1984 is here.
On the radio this morning I heard about how Obama is insisting that we can't have "business as usual". This just days after he signed a so-called Stimulus Bill that was created by the Democrats as a political cornucopia of goodies for the special interests the party depends upon. Then I heard about Obama telling the Canadian Prime Minister that he's against protectionism, when the Stimulus Bill he signed specifically includes Buy American provisions. And to top it all off, Obama has called a summit to focus on the need for budget discipline that will deal with expanding deficits, just when he has raised the US deficit to levels not seen in my lifetime. Obama has truly mastered what is known in 1984's Newspeak as doublethink, the ability to hold two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, while accepting both of them.