As Jack Buck once said, "I don't believe what I just saw!" Americans on Nov. 4 turned over control of the United States of America to a management team possessing no executive experience, having never run, as I liked to put it, nothing.
Well, Americans usually get the government they deserve, and I urge you all to get ready for this 21st century version of amateur hour. It's going to be an embarrassing and dangerous time for America and American ideals. There won't be much, I'm afraid, to be thankful for.
OK, let me stop here. I disagree with Z. Dwight on this one. As long as America still is based on the rule of law and the Constitution, there is still much to be thankful for. As long as there is even but one free man, there is much to be thankful for. OK, moving on....
Every strong Republican president who succeeded in protecting America has allowed Americans to become complacent about national security, thereby opening the door for weak Democrats who allowed enemies to threaten and attack America without penalty. Obama will be no different, and Americans will have to learn again that there can be no economic security without national security.
This sounds harsh, but remember, it was Joe Biden himself who said that the manchlid Dear Leader would be severely tested....And, history has a way of backing up what Z. Dwight is saying here....However, there are some interesting things of sidenote with a Barry Obama presidency...
That's not to say that Obama's election doesn't come with a couple of interesting side effects. For example, henceforth no black man in America may be called unqualified for any job that he might seek, no matter his prior education or experience level. Want to be a nuclear scientist but lack a Ph.D. in physics? If the applicant is a black man, it's no problem. Just offer hope to the profession and promise change from all those stuffy theorems that have given the discipline its structure over the years, and you're in.
That's on a par with throwing out the fact that tax cuts lead to more investment, job creation and increasing government revenues, just because the black man, that transcendent agent of change, says it's OK.
Another side effect has been white people contacting me to say that I should be proud to see a black man become president. Could there be a comment that is more condescending, more insulting, than that?
By the way, did I mention that Z. Dwight is black? Well, he is. So, he has a right to say these things, and it makes sense. But wait, there is more, as Z. Dwight takes those who say "all blacks should be happy" to task:
If I believed that in America a black man could not be president, then I would be proud to see any black man elected president. But because I always have believed that nothing in America prevents a black man from becoming president or anything else he wants to be, I can be embarrassed, not proud, to see someone as unqualified and inexperienced as Obama become president.
Indeed. I wonder if more black people will feel this way in a few years. I wonder if some will wonder if the cause of civil rights and such will have been set back by Obama and his soon to be epic failures. Or, will many continue to blindly do what the DNC tells them and the shills and crooks Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson tell them?
Here, Z. Dwight brings up an important point about Jackie Robinson (who by the way was a Republican AND a Black man, AND a civil rights activist) and the soon to be Dear Leader:
Jackie Robinson, the first black man in modern-day major league baseball, illustrates my point. He was the right man with the right combination of talent, temperament and character at the right time to be successful for that important "first." Obama? An empty suit who will fail.
See, here is a key point. Branch Rickey, the GM of the Dodgers who signed Robinson, searched high and low for the best combination to be the first. He knew he had to pick someone not just with talent, but with the right temperment who could handle the pressure. There were other players more talented: Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Monte Irvin, and others; but all came with some set of baggage. Paige was up in years and was known to be at times a partier; Gibson had mental issues and was known to exhibit strange behavior--savage in one instance, jovial and childlike in the next. The right combination was needed to set the standard. Jackie was the right man. I am not so sure about Mr. Obama. Looking at how he handled things when he was pressured, from kicking journalists off of his plane whose papers endorsed other candidates, to his stumbling, fumbling answers when questioned off the teleprompter; I am not convinced. Rickey knew that if Robinson failed, it would set things way back. If Robinson slid in any way, performance wise or in his temperment, he would have been held up as the example of "see, they (African Americans) can't handle the big dance." What will happen if Obama fails?
Z. Dwight goes on to offer some more points of illumination:
I'm going to approach the Obama years the same way liberals handled the Iraq war. Just as they claimed to support our troops while opposing the war, I'm going to support my country while opposing Obama and what he stands for in every way that I can.
