Who Will Obama Blame Next?

Faced with the failure of his presidency, Barack Obama had decided to try to win re-election by scapegoating Wall Street, the wealthy and Republicans.

Obama takes a shot at one or more of his targets daily.  The Washington Post has reported that Obama is using anti-Wall Street rhetoric as a central tenet of his campaign.  Already, his campaign and the White House have sent out messages attacking Republicans for allegedly wanting to repeal Wall Street regulations pushed by Obama.

“They want to let Wall Street do whatever it wants,” Obama said in North Carolina in October.  Of course, Republicans want to cut back on regulations and not let Wall Street do whatever it wants.  Obama’s campaign strategy ignores the fact that nearly three years after he took office, the reason for the country’s economic downturn is Obama himself.  Instead of encouraging business, he has demonized it.  Instead of making it easier for companies to expand, he has made it more difficult by creating uncertainly about costs imposed by Obamacare, taxation and regulations.

Instead of decreasing spending and the nation’s deficit, Obama has increased the national debt by $4.2 trillion.  Since Obama’s stimulus was passed 1.5 million jobs have been lost.

Obama’s strategy of finding scapegoats mirrors that of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., his minister and self-described mentor for 20 years.  On the Sunday following 9/11, Wright characterized the terrorist attacks as a consequence of violent American policies.  Four years later, Wright suggested that the attacks were retribution for America’s racism.

Unabashedly, Wright said America created the AIDS virus to kill off blacks.  He gave am award for lifetime achievement to Louis Farrakhan, who blames the nation’s ills on Jews.  Wright equated Zionism with racism and compared Israel with South Africa under apartheid.

Wright’s “Black Value System” denounced “our racist competitive society” and included the disavowal of the pursuit of “middle-classness.”  That was defined as a way American society seduced blacks into achieving economic success, thus snaring them rather than “killing them off directly” or “placing them in concentration camps.”

“We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty,” Wright has said.  “God damn America!”  As a community organizer, Obama’s job was to further victimhood and self-pity.  “A community organizer organizes people who have had difficulty producing,” Alphonso Jackson, President Bush’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development, has said.  “When you are a community organizer, what you get most of the time is people telling you what their problems are and why they don’t succeed.”  In many cases, they are blacks who blame their lack of achievement on whites.

There is nothing new about the use of scapegoats to galvanize support.  Adolf Hitler did it, scapegoating Jews.  Osama bin Laden did it, blaming Western civilization.  Previously, Obama blamed President George W. Bush for the county’s economic problems.  Now, in an act of desperation, Obama have even embraced the anti-Wall Street protesters, who scream epithets about America and capitalism, promote envy, and take on the police.

There is a reason Obama spent 20 years listening to Wright and described him as his sounding board and mentor:  Blaming others is an integral part of President Obama’s character.

The Myth of Freedom in America

Does the government exist to serve us or to master us?  If the government exists to serve us and if freedom is part of our humanity, how can the government take freedom from us?  Is human freedom in America a myth, or is it reality?

Human beings possess natural rights as part of our humanity.  In the Judeo-Christian tradition, we view these rights as gifts from our Creator.  This is particularly so if you are an American, and if you mark the founding of this nation at July 4^th 1776, as it was then that the Continental Congress promulgated in the Declaration of Independence Jefferson’s – though hardly novel – words to the effect that we humans are created equal and are endowed by the Creator with certain inalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  Historians have speculated that Jefferson originally planned to use the concept of property rights, but fear of addressing slavery in the same document in which he characterized the long train of abuses visited upon colonists by the king of England, would have opened the Declaration and its signers to charges of hypocrisy.

Nevertheless, Talmudic and Christian scholars and renowned skeptics, even atheists and deists, had long held, by Jefferson’s time, that the divine right of kings was a myth, that all humans own their own bodies, and that personal freedoms are integral to those bodies.  Whether the ultimate source of human freedom is founded in theology or biology, freedom exists, freedom is ours by nature, and the long history of the world is really one unceasing, increasing catalogue of the epic battles for personal freedoms against tyranny.

In other words:  thought, speech, press, worship, travel, privacy, association, self-defense, bodily integrity, dominion over ownership of property, fairness from government, and the presumption of liberty at all times under all circumstances and in all conflicts are the essence of humanity.

Unfortunately, throughout our history, persons in America have had all natural rights denied by different levels of government, from slavery to abortion, from punishment for speech to theft of property, from denial of due process to invasion of privacy; and government has prevailed.  Every day in many ways, seen and unseen, liberty is lost.

It is now time for us to fight for the primacy of the individual over the state, and to help forment a reawakening of the natural human thirst for freedom.