It's called "The Fierce Urgency of Lies" by Lance Fairchok, and is a particularly good dissection of Barack Obama's background and methods, and a prediction of what an Obama administration will look like. It starts with what we already know:
Grown men weep in his presence, women faint, and thousands scream his name like a rock star. The liberal press prints glowing tributes to their new progressive prophet, calling him "the triumph of word over flesh" and other absurd and profoundly unwarranted accolades. Obama, a very junior Senator, will guide us to a Utopia that has yet to be defined, an America that the left envisions but cannot quantify; but rest assured it will be swell.
Obama's image is picture perfect Ivy League political correctness. He is an educated man of color. He is a socialist. He has an intelligent and lovely wife, which he publicly embraces with obvious devotion. Even better, he has a deep and melodious speaking voice, full of the heroic righteousness of Martin Luther King, which echoes a time of triumph over injustice. He is the embodiment of our popular culture, passionate and handsome, well spoken yet carefully imprecise, and so absent of consistency he cannot long endure critical examination.
Ah, the ugly details of reality:
His political history is painfully short; his track record, what there is of it, is pure leftist, there in nothing to indicate he has a uniting or bipartisan bone in his body. Yet he would have us believe he will "bring America together to solve problems" and fill us with an "Audacity of Hope." Of course, how he will do that is merely a repackaging of the same leftist boilerplate we endured from Hillary, Kerry or Edwards. There is nothing new, nothing uniting, nothing to match the flow of his rhetoric or the timbre of his voice.
What we hear from Obama is the eternal mantra of the socialists; America is broken, millions have no health care, families cannot afford necessities, the rich are evil, we are selfish, we are unhappy, unfulfilled, without hope, desperate, poverty stricken, morally desolate, corrupt and racist. This nihilism is the lifeblood of all the democrat candidates, even "hope you can believe in" performers like Obama. When Michelle Obama claims she is only newly proud of her country, she does not exaggerate. In her world as in Obama's, they believe we are a mess, a land filled with the ignorant and unenlightened, filled with despair.
Fairchok shows how the Obamas have based their philosophy (and campaign) off of the foundation built by propagandists like Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore, honoring American failures like Jimmy Carter and foreign enemies like Castro and Chavez. Michelle Obama openly talks about needing to 'fix our souls' before we can work on the significant problems facing this nation, implying that her husband is some sort of spiritual savior. According to them, nothing good has ever been done in America or by America. Again, reality intrudes:
Yet the truth of America is far different once you escape the ideological pandering and the supportive bias of a devious and self-serving press. Even as the public is bombarded with falsehoods, the truth filters through, especially when the reality of day-to-day life so often contradicts what our television screens tell us. Our economy bustles along, with inevitable ups and downs, but remains strong. Americans live better than ever before. As a nation, we live in the best of times, a place that the rest of humanity covets. We did this by the sweat of our brows and the energy of our people. We have more education, more luxury, more life options, more of everything good and far less of everything bad, less disease, less poverty and less struggle than ever before. We have prosperity, we have employment, we have technology. Hope is what America is all about; hope that has every expectation of success. Consider the millions that are desperate to get here. Even our poor have cars, appliances and entertainments. Our concern for them is not hunger but obesity. Never before in the history of mankind has this contradiction existed.
Obama ignores all these facts and continues beating the drum of how horrible and broken America is, and that if we were just nicer and gave a little more, we could all essentially join hands and sing a harmonious song together with the rest of the world. Fairchok's analogy is great:
[Obama] claims he loves this country, and he just wants to help it reach its potential. In this, he is like a selfish husband, who says he loves his wife, but just wants her to have different hair, a different figure and a different voice.
Fairchok then goes on to show how Obama's proposed solutions have proven -- under Carter and Clinton -- to be disastrous for America, from Carter's foreign policy allowing Iran to become what it is today to Clinton's allowing the preparation for bin Laden's 9/11 attacks to take place right under his scandalous nose. Unfortunately for us, their mistakes have resulted in major consequences, but when Democrats look back, they reminisce about the power they had then rather than what they actually achieved then.
Obama's current leadership team includes radical academics, socialists, and propagandists that are cozying up Middle Eastern nations that have sworn to kill us. They apparently believe they can talk them into submission despite all historical and empirical evidence to the contrary. Fairchok offers a scathing rebuke:
The left invents injustice and crisis, injects it into the public psyche and then promises salvation, like a child manipulating a distracted parent. In that perpetually adolescent relationship, Obama calls for change for change's sake, criticizes all that came before, carefully ignores recent history, fudges the facts and with predictable frequency, calls America broken. He steals the words of Martin Luther King, but he does not have the righteous cause, he postures in a battle already won. Obama is a polished huckster, a used-ideology salesman, a slick fraud. He offers failure, not hope, simple slogans and easily remembered rhymes to confront a dangerous world.
Fairchok goes on to show how Obama is essentially an actor, relying on his surface presentation to woo the world into ignoring the substance of what he stands for. Following up the rebuke is this brutally condemning prediction:
An Obama administration will be one of historical revision, of faltering American values, of ideologues crafting "progressive" policy, of radicals telling citizens how to live, what to drive, what to eat and what to believe. They will tell us that the constitution is a living document and should change to reflect the times. They will tell us that we must pay more and more for the common good. They will take away our choices and make more and more of us dependant. Obama's will be an administration of concocted class warfare, of racial exceptionalism and of pro-Islamist bias, and in the name of redefined justice and revolutionary inclusiveness, America will lose part of her soul and more of her freedoms. For all his rhetoric of hope, change and "coming together," we still live in a perilous world. In a time of Islamic terror and nuclear proliferation, an Obama presidency will undermine America as never before.
Carter and Clinton started America down this Leftward road, and Obama will only accelerate the process. If you're considering supporting Obama, I suggest you consider looking past his rhetoric to his substance. After all, that is what will affect you at the end of the day. All historical and empirical evidence tells us that if President Obama holds out his hand to terrorists to sing Kumbayah with them, they will most happily take that hand...and cut it off.
There's my two cents.
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