The thing that strikes me first and foremost about Obama’s reelection campaign is that the press can’t hide him from the American people anymore. I’m convinced that he was elected the first time because the press represented him as a moderate centrist. And since they were unable to demonize John McCain with any credibility, they trashed Sarah Palin (the runaway slave from the entitlement plantation) instead.
But after Obamacare, I can’t believe the people will buy that view of him. The press will try of course – you can’t expect them to REALLY be non-partisan. But I think it’s one of those ‘fool me twice’ moments for the American people.
The second thing that occurs to me is more hopeful than thoughtful. I’m hoping that now the American people realize that there is enough at stake that they are willing to brave charges of racism from hyperbolic leftists. Do anything contrary to Obama’s interests and someone will call you a racists. This is one absolute constant in the liberal MO. But if we’re lucky, there are enough people who learned from this recession to see that we can’t afford another 4 years of a ‘big labor’ Whitehouse.
The people who vote against Obama won’t actually be racist of course – or well I don’t know – I suppose there is a Klan member out there somewhere who managed to fill out a voter registration card. But you can be assured, racism charges won’t be restricted to actual racists. It’s the last club in their all but empty golf bag, so they won’t be holding back on the charge like they did last time. We know liberals will bend break, and trample the rules to win. And a racism charge is really no big deal to them.
It’s too early to get too deep into this... he’s only just announced. I’m sure there will be many more chances for stirring prose in the months ahead. But I do have one more thing to mention.
As a third thought, I find myself thinking about my late mother in law. Irene was a very smart cookie. My father in law was the artisan of the family, but she was the one who ran the business and invested the profits. He did the hot dirty work of making the things they sold from their foundry, but she was the one who really ran it. She was a Reagan Republican right down to the ground, and she put her family first before anything else…even herself.
As some of you know, we lost her last year to cancer. Like most people, she knew she would die of it way in advance of her actual death. They had made a very nice living and had more than enough financial resources to put up a good fight with the latest in medical care. But she decided against it. In her mind in exchange for a few more months for her (spent largely in hospitals), her daughter and granddaughter would face a much less certain future. That didn’t seem like a good deal to her, so she kept her treatment to a minimum, and let the cancer do what it was certain to do eventually anyway.
I’m certain that she didn’t see this as settling for something or sacrificing herself for the sake of her family. In her mind she was probably getting exactly what she wanted. I never had the chance to ask her, but knowing her as I did, I’d say it was probably an easy choice for her. In fact – I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that to her it was so obvious that she never considered it at all.
Liberals don’t think that way. For liberals it’s all about them. If a few more months of unlimited entitlement for them means that future generations have to live in utter squalor, that’s no big deal. They believe that their selfishness is nothing while anyone who doesn’t put them first and foremost is evil. This is Obama’s base – the entitlement generation. The people of the free cheese. They’ll burn the world to keep away a momentary chill.
This is the real battle we’re fighting this election. This is the question that will define America’s soul. Will we think of future generations and the life of misery we would create for them by following Obama and the unions off the cliff, or will we decide to sacrifice a bit ourselves for the sake of our children. I’m not going to pretend it will be easy – we’re all too far down the road for that. But I hope we haven’t yet becomes the slaves that Obama and the left hope we have.
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