A War About Nothing
Posted by Jack Hunter on November 26, 2008
Those who cheer for Obama now are essentially cheering for nothing, as those who bash Obama are essentially bashing nothing. Obama has done nothing. But like a team mascot, a Mohawk haircut or the Cross, Obama the symbol creates a divide to which many feel compelled to take sides and defend or attack accordingly. They may not know why, but they certainly know how. Team Obama jerseys read “change!” Team Nobama’s read “charge! And two tribes go to war over nothing at all.
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The fatuousness of the above article is not worthy of any comment.
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The internationalist regime of banksters and putocrats ruling America since the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 (via Wall Street / Washington D.C.) And also extending its rule to Europe today via Brussels are all the same cast of characters in every government over and over again, administration after administration, and it’s the same again of course with Obama. They’re the big shots who make all the decisions. They have decided they do not like their own White, Christian people, and the average Semitic or half & half Jews and regardless of what the demos or people of America and Europe vote they want, it doesn’t matter to those few who rule. Period.
This has always been the case throughout history whether governments have in the past been in the hands of kings and of the Church. Or as it is today in essentially the hands of the people per se, via their tyrannical plutocratic overlords. Or for that matter in the recent past in the hands of communists. The few always rule regardless. The Greeks learned the hard way (by inventing and trying it out), democracy always results in the worst form of tyranny. Since it is really in the hands of the people except not the aristocrats but the dregs of the mass who acquire the greatest amount of wealth. That’s who rules you today, exclusively for their own benefit. And is why it is even worse than it was in the past, when in the hands of kings and aristocrats and of the Church. Who at least supported the culture and civilzation of their own peoples.
Enjoy! It means, if possible. That’s modernity and so-called post-modernity. There’s no end in sight. I have no idea why people though still vote and go to all of their money-making ‘wars.’ What good is that? It only encourages them.
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If I read it correctly, Mr. Hunter laments that as usual, there will be no change - same trough, different pigs. And the American voter thinks a change has taken place, while in reality everything goes on like before. This is the the point, where I start to be amazed at the capacity of the American populace to tolerate abuse by their public servants:
From Clinton to Bush to Obama, their presidents (as well as their senators and representatives) get voted based upon exact policy promises (humble foreign policy, an end to the war, smaller government, etc.), yet when these scumbags get into office, they do exactly the opposite. If the regular citizen would do that, he would land in jail for fraud, yet we let the politicians get away with it. Even worse, these same scoundrels make it a punishable crime to lie to them (e.g. lying to congress, or to the FBI), which brings up the question, who is the real master and who is the real servant?
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“Obama has done nothing.”
Really? Obama has revealed his mind to us through his left-wing racialist comments made frequently during his campaign, and as frequently dismissed by the media.
Consider his calling acting white a scandal in 2004, and his view that all the diverse white American peoples are merely clones of each other which was revealed in his casual “a typical white person.”
In Northern California over the past five years, no fewer than 11 persons lost jobs because they allegedly used the “a typical X person” formula.
Yes, Obama is The One who never apologizes for his left-wing racialisms which are what he has done.
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Wow, this guy just figured out that politics is unprincipled tribalism! Hey Hunter, there’s no Santa Claus either man.
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Dan’s facile comment is, to be sure, bereft of worthiness of comment, whereas The Southern Avenger give’s one reason for pause, reflection, and satisfaction. Fare on!
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The war about nothing is going on in Iraq. Blood and Guts, not symbols. Obama appears to be another politician like Nancy Pelosci who talks a good story but does nothing to stop it. But we shall see.
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<i.Obama has done nothing. But like a team mascot, a Mohawk haircut or the Cross, Obama the symbol creates a divide to which many feel compelled to take sides and defend or attack accordingly,</i>
And two tribes go to war over nothing at all.
Interesting how Mr. Hunter feels compelled to equate “the cross” with such things as a mohawk haircut or a team mascot and then indirectly implies that it is worth nothing. I come to this site for a Christian/paleoconservative perspective. If I wanted to read columns where Christians are insulted there are plenty of secularist or neocon sites I could go to.
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Dan, thanks for commenting that no comment was needed. Clever guy, you are.
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Lorenz,
You are being incredibly defensive. Just because “the Cross” is an important symbol to you (and to me as a fellow christian paleocon) does not mean it cannot be misused and perverted by demagogues like the crusaders. Or their modern equivelent christian evangelists like James Hagee. I would describe Hagee as a neocon wouldn’t you? He insults the christianity by telling us it stands for war and killing. But he has nothing but reverence for the symbol of the cross.
