By Selwyn Duke
While I’m no fan of the Attention Deficit Disorder diagnosis,
I think it may be applicable to Barack Obama.
After all, the man seems to suffer from a case of it that mainlining
Ritalin wouldn’t remedy.
Just consider Obama’s relationship with Jeremiah Wright. Despite calling the prejudiced preacher a
friend, mentor and uncle, despite sitting in Wright’s church for 20 years,
despite being married and having his daughters baptized by him, Obama says he
was completely unaware of the bigot’s anti-American, anti-white, anti-Jewish,
anti-Western and anti-Christian
views. And, just so we can appreciate
the severity of Obama’s affliction, Wright has quite conveniently provided a
reminder of what those unforgettable views are.
The scene was a five-day seminar at the Chicago Theological Seminary
where, for a mere $1000 if taken for college credit and $300 if not, you could
be enlightened by Wright on matters of race, brotherhood and Zionism and kibitz with
him during lunch breaks. Reporting on
the wisdom he imparted, the New York Post
wrote:
“You are not now, nor have you ever
been, nor will you ever be a brother to white folk,” he [Wright] said. “And if
you do not realize that, you are in serious trouble.”
He cited the writings of Bill Jones — author of the book
"Is God a White Racist?" — as proof that white people cannot be
trusted. "Bill said, 'They just killed four of their own at Kent State.
They'll step on you like a cockroach and keep on movin', cause you not a
brother to them.' "
Wright referred to Italians as
"Mamma Luigi" and "pizzeria." He said the educational
system in America is designed by whites to miseducate blacks "not by
benign neglect but by malignant intent."
Wright also said, “We probably have more African-Americans
who've been brainwashed than we have South Africans who've been brainwashed”
and “All your commentaries are written by oppressors.”
As for Wright’s oppression, whatever its nature, it’s quite a
pleasant one. A few months ago he
relocated to a new, opulent, million-dollar home that boasts its own cul-de-sac
and proximity to a golf course.
And then there is the oppression of mental deficiencies. What I mean is, since Wright doesn’t seem like
a shy, retiring type who hides deeply held views from his inner circle, I can
only conclude that Obama’s ADD kicked in again.
Obama never assimilated the aforementioned wisdom from his longtime
pastor. He never heard Wright bellow “The
US of KKK-A!” or “G**d**n America!”
Instead, Obama said about his friend, “Not once in my conversations with
him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms.” “Heard?”
Or is it more like “in one ear and out the other”? Whatever.
Perhaps, when Wright’s lips were moving, Obama was thinking about golf or
basketball or singing “The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round, 'round and
'round, 'round and 'round” in his mind while bobbing his head side-to-side.
Of course, we must show compassion for the handicapped, and
this is another area where Wright is found wanting. In an apparent reference to Obama, the
“reverend” said that black leaders were guilty of “cuttin’ and duckin’” at the
mention of Louis Farrakhan’s name. But
can he be so sure? Maybe Obama never
really “heard” anything Farrakhan said.
Given this deficiency, though, we have to wonder what, if
anything, Obama has learned or is capable of learning. Will he come to understand that bowing to
foreign leaders and apologizing to humanity for America’s alleged sins (which,
presumably, he has heard about) doesn’t engender respect in this streetwise world? Can he figure out that if even thoroughly
statist European leaders reject his global stimulus plan, spending your way to
oblivion isn’t prudent economics? Can he
grasp that if an oil gusher was spewing oil into the ocean yesterday, and the
hole hasn’t been plugged, that it will spew oil into the ocean today? Can he learn that, if foreign companies with
expertise in oil clean-up wish to help in the Gulf, it probably isn’t a good
idea to decline their services based on a protectionist 1920
law? Can he fathom that if our
border was porous yesterday, and hasn’t been sealed, that it will be porous
today? Can he learn that illegal means
illegal, that amnesty for criminals yields more criminality, and that when
“undocumented” weapons of mass destruction come across our southern back door
we’ll end up with a very well-documented 9/11-squared? Can he learn — anything — or does the brain shut down with the teleprompter and
start to alpha-theta-wave flatline?
So perhaps Obama isn’t just our first “black” president but
also our first ADD president. At least,
that’s what the idea that he could carry on a deep, 20-year relationship with Wright and not know of the man’s vile views — and not share them to some degree
— suggests. Of course, there is another
possibility:
Barack Obama is a liar.
Barack Obama is a radical, a demagogue and a clear and
present danger to these United States.
Perhaps the Americans who voted for Obama need to consider that he not only is one
of Wright’s fellow travelers (the title of Obama’s second book, The Audacity of Hope, came from one of Wright’s sermons) but, just as damnably, only “threw him under the bus” when Wright became a political liability; that Obama apologizes because he — and his
wife, who said that she never had been proud of America as an adult — are
consumed with the typical left-wing hatred of the U.S.; that he spends
trillions we don’t have because he’s an out-of-touch fool or, worse still,
wants to collapse the free-market system; that he instituted an
unconstitutional health-care plan because the nationalization of healthcare is
a tenet of communism; that he allows the Gulf’s ecosystem to be damaged in
deference to unions or, worse still, because he wants to provide impetus for his
cap-and-tax scheme; and that he wants our nation flooded with unassimilable
foreigners because he knows that such people, once naturalized, will vote for
him and his fellow leftists to the tune of 90 percent.
In 2008, Barack Obama (I’ll clean this figure of speech up a
bit) spit down Americans’ backs and told them it was rainin’, and 53 percent of
us believed him. Many of us still
do. But it’s time to grow up and wise up
— because our time is almost up. That deluge
of national destruction running down your back is not some unexplainable
natural phenomenon. It is the effluent
that naturally flows when you elect Marxists, malcontents and miscreants to
office.
This article first appeared at American Thinker
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