More ooze
Bookworm on Apr 11 2008 at 9:41 am | Filed under: Barack Obama
I mentioned in an earlier post the slime that’s starting to ooze out from behind the curtain that hides the real Barack Obama. Andrew McCarthy has a splendid rundown of the creepy, angry, anti-American, whiny, anti-Semitic, anti-white people Obama counts amongst his friends.
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Not exactly a political post, Book, but it does deal with some traits of the Democrat party and by extension their desire to invest power and faith in Obama.
http://ymarsakar.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/leading-from-the-front-part-ii-of-excellent-military-history-videos/
I said I would continue that post and I have.
The other subject I’m addressing concerns the chickenhawk meme or rather the tendency for decadent people to praise warrior virtues and various other traits of tribal cultures. When people live in uncertain times and feel a danger to themselves that their faction is not adequately addressing, they tend to look backwards in time to a more hardy age in which men were men and what not. That’s an instinctual response that depends upon a couple of factors such as how much nostalgia you are willing to engage in and how much of the past you really understand as opposed to just think you understand.
A symposium audience member made the remark that, unlike Bush, Leonidas and other Kings actually led from the front, fighting with their troops.
Birds of a feather flock together.
While we can’t judge Obama exactly, by judging those he associates with, there is a lot of statistical (stereotypical?) truth to the idea that you can best be judged by the company you keep.
I still don’t have a complete picture of the person we know as “Barack Obama”. I keep wondering if I am only hearing the worst. I am hearing about many terrible people that he is closely associated with. I am not hearing about similarly close people whom I would consider admirable. Where are they? If they exist to the same degree that these terrible people exist, then for Obama, it would be a total wash. Irrelevant.
Obama’s political opponents are pointing out these execrable people that Obama is associated with. It’s up to his political friends to point out the admirable and good people he’s associated with. So far, they haven’t done so. Until they do, I couldn’t possibly vote for him. At this point he is being defined by these reprehensible people with whom he associates.
Of course, his extreme leftist ideology prevents me from voting for him anyway. I’d write in “Mickey Mouse” before I could vote for him… unless John McCain were revealed on video to sexually molest children while laughing with maniacal glee.
Perhaps this refusal to vote for him is tied in directly with my view of his “friends” as execrable people when they are merely far-leftists. Oh well. There’s always the choice of the pure, evil,complete corruption of the Hillary-Bill show. Evita Peron lives again!
On a different subject…
I heard a talk show caller (on CNN) state, paraphrasing cuz I didn’t record it, that:
“I am tired of white people telling me to just “get over it”. I will not just “get over it”.
The legacy of slavery exists with us every day. No one tells the Jews to just “get over” the Holocaust. They treat what happened to them as a significant horror. They don’t just “get over it”. And we will not just get over our legacy of slavery. It is as important. The Jews know that historical infamy is important, and we need to know it too.”
This has stopped me in my tracks. I’m still evaluating it carefully. It doesn’t have a clear answer to me. I wonder what others think. This caller, she shocked me, and I have had to consider if I am devaluing what happened to her ancestors because I wish to repress a sense of the depths of what America was responsible for. I don’t want to do the “yes, but…” response.
So I’m a little stuck. I am currently thinking that the most important part of the Jewish Holocaust is that the Jews have dedicated themselves to the idea of “Never Again”, and they’ve left the Nazis in the past, knowing nevertheless that human evil can cause the impulse to occur again: thus the idea of “Never Again”. But they don’t claim that everyone around them are Nazis. Whereas this Black woman does not seem to be engaged in the same idea of “Never Again”, but is seeking to brand everyone equally today as as evilly racist as so many Americans were from the 1600’s up through the mid 1960’s - the point at which our official government apartheid ended.
But I’m still mulling. What do others think of her argument? Are we repressing the horrors of the American past, trying to minimalize it?
Y states in the first post:
“A symposium audience member made the remark that, unlike Bush, Leonidas and other Kings actually led from the front, fighting with their troops.”
Y is making a remark, not necessarily agreeing with it…
But I have to say something. In this age of mass destruction, any *real* war involving America involves the destruction of Washington DC. The more admirable novels and movies dwelling on this event are comparable to what we saw at Thermopylae, where Leonidas confronted the threat directly, in an emergency situation.
Were America to face the same kind of emergency situation (as in those admirable novels and movies), the American President stays in the White House, coordinating our response as best he can, anticipating his destruction while still hoping, usually vainly, for deliverance.
Washington DC would be destroyed utterly in any war where the full power of modern militaries is brought to bear. We can expect a Leonidas in this age to stay in the White House and coordinate our efforts, as Leonidas did. He would *not* pick up is rifle, affix a bayonet, and rush to the front lines.
No one tells the Jews to just “get over” the Holocaust.
If the Jews were demanding money, land, and grovelling from the Germans of this generation, we would tell the Jews to get over it.
Only evil people demands of a man that he should repay the victims of his crime by giving up the arms of his son and daughter.
The legacy of slavery exists with us every day.
Of course it continues to exist. The legacy of slavery is that once the slaves rebel and start killing off their slavemasters, the former slaves become just as totalitarian and tyrannic to each other as their slavemasters were to them.
The slaves have learned a set of responses that work. But they don’t know how to function in a society that requires trust and cooperation. And trying to “stay mentally as a slave” instead of getting over it, is just repeating the legacy of slavery. I’m sure many whites and blacks find comfort in that thought, but I don’t.
The Jews know that historical infamy is important, and we need to know it too.”
It’s important to the Jews because they refuse to become anything like Hitler. It’s important to you folks because you folks want to turn the tables on whites and the descendents of both slave masters and the abolitionists who fought against the Democrat slave owners.
There was an interesting story of a Jewish man that was bitter over his experiences during the Holocaust. He couldn’t stand to stay in Germans and see Germans smile knowing what that nation did to him and his family.
The man wrote an article in reply to some racist personas on the lesson of forgiveness, because his brother told him that he should not waste his life feeling bitter over old enemies.
I think that the dialogue on race in America that is likely to ensue — indeed is already underway — from the Obama candidacy might just go a long way toward achieving true racial harmony etc. We find revealed another enemy that, like Al Quaeda, has been at war with us and most didn’t know it. While part of the Civil Rights Movement was working for racial equality, another part was (and is) working for racial revenge.
Oh, occasionally we see the ugly name-calling inflicted on blacks who have succeeded in the “White” world as evil, Oreo cookies, Uncle Tom’s etc but we often dismiss that as being political. Bill Cosby tried to tell the black community that what is holding them back is their own attitudes, beliefs and behavior. He was excoriated for that, too. Another Oreo.
Why don’t blacks “just get over it?” Many do. Many accepted the opportunities that were opened up to them in colleges, industry, professions and the military. But the fortunes of a key element of the so-called black leadership — Al Sharpton, Jessee Jackson, Maxine Waters etc — need to have an under-class large enough to form an important constituency for the Democratic Party. Now we learn that Black Liberation Theology is preaching horrific racism and hatred from the pulpit.
The Blacks that are being told they should not “get over it” are being exploited and held back by their own preachers and leaders. Men who are building a power base — and a great fortune — by making sure blacks don’t get over it, don’t get educated, don’t have two parent homes, and who are taught that they “are owed.”
This is the conversation America must have on race.