Sunday, May 18, 2008

Re:Obama

POV

I seldom, if ever, post stuff like this letter from a guy named Ron.
Pain in my lower back today, so I just sorta sat around a lot, reading blogs and articles and commentary of various types. For weeks now I’ve been waiting for the blush to abandon the rose of Barackolatry and expose the thorns, but it doesn’t seem to be happening. His pied-piper mystique still attracts Bush-bashers, moonbats, and sufferers of white guilt for some strange reason although he has no bona fides to back up his grandiose but ambiguous promises.

For over 50 years now I’ve read and heard various iterations and adaptations of the fact that a man is known by the types of friends he seeks, the way he presents himself, the types of entertainment he prefers, the examples he offers to prove his points, the books he reads, the way he conducts his family life, and so on.

Well, in that first category, Obama has defined himself as a person who is both suspicious and contemptuous of white America. His long-term relationship with an anti-America minister who publicly and officially announced his preference for things African; his association with an anti-America radical who publicly and officially announced his support for reparations by whites to blacks and for black supremacy; and his marriage to a woman whose initial public and official statement as an adult was essentially a condemnation of treatment of black students by white academia paint him into a corner surrounded by glaring stains in nightmarish patterns.

Wright and Farrakhan notwithstanding, Michelle Robinson’s master’s thesis at Princeton had nothing good to say about white people in general and white teachers in particular, despite the fact that most were liberals. I haven’t read the entire thing because the only copies I can find on the web are pdf files, and I detest that document format as a Satanic invention designed to frustrate researchers and casual readers. What summaries and excerpts I have found indicate a definite distaste for traditional American values, institutions, and customs.

She seems to be a driven and diligent student and worker as well as a dedicated and loving mother. In the 3 or 4 interviews I’ve seen her give so far, she comes across as an alert, responsive, intelligent, knowledgeable, clever, stylish, and physically attractive woman. But beneath the surface I sense a strong distrust of and deep disgust for white society at every level. In fact, I suspect she is equally none too thrilled with the majority of black people in America, reserving her respect and fellowship for only those in her own narrow stratum of wealth, power, and fame. Her demeanor suggests to me a manipulator, conniver, and condescender.

If I’m wrong, well c’est la vie. But something in her eyes, her carriage, her published opinions broadcasts a skeptical disposition, a guarded manner, a cautious association with all but a few close, trusted, old friends. Her whole approach to life appears to be calculating and constructed, completely self-sufficient, and not really a whole lot of natural or spontaneous enjoyment.

What I see coming next January is a young man with absolutely no experience in leadership or management, particularly in such critical areas as international affairs, economics, budgeting, and negotiation, at any level. He could be the quintessential greenhorn riding into a dangerous frontier town with the voices of rebels, troublemakers, and cynics ringing in his ears. And at day’s end, when he needs the comfort and counsel of a dependable and trustworthy partner, the analysis and advice he’ll get will be tinged with contempt, bitterness, and misgiving.

Somehow that doesn’t seem a good duo to pilot over the world’s most powerful military, most established economy, and most productive culture since the time of Pericles in the most dangerous of times since the Inquisition.

3 comments:

ricpic said...

You know what pisses me off? That anyone should have to justify not voting for a black as president. A lifetime's experience justifies it.

Anonymous said...

How the Fu*k 'am I suppose to explain this world to my kids?!?!?!

-Dale-

Anonymous said...

Well Dale, it's a shitstorm, and nobody gets out alive. However along the way, there's fellowship, and joy, faith, and sunshine that lights the way. For every valley, there is a peak on the other side.

Casca

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