Barack Hussein Orwellian’s Enemies List

This, from somebody whose “official” trips (on the taxpayers’ dollar) in the last few weeks are now being questioned.

I know it sounds so redundant, but Imagine if George W. Bush (or a republican) did this…

Try this thought experiment: You decide to donate money to Mitt Romney. You want change in the Oval Office, so you engage in your democratic right to send a check.

Several days later, President Barack Obama, the most powerful man on the planet, singles you out by name. His campaign brands you a Romney donor, shames you for “betting against America,” and accuses you of having a “less-than-reputable” record. The message from the man who controls the Justice Department (which can indict you), the SEC (which can fine you), and the IRS (which can audit you), is clear: You made a mistake donating that money.

Are you worried?

Richard Nixon’s “enemies list” appalled the country for the simple reason that presidents hold a unique trust. Unlike senators or congressmen, presidents alone represent all Americans. Their powers—to jail, to fine, to bankrupt—are also so vast as to require restraint. Any president who targets a private citizen for his politics is de facto engaged in government intimidation and threats. This is why presidents since Nixon have carefully avoided the practice.

Save Mr. Obama, who acknowledges no rules. This past week, one of his campaign websites posted an item entitled “Behind the curtain: A brief history of Romney’s donors.” In the post, the Obama campaign named and shamed eight private citizens who had donated to his opponent. Describing the givers as all having “less-than-reputable records,” the post went on to make the extraordinary accusations that “quite a few” have also been “on the wrong side of the law” and profiting at “the expense of so many Americans.”

These are people like Paul Schorr and Sam and Jeffrey Fox, investors who the site outed for the crime of having “outsourced” jobs. T. Martin Fiorentino is scored for his work for a firm that forecloses on homes. Louis Bacon (a hedge-fund manager), Kent Burton (a “lobbyist”) and Thomas O’Malley (an energy CEO) stand accused of profiting from oil. Frank VanderSloot, the CEO of a home-products firm, is slimed as a “bitter foe of the gay rights movement.”

These are wealthy individuals, to be sure, but private citizens nonetheless. Not one holds elected office. Not one is a criminal. Not one has the barest fraction of the position or the power of the U.S. leader who is publicly assaulting them.

“We don’t tolerate presidents or people of high power to do these things,” says Theodore Olson, the former U.S. solicitor general. “When you have the power of the presidency—the power of the IRS, the INS, the Justice Department, the DEA, the SEC—what you have effectively done is put these guys’ names up on ‘Wanted’ posters in government offices.” Mr. Olson knows these tactics, having demanded that the 44th president cease publicly targeting Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries, which he represents. He’s been ignored.

The real crime of the men, as the website tacitly acknowledges, is that they have given money to Mr. Romney. This fundraiser of a president has shown an acute appreciation for the power of money to win elections, and a cutthroat approach to intimidating those who might give to his opponents.

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I am certain it has nothing to do with this.

And the there is this. (insert the “Imagine…” remark here as well). Why Ted Nugent? Because he owns guns and shoots things? Because he knows the truth about the nation’s interior? Because he owns Gibson made guitars? Ted’s a strong Romney supporter? Listen carefully for something even more interesting at the close of the interview (@ about 11:30):

What do we call this sort of practice(s) by someone in power? “Abuse of power”? Chicago-Thuggery? I am sure people familiar with the inner workings and climate of communist societies recognize what it is called.

I do know this much. Whenever Obama’s sycophants do this sort of crap it has backfired. If you glean the comments at the WSJ link to the above story you will see even people who were not firm Romney supporters, or even typically campaign money donors, are now dropping $5-$10 in the Romney collection coffers. This little tactic might just explode in the Obama campaign’s face as a Romney money bomb. (And I’m sure that last sentence just might get me on the DHS watch list …) By the way, I doubt if this information will even be mentioned in the MSM. But “Imagine if…”

UPDATE: I nearly forgot about this: Biased Media Ignores Shady Obama-Jon Corzine Connection

[…] To most of the media, however, he’s “Jon who?”

All this came into sharp relief this week as The Weekly Standard reported that Corzine, who is reportedly under investigation for his role in the collapse of MF Global by the U.S. Department of Justice, is still acting as a “bundler” for Obama’s re-election campaign, helping enrich the campaign’s coffers by at least half-a-million dollars.

Bundlers are people who collect checks from friends, business associates, and other 1 percent-ers, and send them off to campaigns in one big batch. Obama may not be taking any more money from Corzine’s personal funds but he’s apparently happy to have him collect money from others—a distinction with barely a difference.

Why does this matter? Well, there is still the matter of what caused MF Global to fail. Was fraud involved? Were federal regulations broken? Were private accounts comingled with corporate funds in ways that are against well-established rules? Corzine, say some experts, could be in legal trouble with, among others, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission—whose members are appointed by the president of the United States; the Commodity Futures Trading Commission—whose members are appointed by the president of the United States; and the aforementioned Justice Department which, for those who may need to be reminded, is led by the attorney general of the United States—who is also appointed by the president. And yet the president’s re-election campaign, apparently unaware or not caring about the potential conflicts of interest this creates at the highest level, continues to take the money Corzine raises to support his bid for a second term.

If Corzine were Ken Lay, it would be front page news, day after day after day. Government-funded PBS would be producing news programs connecting the dots for anyone who was unable to do it for themselves. And MSNBC would be all Ken Lay all the time. But because Corzine is a Democrat and Obama is a Democrat people who should know better are ready and willing to turn a blind eye to what is going on. […]