What Now?

Well, the Exotic Messiah is one step closer to ascending his earthly throne. And what did we end up with? WHO is this guy? What has he actually done to deserve all the hosannas and hallelujahs?

More than anything he is the vessel, the repository, of the hopes and dreams (and the guilty conscience) of the predominantly White intelligentsia, particularly as represented in the mainstream news media. For the Liberals, he is the perfect candidate to lead them back to power: a left-Liberal, who is also Black and “clean”. What a combination! No Dukakis or Kerry, bland White men, trying to act moderate to appeal to the White middle and working classes (but never quite able to hide their “intellectual” disdain for the people whom they need to appeal to); No “dirty”, sleazy, Black “leader” like Jackson or Sharpton, who could not possibly be snuck into power after years of open race baiting and demagoguery. Here is the perfect combo: ‘intellectual”, sounding almost White; certainly a fully-paid-up member of the academic, quasi-governmental, Liberal elite. And he is interracial, with a vague, exotic, (just a hint of Islam) background - but most certainly, identifiably Black! The added bonus is that, because he is Black and “multi-cultural”, he is going to be practically immune from savage attack by the cowering Conservatives. No Willie Horton! No Swift Boat, thank you very much!

The most pathetic people, in their reaction to Obama, are the Conservatives, inside the media and out. As well as being defensive about “the sins of Bush”, they have been programmed over the last forty years to be “sensitive” to being accused of the ultimate sin: RACISM. The final surrender really began in 2000 when G. W. Bush, after eight years of national “re-education” in the joys of “diversity”, under the Clintons, embraced multiculturalism in all its glory. No more Buchanan-style punditry about the “Culture Wars”; courting voters in Spanish; a stage-full of “people of color” at the convention; and so on – ad nauseum.

Now Conservatives are fully programmed to avoid even the hint of racism. We can be sure that just about any personal attack against the Anointed One will raise the cry of racism - and whoever dared to make the attack will cringe and slink away, like a vampire before the sign of the cross. And of course, the Republicans have fully disarmed by exiling effective hard campaigners like Rove and De Lay.

Instead of fighting for their ideas and their candidates, Republicans have succumbed to the demonization of their party, in general, and of the Bush Administration, in particular. Poor, ignorant, Bush and demon Chaney, all the ills of America are their fault and theirs alone:

• We are hostage to the dirty Arabs for our oil? Bush doesn’t have an energy policy (he has one, but since it didn’t please the left-wing environmentalists, it was dismissed out-of-hand). It seems no one else in the thirty plus years of neglect by both parties, as they indulged their various constituencies on the left and the right, had anything to do with our current mess. Certainly not the Democratic clients in the unions (UAW job protection) or the environmentalists (who obstructed new drilling for domestic oil supplies or other “dirty” forms of energy growth, like shale oil or coal gasification, from being pursued, while chasing unrealistic dreams of clean and renewable energy to save the planet. No one seems to ask: if “clean” energy is so easily and economically attainable, why haven’t the Japanese and Europeans – certainly not under the control of Bush/Chaney – been able to harness them effectively?
• Our sorry balance-of-payments and Federal deficit situation? It was all the fault of Bush’s “tax cuts for the wealthy” and HIS globalization. No word on over fifty years of Liberal strategy of helping the 2^nd and 3^rd world catch up to America by opening up America’s markets; no word on Liberal social spending and entitlements programs.
• And the list goes on and on.
  

Now the Messiah has come to claim his earthly throne. WHO is this man? What exactly has he accomplished to merit such adoration? What exactly are his policies and priorities beyond the same tired left-Liberal nostrums that have been pitched over and over again by the previous white-bread Liberal candidates? No one asks; No one cares. The Exotic Messiah is here and he cannot be questioned lest we encourage the sin of RACISM.

The real question between now and November is whether the American public will wake up from their induced trance in time to put away this latest manifestation of the same old leftist rubbish: Appeasement and cowardice in foreign policy and the same old failed socialist nostrums here at home.