It’s been a while now since the election took place, but
it’s still not easy for me to come to grips with it. Strangely
enough, I slept okay the night I learned that Barack Obama had defeated
John McCain. It was only when I awoke and realized that Sen. Obama
would soon be President Obama that the nightmare began. I truly felt
overcome with grief, the kind you feel when a loved one dies. In this
case, the loved one was America.
I have been listening to conservative commentators on radio trying to
put a good face on it. At times, they’ve sounded like
they’re angling for the same White House dinner invitations they
got from George Bush. But perhaps they’re just hoping if they do
enough kissing up, they can somehow dissuade the Democrats from passing
the misnamed Fairness Doctrine. I think they might as well expect that
Al Gore and Robert Kennedy, Jr., will acknowledge that global warming
has been a gargantuan hoax.
Liberals, after all, never admit their mistakes, never take
responsibility for, say, destroying public education or taking an axe
to the black family structure. But, then, liberals never take
responsibility for anything. If they did, they’d be conservatives.
I know that a lot of Republicans are busy playing the blame game. Some,
myself included, are pointing fingers at John McCain for running the
lamest presidential campaign in memory. Others, not I, are pointing at
Sarah Palin, while a few are singling out Mike Huckabee, suggesting
that if he had dropped out when he should have, Mitt Romney would have
won the primaries, thus preventing McCain from getting to do his
dead-on impression of Michael Dukakis.
Some people simply blame the economy for Obama’s victory. They
may be right, but I’d prefer not to believe that a sizable number
of Americans think that electing a Socialist is a really clever way to
solve a financial crisis.
Many of my friends and colleagues are already looking to 2012, vowing
to learn from the mistakes of this campaign. Perhaps in four years,
I’ll find a reason to share their optimism, but, frankly, I doubt
it. When I look at the election numbers, I see no reason to believe
that things will improve by then. After all, in spite of hearing how
brilliant, how inspiring, how charismatic -- and how I hate hearing
that word applied to a politician! -- Obama is, he’s the same guy
whose friends, wife and religious mentor, combined with his nearly
blank resume, should have kept him in the Illinois state legislature
with all the other Chicago-based grifters.
The numbers, I’m afraid, tell the tale. When it came to young
voters, 69% went for Obama; Jews, 78%; blacks, 96%; Catholics, 54%;
Hispanics, 67%; females, 56%; 90% of Muslims. When you factor in birth
rates, I’m not sure that in 2012, Republicans will get more votes
than Libertarians.
Looking back, I think the left-wing cancer took root in the 1960s and
the funeral took place on November 4th. That’s why I’m
having a really hard time putting up with people who are so darn
jubilant about Obama’s victory. To me, it’s as if
they’re dancing on America’s grave.
I know that a lot of people will regard me as a racist for being so
depressed over the election result. I am probably the least racist
person in America. As I’ve always said, people who hate others
because of their race, religion or national origin, are just plain
lazy. After all, once you get to really know people, there are always
better reasons than that for despising them.
Besides, it does no good to deny being a racist. Once you have to deny
it, you’ve already been labeled. But I have to ask, if Hillary
Clinton had been elected president and I had been upset about it, would
I be branded a misogynist? The fact is, I would have been less upset if
she had been elected. But that’s only because I only object to
her politics and her voice. Her circle does not include the likes of
Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, Father Pfleger, Bill Ayers, Bernadine
Dohrn, Louis Farrakhan and Rashid Khalidi. Aside from Hillary
Clinton’s colleagues in the Senate, her only questionable
associate is Bill.
Now that American conservatives have become an endangered species,
I’m wondering if Obama and his gang of compassionate liberals
will give us the same consideration they give polar bears and snail
darters.
One of my friends wondered how it could be that I wasn’t thrilled
to see millions of black people, including Jesse Jackson and all of
Kenya, in rapture over Obama’s victory. I told him it’s one
thing for Obama to garner 96% of the black vote when he’s running
against a Republican such as John McCain, but quite another when he got
91% of the vote in the primaries when he was running against a liberal
such as Sen. Clinton. That, to me, reeks of racism, and I see no reason
to celebrate it.
I went on to say that it often seems to me that it’s only
conservatives who ever took to heart Martin Luther King’s fervent
wish that we all learn to judge our fellow men by their character and
not by the color of their skin.
I concluded by telling him that he had every reason to be ecstatic that
a man who shared his politics was elected, but that Obama’s color
shouldn’t enter into it, and that if I and many like me were
disgruntled about the election, it had nothing to do with Obama’s
pigmentation, everything to do with his character and his leftist
agenda. We elected a president, after all, the leader of the free
world, not a prom king.
If there is one bright spot in all this, it’s that I won’t
have to spend the next four years listening to John McCain begin every
sentence with “My friends.” The sad truth is, I pick my
friends far more wisely than we pick our candidates or, for that
matter, our presidents.
