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    Obama, How Great Thou Art

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As the idiot and the fool lead America to browner pastures, their faithful followers shout hallelujah, aren’t things grand. “In what way,” a reasonable person might ask? “Just look around,” is the response. America is back at work. Peace and brotherhood are everywhere, and America is no longer at war. Say it often enough and loud enough and maybe, someone might believe you. But, those of us down here in the trenches no better. Things are not good. They barely qualify as rotten, in fact.

That’s what president Obama said (not the rotten part) when speaking to a crowd, “We must not go backward.” We must not allow ourselves to be divided.” This should’ve elicited laughter. It didn’t, though. Admittedly, his speech was one of the most rousing of his career. And, it was clear that the president was speaking from his heart when he said these things, leading me to wonder, just how deluded can a person be?


Look to Europe for your answer. Europeans have long held a tradition of elitism, which may be their greatest export. Shakespeare and Rembrandt, come in a distant second when compared to Fascism and Communism. They also gave us two, count em’ two, global wars, as well. That was in a meager few decades. For the last 70 years, America has kept the peace and restrained the sectarian bigotry that is deeply embedded in Europe’s elitist culture. But you can’t keep a good elitist down. Not when the aristocracy is working feverishly to reignite the old-guard under the guise of global unity and free trade.


In that way, Obama, the son Africa, is really a European at heart.  No one should be surprised by this. His White mother was a leftist, anti-colonialist, and radical Marxist, as were his White grandparents who raised him as a red diaper baby—a term used back in the 30s, 40s, and 50s when American leftists were pro-Stalin and firmly anti-American. When Stalin’s murderous reign was eventually exposed, the American Left simply ignored it and pretended that they were never really Stalinists. Just as they made out that the Rosenberg’s were really innocent scapegoats, instead of traitors who gave atomic weaponry to one of the most murderous regimes in human history. Meaning, that American leftists were well-intended, so everything should be forgiven.


That will always be the framework for the Left, good intentions should be rewarded, even when they lead to horrific outcomes. Sure, human history is replete with wisdom and understanding about human nature by historical giants like Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson or Jesus and Plato, but the leftist will ignore evidence wherever that evidence does not jibe with their ideology. That is Obama. It is also his followers.


If the Middle East is on fire or the American economy is barely growing by 1%, in spite of massive infusions of cash, through money printing, and not actual growth, no matter. The math can always be made to align, as long as no one is looking too closely. Likewise, war can be called peace and growing poverty can be called prosperity. It is language that is always the first casualty in a war of propaganda.


If race riots occur with every police shooting of a Black man, which then destroys billions of dollars of property in Black neighborhoods, oh well, that’s America under Obama. What makes this worse, is that virtually every one of the cases that have sparked riots over the last 8 years, turned out to be mostly manipulations by the administration and the media. If they couldn’t find proof positive that America is as racist as ever, they simply manufacture outrage to compensate.


How about a continuous stream of terror attacks, big and small in the U.S.? That has become the price we pay for globalism and open borders, as well as mass Muslim migration. Which, by the way, almost no American wants. But don’t complain, or you’ll be called a bigot and ostracized with a viciousness that would make ole Joe McCarthy turn over in his grave with envy. That is the left’s version of democracy.


No, Obama is a new kind of president, with a worldwide vision and a firm ambivalence—even a resentment—towards his own country. His solution to it all; big government, which will give way to global government. That is the case under his and Hilary’s plan. The wealthy will get wealthier, as they already have under his regime, but a few crumbs will be given as solace to the poor and shrinking a middle class. How great thou art Obama. That is left’s mantra—and it should scare the hell out of us. Not Donald Trump, but a race baiting, schemer and his prime ally, Hillary Clinton, who will keep Obama’s legacy alive and growing like the festering weed that it is.


Be afraid. Be very afraid. And vote Trump.

​Mark Magula