His rapid supporters have finally gone the extra mile. During his first presidential campaign they merely treated him as if he was their
messiah. After his second victory they are shouting it from the roof tops. At the BET Soul Train Awards show Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx actually
called Barack Obama "our lord and savior." Some will say he's a comedian and this was said tongue in cheek. From the reaction of the crowd it was received like a proclamation from Mount Sinai. The wild cheering brought down the house. If this isn't a cult of personality what is?
I heard a woman who fled Venezuela to escape Hugo Chavez and his democratic revolution crying, "Obama is doing the same things as Chavez! He's following the same path, going to the same place, but now we have nowhere to run." Someone who escaped the USSR told me, "I've seen all this before. Obama is like Nikita Khrushchev. He says he brings hope and change but really he's just blaming the past because he hopes to rule the present while destroying the hope of the future." According to an escapee of East Germany, "Obama is like Leonid Brezhnev. He promises security, pensions and benefits but all he brings are taxes, regulations and more bureaucrats, always more bureaucrats."
I cannot bring myself to compare an American President to Hitler, Stalin, Mao, not even to Mussolini. To who shall I compare this man who brings the crest of the century-long Progressive wave crashing against the American experiment? Instead of doing the comparing myself let's explore who he and his unpaid media arm in the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Press compare himself to.
President Obama
announced his run for the presidency in Springfield, Illinois on the steps of the old state capitol building.Choosing a setting in Springfield where Abraham Lincoln once gave a speech condemning slavery and calling for the United States to unite prompted the Progressives at ABC News to
observe, "Springfield allowed Obama to immodestly and continuously compare himself to Lincoln."
Immediately after his first victory the
cover of Time magazine depicted the President-elect as FDR riding in an open car with his trademark cigarette holder clamped tightly in his smile. So we know his promoters in the press want us to compare him to the four term president-for-life who until now has been the epitome of a Progressive president. But does President Obama make the comparison himself?
According to Politico, "President Barack Obama compared himself to FDR." What does History tell us about FDR? Major portions of his New Deal were declared
unconstitutional, many economists believe his policies prolonged the
Great Depression, his advisor
Alger Hiss really was a communist spy, and at
Yalta Roosevelt gave
Poland, whose freedom World War II was fought to preserve, to Stalin who initially
invaded the country as an ally of Hitler. If we forget the facts I guess comparing yourself to FDR is a good thing.
During his first campaign the
Washington Post said that Mr. Obama, "Sells Himself as the New JFK." At the time other news outlets
noted, fellow Progressive's disputed the comparison using the headline, "Hillary to Obama: You're No JFK." Undeterred Mr. Obama continued to
cast himself as the successor to Camelot. In a review of his first term we could agree his glorious adventure in Libya as revealed in
Benghazi makes him the rightful heir to such shameful military adventures as the
Bay of Pigs or his much proclaimed
victory over Al Qaeda to such questionable victories as the
Cuban Missile Crisis. Turning to JFK's most memorable phrase Mr. Obama, as any good Harvard trained lawyer would do, has parsed the
meaning of "ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." In Progressive
newspeak this becomes, "If you're a non-tax payer let me tell you what I'm going to do
for you --if you're a tax payer let me tell you what I'm going to do
to you."
President Obama also compares himself to the icon of the anti-Progressives: Ronald Reagan.
According to Politico in an interview with a print journalist the President, "made the case that his movement is as much about a national moment as about him as a 'singular' individual" also noting "he drew a rather odd analogy for a Democrat: Ronald Reagan." President Reagan
told us, "government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem."
President Obama
told us, "Only Government Can Fix the Economy." President Ragan
told us, "We are today, the last best hope of man on earth." President Obama
told us, "America is no longer what it could be, what it once was." That's not even comparing apples to oranges it's more like comparing truth to fiction, good to bad, or freedom to dependency.
All the people mentioned above who escaped socialism, left homes, families, and countries seeking freedom remind me of something else
Ronald Reagan said, "If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth."
The Americans devoted to constitutionally limited government, personal liberty, and economic freedom may have lost a battle. We may finally accept that we have become a minority in our own land. However, we will never accept serfdom and we will never accept the permanent imposition of socialism in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Now is the time for all good citizens to come to the aid of their country. Educate yourself regarding the History of our Republic.Learn so that you may teach. We must educate new generations of patriots to carry the torch so that the light of freedom is never extinguished. A slender majority of our fellow voting citizens may have chosen the path of central-planning and collectivism. Most through ignorance, some through avarice, and a few through pure evil have diverted the American experiment into an economic and political dead-end, but like all dead ends it will eventually end. The empires of looters always collapse when the loot runs out and another day will dawn.
That same Good Book
tells us, "the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out." And it also
promises, "I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." So the Progressives may have followed their play book to a worldly victory. I don't know about you, but I'm going to follow that Good Book to an eternal one.
Keep the faith. Keep the Peace. We shall overcome.