Check out the first commandment in your own christian doctrine. Worshipping a symbol can become like worshipping an idol. Lets not go there. the old testament awash with examples of individuals who did.
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“Check out the first commandment in your own christian doctrine. Worshipping a symbol can become like worshipping an idol. Lets not go there. the old testament awash with examples of individuals who did.” – Bob D.
This is very important. In the spiritual world, here, (meaning the Earthly Mother or mother Nature is also of the Divine) due to the spiritual and due subsequently to the human factor and vice versa, there are two human realities. That which is true and that which is actual and sometimes the latter the ‘actual’ is both, as is sometimes the former, even though they may of course exist independently as well. Thus no one thing is true in the world, it is all true like a bicycle wheel is not alone the tires, or the spokes, or its hub, but all of it and each part as well when considering what is a bicycle wheel is true alone but not the whole.
This necessarily gave rise to myth which is only true for the most part, but good because it then illuminates a large truth so as not to be missed. And thus the details some of which may be also actual in the myth but do not necessarily have to be actual are relegated to the backround.
Truth is something else because it always must occur in the world within a *context. So what is true is not automatically the equivalent of the truth. However in the world what is actual even if only acutal alone is always the equivalent of the truth.
So in a nutshell myths can be true but not the truth per se in the world. You might say, yes but they’re actual because people ‘believe’ in them so then they must also be the truth. No.
So when you make a myth or one of its consituent symbols e.g. the cross or the star of david or the crescent in your own mind ‘truth’, you make it an idol, thus a mistake or a sin, since you deceive yourself. However is it true, not truth itself, yes.
This led to the old yiddish saying the truth is the safest lie. It’s because the general misconception is always to mistake the true for the truth. Albeit at least then people are availing themselves of the myth which points to the larger truth, they would have ordinarily missed. And so at least they are better or impoved for that mistake itself. EXCEPT when they then go to war over defending their own misconception that the true is actually truth itself.
If this bores you and you can’t understand these fine distictions. Then you can at least understand why you are benefited by the saving myth which takes into consideration most people don’t want to be bothered with the finer distinctions in life but are at least benefited by their myths. That’s why they exist. Are you also benefited by clothes for the most part. Yes that’s why they exist.
Is there a myth that is true (and perhaps some parts actual) that is best for the whole world or a one size fits all. And so since that one myth in the context of this world is best, making it not only true, but now also the truth as well in terms of which myth is the best one? No, in my opinion. In all of history, no one size ever fit all, not even in terms of myths. But I’m not a fortuneteller. That is not out of the realm of possibility perhaps at some distant point in the world’s future…but obviously NOT today. ?
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“Obama has done nothing.”
Your right he hasn’t revealed his birth certificate yet or what his CHANGE might be other than more troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It could be Spare Change if he doesn’t find a solution to fix the global economy.
He could start by nationalising the Federal Reserve and not hiring Blackwater goons like they were used in New Orleans and in Iraq who get paid about $900 a day.
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Does anyone think that Obama will be assassinated?
Lyndon LaRouche and others have commented on this as have others.
http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2008/11/24/lpactv-larouche-fields-question-british-assassination-threat.html
The main theory is that it will be blamed on white supremacists sparking a race war so marshal law will need to be imposed
I don’t think it will happen as it is to obvious.
I think it is more likely something will happen overseas in the Crimea or Uzbekistan.
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I must confess I´ve always enjoyed larouche “foggy oracles”. The “tender lunacy”, his “i alone understand the jigsaw of the universe”, the fringe science, the mish-mash philosphy...all those are traist i´d came to like in a human being.
But I must say I´m deeply concerned about his late health. In one of his last memorable “pieces” about the bailouts( “You damn fools...") I counted no less than 25 exclamation signs! In just two pages!! Gosh! His blood presuree must be rocketting sky-high.
Watch out that heart, Lyndon!
Mr. Larouche, there´s no need for those health risks you are taken. Please, have in mind the Piper´s son advice about the triviality of life. Vanitas vanitatis et omnia vanitas.
Besides, no matter how dark doomsayers paint their fantasies - or how bankers wanna trick us with the crash boogieman, the USA are still a great, great country full of brave people. Dont believe the apocaliptic hype, this is not “the end of the world”, not at all.
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Good article Jack.....But Non-PC facts must be fed like baby food in a culture of people at different levels of infection with PC. Many need to ask themselves if they are conservatives because they are Republicans, or are they Republicans because they are conservatives?.....You are right. Many in the future will grow weary of their small tribe of conservatives, and migrate to the bigger tribe of Republicans. Real conservatives will stand their ground as the Spartans did, not compromising their STANDARDS!....And only then will we have a TRIBE of principles.
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