Obama Wants You – To Tattle

Here is an interesting story from the White House on their efforts to oppose those who would speak out against ObamaCare.

Here is the link to the page at the White House.

The first video doesn’t play reliably so here is a link to the YouTube page.

I love this line from the video: “One of my jobs is to keep track of all the disinformation out there…”

Here is the section from the middle of the White House page that concerns me:

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

Does that seem a little weird to you? Sure, there are people who knowingly lie and others who pass along misinformation but I wonder why the White House really wants Americans to tattle on their neighbors.

It would be one thing to have a site where you direct people to get the “truth”, that would be reasonable. However, it seems very suspect for the White House to be going about things in this way. It makes me think of other times in history where neighbors and even children were trained to rat out their friends, neighbors and parents. Can you say “Heil Hitler”?

One thing that is very clear to me is that Obama is a master of rhetoric, at least when the teleprompter is working. He says exactly what he wants the crowd to hear. The listen to him, you would think he is the most prolife president ever. To look at his actions, you see that he is the most proabortion president in history. The lesson is that you can’t go by what he says, you have to watch what he does.

Well, I must to go; I have some people I need to turn in.

Philip