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“As our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes… and I see many of them in the audience here today…”
That is Barack Obama speaking in Las Cruces, New Mexico on Memorial Day.
In case you haven’t picked up on the gaffe, “fallen” heroes are dead. This is something that a Chicago politician like Obama obviously should know since “fallen” police officers and firefighters are routinely honored as part of the urban tradition.
Speaking of his recent campaigning, Obama said, “I’ve now been in… fifty…seven? states.. I think. One left to go…”
Come again? Obama is a United States Senator who wants to be president. Is not the phrase “50 states” ingrained in us? Do we not say “50 states” as a matter of reflex? How can you possibly say “57 states”?
These are not just slips. These are pratfalls. And more are on the way.
In discussing his family’s military history, Obama said that his “uncle” had been among the soldiers who liberated the Auschwitz death camp in World War II. Yet any student of American history knows that the Soviets liberated Auschwitz. And it actually was Obama’s great uncle who helped to liberate not Auschwitz but the Buchenwald camp.
How does one confuse an uncle with a great uncle, anyway? It’s like confusing your father with your grandfather.
So in the few months that we have known Obama, we know just a very few things about him. That he should come out of the blue with promises for improving all of America is reminiscent of another president who came out of the blue when the Republicans were down, and whom the voters quickly turned out of office, and that was the failed Jimmy Carter. We have seen Obama speaking for only a very short time, and already we are seeing signs that he is not nearly as smart as we think.
Here are some other facts that we know about him. Barack Obama comes out of the most corrupt city in America, Chicago. He is a product of the Chicago Democrat political machine, the most corrupt in America. Obama was involved with Tony Rezko, a sleazy real estate wheeler-dealer who was involved in who-knows-what in Chicago. Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright made many vile and hateful statement about the United States and about white people. Obama in 1995 held a fundraiser at the home of William Ayers, a 1960s Weather Underground terrorist who was perpetrating mayhem against the American government at the very same time that John McCain was being held captive in North Vietnam.
So in forming an opinion about Obama we can base it mostly on what we know about him recently because we do not have a long track record of his speeches and public appearances. And the unease in the Democrat party should be palpable. If Obama says something like “57 states” in the last weeks of the campaign in October, the media will not be able to cover for him and he will lose. And he will make more gaffes because he is not an intelligent person, which is indicated not only by his misstatements, but by his simple-minded ideology. Because socialism is an ideology of appeasement and emotion that appeals to lesser minds, while conservatism requires thought and analysis to appreciate how the world works best through hard work, discipline and virtue.
If former Vice President Dan Quayle had made similar statements about “fallen heroes”, about his “uncle” liberating Auschwitz, about “57 states”, he would have been savaged. Because Quayle was savaged repeatedly for less. Because Quayle is a Republican and because Republicans are savaged in the media over everything they say and do even when Democrats do much worse. For instance, Republican US Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon was run out of office for making drunken passes at female staffers, yet Democrat Ted Kennedy remains in office after drowning Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick in 1969.
That Obama has this short but worrisome record – from his wife saying she’s never been proud of America until recently, up to the Obamisms above, and obfuscations and backtracking everywhere – Dems should be worried. And so should everyone else because Obama’s so-called talent and intellect seem limited to giving speeches and impressing lesser-minded people only because those people think he is going to give them everything to make their lives better. And we all know that presidents can’t do that.
In fact, Obama is often described as a political “rock star” and that characterization is more appropriate and suggestive than we can know. Because everyone knows that rock stars are ignorant people who play bad music. It is not in the interest of the nation at this time to be electing such a person as its leader.
Ronald Reagan was another conservative who was savaged by the media, but still he was elected President in 1980. And in that year, America was in bigger trouble than it is today and Reagan too gave inspiring speeches and was seen as a standard-bearer to truly fix the nation’s problems.
Reagan did more than give good speeches, however. He essentially told the nation the truth, not that he was going give everyone a free college education, pay their mortgage, or magically lower gasoline prices, as Obama seems to be promising to his audiences, but that Ronald Reagan was going to create the conditions under which citizens’ problems could be ameliorated by citizens’ themselves. He did that not by promising to empower the government, but by promising to scale it back. And Reagan succeeded beyond all expectations not only by revitalizing the American economy and spirit, but by bringing down the Evil Empire of the Soviet Union with tough policies and tactics that Obama’s leave-no-tyrant-behind approach contravenes.
Obama says that he is going to fix our problems by going in the opposite direction from Reagan. Obama will increase taxes, expand government, thwart the private oil companies from producing more domestic petroleum, and advocate the discredited sources of energy like wind power and solar power.
Obama says he will open dialogue with tyrants like Ahmedinejad in Iran rather than confronting them and causing them to think twice about their ways as Reagan confronted the Soviets eyeball-to-eyeball. The Soviets not only blinked. They fell down dead.
And Obama absolutely will refuse to reform any of the ballooning programs that threaten our very futures, and that his Democrat allies invented and now control – Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, out-of-control entitlement spending and the failing public school system. Because these cannot be reformed without the consent of Obama’s friends who run them. And they are foursquare against reform.
In the long run, everything Obama stands for will redound poorly, including his embrace of the ‘global warming’ bogeyman which is a recipe for more government power at the expense of the citizens that will drive energy costs through the roof.
What we are seeing in Barack Obama is the old leftist utopianism, which is the standard operating procedure of the Democrat party. While Reagan did what all Republicans do – he said he’d let you decide your future if you would give him the power to create the proper conditions by restraining the government – Obama is saying the opposite, that citizens need not have a say in their own futures. This is appealing to uneducated voters in America who believe that the president of the United States is the one who should be taking care of each and every one of us. And when they see the resources of the federal government – Someone Else’s Money – they are ready to line up and sign up.
Right now, Obama is shown in many polls to be even with, or even trailing Senator John McCain. Since many Democrats have been shown with big leads over their Republican rivals at this point in past elections – Dukakis was as much as 20 points ahead of Bush 41 in 1988 then lost 40 states – this shows that even with the Republicans’ unpopularity, voters are in no way convinced about Obama. And for good reason.
Americans are frustrated over Iraq, gasoline prices, housing prices and many other issues. There seems to be a perfect storm of negatives that have converged at this time to make this election ripe for Democrats. But despite the hype, Obama is not catching on except among his friends in the media and the usual Democrat constituency.
What is he going to do about the housing market that simply was caught in a bubble that burst? Is he going to bail out every homeowner that can’t pay his/her mortgage?
It will never work.
Even now the market is beginning to react naturally and helping us out of the mess, as markets always do. People are starting to buy homes again, some who were priced out of the market for years. And that is a good thing.
Obama is recommending the easy way out on every issue: Open up the federal treasury and let the money flow. And if he is elected, and if the nation then finds that his solutions make the problems worse, we certainly will see a Republican resurgence in the not-too-distant future.
Before that, however, when Obama starts talking the befuddled language of his recent campaign, perhaps Americans will recognize that his platform is not one of intelligence and thought, but a group of potemkin ideas that is being offered by a politician who lack the intelligence and foresight to guide our country through the rough waters ahead.
Ultimately Obama will not win the November election. When Americans really start to think about him, they will think twice. And recent rumors that the Republican Party has in its possession videotapes of Michelle Obama talking trash about “whitey” should make the Democrats not only nervous but catatonic. Perhaps not frightened enough by rumors alone to pull the nomination. But nervous enough to sweat out this election until November when they confront their 1972-like loss where George McGovern was buried by Richard Nixon in a 49-state landslide.
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