1) It seems to be diagnostic of despots during their tenure to command, commission, or just allow their sycophants to erect grandiose statues, distribute florid posters, and broadcast films and videos with slobbering puerile praise. Examples: the Personality Cults of Kim Jong Il, Saddam Hussein, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, et cetera.

2) Has anyone else noticed how much the Honduran ex-president resembles Saddam Hussein?

It’s worth noting that all those presidents were no longer living. Washington and Jefferson had been more than a century in the grave, Lincoln for six decades, and TR a dozen. But Roosevelt’s historical accomplishments on the international stage dated to as much as three decades prior to the initiation of the project. Evidently, someone in Congress sponsored a bill in 1937 to add Susan B. Anthony to the group, but the attempt was neutralized by an amendment.

What of Obama’s vaunted “eloquence?”

Lincoln’s Gettysburg address is considered a gem of oratory, a shining example of writing. But history has given us thousands of elegant and passionate and tightly-reasoned essays and speeches by writers each acknowledged as a genius. Lincoln’s Gettysburg address is remembered not just for its economy and grace, but because it so clearly sets forth the actions and spirit of the man who wrote the words.

Obama is a sham. He is a shadow, effective in obscuring rather than illuminating.

His programs even in success will diminish not advance the human condition.

He is a tyrant on the make.

He will indeed be remembered.

His name is already added to the list of oaths and curses used by people who cannot find relief swearing with language long commandeered by Hollywood scriptwriters.

As did
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln

All were decisive, all wer men of action.

Obama, not so much…

Obama is an idealist. His vision of a fair and just society appeals to all, but because of who he is, it has galvanized a part of society like none before him.

Anyone who has any inkling of modern history should be able to see that Obama’s proposed solutions to bring about his utopia are so wrong. We as a society really have no excuse for going down these previously failed paths.

I feel this country is in for a real test of its two century old convictions.

I think the Enlightenment reached its apogee in 1776 and died somewhere in France in 1914. I don’t know where we are now but it seems pretty clear to me at least that the notion of promoting individual liberty as the best pathway to human happiness is as passe as green Luck Strikes. Something you talk about but may never see again in your lifetime.

In his May 21 national security speech Obama used “I, me, my, mine” an astounding 147 times. Maybe Paris Hilton would have been more self-referential but I doubt it. Abraham Lincoln had real character. He often referred to himself as “Mrs. Lincoln’s son.”

Obama on Mt. Rushmore is preposterous, but then again Teddy Roosevelt didn’t sound much different by 1912.

TV shows are non-stop drill routines of established liberal-dictated stereotypes. Straight white males are always either helpless goofballs, or evil greedy corporate devils. Black men are always abused by white men, and end up being righteous heroes. Women always care more and are usually right about everything in the end. It goes on and on, and this stereotyping has gotten especially bad in the last 25 years. After a while, it sinks into your brain and clouds your judgment. You use TV characters and storylines as your reference when evaluating people and events.

I grew up in a household where TV was openly ridiculed. My parents were cynical towards TV shows and TV news, and taught us to assume that it’s all fiction. That’s probably what saved me!

Aye, there’s the rub, education. It’s not the television and movies, it’s the education. 100 years of pragmatic public education coming home to roost. What could be more ironic than the institutional illiberality of the liberals schooled in the liberal arts at the bastions of the ‘establishment’ the liberals worked so hard to overthrow? Except maybe that they now ARE the establishment and yet refuse to take responsibility for what they’ve wrought. Makes you sick, Jane.

I think that is one of the biggest reasons that Obama won the election last year. A significant portion of Americans model their image of what a President should be like from TV shows like West Wing. To them, a speech from Obama convinces them that he knows what he’s doing. They don’t understand or care about the details of what he’s saying. But he sure looks like that hero who saved the world.

I remember, during the closing days of the election, talking to a good friend who is a moderate liberal. We were talking about Obama, and why he so strongly supported him. I was trying to point out all of the errors and problems with the policies that Obama was promoting, but it all meant nothing to my friend. He just kept saying that he could tell from watching Obama’s speeches that Obama “gets it” and that “he cares about us”. And that was it. His decision was that shallow. This is from a smart, well educated guy. It was a sobering moment to realize how thoroughly brainwashed so many Americans are by decades of liberal-leaning television and movies.

I’m beginning to think that the big political divide in America isn’t so much liberal vs conservative, as it is those who believe television vs those who don’t. We’re never going to fix America as long as the Associated Press and Hollywood continue to run things.