President Empty-Suit
President Obama came into office a mystery. Similar to the mythical Bagger Vance, he appeared out of the mist. No one knows where he came from (or was born) or much of his past. Even places he claims to have been, there are few if any who remember him. For one so blessed with charisma, that is very strange.
The media seems completely disinterested about Obama’s past and why he has gone to such great lengths to hide whatever of it he could.
Slowly, however, things leak out. Nothing is very definitive. There is no real birth certificate, college records, explanation of a social security number issued from a state where Obama never resided, etc. etc. There almost appears to be a fear among the press and political opponents to question these issues.
Jack Cashill is an exception. He has furrowed out information that others don’t want to find. Even when he uncovers something, the mainstream media has no interest in reporting or pursuing it. Perhaps they have too much credibility wrapped up in their support of this man. Perhaps they are afraid to report what they know. Whatever it is, it is not natural or normal. It is downright eerie and likely dangerous.
Cashill’s latest article on American Thinker deals with one of the pieces of evidence that escaped being buried in the hidden memory hole. It is a letter written in 1990 to the Harvard Law Review advocating affirmative action. It is especially revealing in the sense that it is perhaps the only authentic piece of Obama’s writing (I discount his “authored” books). Cashill describes the letter:
The response is classic Obama: patronizing, dishonest, syntactically muddled, and grammatically challenged. In the very first sentence Obama leads with his signature failing, one on full display in his earlier published work: his inability to make subject and predicate agree.
Perhaps I was fortunate (or unfortunate) to have had demands made upon me during my early schooling. My English teachers from eighth grade forward would not have tolerated the grammar in the letter. Perhaps Obama was also fortunate or unfortunate enough not to have had such demanding teachers. Yet he went past high school into the upper tiers of academia. Supposedly he went to Columbia. Then he went on to Harvard Law School. How could this be? Have these colleges deteriorated so much that someone with such obvious flaws could graduate? Was he just passed because he was a minority necessary for affirmative action quotas and diversity?
To even ask the last question is to tread on sacred ground as Mr. Cashill points out:
… who would challenge Obama’s obvious talent — or that of any affirmative action beneficiary — but those blinded by what Obama calls “deep-rooted ignorance and bias”?
Well, I would. It is not politics or race that motivates such a question. It is disappointment in the media, the voters and the institutions of this country. Is it possible that we have so dumbed-down everyone and everything that the highest office in the land can be occupied by a man who did not learn enough English to pass prior years public high school standards?
Dancing With The Stars, American Idol and Jersey Shore pass for culture in today’s world. Obama passes for educated. There is a parallel here.
Obama is little more than an opportunist, a political grifter. He is an unpolished ideologue, brainwashed in socialist beliefs. His capabilities appear to be extended filling out his brackets for the NCAA basketball tourney or planning his next vacation. He is no leader; he is a fraud. When he writes his next autobiography (it will be claimed to be his third), it should be entitled “The Sting.”
As big a problem as he is, our society elected this fraud. We can correct the first mistake in 2012, but I don’t know how we remedy what has become of society.
bigmike
david yard
RICHARD RALPH ROEHL
I am not optimistic in the short term!
So I look forward to be proven wrong!hopefully before the end of next year.
In the long term:readers and monty are correct:the culture seems confused at best !the west (EU and USA) are both truly stagnant.
The struggle for common sense(!) And fiscal sanity needs renewal of some sort and leadership.
Who will provide it?
I think you touched on the answer to the MSM. They believe that in for a penny, in for a pound. They’ve cast their lot with the crowning achievement of liberalism, BH Obama. I’m tired of nearly every conservative complaining about the MSM. I understand why they (we) do it. Its an attempt to try to convince the uninformed. The MSM lost all objectivity decades ago. Only lately, for instance, have we learned the full scope of Walter Kronkite’s agenda. Sure we knew he was “liberal”, but never realized he was as unamerican as today’s batch of liberals and democrats.
The MSM is one of our enemies, an enemy of the state. Once we factor that into the equation, we realize that they fully understand that Obama is incompetent, but he is their leader and they are circling the wagons. They realize that however flawed, incompetent and worthless, he never the less is their only chance to finish us off. Another four years in office and if he only does one thing, all else pales, and that is to replace one of the conservatives or Kennedy on the Supreme Court. Liberalism has had its greatest strides through the oligarchical renderings of liberal judges and the ultimate jewell of the SCOTUS would put their liberal nervana within their grasp.
Your statement “…but I don’t know how we remedy what has become of society.” alludes to the root cause of America’s problems. America’s problems are rooted in its cultural decline. Its remedy is religion that loves God and ALL our neighbors. Tocqueville is alleged to have written in Democracy in America [italicized], that “America is great because America is good; when America stops being good, America will stop being great.” Those of us who believe in God know that humans can be good, on their own, without religion, to the extent that they live their lives, with or without acknowledging their debt to the morals of Western Civilization’s Judeo-Christian Heritage that formed our Western Culture until the Enlightenment. (I know that some contend that the decline began with Renaissance Humanism, but that is another controversy.) But! We who believe in a God who loves ALL humanity, know that we humans are inherently sinful and need Divine grace to strengthen our virtues. We must be open to receiving Divine grace when we perceive it, or when we ask for it. We know that it is difficult to love our neighbor, which is why we need Divine grace. Hurricane Irene demonstrates that many Americans love their neighbors by actually helping those in need. Thank God for that! Yet, our American culture as a whole is manifestly more selfish, crude, and corrupted by the pursuit and overindulgence of pleasure–all of which are finite and unable to provide the happiness and peace that we seek.
St. Augustine wrote in his Confessions that all men seek happiness and peace. Trouble results when our choices to make us happy and peaceful are too finite and too material. We must have a balance among worship, work, play, and a love that obeys God’s guidance for love. Augustine wrote that the power of love has as much force in the spiritual world as gravity has in the physical world. IF we humans practiced THAT kind of love, do you think that the world would become “…a universal spiritual society that has for its foundation truth, its object justice, its operation freedom, and its driving force love?” Yes, it would become largely that kind of society. To attain it, do any of us, believers or unbelievers, think that man BY HIMSELF can love that much with so little?
Christopher Dawson, the eminent late Catholic historian of religion and culture, wrote that “A society that has lost its religion is sooner or later a society that has lost its culture.” From whence came the good that Tocqueville observed? It came from people who loved and obeyed God. We can recover that love by prayer, fasting, reading Scripture, and PRACTICING religions that love ALL humanity. God offers us his mercy; will we trust him when we ask for it?
Recall Shakespeare’s writing about mercy in the Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1: Venice. A court of justice.
PORTIA
“The quality of mercy is not strain’d, [restrained]
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest:…
…It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God’s
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, —,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy….”
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/merchant/merchant.4.1.html
On the night that Obama was elected, I comforted myself with the confident expectation that the Democrats and Obama would take enough rope to hang themselves by their corrupt use of power to execute Marxism in the U.S. My confidence continues to be vindicated.
In a similar way, I expect the MSM to hang themselves by their refusal to perform their responsibilities as a free press as provided in the Constitution. After the Republicans win the Presidency, House, and Senate in 2012, the truth will be exposed by, I hope, Congressional investigations into Obama and his thugs. When the truth is exposed by the conservative media and Internet, with sufficient repetition to penetrate the minds of those citizens who receive their news from the MSM, I hope that the latter consumers will conclude that the MSM betrayed America. If that were to happen, perhaps a large segment of MSM consumers will flee to Fox, the conservative media and Internet. Let us hope that the MSM is reduced to a market share that is inversely proportional to their perfidy.