November 2nd... so now we'll be hearing a lot of reviews of the Obama presidency. To my mind it's been an absolute disaster, worse, faster even than I anticipated. I could never have imagined that a country as great as ours could be pushed over a cliff in a matter of months. I wasn't conscious of it, but in the back of my mind I assumed we were "too big to fail."
However, in this short time we have failed. We no longer lead the world; now we follow. We follow Chavez, we follow Castro, we follow the Mussolini fascists.
We have failed to remain the land of opportunity. With 15-18 million of our people unemployed? The opportunists on which our economy rests, otherwise known as entrepreneurs and small businesses, are frozen with fear, not knowing what the future, what this week, will bring. Entire industries fold to Government control before our very eyes. Destructive taxes and oppressive regulations loom large. The only economic growth in sight is taking place in the already massive Government.
The U.S. of A. no longer stands for freedom; our "inalienable" rights are already eroded. Freedom of speech? Yes, but for Obamatons only. Freedom of religion? Yes, but especially so if you're of the ascendant Muslim persuasion. Gd help us as we watch Christians become routinely demonized, and the country yawns as Jews are shot at synagogues. Or didn't you know?
Freedom of the press? Surely you jest. Anyone who dares question or criticize Mother Government is viciously denounced... and from the White House, no less. I had -if you'll pardon the expression- hoped that dhimmedia's worship of The Won would fall away over time. Surely they would need another story at some point. But no, the New York Times is perfectly content to spend 8,000 words (and over a dozen photos) on the Obamas' marriage, and not one word on the dozens of unconstitutional czars that rule over us from the West Wing, unelected, unapproved and of course, unprecedented.
It's absolutely stunning to me that the Times spent real money on having someone research Michelle Obama's genealogy, so they could write a juicy story documenting the slavery in her roots, yet they studiously avoid all mention of any controversy surrounding the birth of her husband - who is after all, the President. Nor do they deign to examine the possibility of political influence being peddled by the West Wing (illegally?) to shape judicial decisions in pertinent cases.
It's a terrible disgrace that no one - least of all, dhimmedia - paid attention to the warnings from a Cuban immigrant published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch last year, with time to spare before the election:
.... In the late 1950s, most Cubans thought Cuba needed a change, and they were right. So when a young leader came along, every Cuban was at least receptive.
When the young leader spoke eloquently and passionately and denounced the old system, the press fell in love with him. They never questioned who his friends were or what he really believed in. When he said he would help the farmers and the poor and bring free medical care and education to all, everyone followed. When he said he would bring justice and equality to all, everyone said "Praise the Lord." And when the young leader said, "I will be for change and I'll bring you change," everyone yelled, "Viva Fidel!"
But nobody asked about the change, so by the time the executioner's guns went silent the people's guns had been taken away. By the time everyone was equal, they were equally poor, hungry, and oppressed. By the time everyone received their free education it was worth nothing. By the time the press noticed, it was too late, because they were now working for him....
I have spent a lot of time on this blog exposing (or bashing - you choose) this president for the dangerous farce that he is. You might think that in the process I have been ignoring Israel, but it's not so. Barack Hussein Obama is the biggest, most dangerous threat to Israel's existence in my lifetime. Who could ever have imagined a president worse for Israel than Jimmy Carter? Well, hello, here he is in all his manufactured glory, bowing to the Saudi king and embracing Iran as it builds nuclear weapons to send to Israel, Gd forbid. And as for Israel, maybe no one so much as blinked, but the President of the United States did threaten the sovereignty of the world's only Jewish country -- by demanding that Jews not build housing for themselves in their very own capital city. Arabs? Sure, why not? But not Jews, not the Jewish People who has yet to rebuild its population to anywhere near a pre-Holocaust level. Obama had the dangerous audacity to assert that Jews in Israel should be denied their (inalienable?) right to "natural growth," in addition to any housing needed for the products of that growth. How dare he? How dare he declare such unvarnished bigotry as our national policy toward an ostensible ally?
One year on, push keeps coming to shove and there is no one apparent who can stop this madness, no one except perhaps the invisible millions who resist this Change wherever they are. And we come from everywhere.
One small comfort that can be taken during this first anniversary of the most disastrous election in America's history is in the beating the very concept of Change has taken over the year, even as it pursues us to the innermost recesses of our homes and families. Its outer glow has at least dimmed, and we can tenatively assume that at some point only its most orthodox proponents will be "left."
We can take some small comfort in the fact that even The Won can barely swoon over himself these days; his telepromptered oratory no longer soars.
Change is hard," Obama said as he signed a bill slashing wasteful defense spending last week.
"Change isn't supposed to be easy," he said in Florida a few days earlier.
"Change doesn't happen overnight," he told Democrats the next day in Virginia.
I continue to trust that Americans are used to getting what they want and getting it fast. Perhaps the cure is in the curse itself, perhaps this Change will become so hard and so slow coming, that those previously dedicated to it will lose interest and move on... to something less dim, something more new and shiny, as is their wont.
In the meantime, the rebellion persists... and always with reference to the founding fathers of this once great nation. I hope it's not blasphemous to say so, but the American founding documents often remind me of Torah. Both seem to me to offer spiritual sustenance and the capacity to strengthen us in our quest for freedom, while recognizing a priori that freedom can exist only in the context of its corollary obligations and responsibilites.
Whichever text you reference, make sure you teach it to your children well, such that if we cannot succeed in stopping Wrong Change in our generation, then they will in theirs.
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