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2008-07-07 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by 3dc 2008-07-07 10:45|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

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That is what I meant by asserting last February that Barack Obama hates America (Obama's women reveal his secret Asia Times Online, Feb 26, 2008) . Recently, blogger Steve Sailer called attention to a passage in Obama's book Dreams of My Father that explains the source of this hatred:

... As we walked back to the car, we passed a small clothing store full of cheap dresses and brightly colored sweaters, two aging white mannequins now painted black in the window. The store was poorly lit, but toward the back I could make out the figure of a young Korean woman sewing by hand as a child slept beside her.

The scene took me back to my childhood, back to the markets of Indonesia: the hawkers, the leather workers, the old women chewing betel nut and swatting flies off their fruit with whisk brooms ... I saw those Djakarta markets for what they were: fragile, precious things. The people who sold their goods there might have been poor, poorer even than folks out in Altgeld [the Chicago housing project where Obama engaged in community organizing]. They hauled fifty pounds of firewood on their backs every day, they ate little, they died young. And yet for all that poverty, there remained in their lives a discernible order, a tapestry of trading routes and middlemen, bribes to pay and customs to observe, the habits of a generation played out every day beneath the bargaining and the noise and the swirling dust. It was the absence of such coherence that made a place like Altgeld so desperate, I thought to myself.

The coherence of traditional society imposes a structure on life, a structure so rigid that such societies cannot adapt to change and must crumble before encroaching empire. In return for the sanctity of individual rights, Americans are freed from the constraints of traditional society and made responsible for their own actions. For an American presidential candidate to refer to traditional society as the model for the solution to American problems has no precedent. It is one thing to denounce American errors while upholding American principles. Never before has America considered electing a president who prefers the alternative, and that might just be the most dangerous thing to happen to the United States since its Civil War.

Posted by 3dc 2008-07-07 10:54|| 2008-07-07 10:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Is Obama looking for people to become his Serfs?

That is the standard socialist way of thinking. Only by forcing everyone into obeying the rulers whims can the utopia be created.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-07-07 11:52|| 2008-07-07 11:52|| Front Page Top

#3 "Is Obama looking for people to become his Serfs?"

Well, yeah, BP.

If for no other reason than to make up for his being Michelle's serf....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-07-07 12:14|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-07-07 12:14|| Front Page Top

#4 I always thought that B. Hussein was probably hen-pecked by his Domme, I mean Mistress, I mean wife. ;-)

Posted by Junter Oppressor of the Danes8356 2008-07-07 15:23|| 2008-07-07 15:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Christianity is growing because it provides for a better life for individuals who embrace it and large numbers of Christians helps create a better society. Christianity - much like the American dream - is about individuals rising up, and working to improve themselves in the image of Christ. Unlike we have been brainwashed to believe for the last 50 years, it is not a bad thing, but good.

Posted by Spats Spailet9011 2008-07-07 18:48|| 2008-07-07 18:48|| Front Page Top

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