Obama's Fascist Thugs Versus Joe The Plumber

Last weekend, Senator Obama showed up in Joe’s driveway to ask for his vote, and Joe asked Senator Obama a tough question. I’m glad he did; I think Senator Obama could use a few more tough questions.

The response from Senator Obama and his campaign yesterday was to attack Joe. People are digging through his personal life and he has TV crews camped out in front of his house. He didn’t ask for Senator Obama to come to his house. He wasn’t recruited or prompted by our campaign. He just asked a question. And Americans ought to be able to ask Senator Obama tough questions without being smeared and targeted with political attacks.

Neptunus Lex quotes the old Japanese saying: “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.” Today’s “progressives” want very much to hammer down nails in America.

Here’s what I think is going on: Over the last 20 years, too many of America’s universities have become places in which conformity is at a premium and genuinely independent thought is discouraged–”islands of repression in a sea of freedom,” as someone put it. It was inevitable that the spirit of repression inculcated in the universities would begin to poison the larger society, and that is now happening.

Here’s an item which I think is related: It’s been reported that at a (rare, small) McCain rally in NYC, somebody grabbed a McCain sign and beat up the woman carrying it. Beat her up physically, not metaphorically. [court record]

Source: Chicago Boyz (David Foster has a way of getting to the crux of a problem)

Hat Tip: Zen Pundit (who has a marvelous recommended reading list)

Commentary

Sure, the use of fascist is incendiary. It is meant to be so. Step back and imagine that Obama is a nascent Hitler with no teeth of his own. Someone dares challenge him or his precepts, and even the Legacy Media join in the hunt to discredit the poor guy, or to beat a woman for carrying a McCain sign.

This also has the effect of "chilling" future challenges to the anointed leader of the progressive movement. No private citizen wants their life gone over with a fine tooth comb. When and if the Left gets in power, they won't need the NSA to find out things about your life...they'll just use the Legacy Media to spy on you, and deliver up a dossier on your activities so your life can be ruined for daring to be noticed.

This exposes a very dangerous side to the personage of Obama, and those around him...they will seek to destroy you if they perceive you as a threat. Note that they go after the person opposing them immediately...not the message...their first impulse is to destroy the person and to dig through their life until the find "dirt" that they hope will discredit whatever that person has said that they disagree with...or to simply take their sign and beat them about the head and neck with it.

Remember that when you cast your ballot.