Last November the majority of American voters were sucked in by the Obama Campaign Machine. We the American people saw the young, energetic candidate promising hope and change at every opportunity. We watched him take off his jacket, roll up his sleeves and make all sorts of promises without giving any details of how he would keep those promises. He offered platitudes to the gullible while his team tossed baseless accusations at anyone who dared question him. And it worked. He won the election. Now we will see if we the American people have learned from our mistake.

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President Obama is back in campaign mode; on the trail selling his idea of health care reform. Or is it health insurance reform? It's difficult to keep up with the repackaging each time the same old socialist product fails to sell. He's holding what he calls town hall meetings but what in reality are staged campaign events complete with cheering crowds, planted questions, feigned appeals for opposing viewpoints and of course the stump speech filled with empty promises and platitudes.

White House senior adviser David Axelrod has also cranked up the campaign tactic of mass e-mailing supporters and creating new websites to push the Obama agenda. Although calling the e-mail recipients supporters might be erroneous as some people who received the e-mails directly from the White House forwarded them to Fox News and asked how they ended up on the list when they've never been in communication with the Obama administration. The White House is supposedly looking into how that happened. (source)

And speaking of Fox News, another Obama Campaign Machine maneuver that has been resurrected for the health care reform debate is the demonizing of that media outlet for committing the unpardonable sin of reporting on all sides of the story. In order to maintain plausible deniability the campaign uses the generic term "cable news" but they certainly aren't referring to MSNBC, CNBC or CNN who are bending every journalistic rule in the book to promote the president's agenda.

And of course no Obama Campaign would be complete without the bogeymen that are "special interest groups". At his recent staged town hall meeting in Montana the president said, "Every time we come close to passing health insurance reform, the special interests with a stake in the status quo use their influence and political allies to scare and mislead the American people." (source) Hopefully we learned from the mistake we made last November and realize that it's the Obama Campaign Machine that is scaring and misleading us toward a destination we don't want to visit.