Posted by
Chris on Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:06:22 PM
I saw a clip from Obama's 30-minute infomercial in which old men who should be carrying themselves in dignity were filmed in such a way that they looked like kindergarteners appealing to their schoolmarm for help tying their shoes. The camera showed them from the neck up, looking up from their low chairs, telling their troubles, as if crying out for salvation, while the shots of Obama show him standing, savior-like, ready to be benificent. Having been on numerous movie sets, and seeing the great care taken with the role of camera angles in telling a story, I know that these are very conscious and deliberate choices on the part of those making the video. It angers me that a presidential candidate would portray himself to the people in this way. I find it disgusting and shameful both that he would do it, and also that there are so many millions of people who are apparently ready to look up to him from those low chairs. He is not getting ready to lead us. He is getting ready to rule us, in the name of saving us. The people can't be free and be dependent on the government at the same time. And he has shown every sign that he will do everything he can to make us, for our own good, dependent on the government, dependent on the blessings that will spring from his hand. As Thomas Jefferson said of King George III, such a prince is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.