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George Orwell Would Be Impressed With Barack Obama
By Doug Patton
March 2, 2009


There he was, standing before a joint session of Congress, promising America
the moon one minute and sounding like a deficit hawk the next. President
Barack Obama and his Democrat cohorts had just rammed through the biggest pile
of pork in the history of the Republic, and yet there he stood, before the
whole nation, telling us he was going to go through the budget "line by line"
finding ways to cut waste. In fact, he intended to "slash the deficit" he
"inherited" by almost exactly the amount he and his Democrat Congress had just
spent. What a coincidence.

Like his hero, that great lover of big government, Franklin Roosevelt, whose
priorities would change with his moods from week to week, Barack Obama at
first simply seemed to be in over his head. I no longer believe that to be the
case. This man is not incompetent. I now think that he knows exactly what he
is doing and it is going to be terrible for this country.

Former Clinton advisor Dick Morris was exactly right this past week when he
said that Obama is a true believer who would trade the possibility of a second
term for the chance to realize his radical agenda for transforming America
into a Socialist utopia.

Obama is a combination of Ronald Reagan and Big Brother -- by which I mean
that he uses his considerable communication skills to sell the agenda of a
huge, intrusive government, and that he does it in a "Newspeak" that would
impress George Orwell.

Those who have read Orwell's prophetic little tome, "1984," will recall that
"Newspeak" was a language in which the line between contrary concepts was so
blurred that words either had no meaning at all or could be used to create
concepts that were contrary. When words no longer had meaning, the concept of
truth was not far behind.


So what will Obama's America look like if he gets all that he wants? It won't
happen overnight, but if he has his way, eventually it will be a very dreary
place, much like the old Soviet Union. Having followed the old Marxist axiom
of making everyone "equal," Obama will have brought about the same kind of
"equality" instituted by the old Soviet Politburo. Gone will be the equality
of opportunity we have enjoyed for more than two hundred years, the right to
experience life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In Obama's America, as
in the failed soviet state, equality of outcome will be the preferred result.
The idea is to make everyone equally prosperous. This sounds good in theory,
until one considers that the only way governments have ever accomplished this
is by making men and women equal in their poverty, misery and squalor.

The most glaring example of this is in the area of universal health care. In
Obama's America, "free" health care will be a right. No one will receive
better care than anyone else. We will all be equal. Unfortunately, that means
that everyone will be neglected equally. Health care will be rationed,
treatment will be refused, and the kind of inadequate health care that
liberals claim the poor receive will be dispersed equally across the all
American economic demographics. But at least we will all be equal.

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