Skip to main content

Obama Drama

 There has been some, well, quite a bit, of post-mortems by the Democratic Party about their presidential and Senate losses. For me, not a little bit of it falls on Barak Obama. 

I was never a fan. Like many, I did appreciate that our country proved it could elect a nonwhite person (well, partly) for the highest office. On the other hand, the man's arrogance was quite astounding.  The very fact that he ran for president as a first-term senator was pretty astounding. 

First, he insulted John McCain publicly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXudI0ibo-k 

Second, his tag line was "We will fundamentally transform America." Has that ever been dissected? Who the h--- did he think he was that he would do that?  that he could, or should? As a pundit I listened to this morning said, that is not out of love for country; it is lust for power; it is a form of oppression. Anyone who thinks the country should be fundamentally transformed does not need to be the leader of the country; they don't even appreciate what the country is. But he, like Kamala Harris, spent his formative years in another country.

Third, his line "I have a pen and a phone and I am going to use them" to deal with immigration (although in his defense, our immigration problem are largely due to a do-nothing Congress).

Fourth, his telling Mark Warren he opposed same-sex marriage and then pushing for it as soon as elected.  (This one lies at the feet of the Supreme Court as well as those who redefined marriage over the years as purely a legal contract rather than a societal responsibility.)

Fifth, his telling black male voters to vote for Kamala by shaming them about their manhood. 

This sounds pretty right-wing, I know.  Do not take it to me I'm a Trumper. No, thank you. But he won't try to change us at our core to fit his agenda. We know that because he had the chance before and didn't take it.  As Jonah Goldberg says, if he were Hitler, he would have repealed Obamacare. 



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Birdwatching

 Whose world is this, anyway? My husband came out to the deck where I was reading, thinking, and taking long pauses to listen to birds and watch them visit the feeders. Nala and Butter were keeping the the squirrels away. The cardinals, like kings, were making sure they were fed first but wrens, sparrows, finches, robins, swifts sat in the trees calling and cackling. My Cornell Labs app has identified 18 in 18 minutes, some new ones included. “How interesting that God made all the birds have distinctive calls,” I said. “But I guess they are calling to their own kind, their mate and children.” “Do you think they are talking to each other?” he said. “Not like we do, no communicating, but signaling.” “I thought they were singing for us.” We laughed about that; our human-centric, self-centered view of things takes over. “They sing and make noises when we are not here, so it’s not for us. If they are singing for anyone, it’s God.” I had read Samuel’s speech to the nation in I Samuel 12,...
Post a Comment
Read more

Keeping Up Appearances? David's Surprise Anointing to Be King

  Have you ever watched the show, Keeping Up Appearances? What it is. A comedy about a British woman who wants to be thought of as very high class even though her family is low class. Her name is Hyacinth Bucket but she pronounces it Bouquet. She wants everything perfect but her family works against her, and her neighbors run from her. We all know someone who wants to keep up appearances, and sometimes we do. In our everyday life, we depend on our eyes and we automatically trust them, at least at first, and we often don’t look closely or below the surface. Like puzzles. But we know that appearances can be deceiving, even though they catch us. So I wanted to show this video I saw recently because it’s disturbing but informative. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FERa1AI2EK8 AI has gotten far better on making these deep fakes—videos that are not of anyone but totally generated by the software. Even though they look like someone, they are not. Of course, it is stealing fro...
Post a Comment
Read more