He had it down pat.
There
was the conservative tilt of the head; the eye contact; the voice
inflections and the rhetoric of a learned liberal purveyor of
moderate conservatism. Max Burns was right: “The Clinton torch,
however, was passed on to an equally capable man, the future Senator
from Illinois, Barack Obama.” That is just great; another
Clintonian!
Max
wasn’t just impressed. He wrote: “I cannot recall ever seeing a
young candidate such as Obama who I would honestly vote for right now
if he ran for President. Obama has that something.” Perhaps it is
“gravitas”?
Michelle
Malsbury, in her column, “I Have a Hope” wrote: “I have been
watching the Democratic national Convention and loving every moment
of it! One bright and shining rising star among Democrats is Barack
Obama…”
Who
can deal with such high praise?
I
am sorry I did not get to see Mr. Obama’s keynote address. I was
only able to see snippets from the news channels over here. Mostly,
Clinton’s face was everywhere. The “International herald Tribune”
which I receive had more on Howard Dean than on Barack Obama. I did
go into Mr. Obama’s web site though, thanks to the link provided by
Ms. Malsbury. I also printed out Mr. Obama’s keynote transcript;
where I read:
“Well,
I say to them tonight, there’s not a liberal America and a
conservative America – there’s the United States of America.”
Oh,
how I wish. I wish there were not 5 states in the dis-union that do
not defend the proper form of marriage between men and women. I wish
there were just one state in the dis-union that would refuse to have
murderous abortions performed within its borders. I wish every state
in the nation would be united in a death penalty for premeditated
murderers and radical killers of the innocent. I read this too:
“There’s
not a black America and white America, and Latino America and Asian
America; there’s the United States of America.”
But
that doesn’t get anyone “affirmative action” or “minority
preference” or “quotas” on hiring, and it might even lead to
people who are actually criminals in America being locked up instead
of put on probation or given early release based on racial quotas. It
might also take away the ability of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to
extort money from American corporations by playing the race card. And
what of OJ Simpson-like trials? Oh, if only it were true. Then I
read:
“The
pundits, (Rush Limbaugh Perhaps?), like to slice-and-dice our country
into Red States and Blue States, but I’ve got news for them too. We
worship an awesome God in the Blue States and we don’t like federal
agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little
League in the Blue states and we have gay friends in the Red States.”
Yes,
but you also kick out the Ten Commandments from the halls of justice
and public education. You disallow the name of Jesus in the public
arena and teach Islam and Transcendental Meditation. You allow
funding to be taken away from the Boy Scouts of America for trying to
keep homosexual predators out of the campsites of little boys and for
giving honor to the God you say is in all States. In ten years will
the Little League still play the Star Spangled Banner and have an
opening prayer and a Pledge of Allegiance to begin a new Baseball
Season? Oh, and in case you haven’t read it; there’s been no
“poking” around anyone’s library and that according to one of
your Democratic own.
And
so I read:
“We
are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and
stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.”
What
country does Mr. Obama live in? Michael Mooreites, or Michael
Mooreons, or Michael Mooreists, or Michael
Come-on-and-give-us-Moore-Bush-bashing aficionados do not defend the
United States. According to Mr. Liberal Icon of the Moment, all
Americans are STUPID! Sadly, the United States Supreme Court is
hearing cases against that very Pledge of Allegiance. Anyone who does
not uphold the values of America is permitted to burn our stars and
stripes or sit down while the majority chooses to honor the nation of
America. No, “we are [not] one people.” Max, the guy you would
vote for President, does not know this country.
That
was in the keynote speech by Mr. Obama. Don’t get me wrong; there
was some good stuff in there. Stuff I have been saying all along;
stuff that was very conservative and made a lot of sense. He does
have that Clinton thing going. He is an excellent “wolf”.
Why
do I say that?
This
is from a speech text on Mr. Obama’s website: “This
Administration walked away from a host of efforts to promote
international security, environmental protection, and human rights,
including the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, The Biological Weapons
Convention; The Kyoto Protocol on global warming, the Convention on
the Rights of the Child and the International Criminal court for war
crimes and genocide.”
