The Awaited Messiah?

Posted on June 19, 2008
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I avoided, for a very long time, writing about the candidates vying to move into the White House. Though there was much I wanted to say about every single one of them, I thought it would be better to delay expressing my thoughts until the field was reduced to merely two. There is a lot in both candidates’ background to make for interesting writing, interesting speculation and passionate discussion. Today, I’ll finally break my silence and start with Senator Barak Obama.

To many, in the Democrat Party, he is the long awaited Messiah. To blacks he represents a major breakthrough, he embodies the coming of age of the American dream about anyone reaching for the stars. To the liberal intellectualloids who pollute his party these days, Senator Obama represents the end of the America they so hate.

But, is he the man best suited for the presidency? The US, in spite of everything that has been ailing us lately, in spite of all the hatred, is still the strongest, most respected, most envied country in the world. Yes, you can easily argue there are a few chinks in the armor, it’s true! But the chinks were caused not by the enemy without but a far worse one. Cicero in 42 BC said: A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor – he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation – he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city – he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.”

If we look at the state of American education it is unfortunately all too easy to discern that the majority of academics, the majority of those charged with teaching our children, hate this country and the values it was built on. If we look at the false gods the Liberal Left worships, you will find history revisionists, pseudo intellectuals who know how to write but present little evidence of the truth of their words. If we look at the MSM, it no longer reports the news as they happened but rather as fits their political leftist agenda, whatever slant is necessary, whatever omission is necessary, whatever untruth is necessary they’ll use to advance their cause rather to show the inconvenient truth. Under these circumstances, for these people, Senator Obama’s candidacy seems a sweet prelude to his expected coronation.

Yes, Sen Obama is the youngest of the two candidates. Yes, his very persona signifies change. But are his politics, the politics of change? Or, are they no more than slightly repolished politics as usual? Does the man, once we dissect his newly concocted image, stand up to scrutiny? The American Thinker has the following:

Clintonian Obama
By Ryan L. Cole
Published 6/19/2008 12:07:09 AM

According to recent headlines, Barack Obama is a man on the “cusp” and in the “swirl” of history. True enough. But for a man poised to make American history, Obama has an alarmingly tenuous grasp of it.

He has portrayed himself and his candidacy as an inventible, almost predestined force of history. From launching his campaign on the steps of the Old Illinois State Capitol, where Abraham Lincoln delivered his legendary “House Divided” speech, to basking in the youthful shadow of John F. Kennedy while sharing stages with that martyred president’s relatives, Obama has placed his and his family’s story firmly in the context of the most noble and heroic aspects of America’s past.

However, even casual fans of U.S. history will notice that Obama’s understanding of his country’s story is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies. On March 4, 2007, speaking at the Selma Voting Rights March Commemoration, Obama, claiming that the legendary march brought his parents together, said, “There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Alabama…”

(Sorry Barack, but if that’s your only claim on Selma, you don’t have one. The bridge protest took place in 1965, four years after you were born.)

I don’t know about you, gentle reader, but even a true Messiah would have a tough time proving to me that his biological parents only met four years after he was already born.

In the same speech, Obama linked his father’s arrival in America and his own birth to Camelot. “So the Kennedys decided, ‘We’re going to do an airlift. We’re going to go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and give them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful country America is,” he said. And thus his Kenyan father met his transplanted Kansan mother and history was made.

Not quite. It was Kenyan nationalist Tom Mboya who lobbied Americans to bring Africans to the states to create a new class of educated African elite, resulting in the 1959 airlift that brought Barack Obama Sr. to Hawaii. President Kennedy did not take office until 1961, and there is no evidence to suggest that before he took office he or any members of his family supported the program.

This past Memorial Day, Obama, speaking in New Mexico, claimed his uncle was one “of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps.” Awkwardly, Soviet soldiers liberated Auschwitz, not Americans forces.

In fact that airlift he so idyllically describes, the one that brought the senior Obama to this country, happened when Dwight Eisenhower was President, a Republican President!

