The Fierce Urgency of Lies

American Thinker | Lance Fairchok | Feb. 25, 2008

Grown men weep in his presence, women faint, and thousands scream his name like a rock star. The liberal press prints glowing tributes to their new progressive prophet, calling him “the triumph of word over flesh” and other absurd and profoundly unwarranted accolades. Obama, a very junior Senator, will guide us to a Utopia that has yet to be defined, an America that the left envisions but cannot quantify; but rest assured it will be swell.

Obama’s image is picture perfect Ivy League political correctness. He is an educated man of color. He is a socialist. He has an intelligent and lovely wife, which he publicly embraces with obvious devotion. Even better, he has a deep and melodious speaking voice, full of the heroic righteousness of Martin Luther King, which echoes a time of triumph over injustice. He is the embodiment of our popular culture, passionate and handsome, well spoken yet carefully imprecise, and so absent of consistency he cannot long endure critical examination.

His political history is painfully short; his track record, what there is of it, is pure leftist, there in nothing to indicate he has a uniting or bipartisan bone in his body. Yet he would have us believe he will “bring America together to solve problems” and fill us with an “Audacity of Hope.” Of course, how he will do that is merely a repackaging of the same leftist boilerplate we endured from Hillary, Kerry or Edwards. There is nothing new, nothing uniting, nothing to match the flow of his rhetoric or the timbre of his voice.

What we hear from Obama is the eternal mantra of the socialists; America is broken, millions have no health care, families cannot afford necessities, the rich are evil, we are selfish, we are unhappy, unfulfilled, without hope, desperate, poverty stricken, morally desolate, corrupt and racist. This nihilism is the lifeblood of all the democrat candidates, even “hope you can believe in” performers like Obama. When Michelle Obama claims she is only newly proud of her country, she does not exaggerate. In her world as in Obama’s, they believe we are a mess, a land filled with the ignorant and unenlightened, filled with despair. […]

They learned these things from places like Princeton and Harvard, they have it reinforced by propagandists like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, they embrace the fiction of Michael Moore and the fairy tales of the New York Times. They revere failures like Jimmy Carter and America’s enemies like Castro and Chavez. They believe we have done nothing of value and brought no good to the world. Their arrogance is just below the surface and it is clear they do not know the country or people they presume to lead. Mrs. Obama reveals the depth of this pathology when she says, “That before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.” This is a stunning revelation for those of us who live in the spiritually vibrant “flyover country.” The Obama’s would be our spiritual as well as political leaders.

Yet the truth of America is far different once you escape the ideological pandering and the supportive bias of a devious and self-serving press. Even as the public is bombarded with falsehoods, the truth filters through, especially when the reality of day-to-day life so often contradicts what our television screens tell us. Our economy bustles along, with inevitable ups and downs, but remains strong. Americans live better than ever before. As a nation, we live in the best of times, a place that the rest of humanity covets. We did this by the sweat of our brows and the energy of our people. We have more education, more luxury, more life options, more of everything good and far less of everything bad, less disease, less poverty and less struggle than ever before. We have prosperity, we have employment, we have technology. Hope is what America is all about; hope that has every expectation of success. Consider the millions that are desperate to get here. Even our poor have cars, appliances and entertainments. Our concern for them is not hunger but obesity. Never before in the history of mankind has this contradiction existed.

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4 thoughts on “The Fierce Urgency of Lies”

  1. This is what I can’t possibly understand:

    What we hear from Obama is the eternal mantra of the socialists; America is broken, millions have no health care, families cannot afford necessities, the rich are evil, we are selfish, we are unhappy, unfulfilled, without hope, desperate, poverty stricken, morally desolate, corrupt and racist. This nihilism is the lifeblood of all the democrat candidates, even “hope you can believe in” performers like Obama. When Michelle Obama claims she is only newly proud of her country, she does not exaggerate. In her world as in Obama’s, they believe we are a mess, a land filled with the ignorant and unenlightened, filled with despair.

    We don’t just hear that from Obama – we hear that from Ron Paul also.

    Because it’s true. America is broken. The dollar is in the tank, health care is a mess, the middle class is getting socked by high gas prices, and the list keeps going.

    The difference, of course, is that the conservative right (the real one, not the fake one of Bush/McCain) knows that the the solution is less government, expanded markets, hard currency, and fiscal discipline.

    What we should be getting from a site like the American Thinker is a full throated attack on a 3 Trillion Dollar Federal Budget. What we should be getting is a full scale assault on the ever growing socialization of the American Health Care System with the government already paying for over 50% of all health care expenditures. We should be getting an attack on Big Pharma’s cozy relationship with government through mandated vaccines for STD’s of pre-teens.

    We should also be getting good, wholesome attacks on our government’s printing of worthless dollars running the USD down to 1.50 against the Euro.

    But – we won’t.

    Why?

    Because the schmuck in the White House has an (R) next to his name. So we can’t notice the real levels of decline caused by horrible, bi-partisan fiascoes like No Child Left Behind, Farm Subsidies, restrictions on domestic oil drilling, and all the like. Bush signed the first 2 Trillion Dollar budget, and then signed the first 3 Trillion dollar budget.

    Hello?

    Where are the small government conservatives?

    Obama is right – there are a lot of really negative trends.

    Obama is dead wrong about what is causing it, and what can be done about it, but whistling past the graveyard while the Feds inflate the currency, borrow us deeper into a hole, and sink the dollar is only conservative if you like your Kool Aid grape.

  2. #1 Glen, good points. The sinking dollar is bad news. But, I think it is inevitable.

    The predicament of this country is of its own making. We don’t produce enough to pay for what we consume. Until this situation is rectified we’ll be walking a tight rope between economic depression on the one hand and inflation on the other. The dollar must be devalued because other countries (like China) no longer find it worth their while to continue investing in the dollar. The situation will be made worse if we continue to engage in ostentatious behavior such as massive government programs, restricting access to natural resources, and burning our food supply as a substitute for hydrocarbons.

    As most Americans no longer value virtue, have been indoctrinated against their heritage, and don’t know their history, they will see no reason to tighten their belts. Instead, they will look to the government to help them out, without realizing that this will just prolong the crisis. There will definitely be charletains like Mr. Obama who try to capitalize on this, and I suspect the more or less corrupted populace will find their empty promises and nonsensical statements most appealing.

  3. … but whistling past the graveyard while the Feds inflate the currency, borrow us deeper into a hole, and sink the dollar is only conservative if you like your Kool Aid grape.

    It seems like the only real choices voters are getting are grape or orange.

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