Hucksters have Been Selling Obama’s Snake Oil For a Long, Long Time
Work ethic. Have you ever heard of that Obama? A good work ethic was a distinct point of pride among the independent men and women who refused charity during the depression. It’s what my father had. Son of an illiterate Romanian immigrant, he rose from a factory worker to a business owner, not on the public dime, but by virtue of hard work, diligence and perseverance.
I’m glad a man like you wasn’t running this country when my father was growing up. His own father deserted the family shortly after they arrived in America, but there were no handouts or sympathy for single mothers, no subsidized housing, no food stamps. There was opportunity. So an illiterate, non-English speaking immigrant gypsy fed her son and put a roof over his head, the way most honest people do- by the sweat of her brow, by her own hand, without any “programs” or insults from poverty-pimps.
That is the image my father absorbed. Not one of an indolent woman sucking on the government teat. Had he heard the defeatist rhetoric your ilk espouses he might never have developed the strength and discipline to overcome poverty. No one told him to prefer his native tongue over English. No one told him that anglo America would spit out a dirty little Romanian gypsy upstart. No one indoctrinated him in school to view himself as an entitled victim, deserving of succor and special treatment.
Fortunately, in 1927, there wasn’t anyone telling him he couldn’t do it because life was just too hard. Equipped with a sixth grade education, he went on to build a business that eventually sustained his family in luxurious comfort. And you want to know what he told “his people” from the old country who were too lazy to work and thought he ought to share his wealth? He said good-bye, in English, and showed them the door.
Do you really think you are offering something new Obama? Hucksters have been selling “something for nothing” for ages. Commercial after commercial is written with exactly the same strategy that you employ in your florid speeches; empty images and false promises designed to appeal to men’s greed, laziness and insecurities. ‘Just buy this, and guaranteed, your life “will be changed”.’ Who the hell doesn’t promise to change my life in every dreary infomercial running at 3:00 AM?.
Your messianic brand of snake oil is as old as the hills and as stale as the balding pot belly hippies that find you appealing. Governments run by men like you, Obama, cripple ambition and stunt the spirit. Just take a hard, long look at Europe, minus your globalist, rose-colored glasses. The comments of British expats on this article that claims the flight of British citizens alone number at 684 per day, provides a chilling view of what awaits America if you, or Hillary, take over the helm.
I do not want my grandchildren raised in a world run by men like you Obama. Utopia is not obtainable. The millions upon millions slaughtered in the name of your perverse “ideals” are recorded in the histories of those tragic nations who once danced to your pied-piper socialist tunes. Apparently your expensive and elaborate education failed to provide you with those accounts.
Kyle-Anne Shiver in American Thinker writes…
Can man successfully redeem himself through collective transformation and liberation?
Pope Benedict says “No” rather emphatically, in Truth and Tolerance. Writing of the fall of the Soviet Union:
“…where the Marxist ideology of liberation had been consistently applied, a total lack of freedom had developed, whose horrors were now laid bare before the eyes of the entire world. Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.”
Vacuous promises of peace, hope and change are sufficient for the desperate, and the spiritually empty, but they are not messages designed to please the ear of honest, capable, hard working individuals. But that’s not your target audience, is it Obama?
“Consider these statements from Obama’s campaign website, contained in his video invitation for all to
“join us in changing the Country.”
“We believe in what this Country can be.” “In the face of war, we believe there can be peace.”
“In the face of despair, we believe there can be hope.”
“…America can be one people reaching for what’s possible.”
Obama indeed seems to be offering a people’s government solution to all human problems. He is, after all, running for President of the United States, not for a pulpit. Substituting the state for God as provider has been the inherent common thread in all Marxist regimes.
And in this seemingly redemptive offering, Obama may be promising what only God can actually deliver, in the form of yet another, more eloquent, version of the same old utopian dream that started with Rousseau and Marx.
Shriver ends her article with a quote from a man she refers to as Obama’s political mentor. I find it particularly unsettling, yet, at the same time, very, very fitting.
Sphere: Related ContentSaul Alinsky began his book Rules for Radicals:
“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”
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