"All of
America is rustling over the vanquisher of the Democratic primaries, Senator
Barack Obama; All of America is reconciled to burying George W. Bush and his
record. ... It's not the smoky haze over Baghdad that has prompted this judgment,
but the fetid waters of New Orleans, a city that has been abandoned to its
fate."
All of America is rustling over the
vanquisher of the Democratic primaries, Senator Barack Obama; All of America is
reconciled to burying George W. Bush and his record. Those who do me the honor
of reading my commentaries from time to time will immediately understand that
my counterintuitive mind leads me of course to the rescue of Bush and an
assault on Obama. But here there is a caveat: Bush has also prepared the way
for Obama.
The Obama wave has several ramifications.
Many Americans, and rightly so, believe that the United States of 2008 needs a
real break from the society in which - from the sub-prime crisis to the
spectacular deterioration of infrastructure and with that, public policy in
general - requires genuine sweeping change. It's not the smoky haze over
Baghdad that has prompted this judgment, but the fetid and stagnant waters of
New Orleans, a city that has been abandoned to its fate.
In nominating John McCain, the most left-wing
Republican candidate since 1948, conservative primary voters were not mistaken.
To this, one could add the biblical parable of, “So the last will be first, and the first
will be last [Matthew 20:1-16]. Black American elites have astonished the
country with their competence, dynamism and courage.
Many Americans believe that by electing a
Black president, they will restore the equity they have claimed so long without
doing any harm to the authority of the executive. On this point as well, public
opinion is perfectly correct. And I count myself among those who would have
liked to have seen Colin Powell in the White House already, and perhaps one
day, Condi Rice. But the victory of Obama is also due to an extremely dangerous
wave of pacifism, which is more isolationist and more protectionist, the true motto
of which - America First - was the slogan of Charles Lindbergh and his friends
who, arrayed against Roosevelt, refused to
enter the Second World War against Hitler .
CHARLES LINDBERGH DENOUNCES
ROOSEVELT
FOR LEADING NATION INTO WORLD
WAR TWO
Many rushed to cut George W. Bush
down for evoking the specter of Chamberlain, but one tends to overlook the
extremely significant lapses of the American left - real one. Thus the liberal
press in New York as well as Los Angeles, celebrated the abominable scribblings
of one of its own, Nicholson Baker, who in his book entitled Human Smoke , attacks no
less than Winston Churchill who - it seems to him to have been - due to his
bellicosity, the real "troublemaker” behind of the war, which led the
world to disaster in 1940.
In the past, such lampoons would have been
classified in the same category as the opera Springtime for Hitler, which was the centerpiece of the Mel Brooks’
film The Producers. The way having
been prepared by the insistent yellow propaganda of Stephen Spielberg - so true
to the doctrine of “zero death” - exalted by artsy heebie jeebies worthy of a Mishima or a Clint Eastwood who extols the bravery of
Japanese soldiers in Okinawa and the barbarity of the Marines, unilateral
pacifism reigns from Portland, Maine to San Diego. But I cannot exonerate
today's neo-conservatives any more than the current president from central
responsibility in this reversal of public opinion.
COMIC OPERA 'SPRINGTIME FOR
HITLER'
FROM THE 1968 MOVIE 'THE
PRODUCERS'
One of two things is undeniable: either America has
been at war against Islamist terrorism since September 11, 2001, or it has not. President
Bush chose this moment to anesthetize public opinion and treat his fellow citizens
like children. Instead of demanding that everyone make sacrifices with a tax
increase that Americans would be prepared to accept while also defending public
services, came a systemic reduction in taxes. Instead of achieving national
unity with an overwhelming majority of Democrats who would have been in favor -
along the lines of Roosevelt in 1941 - there was instead a continuation of the
partisan and sectarian policies of Cheney and Rumsfeld, which may of course
lead to victory for the left-wing Democrats.
Essentially, if Obama now reaches the
pinnacle of power, he owes it both to the best of Bush - his anti-racism that
has led him to promote remarkable African Americans to the highest offices of
State - and of course to the worst of this nevertheless courageous president -
his willingness to preserve American socio-economic selfishness, which
ultimately could only lead to the very geo-strategic self-centeredness of the
very Hollywood Barack Obama.
Posted by WORLDMEETS.US
It's just possible that the good reasons for
electing Obama - anti-racism and a return to public policy - are worth running
some risks in foreign policy. But let’s imagine John McCain on a ticket with
Condoleezza Rice: the game could well be reopened.