My mother, of blessed memory, miraculously survived Auschwitz and she did not remember seeing a single American soldier among the troops that liberated her. In fact, she never saw an American soldier until after she was reunited with my father in the American held zone of Germany. Thus, I must concur with Ryan L. Cole that the good Senator from Illinois either knows nothing about his uncle’s personal history or (heavens forbid!) he’s been caught fibbing… again…

WHILE OBAMA STRUGGLES with dates and facts, even more disturbing is his cockeyed view of past U.S. diplomacy, which he uses to defend his own vision of its future.

Shunning the current administration’s strategy for dealing with foreign dangers, Obama recently said “Change is realizing that meeting today’s threats requires not just our firepower, but the power of our diplomacy — tough, direct diplomacy where the president of the United States isn’t afraid to let any petty dictator know where America stands and what we stand for.” He called this the noble “legacy of Roosevelt, and Truman, and Kennedy.”

So Obama uses the collective legacies of past Democratic presidents as a shield to defend his proposed presidential get-togethers with the likes of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Bashar-al Assad, Hugo Chavez, the Castros and any other murderous dictator that wants to have tea with the leader of the free world.

But Roosevelt never met with Hitler, Mussolini, or Emperor Hirohito. Neither did Truman, who also never met with Kim Il Sung. The inexperienced young Kennedy’s Vienna summit with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961 is now considered a failure. In fact, reflecting upon the debacle, Kennedy himself later admitted, “He beat the hell out of me.”

In fact, it was Kennedy’s disastrous interaction with Khrushchev that led the Russian leader to believe that America wouldn’t interfere with the construction of the Berlin Wall or take decisive action to stop Operation Anadyr — the secret deployment of Soviet missiles to Cuba.

While Obama freely appropriates history to suggest his coming place in America’s pantheon of great leaders, his cheerleading section in the American (and international) press has been rather quiet, only egged on to call Obama on his distortions when conservative bloggers point them out. (One wonders what type of reaction John McCain would get if he were to present a similarly skewed version of American history?)

Obama’s capture of the Democratic presidential nomination is indeed historic, as would be his victory in November. But the would-be maker of American history is no student of it.

One must agree that as a speaker, he’s far better than Senator McCain. But having good oratory skills is not enough to make a President. A clear grasp and understanding of this nation’s values, clear plans to help our country’s pursuit of a better life for all and peace everywhere are uppermost among the necessary skillset to effectively govern this nation. Another very important role for the next American president, and one that Obama claims he is very capable of handling, is that of Great Unifier. This country has for far too long been torn apart over too many issues from race to the war; unless all sides of the various issues are willing to come together this country will be torn apart from within.

A few day’s ago I received an email from a very good friend , with some quotes from Obama’s books. Is Barry (as he called himself while going to school and living with his white – maternal – grandparents) The Great Unifier, as he claims? Read these before you answer that question:

From Dreams of My Father: ‘I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.’

From Dreams of My Father: ‘I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race.’

From Dreams of My Father: ‘There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.’

From Dreams of My Father: ; ‘It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.’

From Dreams of My Father: ‘I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Du Bois and Mandela.’

From Audacity of Hope: ‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’

I obviously misunderstand, but those do not sound like the words of a Great or even those of a microscopic Unifier. Rather than seek to bridge the divide he sounds like he’s widening it. Is that what America needs at this moment, when so many tremendous strides in race relations have been made?!?!? Do we need to regress to the ’60s?

When I first arrived – as a teenager, in 1962 – to this country from Uruguay, I was shocked that in Richmond, VA, where we settled blacks could only sit at the back of the bus… IF… all the whites had seats. I remember the shock and the fear in the negro lady’s face when I, a naive foreigner, on my second week here stood up for a very pregnant woman. I also remember the angry retorts and looks of hatred from the whites around me. All such bigotry has thankfully been relegated to the dustbin of history where it belongs, but statements as those above may just bring back the Great Divide. Is that the Great Unifier this country needs?

The last quote is the most revealing, however, I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’ I don’t know about you, but I expect whoever leads this country to first and foremost stand with this country, to stand with America!!

So is Obama this country’s awaited Messiah? I think not, gentle reader, I think not. To paraphrase, Cicero, I believe that Senator Obama – if elected – will rot the soul of this nation while unknown in the night he will undermine its pillars!

Chaim

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