Throwing Down the Gauntlet
When Catholic bishops
speak out against wholesale abortions, they’re crossing the line. But when
Obama sits in a pew for 20 years while Jeremiah Wright condemns white people or
when Rev. Luis Leon of St. John’s Episcopal devotes an Easter sermon to
labeling conservatives racists, Obama and his supporters are as happy as pigs
in slop.
A friend of mine
suggested a slogan Obama should have employed last year instead of his generic
“Forward.” He thought it would have been more honest if the radical transformer
had used “I’ve Got What it Takes to Take What You’ve Got.” And by reading
between the lines, which is all the reading some people do, young women,
Hispanics, blacks and public sector union members, knew that once he took it,
he would split the proceeds with them. What, after all, is redistribution of
wealth but taking what some people have worked to earn and using it to bribe
those who want it in exchange for their votes?
H.L. Mencken, the
cynical sage of Baltimore, wrote, nearly a century ago, “As democracy is perfected,
the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of
the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White
House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
Some people, even some
conservatives will take umbrage at calling Obama a moron. Like trained parrots,
they will say, “I may not agree with his policies, but he is an Ivy League
graduate, after all.” In rebuttal, I will say, he is merely the over-weaned
product of affirmative action. Not only have generations of morons graduated
from Harvard, Yale and Princeton, but generations of the mentally challenged
have taught there and continue to teach there.
A recent poll of
America’s college law faculty shows that nearly 30% of the law professors made
political contributions last year. Over 76% of them only contributed to
Democrats, while 12.8% contributed only to Republicans. That says all you need
to know about diversity on college campuses.
Getting back to Obama,
I must confess I found myself chuckling when I saw him sink just two of the 22
shots he took at the Easter festivities. It wasn’t just a rare pleasure to see
him fail at something he likes to boast about, but it provided a perfect
insight to his mentality. As he shot one brick after another, you would have
thought you were looking at the same shot over and over again. That’s because
he stubbornly refused to change the arc on his shots. Even though one shot
after another bounced off the rim, he kept shooting it the exact same way.
Rarely have I seen such a perfect illustration of that old definition of
insanity: Doing the exact same thing again and again in the deluded belief that
you will get different results.
So it should be no
surprise that his solution to our financial malaise is to raise taxes and pass
more regulations on business. After all, it hasn’t worked before, so it figures
Mr. 2-for- 22 is firmly convinced it will work this time.
But Obama isn’t alone
in his delusions. After all, he was re-elected after the worst first term any
president, including Jimmy Carter, has ever overseen.
When I think of the
nation that was bequeathed to us by the Founding Fathers, I could sit down and
weep. We Americans are like the ne’er-do-well scions of great men who are left
large fortunes, only to fritter them away on electronic toys, drugs, booze and
pornography. And simply because we haven’t squandered away every last nickel,
and because we say nice, but generally untrue, things about illegal aliens,
sodomites and people so ignorant and lazy that if the government didn’t coerce
the rest of us to support them with our taxes, could only survive by stealing,
we hold ourselves in ridiculously high esteem.
Some will take fierce
objection to that last paragraph, which suits me just fine. I only hope it
won’t be used to tar all conservatives as heartless, homophobic racists. The
worst I can say about most conservatives, at least those in public office, is
that they’ve become so accustomed to mincing their words, they fail to notice
that eventually it’s the truth that gets minced.
For my part, I will
quote George Orwell, who observed that “During times of universal deceit,
telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
It took a revolution,
after all, to create this nation. It will take nothing less to save it.
3 comments:
Sam,
I commend you on your forthright and eloquent rendering of the current condition of our nation. Of course you will be crucified for your honesty, but you already knew that. What is disturbing is the knowledge that liberals also realize the veracity of your remarks but will deny them until hell freezes over. That is the hand we have been dealt. How do we play it?
Like gentle doves and wise serpents.
Like gentle doves and wise serpents.
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