Obama's Sleight of Hand

What a great magician President Obama is. I have come to believe that he may be the reincarnation of Harry Houdini, one of the greatest prestidigitator's of all time. At the very least he channels Penn and Teller. They are modern day magicians who offer the "Seven Principles of Sleight of Hand" in their Las Vegas act. So lets apply the Seven Principles to Obama's presidential campaign and young Presidency.

Penn and Teller's Seven Principles of Sleight of Hand are:

1. The Palm - Holding something in an apparently empty hand.
2. The Ditch - Secretly disposing of an unneeded object.
3. The Steal - Secretly obtaining the needed object.
4. The Load - Secretly moving an object to where it is needed.
5. The Simulation - Giving the impression that something that has not happened, has.
6. The Misdirection - Directing attention away from a secret move.
7. The Switch - Secretly exchanging one object for another.
   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0JfSFqoga4

Obamas' most famous gestures are done with his hands as with most magicians. From his apparently empty hands he sends out the message of hope and change to his insensate followers.


1. The Palm - Holding something in an apparently empty hand.


President Obama is a great orator. He is given to the lofty rhetoric of hope and change. The phrases slide off his lips with flourish and aplomb. He truly emulated Sinclair Lewis' fictional evangelistic preacher, Elmer Gantry, on the stump, preaching change and hope during his campaign. Sure of himself, narcissistic and very convinced that he and only he had "the one" true answer to everyone's problems and needs while remaining deliberately obtuse on any details. Women swooned and men had tingles going up their legs at the sound of his voice and the language of his promises of "Hope" and "Change".

"I serve as a blank screen," Obama writes, "on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/12/obama_scores_as_an_exotic_who.html

Having never truly stated what he meant by hope and change, everyone was able to interpret the phrase to fit whatever they imagined it to be. The Florida Townhall meeting in October, 2008 gave us the BRAINWASHED Obama Supporter, Peggy Joseph, who took her daughters out of school to go see their Savior in the now infamous Youtube video...No more paying bills or paying for gasoline.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg98BvqUvCc

2. The Ditch - Secretly disposing of an unneeded object.

During his Presidential campaign Obama talked a lot about being the most accessible President in American history. He loved gabbing with the press and the mainstream media doted on him. They couldn't hide their love of Obama and they pandered to his ego. But that came to a screeching halt during the last two weeks of the race when he kicked reporters off his plane, saying there wasn't enough room left. They were no longer a needed object. Problem was he only eliminated reporters from the three newspapers that had just endorsed John McCain. They were: the Washington Times, the New York Post and the Dallas Morning News.
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/pro-mccain-press-kicked-off-obama-plane

3. The Steal - Secretly obtaining a needed object.

Obama's resume has been the best kept secret that never was. He has the rare quality usually attributed to famous personalities. They can arouse fervent, mindless devotion and enthusiasm in their audiences. Obama's popularity stems not his experience but from his charisma. He had little experience in the national political arena only serving one term (actually only 3/4 of a term) in the US Senate. Even his hometown newspaper The Chicago Tribune wondered about his qualifications. What was his Secret?
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/oct/26/news/chi-oped1026chapmanoct26

4. The Load - Secretly moving an object to where it is needed.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the Democrats have padded the Stimulus with "40 Years" of Democratic wishes. This article in the Wall Street Journal was written before the final Stimulus bill was passed so a few items may have been eliminated but most appear to be intact.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123310466514522309.html

"Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before."

"So said White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in November, and Democrats in Congress are certainly taking his advice to heart. The 647-page, $825 billion House legislation is being sold as an economic "stimulus," but now that Democrats have finally released the details we understand Rahm's point much better. This is a political wonder that manages to spend money on just about every pent-up Democratic proposal of the last 40 years."

The Stimulus Bill was written quicker than you can spell "bait and switch". Obama said he was going to let Congress write the bill and put in "shovel ready" projects that would jump start the economy. Problem was he and his cronies, Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosie and Harry Reed had been secretly working on the bill throughout the fall, even before the election. Obama's fingerprints are seen in this bill by the very vagueness of it's content. Just as with his pre-election rhetoric there is a lot left to the imagination with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

5. The Simulation - Giving the impression that something that has not happened, has.

Throughout his campaign and young Presidency, Obama has told us how bad things are all the while preaching hope and change. Obama kept moving the date farther and farther back in time when he spoke about "The worst economy since....". On ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos in January, Obama said, "What we suffer with today is not the worst economy since the Great Depression, but The Worst Economy Since Jimmy Carter". In his inauguration speech, and numerous times since, Obama has mentioned "the worst economy since the Great Depression". The "Lemming" Press couldn't help but entertain the notion that Obama was inheriting the worst economy since Ronald Reagan. In the Business Standard on February 21st of this year this statement was made:

"President-elect Barack Obama will inherit the worst recession since Ronald Reagan’s second year in the White House, economists said as figures showed US payrolls plunged by more than half a million the past two months."
http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=339603

6. The Misdirection - Directing attention away from a secret move.

The writers of the Stimulus bill have misdirected a lot of information about what is really in the package. Much like Obama's Presidential Campaign, provisions in the bill have been left deliberately vague and still need to be fleshed out by Congress.

