Do you remember the statement made by candidate Barack Obama in the waning days of the 2008 presidential election? He told us, in vague terms, what he planned to do.
Now, Mizzou, I just have two words for you tonight: five days. Five days. After decades of broken politics in Washington, and eight years of failed policies from George W. Bush, and 21 months of a campaign that’s taken us from the rocky coast of Maine to the sunshine of California, we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.
In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street. In five days, you can choose policies that invest in our middle class, and create new jobs, and grow this economy, so that everyone has a chance to succeed, not just the CEO, but the secretary and janitor, not just the factory owner, but the men and women on the factory floor.
Looking back at his presidency, and at the more than two years he has remaining, I can say he has done exactly that.
There has always been divisions in America. Some of them have to do with race. Some are related to wealth. In the five plus years Obama has lived in the White House and enjoyed the access of the most powerful bully pulpit in the world, he has taken those divisions to an entirely new level. The rhetoric he spouts on a daily basis seems designed to drive wedges between nearly every section of the country.
Blacks are pitted against whites. Other minorities are thrown into the mix for good measure, especially Latinos. Homosexuals are pitted against those of us who believe homosexuality is as wrong as wrong can be. They are not satisfied with living their lives as they see fit. Instead, they have this incessant desire to force the rest of us to accept their perverted choice of lifestyle as normal. All of this is reinforced by President Obama. He seems determined to drive the narrative that racism and inequality are rampant in our fair land.
Does racism still exist in America? I am relatively sure it does, but not nearly to the extent he would have us believe. Does inequality exist in America. Again, the answer would have to be yes. Inequality is a necessary thing in our society. In our society, that is supposed to give every man and woman equal opportunity, equal outcome is not always guaranteed. That is the nature of the beast and it should be no other way.
President Obama has not been satisfied with that since before he was elected to the White House. He told us in the two paragraphs I quoted above that anything less than equal outcomes was unacceptable. Shortly after taking office, he made it a point to give out the addresses of the CEOs of certain companies, telling the masses they should go protest at their residences. All because so many people were in the frame of mind that some people were making too much money.
Anyone who believes President Obama has good intentions for America by stirring up strife and division is more than a little foolish. Unlike President Ronald Reagan, who managed to further conservative ideology without causing great division in America, Obama is furthering liberal ideology by doing the opposite. As President, one of his responsibilities should be to bring Americans together as much as possible. Instead, he seems to be determined to drive all as far apart from each other as possible. He is stoking the fires that should have been dampened, dividing us over everything from race relations and sexuality to money and means and gun control.
Indeed, Barack Obama has fulfilled his promise to fundamentally transform America. I don’t know about you, but I’m not happy with the results.
