Recently someone I know forwarded me a piece that was supposedly by the Wall Street Journal with the subject line of “WALL STREET JOURNAL SIZES UP OBAMA”.
In this article, which I will paste in a block at the end of this post, we hear an endless string of lies and propaganda used to feed on the fears of the unemployed and the disenfranchised. This target audience, already shaken by presence of a black man holding the highest office in our land, is still reeling from the recession and is terrified about there future and thus highly suspicious of anyone in power let alone a well spoken black man. The author of this WSJ “article” is to be preying on the worst fears and paranoia of the populace, just to push his own political and professional agenda. This kind of fear mongering and blind, thoughtless rage must stop.
Now I responded to this email in kind and would like to share my response with you now. So without further adu:
Ok, do not ever send me disgusting trite like this again. First of all this trash is filled full of lies, misrepresentations, and delusional interpretations of events. It gives no real specific examples of any accusations and relies completely on here-say and paranoia. If you honestly believe all of this garbage then you have forgotten how to think for yourself and really examine each line in what is said here.
While I do not support everything Obama has done I also hold no pretenses both for the mess he was left by his predecessor and for the level of difficultly in both conquering our nations many problems and concerns and balancing the solutions with public opinion and GOP backlash. If you want to determine the cause of and slowness to respond to our nations problems then look no further than Congress itself. Filled with infighting, squabbling, and back-room deal making by BOTH parties we have been left with few solutions and little recourse. This while major media outlets want to point fingers this way and that when the problem lies mostly with corrupt politicians, stupid decisions, immoral lobbyists, and outspoken hypochondriacs from both sides of the fence.
If ever there has been a time of need for great upheaval in government and a disbanding of the medieval party system this is by far the most needing in the history of this nation.
Think before blindly forwarding trash written by the talking heads on TV and their ilk, otherwise known as sheeple.
Sincerely,
Patrick Thurmond
The next bit I must share with you is the article which my writing above is in response to.
“I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he’s led a kind of make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened because at some point early on somebody or some group took a look at this tall, good looking, half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in politics where his facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House.
In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? “Dreams of My Father” was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The “Audacity of Hope” followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself a “communist with a small ‘c’” was the real author.
His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that might be deemed controversial. He went from a legislator in the Illinois legislature to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having Mayor Daley’s formidable political machine at his disposal.
He was in the U.S. Senate so briefly that his bid for the presidency was either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some greater game plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the Capital. How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at the Democrat convention that nominated John Kerry when virtually no one had ever even heard of him before?
He outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very small black population, he oozed “cool” in a place where agriculture was the antithesis of cool. He dazzled the locals. And he had an army of volunteers drawn to a charisma that hid any real substance.
And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans select one of the most inept candidates for the presidency since Bob Dole. And then John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female governor from the very distant state of Alaska . It was a ticket that was reminiscent of 1984′s Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down to defeat.
The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews swooning then and now over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin, was extraordinary.
Now, nearly a full year into his first term, all of those gilded years leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left to his own instincts, he has a talent for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters.
Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to “wish away” some terrible realities, not the least of which is the Islamist intention to destroy America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam initially spread. It knocked on the doors of Europe, having gained a foothold in Spain .
The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign “world tour” were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp of history and the reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions.
Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party’s hold on power in Congress because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about his communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues.
Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an “obstreperous” Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against “jumping to conclusions” about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted “Allahu Akbar.” The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas bomber “an isolated extremist” only to have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qaeda plot.
He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the battlefield against America . He could even instruct his Attorney General to afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever even consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days before having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist attack on Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following day because his first statement was so lame.
The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth.
Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Obama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual’s life.
When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this man has spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden.
We laugh at the ventriloquist’s dummy, but what do you do when the dummy is President of the United States of America.
Now I spent a little bit of time trying to trace down the original article and had no luck on the WSJ website. However I did find some of it here: http://myrightwingdad.blogspot.com/2010/04/fw-wall-street-journal-sizes-up-obama.html
It goes without saying that the true origins of this piece are questionable and the blind coercion it tries to provoke is undeniable. I hope those that find this and the many other trash pieces floating around, both on TV and the internet, will take time to truly think about what is being said and whether or not it represents truth and reality. Don’t be a sheeple, become a thinking people.
Thanks,
Pjerky
Tags: Congress, GOP, Lies, Obama, the internet
