It is Time to Move on from Obama

OK, folks; fun is fun, but now it’s time to get serious.  We’ve reached the point where, in this year’s pathetic Presidential Little League tryouts, we “cut” Senator Obama from further consideration so that we can go back to the business of at least pretending to judiciously select the next leader of the free world, and he can go back home to play with his racist buddies in the ‘hood.

The novelty has officially worn off.

The reality is that while neither Obama nor Clinton are deserving of a major party nomination, one will assuredly get it, and that is itself absurdly surreal.  Democrats seem to do this to themselves with great frequency - they are too quick to allow their party to be hijacked be leftists and other associated fringe idiots in such a way that their eventual presidential nominees usually end up to be considerably underwhelming people.  It’s like they can’t help themselves.  I fully expected that the first post-George W. Bush president was going to be a Democrat, and it still might, but the likelihood of that seems to be diminishing by the day.  Why?  Because the once-shipshape alternative (for Democrats) to Hillary is developing so many leaks that she’s going to shortly look like Old Ironsides by comparison.  Honestly, if Democrats can’t beat Bush after this abysmal presidency, they might as well disband the party and come up with something new.

The tiresome, too-consistent answer I receive when I challenge Obama supporters about their allegiance to him is that “anything’s better than what we’ve had.”  Really?  Is that really true?  I certainly understand frustration over the Bush administration, but when we say anything, do we really mean just that?

I asked an Obama-phile the other day to name one meaningful, significant contribution he’s made as a US senator, and you know what I received for a response?  “Well, what has Senator Clinton done?”  I howled with laughter.  In one motion, Democrats who respond in that fashion…and there are a lot of them…simultaneously shed light on both Obama’s and Clinton’s woeful dearth of qualifications; well done. 

Any regular reader knows how I feel about Clinton.  At the very least…and I mean very least…however, Clinton has had some presence on the national political scene for decades now.  I agree, and even heartily point out with great frequency, that said presence accounts for next-to-nothing….but come on, now; at least it’s not absolutely nothing.

Of course, I’m not voting for either, but the continuing emergence of Obama’s ethnocentric-socialist agenda is becoming more troubling by the day.  While just about every candidate moderates his position as general elections approach so as to limit the distaste felt by others to their historically left or right-leaning positions, Obama’s attempts at conciliation are looking to be in demand of a Herculean effort.  While most know by now that Obama’s biggest problem in this regard is that which is posed by his obviously racist and anti-American pastor, Jeremiah Wright, there are other issues, including many that lie within the realm of Obama’s long history of sympathies to staunchly leftist ideals.  Obama himself has admitted to attending socialist conferences, and there are even allegations, yet to be denied or even addressed by the senator, that the mentor to which he so cryptically refers in his book Dreams From My Father is a former member of the Communist Party USA, Franklin Marshall Davis.  Thus, in addition to his painfully brief resume as a weighty political presence, we have to deal with more and more evidence that suggests he is anything but a die-hard patriotic American. 

We’ve all heard it said that “anyone can grow up to be president.”  Of course, that sentiment has always meant to express the best sense of the notion, wherein this great country of ours, any appropriately qualified person can become President of the United States.  However, should Obama really succeed in his long, strange trip to the White House, that saying will, with great justification, be officially allowed to stand permanently corrected as “just anyone can become president,” and then God help us all.

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Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Contributing Editor - www.ChristianMoney.com