The selling of the presidency, 2012, has begun.
Hollywood’s best and brightest – or, shall we say, best and most misguided – have been enlisted to ask the American people that classic question: Who are you going to believe – me or your own eyes?
It may not seem like the easiest task to market the re-election of Barack Obama, whose policies have increased misery in America for the poor, the middle class, minorities, majorities, men, women, children, businesses, wage earners, entrepreneurs – in short, just about everyone.
But that’s the challenge.
And you can watch propaganda at its best in the new video produced by an Academy Award-winning team – the official trailer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign, “The Road We’ve Traveled.” This is the narrative you will be seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting for the next eight months. You might as well get your political immune system prepared for it now.
Without underestimating the impact of such utter distortion, combined with a $1 billion campaign budget, my reaction was, “Is this all you got?”
“How do we understand this president and his time in office?” the story begins. “Do we look at the day’s headlines? Or do we remember what we as a country have been through?”
No, we don’t want to look at today’s headlines and see unemployment up, skyrocketing debt, no budget since taking office, gasoline prices doubled, food prices rising, millions added to food stamp rolls, long-term unemployed at the highest point in a generation. The filmmakers don’t want you to look at any of those things. Instead, they want you to imagine how much worse it would have been if Obama hadn’t been in the White House – because that’s pure speculation, a matter of imagination, a matter of their own fantasies.
The narrative also tells us the economic condition of the country was much worse than anyone could have guessed. Wait a minute! Wasn’t that what the 2008 Obama campaign was telling us for a full year before he got elected? I thought he understood how bad the problems were. That sure seemed like what he was telling us then. And, more importantly, he told us he knew how to fix it.
The narrative is one of “determination and progress” – with the emphasis on determination, because progress is hard to find.
“Our time of standing pat, protecting narrow interest and putting off unpleasant decisions – that time has surely passed,” Obama bellows.
But is that what he did?
Did he stop the irresponsible borrowing and spending cycle he criticized in 2008? No, he increased it dramatically – borrowing and spending more in his first term than George W. Bush did in two, with no end in sight.
But he didn’t stand pat. And he certainly made some unpleasant decisions. The action for which he has the most pride is Obamacare. It appears he is going to make the 2012 election a referendum on it.
Faced with a seemingly hopeless economics crisis, his advisers asked him where to begin, the story continues.
Obama decided he would begin with reinventing the way America delivered health-care services.
It would seem to be a strange place to start, since the economic crisis began and escalated with government intervention into other sectors of the economy – namely housing and banking. But that’s what he did, and he’s defending it.
Try to keep a straight face when Joe Biden murmurs, “If we don’t do this now, it will be a generation before 30 million Americans have health care.”
What?
There were never 30 million Americans without health care. Everyone in America got health care the day Obama took office. This is how they are rewriting the script of history.
It turns out the entire Midwest was doomed, until Obama did something. What that was is never explained.
And he had to make all these tough decisions – alone.
Wow! What a story. Do you think the people who sold the myth of global warming can sell this lie to the American people before November?
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