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
This is why we must bury Clinton today! This man will beat himself in November.
One more attack on this country by Mooselimbs, and we’ll take care of it ourselves.
Elmer Gantry is an excellent comparison. And how about Steve Martin in “Leap of Faith”?
Obama is the same guy that said 10,000 people died in the Greensburg, Kansas tornado last year. The death toll was actually 12.
Ooooooooooooooo
“Honor killings” come under 1st Amendment... religious rights...civil liberties
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
Honor killings...special foot baths...
No ham sandwiches in the school lunch rooms..
University gyms closed to thousands of guys so that a handful of women in burkas can do whatever women in burkas do ..
spot on!
**Obama: Arab-American Families Being Rounded Up? **
If they are illegals, hopefully, they are being deported too.
Truer words have never been spoken!
(BTW, all of that was sarcasm in case you didn’t know.)
I am so sick and tired of politicians and our government bending over backwards for the Muslim special treatment while all they do is complain about how bad America is. They will never adapt, they will always hate our way of life, they will always want special treatment and they will always threaten us to get the special treatment until we (our government and politicians) learn the word NO or GET THE HELL OUT!
I’ve sat for almost 8 years, listening to W being referred to as a “Smirking Chimp”.
Why is okay for ~them~ to mock somebody’s appearance?
In this campaign, and worse, if Obama is elected -
look for the race baiters to be hanging on a hair trigger, looking for ANYTHING to pounce on and play the race card.
The Trent Lott birthday speech dustup will look reasonable by comparison.
I’m sorry but I’ve never seen that so I’ll have to take your word for it.....:)
Martin’s ‘politics’ [and apparent loss of comedic skills] are too much of a turnoff for me suffer through his movies, these days.
I think he knows very well that Arab American families are not being rounded up. But he’s campaigning in Texas. What families are being rounded up in this country? And deported?
This Liberal A$$hole is going to get a lot of Americans killed if he is elected!
Farrakhan reminds us besides Obama Girl, there are... 
Obama Boys, too!
Islam, a Religion of Peace? No, it is a religion... 
of cutting up us nonbelievers into pieces.
If the Baptist... 
or Episcopalians called for all not in their sects be beheaded, would we still give them tax-exempt status--
And 1st Amendment... 
protection?
I care. That’s one reason why I shall never, ever vote for a Democrat, even if he is the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan. I just wrote two long rants about this in email diatribes to my friends.
Obama: Arab-American Families Being Rounded Up? (More for the Obama Files)
American Thinker | March 04, 2008 | Lance Fairchok
Posted on 03/04/2008 11:15:48 AM EST by K-oneTexas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980223/posts
Obama: Arab-American Families Being Rounded Up?
American Thinker | 3-04-08 | Lance Fairchok
Posted on 03/04/2008 1:38:32 PM EST by smoothsailing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980296/posts
This is why we need him to lose the primary.
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