BALTIMORE, Maryland September 4, 2015 - This is Obama's world, the world he had visions about from the time he was a disaffected teen. The only trouble is, it hasn't changed since then, not even a little bit. It hasn't evolved, to use a phrasing from today's parlance. Obama didn't mature and neither did his view of the United States. When I was a teen, each of America's blemishes seemed larger than life. Every ounce of corruption immediately spread to every government official. Every penny spent on anything other than the poor was totally wasted. Every ounce of water or cubic inch of air that had even a trace of foreign matter in it was an indictment against the country's environmental policies. (But you know, even then I couldn't impune the current national leaders with the sins of every western leader since the Birth of Christ.) What I thought and experienced then, Obama still experiences. He can overlook each of Islam's debauched acts (throwing gays off of rooftops while tied to a chair. Putting prisoners of war in a cage and dropping it in the ocean to watch it, and the prisoner inside, sink out of sight.) but he attacks Christians because of the Crusades. I keep wondering what Christians could have done to him to justify what he allows Islam to do to them today, allowing their slaughter around the world. I'd like to debate him about the Crusades, but I'd really like to ask him some questions that reporters today - hapless sell-outs that they are - haven't or won't ask him about Islam. Obama blames an American Constitution and Declaration of Independence for falling short of utopia. He conveniently forgets that both documents constituted landmark breaks with what passed at the time for contemporary human rights guarantees and written guarantees of citizen participation in government decision-making. In fact, when they came into existence at the outset of this Republic, there was nothing anywhere on earth to compare them to. They were revolutions in and of themselves and the men responsible for them were heroes to all, despite the wrongs their documents did not address.
I am sorry that Jefferson and Franklin, Adams and Washington didn't do away with slavery right from the start. Our nation would today have been so much better had they been able to do so. But Obama knows and historians know that neither document would have ever been enacted or accepted at that time if the drafters attempted to do that. If those men had insisted on abolitionist language from the start, there would have been no United States, and the brave men who fought and died to rid this nation of slavery forever would never have the chance to take that stand. We abolished slavery at a great human price. We passed universal suffrage. We saved the world from HItler. But none of those things would've happened if the men Obama seems to loathe had never been born.
Many human beings go through what my contemporaries called a "rebellious period". Such a part of life, often lasting for one to three years, is characterized by stated disagreements with parents, teachers and other authority figures. The teen rebels against those who set a course and established barriers, restrictions or rules. That was the hated word: rules. Rebellious teens hate rules. Obama hates the law so much that he routinely ignores it. When he can't get his way, he acts like an insolent child and signs one of his knucke-headed executive orders. Other Presidents - men from both parties - negotiated with Congress to try and get things done. Obama rejects all things American and embraces all things Middle Eastern and Far Eastern. He embraces and is enthralled by Uber Leftists who gained control of nations by force and ruled with bloody iron fists: Fidel Castro, Robert Mugabe, Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir (the former Sudanese leader) and, until his death, Hugo Chavez represent, to Obama, what Churchill, Jefferson, Adams and Acheson represent to other western politicians.
The result of Obama's stagnated development is, among other things, the absurd and debauched 'treaty' with Iran. Like many Americans, I believe that the agreement will lead to war and bloodshed with an Iran that is far more powerful and far more evil than it would be had it not been the recipient of Obama's largesse. Forget all of the weak and unforgivable tenets of the agreement, it is the incredlible amount of money that Obama is giving to Iran that is the worst thing of all. His functionaries even admit that the money will be used to fund terror, acquire weapons and wage war. They act like it is unavoidable. Unavoidable? I would far more prefer war than giving an evil pack of satanic fools like the Mullahs a pot of gold. Again and again I ask, why is he doing this? I have to pinch myself when I think like that. It means I am comparing Obama to other Americans who recognize, on its face, the evil that is Iran. But Obama isn't like other Americans. He is an uber Leftist who hates everything American. He is the kind that forgets that the road from dictators to democracy is long and hard, and that mistakes and compromise will be engaged in along that road. Absolute dictatorships and absolute monarchies do not give way to republics in the history of man, not in the west or east or anywhere. But they didn't teach that lesson to Obama while he was at Harvard or Columbia.
Only the Lord knows what represensible uber Left nonsense Obama will ram down the nation's throat in the next few months. I dread November and December of 2016. I really fear what kind of people he will be pardoning on his way out. And you know and I know if there was some way he could continue to inflict his far left nonsense on us after his term is supposed to end, he will do it.
poem no. 2 for now
by John William Trotz in September, 2015
Chained in ancient crumbling prison pocked through squalid plague without any iron or steel bars;
none at all; none! think like ‘mate locked in stale breathless space,
locked tight, squelched in manner, cloying air
squelched in mind, nothing new, nothing that functions.....
There was a sure sense of knowing to release;
when the soft knock was put to the bone-cold door,
and a created vision springs out, fast so arrived
to it there was brilliance there was
the sureness of that, that amazing certainty of its survival
trick them. confuse them. conflict them and slap
across the jowls. smack! crash! smacked; joy of pain inflicted
with him then with passion just bodily,
a certain conjuring a certain nothing a certain nothing
knowing why there was more there
a perfected concert with pure brilliance tonal and serene
serene! whirring and grasping and embracing before meditating
reciprocated not caring not even contemplating
not her problem
life being lived life experienced life recompensed.
Sports: Burnley, With Two Straight Wins, Rights the Ship; No. 6 Terps Impressive in Draw With Notre Dame, Rout of St. John's; Showdown with No. 1 UCLA Tonight in College Park
Quickly stated: Burnley went to Bristol City last weekend and beat back the home team, 2-1, for its second consecutive win. The Claret opened the season with two draws and a loss before breaking through at Turf Moor against Brentford. They followed that win with Saturday's great road win. After the dismal start, the Claret have quickly climbed the table and now stand in 9th place, just two points out of 2nd place and the same automatic promotion to the Premier that they earned in 2013. Burnley is off until September 12, when they entertain Sheffield Wednesday.
No. 6 Maryland opened the regular season one week ago with a thrilling draw with No. 5 Notre Dame at the Indiana tournament in Indianapolis. They followed that result with a 4-0 rout of St. John's at the same venue. All of that sets the stage for tonight's showdown with No. 1 UCLA in College Park. The BTN will have the game live.
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