Wednesday, May 28, 2008
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It's a Cultural Disconnect
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Posted by:
Carol Platt Liebau at
11:53 AM
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Writing today in the Wall Street Journal, David Boaz makes a telling point: In his praise for "collective service" voiced in a commencement address, Barack neglected to include either private enterprise or the military.
The latter, it goes without saying, is one of the only indispensable forms of public service in a free country. But so is the former -- among other reasons, it's the engine that produces the tax revenues that allow those engaged in "collective service" to "help" others through redistributing this income.
I'm not a fan of "collective" anything -- especially collectivist economics. And Boaz is right to criticize John McCain's attacks on Mitt Romney's business background. But I can understand a politician who sees military service as the apex of public service much better than one who ignores it altogether.
It strikes me as telling -- and disturbing -- that Barack apparently doesn't see the private sector or the military as a "virtuous" career choice on par with the "softer" forms of government service. Perhaps in academic circles, it isn't.
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Maybe Michelle and Barack would like to subject their 2005, 2006, and 2007 adjusted gross income ($1,655,106, $983,826, and $4,139,965) to the federal income tax rates that applied before Bush was elected--top rate of 39.6%.
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Kimberly wrote: "Obama's message is one of hope and community spirit."
Midwesterners, and the rest of the country, heard Obama's real message when he was speaking candidly "behind closed doors" (or so he thought) in San Francisco. Obama, Obama's wife, Axelrod, Wright, Ayers, his wife, and others demonstrate a level of contempt and condension that makes me sick.
Keep Obama out of the White House and send him back to the faculty lounge.
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and private enterprise. He has no experience with either and has no use for them in his "World of Hope". After all he and his wife have been taught and now know America IS the Problem.
What "job" has Barry or Michelle held that is in either of these two areas. Barry did not serve (make that Will not) in the military, nor did his dad. Same for Michelle. As for private enterprise, going from college to 60's style Militant Activism (or as he says community organizer) does not give you any perspective of private enterprise. But they are proud of the success private enterprise has given them through MONEY they now have.
Additionally, when you have a "Mentor" (Rev. Wright) who espouses the teachings of a Marxist/Socialist like James Cone, why would we expect Obama to salute anything American. What I cannot understand is why anyone is shocked by his words or actions. I am not. When you want to turn America into a Socialist State, you have to shed some skin, snake skin that is. |
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“Sen. Obama told the students that "our individual salvation depends on collective salvation." He disparaged students who want to "take your diploma, walk off this stage, and chase only after the big house and the nice suits and all the other things that our money culture says you should buy," take from Obama speech and quoted in Wall Street article by David Boaz.
Spoken like a typical Marxist, who already has the big house, nice suits, island vacations, eats expensive specialty foods, and “all” the other things that the “money culture” says Obama should buy. Obama lost the opportunity to inspire the graduates at Wellesley—-he could have shared that because they live in America they can choose many options and wonderful career paths from not-for profit, for profit, military to social services. Obama could have said that whatever vocation calls the graduates, they can consider other ways to offer their talents to the world through volunteerism. No, instead the graduates at Wellesley got a Marxist, preachy Obama with his elitist ideals on socialism and its virtues, and he proves once again he doesn’t either understand or want to acknowledge the breathe and depth of the opportunities that the U.S. provides—the land of the free, the home of the brave.
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This is far left-wing orthodoxy. Obama is steeped in this view, just look at his pals and former pastor. |
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Why all the shock and indignation?
As "seansfm" points out, "Military are Victims; Business is Evil--
This is far left-wing orthodoxy."
The fact that our valiant military protects Obama's sorry arse, thereby giving him the opportunity to spew his propaganda, and the fact that he has benefitted enormously from the private--read that the MONEY-MAKING--sector doesn't register with this man.
More importantly, however, is the outrageous bill of goods being sold to the American public by our "objective" media. Those goods, in the person of this Obamian Candidate, will go down as the greatest fraud perpetrated on Americans since we thought Benedict Arnold was a patriot.
As with all goods, we will have to pay the price and the price for this blunder will be monumental!
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