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In Townhall today, VDH takes on the various directions of attack that are “off the table” for 2012 because they were “off the table” with Obama in 2008 (and beyond). First up, religion:
There is much talk about what some are perceiving as the fringe religiosity of possible Republican primary candidates such as Michele Bachman and Rick Perry. But the media established the precedent four years ago that no candidate can be held responsible for his church. Barack Obama’s pastor of more than 20 years, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was an unapologetic racist and anti-Semite, and a raving conspiracy theorist whose parishioners gave him standing ovations for his hate-filled “G-d damn America” rants.
The interesting thing here is that neither Perry nor Bachmann are out of the mainstream of religious life in the United States. Both are Protestants, of mainstream sects. Neither is a snake-handler, or even a Pentacostal. That their religion is in any way an issue is an indicator of how fundamentally anti-Christian the Left is. Yes, Obama claims to be a Christian, but everyone knows he belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ, Socialist. He is no more Christian than the Dali Lama, and everyone knows it. That is why he gets a pass.
Next up is grades. While typically your college transcripts are fair game when applying for a job, Obama got a pass on this in 2008. VDH feels that this pass should take grades off the table for all:
Prior education and college preparation should not be 2012 issues either. Recent articles have referred to a leaked Texas A&M undergraduate transcript of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, showing some dismal grades and thus apparent proof that Perry was not much of a past student — or current thinker. But in this regard, Obama has never released either his Occidental or Columbia transcripts. In response, the media in 2008 shrugged and chose not to pursue the matter the way it had with the C-grade records of George W. Bush, Al Gore and John Kerry. Apparently Obama has established another wise precedent that long-ago college transcripts, like churchgoing, are irrelevant.
Next to go is civility. I, myself, place no vitrue on civility in political discourse. Politics is War, as I keep repeating, and war is a fundamentally uncivil excercize. Certainly, though, when members of the CBC liken the Tea Party to the Ku Klux Klan, and disagreeing with Obama on tax policy to lynching, we can safely say that our enemies are uncivil. So is Obama:
Civility is off the table, too. Candidate Obama once called sitting president Bush “unpatriotic” for borrowing $4 trillion in eight years — a sum he matched in less than three. He advised Latinos to “punish our enemies” and mocked opponents for wanting to put “alligators and moats” on the border. Obama’s advisors reportedly promised to “Kill Romney.” So civility is out the window, and 2012 will once again be a typically American no-holds-barred slugfest of anything goes from both sides.
Here, I disagree with VDH, though. They Right typically is civil to the Left. You typically do not have anyone but the “fringe” openly questioning things like Obama’s patriotism, good will, or even fitness for office. This must change. Our enemies are manifestly evil, and we should be explicit in our calling them out. We should not give them a pass as “well-meaning but misguided”. When Andre Carson uses explicitly racial lies and demagoguery to demonize the Tea PArty, he is no well-meaning fool, but a deliberately deceptive, evil man engaged in the worst kind of lying. We should call him out on it. By his silence on the issue, Obama is complicit in it. We shoudl call hhim out on it as well.
Finally, VDH says what the campaign should be about. I don’t disagree:
The economy. If the current bleak picture stays the same or gets worse, Obama will be forced to argue, as did incumbent Herbert Hoover in 1932, that after four years his borrow/print/spend remedies still have not kicked in. And so he will claim that he needs eight years, not four, for Keynesian economics to finally work. Good luck with that silly argument.
But should things improve somewhat over the next year, then Obama will insist that his spending tonic is at last working, and he deserves another term to further nurse the recovering economy.
It is that simple: Almost every campaign issue other than the economy either will be off the table or irrelevant — thanks largely to the past protocols of Barack Obama himself.
It’s the Economy, stupid! We should not forget that. We should beat that drum 24/7/365 for the next 432 days. But we should never miss an oppertunity to strike our enemies. “The time to strike is when the oppertunity presents itself” is the Sixth Code of the Isshinryu Creed. We should remember this as we go forward in this conflict.
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