Posted by
ParallaxAdHoc on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 6:51:54 AM
The dearth of campaign yard signs in my neighborhood boggles the mind. One month before the most historic presidential election in memory, why is everyone seem to be dozing away the blues? Obama-mania coupled with the biggest government takeover of the private sector can usher in a tsunami of socialism which will transform the American dream protection of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness into a gulag nightmare of low expectations and guaranteed outcome.
Here are a couple of things which bother me. I wonder if a few others are worried about them:
1. Why is there very little talk of what Obama thought and did while in Columbia and Harvard. I contend that those intellectual maturation years provide a window into the ideological underpinnings of Obama’s ‘Audacity of Hope,’ before the preaching of Rev. Wright nurtured it to full bloom.
2. The most notable executive position which Obama held was as chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. His initiatives, decisions, and accomplishments in that job ought to be a good part of the campaign conversation. The same executive reflexes may flourish in the Oval Office!
Roughly a century before the Nazis swept into power, in his Ode to Germany the poet Henrich Heine wrote, “Oh Germany, land of oak and stupidity”! The thought of a poet writing a century hence, “Oh America, your karma is to go down in Obama-mania!” is a torment to the soul, indeed.