And I think the opposite...

Great post, Baddboy! I hope the Missus isn't too chapped, because you have started a REAL shit-storm with this baby!

We've all heard his speeches, so I won't paste them here again. I did want to paste this little bit though... tell me what you think:

"He who does not deliberately close his eyes cannot fail to see that the new “critical” trend in society is nothing more nor less than a new variety of opportunism. And if we judge people, not by the glittering uniforms they don or by the highsounding appellations they give themselves, but by their actions and by what they actually advocate, it will be clear that “freedom of criticism” means’ freedom for an opportunist trend in Democratic politics, freedom to convert social democracy into a Democratic Party of reform, freedom to introduce bourgeois ideas and bourgeois elements into our political agenda.

FREEDOM is a grand word, but under the banner of freedom for industry the most predatory wars were waged, under the banner of freedom of labour, the working people were robbed. The modern use of the term “freedom of criticism” contains the same inherent falsehood. Those who are really convinced that they have made progress in science would not demand freedom for the new views to continue side by side with the old, but the substitution of the new views for the old."

Anyone care to guess as to who it was that said those words? They were written in 1902... just more than a century ago... by a man that was described as the bringer of Peace, Unity and Hope to a troubled land. A man that bridged an age of social injustice and an age of conscious compassion. A man that would bring society out of the darkness and repression of free market capitalism and show us all that we can be EQUAL in a society with no poor, no hungry, no sick, no destitute, no unemployed, no ignorant, no religion...

Read the words again, and tell me that they couldn't have been taken from one of his election speeches VERBATIM! I dare you! Then tell me who said those words...

It was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. You can read the whole work HERE (if you have the stomach for it).

I'm not calling Obama a Commie... and I'm not suggesting that he believes in all that Lenin believed. I AM suggesting that the trend in the DNC is to emulate the ideas and agendas of the men and women that fronted these ideas a century ago to the poor, the sick, and the ignorant of the world as a GOVERNMENT PROVIDED SOLUTION.

There is no room for God, but the places God once occupied in our politics are now filled with the iconic pictures of Obama embracing children, of Obama promising Peace on Earth, of Obama promising prosperity and health to ALL who believe and support his cause. Dems can be "spiritual"... but not "religious". Obama has won the election, and no longer has to pretend he is a practicing member of the United Church of Christ (regardless of who is pastor). Those that are still supporting his cause with the same vigor as they did prior to his win are STILL using nearly religious terms to describe him... because "spiritualists" still react to terms like "salvation" and "awakening" and "common good", even if they are NOT terms describing God or faith.

More on this later...