PROMETHEAN ANTAGONIST

I fully acknowledge that I may be mistaken. Maybe, “yes [they] can.” Maybe B. Hussein Obama will be America’s next president, but there are many reasons why that is unlikely.

I realize opinion polls and talking heads everywhere are trumpeting the triumphs of this clown in a slippery suit. I realize that many citizens have no idea what unsavory characters have guided this man and his principals. I also know that his opponent is an old man that is increasingly being painted as a conservative (an image that McCain himself has sought to cultivate to some degree even though his own voting record in congress shows this to be otherwise on many issues).

Again, but…

I don’t know how they always manage to slip through the scientifically structured opinion polls taken, but it appears that Joe and Jane average is not showing up on the radar here for some reason.

I know America is a diverse country and that many of its citizens are now part of a dependent class of government workers or freelance parasites – they’ll always vote Democrat. Whoever promises to fork over the most spoils of a concocted class war is going to be their choice. But, most of America is not yet a full-time zombie of the state’s current piper of choice. There are still many out there that can be called average and though they may be black, white, or brown, they do actually have more traditional beliefs regarding the role of the state in one’s life. This doesn’t necessarily make them conservative but it does likely make them suspicious of anyone who has been brazenly promoted as a rock star in the populist-demagogue circuit. Socialism only sells in the U.S. when it pretends to not be socialism.

I have to believe that it isn’t just conservatives who are rolling their eyes up every time we hear another star-struck reporter tell us that Obama is all about “change” and that this catch-phrase in itself is good reason to vote for him.

Today’s Democrat party and its current standard bearer are among the same clique’ that actually support speech codes on college campuses. They are the same clowns who believe Islamo-fascist Jihad is a fantasy contrived so that a few oil companies that are still privately owned can “steal” Middle Eastern oil.

Joe and Jane average American (or Carlos and Juanita) are probably not going to easily buy into such nonsense. They know in their gut (and from reasoned appraisal of facts in a given year’s news) that there does appear to be an effort on the part of some religious fanatics to carry out considerable destruction and violence. And the codes of thought control on college campuses (another example of the triumph of the fringe) are seen by most sane people as just stupid -- or at least pathetically patronizing.

The average American is not white, male, or “gun crazy.” They are also not likely to be a gay vegetarian wiccan pacifist who hates capitalism and adores Che Guevara.

Average folks have families, have jobs, have goals, have standards of self reliance and decency, and probably wouldn’t fit in completely at a poetry reading at a Marxist bookstore (or an Obama rally).

I’ve painted some caricatures to be sure but beneath the exaggeration is a truth. The new Democrat Party and its presumptive candidate do not speak to the sincere hopes of most of America’s citizens…and they can sense a con when one is being pulled on them no matter how professionally wrapped.

The media really blew it (again – they tried this with John Kerry and Al Gore). Their “news coverage” of the Obama (concocted) “phenomena” is an insult to anyone who believes they are capable of making their own rational choices.

Beyond some slick and eloquent speech ability offering amorphous “change,” this guy offers nothing substantial that will help maintain America’s lead role as one of the most successful societies in history. To the contrary, his socialist philosophy promises to do nothing but further erode the attributes of independence, innovation, and achievement that make America a dynamic powerhouse.

Obama is slick. He looks good in a suit. He’s got a virtual cult of media, education, and entertainment behind him but; he’s not going anywhere.

I could be wrong, but insulting the electorate’s intelligence isn’t any way to win an election.

# posted by Promethean Antagonist @ 12:52 PM