I believe that this is a case of someone so steeped in leftist ideology and ideas, so enmeshed in the far Left Obama administration and its worldview, that she sees using this term as perfectly unobjectionable; she has no censor, it was the most Freudian of Freudian slips.
It reminds me of an analyst I worked with who dealt with lots of technical data–both classified material and unclassified material–about various weapon systems for many years, and once, in writing an unclassified report, some of the classified data inadvertently “bled” into it; a situation that was immediately fixed when it was discovered.
In the case of Sebelius, if her use of the–to coin a phrase–red flag term “re-education” was inadvertent, trying to come up with some statement to repair the damage would be quite a trick. But I see no such explanatory statement forthcoming.
…and back in his terrorist days, Obama’s best buddy Bill Ayers discussed how, come the revolution, they should put tens of millions of Americans in reeducation camps. (Not that Ayers has ever repudiated what he said and did.)
It says where they learned and how they think…
reading their library is starting to make more sense, eh?
Storm clouds gathering…
This is not going to end well.
I have been saying things about Obama and ALL Dems that seemed “extreme” and over the top, since he won the election.
Every day since then practically, we realize that it’s all true about this guy and ALL Dems.
There is something wrong in Demmarck.
It’s true. it’s real. it’s the most dangerous thing that ever happened to America, since it is against America as such. The logic of Dem ideology was always going to end up exactly where it is now, and they must destroy or be destroyed at this point.
There is no third option there. There is no, ‘Oh, we now see the error of our ways and will modify our ideology’ there.
Everyone in their hearts knows this to be true. Horrible and sad, but true.
And once again, I’m reminded that this is exactly the sort of thing that President Bush was (wrongly) accused of.
He was going to take over, remember? None of our liberties were safe anymore. He would become a fascist dictator, all in the name of protecting us from terrorism. That’s what we heard, non-stop, for nearly all of his Presidency; it never happened.
Projection is a very interesting phenomenon… both in itself, and in what it says about the people who indulge in it.
respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline
Daniel,
You say “projection”.
I say “cold, calculated, conscious planned out strategy”.
There is a big difference.
Who are these people? I’m beginning to think a control freak flaw in the personality is the hallmark of what current academic education is delivering up and it’s a powerful driver of progressivism.
Daniel,
I suspect that it is projection from rank and file liberals/leftists, but fear that from the left’s leadership it is a conscious attempt to vaccinate themselves against such charges by leveling them first, thereby muddying the waters.
A little “re-education” is indeed coming, starting with the next election…
Oh yeah, speaking of the next election, they’re already trying to re-educate Houston:
That’s some helluva fire–completely destroyed every single voting machine stored in a building whose floor area is that of a football field. Just kind of happened, don’t ya know.
I’m with Occam. This is not going to end well–at least not for a very long time.
SteveH Says:
September 7th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Who are these people? I’m beginning to think a control freak flaw in the personality is the hallmark of what current academic education is delivering up and it’s a powerful driver of progressivism.
I’d rather be ruled by, um, the first 2000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty. To coin a phrase hahaha.
betsybounds I’d rather be ruled by, um, the first 2000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty. To coin a phrase hahaha.
Ironic that William F. Buckley’s phrase is getting so much of a workout these days, given that his son Chris strayed off the reservation and supported ∅bama.
> The participant affectionately proposed that the White House express its ideas in an easier-to-comprehend form, such as printing simple booklets — I assume replete with large print and colorful pictures
LOL, Obamacare: The Graphic Novel — at only 20,000 pages, it’s a great weekend read!!
Having lived in the DDR in what were soom to become its’ last days, even THEY couldn’t plausibly use the old “buzz phrases”, canned tirades, and scripted bravado in communicating to the “lumpenproletariat”.
How is it that even America leftists haven’t learned that even dog-whistle phrases like “social justice” and “false conciousness” haven’t jumped the shark outside of their bubble?
