But the most appalling part of his speech on Saturday was not his eventual embrace of what everyone already knew, but rather his implication that poor people are the real enemies, a habit he has long had in public statements on the issue. Why do liberals insist upon declaring that terrorist enemies are poor? Why do they seem to connect poverty and terrorism (though they never call terrorism by its name?)
I've personally traveled to likely more impoverished nations than our President has. From Eastern Europe, to the African continent, to Latin America, and to Haiti, the poorest nation in our hemisphere and the third poorest on the planet. I've tasted, smelled, rubbed up against, and felt the impoverished experience of our planet. And I have to tell you I don't see it.
I know the theory is that because (in Obama's mind) America is this rich, empirical, occupational power that is the primary reason that the world suffers. In such thinking, those who hold to that imagination believe that the impoverished in remote places on earth develop anger for America because of their personal lack of material goods. Eventually, genius law professors like Obama will argue, that such poverty drives the impoverished to radicalization, and jealous revenge.
The whole theory is hogwash. The vast majority of impoverished people I've met certainly would like greater material ease in life, more regular work, a little bit of help and from time to time, and perhaps a nicety of life. But I've learned another very real truth about the impoverished, from the Sudan to Haiti and beyond, they generally are more thankful for what they DO have than anyone living in America. (Especially Obama's welfare defrauding neighbors living on Chicago's South Side.)
The "poor" in America are still quite wealthy by comparison to what the genuinely poorest of the poor have in this world. They also have the riches of a nation that can and does give them every opportunity to overcome that situation here in their very own country.
By comparison interview any number of orphan children in Sub-Saharan Africa and you will see that when you ask them what they want, they never answer, "the destruction of the United States." In fact far more often than President Obama would ever admit, they HAVE told ME, "to GO to America."
I feel deeply offended that the President uses the poor as political tools and pawns to pass his agenda, then turns around and slanders their character by constantly linking them to the dredge of the world's evil.
It is a well known fact that the terrorists that carried out the 9/11 attacks had the means to go to flight school, speak English, live in America, and even spend money on strippers the night before the attack.
Does Yemen have poor people? Yes? Are they to blame for the flight on NWA 253? No. Not because they are poor anyway.
Someday, even soon, it would be really nice if President Obama just once opened his eyes and saw terrorists for who they are: radical islamic fundamentalists bent on the destruction of the United States.
Is it asking too much to expect that of him, or should I give him another nine days?