Posted by
Catmman on Monday, January 19, 2009 8:18:49 PM
Some people, Obamaniacs are discovering, are more equal than others:
Visitors who hadn’t raised hundreds of thousands of dollars couldn’t get closer to the performance. “Excuse me! You got tickets? If you don’t have tickets, you have to go to ‘General Population,’” shouted a guard at an entrance near the memorial, gesturing with her arms to turn around and head back away from the show.
The concert was supposed to be part of “the people’s party,” said Shawn Paterniti, who had come with his wife Mia from Columbia, Md., to see the show. “But still, you have the VIPs who want their front-row seats. So I guess they get their tickets no one knows about,” he said, as he and his wife headed to join the “general population,” far away from the performances.
“It seems odd to have a VIP section for a concert about unity,” quipped the local blog DCist.com. The blogger, Kriston Capps, suggested a new name for the event: “We Are One, but Some Are More One Than Others.”
That last line is classic and is one worth remembering as Obama begins to implement his
Soviet-style 5 Year planeconomic and recovery stimulus plan. Ace keys us into
how ABC is just now mentioning the exhorbitant costs involved:
Here's some whining about the cost:
A grandmother of four sent the White House a tongue-in-cheek invitation to hold the inauguration at her house under rented tents, proposing to free up millions of dollars to feed and house the poor…
“I was just outraged when I was made aware of the amount of money being spent on a party,” said Sandra Mikovich-Pogorelc, a manager for a pharmaceutical company near San Diego who e-mailed her disgust to the White House.
“The money could be used for other things. I don’t resent anyone who goes. I just feel it’s such a waste…”
Internet blog sites… are filled with discussions about the human suffering that could be alleviated with the $35 million to $40 million being spent on the inauguration.
Ahem. That was, as the Deceiver tricks you, from January 2005.
As the liberals clamber to explain away (as if) such enormous taxpayer expense (for a party), Ace also offers up a bit of scriptural justification:
The fact of the matter is that Obama is The New Messiah, the Risen Christ.
And he can point to scripture to defend this incredible expenditure. Let us recount Mary's annointing of Jesus' feet -- which Jesus accepted, if I have this right (and pardon my ignorance of scripture if I don't have it right), not because it gave him great pleasure, but because he wanted to permit Mary to make this sacrifice, as her conscience directed her.
John 12:1-8
1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,
5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
The poor we will always have with us, but The One we will only have for four to eight years.
The way these celebrities are prostrating themselves before The One it makes one wonder if Ace is simply being sarcastic, or is genuinely convinced this guy thinks he's Christ. If we listen to his followerssupporters, one would think it the latter instead of the former.
But that doesn’t mean I will forgive and forget an era of narcissism, petty complaining and conspiracy theory peddling from the majority celebrity class that began well before Iraq.
Conspiracy theories of America’s complicity in 9/11 dominated cocktail party discussions for eight tedious years. They couldn’t simply disagree with Bush. They had to ascribe evil to his motivations and make sure the whole world agreed on that flawed premise.
Yet, hating the president doesn’t mean one can’t still help out the country in a great time of need. But many went to foreign countries and demeaned it instead. Called those that disagreed with them rubes and hicks. The elitism of the celebrities against flyover country America could not have been more pronounced. They made a boat-load of movies that affirmed this narrow and patronizing world view.
And now they want us back.
We’re all Americans — NOW.
It’s a convenient lie the celebrity left peddles that they were with us during the initial Afghanistan phase of the war, and even after 9/11.
No syrupy revisionism will change this fact.
So The One is simply doing us all a kindness, allowing us to sacrifice for our own souls.
Did you ask yourself the same question watching this as I: "Why haven't you 'pledged' any of these things until now?" More:
This video illustrates that the current celebrity class are not citizens but serfs. They need a leader to put their minds in the right place to do the right thing. They are not heroic individualists seeking to extend America’s promise but conformists who chose to sit out and complain during the tough years in order to ensure their guy got in the next go-around.
The celebrity decadence during the “oppressive” Bush years was world class. The clubs raged. The boutique hotels rocked. The private jet industry at Van Nuys airport flourished. The party never stopped. And only a precious few (Thank you, dearly!!!) stepped up to support the American troops who have been valiantly fighting for Hollywood’s right to do lines off of each others’ buttocks at $10 million Hollywood Hills mansions.
They never spoke up against the movies that demonized our military.
They never made movies to counter the libel.
They took the easy route. And blamed Bush for everything.
And finally:
Remember this video: It is a instructive relic of the era of celebrity decadence and boutique anti-Republican activism under President Bush. It is a sickening display that they want fast and easy absolution for having comported themselves like ill-behaved children for eight difficult and war-torn years.
Good luck, President Obama. The rest of you can go to hell.
Well said.