Posted on 03/04/2008 7:42:09 AM PST by vietvet67
"If there is an Arab-American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney, it threatens my civil liberties. It is that fundamental belief, I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper, it is that fundamental belief that makes this country work." - Senator Barack Obama
In a televised twelve-second campaign spot aired in Texas, Senator Obama gives a stirring speech to a standing ovation. It is the predictable litany of American faults he will miraculously correct: literacy, expensive prescription drugs and insufficient civil liberties. However, he seems particularly concerned for Arab-Americans. "If there is an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney, it threatens my civil liberties."
This was an astonishing statement, an infuriating statement and a statement that speaks volumes to Obama's ideology.
Arab-American families being rounded up would not only threaten all our civil liberties, it would raise such a universal outcry, it could not long endure. Even the suggestion it could occur is a profound insult to our nation and our citizenry. It is an image of the gulag, the death camp, the dictatorship, and so inappropriate in any discussion about America, it is beneath our contempt.
Perhaps the Senator is carried away by his remarkable political ascendancy and so emboldened by the lack of critical comment in the press, he believes he can say anything. Perhaps he believes he has so mesmerized us with his oratory that we will not catch the inference of his words. Perhaps he really believes that we are that kind of country, that our people do not cherish civil liberty sufficiently to defend it for all citizens.
This despicable image of innocent families imprisoned and the ethnic cleansing it suggests is a theme the radical left nurtures. It is by design intended to portray an unjust and intolerant people, it was no error, no misstatement. It elicits moral outrage with false assumptions, endlessly repeating those assumptions until believed. It is behind the exaggeration of everything the U.S. does in the war on terror or against Islamic extremism. It is behind the hysteria over the Patriot Act.
As divorced from truth as it is, it is found everywhere in the propaganda of the left, from the Bush-Hitler signs, to the fabrications of American military wrongdoing in the press, to the invented Islamophobia in our populace. It is the motivation behind Michael Moore, Code Pink, MoveOn.Org and George Soros. It is unfortunately the message the media aids and abets.
This moral contrariness gives us American "progressives" embracing dictators and terrorists such as Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Iran's Ahmedinejhad and Syria's Bashar al Assad. It finds equivalence between defending America and Al Qaeda and Hezbollah terrorism. It believes malevolent evil can actually be stopped with dialogue and compromise. It gravitates to a miserable "better red than dead" nihilism that allows no pride or faith in America. It excuses our enemies and indicts everything American. It is the impenitent legacy of the Carter and Clinton administrations. It is illogical and irrational and a road to failure and catastrophe.
"I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper, it is that fundamental belief that makes this country work." Yet, he also says that our country does not work, that we need change. Even as he wraps this contradiction in biblical allusion and positive words like "Hope" and "Change We Can Believe In" his underlying belief system surfaces in clues overlooked by his handlers.
The bleak fantasy of Arab-American families interred for being Arabs and, of course, for being Muslim is very plausible to the radicals that help write his speeches. Senator Obama holds a wretched America in his heart, a country he has no pride in nor wishes to preserve. If his vision starts from failure, where will it end? There is no truth in his words, just as there is no substance. One may speak well, but still speak lies. An Obama presidency would be a disaster.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. - Cicero
See WACO! But no one cares.
Within the Christian principles of compassion and charity...ie. helping others who need our help...the country was much more founded upon the principle that every individual is responbsible for themselves and their own actions...to themselves, to one another, and accountable under the law.
It’s not...and he knows it. But that truth has nothing to do with his campaign or his politcal mongering.
Yes, he does....
“If there is an Arab-American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney, it threatens my civil liberties. It is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper, it is that fundamental belief that makes this country work.” - Senator Barack Obama
W.T.F. is he talking about? With every passing day, Hussein is morphing into the leader the whack radical left wants....
If we are going to be accused anyway...
And he has the nerve to critisize others for ‘fear-mongering’.
That is, unless they are running it. Then bad things never happen. Women and children that get burned alive deserve what they get, civilians in other countries deserve to be bombed, because they are oppressors, and their political enemies deserve to be personally destroyed solely for the reason that they disagree with them.
Have McCain or the RNC apologized to this “Arab family” yet?
The next president will be more likely rounding up conservatives and Christians.
Hey Obama! That patch of Genesis is NOT an excuse for your slimy crypto-socialism. Cain the first murderer was right, he wasn't his brother's keeper. Cain shouldn't have murdered Abel - that's the lesson from that chapter. It isn't a parable about the godliness of Big Government.
We must act now! Before it's too late!
It won’t be long before he’s shouting “Death to America” and his Teletubbies audience will cheer.
Next thing ya know there will be churches burning in Arkansas ...
I said it before, and I’ll say it again, this has got to be the worst selection of candidates in my entire life time! I do not feel motivated to vote for any of them. We will get what we deserve.
And, Mr. Strawman has a name: C.A.I.R.
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