we have caused the planet's temperature to go up?" but "are we having a negative impact on our environment such that it will cause major problems for us down the line if we continue at this rate?" to which the answer is a resounding "YES."
Stop talking about loss of freedom and privacy when the government tries to save us from a collapsing economy and failing industries, since our last president cited fear of terrorists as reason enough to cause more loss of freedom and privacy.