Bent Notes

Remember this name: Valerie Jarrett.  She’s up to her eyeballs in Chicago-machine hardball politics - and career-helping friendship - with both Obamas.

Barack Obama’s embarrassed about the number of Americans who don’t know any other language besides English.  Let that sink in.  He’s comparing us to the the Europeans, portraying you and me as rubes and the morally relative, post-Judeo-Christian, dhimmitude-infected citizens of the continent with the fastest-shrinking population on Earth as the sophisticates we should emulate.

The benefits of being multiligual are beside the point.  Of course, it would be advantageous to our society in myriad ways if more of us knew more tongues.  The significance of Obama’s remark, however, is that it must be added to the list that includes his arugula moment in Iowa, his characterization - made in San Francisco - of small-town Midwesterners as religion-and-gun clingers, and his wife’s assertion tha she’d never been proud of her country until her husband’s campaign got going. 

This is what I was talking about in my Independence Day post.  We may be past the tipping point.  We have so decimated the idea of a common culture and a sense of what makes America great that we not only confer legitimacy on an arrogant-yet-empty charlatan like the Marxist From Chicago but we make him a rock star - inded, a messiah.

And the fact that we’ve made messiahs out of our rock stars for decades paved the way for this phenomenon.  When people slobber all over the memory of drunkard and wife beater John Lennon as if he were some man of vision, a prophet of peace, or canonize a polygamist like Bob Marley as some kind of modern-day Moses leading “his people,” whoever they are, out of some kind of imagined bondage, or confer sainthood on cocaine-and-masturbation freak Marvin Gaye just because he recorded the song “What’s Going On,” which, upon examination, is a a defense of urban troublemakers, a condemnation of the US attempt to save South Vietnam from Communism, and an apologetic for long hair on males, we soften ourselves up for a con job with truly serious consequences.

Remember when Michelle Obama said that her husband would require things of us?  Keep that in mind.  He’s already talking about some kind of national service for young adults. He’s already said, in that speech in Oregon, that thermostats set at 72 degrees wouldn’t cut it.  Do you think he was just trying to suggest we become more multilingual?

Have you really focused your powers of envisioning on what a Freedom-Hater monopoly on elected power in Washington would look like?  Who will stop them from wealth redistribution, mandating adherence to junk science, finishing off Christianity and Judaism once and for all, destroying the notion of family that has been the bedrock of Western civilization - indeed, every civilization that’s contributed anything to the world - for thousands of years, marginalizing our native tongue, and establishing a protected status for a privileged class that congratulates itself on its refined tastes and ability to discern nuance?

Of course, such a society could not long survive, especially when its leaders hold manliness and self-preservation in disdain.  A brief period of totalitarian rule would be followed by our conquest by some combination of our external enemies.

I wish I could be light about this, leave it at the level of what’s amusing about it, maybe find something clever or even sardonic about it andthen move on to some interesting distraction.  The thing is, I remember when this country had a chance.

Some rather pungent quotes from the Obamas’ pastor.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/13/video-obamas-pastor-takes-highly-nuanced-approach-to-racial-divisiveness/

Michelle Obama reveals yet more of what America would be in for if she became its First Lady: http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OGY4MThiZTE4OTQzNzM1ZjI1MDMxYzRjYzQyOTdmYzk=

We’re giving Michelle Obama her own category here at BN, because she’s becoming the proverbial gift that keeps on giving.  Every time He Who Walks On Water says something astoundingly wacky, about a day later she tops him:

 http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTViZjhhNGI1Y2QxYjE0ZDc0YmMwMjJiNmUyZjQ3MmU=