Now Obama believes it’s his job to restore human dignity

It’s doubtful any jobs will be created by the president’s jobs summit today. I was on a conference call earlier and the TV was muted. The president was talking and at the bottom of the screen it said something like “President Obama said the private sector will create jobs.” If he really thought that he would stop trying to create jobs. He would stop taking money out of the private sector (or, in the case of printing and borrowing money – our children’s piggy banks.) But we all know he isn’t going to stop doing that. Which makes his words so hollow. He doesn’t care about your dignity, he cares about power and your vote and his socialist ideology.

Greg Hengler posted the video at Townhall and he really nailed it with his comments. (Emphasis mine.)

I pulled this clip from Obama’s “Job Summit” speech this afternoon to highlight something that’s gone terribly awry with our culture: the right to human dignity. Like human rights, human dignity used in the postmodern, abstract, humanist sense, has nothing to do with the traditional (read: correct) meaning of the phrase.

All human beings are alike in having been made in the image of God, but that is not the same thing as saying that they share equally in the divine dignity, any more than they share in the divine goodness. President Obama thinks everyone is entitled to healthcare, money (spreading it around), and a job, to name just a few. But many men and women have no aspirations; make no demands on themselves, yet demand that all their demands should be met as they demand them.

Socialism has no standards regarding behavior or aspiration. Socialism is much more than an economic and political system. Socialism is a way of viewing oneself in relation to the world, and to other people. Socialism has a face, just as monarchy does. The face of monarchy is the king’s face. The face of socialism is the mob in all its dreary conformity, vulgarity, sloppiness, and lack of dignity.

Dignity is always established and maintained at the pinnacle of society, as a model for the classes below it, to imitate and maintain. But the modern world captivated by Obama is a place without dignity, a world where the true thing is highly suspect. Indeed, this highest and most noble, perhaps, of all human qualities is despised in men (e.g., strong faith and conviction in their faith, character (as opposed to today’s value placed on a character), and hard work with just rewards).

Dignity is imposed from the top down, but the top is not President Obama, or the king. The top is the throne of God.

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