A Fable for Obama’s First Year: The
Scorpion & The Frog A fable seems appropriate after all the gushing hero worship and preposterous press commentary about Barrack Obama. This one is often attributed to Aesop, though its true origins are lost to history. It is a simple tale with a simple message.
A scorpion asks a frog to carry him across a river. The frog, afraid of being stung at first refuses, but the scorpion reassures him that if it stung the frog, the scorpion would drown as well. The frog then agrees thinking the scorpions self interest would ensure his safety; nevertheless, in mid-river, the scorpion stings him, dooming them both. As the frog weakens and falters he asks the scorpion why? The scorpion explains, "I'm a scorpion; it's my nature."
Unless Barrak Obama miraculously reinvents himself as moderate and renounces his associations with criminal, racist, terrorist and American hating colleagues and friends, we can expect the powerful radical influences in Obama’s political and personal life to rapidly assert themselves. The socialist internationalists that have followed him into power will be pulling strings at all levels of government. Working with a corrupt and inept congress, American exceptionalism will be greatly diminished, its deconstruction enabled by a president who at a fundamental level does not respect the nation he now leads.
The hopeful accolades will turn to dismay as the poison of ideology and post modern vitriol starts to flow, the nation stung if you will, by the socialist scorpions that will now “remake” us. What cannot be controlled can be destroyed. It is their nature.
Talk of a new era of team work and bipartisan outreach from the administration echoed hollowly across the networks November 12th, as Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman droned on without critical analysis or insight, enraptured and worshipful, the giggling pied pipers of a political disaster. Ridiculous comparisons of Obama to Lincoln and Kennedy were common on inauguration day. Obama’s elaborate populism and well staged speeches will not engender the leadership abilities our new President simply does not have. His lofty rhetoric is a façade, a thin veneer on a crooked political machine that has foisted an inept, inexperienced and self-aggrandizing radical politician upon America, a man that will likely damage the nation and limit the potential of its citizens. His promises are absurdly imprecise and unspecific.
“On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.”
Petty grievances and false promises, worn out dogmas and recriminations are the heart and soul of the Democrat party, the familiar territory where they convince the voters that their lives could be ever so much better and their future is being squandered by evil conservatives. Planting the perception of impending failure is the common contrivance the left uses to justify their social change schemes and endless government tinkering, followed with the predictable promises of utopia. Crises are enabled manufactured and sensationalized, from subprime mortgages, to bank failures to global warming, propaganda reinforced by the press, overwhelming the credulous and reinforcing the message of looming disaster and the desperate need for “change.” But the promised change never comes; it is a lie, and as transparent as it is, it garners votes.
Obama’s “change,” is about the arrogance of elites that believe they can improve on a system that is not truly broken but for their interference, to remake what they believe defective, to control the citizens they distain as ignorant. Obama will bring us all the muddled ideologies of radical academics that revel in anti-American causes. He will give us the equality of racial exceptionalism, where discrimination in the name of “social justice” will be accepted policy. We will be forced to accept the wealth distribution of socialists, where achievement will be punished and entitlements woven into the national fabric. We will be told what to drive, what to eat, and how to live, and the utopian delusions of the left will vex us at every turn. We will pander to the vicious misogynistic xenophobic forces of radical Islam. We will apologize for terrorists, we will enable the butchers of Hamas and Hezbollah and we will excuse their duplicity and deceit and accept their endless lies. We will close our eyes to the harsh realities of the world and wrap ourselves in a silly ideological cocoon, an Orwellian fantasy, where lies are made truth and truth is forgotten, sacrificed to the gods of a utopian communitarian fever dream.
In all the hype about the historic inauguration of a black president I couldn’t help but wonder just how many Americans voted for Obama simply because he is black, believing his ascendency would bring forgiveness for the communal guilt we are told we bear for the injustices of the past. Yet the Obama infatuated press ignored the fact that the family who raised him is white. There was no legacy of slavery learned of from elders around the family table, no remembrances of suffering and discrimination in Jim Crow America. Obama was never a civil rights foot soldier, the worst of those battles were won by the time he arrived to organize communities that had been already been organized by successive waves of enlightened liberals for a better part of a century. His efforts were just as unsuccessful. Manipulating entitlement conditioned citizens to agitate for taxpayer money in the cesspool of Chicago politics was not a noble sacrifice. It was a political investment, an entry fee paid to enter leftist politics and a cynical yet successful fabrication of a personal legacy that would appeal to the national guilt complex over slavery and race.
“Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America” our new president has told us. Will he first destroy what must be remade? What exactly is his vision for our national renewal and how will he achieve it? I doubt he knows. The expectations of Obama’s fans are a mass delusion, without any supporting evidence. Denzel Washington’s mother, Lennis Washington, compared Obama thusly; “The apostle Paul, Moses, John the Baptist – any one of them. Seriously, he is like one of those apostles for our day. He came to lead us to the original design of what we are supposed to do on this earth.” Obama is now an apostle of divine power, who will remake the world, where the lion will lay down with the lamb, because he is black, not because he is capable, experienced, or has plausible plans. He emphatically does not. Obama did not earn this place in history. He will likely botch it badly and the citizen, as always, will pay for his deluded leadership. He owes everything to those who came before him, both black and white, who paved the way toward the America we live in now. He did not achieve greatness; it was handed to him, the greatest unmerited entitlement of all. |
