May I Have This Woman's Babies?

Please. OMG how much do I love Neo-neocon?! Why don't I read her on a regular bases? She crystallizes for me why I fear the Obama presidency. It has nothing to do with his socialist agenda and everything to do with the kind of campaign he has ran. Neo-neocon reacts to the Joe the Plumber "vetting" - read the whole thing.

The Left has not in general been known for its devotion to freedom of speech, unless that speech is from the Left. This is true not only in this country but around the world. Obama is more consistent than any other candidate I can recall in trying to stop the opposition by silencing it; either by legal means (his specialty), by smearing those who would speak out, or by organizing call-ins to shows featuring journalists such as Stanley Kurtz, whose only crime was to try to get the truth out about the Annenburg Challenge.

These things, of course, are Obama’s right. If he wants his lawyers to threaten FCC license challenges to stations that air ads against him that arouse his particular ire, he can do so. If he wants to organize his minions to overwhelm a talk show with critical calls, that’s not against the law either. If his followers want to dig up every nasty thing Joe the Plumber ever did in his life and publish it, they can’t be stopped from doing so.

But take a look at what it says about Obama and about the Left. And if you don’t feel a chill wind blowing, I think you better take another look. Hope and change, indeed.