Avoiding the Next Obama

The American Thinker ^ | August 04, 2009 | L.E. Ikenga

[Scanian]

In times like these, it is tempting to focus only on the issue at hand. But if you do, you do so at your own peril. As I watch what is happening to this great country, I find myself just shaking my head more and more while thinking, Mark Twain was absolutely right: "history does not always repeat itself, but it does often rhyme."

My Igbo parents came to this great country from Nigeria. They arrived a few years after Nigeria's independence from Great Britain. In Nigeria, it was a time of unprecedented cultural and political turmoil, which allowed politicians very much like Barack Obama to continue to seep into Nigeria's political system. These politicians all promised a change from the past. And unfortunately, they ended up fulfilling their promises. What these politicians ended up changing was the very fabric of the African societies, which they had been taught to see as unsophisticated and inferior.

I call these men, who appeared all over Africa in the wake of independence, African Colonial politicians (ACP's). They were the direct offspring of the European Imperialists, imposing radical European leftist political theory on tribal cultures. ACP's and their unscrupulous followers were able to almost completely destroy many African cultures.

For the most part, these ACP's were intellectual frauds, completely unworthy of the honors bestowed upon them. But they sounded and looked good; so the people listened to them. With their fancy Oxbridge degrees, grandiloquent speeches given with perfectly accented "Queen's English", finely tailored European suits, and fabled family histories, ACP's took the masses by storm.

ACP's convinced their constituents that they were as dumb as baboons and did not have what it took to make good decisions for themselves and for the future.

[Talisker]

Excellent article. Thanks.

[MissMagnolia]

A really good article.

Chukwu duwe anyi (May God be with us).

Amen.

[gunnyg]

“Avoiding the Next Obama”
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[Scanian]

glad you liked the post

[Albion Wilde]

Brilliant article, from one who has already been where we’re heading.

[Tennessee Nana]

Interesting...

[Scanian]

I believe this is the same writer who did an article about strutting “African colonels” a few weeks ago. Good stuff.

[paulycy]

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[jazusamo]

Brilliant article

Amen, and thanks for the ping.

[shoptalk]

Great article. Thanks for the ping!

[Albion Wilde]

You are most welcome. I try to ping fr’s mouthpieces to the outside world to the good ones.

[ArmstedFragg]

Thanks for the ping. You're right, he's really on the nose. The intellectual honesty issue and, providing prospective voters the tools to recognize intellectual dishonesty, are premier. One of the greatest contributions an entity could make right now is a nationwide free summer program to teach kids basic principles of logic. When an 18 year old can say, “you get all your money from me, you say you're gonna give me stuff, but you're not gonna take more from me, that makes no sense”, we'll have the beginnings of an informed population.

Then, getting to work on that middle class inferiority complex issue is so important. An ongoing effort to extol the reason and wisdom of middle class Americans acting together would help inoculate against the efforts of the “nice suit” politicians to convince them they're in need of people of superior intellect to tell them how to live.

And, we need a motto. A simple, easily remembered phrase that reasserts our primacy, puts politicians on notice, and can be built into the repetitive chanting section of stem-winder speeches. My nominee is the phrase “what the hell are you doing?” “All over America people are saying “what the hell are you doing?” “They're cornering Congressmen at their home offices and they're asking WTHAYD”, etc.

The American working and middle class can do it. We're good enough, we're smart enough, and, doggone it, we like us.

[Cacique]

btt

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!