Posted by
Hawk on Friday, June 06, 2008 11:11:34 PM
Is
it me or is the bias of the media, the extreme myopic, subversive style
it engages in, in trying to sway the impressionable masses, making your
blood boil? I cannot believe we sit by as conservatives and anti-obama
warriors and let this drivel spill from our nations newspapers. We
need to start fighting back on this issue. This is not what the press
should be about. This is truly oligarchical rule. We are so inundated
with people who care much more about the American Idol winner this
season and a toothy smile, that obama and his media are cynically
exploiting this to corral these weak-minded, apathetic, and lazy groups
into the obama corner. Well, I ran across this column from The Chicago Sun-Times, and the mercury was rising as I was
reading this. My reply follows.
Neil Steinberg ::
"Now the work begins... 
So I bumped into Barack Obama on Tuesday.
"Hello
Neil," he said, extending his hand. He looked tired, but then he had
just played his traditional Election Day basketball game.
"Good
luck today, senator," was all I could think to say, and as I reeled
away, I kicked myself, realizing what I should have said: "Hey senator,
what have you been up to lately?"
Esprit de l'escalier,
and a sign the hoopla over his success, as Obama finally vanquished the
relentless Hillary Clinton, somehow left me cold, so much so, I almost
didn't bother pausing to wonder why.
My
guess is, I've clicked into my Too Good To Be True mode, a
self-protective stance developed over the years to blunt life's
frequent disappointments.
My
fear is that Obama's nomination is a recipe for electing John McCain.
Because when you add up the die-hard Republicans who wouldn't vote for
Jesus if he ran as a Democrat, the fervid anti-abortionists, the
in-the-bunker Bushies who believe we can't lose the war in Iraq as long
as it never ends, plus all the closet racists and conspiracy theorists,
the 10 percent who think Obama's a Muslim sleeper agent because of
chain e-mail they once got, that all adds up to 50.1 percent.
Doesn't it?
I'm
not predicting doom; I'm fearing it. Which is my way of saying that
while Oprah is doing her happy dance, and those who toiled hard to get
Obama where he is should certainly let out a celebratory whoop, it
isn't party time quite yet. Now his supporters need to splash cold
water in their faces and get down to the really hard work. Republicans
have nicknamed Obama "Bambi" because he lacks their willingness to do
and say anything to destroy opponents. They're right. But they also
fail to realize that our country is in such worrisome shape, Obama
might yet win despite his handicap, despite lacking their bottomless
viciousness. It won't be easy".
Neil:
I would like to address your obviously gleeful advocacy of barack
obama for presidency, and the baited anticipation with which you wait
for him to assume office in 2009. Have I read correctly that you are
an obama supporter? If so, I would like to know what exactly about him
you think qualifies him to assume the ONE most important job in the
world.
In my thinking, if one would be indignant, mortified, or even
horrified at the prospect of being treated by a medical doctor who
hasn't fully completed his or her training (about 6-10 years) and who
treats perhaps 50-100 patients, does it make sense to elect someone to
do the President's job after 1-2 years in the senate, and zero foreign
policy experience, essentially treating 300 million?
Who talks the talk of unity and harmony among the different segments
and parties of the country, but who has a 100% record of voting along
party lines, and has done more through his far-left radical
associations and misjudgments to foment disharmony among the races,
parties, and socioeconomic classes?
Who admonishes everyone that we are too much of a culture of money
and gluttony, telling us in a speach to curb our appetite for SUVs the
very same day he is filmed by CNN (the reporter for whom was oblivious
to the irony) hoisting himself into an armored SUV motorcade?; who
decries the acquiring of "things" but for whom Tony Rezco is known to
have helped him "move on up" on the South Side, into a 1.2 million
dollar property, by performing shady sleight of hand
with obama's adjoining property?
Who states that we can solve all of the nations health care woes by
adopting a system that would have as its benefactor and administrator
the very same entity that has done such a great job with Amtrak and the
Department of Education? Have you ever seen the inside of Cook County
Hospital or a VA Hospital? I have. (On this note, if you really cared
about informing yourself or your readers about the horrors of a
socialized/single payer system, like in Canada, you would just have to
observe the exodus of doctors and patients from our Northerly neighbor,
and the extremely long wait times and rationing involved
with diagnostic tests and treatments).
Perhaps it is barack's promise to withdraw from Iraq despite the
gains there, and leave the Iraqis to their own devices, similar to our
retreat from Afghanistan in the 1980's when the Soviet Union departed
ignominiously? What
could
that possibly lead to? Remember who filled that vacuum? Similarly,
perhaps your support of him stems from his extreme steadfastness and
consistency when it comes to defining the threat posed by Iran?
If you are going to paint those who cling, bitterly, to beliefs that
exist anywhere from slightly to very right of center in this country,
including less government intervention in personal lives, less taxes,
more faith in the free market system versus redistribution to solve the
many problems that exist in this most prosperous and charitable nation
on earth, and the belief that we as a people deserve equal opportunity
for prosperity and not equal prosperity, you might want to be kinder
to the majority in this country. Calling McCain supporters closet
racists (as hypocritical as that now is manfestly, unlike before when
it was assumed), conspiracy theorists, and a group so dogmatic that it
who "wouldn't vote for Jesus if he ran as a democrat," doesn't serve
your party well. Telling Americans that we should fear a McCain
candidacy but be overjoyed by an obama administration truly seems
otherworldly and bizarre.
Finally I will be mass e-mailing your article and my reponse to
anyone and everyone who is willing to listen. There are MANY, MANY
people out there who are sick and tired of the media and sycophantic
types like you, trying to usher obama into the WH and mowing over
anyone who gets in the way, even true heroes who have proved their
mettle to the point of surviving, and admirably so, 5 years of torture
at the hands of an enemy that couldn't care less about the Geneva
Conventions. Regarding this "temper issue" with McCain (pathetically,
one of the "big guns" in the democrats' arsenal this fall), at least we
can see why he is so passionate about the issues he holds dearly, as he
almost paid with his life to defend them. What's to explain obama's
petulant (and unwittingly, a perfect bumper sticker) reply to a
reporter recently on the campaign trail: "Can't I just eat my waffle?"