I’m officially sick of hearing Barack Obama talk about “unification”
20 03 2008Well, he’s just the current poster child of this particular clever word framing by the liberals. They’ve been doing it for a long time now, and I’m tired of it. It’s a load of words I cannot utter.
I was listening to Rush Limbaugh speak to this yesterday, and he was saying that “unification” is essentially nothing more than liberal code-speak for “you forsake your convictions and let us do what we want.” He talked about the Founding Fathers and how they managed to hammer out agreement on a Constitution and other such things despite rampant disagreement… well, it was through determination and compromise, not “unification.” Reagan, the great hero of the Right, did not accomplish what he accomplished by “unifying” with any liberals.
Yesterday, I was debating on a blog with some people about Barack Obama’s speech, and one person trotted out this “unification” line. Here’s what I say to that. Fine. Let’s unify behind Barack Obama. No one’s allowed to disagree with him, and then we can call it civilized dialogue. NOT! The very instant that we do such a thing is the instant we have finally signed over our freedom as Americans. It is important that we disagree, and that we express those disagreements.
Which brings me to Obama’s speech a couple days ago. I read the transcript, and I hate to admit it, but it struck me as pretty well done at first. He addressed a lot of issues that a lot of liberals won’t touch. He paid at least token acknowledgment to the fact that white people’s concerns about race aren’t based in fiction. But when it came down to it and you erase away all the nice shiny rhetoric, it was the same. In the end, it’s still the white people’s fault. In the end, we still don’t get it. And in the end, he wants to solve all of these problems, whether real or perceived, with the same liberal policies. And, he could find it in him to offer as much or more condemnation for his white grandmother who was “afraid of black men on the street” and “uttered racial stereotypes” (go ahead and count the stereotypes that Obama made in that speech. I dare ya. There’s quite a few.) as he offered for his “Pastor” who rants and raves and calls for God to “damn America” (which is something that no Pastor, preaching God’s Word, would ever pray for). Among other things, Barack Obama was one of the loudest in the call for Don Imus to be fired. What does that say about him?
Obama has a lot of nice words, but even a cursory examination of his record, and the facts of his policies, reveal that he is just another liberal, just one who talks nicer. Don’t think for a second that he’s going to disown affirmative action (even though he paid lip service to white people’s concerns about that) as a policy, despite the fact that it is a racist policy. I mean, after all, his church preaches racism.
Absolutely agreed. When I heare “unify” or “change”, I get a terrible urge to find a toilet. But there’s one thing more frustrating than hearing meaningless rhetoric, and that’s the fact that there are millions who think he’s saying something.
Happy Easter anyway.