Prager is Wrong!
Yes – I would expect, or should I say hope that Prager would be devastated about the election of Barack Obama. His five (or so) reasons why he is not are WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!
1. Prager implies that the election of 2008 is not as important as the election of 2004 was for the U.S. and the world. WRONG! We, i.e. Western Civilization is now, and probably shall be forever, locked in mortal combat with islamist jihadists for survival. Every single election, even the mid-terms, are vital for the survival of our civilization. This election was perhaps even more vital, because our economy is also in dire jeopardy.
2. Prager declares that, “The election of a black president is good for blacks, good for whites, and therefore very good for America.” Under other circumstances, this might be the case; however, precisely because so many Americans voted for Obama solely out of white guilt, black racism, or because the election was purchased by foreign nationals, with foreign money, sanitized (i.e. laundered”) through the anonymity of the Internet, it bodes even worse than any election in the past for America. In a stupor of self-delusion, Prager further declared that now, since America has elected a black man as president, all the world will now agree with him, that “…America is the least racist country of the world.” All WRONG! No leftist, nor non-American, will accede to that. The race card is has permanently been snatched, from the bottom of the deck, by the democrat party. They have bought and paid for it with the money of the American voter, by keeping the black family in the bondage of low expectations and trivial handouts for almost fifty years, with the willing and knowing cooperation of “Big Media”. They will keep this card, nurture it, and play it, as their trump card, again and again and again. As long as we feel and react to such guilt, it will be successful
3. Prager naively proclaims that, Obama’s victory “… poses a serious challenge to liberalism and to the doctrine of black victimhood.” WRONG! See number 2, above. Yes, as Prager says, “… whites are tired of racial tension, tired of being portrayed as racist, tired of their children being taught in college that they are either consciously or unconsciously racist, tired of lowering standards for blacks or anyone else.” But nothing that has happened will change this. See number two above. As if he has learned nothing, Prager further errs, saying that “… Fewer and fewer white Americans will tolerate being blamed for problems within black life.” Democrat whites do not see themselves as being “bad whites”. They see themselves as the protectors of blacks, who they see (and will continue to see) as their wards. Remember, Clinton was the first black president!
4. Prager then dreams out loud that this election “… will bring clarity to Americas place in the world. Now that America is apparently loved again, we shall see how this plays out beyond emotional rhetoric.” Europe, and the other increasingly socialistic nations of the world, will only be happy with America as long as we join their lemming pilgrimage to the left. In fact, the election of Obama could very well undermine the most recent movement of Europe’s tiny pendulum swing to the right, ala Merkel, Sarkozy, Berlusconi, etc. Only a politically deaf, dumb, and blind American can deny that Obama will pull back on missile defense, weaken the U.S. military, handcuff (and ultimately destroy NATO), embolden our enemies, cripple our allies. So the obvious answers to Prager’s rhetorical questions, at the end of his number four, are NO, NO, NO, and YES. The only yes, is to the question, “Or is Americas being loved irrelevant to how other countries behave?”
5. In a spate of political Alzheimer’s disease, Prager states that “Conservatives will be able to show how much more decently they act when they are out of power.” WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! This has been a terminal failing of Conservatives for thirty years. Modern politics is not introductory tee ball. Time and time again, conservatives have “changed the tone”, “reached across the aisle”, initiated and embraced supposedly “bipartisan measures”, etc., ad nauseum.
Conservatives are like high school football players. If they knock down a liberal, they reach out a hand to help him up. Democrats are like professional football players. When they knock a Republican down, they prance and dance and taunt him, his teammates, and their fans.
Prager makes an incredible pollyannish ramble that “The treatment of President George W. Bush by liberals has been despicable, undeserved and unprecedented. We who oppose Barack Obamas policies will, hopefully, act in accordance with conservative values of decency. Hence my simple announcement on the day after the election: I did not vote for him. I did not want him to be president. But as of January 20, 2009, Barack Obama will be my president.”
WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! As John Edwards has said, there are two Americas. Edwards is wrong about those two Americas being just the poor versus the rich; rather the two Americas are the left, which incrementally drags the country toward Marxism, and the right, which pauses after any incremental victory, inviting the left back to the center. This always results in the left, snatching the opportunity, spitting on the right, and grabbing the rope for another jerk and tug.
The Republican party has become as naïve as the two bumbling police officers in the Eddie Murphy flick, “Beverly Hills Cop”. We continue to fall for “the banana in the tail-pipe trick.” But no more – not me, and hopefully not that many others. I am learning from the liberals, you know – the ones that never accepted George Bush. After all they beat him up for eight years, and now they are the big winners. As to the Marxist, Obama, as Prager says, “I did not vote for him. I did not want him to be president.” But in direct opposition to Prager, and the other RINO Pollyannas, Barack Obama will NOT be my president, and I will oppose every single act of his, which I believe is not in America’s best interest.