Imagine all the people... buying into this crap.
Barack Obama is arguably the most enigmatic president in the history of the United States, right behind William Henry Harrison. I think I know what’s going on with Mr. Obama, but apparently a majority of my fellow citizens don’t. In a recent and now-infamous poll, 61 percent of Americans either don’t know Mr. Obama’s religious affiliation or think he’s a Muslim.
Unlike Mr. Obama’s rhetoric, the cumulative record of his climb to the presidency, his associations, his voting record and the millions of words he’s written about himself whilst staring at his reflection in a pool make his beliefs and vision very clear indeed.
Most Americans are confused about Mr. Obama because they haven’t bothered to look very closely at his history. They’ve been told by those who police the information disseminated to the public, the fake-but-accurate “mainstream” media, “Nothing to see here. Move along, please.”
Meanwhile, Mr. Obama obfuscates even the simplest of issues. His catch phrase – “let me be clear” – has become one of the great presidential paradoxes of all time as it signals that a riddle will be explained with an enigma. This approach is not due to Mr. Obama’s inability to ‘splain himself, but is intended to shield the true nature and intent of his policymaking from the public at large.
This is the culmination of an entire career outside the mainstream and immersed in the Marxist, multicultural, atheistic, relativistic, grievance-mongering world of left-wing politics, which is really what “community organizing” is all about. Mr. Obama has never held a real job. He has no clue about what average people struggle with and how the heavy hand of government affects their lives.
Mr. Obama’s entire career has been one of theory and abstractions. Obama and his peers have busied themselves envisioning a Utopia created by a benign and all-knowing government. This is quite easy to do when you don’t have to live with the consequences of the various social engineering projects you’re planning to foist on the unwashed masses. They are part of a noble experiment that will one day yield the fully evolved society where all live in peace and harmony. It’s taking the premise of John Lennon’s Imagine and bringing it to life.
The problem, however, lies in the very title of the song, Imagine. Sure, you can imagine it, but that’s about it. Reality tends to get in the way. Still, that doesn’t stop ambitious youngsters, like the idealistic Barry Obama, who climbed quickly from obscurity as an undergrad at Columbia to being the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. Suddenly, he was the media’s anointed one, christened as the “rising star” of his party after the Democratic National Convention in 2004.
Mr. Obama’s ascendency has been largely based on hiding his ideology. There was a jarring disconnect, noticeable at least to those who were paying attention, between Mr. Obama’s rhetoric during the presidential campaign and his actual beliefs. Americans heard a radically leftist message wrapped up in non-descript-everyone-agrees-with-what-I’m-saying packaging.
Behind the façade lies Mr. Obama’s ladder to success, each successive rung riddled with the names of his far-left mentors and ideological fellow travelers, from Saul Alinsky to the good Rev. Wright. Not one of these would be considered “mainstream” or even moderate.
Moreover, Mr. Obama’s rise in Chicago is largely the result of typical Chicago-style politics, the practice of which are the exact opposite of his claims that he would bring a new level of transparency and openness to Washington, D.C. We’re only a little less than two years into his administration and it’s backroom deals and arm twisting as far as the eye can see. Chicago-style politics have been effectively exported to D.C.
Mr. Obama’s ideology and the means by which he will pursue his agenda are perfectly clear. If you believe in centralized economic planning, the micromanagement of “every species of personal and private concerns,” the subjugation of America’s sovereignty to international institutions, that the productive should support the non-productive through heavy regulation and high taxation, that America is not a force for good in the world, that unfettered abortion even beyond birth is a Constitutional right, that the Constitution itself is merely a loose blueprint of ideas that can and should be changed by means other than Constitutional ones, and that we should be protected from ourselves and any potential risk we may run across during the course of our lives (see also, every species of personal and private concerns), then Mr. Obama’s your guy. Whew! And that’s just a partial list.
However, if you believe in decentralized Republicanism (not the party; the form of government), local rule, the right to bear arms and arm bears if we so choose, the right to eat whatever the hell we want, that America is a force for good in the world, that subjugating America’s sovereignty to an international community that is either despotic or holds views antithetical to America’s founding is dangerous, that the Constitution can change to the reflect the times but only through the means specified in it (the amendment process), that the founders created a lasting compact with both their generation and “to their posterity” that is inviolable, that those who make the laws should be held to the same standard (in other words, those who force us to ride bikes should also be forced to ride bikes) and that the federal government’s role in the economy should be limited, then Mr. Obama’s not your guy.
It’s actually quite clear; you just need to marshal the evidence and apply it. These days, however, marshalling the evidence means you’re a racist, so maybe ignorance really is bliss.
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