The past two days have been quite a shock for me. In my school’s daily newspaper, The Daily Gamecock, there have been two opinion pieces bashing Obama. Both of them are fairly well written and bring up some less than conventional points. To be quite honest, I’m actually shocked to actually have seen them make their way into the paper.
The first opinion piece came out yesterday, and actually compared Obama’s oratory skills to Hilter.
That said, I’ve seen Obama live twice, and what I saw scared me a little. A charismatic speaker about to take power on the heels of nearly a decade of economic and national security disasters, seducing an audience – and an electorate, for that matter – that is so desperate for something to hope for that they’ll cling to anything.
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If you can, find a video of Hitler speaking. If you can put out of your mind for one moment the unbelievable evil he did and just watch and listen, his public speaking manner is absolutely hypnotic. In 1938, when Hitler’s ugly side was starting to show, Princeton University freshmen voted British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain the “greatest living person.” He beat Hitler by one vote.
Obama and Hitler both represented vehicles of change (though of obviously different kinds) and have enjoyed meteoric rises to national and international superstardom by being, probably, the two best political orators of the past 100 years.
That, of course, is more or less where the similarities end, but the lesson remains: be extremely careful of being seduced by political rhetoric. Hitler was seen as a great man by many Americans as late as one year before the start of World War II. Within seven years, he would start and lose the second-bloodiest war in world history, systematically arrange the murder of 11 million innocent people and change the course of world politics forever.
Interesting to say the least, wouldn’t you agree?
Now the second article questions African Americans on whether they are voting for Obama because of his policy or because of his race.
After examining the polling data done by many news organizations during the current election cycle, I began to see a pattern developing among voting demographics. Above 90 percent of blacks plan to vote for Barrack Obama, while the white vote was much more diverse, with an almost even split. Which leads to the million-dollar question, why doesn’t the black community have more diversity in their vote and when is someone going to give them a lecture? Today, when political correctness reins supreme, white people can be openly criticized. But if you do the same for the black community, you know what’s going to follow – someone chasing you down telling you that you need to take a cultural awareness or racial sensitivity class.
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Now lets say you’re a student who wants to own a home one day and are troubled by the recent financial woes of government-backed mortgage lenders Freddy Mac and Fanny Mae. If you look at the money senators between 1998 and 2008 have taken, most of it comes from the two companies. Sen. Obama ranks second among elected officials on that list. I am not sure I would really trust Sen. Obama to properly manage this housing problem when he has been taking money from two companies that just created a huge taxpayer burden via the government bailout.
Lastly, if I am a student with a car and I am worried about the cost of commuting to work or school and I realize that the oil off the coast of California could be tapped in less than two years, I would wonder which candidate wants to tap it. Well, Sen. McCain supports offshore drilling while Obama and the Democrats are more concerned about protecting the walrus than the blue collared workers and students.
Black students have a right to be proud of how far our country has come from the days of sitting on the back of the bus to having someone from their community possibly being our next president. It says volumes about how far this country has come. But I would urge these same students to examine the men not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Like I said, interesting articles that I was shocked to see make it past the editor (not because of their content but because it actually went against the Pro-Obama campus movement)