This isn’t creepy at all.
What color shirts do they get to wear?
[Update a few minutes later]
Related: ObamaCare and the totalitarian mindset:
Suppose some inventor hatches an idea for what he thinks would be a great and revolutionary new product. He raises money from investors, sets up office, hires people–and fails spectacularly. The company’s customer service is atrocious, the product is expensive and lousy, and the whole business plan is fundamentally flawed. Who’s to blame?
The news media, of course. After all, journalists could have put out stories touting the virtues of the product and explaining how to navigate the crummy customer-service system, and maybe then the whole business plan would have worked out.
That, at any rate, is the argument Paul Waldman puts forth in an article for the leftist American Prospect. Of course being a good leftist, Waldman is not blaming the media for the failure of a private business. But then neither would any nonleftist. Yet because the enterprise in question is a governmental one–ObamaCare, in case you’ve been away from Earth for the past two months–the argument somehow makes sense to him.
We find it not only wrongheaded but sinister (in every sense of the word). Waldman argues that journalists have a “responsibility” to provide “audiences with practical information that could help them navigate the new system”–and not just that, but to provide such information “repeatedly or people won’t get it.”
Remember, as the Democrats told us last year, government is the only thing we all belong to.
Actually the group reminds me more of Putin’s national youth fan club, what’s-it-called?
If you think Obamacare is lousy, it just shows that you’re not as smart as the President. You just have to spend enough time in academia and the scales will fall from your eyes.
“What color shirts do they get to wear?”
White, with red ties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Soviet_pioner_uniform_in_GIM_by_shakko_03.jpg
Hey, Jim, I’m guessing you’re a little old for this, but maybe you can get in on it as kind of a senior advisor or assistant. You could pass out the sheet music for “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” whenever they get ready to sing.
They can select from a wide variety of songs at Sovmusic.ru, which has all the songs of the Young Pioneers, Komsomol, and other communist organizations. 🙂
Onward labor!
White House Youth? Organized by OFA, of course. (Obama For America, Obama’s campaign organization, which is rapidly assimilating parts of the Democratic party.)
Hrmmm.. And what’s OFA’s favorite slogan? “Forward!”
So, the White House Youth… “Forward! Forward!” Or, in the original German, “Vorwärts! Vorwärts!”
(The theme song and marching song of the Hitler Youth).
Oh, and wasn’t “Forward!” the name of Mussolini’s magazine? And a lot of other socialist publications as well? (The Nazis, of course, were National Socialists)
So, this begs the question; are Obama’s team brain-dead morons when it comes to messaging, or do they actually favor the Nazi/socialist allusions they’re putting out (This is but one of many)? It seems to me that there’s no other option here – though those two choices aren’t actually mutually exclusive, in that both may well be true.
Wow. I’m hesitantly thrilled actually.
Who knew that the secret to eternal youth was just having a President redefine it! I feel younger already.
35 years old is the new ceiling on “youth” today, imagine the progress we’ll be subjected to in the next 3 years! You old farts may even have something to look forward to 😉
I do have a question though, does “adult” become a shorter span or does this new increase in youthiness push the rest of the aging schedule to the right as well? I’d hate to end up transitioning from “youth” straight to “old fart” if these great linguistic improvements don’t continue to manifest in the future.
I’d also like confirmation that the youthiness is conferred only based on age, not on participation in the summit, although I have a nagging feeling I may be disappointed… I think any exuberant desire to be involved in this odd WH cult of personality does represent a particular intellectual immaturity, and perhaps “youth” is just a polite euphemism describing the mental state of their expected participants, and not a Proclamation conferring youthiness. *sadface*