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I believe that this is a case of someone so steeped in leftist ideology and ideas, so enmeshed in the far Left Obama administration and its worldview, that she sees using this term as perfectly unobjectionable; she has no censor, it was the most Freudian of Freudian slips.
It reminds me of an analyst I worked with who dealt with lots of technical data–both classified material and unclassified material–about various weapon systems for many years, and once, in writing an unclassified report, some of the classified data inadvertently “bled” into it; a situation that was immediately fixed when it was discovered.
In the case of Sebelius, if her use of the–to coin a phrase–red flag term “re-education” was inadvertent, trying to come up with some statement to repair the damage would be quite a trick. But I see no such explanatory statement forthcoming.
…and back in his terrorist days, Obama’s best buddy Bill Ayers discussed how, come the revolution, they should put tens of millions of Americans in reeducation camps. (Not that Ayers has ever repudiated what he said and did.)
It says where they learned and how they think…
reading their library is starting to make more sense, eh?
Storm clouds gathering…
This is not going to end well.
I have been saying things about Obama and ALL Dems that seemed “extreme” and over the top, since he won the election.
Every day since then practically, we realize that it’s all true about this guy and ALL Dems.
There is something wrong in Demmarck.
It’s true. it’s real. it’s the most dangerous thing that ever happened to America, since it is against America as such. The logic of Dem ideology was always going to end up exactly where it is now, and they must destroy or be destroyed at this point.
There is no third option there. There is no, ‘Oh, we now see the error of our ways and will modify our ideology’ there.
Everyone in their hearts knows this to be true. Horrible and sad, but true.
And once again, I’m reminded that this is exactly the sort of thing that President Bush was (wrongly) accused of.
He was going to take over, remember? None of our liberties were safe anymore. He would become a fascist dictator, all in the name of protecting us from terrorism. That’s what we heard, non-stop, for nearly all of his Presidency; it never happened.
Projection is a very interesting phenomenon… both in itself, and in what it says about the people who indulge in it.
respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline
Daniel,
You say “projection”.
I say “cold, calculated, conscious planned out strategy”.
There is a big difference.
Who are these people? I’m beginning to think a control freak flaw in the personality is the hallmark of what current academic education is delivering up and it’s a powerful driver of progressivism.
Daniel,
I suspect that it is projection from rank and file liberals/leftists, but fear that from the left’s leadership it is a conscious attempt to vaccinate themselves against such charges by leveling them first, thereby muddying the waters.
A little “re-education” is indeed coming, starting with the next election…
Oh yeah, speaking of the next election, they’re already trying to re-educate Houston:
http://tinyurl.com/2fffvjd
I read about the fire a couple of weeks ago, along with the voter fraud effort (we lived in Houston for 20 years).
http://tinyurl.com/293wz95
http://tinyurl.com/37zeuhd
That’s some helluva fire–completely destroyed every single voting machine stored in a building whose floor area is that of a football field. Just kind of happened, don’t ya know.
I’m with Occam. This is not going to end well–at least not for a very long time.
SteveH Says:
September 7th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
See the Victor Davis Hanson post We Are Ruled by Professors. That may answer your question.
Rickl,
Right, I read that VDH piece.
I’d rather be ruled by, um, the first 2000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty. To coin a phrase hahaha.
betsybounds
I’d rather be ruled by, um, the first 2000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty. To coin a phrase hahaha.
Ironic that William F. Buckley’s phrase is getting so much of a workout these days, given that his son Chris strayed off the reservation and supported ∅bama.
> The participant affectionately proposed that the White House express its ideas in an easier-to-comprehend form, such as printing simple booklets — I assume replete with large print and colorful pictures
LOL, Obamacare: The Graphic Novel — at only 20,000 pages, it’s a great weekend read!!
Having lived in the DDR in what were soom to become its’ last days, even THEY couldn’t plausibly use the old “buzz phrases”, canned tirades, and scripted bravado in communicating to the “lumpenproletariat”.
How is it that even America leftists haven’t learned that even dog-whistle phrases like “social justice” and “false conciousness” haven’t jumped the shark outside of their bubble?