David Online

Mark Levin writing in The Corner today, The Obama Temptation, senses that “what’s occurring in this election is a recklessness and abandonment of rationality that has preceded the voluntary surrender of liberty and security in other places.”

“There is a cult-like atmosphere around Barack Obama, which his campaign has carefully and successfully fabricated, which concerns me. The messiah complex. Fainting audience members at rallies. Special Obama flags and an Obama presidential seal. A graphic with the portrayal of the globe and Obama’s name on it, which adorns everything from Obama’s plane to his street literature. Young school children singing songs praising Obama. Teenagers wearing camouflage outfits and marching in military order chanting Obama’s name and the professions he is going to open to them. An Obama world tour, culminating in a speech in Berlin where Obama proclaims we are all citizens of the world.”

“The media are open and brazen in their attempts to influence the outcome of this election…Virtually all evidence of Obama’s past influences and radicalism — from Jeremiah Wright to William Ayers — have been raised by non-traditional news sources. The media’s role has been to ignore it as long as possible, then mention it if they must, and finally dismiss it and those who raise it in the first place. It’s as if the media use the Obama campaign’s talking points — its preposterous assertions that Obama didn’t hear Wright from the pulpit railing about black liberation, whites, Jews, etc., that Obama had no idea Ayers was a domestic terrorist despite their close political, social, and working relationship, etc. — to protect Obama from legitimate and routine scrutiny.”

”So in the tank are the media for Obama that for months we’ve read news stories and opinion pieces insisting that if Obama is not elected president it will be due to white racism.”

“But beyond the elites and the media, my greatest concern is whether this election will show a majority of the voters susceptible to the appeal of a charismatic demagogue…It is a populist appeal that disguises government mandated wealth redistribution as tax cuts for the middle class, falsely blames capitalism for the social policies and government corruption (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) that led to the current turmoil in our financial markets, fuels contempt for commerce and trade by stigmatizing those who run successful small and large businesses, and exploits human imperfection as a justification for a massive expansion of centralized government. Obama’s appeal to the middle class is an appeal to the “the proletariat,” as an infamous philosopher once described it, about which a mythology has been created.”

”The question is whether enough Americans understand what’s at stake in this election and, if they do, whether they care. Is the allure of a charismatic demagogue so strong that the usually sober American people are willing to risk an Obama presidency?

First it was Sen. Hillary Clinton who last month said, “Once we get through this immediate crisis, the country should look at some Great Depression-Era type of government entity to deal with it.”

Now Sen. John Kerry says the “change” we need to deal with the current financial crisis s to reinstall President Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal.”

At a Boston Herald editorial meeting yesterday, John Kerry said:

“The nation’s battered economy needs an old-fashioned “Rooseveltian lift” of regulatory reforms and government spending on the infrastructure, clean energy and other sectors.”

Calling current financial woes the most “complicated economic time we’ve had since the Great Depression,” Kerry said new approaches are needed to reform the current financial system.

“We’re operating with old institutions that are incapable of responding fast enough, dealing with vast sums of money that cross boundaries in different financial centers,”

John Kerry says we are operating with old institutions so he wants to re-install even older operating institutions.

I’m waiting now for Barack Obama to jump on board and re-define once again his “hope and change” message to that of FDR’s failed plan of 1933.

Roosevelt inherited what was a deep recession and turned it into a 12-year depression. While most European countries had shaken off the depression in just a few years, the United States had to suffer until our entrance into World War II to recover.

Joseph Stalin did it. So did Adolf Hitler. Control the media and there is no opposition. Control the media and dissent is negated. George Orwell wrote about it in 1984.

WFTV- Channel 9’s Barbara West in Orlando, Florida tried to conduct a satellite interview with Sen. Joe Biden last Thursday. West wondered about Obama’s comment to “Joe the Plumber”, about spreading the wealth. She quoted Karl Marx and asked how Obama wasn’t being Marxist when he talked about spreading the wealth?

“Are you joking,” asked Biden?

Next she asked Biden about his comments that Obama would be tested with an international crisis in his first months as president. She wondered if Biden was saying America’s days as the world’s leading power were over.

“I don’t know who’s writing your questions,” Biden fired back.

Biden disliked West’s line of questioning so much the Obama campaign has canceled any further interviews including one previously scheduled with Joe Biden’s wife, Jill.

THe interview is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQXcImQfubM

Laura K. McGinnis, the Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign said:

“This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election”

Any further questioning by this station to the Obama campaign is over for the simple reason Joe Biden didn’t like the questions.

Maybe Biden thought he would be interviewed by Larry King, Chris Matthews, or Keith Olbermann.