I
have previously dealt with a couple of these; but every one is
another cash cow for the international community. Not one of these
conventions benefits Americans. The International Criminal court was
especially established to be used against America. America always
stands in compliance with things like the Geneva Convention. The ICC
is a court that can try America like many of the liberal courts try
cases against Big Tobacco. America ends up paying reparations to
everyone for everything while the rest of the world gets to skate and
collect American cash. In all these conventions America would be
tasked to support with the greatest amount of cash and personnel
(much like we do now with the UN) and we would receive nothing (like
now) in return. Hey, that’s a lot like the way Democrats tax the
Middle Class….eh?
Mr.
Obama: The United States MUST [caps mine] give its fair share to the
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. President Bush’s
budget this year actually cuts the US contribution to the Global fun
by 64%”. Now, why would that be? Perhaps because it is supposed to
be a GLOBAL FUND, and not a fund fully funded by America? We are
keeping ourselves comparable in the percentage category and still
giving more actual dollars than all the other nations involved. The
FUND is upset, because President earmarked an additional 15 billion
dollars just for African nations. The FUND wanted those dollars for
our good buddies in China and Russia because they do not believe in
“wasting” money on people they see are going to die anyway.
Better to use American money for that. Don’t forget too that Willie
Jeff’s Foundation is still trying to get its hands on the lion
share of that money.
I
read this too: “The absence of international support not only
weakened our credibility and moral authority; it also made the
occupation more difficult and dangerous.”
No.
There
were several things that made the occupation more dangerous. The
first was the Senate debate on the money to support the troops. A
DEBATE, while we were on the ground needing things that we could not
get because the Senate was DEBATING while troops were DYING! It
really had nothing to do with Germany or France. We were there with
the support of 60 nations. The rest of the nations did not want us in
there because 1) they are dictatorships just like Iraq was 2) they
have just as many mass graves as Saddam had 3) they already hated
America and were extremely jealous of American Power 4) they fell in
line with the Democrats in stating their HATRED for President Bush,
during a time of conflict that the government needed full support. 5)
it was going to cost them money 6) they were actually going to have
to physically DO something, not just talk about doing something like
with DARFOR, Sudan right now. 7) they had contracts with Saddam and
stood to lose their oil concessions and UN Oil for FOOD Kickbacks if
Iraq fell. 8) we are still letting foreign bad guys waltz across the
borders of Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia. I think it might be time to
attack someone else….eh?
Finally,
I read this: “We know from last week’s Senate report on US
intelligence failures, the very reasons we presented to the world for
going to war in Iraq were also wrong.” Well, you can debate that
with all the people who were slated by Saddam to end up in a mass
grave but did not, because of the invasion. You can also discuss this
with Senator Jay Rockefeller; a member of that same intelligence
committee, responsible for full oversight of all intelligence. You
can also read the full text of his 2002 address to the Senate on why
we needed to attack Saddam. He argued for immediate action.
So
Mr., Obama knows how to enter the political arena. Find a spot you
can run unopposed then take your best moderate conservative shot.
After that, he will have to toe-the-line of Daschle, and Frank, and
Leahey and Kennedy and Kerry in hopes of moving up the democratic
ladder of “hope”. He must be willing to accept his role as being
used by the party of hope though and he should not expect to get past
Hillary without being prepared to kiss her ring. But he’s got it
down pat. He knows how to act the sheep before being the wolf. Good
luck Mr. Obama.
Author's Note:
This was the very first
column I wrote concerning Barack Hussein Obama. I don't want to brag
about my prescience but I know a liberal communist when I hear one or
read one. Now, 10 years later, my opinions are validated as the
liberals, socialists, communists, statists, homosexuals and atheists
cheer their messianic, foreign-born-but-elected-usurper hero. This
column was originally posted in www.useless-knowledge.com
in August 2004 under the same title. (There has been some minor
editing of the original copy.)
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