"In 1846 some of his political friends raised $200 for Lincoln’s campaign expenses when he ran for the U.S. House of Representatives. After the election, Lincoln gave the friends back $199.25 saying he had spent only 75 cents for a barrel of cider.” Abraham Lincoln Research Site
November 20, 2013
By: Linda Case Gibbons
Margaret Thatcher said the trouble with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
Obama’s problem is he is running out of people.
He’s the man who discards people like Kleenex after they are no longer useful to him. Remember when he liked -- and used -- Oprah, and Jeremiah Wright, and, from time to time, the NAACP?
Well, the latest to go is Abraham Lincoln.
Tuesday was the 150th Anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. There was a ceremony at Gettysburg, but Obama was too busy to attend. Yeah, we were surprised, too. Obama likes Lincoln. At times he even thought he was Lincoln.
The "official” word from the president’s senior advisor for Obama’s non-attendance was, "It didn’t work, schedule-wise,” and cited the "whole website thing.”
The National Journal surmised that "even an accomplished an orator as Obama” would have had a "daunting” challenge to follow the simple eloquence” of the 16th president.
Mmm. I don’t think so.
In truth Obama had already embraced that "challenge” when he read the Gettysburg Address for a Ken Burns’ project celebrating that very anniversary.
There’s a video.
Despite his and Burns’ supposed reverence for Lincoln and the Address itself, Obama left the word "God” out of the 262 word, two-minute speech.
Infuriating? Childish? Sure, but we won’t go into the "why’s” the White House put out there. The excuses are just too stupid.
What you should know is that in the end, Obama denied any blame for the omission.
But that isn’t the real story. The real story is that our president is depressed.
Yup.
On Monday, he took a break from cutting deals for unions and not working on Obamacare, and did what any leader in his shoes would do at a time of crisis: He placed an internet conference call to his campaign buddies, Organizing for Action.
Well, he had to! He was feeling low. Not low enough to tackle the problems spawned by Obamacare. But low.
He rambled on for 15 minutes. He railed against opponents. He pandered to and massaged the egos of his foot soldiers. He repeatedly asked for support for his failing law.
At one point he even had to battle the conference call system itself which, ironically, malfunctioned.
And then, in the depths of despair – which he probably likened to the travails faced by Lincoln during the Civil War -- he made the mistake of saying that "100 million” people had already successfully enrolled in the first month.
It was 106,000. And they didn’t enroll; they picked a plan.
You can’t make this stuff up.
But you have to ask: Who does this kind of thing?
Well, he does. He’s done it in the past. Refuse to talk. Run away. Avoid the problems. And then give some Democrat an award.
To distract, he got Oprah out there on TV last week to accuse all of his opponents of racism, then gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom today.
He angrily listened to Bill Clinton make a public demand for Obama to keep his promises about Obamacare, and then awarded him with the same medal he gave Oprah.
He doesn’t want to lose Bill and Oprah always comes in handy.
Actually, it’s good this man didn’t go to the Lincoln Commemorative. He doesn’t fit. Can you imagine Obama walking three miles to return six cents to a customer?
So now that Americans are finally getting an inkling of what’s really in Obamacare, they are hopping mad.
They had no idea business owners had to have a separate room dedicated solely to breast feeding/breast milk collection as a mandated part of all plans. But they do.
They had no idea insurance companies would receive subsidies if they didn’t make enough in premiums. But they do. And there’s so much more.
Their anger made Obama feel very low indeed. Not low enough to tackle the problems spawned by Obamacare. But low.
Why? He always knew what was in that law. He always knew the website wouldn’t work. He always knew. We were the ones who were in the dark.
So, what’s his gripe? He doesn’t have to sign up for it. Why is he depressed?
To console myself, I attended a law seminar this week on the implementation of Obamacare. Afterwards I asked myself, "Who in the heck does this law benefit?”
Answer: Not you, not me. And certainly not businesses and capitalism.
It’ll wipe out both of those, and that was always the goal.
The law encourages scaling back on growth of businesses, imposes huge penalties and exacting requirements which, if missed, can result in further penalties and audits for business owners.
