When a professional football team goes against an opponent they always have people high up in the press boxes watching the game and looking for clues and patterns of behavior that may help them know what the other team is planning.   From their high-up perspective they can see things that coaches down low on the field may not be able to see and then alert the coaches through their headsets what is going on.   For example, when the team puts the fullback directly behind the quarterback it may indicate a running play.   When he is off to the side it may indicate a pass play. (I know I am over simplifying the example).   You can see the results of these insights by noticing the second half scoring is much different than the first half of the game.   We often refer to this as "being on to their game plan".  Of course the ULTIMATE thing would be to somehow get hold of the other teams play-book so we can REALLY know what they are going  to do (some call this cheating,.... but I don't)

     The same can be said about politics.  We have 2 sides and they are pushing their agenda down the field. Each is trying to get "into the other coaches head" and stop their opponent from advancing.   We ask "Why are they doing X instead of doing Y?"   We try to see "patterns of behavior" so we can point out what is wrong with their views or ideas.   Today, we are in the 1st quarter of the Obama-game (also called "Socialism vs Capitalism").   We have had a chance to see how they have played the game so far and we have learned about some basic things about their plays

1) They love CRISIS situations.  After all, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste according to Rahm Emmanuel. 
2) They control the media as evident by Anita Dunn and also the NEA controversy. 
3) They hate greedy corporations and love unions

     But I think the play-book they are using is Saul Alinsky's book from the 1960's called: "Rules For Radicals" ; especially the play for defeating an enemy:  "Isolate and Ridicule".    In this play, you destroy an enemy by separating them from the pack.  This makes the group feel small  and weak.   No one wants to feel like an outcast, we all want to feel like we belong.   Making the  person or group feel alone is very important.  It's just YOU that feels this way.  EVERYONE ELSE feels differently from you.  This method has been used for years in high school and college class rooms across America.   By ridiculing the person or group you tap into their desire to be loved or liked.  This psychological brainwashing can be played out on a grand scale especially if you have the media on your side.  By constantly feeding the public with images of "right-thinking vs. wrong-thinking" you conjole people into thinking that somehow their views are out of step with the rest of America.  Hitler did this.  Muselini did this.  Mao did this.   Stalin did this.  And the list goes on and on....

    Recently the White House has openly attacked Fox News as not being a "real news network".   The claim that their news stories are slanted and can't be compared to other stations such as CNN or MSNBC.  Do you see the play?

     ISOLATE:  "Fox news is not like CNN or MSNBC"
     RIDICULE:  "...they are not a REAL news organization.  They are just an arm of the Republican Party"
     MESSAGE:  If you want to stay in our good graces, you won't run stories uncovered by the Fox News station

    Will this work? 

    I don't think so.  I believe this beacuse Saul Alinsky was before Talk Rado and the Internet (could be why Obama is so interested in controlling them as well).  His rules only apply where the media can be controlled 100%.  Back in his day, there were only 3 TV News stations and handful of national newspapers that you had to get your message out on.  But today with Talk Radio and the Internet (blogs and opinion websites), it is nealy impossible to isolate your enemy anymore as people can easily find MANY other people who believe like them and therefore not feel alone anymore.   Also, it is very difficult to dissect the media from the people.  You can't isolate Fox News without also isolating the viewers of Fox News.  Doing this will only further disenfranchize more and more citizens (many of which are independents who may have voted for Obama).   The only thing it may do is prevent other news outlets from following Fox and going after stories brought to light by them.  But eventually I think these stations will tire of being scooped on stories and having their ratings drop. 

The Obama administration uses this same "Isolate and Ridicule" strategy on other areas as well.

Tea  Parties:
     Obama: "You may see on certain news stations (Fox) where I am not very well liked.  People standing around waving "tea bags".  Well I am always open to having "serious debate" on how we are going to fix health-care in our country"

     ISOLATE:   Fox News and Tea Party goers
     RIDICULE:  "...standing around waving "tea bags"  (he also put his hand up in the air mimicing a person waying a tea-bag)
     MESSAGE:  If you watch THAT station and go to THOSE parties you are not a "serious" person (ie crazy, stupid)

Health-Care:  
     Health-Insurance companies who only care about profits are trying to block reform

     ISOLATE:  Evil Profit driven Health-care insurance (what company ISN'T profit driven?)
     RIDICULE: They don't care about YOU the average citizen.  They only care about their profits.
     MESSAGE: You can't trust what their arguments because they are just trying to protect their profits.

Cap-and-Trade: 
     The Oil companies are making billions in profit off the backs of the average American.  We need to take those profits and invest in smart-energy"

     ISOLATE:   Evil Profit driven Oil Companies
     RIDICULE: They are ripping you off and they are "NOT-smart-energy" (ie - can you say stupid-energy?) and making HUGE profits.
     MESSAGE: We need to strip them of their profits and let government run the energy industry.

So like the team that always does:

     - Pass on 1st down
     - Run on 2nd down
     - Run on 3rd down

You can start to predict what they are going to do before they even do it.   We need to be aware of these plays by the Obama administration and see how idiotic they really are.  We also need to also let others around us in on their playbook as well because Alinsky's "Rules for Radical" only works when the other side doesn't know the rules you are playing by.  Once the other team knows the playbook its....

GAME OVER!!