I don\u2019t think Barack Obama tells the truth.<\/p>\n
Yes, voters had fair warning of this ambitious young man\u2019s long associations with radical America-haters and self-described Communists including the literal bomb-makers of the Weather Underground (at least, those who managed to avoid blowing themselves up with their paramours in Greenwich Village in 1970.)<\/p>\n
Even if, in \u201cDreams from my Father,\u201d Mr. Obama coyly omitted much background information on his Communist mentor, Frank Marshal Davis. (How many books, exclusively about himself, has Mr. Obama now written? Should narcissism be a concern, here?)<\/p>\n
If they listened carefully, voters could certainly have heard candidate Obama warning he was going to side with some hypothetical residents of \u201cthe rest of the world\u201d who weren\u2019t going to stand for our continuing to be wealthy, to heat or air condition our homes as we saw fit, that he intended to \u201cspread the wealth around.\u201d<\/p>\n
I doubt electing Ron Paul president in 2008 could have saved us from our coming economic collapse, anyway, since a Democratic Congress would have treated him like the crazy uncle in the attic.<\/p>\n
Though the fact that fewer than 4 percent of Americans will support any libertarian\/Republican \u201csmaller-government\u201d agenda (because they object that it would mean \u201callowing\u201d black folk and hippies to possess guns and pot, or whatever) does edge us pretty close to \u201cgetting what they deserve\u201d territory, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n
Those who were courageous enough to issue forthright warnings in September of 2008 can now stand proud — much good it\u2019ll do us as we gaze at the wreckage which these clowns may yet make of our once-proud economy in their remaining eight months in full power.<\/p>\n
But I still say Barack Obama lied.<\/p>\n
The freshman senator\u2019s whole 2008 campaign spoke of \u201cpost-partisanship,\u201d of ending divisiveness. The clear subtext was that if Americans would merely put aside their old prejudices over race and elect a president who is half African, they\u2019d be rewarded with a moderate, middle-of-the-road administration attempting to find bipartisan solutions that were \u201cneither Democratic nor Republican,\u201d but some kind of middle course that both parties could live with.<\/p>\n
For 15 months now, instead, it\u2019s been hell-for-leather to enact at breakneck pace the most divisive, far-left, government-growing, government-empowering agenda seen since 1913, or possibly 1933. No wish list of the radical feminists, government union goons, Socialist Workers, Reconquistas, or bow-to-the-sheik, better-red-than-dead peaceniks has been out of bounds.<\/p>\n
(I believe someone in authority in Washington said last week we wouldn\u2019t promise NOT to shoot down any Israeli warplanes that might attempt a pro-active strike to stop Iran from developing a nuclear bomb which the shrieking mullahs have said they\u2019d use to nuke Israel. OK. What would Barack Obama\u2019s response be, should Iran nuke Israel? A firm note? If we\u2019re not going to intervene — and perhaps that\u2019s wise — shouldn\u2019t we at least stand clear?)<\/p>\n
Meantime, a bunch of cheerful senior citizens driving their campers to \u201cTea Party\u201d rallies against big government spending (and the high taxes and hyper-inflation they know such policies will surely bring) are demonized as racist Klansmen spouting hate speech.<\/p>\n
Klansmen? There\u2019s a real Klansman in the U.S. Senate, you know. In 1944, Robert Byrd, then Exalted Cyclops of his local KKK chapter, wrote to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo, D-Miss.: \u201cI shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. … Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.\u201d<\/p>\n
If Sarah Palin or Ann Coulter had said that, I suspect it would have made the news. Yet I don\u2019t hear the Obamacrats objecting when U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., routinely joins their narrow Senate majority. REAL Klansmen are fine, it seems, so long as they vote Mr. Obama\u2019s way.<\/p>\n
Hate speech? Go read the \u201ccomments\u201d beneath any moderately conservative or libertarian Online blog or newspaper column. You will find any attempt to have a calm discussion of the topics raised by the columnist — including by those ready to marshal some contrary evidence — largely drowned out by a tiny handful of shrieking, post-every-10-minutes harridans, veering dramatically off topic to ridicule everything from the hairstyles to the mental capacity of anyone who dares question the grow-the-government Obama agenda, let alone calmly cite chapter and verse from Founding fathers who intended ours to be a government of sharply limited powers.<\/p>\n
If one of our goals is to make race less of a consideration in American hiring, advancement, and politics, does the Left really think it will advance this goal to call anyone who challenges any part of the Obama-Reid-Pelosi collectivist agenda a \u201cracist\u201d?<\/p>\n
Has it not occurred to these frantic leftists, resembling in their desperation a teenager trying to guzzle the entire bottle of whiskey before mom and dad get home, that many voters, the next time they\u2019re considering a vote for a black candidate, might say to themselves, \u201cI dunno. The guy looks good on paper. But later, if he does something I disagree with, will I be free to raise an objection, or will I immediately be branded a \u2018racist\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n
Remember that every call from Washington for more regulation, more taxes designed to punish the rich, is an assault on freedom.<\/p>\n
The freedom ideal would be no compulsory taxation, at all — let all keep their own earnings to invest in growing the economy, while what minimal government is required be supported by voluntary user fees.<\/p>\n
The statists will pretend to object on pragmatic grounds. Let them first answer whether or not they agree this would be the ideal. If they do, then we can try to solve the pragmatic problems. I grew up in a small town, for example, where voluntary dues funded the ambulance and the volunteer firemen. The ambulance and the firemen would still respond to a home that had not subscribed — but that homeowner would then receive a bill for the full cost of their services. Few waited to get a second bill before signing up as paid members.<\/p>\n
Similarly, courts and even a minimal police force (once we de-criminalize all consensual adult behaviors, and turn traffic enforcement over to the private owners of the roads) could be supported by voluntary fees, paid as a form of insurance to spare ourselves full costs should we ever find ourselves in need of such services.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s pointless to try to work in good faith to solve the pragmatic objections, when they\u2019re merely red herrings thrown out by those who REALLY mean \u201cNo, I want a big and powerful government to take away your wealth and give it to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Next week: The free market made us wealthy and, of course, free. Is that why the Obama gang hates it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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