Obamagic Gone

Mrs. Ichabod calls Barack Hussein Obama, "The Offender of the Faith." Recently, his supporters were miffed that some used Barack's middle name. He used it himself when announcing on TV how he would be a different kind of candidate.

Obama is really a Junior, named after his African father, who was a polygamist several times over. Senior was already married when he wed Junior's mother. He left his new wife and child in Hawaii to claim a scholarship at Harvard. Obama's white grandparents raised him and paid heavy-duty tuition to send him to an exclusive private high school (tuition about $14,000 a year now). The school has the fourth best sports program in the nation.

Obama also enjoyed the serenity of a multi-racial environment in Hawaii, where hardly anyone is one race or another. His prep school training got him to Columbia and Harvard, where his now-invisible wife Michelle served as his mentor. She already had a law degree.

I can understand Norm Teigen's remarks to some degree, based on his military experience. I just finished a book on the Black Panther tanks in WWII. The Black tankmen were treated like dirt during training and ignored while accomplishing incredible exploits for Patton in Europe. They fought for each other and they fought for respect. No one from that unit was given a Medal of Honor until decades later. They did not get a special citation for their unit until 50 years later.

In my home, Moline, Illinois, Blacks were not served at the family restaurant, the Hasty Tasty. (Please, no Moline comments. We thought a seven-course meal was a six-pack and a large bag of Fritos.) Blacks could sit down in the dining room, but no waitress would wait on them. We were in the North. We often discussed how the South was bigoted. The North was not. My father, in contrast, always served Blacks. It was never an issue at his business.

Here is the difference, where I part with Teigen: Barack's suddenly-retired pastor is a racial bigot in the pulpit, a Marxist in theology. I certainly understand the old rage, which was often justified in the past. I do not understand a U. S. Senator listening to a well-fed minister saying, "God _____ America." Oprah Winfrey, who is hardly a conservative, even less an orthodox Christian, quit that congregation two years ago because she could not tolerate the message.

Obama made matters worse with a moral equivalency logical fallacy. His grandmother "a typical white person" was no different from Rev. Wright when she expressed horror at being given a rough time by a Black panhandler. As far as I know, the grandmother who put him through private school did not mount a pulpit and attack people based on their race.

President Reagan did more for Blacks than any other president. He did that by transforming the economy with lower taxes, increasing the incentives for workers and small business owners. The Left would rather subjugate Blacks and Mexicans with socialistic programs which increase dependency without providing any solutions.

As I wrote before, we have three unpleasant alternatives for president so far, no real choice in agenda. The current fracas in the Democrat ranks will alienate one side or another. McCain will beat either one because of defections and sit-at-homes.

This election does depend very much on religion. Hillary was converted to social activism by her Methodist pastor. He sent her the Leftist Methodist social action magazine. She said once that she kept every single one of them.

Left-wing mainline activism stems from the Social Gospel Movement, which took root in the Federal Council of Churches. The FCC became so Communist that they changed the name to the National Council of Churches. Magic is defined as misdirection of the eye. "Oh no. The FCC does not exist anymore. We closed it down." That sounds like: "Church and Change. No that is gone. We closed it down."

One sure sign of apostasy is political activism replacing the Gospel while calling it The Gospel.