So let’s step into our 'Wayback Machine' and travel
back in time to that nostalgic time just before then-Senate candidate from
Illinois, Barack Hussein Obama, arrived on stage at the Democrat National
Convention in 2004. And then thanks to that which would become in time his
piece of never-leave-home-without-it equipment, that being his ever-present
teleprompter, it was a much younger Barry “Almighty” that proceeded to wow the
crowd with his artificial oratory and set the stage for his presidential run
which would come just a mere four years later.
Now, finally nearing the end of his presidency,
thank God, Barry once again graced the stage of the DNC in an effort to promote
the next Democrat presidential hopeful known affectionately here on these pages
as, Hitlery. But the America that Barry
addressed earlier this week is one that has become very deeply divided, and not
only along racial lines, but also across political lines and even within the political
parties, much more so than it was back in '04. And by comparing his words then
to his word choice today that fact becomes all the more stark.
It was in 2004 that Barry spoke like a uniter, far
from the divider that he has turned out to be, and like he has for most of the
eight years he has spent in office. It
was back then that what we heard from the younger Barry that which was a far
cry from we’ve come to hear from the older. It was then that he said, "There
is not a liberal America and a conservative America, there is the United States
of America." And he would then go
on to say, "There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino
America and Asian America -- there’s the United States of America."
But the Barry of 2016 bears very little resemblance
to the Barry of 12 years ago. Because,
you see, the Barry of 2016 concedes to the divided America he himself helped to
create saying, "I see Americans of every party, every background, every
faith who believe that we are stronger together -- black, white, Latino, Asian,
Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with
disabilities, all pledging allegiance, under the same proud flag, to this big,
bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!"
And when Barry addressed the crowd back in 2004, his
goal seemed then to appeal to his "fellow Americans, Democrats,
Republicans, Independents." That
would seem to be a far cry from how it was earlier this week when he addressed
a specific group when he said, "Hello, Democrats!" And it was in describing this current
election that he even went so far as to declare that it is the
"contest" between the left and the right that "pushes our
country forward." Not like before
when he said there's no left, no right, only the U.S.A. But, as they say, that was then and this is
now.
Then-Senate candidate Barry was backing John
Kerry-Heinz and praised him in similar ways as he did Hitlery. What he didn't
do then was bash the opposition, which is another difference in his two
speeches. Because Barry was on the attack this time around, railing against
Donald Trump at mockery level: "You
know, the Donald is not really a plans guy. He’s not really a facts guy,
either…"America is already great. America is already strong. And I promise
you, our strength, our greatness, does not depend on Donald Trump." So is Barry saying that he’s a facts
guy? Really?
And, of course, it wouldn't be a Barry “Almighty”
speech without taking advantage of the situation to knock around the
Republicans to the greatest extent possible.
Barry said, "But what we heard in Cleveland last week wasn’t
particularly Republican -- and it sure wasn’t conservative. What we heard was a
deeply pessimistic vision of a country where we turn against each other, and
turn away from the rest of the world. There were no serious solutions to
pressing problems -- just the fanning of resentment, and blame, and anger, and
hate."
Meanwhile, outside the convention center during the
latest rousing speech from Barry, it was essentially his America that was on
full display for all to see. Or at least
all that his many friends in the state-controlled media saw fit to air. Disgruntled Democrats were busy burning
American flags (and sometimes even themselves), cursing Hitlery, breaching the
wall around the building (yes, they had a wall), shouting "Black Lives
Matter," and condemning white privilege. They considered it their
revolution, their new occupy moment.
And Barry, from the safety of a highly-secure podium,
spoke as if nothing was wrong. He said,
"That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t
fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together
than we are on our own. That’s what Hillary Clinton understands -- this
fighter, this stateswoman, this mother and grandmother, this public servant,
this patriot -- that’s the America she’s fighting for.” The truth is that our country is spirally out
of controlled and plummeting toward the deck that is rapidly approaching.
And Barry went on to say, "So this year, in
this election, I’m asking you to join me -- to reject cynicism and reject fear,
and to summon what is best in us; to elect Hillary Clinton as the next
president of the United States, and show the world we still believe in the
promise of this great nation." How
about we get together and reject the blatant dishonest portrayal of what is
actually taking place in this country.
Like our failed economic policy, our failed immigration policy and our
failed foreign policy. We have to be
smart enough not to elect Hitlery as our next president.
So at some point during my many trips around the
blogosphere that I happened to stumble across someone who suggested to me that
I search out Mr. Malcolm Muggeridge. And
it was in so doing that I ended up finding something that after I first read it
I found the need to re-read it because it was something that could not have more
accurately defined much of what I see every day taking place right before my
eyes. And I thought, how profound. It was something written by Mr. Muggeridge
and included in his Vintage Muggeridge: Religion and Society.
And I was so taken by what I was read that I thought
it important enough to pass it along to those who, like myself, may be
unfamiliar with this man. We are
allowing the destruction of our country to take place and far too many of us have
absolutely no desire to even raise a finger.
And we are now on the verge of throwing away that which may very well be
our very last opportunity to salvage what’s left of our country. If we do elect Hitlery we will have totally abandoned
our responsibility to future generations. Mr. Muggeridge’s words, I think, seem almost
prophetic.
Mr. Muggeridge: “So the final conclusion would
surely be that whereas other civilizations have been brought down by attacks of
barbarians from without, ours had the unique distinction of training its own
destroyers at its own educational institutions, and then providing them with
facilities for propagating their destructive ideology far and wide, all at the
public expense. Thus did Western Man decide to abolish himself, creating his
own boredom out of his own affluence, his own vulnerability out of his own
strength, his own impotence out of his own erotomania, himself blowing the
trumpet that brought the walls of his own city tumbling down, and having
convinced himself that he was too numerous, labored with pill and scalpel and
syringe to make himself fewer. Until at last, having educated himself into
imbecility, and polluted and drugged himself into stupefaction, he keeled
over--a weary, battered old brontosaurus--and became extinct.”
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