My dad wasn’t a corporate magnate, doctor or lawyer. He wasn’t a Black, Latino or Native American either. The son of [legal] immigrants with barely a high school education he didn’t have a career, just a job. He was an average, hard working White guy who did the kind of work others didn’t want to do. Sound familiar? It should. The concept is nothing new except to a handful of Washington politicians who see open borders as new votes and never did an honest day’s work in their lives. Dad came home every night, tired, smelling of sweat and machine oil from performing a thankless piece of labor, then got up the next day and did it all again so the rest of us could have a better life than his.
There was no $350,000 a year salary as with Michelle Obama. He probably didn’t earn much more than that in his entire lifetime but he loved America and was proud to be a productive part of its fiber. He always loved this country, not just when it was expedient and the demeaning characterizations of a Michelle Obama would never have occurred to him. In a recent assessment of 2008 life in America, she followed up her ‘lack of pride in America‘ and ‘unite against the White oppressor‘ remarks with:
“Life is not good: we’re a divided country, we’re a country that is “just downright mean,” we are “guided by fear,” we’re a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. “We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day,” she said. “Folks are just jammed up, and it’s gotten worse over my lifetime!”
Is this ingratitude and lack of respect the sort of change her husband has been talking about? Is this the attitude we want in the White House? Dad never ran for any office, performed on the public stage, affected national policy or shaped world opinion. He was sometimes bitter about life but never about America.
If Barack wonders why he wound up with the ‘fuzzy end of the lollypop’ in three of the last five primaries, maybe he should look to his left [or right] when he goes to bed tonight. If I were he, I wouldn’t let his bigoted anti-American bride anywhere near a microphone or reporter for the rest of the campaign!
Dad died twenty years ago but his labor union still sends their magazine and I still accept it to see what kind of pap they’re dishing out these days. The poor dolts they’re trying to brainwash seem to be lapping it up like stray cats with a saucer of poisoned milk!
As always, they echo the party line straight out of the Democrat play book and glorify the Socialist agenda espoused by both Clinton and Obama. Combined with Mrs. Obama’s cockeyed vision of gloom and doom, it makes you wonder exactly where this country is headed. Is there anyone left who can still think for himself? I guess we’ll know in November. If the Lemming sees its shadow, we can expect at least four years of disasterous Democrat decline.
Fortunately for me, Dad never bought any of it. He had substantially more wisdom than his lot in life would indicate. He’s the one who taught me about Conservatism. He was my Bill Buckley. He taught me to be proud and thankful for the opportunities my country provided. By his example, I learned to see the greatness in America and not dwell on the dark side in the manner of a ‘Princess Obama’. Sorry my dark princess, life is good! In our house, we voted against those who would threaten our country and used the pages of that union tabloid to cover the bottom of the bird cage. We still do.
R.S.F.
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So, That’s What He Means By Change
I’m not even sure exactly what he means. What is the “typical” stereotype rattling around in his head? I have four granddaughters who are racially mixed and I never thought of them as either Black or White. They probably never thought in those terms either…at least I hope not. They’re simply four pretty little girls who go to school, enjoy life and have a wide circle of friends; all kinds of friends. I have a daughter-in-law who is Chinese. She’s damn beautiful and, I guess if you twist my arm to notice, I’d have to say she does look a bit different from me. She sports a full head of long hair, doesn’t wear a beard and is somewhat ‘bumpier’ than I where God built in those qualities!
Since “The Great Uniter” seems to need some kind of label, Obama has chosen to ignore his half-Caucasian heritage and opt into some sort of “typical Black person” category. I don’t know what that is either. I do know it’s unfortunate [and dangerous] that he has also chosen to maintain close ties with a retrograde anti-White, anti-Semite, anti-American like the not-so-Reverend Wright as well as a mob of additional bigoted hate mongers like Sharpton, Meeks and crazy Louie Farrakhan. What is more, Mrs. Obama seems to share these distasteful views and their children are being exposed to volumes of venom as well. These kinds of 1968 attitudes have no place in the world of 2008 and certainly not in the future of our great nation.
We cannot allow someone with the personal agenda of a Barack Obama to gain a position of greater power than he already enjoys and from which he should be ousted at the electorate’s earliest opportunity. His claim was that he’d bring the country together, not create racial division where political strife already exists. The price is too high; America can’t afford it.
He further revealed the true Barack with remarks hurling his loving grandmother under the bus and, apparently, he would do anything else necessary to win power. It’s actually very “Clintonesque” isn’t it? But I guess every cloud has a silver lining. His one benefit from all this seems to be the convenient diversion it provides for him. As long as these controversies stay alive he can continue to wax eloquently while saying nothing of substance, rather than having to field direct questions on the real issues fueling this year’s election; an area in which he seems to have major problems.
How about we get back to important specifics like The War On Terror, illegal immigration, health care costs, energy independence and the economy. These are immediate and critical issues, demanding someone who is everyone’s President. I repeat, everyone’s President! There will always be a couple of nutjobs who won’t ever get it right when it comes to race. We can’t afford to have one of them as the leader of our nation and the free world.
By the way…I’m pink not white, my granddaughters are sort of mocha not black, my daughter-in-law has these terrific almond-shaped eyes [I haven't noticed her skin, except it's softness] and my heart is heavy as I realize that we may not have outdistanced racial nonsense by as much as I thought. My personal thanks to Michelle and Barack Obama for pointing that out. Thanks, too, for reminding us of feelings that today’s kids have never had to experience and most reasonable adults of all races had already discarded.
R.S.F.
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