I have observed during the past election cycle a marked increase in angry and intolerant public dialogue. This is especially evident among those who loudly decry intolerance, champion “peace,” and protest “social injustice.” Many of these same people then engage in a clear double-standard by becoming vitriolic, intolerant, and resentful when they encounter Christians or Jews with a biblical world-view. Their rage is particularly vented toward constitutional patriots, critics of naturalism and evolution, doubters of human-caused global climate change, or those who dare to believe in the fundamental right of Israel to be a Jewish State within secure borders, and actually defend their lives.
Perhaps you have noticed the angry reactions by some people when Barack Hussein Obama is questioned or criticized. I must admit, this has surprised me more than once, and I cannot understand it, especially when it comes from my Christian or Jewish friends.
It’s easier to understand when such reactions come from those who regularly warm their attitudes at the fires of liberalism. Such fires burn hot at National Public Radio, the alphabet soup media outlets, or most print media like Time or Newsweek. These folk are manifestly “in the tank” for Obama, and the “spin” is almost always favorable toward “the one.”
However, from my (admittedly biased) perspective, there seems to be some sort of mesmerizing influence associated with this man that transcends the national pride we all feel that at least a half-black man was elected to the White House. This is an historical moment, but for many of us it is not the amount of melanin in B.H. Obama’s skin that troubles us. Rather, it is the extreme leftist worldview he espouses, and his highly questionable and radical associations that keep coming to light. For others, it is questions related to the Constitutionality of his ascension to the highest office of the land given the fact that his own grandmother in Kenya swears that she witnessed his birth in Mombassa, thus disqualifying him from the Presidency under Article 2 of the Constitution. Thus far, Mr. Obama has not produced a certified copy of his birth certificate.
I am reading Tolkien’s classic books lately, and my eyes fell on the quotation from The Two Towers (shared at the beginning of this blog). I couldn’t help thinking of the many Obama speeches I’ve watched, and how the crowds seemed almost in a euphoric state, hanging on his every word. A state of religious ecstasy comes to mind. However, as I listened to his words, I found it difficult to discern any particularly coherent idea or proposal. I mostly heard lofty platitudes, and catch-phrases, that evoked good feelings and emotions.
When I did hear him say truly alarming things, such as his July 2, 2008 speech calling for; “a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as our military, his audience hardly seemed to notice the ominous implications. Only later did the blogosphere begin to say, “Hey, wait a minute! What exactly did he mean by that?” Obama supporters usually become rather annoyed when asked about this, I’ve noticed.
The official Obama site contains many alarming posts by Obama adorers. To be fair, Mr. Obama cannot be held personally responsible for each and every post on his site, but it is nevertheless unnerving that so many of his supporters hold such malicious anti-Semitic, anti-Israel views. Here is just one example of many bloodthirstily anti-Semitic remarks discovered in Obama’s official website:
Shed ourselves from the racist Zionists in America. They control everything. But they won’t keep us down any longer. Throw the Jews in the oven this November. Its the only way we can free America and make sure barack obama is elected! (sic)
Again, most people who voted for him have no idea, (which is a large part of the problem) and to give credit where due, the above remark was purged after complaints came in. For more information, see the following article published in
Worldnetdaily.
Over the holidays I was rebuked by a Christian friend that my trepidation about an Obama presidency was “disrespectful.” (I have to partially own-up to this, in that I referred to him as “Chairman Obama” in an unguarded moment and in mixed company.) Let me be clear that I DO highly respect the Office of the President, but that doesn’t necessarily require that I respect each and every office holder. I sometimes hear other conservative pundits bleat that we must “give him a chance” and “make sure he succeeds as our President.”
I beg to differ. I do not respect him. I don’t trust him, and if success as our President means that he will be able to implement his stated Socialist agendas, I don’t want him to succeed.
Further, I suspect he is unqualified for the Presidency under the U.S. Constitution, and unless he presents verifiable credentials that he is a natural-born citizen, we may be headed for an unprecedented Constitutional crisis that could do grave damage to our Republic.
I cannot support his plans regarding unrestrained abortion, appeasement to our nation’s enemies, or his antipathy toward “bible and gun clingers” (a group I identify with under the First and Second Amendments of the Constitution). The radical-leftist cabinet he is assembling is scary. I’m also concerned that his commitment to government “education” will translate into a devastating attack on home or private education.
Personally, I think Tolkien nailed it. Let’s all be extremely cautious about listening “unwarily to that voice.”
Bruce Porter is a writer, speaker, documentarian, and disaster responder. He serves as a Firefighter Chaplain, Civil Air Patrol Officer, and frequently responds to such disasters as Columbine HS, and other school shootings worldwide, Beslan, Russia, after a terrorist attack, Sri Lanka after the tsunami, Ground Zero after 9-11 in NYC, Israel during three wars, as a counselor and a search & rescue worker. His blogsite is: brucespeaks.com/myblog, and he twitters at: twitter.com/bruceporter. Bruce can be reached at bruce@brucespeaks.com
