When John F. Kennedy was elected president, I did not believe it was possible to top the Kennedy cult fantasy craziness summed up by violinist Isaac Stern when he visited the White House:
I felt as though I were inside a golden coach drawn by four pure-bred white horses into the glitter of mythic Camelot.
I was wrong. Obama-mania has it all beat.
Now, while I acknowledge that Obama’s ascendancy (he is “The One,” after all) to the White House shows Americans have rejected racism, his demigod anointment by the masses indicates way too many Americans have not eschewed the allures of the personality cult. Here is LA LA Land, some of our most highly educated and creative have seen fit to use their children to praise “The One:” Sing for Change: Barack Kids Serenade Dear Leader Obama. Somewhere else, children have been put in military uniforms and made to give special solutes in pledge to Obama: Obama Youth – Junior Fraternity Regiment. If “Obama Youth” and massed cherubic child voices of praise for “The One” remind you of Kim Jun Il worship or Mao worship or others that came to a bad end, you probably have not overcome your racism and are in need of reeducation.
So while we get ready to view the grand 150 million dollar historical revision of Abraham Lincoln as a Democrat (that’s change, right?) by Obama on Abe’s Bible during the inaugural spectacle about to unfold, I believe it may be a good idea to review who really won when the votes were counted. The best summation of that I’ve seen was allegedly an editorial by London’s Daily Mail. I cannot find it on the Mail site and The Canada Free Press could find no source to accurately attribute it either. So I offer it with the admission that I would love to plagiarize it as my own ala a number of Obama’s speech lines, but I’m really not a Michael Moore kinda guy:
Obama’s Victory
A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the mainstream media who abandoned any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely because they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless but would not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups.
A victory for Obama-worshippers everywhere. A victory for the cult of the cult. A man who has done little with his life but has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his teeth.
Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over history, rabble-raising over reality.
A victory for Hollywood, the most dysfunctional community in the world. Victory for Streisand, Spielberg, Soros and Sarandon.
Victory for those who prefer welfare to will and interference to independence. For those who settle for group think and herd mentality rather than those who fight for individual initiative and the right to be out of step with meager political fashion.
Victory for a man who is no friend of freedom. He and his people have already stated that media has to be controlled so as to be balanced, without realizing the extraordinary irony within that statement. Like most liberal zealots, the Obama worshippers constantly speak of Fox and Limbaugh, when the vast bulk of television stations and newspapers are drastically liberal and anti-conservative. Senior Democrat Chuck Schumer said that just as pornography should be censored, so should talk radio. In other words, one of the few free and open means of popular expression may well be cornered and beaten by bullies who even in triumph cannot tolerate any criticism and opposition.
A victory for those who believe the state is better qualified to raise children than the family, for those who prefer teachers’ unions to teaching and for those who are naively convinced that if the West is sufficiently weak towards its enemies, war and terror will dissolve as quickly as the tears on the face of a leftist celebrity.
A victory for social democracy even after most of Europe has come to the painful conclusion that social democracy leads to mediocrity, failure, unemployment, inflation, higher taxes and economic stagnation. A victory for intrusive lawyers, banal sentimentalists, social extremists and urban snobs
Congratulations, America!
By the way, your education camp invitation will be mailed sometime during the next four years and attendance is mandatory
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