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” President Barack Obama had the American electorate and world leaders eating out of the palm of his hand. “
Actually, somewhat less than *half* of the ‘American electorate’....
(A, perhaps, minor quibble with an otherwise excellent article - but inaccuracies like this are what continues to feed the beast....)
Well, just means that those who are studying his mercurial and incredulous rise to power will know that they will have to work even fast to consolidate power to complete the coup d'état before they know what hit 'em. I think he's out there - just waiting for his chance.
Yeah, well, good luck with that. We're STILL waiting for his birth certificate, school records, actual Presidential demeanor & cordiality, declarations that DON'T have a 20-second expiration date, etc.
Oh, and Santa Obama, please bring me my government-guaranteed Skittles-pooping Unicorn that I can ride thru the air to your magical, fairy-land Utopia that you seem to base all your decisions on.
What's that? Your Magical Fairyland is closed to the public masses? Only racists and perpetually-grieved politically-correct minorities are allowed in? Gotcha...
The so-called "progressives," like the president, portray themselves as the "intellectual" elite, although they are totally bereft of any real knowledge or understanding of the great ideas which were the seedbed of America's 200-year experiment in liberty.
With all of their domination of academia and Far Left politics, they seem to fit into a category described in T.S. Eliot's essay on Virgil:
"In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."(Bold added for emphasis)
Without intellectual anchoring in the enduring ideas which provided the philosophical foundation of America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution, their vain imaginations of superiority only expose their limited world view.
Yet, the America which rose from obscurity to greatness, from crude hoes and axes to putting a man on the moon, and from oppression by King George to a symbol of liberty for millions all over the world--that America provides shelter for them, even as they attempt to "change" her into something unimagined by the Founders.
If they are allowed to succeed in their own little provincial experiment, their posterity never will know the "blessings of Liberty" proclaimed by the Preamble to America's Constitution, enjoyed by previous generations, and honored by the magnificent sacrifices of of brave soldiers and leaders of the past.
Thanks for the ping, Jaz. I have always thought that Obama’s speeches sounded like a freshman drama student.
My neighbor attended Ollie’s book signing at our local book store yesterday - he got a copy autographed for his son who is a LTC USMC and his brother who is retired USA Spec Forces. Ollie also signed a photo of himself and an Army captain who is the son of another friend. Sadly, I had another appointment and couldn’t go.
I think they actually voted to give him the prize two weeks after he took office.