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Mourning in America: Obama’s Inaugural Address

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Barack Obama’s 2013 Inaugural Address perfectly reflected his view of America, and presented a stark contrast between the rhetoric and the reality. The rhetoric was all about our need to work “together,” a word that he used seven times, while he revealed the reality in passages such as this one:

We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; (emphasis mine) just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.

Stonewall? Seriously? That reference is not exactly common knowledge to the average American. I would be surprised if one in 100 people in most American towns and villages know what he was talking about. That doesn’t matter, Bitter Clinger. He wasn’t talking to you. He was talking to one of his mascot groups, in this case militant homosexuals, for whom a riot at a New York City bar marks the beginning of the “movement.”

That’s how Barack Obama and his fellow lefties view their fellow citizens, as a collection of “movements,” of people still oppressed in racist, sexist Amerika, and struggling to become “free” by taking other people’s stuff. They slice and dice the electorate into groups, and then try to figure out how much they need to steal from productive citizens to buy the votes of each constituency.

This speech was an in-your-face, full-throated, unabashed defense of his vision of a “remade” America, one in which an enormous, all-powerful federal government redistributes income, and tries to redress the justifiable grievances of every identity politics group into which he can divide us.

How else to account for passages like the following:

It is now our generation’s task to carry on what those pioneers began.  For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers, and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts.  Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law – for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.  Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote.  Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity; until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country.  Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for, and cherished, and always safe from harm.

As if, as in, as if we don’t have equal pay laws in this country. The “equal pay for equal work” that feminists demand has been the law of the land since 1963, and the frequently cited statistic that “women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn” is bogus. Citing those “waiting for hours to exercise the right to vote” conveniently leaves out any mention of his (In)Justice Department’s failure to protect the voting rights of white voters outside that polling place in Philadelphia. Not that the facts matter to the low-information cohort that swoons and slobbers whenever Barack Obama reads anything from his PrompTer. It’s not about reality. It’s about ginning up enthusiasm to “remake” America, remember? The ends justify the means.

He also dredged up some of the rhetoric from the campaign about the “middle class,” and referenced the “takers,” a word that its clear he does not appreciate when applied to recipients of government largess. His obvious displeasure with the use of this very accurate description for many of his supporters demonstrates just how spot on it is.

He also tried to run one of the favorite plays in the left-wing playbook; that is, pretending that we shouldn’t “bicker” about the role of government, but rather seek “solutions” and “do something.” In other words, we should just submit, and pay, of course, like good little subjects.

Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time – but it does require us to act in our time.

Liberals, you should be very pleased with this speech. The other eighty percent of the country should be inspired to pray.

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Mitt Was Half-Right About Last Week’s Loss, But Still Clueless

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The denizens of the 24/7 nuthouse, which I watch so you don’t have to, MS-NBC, and other fellow travelers in the Lame Stream Media, are feigning outrage over Mitt Romney’s recent post-election statements, in which he blamed his campaign’s failure to rescue our country from the clutches of the Chicago Mafia on the “gifts” the One has bestowed on his supporters. As I told you here, there certainly were answers to Obama’s argument “Vote for me! I’m giving you free stuff!” Mitt failed to make them because he is not a conservative. Unlike Ronald Reagan, who spent decades reading, writing, analyzing and honing his conservative message, a message he understood in his bones, Mitt tried to speak conservatism as a second language, which is why the obvious answers weren’t there, and why he is left throwing up his hands saying “what am I supposed to do? I can’t compete with free stuff!” Wrong, but you need to articulate a clear message about free people, free markets, and prosperity, and why government dependency starts out as a cozy, comfy little hideaway from cold, cruel reality, and ends up being an inescapable prison.

So, there is no-brainer answer to the Obama stash appeal, which the Romney campaign failed to deliver, even though Mitt himself admitted that “tax the makers to give to the takers” has been the democrats’ playbook for at least 75 years. That failure is only half the problem, though.

As former Senator Phil Graham famously stated, when you rob Peter to pay Paul, you are guaranteed the vote of Paul. That’s the Cook County vision that Barack Obama has for the whole country. In addition to not understanding the need to respond to the “free stuff” appeal with the alternative, freedom and prosperity, by explaining it to Paul, Romney missed the need to appeal to Peter. When Mitt says that the takers were incentivized to turn out, he is correct. What about the makers? What about the 3 million voters that turned out for John McCain, but not for Mitt Romney? Could it be that the Romney campaign didn’t make it clear to them what was at stake, which is basically America as we know it? Paul was ready to show up, and did. Peter didn’t think it made any difference because those responsible for making the case to him didn’t do it, so he stayed home.

Now the Left has gone into their feigned outrage mode, hoping to silence any discussion of the dirty little secret; that is, there ARE takers, and the democrats DO confiscate wealth and income from the productive to buy their votes. They want to make that subject off limits because if we talk about it, the people might actually learn the truth.