Lies, Damn Lies, And Obots

I think I mentioned last week that I was on Barack Obama's e-mailing list, so I have the dubious 'privilege' of seeing the lies pushed out by the savviest Internet/e-mail campaign staff EVER first hand.  One of them, in particular, jumped out at me, so I wanted to share a little bit of it with you, along with some comments to set the record straight:

All throughout August, our members of Congress are back in town. Insurance companies and partisan attack groups are stirring up fear with false rumors about the President's plan, and it's extremely important that folks like you speak up now.

Hm, now wait a second...wasn't it the Democrats who accused insurance companies and Rush Limbaugh of organizing a giant, nationwide astroturfing campaign?  Remember, astroturfing is the deliberate generation of a fake grass roots movement, and was masterminded by Obama adviser David Axelrod.  Now, does this e-mail from the White House sound like astroturfing to you?

So we've cooked up an easy, powerful way for you to make a big impression: Office Visits for Health Reform.

All this week, OFA members like you will be stopping by local congressional offices to show our support for insurance reform. You can have a quick conversation with the local staff, tell your personal story, or even just drop off a customized flyer and say that reform matters to you.

We'll provide everything you need: the address, phone number, and open hours for the office, information about how the health care crisis affects your state for you to drop off (with the option of adding your personal story), and a step-by-step guide for your visit.

Translation: we know you're too stupid to figure out any of this stuff on your own, so just do what we tell you.  And, by the way, Democrats are now literally advertising for paying rent-a-mob gigs on Craigslist.  You just can't make this stuff up!  Well, George Orwell did...

Anyway, here's the really intriguing part:

As you've probably seen in the news, special interest attack groups are stirring up partisan mobs with lies about health reform, and it's getting ugly. Across the country, members of Congress who support reform are being shouted down, physically assaulted, hung in effigy, and receiving death threats. We can't let extremists hijack this debate, or confuse Congress about where the people stand.

Oh, really?  If you've been reading this blog over the past couple weeks, you've seen exactly what the 'mobs' look like - you and me, just people who are unhappy with this process and demanding some real answers from people avoiding accountability.  And can anyone point to a single instance of a member of Congress being physically assaulted or hung in effigy?  No, that only happens to right-wing politicians like Sarah Palin or George W. Bush.  I've seen one report of a death threat, but it was grossly exaggerated, so the validity of that threat is in question.

What are we to take from this?  In my mind, two things.  First, the Left is consistently guilty of comprehensive psychological projection.  That is, what they do, they assume we do, too.  So, we can tell what the Left is doing by simply looking at what they're accusing us of doing.  If you question this assertion, I'll just refer you again to the past couple weeks of documentation on this blog of the various accusations on the part of Left-wingers against Right-wingers, and the subsequent pictures and videos that show Left-wingers doing those exact same things to Right-wingers.

Second, the Left is desperate.  They know their cover is blown, and they know they are hemorrhaging support.  They know their time is running out to get this monstrosity passed, and they are not at all confident anymore that they can get it done without taking severe political damage for it.  America isn't the hotbed of Leftist radicalism that Washington is, and the pushback is becoming significant.

Of course, I will remind you again that Obama and the Democrats have all the votes they need to pass any legislation they want without a single Republican supporter.  It is only the threat of being voted home by millions of genuinely angry citizens that is slowing the Leftist momentum in this nation.  Will it continue, and will it be sufficient to delay things until 2010, when the Democrat super-majorities will surely be decimated?  The question remains: will the Democrats pass this into law regardless of the political consequences, or will they seek self-preservation and hold it up?

Only time will tell.  But, it's a battle we must win, and that means spreading the word, and becoming informed and active.  Not violent, certainly, but forceful and confident.  Now is not the time for the faint-hearted.

There's my two cents.