And if businesses didn’t have one before, they will definitely need a lawyer to make sure they do not misstep while they’re going out of business.
In the end none of us are going to win no matter what we do.
We are finding out that disproportionate powers have been carved out for Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Deliberately foggy legislative wording in the law allows her to tighten it, change it. It’s her call.
In the end, the sky’s the limit for her. She can do what she wants. So can the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Labor. They can drop in at any time and look at any and all business records of any business.
And at the helm of this very special Titanic are the people you know so well: Obama, Sebelius, Obama navigators and the IRS.
So you may be wondering, "What the…?”
Yeah, we are, too. But what do we know?
So to amuse ourselves, we dug out an article by Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist who has an opinion on what makes Obama tick.
According to Dr. Ablow, our president has a victim mentality. He has childhood abandonment issues.
Lines up with what we’ve seen. This is why Obama identifies with those who have the "cards stacked against them.”
This is why his first impulse was to get on the horn with his "supporters” when the country is in the midst of a crisis of his making, rather than to get on the job.
It is why he told his supporters in the conference call:
"All the people out there who need help, everybody out there who is working hard, but just finding that the system kinda’ feels rigged against him…that’s got to motivate us.”
We agree. It should motivate him to work hard to fix what’s wrong and to make good on the promises he made.
He’s right. Americans feel the system is rigged against them, because it is.
Millions of Americans have lost their healthcare coverage because of this president and millions more soon will. And he knew it would happen.
But those aren’t the people Obama was talking about in his conference call.
He was talking about the down-trodden of the world -- the "victims” of the world, himself included, not the Americans who need help because of the bill he sponsored and he pushed through to law.
He wasn’t talking about the Americans who will be broken irrevocably. Just those who follow him blindly and never oppose him.
"Because America victimized him (Obama) and countless millions of others,” Dr. Ablow explains, "any person or party or movement that opposes his views and does not yield to him is not just his adversary, but abusive, predatory and even threatening.
"Victims aren’t expected to lead; they expect to be rescued.”
Lines up with what we’ve seen. Good thing he missed the Gettysburg ceremony.
We know Abraham Lincoln and he’s no Lincoln.
Hold the line, America.
November 20, 2013
By: Linda Case Gibbons
Margaret Thatcher said the trouble with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
Obama’s problem is he is running out of people.
He’s the man who discards people like Kleenex after they are no longer useful to him. Remember when he liked -- and used -- Oprah, and Jeremiah Wright, and, from time to time, the NAACP?
Well, the latest to go is Abraham Lincoln.
Tuesday was the 150th Anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. There was a ceremony at Gettysburg, but Obama was too busy to attend. Yeah, we were surprised, too. Obama likes Lincoln. At times he even thought he was Lincoln.
The "official” word from the president’s senior advisor for Obama’s non-attendance was, "It didn’t work, schedule-wise,” and cited the "whole website thing.”
The National Journal surmised that "even an accomplished an orator as Obama” would have had a "daunting” challenge to follow the simple eloquence” of the 16th president.
Mmm. I don’t think so.
In truth Obama had already embraced that "challenge” when he read the Gettysburg Address for a Ken Burns’ project celebrating that very anniversary.
There’s a video.
Despite his and Burns’ supposed reverence for Lincoln and the Address itself, Obama left the word "God” out of the 262 word, two-minute speech.
Infuriating? Childish? Sure, but we won’t go into the "why’s” the White House put out there. The excuses are just too stupid.
What you should know is that in the end, Obama denied any blame for the omission.
But that isn’t the real story. The real story is that our president is depressed.
Yup.
On Monday, he took a break from cutting deals for unions and not working on Obamacare, and did what any leader in his shoes would do at a time of crisis: He placed an internet conference call to his campaign buddies, Organizing for Action.
Well, he had to! He was feeling low. Not low enough to tackle the problems spawned by Obamacare. But low.
He rambled on for 15 minutes. He railed against opponents. He pandered to and massaged the egos of his foot soldiers. He repeatedly asked for support for his failing law.
At one point he even had to battle the conference call system itself which, ironically, malfunctioned.
