From the man who said it’s time to call a spade a spade and not "surrender to Islam" since the word "Islam literally means surrender" and from the man who wanted you to gather your armies...well...he’s back.
Now it’s really no surprise that Mr. Rick Barber running for the GOP nominee in Alabama's 2nd congressional district, is talking to dead Presidents again, this time Abe Lincoln. It’s also not really a surprise that Barber decides to go to the extreme and compare taxation and health care....to...slavery. Yes that’s right... slavery
What is a surprise however, is some of the things that Mr. Barber passes off as "facts" within the video.
Hmm....interesting...
Now...a few things.
First Barber is once again conjuring up his psychic medium ability by talking to dead George Washington.
His "chat" with the dead George Washington is:
Barber: Mr. President, some argue that you would have been in favor of this tyrannical health care bill because you enforced the Whiskey Act of 1791; but that was an excise tax levied to service the military debt incurred by the Revolutionary War. A legitimate function of government...
Okay. Fair enough. The First Bank of the United States was created to handle the financial needs and requirements of the central government of the newly formed United States. Part of Alexander Hamilton’s program as the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States was to consolidate the state and national debts into a single debt that would be funded by the federal government. Hamilton believing that imported duties were all ready as high as possible, pushed Congress to levy a tax on domestic distilled Whiskey.
Okay. Fine. So Barber sees that as "a legitimate function of government". Which makes it all the more interesting that he decided to use Abraham Lincoln as his President of choice to talk about in his mind the injustices of taxation.
Barber: Hey Abe, if someone is forced to work for months to pay taxes so that a total stranger can get a free meal, medical procedure or a bailout, what's that called? What's it called when one man is forced to work for another?
Lincoln: Slavery.
What’s interesting about this is not even the fact of the outrageous claims of mocking those on welfare programs, or comparing helping others get affordable healthcare or medical treatment as slavery. As ridiculously, horrendously, moronic as that is, his example and analogy is even more moronic.
For you see, in August of 1861 in order to finance the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed the
Revenue Act, which imposed the first federal income tax in U.S. history.
That’s right. The dreaded tea party Libertarian rallying point of no federal income tax was signed into law by Barber’s dead President used in his commercial.
For some reason I take it Barber doesn’t see that as a"a legitimate function of government"?
Let’s also talk about the images, of Soviet Gulags, and North Korean labor camps, and yes even the Holocaust. The Holocaust, Barber? Really? So if I am to read this correctly, then welfare programs and helping those who cannot afford medical care is making us all slaves that will inevitably turn us into forced labor prisoners?
Huh. Who knew.
Of course one cannot ignore the piece of the commercial where the 4th verse of the National Anthem is sung. The guy has a decent voice, I guess. Oh hell, honestly, I cannot say much about that piece of the commercial since I had to resuscitate myself from the choking on my own saliva I was doing from all of the laughing.
Now I’m not going to say incumbent Democrat Bobby Bright is any catch. He voted against the stimulus bill, and voted no for the health care bill. But I am fairly certain that Mr. Bright doesn’t have the psychic medium skills of Rick Barber.
So anyways, maybe Mr. Barber if he fails in politics can go have his own TV show, and conjure up his Ouija board, and psychic skills and maybe lie and con some people some more.
Good times.