The health care provision started a firestorm In Washington DC when it's inclusion in the bill was leaked a few day before the bill's passage. DC phone lines heated up to the point of collapse when details started to emerge. Fax machines and e-mails were kept busy with the outrage of constituents because of obscure language that could be interpreted as health care rationing.

Clinton couldn't even get health care off the ground during his Administration. Obama has made giant and maybe irreversible changes to the future of health care in this country with the hidden agendas in this bill.

There are also massive handouts to his economic panel members and the businesses and foundations they run. General Electrics' Jeff Immelt whispers in Obama's ear and suddenly GE will receive Billions of taxpayer dollars to implement the Smartgrid 2.0 and install Smart Meters in 40 million American homes to monitor energy usage. The meters will someday allow consumers to only use the amount of energy deemed necessary by some arbitrary panel of Government experts without paying a higher rate on "over" usage.

Jim Owens stands to gain a lot of business for his company Caterpillar. Billions of dollars of road equipment will needed to be ordered when Obama rebuilds the infrastructure. However at a Townhall meeting at one of Caterpillars' manufacturing facilities during Obamas'' campaigned to get the stimulus bill passed Jim Owens contradicted Obamas' notion that, if the bill was passed, Mr.Owens would be able to rehire the 20 thousand employees laid off at Caterpillar since the beginning of the economic crisis.

There is much hidden in this bill. Many of the provisions are only budget increases being given to existing Government departments for whatever pet projects Obama's team deems necessary to implement the President's idea of fairness in society. HHS gets money to provide low income, first time home buyers with down payments, closing costs, utility deposits and much more.

Why do the American people have to provide these benefits to anyone. Most of us who have bought homes have had to struggle with providing these things for ourselves. This gave us a greater sense of ownership and pride in our homes. When you get something for nothing you end up not appreciating anything.

7. The Switch - Secretly exchanging one object for another.

"Yet even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America -- there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America."

Barak Obama from his speech to the Democratic National Convention in 2000

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2004/demconvention/speeches/obama.html

Obama talked a lot during his Presidential run about his new politics. He was the Uniter. He was bi-partisan, He was going to have the most transparent administration of all time. He looks remarkably like the same old political hack that has existed forever in the Democratic Party.
He caused racism to be brought into the Presidential race by claiming anyone who disagreed with him was being racist.

He met with the Republicans from the House and Senate to talk about compromises on the Stimulus Bill only to lock them out of negotiations and blow them off with the statement "I Won".
He promised, with great pomposity, to publish bills on a government webpage five days before they were to be signed into law and then changed it to 48 hours and then went back on that promise and finally he hasn't published any of the bills he has signed so far.

Now we come to the best part. What is the one thing that Obama is exchanging for another. It is the 92% of mortgage holders who pay their mortgages on time. They are being exchanged for the 8% of mortgage holders who are defaulting. Many of these individuals were speculators who were flipping houses for huge profits and got caught with their pants down. A small portion of the defaulters are people who should never have been allowed to buy a house in the first place. They were unemployed and sick, some with self-inflicted illnesses of alcohol and drug addictions.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232/?video=1039849853&play=1

For many years now I have seen some people in my community dressed better than me, driving better cars, living in better neighborhoods and they pay for their groceries with food stamps. Their daughters have babies and get they get both food stamps and wick vouchers. I have seen people try to sell their food stamps for cash so they could buy booze or drugs or both. These are the people Obama wants to reward.

What a great magician Obama is. He is dismantling the middle class at an alarming rate. We are being punished for doing the right thing and playing by the rules. The rich will all be fine. They have hidden their money in Swiss bank accounts or they are getting richer by being one of the beneficiaries of Obama's Stimulus Bill.

The poor will always be poor. They have been made to believe that someone owes them something. They have lost the will to work hard and better themselves because they have been given so much without any effort on their part. Why work? Uncle Obama will wave his magic wand and we will all be equal. Sad thing is the rich will still be rich and the poor will still be poor and the middle class will no longer exist. The middle class will be the poor.
Maybe then we'll get a bailout.