You Can Fool Half the People All the Time

My revision of the famous quote from Abraham Lincoln is the principle that has been adopted by Obama and his comrades in Washington.

The President has rolled out a new campaign he says is focused on the economy.  Only those who are paying attention, have a smidgen of intelligence, or are left-wing true believers actually understand his true agenda.  The rest are blissfully ignorant and thus easily fooled by the party's dishonest and often slanderous message.

Now that message is talking about "phony scandals".  It's the Democratic catch phrase of the moment, designed to be repeated over and over again by the president and his press secretary, congressional leaders, and all the talking heads at NBC/ABC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC.  We found out long ago about the weekly conference calls with most of those networks to define the White House's theme for the week.  MSNBC in many cases doesn't even bother to write their own stories - they've been caught reading directly from the White House-issued script.

So the campaign now has these simple objectives:

1. Spread disdain among the people for any news organization with the audacity to cover the ongoing scandals.  It's just like how the "cool" kids in school use the considerable power of peer pressure to dictate what their classmates are permitted to say and do.  The compliant media have received the message, and will no longer report on any hearings or investigative stories about Fast & Furious, Benghazi, the IRS, even NSA Surveillance.

2. Keep the theme going that the president really wants to fix the economy, but the Republicans are blocking him our of purely partisan motivations.  The denizens of the politburo in the white house know that most people will never hear or understand anything about the details of the president's plan.  But they'll certainly absorb the message about GOP obstructionism being the cause of continued economic malaise.  They're hoping their loyal half of the country can be motivated to show up at the polls next year to give Nancy Pelosi the speaker's gavel again.

Half of America remains blind to the fact that the President and his followers have never been interested in fixing the country's broken economy.  Instead they're laser-focused on consolidating their power and holding it absolutely for generations to come.