And then, in the depths of despair – which he probably likened to the travails faced by Lincoln during the Civil War -- he made the mistake of saying that "100 million” people had already successfully enrolled in the first month.
It was 106,000. And they didn’t enroll; they picked a plan.
You can’t make this stuff up.
But you have to ask: Who does this kind of thing?
Well, he does. He’s done it in the past. Refuse to talk. Run away. Avoid the problems. And then give some Democrat an award.
To distract, he got Oprah out there on TV last week to accuse all of his opponents of racism, then gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom today.
He angrily listened to Bill Clinton make a public demand for Obama to keep his promises about Obamacare, and then awarded him with the same medal he gave Oprah.
He doesn’t want to lose Bill and Oprah always comes in handy.
Actually, it’s good this man didn’t go to the Lincoln Commemorative. He doesn’t fit. Can you imagine Obama walking three miles to return six cents to a customer?
So now that Americans are finally getting an inkling of what’s really in Obamacare, they are hopping mad.
They had no idea business owners had to have a separate room dedicated solely to breast feeding/breast milk collection as a mandated part of all plans. But they do.
They had no idea insurance companies would receive subsidies if they didn’t make enough in premiums. But they do. And there’s so much more.
Their anger made Obama feel very low indeed. Not low enough to tackle the problems spawned by Obamacare. But low.
Why? He always knew what was in that law. He always knew the website wouldn’t work. He always knew. We were the ones who were in the dark.
So, what’s his gripe? He doesn’t have to sign up for it. Why is he depressed?
To console myself, I attended a law seminar this week on the implementation of Obamacare. Afterwards I asked myself, "Who in the heck does this law benefit?”
Answer: Not you, not me. And certainly not businesses and capitalism.
It’ll wipe out both of those, and that was always the goal.
The law encourages scaling back on growth of businesses, imposes huge penalties and exacting requirements which, if missed, can result in further penalties and audits for business owners.
And if businesses didn’t have one before, they will definitely need a lawyer to make sure they do not misstep while they’re going out of business.
In the end none of us are going to win no matter what we do.
We are finding out that disproportionate powers have been carved out for Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Deliberately foggy legislative wording in the law allows her to tighten it, change it. It’s her call.
In the end, the sky’s the limit for her. She can do what she wants. So can the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Labor. They can drop in at any time and look at any and all business records of any business.
And at the helm of this very special Titanic are the people you know so well: Obama, Sebelius, Obama navigators and the IRS.
So you may be wondering, "What the…?”
Yeah, we are, too. But what do we know?
So to amuse ourselves, we dug out an article by Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist who has an opinion on what makes Obama tick.
According to Dr. Ablow, our president has a victim mentality. He has childhood abandonment issues.
Lines up with what we’ve seen. This is why Obama identifies with those who have the "cards stacked against them.”
This is why his first impulse was to get on the horn with his "supporters” when the country is in the midst of a crisis of his making, rather than to get on the job.
It is why he told his supporters in the conference call:
"All the people out there who need help, everybody out there who is working hard, but just finding that the system kinda’ feels rigged against him…that’s got to motivate us.”
We agree. It should motivate him to work hard to fix what’s wrong and to make good on the promises he made.
He’s right. Americans feel the system is rigged against them, because it is.
Millions of Americans have lost their healthcare coverage because of this president and millions more soon will. And he knew it would happen.
But those aren’t the people Obama was talking about in his conference call.
He was talking about the down-trodden of the world -- the "victims” of the world, himself included, not the Americans who need help because of the bill he sponsored and he pushed through to law.
He wasn’t talking about the Americans who will be broken irrevocably. Just those who follow him blindly and never oppose him.
"Because America victimized him (Obama) and countless millions of others,” Dr. Ablow explains, "any person or party or movement that opposes his views and does not yield to him is not just his adversary, but abusive, predatory and even threatening.
"Victims aren’t expected to lead; they expect to be rescued.”
Lines up with what we’ve seen. Good thing he missed the Gettysburg ceremony.
We know Abraham Lincoln and he’s no Lincoln.
Hold the line, America.