There she was in front of the camera for all America to see. Stricken with cancer, frightened, helpless, weeping. Then came the hug from the compassionate President Obama. It was one of the most poignant moments of Obama’s health care infomercial broadcast on ABC News.
Who would not have voted to pass Obama’s nationalized health care plan right there at that very moment?
Which was exactly Obama’s plan.
Virtually everyone knows someone suffering with cancer like 53-year-old Debby Smith, and would do almost anything to ease their pain. But Ms. Smith’s unfortunate situation notwithstanding, it was soon found out that she was a Democrat activist who was ostensibly planted by the Obama team in order to garner support for his nationalized health plan.
As underhanded as it was by the Obama team to use a cancer patient to push a program, this is one of the most frequently used tactic from the Democrat play book.
When it comes to selling a new policy or program on the American people, the Democrats are worse than a used-car dealers. Using only the most recent issues— C(r)ap and Trade bill and nationalized healthcare—as examples, you will find a plethora of tactics perfected by the best of snake-oil salesmen. For instance, they regularly use tactics like suppressing vital information that could thwart their agenda, such as scientific findings that would obliterate any necessity for the C(r)ap and Trade bill (see here and here). In order to sell nationalized health care, Democrats will like clockwork note the statistic that around 45 million Americans lack health care. (See, among others, Larry Elder obliterate the crap out of that lie.)
But probably the most loathsome tactic used by Democrats to impose their liberal-leftist agenda is appealing to our emotional side by using as pawns people who belong to some victimized, oppressed, or otherwise irreproachable class. And that’s what Debby Smith’s role was on ABC News last week. Despite their oft-stated claims that Americans are mean, uncaring, selfish, greedy, and individualistic (which is supposed to be a bad thing according to the collectivists, i.e., the “sacrifice for the common good” types), Democrats regularly bet on the inherently sympathetic and altruistic nature of the American people to get their liberal policies pushed through.
One need not go too far back in history to see this tactic at work. Looking only at the 2004 presidential campaign we witnessed Democrat candidates John Kerry and John Edwards using a little girl to bash Dick Cheney from the stage of the DNC convention.
And who can forget Cindy Sheehan, the distraught mother mourning the death of her Iraq. She became for Democrats face of anti-Iraq War activism, speaking for “Peace Moms” everywhere and acting as a one-woman Bush-bashing act during the 2004 election season. Of course, eventually Mother Sheehan started getting too big for her britches. Soon she was networking with the world’s most vicious and anti-American thugs like Hugo Chávez and attending anti-war rallies demanding not only that the U.S. get out of Iraq, but also that Israel get out of Palestine. When conservatives/Republicans started pointing out these uncomfortable facts, liberals/Democrats immediately jumped on them, accusing them of being insensitive and mean-spirited.
Another example of anti-“War on Terror” sentiment was the families of 9/11 victims. After all, how can Republicans go after the poor mourning wife of a brave firefighter or the unfortunate stock broker working high up in the WTC’s North Tower? But then suddenly we saw certain families campaigning for John Kerry against George W. Bush, most notably the “Jersey Girls.” That was when Ann Coulter led the charge criticizing these women for using their victim for political as well as financial gain. For this, Coulter was pilloried by the liberal establishment. In fact, when Coulter took these women to task in her just-released book Godless, two Democrat assemblymen from New Jersey called for the banning of the book and a liberal media watchdog group called for her being banned from CNN. (But remember: It’s Republicans who are the fascists.)
Who remembers when Democrats had 12-year-old Ilana Wexler, founder of Kids4Kerry.org, deliver a speech at the 2004 DNC convention in Boston? During this speech she ridiculed Dick Cheney for using profanity (Cheney had just been raked over the coals by the Democrats and liberal media for being recently overheard saying the word “f**k” to a Democrat with whom he was having an argument—a private conversation; ironically, the same Democrats and media were not fazed in the least that John Kerry himself was quoted in Rolling Stone magazine the f-word …). Anyway, those conservatives/Republicans who had the courage to criticize Democrats for this underhanded use of an innocent child, they were vilified. (See, e.g., the unfortunate plight of Dennis Prager.)
Yet another example from the past few years is the Democrats using Michael J. Fox and the late Christopher Reeve to sell embryonic stem-cell research. Rush Limbaugh was in the liberal crosshairs when he accused Fox of either overacting or deliberately staying off his medication for sympathy points. (Fox denied these claims and Rush subsequently apologized.) And right before Reeve’s death, that slithering snake John Edwards promised that if America elected him and his running mate, he would stand up and walk again. Highly effective, but luckily (in 2004 anyway) not effective enough to put a Democrat in the White House.
But now we fast forward to the present. Barack Obama was simply too hard a target for conservatives/Republicans not to confront, and the Democrats knew it. Which is why the first black presidential nominee, the Democrat Party as a whole, and the compliant liberal media would use the race card at every turn during the campaign. Even now, liberal pundits call virtually any criticism of Obama, from Rush Limbaugh “wanting him to fail” to the nationwide Tea Parties, as smoking guns of angry Republicans lashing out because there’s a black man in the White House. Despite all evidence of his past (especially its covered up parts), his ideology, and his relationships, Obama aplogists call his detractors racists as easily as they breathe air.
But now Obama himself has found another victim: the cancer patient. Just last week, when ABC News became President Hope&Change’s personal information outlet, a 53-year-old Debby Smith was called on to plead that Obama’s national health care plan make things better for her. Smith’s tear-filled moment in the national spotlight concluded with a poignant hug from the president, and to be sure many millions of eyes across America were teary as well.
Then we find out Smith was a Democrat activist who the Obama team planted in the town hall meeting. I’m certainly not going to cast judgment Debby Smith; she, like the others above, found themselves in the unique position of having the national stage, courtesy of the Democrat Party, to better their unfortunate situation. True, she’s a responsible adult and was acting willfully, but my beef isn’t with her, it’s with Obama. Because Ms. Smith is an individual with whom all Americans can sympathize, it’s going to take one of those heartless conservatives/Republicans to call out Obama for using this Democrat activist as an emotional pawn to sell his nationalized health care plan.
Meanwhile, pretty soon Ann Coulter will have enough material for a second volume of Guilty.
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