from eddobloggo.com

The following is an Obama-on-Obamacare media blitz quote excerpted from today's ABC TV interview: 

"Now there are some who are, setting aside the issue of race, more passionate about the idea of whether government can do anything right, and I think that that's probably the biggest driver of some of the vitriol."

Reading a statement like this, I can hear fellow Conservatives and allied libertarians and independents saying things like "Who didn't know that?" and "You're preaching to the choir, Mr. President" and "Hey Martha, I think he finally gets it."

But then there's that word "vitriol" right at the end of his carefully-prepared, well rehearsed talking point. 

So as the opposition to Obamacare is suddenly absolved of the outright hatred of which we had previously been accused (such labels as nazis, racists, right-wing extremists, brown shirts and the Lunatic Christian Right  Fringe to name a few of the applied epithets), this long-awaited acknowledgment that our criticisms are not founded in personal or racial animosity may seem refreshing to some. 

That, of course, is the desired effect.  Obama wants you to come over to his side as a result of this validation that it's only your disenchantment with government and your disbelief in its ability to properly execute even the simplest of programs.  That's all that has you riled up about his efforts to establish a huge multi-tiered bureaucracy of big government-run health care that will eventually morph into socialized medicine once privateers opt out of the program. 

He wants you to stop being so riled up and vitriolic.  He wants you to believe that because you know that he knows what really drives your opposition, he will be so careful not to allow your worst fears to become reality. 

I can hear the gullible saying things like "We can chill out now" and "We can cut Obama some slack" and "Hey Martha, I think he finally gets it." 

But what they would be forgetting is that they never heard the president play the race card or label them with hate-filled terms in the first place.  They never heard the president hurl epithets or bring his opposition's religious beliefs into the argument. 

Even when called a liar in front of all of his partisans, Obama graciously accepted Rep. Wilson's apology.  Despite the color of his own skin, the president continues to go out of his way to distance himself from those like Jimmy Carter and Bill Cosby who have used the R-word so egregiously since he emerged on the American scene.

All along it has been the administration's shills, led by Nancy Pelosi, Charles Schumer and Howard Dean, who have hate-mongered and fear-mongered against the right's coalition of opposition to the president's health care initiative. 

It has been ultra-libs and outright socialists who have tried to counter the groundswell of opposition to Obamacare and smear those in the non-traditional media who have spearheaded the largest American protest movement since those aforementioned shills took to flashing peace signs at everyone they knew on and off-campus. 

At the same time, they have also chided the president for not being socialistic enough and for appearing willing to compromise with Conservatives in order to insure passage of at least a watered-down version of his bill. 

What you didn't hear during today's media blitz was an acknowledgment that the left's belief that only government can do anything right is the biggest driver of their vitriol and their intense hate for anyone who chooses to believe otherwise -- including the president himself, at times.

Thankfully, I can hear Martha saying "Hey George, if you believe that media blitz stuff you heard on the news today you'll also believe that Obamacare won't add one dime to our deficits."