Points of Interest

Some points no one is talking about in the huge love-fest we're seeing...

There's lots of talk about what kind of President Obama is going to be. All we've got is what his campaign showed. Sure it might have been impressive and efficient, but it was also extremely oppressive. Think of all the media herding going on. Think of all the friends who were pushed as far back as they could be by the campaign, and who toed the line quietly? These are people not exactly known for silence: Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, etc. Known, LOUD radicals, yet Obama and his
people shut them up pretty efficiently. Ponder THAT for a moment, if you dare.

Next comes the attack dogs. I got sick of hearing about Karl Rove as the Antichrist for all those years, but look at the campaign and the media's treatment of Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber, or any "threat" to Mr. Obama and his "inevitability". Sarah Palin did nothing more than get tabbed as McCain's VP candidate, and they did everything they could to destroy her short of actually walking up to her and putting a bullet in her head! Joe the Plumber was approached by The One of his own (Mr. Obama's) initiative, and Joe had the audacity...the cheek!...to ask a tough question and express a difficult opinion. Mr. Obama took it in stride and gave us what I suspect was his most honest answer of his entire campaign. What did his people do? They did everything they could to destroy Joe short of actually walking up to him and putting a bullet in his head! (Yes, intentional redundancy for effect.)

Then there's the race card. I sincerely hope that, when all is said and done, people will be able to ask difficult questions of Mr. Obama and his team without having "RACIST" shouted at them. This happened far too often during the campaign. The One is going to have to come through, and he's not always going to do it in a good way. He's going to make mistakes, and he's going to have hard questions asked. He had better answer them.

I've already spoken about why I think Obama won't be able to bring America together, and this points back to the same argument. Obama's just another Democrat, and his campaign, while intelligent and very well-run, did the same things that all campaigns do. His own cries for a new political atmosphere were demolished by himself and his supported as quickly as he could build them up.