Is Obama a used car salesman? Was he one in a prior life? Part Trotsky, part Elmer Gantryish confidence man maybe... Reading today that on Tuesday next week when kids sit down for their first day of class of the new school year they will be required to perch themselves in front of a TV - ALL ACROSS AMERICA!!! - and watch a video from Obama about how important school is and then answer questions, put out by the Obama administration, that will prompt the mindless little bastards to express exactly what it is they learned from the great Obama today. It's astounding arrogance - astounding and absolutely pernicious. And then that night he's requested time before a joint session of congress to proselytize about health care? That's how you have a reasoned debate about this important subject, by essentially saying that this putative reform is all about the messenger and not the message? Why else request this grand stage where the voices and viewpoints of those that oppose will perforce be muted, pushed to the side?
I say used car salesman because it's as if he believes that, no matter the quality of the product, the real value is in the selling of it - in other words, the real value is him, and everything that he is, and that people should unquestioningly put their trust in that. If Bush had tried to do something this Orwellian - well, in his own way he did - but my point is a long time ago I predicted Obama would be worse than Bush and as far as I'm concerned he's well on his way to proving me right.
