Big Barack is Watching!

When the Obama Administration was trying to establish its identity, it compared itself to other administrations. Obama followed the route into Washington proposed for Lincoln without mentioning that Lincoln sneaked into Washington to avoid assassination and the train was, like Obama, an elaborate ruse. After ten months we now have a track record to figure out what model an inexperienced, Marxist-loving President such as Obama might be using. Some have compared him to the Liberal icon, Kennedy. Kennedy was a tax-cutting, anticommunist that cheated on his wife. The first two are definite strikes and if Obama is stepping out in his wife, we may have the first presidential assassination of the century on our hands when Michelle finds out. Some compare him to FDR. He does have that whole welfare-state thing going on but if he cannot even stand up to Pelosi, how would he confront the likes of Hitler. Besides, BHO does not have the same pizzazz and since we are not allowed to use the middle name anyway, BO is not much better. I think the best model for understanding Obama and the Left in general comes from George Orwell in his novel, 1984. Although Orwell was not a President, his satirical story of a totalitarian state gave us the phrase “Big Brother is Watching” and it’s sad that a classical book making fun of communism has come to epitomize the governing party of our country. But here are the parallels:

In the novel, Oceana is just one of three super states in the world. Our world has more than three states but Liberals think it is too bad we are the only superpower. No other nation has been able to come to our level so Obama debases the country every chance he gets with his Apology-Abroad tours. Iran is building the bomb and North Korea is developing missiles with nukes so maybe we will have our three super states before Obama is finished.

The book describes a section of the government that revises history and historical records to match whatever Big Brother says. Oceana called this department Minitrue but today we know it as CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC and sometimes CNN. Minitrue incinerated the original documents in what they called a “memory hole”. I think MSNBC has one of those but Sandy Burger’s socks work great too, in a pinch. Whenever the Administration is called out on an inconvenient truth, they simply deny the charge with “No it’s not” and the Media dutifully twist history to match the party line. Whether it’s Carter's saying that most Obama opposition is racist or Barney Frank’s giving Fannie Mae a pass, a simple denial makes it all go away.

One of the obsessions of Big Brother was to revise the English language in what they called Newspeak. Bad was replaced with “ungood”, and criticism of Big Brother was banned. Today political correctness has attempted to limit public discourse. A man in the DC government got in trouble for admonishing his department heads to be niggardly. They claimed the word was too close to a racial slur and people in government often have small vocabularies, are incapable of looking up words and are too quick to jump to conclusions if the alleged offender is a white, Christian male. I am not sure government officials are capable of being frugal anyway, which is the actual meaning of niggardly. Racial politics also explains why the word “honk” is still allowed. By the way, I hope our modern Newspeak lets us keep the word “spade” because I am running out of words for that particular garden tool but I hear it may be changed to “unshovel” as spade (which is too closely associated to something black in cards) joins such forbidden words and phrases as “illegal alien”, “islamofacist”, “war on terror”, “In God We Trust”, “parental consent” and “Merry Christmas”.

Big Brother allows no dissent, admonishes its citizens to the glory of the state with slogans, encourages tattling on each other and punishes offenders with the status of “unperson” where you disappear from history. Today children are forced to sing songs in school, praises to the greatness of Obama. The White House asks children to write essays on how they can help Obama and be good comrades for the state while asking that “Fishy Emails” be reported. Offenders are given the dreaded status of “Racist” and Fox News is made into an “un-news organization”.

At times Big Brothers actions make no sense but the threat of becoming an “unperson” keeps Oceana in line. Today, due to fear of being called a racist, we allow an Islamic extremist to stay in the military even though he has publicly stated that nonbelievers should have their heads cut off and have hot oil poured down their throats. If a white Christian had said that about abortion doctors, how many seconds would have it taken for discharge papers to be delivered? Meanwhile, we continue to frisk old, white ladies at the airport. Heaven forbid one of them smuggles a crochet hook aboard the airplane and brandishes it at a flight attendant.


Paranoid of even subversive thoughts, Big Brother anoints the Thought Police. Today we call it Hate Crimes where the act alone is not worthy of punishment. Your thoughts and attitudes about the victim have to be punished as well. And the press happily reports racist statements from Rush Limbaugh that were never said. When the truth is revealed, Limbaugh still has to be punished because we all know he thought it even if he did not say it.


Oceana has no need of elections because Big Brother knows more than anyone else and is watching over all. Obama has ACORN to go around fixing the mistakes made by voters so people like Al Franken can be in the Senate. Activist judges thwart the will of the people and repeatedly force gay marriage on the country. Obama, like Big Brother, is in constant campaign mode with great speeches and slogans (and in the words of the great Joe Jonas: “Does a great speech always have to have a point?”) Obama knows more than us so our opposition to Obamacare is moot. His benevolence warrants our trust as we surrender our freedoms to his will.

Although Winston Smith, the hero of our story, ends back where he started, a little worse for the wear, I hope our experiment in American Democracy does not end so “ungoodly”. But next time you are tempted to recite the “Pledge of Allegiance” (with your hand over our groin, of course), wear a flag on your person, or pick up a gun to go hunting, just remember Big Barack is Watching!