FRIDAY, 11 MARCH 2011 05:43 JOAN SWIRSKY
It’s a funny thing about itches…the more you scratch, the more you itch. This is because scratching floods your system with histamine, which causes – itching! Oh, you can get rid of the itching with an over-the-counter medication or go to the doctor for something stronger. But people with chronic itching conditions inevitably start to believe in Hell and that itching is among the worst punishments on earth.
My title alluded to an itch – one itch – but this is really about the chronic, relentless, agitating, but also motivating itches that affect the entire left and also Obama’s putative boss, George Soros.
Barack Obama’s itch started – if any part of his biography is to be believed – with the Marxists who raised and mentored him, inculcating in him bedrock leftist doctrines that include a deep loathing ofAmerica
Obama’s anti-Western itch continued during his schooling among Muslims in Indonesia, and was further inflamed by the far-left classmates he befriended in the American colleges he attended, with the religious leader whose anti-American and anti-Semitic “theology” he imbibed for over 20 years, and in the street-agitating career he chose as a community organizer.
In all cases, these influences provided Mr. Obama with ideas and philosophies that irritated his psyche, and to this day provoke and agitate him. They also spur him on to scratch those infuriating itches!
THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Those irritants, those itches, include:
MOST AMERICANS – by any measure, the overwhelming majority - who Obama has labeled “bitter” folks who cling to their guns and religion. Scratch, scratch, scratch.
AMERICA’S FOUNDING FATHERS – men like Washington, Adams, Hamilton, Jefferson, Franklin, et al - whose monumental accomplishments are diminished, in the Marxist mind, to the size of a pea, but whose few (albeit serious) flaws are magnified to the size of a mountain. Scratch, scratch, scratch.
THE U.S. CONSTITUTION and BILL OF RIGHTS, which laid the foundation for the freest, most successful, most generous nation in all of recorded history, but to the Progressive's mentality, stop short of being perfectly “fair” to every entity from the delta smelt to the illegal alien. Scratch, scratch, scratch.
CAPITALISM – that surging engine of free markets, bountiful philanthropy, redeemer of poverty and misery, and the route to worldwide comfort and security – if only the world were capable of and smart enough to embrace it – is, to Leftist thinking, the root of all evil. Not that they, themselves, don’t lust for as much money as possible, the better to engage in conspicuous consumption and all matter of nouveau-riche indulgences. But hey, this is the condescending noblesse-oblige that always redounds to tasteless, classless, finger-wagging liberals. NOTE: Go to any search engine and type in Obama’s vacations – frequency and expenses…and you’ll see what I mean.
GOD – at least the God of Christians and Jews. It’s bizarre – and inaccurate – that in his 2009 speech in Turkey he declared that America Georgetown University
JEWS. Obama’s pronouncement that "Israel is suspicious of of me" because his middle name is Hussein is so phony and calculated that it makes even uniformed people wince. In fact,JihadWatch.org points out the huge number of antagonists to Israel Tehran , where he promptly pronounced: "Every night when I go to bed, I pray to wake up the next day to see Israel
RACISM, which Obama sees wherever he looks, even when it’s not there! But this subject is clearly the driving force of his life, and the issue he is determined not to solve but to exact revenge for what he perceives – thanks to over five decades of Marxist indoctrination – as a simple formula: whitey = bad; people of color = good. Claw, claw, claw.
Yes, every time these issues flicker across Obama’s consciousness, his rage quotient increases. It doesn’t matter how many years elapse in which progress takes place, the rage still grows, which is how leftists react whenever their unrealistic, utopian dreams are not actualized. That rage acts like an unreachable itch, the kind that makes you tear at your skin until it bleeds, but without success. The itch remains.
THE PROJECTION PROBLEM
To understand the intractability of the left’s chronic itching condition, it’s helpful to appreciate what drives them. Leftists are utopia-driven fantasists, basically fixated children who derive their dewy-eyed inspiration from the Communist-Manifesto-embracing lyrics of John Lennon’s “Imagine” (“imagine there’s no countries…no religion too…no possessions…imagine all the people living for today.”)
When the grown-ups among us disagree with them, leftists more often than not refuse to debate the issues based on objective reality or empirical fact, but instead hurl gratuitous insults, call names, and resort to that old psychological stand-by, projection, in other words blaming other people for the very words and actions they, themselves, say and do.
For instance, when Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords got shot in the head, the left blamed the tragedy on the “incivility” of conservatives, while studiously ignoring the non-stop rudeness and crudeness emanating from their own ranks, including this gem, where a union intellectual (just kidding) threatens to break a tea-partier's neck.
If anyone throws a paper napkin out the window or dares to suggest we drill for oil, leftists castigate them for polluting the environment, while they consistently defile every event they attend by leaving mountains of trash that costs millions to clean up, for instance the 2008 "presidential" inauguration, their rally at the Lincoln Memorial in 2010, and now the temper-tantrum demonstrations at the State House in Wisconsin. Makes you wonder what kinds of homes these disrespectful slobs are raised in!
