Some People Get Goose Bumps Over Obama - Hmmm Sounds like Idolatry

Every breath you take

Every move you make

Every bond you break

Every step you take

Ill be watching you

("The Police" 1983)

This business of swooning over Obama and every breath that he takes sounds familiar - doesn't it? Am I thinking of the macho men that presided over the end of the 18th century and beginning decades of the 20th century? Or is it just me? You know - those leaders that caused wars, butchery and gas chambers. Then I read Victor David Hanson's article in Investor's Business Daily he points out the similarities of George Orwell's "1984" to what's happening ever since the current administration took power a mere six months ago but which seems like years already.

...We see Barack Obama's smile broadcast 24/7, in a fashion we have not seen previously of earlier presidents. A Newsweek editor referred to Obama as a "god." MSNBC's Chris Matthews claimed physical ecstasy when Obama speaks. A Washington Post reporter swooned over Obama's "chiseled pectorals."

There are similar Big Brother attacks on recent critics of the Obama administration's health care initiatives. Once-praised dissent has become subversive. Protesters are a mob to be ridiculed by the government as mere health-insurance puppets.

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., is suspicious of the nice clothes the protesters wear. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi used a few isolated incidents to claim that the health care dissidents were "carrying swastikas and symbols like that" to compare Obama and Democrats to the Nazis.

...Doublethink is common. Presidential sermons on fiscal responsibility tip us off that deficits will soar. Borrowing an additional trillion dollars to manage health care is sold as a cost-saving measure. Racial transcendence translates into more racial identity politics, reflected both in rhetoric and presidential appointments.

The government wants to determine how some executives should be paid. The administration assures millions of citizens it will now intrude into everything from buying homes and cars to how they go to the doctor.

...George Orwell, a man of the left, warned us that freedom and truth are not just endangered by easily identifiable goose-stepping goons in jackboots. More often he felt that state collectivism would come from an all-powerful government — run by a charismatic egalitarian, promising to protect us from selfish, greedy reactionaries.

Orwell was on to something. (READ AT IBD)