Carl Spatazza : August 2008 Archives

Hold on to your hats kids, the Messiah has arrived.  Yup, he's come down from Heaven to save us from ourselves.  To re-make us in his own image.  Whether we like it or not.

Barack H. Obama (see the similarity between his name and Jesus H. Christ; pretty suspicious, don't you think?) has drawn crowds that would make The Rolling Stones envious.  He has women fainting and men starry-eyed about the prospect of his coronation.  They are white, they are black.  They are Hispanic (both legal and otherwise).  They come from all walks of life.  They're the poor, the tired, the hungry masses yearning for government grants, free health insurance and a big-screen TV in every room.  And they all want to be saved.  Hallelujah, praise the Lord and pass out more government programs.

They are vocal and committed and dangerous.  

They are dangerous because they have the same glazed-over look in their eyes that Hitler's and Mussolini's  followers had.  Lenin had the same charisma.  And so does Obama.  Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure he doesn't want to gas any Jews or open any Gulags.  But his ability to connect with people and make them trust him enables him to speak in platitudes and never tell us his real intentions.  Look folks, he's a socialist plain and simple.  Pay attention to his record and what he has said (when he actually says something).  He wants BIG government.  The BIGGER, the better.  We can't afford it, but that won't stop him.  Can you spell B A N K R U P T?

Need more proof of his Messianic abilities:  Oscar award winner Haile Berry has said, "I will pick up cups from the sidewalk on my hands and knees to clear a path for him."  I think Mary Magdalene did that a couple of times as Jesus traversed those dusty trails.  I wonder if Obama will let her wipe his face with a towel?  Maybe he will leave his image on it for us to fawn over.

Unless Obama makes any outrageous gaffs, (you know, like filling up your tires will replace all the oil we get from Saudi Arabia) the Democratic nomination is in the bag.  Don't ever count the Clintons out; but alas, poor Hillary is not pretty, or sexy, or eloquent.  All of which Obama is.   And unlike Obama, she's not easy to like.  Besides, she has her husband hanging around her neck like a two-ton boat anchor.  

So get prepared.  This November you may wake up to a black (can I say that?), Christian (I think), former Muslim student who is married to a woman who in her whole life (42 years) has only been proud to be an American once.  That was the day when she realized her husband had a good shot at  becoming the next President of the United States.  

Not when the United States kicked Iraq out of Kuwait, or the Taliban out of Afghanistan.  Not when we freed 10 million Iraqis from the tyrannical rule of a murderous despot.  Not when we brought down the Berlin wall and freed tens of millions of eastern Europeans.  Not when we saved the world from Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini.  Not when we sent $300 million in relief to Indonesia to help those people who suffered through the Tsunami, not when we protected Europe for 50 years from the threat of The Soviet Union's nuclear-tipped missiles.  Not when, not when, not when.....  Only when America finally put aside its racist legacy and finally make it "Our time."

The list of accomplishments of the this country in the defense of freedom both here and abroad in the past six decades should put a warm glow of pride in every American's heart every day of their life.

If it doesn't, vote for Obama.  You deserve him.

Now that the US Congress, in its infinite wisdom and cowering cowardice, has apologized for slavery, the ugly head of reparations is appearing on the horizon again.  Many hyphenated-Americans of color, being spurred on by the likes of Revs Sharpton and Jackson smell more free money.

As the descendent of an Italian family who emigrated here in 1915 and a taxpayer, I say you're going to have to fight me to the death to get a nickel out of me.  Like every American alive today, neither I, nor my family had a thing to do with the enslavement of anyone or anything.  We did not own slaves; we did not sell slaves.  We did not transport them into or out of this or any other country.  My grandparents never even knew what a slave was.

So those hyphenated-Americans of color with their hands out might want to consider something:  their ancestors were sold into slavery by their own countrymen.  That's right folks; Africans hunted down and sold other Africans into slavery.  What a shock huh?  Black on black crime was happening long before there were ghettos in America.

Americans did not bring the slaves here.  The Brits, the Spaniards and French did it all by themselves.  

Let me go out on a limb here.  I'm going to suggest that those hyphenated-Americans of color look to Africa, England, Spain and France for their reparations.  Seems fair to me.  Maybe Somalia could kick in a few bucks in between readings of the Koran and killing Christians.

Let me go out on an even bigger limb.  Every hyphenated-American of color ought to get down on their knees every morning and thank God (yes, I actually used the word God) that their ancestors made their way to America.  Even if they were forced to come here.  

As evil as slavery was (and still is as practiced by those peace-loving Islamists), descendents of those subjected to slavery here have had more opportunity to succeed than any minority anywhere in the world.  Just think what their lives would have been like if there was no slavery.  They could be living a palatial existence in Darfur or Ethiopia, huddled under a mud bed, in a mud hut hoping that some crazed band of roaming madmen, armed with machetes, doesn't come into their humble abode and cut their arms off.  Yeah, that's sounds like a good alternative to living in America watching your big-screen HDTV.

The American taxpayer has, and should have made every attempt to level the playing field.  We owe it to EVERY American, no matter their color, the chance to pursue their dream.  But it's not up to us to guarantee that their dream comes true.  We've made reparations many times over.  Since the 1960s, we've had The Great Society, Affirmative Action, welfare, food stamps, and an untold number of government programs, loans and grants that have more than made up for this country's part in slavery more than a century and a half ago.  

It's time those hyphenated-Americans of color take responsibility for their own destiny and stop laying blame on the shoulders of others who bear no responsibility for their success or failure.  You want to know who is to blame for your condition?  Look in the mirror.

Except for a miniscule number of truly disadvantaged; that born with physical or mental defects, each of us comes into this world with the same tools. What we do with those tools depends on us.  

Not all of us are Einstein, but we all have the capacity to learn.  We all have the capability to succeed if we rely on ourselves and not others.  The government has not, and never will end poverty.  It only exacerbates the problem.  You only need to look no further than New Orleans.  The hyphenated-Americans of color have been mired in poverty for over a century in spite of government handouts designed to pull them out.

Thomas Jefferson once said, "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

It's a shame that the only Jefferson many Americans can quote is George.