Posted by
J. R. Maddux on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 4:42:27 PM
It has taken nearly thirty years to find something that Bill Clinton and I agree on. But miracles
do happen. During the Democratic primary campaign, Bill said that Obama's contrived superiority
over Hillary vis-a-vis the Iraq war was a fairy tale. His comments generated a furor from those
who understood him to mean that Obama's entire campaign was a fairy tale, and even earned him the
label of "racist" in some quarters. This was odd, because there seems to be no connection between
one's race and the veracity of their campaign message. Those critics were dead wrong about what
the ex-president meant. But if they had been right, I'd have agreed with him even more.
Barack Obama and his so-called "change we can believe in" are nothing more than vacuous
media-generated holographs. They have appearance without substance. They are "sound and fury
signifying nothing." THAT is why his handlers are so diligent to keep him out of arenas where
his immaturity shows, where his elitist prattlings and his woeful lack of credentials and experience
can be clearly exposed. The Forum at Saddleback was a major embarassment to the Obama
campaign precisely because they couldn't write the script, with the result that their man
fumblingly revealed his moral bankruptcy, political shallowness and disingenuous rhetoric
for what they are -- disqualifiers for his presidential bid.
Today, the candidate came storming back, laying down the gauntlet for his opponent. "I do not
intend to lose this election," he crowed. "John McCain does not know who he's up against." This,
in lockstep with his surrogates' announcing the intent to attack McCain viciously in the upcoming
convention did even more to illuminate Obama's truth deficit.
What happened to Obama's high-sounding promises to run a new kind of campaign? Did he cross
his fingers behind him saying slyly to himself, "I'll run a clean campaign UNLESS, of course, my
opponent attacks me first?" By announcing in advance his intent to revert to the "old politics," by
renouncing public campaign funding when he promised to accept it, and by waffling on domestic
drilling because the polls showed three-quarters of the voters disagreed with him, Obama has
told us all we need to know about his commitment to truth. It IS a fairy tale!
So is his pretense to piety. He has proven particularly sensitive to claims by "right to life"
organizations that he deep-sixed a law that would have forbidden denying aborted babies
who were born alive assistance to live. This allegedly happened while he was in Illinois
prior to his time in the U.S. Senate. "Methinks he protests too much" in his denial, so I went to the
trouble of locating the bill to see what all the fuss was about. In it's final form, the bill
incorporated all the langage of a companion federal bill to insure that it did not violate
Roe v. Wade, while still protecting the right to life of any child born alive. The bill failed to get out
of the committee Obama chaired by a 4-6 vote, with Obama voting against it.
After first denying that this had ever happened, the Obamanators finally, grudgingly
admitted that it did. But, they argued, he voted against it because he was concerned that
its interaction with other existing state laws would have the result of violating Roe v. Wade.
So I did a little more research. I looked at every Illinois stte law having anyting to do with
childbirth, abortion, child welfare, parental rights and every other remotely related topic
and must confess that I could find no bill with which the one Obama helped kill could
ever imaginably have "interacted" to threaten Roe v. Wade. And since Roe v. Wade is currently
the law of the land, such a law would have been overturned by the high courts anyway. Cut
through his deceptive philosophic musings about abortion at the Camelback forum, and
Obama's argument seems to be that, "I don't want to kill any babies, but I want to support
the rights of others to do so." His noble ethical and moral pronouncements are a fairy tale!
So are his faux claims to character and readiness to lead the world's most powerful nation.
When asked, at Saddleback, to describe the existence of evil, he first pointed to the genocide
in Darfur, and then quickly to the streets of American cities, suggesting that in the quest
to eradicate evil even worse evil is often perpetrated. He also allowed that victory over evil is up
to God, and all we can do is be "soldiers." Let's see how that plays out? Clearly he doesn't see
locking live born babies who were targets of unsuccessful abortions in a closet where they're
abandoned to die. As a soldier against evil he could be tried for desertion in that one. But when
Russia's Vladimir Putin, speaking of those who are truly evil, invaded tiny neighboring
Georgia with a war of genocide and infrastructure destruction, Obama's strategy for
confronting evil was, "let's sit down and talk about it." Try that one out on the men who
invaded Normandy, or those who fought on Pork Chop Hill, or maybe some who lost
good firends during the Tet offensive. This candidate couldn't identify evil with both
hands and a flashlight, and he clearly lacks the moral certitude or courage to confront it if he
did. The notion that Barack Obama is in any way ready to lead America is a fairy tale!
And so his only hope of fooling enough of the people enough of the time is to hang
George W. Bush around John McCain's neck, and make it stick. This has already been
announced as his campaign's next strategic move (and one in which the biased media
will no doubt prove a ready ally). But it's just another lie! I once agreed with Jimmy
Carter on something. I don't remember what it was, and I'm embarassed to admit it.
But that didn't make ME Jimmy Carter, or a liberal, or even a Democrat. Yet Obama
and his horde of deceptors will now argue that because McCain shares the president's
conservative outlook on the war and the economy he is just "George W. Bush, Jr." Of
course he will ignore the fact that on a number of notable occasions, McCain went
against his party and its most powerful leader, that McCain was part of the Senate's
bi-partisan coalition that saved the filibuster and that hes been dubbed "maverick"
in his own party. They'll ignore it because they want to deceive, and the inconvenient
truth has no place in their tissue of lies. And THIS is the new politics that "we can
believe in?" No, thanks!
But my hat's off to you, Bill Clinton. You finally nailed one! But I'll bet you dinner
that you won't say it again when you speak at the convention. Prove me wrong, and I
imagine John McCain's campaign could use a good volunteer.