1938 LEAN FORWARD?
I debated whether or not to
address this today.
I thought of maybe just doing a
prayer request for all of our friend’s in N.J. - the devastation is beyond what
anybody would have thought.
I find it strange that I was just
in Jersey- rode the subway for the first time in 25 years- and now I see the
tunnels flooded.
As I drove into the state- I
passed some of the shore points- and was going to stop and see some of the old
spots I loved as a kid.
One of my favorites was Seaside Heights-
now the area is devastated.
So- we do need to pray for all of
our friends in the region- and help in any way we can.
Now- the tough stuff.
As a news/political watcher- I
saw the president do something that was a crass political move.
He did it because he knew that
most people would not know he was doing it- during the deaths of people- but he
wanted his ‘target’ audience to respond.
What did he do?
In one of the first speeches
about the hurricane- he said ‘I am directing all the aid agencies to LEAN
FORWARD’.
About 6 months or so this term
LEAN FORWARD became the new campaign theme for the Obama team.
Yeah- maybe 5 % of the public
know this- but everyone in politics knows it.
Now- at the same time MSNBC took
the phrase LEAN FORWARD as their own sort of cheer for the president.
None of this is a secret- it was
an open type thing.
Okay- when the president used the
term- he knew it would be heard by the Repubs/Romney folk- and he wanted them
to tell you what I just did- that he indeed followed the advice of his former
White House chief of staff ‘let no disaster go to waste’.
Rahm Emanuel said you should use
a disaster- when people die- to your political gain.
So- he dropped this statement in-
trying to elicit a response from the opponent- and then MSNBC would jump into
lap dog mode and say ‘how dare he accuse the president of politics!!’
Of course they would have to take
a break from their present mantra ‘all who don’t like the president are
racists’.
I at first did not think Obama
would do things like this- I did like the man at the start.
But- I have seen him do this-
more than once.
When the Pres gave the order to
get Bin laden- no one knew it till after the State of the Union address- it
made him look big in the eyes of many- because the scene of the Repubs giving a
response to the Pres- while he was ‘getting the bad man’ simply gives political
points to the ‘good man’.
Got it?
Now- he did no other action like this-
until the next year- during the next state of the union address.
Yeah- he waited a whole year- and
in the next state of the union he sent in U.S. troops to go after Joe Kony- a
radical leader of a group in Africa.
He gave the order to go- on the same
exact night of the state of the union.
The man we went after has been
operating for many years- as a matter of fact his influence had waned over the
past few years.
But- he was trying to get a response
from the opposing side- the Repubs- and they did not take the bait.
Finally- after a week or 2 of no
criticism from the right- I heard a liberal reporter slip and say ‘all you bad
guys- watch out- the president only comes after you during his state of the
union speeches’.
Oops.
Now- like I said at the start-
why would he have used this term LEAN FORWARD- knowing for sure that the
insiders would know that he was connecting his political goals with the
hurricane?
He did it because he knew that if
anyone had the ‘audacity’ [of hope?] To tell you what I just did- then they
would pounce like there was no tomorrow.
Then why did I just say it?
I said it because what he did was
simply wrong- he has a tendency to throw out bait like this- in situations where
people are/have died- and he does it for political advantage- that’s why.
And he played the odds- sure-
maybe a small percentage of political folk knew that he actually made the
phrase LEAN FORWARD- his campaign mantra- but he figures ‘to heck with them’ that
is those who know what he did- he’ll just write them off- and throw out the
bait because he wants the Romney folk to tell you what I just told you.
Sad.
Sad that any president would do
this- while people are dying.
Sad that he was waiting for
someone to tell you this- so he and his media advocates could say ‘how dare any
one even think this’.
But most of all- it’s sad that
this is true- and you can take that to the bank.
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