At Harvard w/Valerie Jarrett

Valerie Jarrett  Excerpts:

Obama's 'BFF' Likes Idea of Simple Booklets to Educate 'Typical' Tea Partiers

I think probably hope and change were so catchy because it was really very simple and it was something everyone understood the definition. That's why death panels were so catchy. Everybody didn't know what it meant but they knew it was really bad. And so I think part of our challenge is to find a very simple way of communicating. And it's hard to even understand what people are talking about. When I first got there they kept talking about cloture and reconciliation. And people don't know what that's talking about. They know what a preexisting condition is when they've been dropped from their insurance company.

Even if they are in favor of, let's say, a different form of healthcare, insurance to perform, fine. But what's happening is it's an anti government. I mean, that's the tea party. They really are trying to rebel against government at all. I think that that's... it's an extreme.

It's a lot easier to scare people and to get them angry when they are scared and they are already uncertain and I think that's what the tea party is trying to capture. There's nobody more self critical than President Obama.

The burden of being so bright is that he sees his error immediately. The president's staff and the president have been very actively involved in working with both the House and the Senate to try to get healthcare reform delivered. But ultimately the party, the people that deliver and vote on a bill are congress. If the president could do it unilaterally, he would have done it a long time ago, I can assure you of that. 

There's so much wrong with this I hardly know where to begin.  The arrogance?  The pomposity?  The hypocrisy?  The terrible divisiveness?  Has Obama (or his representatives) forgotten that he is President of the entire United States?  Not just those who agree with him?  He regularly insults and berates millions and millions of people!  It's amazing.  I've never seen anything like it.

First of all, talking about simple we all are at Harvard.  No wonder she felt she could be so nakedly, shamelessly arrogant in that crowd.  All that education.  No smarts.  

Second, taking about the use of fear to get what you want?  Are you stinkin' kidding me?  Her boss is the master of that... to get what he wants.  Not to scare terrorists.  Oh no.  Mustn't make the terrorists nervous.  That could p-ss them off and make them feel all icky about us big, bad capitalists.  But it's perfectly acceptable to use words like "catastrophic" to push through a 1,000 page stimulus bill in less time than anyone could literally read it, never mind understand it, then blow God knows how much money (and carbon!) to take Michelle out to dinner in New York for Valentine's Day while the finished legislation sits on his desk for four days!  I thought it was urgently urgent or the consequences would be catastrophic?  Good thing you guys got a good meal up in Manhattan.  Might've been your last, huh?  The sky was falling!  Did you get a doggie bag?  In the pretty, pretty tin foil the rest of us wear on our heads?  God forbid you stay home and, I dunno, have the White House chef whip up some arugula by candlelight.  Yeah.  The guy in the basement.  I understand he can work magic with flour and butter.  The rest of us?  We'll be eating leftovers at home by candlelight. Because nearly one in five Americans is unemployed or underemployed and can't pay the electric bill.  But don't let that bother you, big guy.  The lady wants what the lady wants.

Thirdly, the assertion that Obama's so smart it hurts.  Do I have to?  Do I even need to go there, "corpse-man"?

Fourth, that he would have "unilaterally" given us healthcare if he could.  Oh, I don't doubt that, comrade.  The weight and import of that phrase cannot be underestimated.  Remember, a gaffe in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.  Heavily implicit in that phrase is the notion that if it weren't for the uppity riff-raff (read:  moderate & conservative democrats who wouldn't go along to make a supermajority) and those pesky serfs, those annoying peasants, err, citizens mouthing off with scary, extremist signs, like "Stop Spending" or "No More Taxes" we might have had private hospital suites and sponge baths for all.  And don't email me and tell me about the teeny, tiny, nearly invisible minority of lunatics in the Tea Party movement.  The same network that found those few signs in the crowd last summer and rolled that footage on a continuous loop is the same network that purposely cropped some video to show a sidearm on a man they said was a violent white guy endorsing anarchy and violence... but was, in fact, a black man making peaceful, lawful use of his constitutionally protected second amendment rights. There is no way the network could have seen the raw footage and not known that they were perpetrating a fraud.  No way.  Every movement has lunatics at the fringe.  Even the ones the progressives agree with, but the right doesn't hold up a few anecdotal pieces of evidence as final judgement.  The right just adds it to the heavy, heavy pile that makes our case.  Oh... and that really was fear-mongering.  Of the worst kind.  See how the hypocrisy just never ends with these people?

This video has me so upset, I'm going to have to leave now and come back to it.  It's early, and I can't physically manage this much outrage this early in the morning.

Check back for updates as my blood pressure will allow.

And thanks to "he who shall not be named" for the video and the transcript.