Anne Wortham on the election of Barack Obama

The Virginian ^ | 5/11/2009 | Moneyrunner

[moneyrunner]

Please know: I am Black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul's name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a Black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a Black president to love the ideal of America.

... I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival - all that I know about the history of the United States of America , all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the "change" that Obama asserts has come toAmerica.

Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million Blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that Blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared "progressive" whites who voted for him because he doesn't look like them.

[VR-21]

"I am not race conscious. I do not require a Black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a Black president to love the ideal of America."

I almost resent having my hopes raised anymore.

[ought-six]

A very powerful comment on the foolishness that brought about the election of an avowed anti-capitalist, whose mindset and agenda are fatal to the economic and political freedom that made America great.

[PGalt]

Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead - and no one, including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism.

Hooray Anne Wortham! Very, very good article. Thanks for posting, moneyrunner.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I wrote in Ron Paul's name as my choice for president.

Countdown to FReepers calling her a Troofer/kook/white supremacist 5...4...3

[neocon1984]

Ron Paul.

Oh Yeah. That’s constructive. We gonna change the world one vote at a time (in about 50,000 years).

-from a conservative (small “l”) libertarian.

[Cyber Ninja]

Bump to print later.

[Revolting cat!]

If we had truly free press her essay would be printed by a national newspaper.

[JSDude1]

I voted for Chuck Baldwin, McCain was a socialist and I knew that back in 2006 when he spoke at my Graduation at Liberty University, back then I made a promise to God that I would NEVER vote for John McCain, EVER, and I did not.

Maybe now we can move on from the 2008 election, and support real conservatives in both Congress and (2012)..

Let’s Roll..