Subscribe by RSSAP reports that the President is downgrading aspirations to and redefining the American Dream. The newly revised ‘American Dream’ includes a college education, retirement income, health care and housing. Four areas where government control is firmly established thanks, in large measure, to President Obama. There is also a reference to jobs.
No more ‘lofty vision’ according to AP. The abandonment of ‘lofty vision’ carefully crafted for a middle class, long under assault. The core aspects of the social justice movement on the left lines up precisely with the Presidents revised definition of the American Dream. Lower your expectations; live with less so that more can have a bigger piece of the pie thanks to you folks with jobs and to you folks who know how to make money. Simple really!
Does the abandonment of Hope and Change provide the basis on which to opine that it was a failure? If its author is backing off, was that entire show in 2008 a scam? Or, for the cynical amongst us, a sophisticated set up for the great push to the left?
By accepting the President’s premise do we also accept the draconian means necessary to enforce his vision? So far, the answer is yes. We are, in fact firmly on that path; Obama Care boosts us to Warp Speed! Nearly every loan for a college education is controlled by the government; Fannie and Freddie control the mortgage market. Social Security, a government entitlement, is currently being gutted by a $40 a month tax cut extension resulting, eventually, in a crisis, resulting, eventually in the demand that we pay to fix it. We must ‘live with less’ to fix it. Does anyone sense a pattern here?
This is not a new vision; this is the red line of the new reality!
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This sounds an awful lot like President Obama’s version of the state of the Union speech FDR gave on 6th January 1941 where he list his “The Four Freedoms”.
This “lofty vision” cited by the AP is commonly known as “Utopian Dreams” to us on the right.The President however can’t run on “Hope and Change” again so they need to come up with something vague that will catch the publics imagination and not commit themselves to anything specific.Since he owns the state of the economy the best tactic to use would be to continue playing the class warfare card.
I hope the police in the city where the Republican convention is going to be held this summer is ready for overtime.I think it’s a safe bet the “Occupy ——- crowd was told to get ready for an all out assault during the convention.
DD
I think the Occupy movement has been a warm up for BOTH conventions. I do remember 1968. Could look like childs play.
Landreaux:
The President is the one who has been playing the class warfare card so I see the same strong arm tactics that were used by the left at Town Hall meetings including using unions such as the SEIU (besides the OWS)at the convention. The OWS movement is an extention of the same people who want a “Redistribution of Weath” and those groups are strongly funded by the likes of George Soro’s and others.The unions have their own agenda to protect and therefore reason to keep the President in office.The hypocrisy of the left is well documented and there will be NO BI-PARTISAN demonstrations at BOTH conventions as evidenced by the lack of protest against the war that President Obama CONTINUED from President Bush.Nor was the Occupy movement against the President but Wall Street and who was Wall Street painted as connected to but the Republican party. It will be well organized and the other extention of the left,the MSM will highlight it each evening on the news throughout the convention.The President won’t condemn the demonstrations but sympathize with them and will just sit back and enjoy the show!
Add to this a brokered convention and the self destruct tendencies of the Republican party and it spells trouble.
The President NEVER had any “lofty ambitions’ when it came to the American Dream.While speaking to the graduating class at Wesleyan University during his campaign in 2008 he said “Our individual salvation depends on collective salvation.” Here again is an example where the Progressives believe liberalism is their religion with salvation to give.