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Barackracy in America

3.21.08 @ 12:01AM

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I have a dream: That religious folk will sermonize about victimology rather than the community's self-help needs for valuing education, hard work, marriage, and stable families.

I have a dream: That the USA will be conflated with the KKK, and that our pulpits will preach hatred of the best country in the world.

I have a dream: That our Christian ministries will make common cause with Islamofascist murderers, and justify terrorist acts against people of the "great Satan" (that would be the U.S.) and the "little Satan" (that would be Israel).

I have a dream: That only increased socialism and economic fascism can redeem America's racist past.

I have a dream: That our community will be judged on the color of our skin rather than the content of our character.

Yeah, right.

At least, we no longer have to wonder about Barack's refusal to wear an American flag pin, or his wife's lack of pride in the country until his emergence as a front runner for President, or his reluctance to take on Islamofascists who have been at war with us since at least 1979, or his willingness to talk, without preconditions, with every tinhorn dictator on the planet. It is clear that Barack believes that what he sees as American imperfections justifies submission to lectures from crazies around the world. I wonder what his administration would do after a new 9/11 as he
struggles to see it "in context."

When I was in junior high school, we were assigned to read The Man Without A Country. I assume that such a story would never be assigned today, and perhaps many of you don't know it. If not, you really should read it. Certainly, Barack Obama has the right to believe anything he wants about our country. However, I would sooner see him suffer the fate of Philip Nolan
than be elected President of the UNITED States.

Yes, indeed The CHICKENS are coming HOME to ROOST.
-- Stephen Zierak
Kansas City, Missouri

Jeremy Lott replies: Most of the letter writers would have benefited from a closer reading of my column. They act as though I endorsed Barack Obama, when I did no such thing. I simply stated that I couldn't bring myself to hate the man, and that he delivered a remarkable speech.

Readers accuse yours truly and Senator Obama of excusing the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's hate-filled homilies. No. I described his sermons as "nutty, vile racist anti-American rantings." Obama said that his former pastor's statements flowed from "a profoundly distorted view of this country -- a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America; a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam."

Readers also act as though I ignored Senator Obama's thoroughly left wing politics. Try this: "One neat trick [Obama] has developed is to fairly accurately summarize the concerns of others and then sidestep them to propose standard issue big government solutions to all of life's problems." Or this: "he's now got a good shot at winning... the White House, where he will put his Barack Hancock on some truly awful legislation."

The point of the piece was supposed to be this: We aren't always fortunate enough to have unlikable political opponents. A few readers get this. They concede, albeit grudgingly, that the Illinois senator is a force to be reckoned with, not because of his liberal ideas but because of his considerable personal charm.

Letter to the Editor

topics:
Taxes, Education, Health Care, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Mainstream Media, Business, Islam, Law, Israel, NATO, Africa, Socialism, Fascism