Posted by
Glenn Flowers on Monday, August 31, 2009 1:14:28 AM
I will not give into the tempatation to try and list all of Obama’s mistakes in one, critically oriented post. Instead I would like to start at the very beginning. A very good place to start. When you read you begin with A-B-C, with Barack you begin with ME-ME-ME and only ME. Him, Barack that is. It’s always about him. The first thoughts I had about him back in early 07 were on the order of, "GREAT! About time a black person runs for that office." I even went so far as to decide that, "If he is any kind of a sincere, honest, intelligent person, I will vote for him just because I believe it’s past time we had a black Chief Executive."
I know, I KNOW! That is prejudiced decision making at best, outright racism more likely than not. But, I was eager to know who he was, what he stood for, and if he would be any good at all for America. At least that part of me, the distrust of all persons politically motivated, was still working just fine. So, I bought and read his autobiography, lavishly praised as a masterpiece of personal revelation by all the NY critics. I was shocked. Not only was I stammied by his outright arrogance in what he believed and why, but also with the contorted, really WRONG assertions of all the so-called journalistic, literary critcs in their absolute lying reviews of a somber, narcissistic, self-aggrandizing, rambling on piece of literary trash. Not only was it nauseatingly self promotional, but promoted a radical, 60s hippyish, America hating, communist of the most dangerous kind, an arrogantly confident one.
It took a hundred pages or more for the sincerity of his belief in himself to really sink in. Then the sub-title of the book made sense. Stories Of Race And Inhertance told a tale of him inheriting the legacy of racist policies against the black man by the rich, white, ruling class in America. And what a tale it was.
The essence of this book and his arrogance in admitting the choices he had made and how they had a major role in his adult mindset, was Obama’s first really bad national political decision. Luckily for him though, very few of those who voted for him had actually read the book. Instead, they were smitten by his deep, baritone voice, his ability to read with emotion and apparent sincerity, his universally attractive message of post-racial, post-partisan unity, his blank and open message of any change you may have desire of, and his uniqueness in being the first "African-American" presedential candidate ever. These were overwhelming credentials to those who were tired of everything politics had become, which included the majority of Americans. The reason he did not win in a unanimous decision was because many of those Americans felt it was their duty to know exactly who they were voting for and why, or why not. Like myself, a simple, responsible voter.
That was his first mistake, arrogance in his revelation of his true nature and political beliefs. His second mistake was believing that the complacency of the voters supporting him was nationwide and that he could do no wrong in the eyes of America. After all, they knew who he was and what he believed, right? They had to, he had told them himself. In his book. You know, that masterpiece of introspective genius he wrote. "It was all about me. It IS all about me. ME, ME, glorious ME. They all love ME. They voted for ME."
No, the truth is they voted for the promise of a change in the way politics was conducted, they voted for hope that America could reclaim the greatness it had surrendered to the false candidates. They voted for openness in the way government operated, in the destruction of corruption rampant in DC. They voted for everything they wished could be, just as Obama had promised.
When he was not able to produce the desired results, when $787 Billion doesn’t stop the loss of jobs and actually increases it, when the source of jobs is regulated and taxed out of existence, when promises of mortgage bail outs never materialize even though billions were allocated, when billions were "invested" in preventing the major auto companies from failing, only to have the two that received the billions fail anyway, when energy costs rise exponentially and the poor can’t buy gasoline for the cars they live in, when all he does does no good but real harm, even the most dedicated, die-hard Obama disciple starts to wonder who this guy really cares about. It’s ME, ME, glorious, omnipotent, ME. All knowing, all perfect in thought and deed, that’s ME. Never admitting to error or misjudgement, never apologizing for his own ineptness, but slobbering self-incrimination on behalf of our nation for its evil actions of the past.
Two errors he is personally responsible for;
- Telling his true beliefs and nature in an arrogantly stupid self-expose’
- And expecting no one to actually believe what he had written or even read it, but instead relying upon the American people to just accept his politics, as unusual as they are, as the same old, as usual, politically stupid snobbery of the past.
WRONG, on both counts.
You have seriously underestimated the American people. You will suffer greatly for thses errors in judgement, and others I will expound upon soon.
Glenn Flowers