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Paul Perry writes a weekly opinion
column for his local daily paper. Following is a sampling of those
articles. All were originally published in the Waxahachie Daily Light, although some were subsequently published elsewhere, such as in DallasBlog.com.
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Paul D. Perry
Published on March 23, 2008
The Disingenuousness of Obama
It appears that if you are smooth or perhaps suave enough, you can get away with almost anything in America.
Imagine a Caucasian candidate who is perhaps not as smooth as Sen.
Barack Hussein Obama, not as competent a rhetorician. Let's imagine
that candidate has named as his campaign's spiritual advisor some
nutcase white preacher who is full of hate for minorities and blames
them for every major social problem in America today. In addition, the
preacher does not merely criticize America for what he believes is this
nation's moral shortcomings, but there is videotape of him literally
G-d D---ing America from the pulpit! The media in this nation would be
boiling hot tar and have its full efforts involved in a search for
fresh feathers. My fictional white candidate's odds of evading the
posse would be worse than a bank robber on a pogo stick -- for you
youngsters, make that a Segway.
I have read Senator Obama's flag "backed" speech, and although he
distances himself from his Reverend's comments, he excuses the anger
and the motive. Rev. Wright GD'd his nation from the pulpit. In effect,
he was telling God to destroy our nation. Listen to the recordings for
yourself. The Reverend's profanity was not a response to stumping his
toe on the furniture. He was speaking from the pulpit in his official
capacity. He even repeated himself.
Perhaps condemnation of this sort is beyond the paygrade of mortals in
the first place. Simple question: In 2008, does the speech of "Pastor"
Wright speak for everyone who carries African genes in America? I bet
not, though discrimination still exists, as well as simple color-based
mistrust.
"Pastor" Wright did nothing positive for racial relations; neither did
Sen. Obama's attempt to make a silk purse out of the proverbial sow's
ear. Twenty years of tutelage and association with this hate- and
resentment-filled pastor cannot be done away with by standing in front
of eight U.S. flags and emitting soothing rhetoric. Full contrition
from the candidate might have been a good start. No such luck. We
received apologetics wrapped in Ivy League rhetoric under the cover of
sociological theory. A reasonable question is whether Pastor Wright's
rage is a window into Sen. Obama's soul.
Throughout the bulk of Sen. Obama's campaign, he has made it clear that
he wants even more concentration of power in Washington than the
neo-conservatives buzzing around the wounded lame duck. The "isms" of
the twentieth century seem all too present in 2008: Socialism, fascism,
even communism are flitting about the stage of our national discourse.
All approaches feature a centralization of government. There are few
checks and balances in them.
Unlike the design of our republic, a centralized government has no
structured restraint. States or political subdivisions serve no purpose
other than to administrate the edicts of whomever holds the power in
the national government. These centralized systems often have resulted
in theft from or the outright murder of political, ethnic and religious
minorities. Private arms, of course, are confiscated or regulated in
such a way to make resistance futile to the all-powerful state.
Interestingly enough, Obama has denounced "small arms" as weapons of
mass destruction.
Though Obama, like some conservatives, often deals in moral platitudes,
he seems to have no regard for constitutional checks and balances. Nor
does the Senator have regard for those who make it a point to resist
instant gratification and who sacrifice to make something happen for
themselves or their families in the private sector. He, like most in
government, view the fruit of private endeavor as mere financing for
his dreams and schemes.
One methodology of his campaign is clear. He has employed envy of the
productive to fuel his campaign. Is Rev. Wright's racial-based rage
merely another tactic in Obama's campaign? Was he using Wright to keep
his political base worked up? Sen. Barack Hussein Obama could be
sitting on a volcano of rage and resentment, if his twenty-year
association with Wright is any indication. It could be argued this rage
is a motivator. Rev. King said he wanted a colorblind society, yet
forty years after Martin Luther King, there is something else afoot
with Obama and his profaning pulpiteer muse.
Four decades after the message of racial respect and individual
tolerance was brought by Rev. King, these guys are determined to mine
the scariest chasms marking the divisions in our nation to either fill
their pulpits or get elected. Abandonment by Obama's father may play a
role in his envy of a more conservative and functional America, who
knows? I am concerned that what Obama sees as wrong about our society
so outweighs what is right about us that his judgment is suspect. We do
not need a President who is so haunted by his personal devils that he
cannot see our nation for what it is.
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