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Selwyn Duke
Yes, Rush, I hope Obama Fails, Too
©
2009 Selwyn Duke
Ever
since President Obama (PBUH) dropped Rush Limbaugh's name recently, the
talk-show host has figured prominently in the news. And now he is being
attacked by the mainstream press – and truly odious entities such as
MoveOn.borg – for saying that he wants Obama (PBUH) to fail. It is being
portrayed as an un-American sentiment by those great patriots on the left.
I
actually agree with Limbaugh wholeheartedly. I also want Obama (PBUH) to
fail – abjectly, miserably, completely – and visibly. I
may even pray for it.
Anyone
on the left who takes issue with this is either ignorant or a liar – and
probably a hypocrite as well. I will explain.
To
say it's always unpatriotic to hope for the failure of your leader is illogical.
It presupposes that a leader's success is synonymous with his nation's success,
but this simply cannot be true in all cases. After all, different leaders
have different ideologies, and ideologies run the spectrum from the sublime to
the ridiculous, from the ethereal to the evil. Thus, in the cases of
leaders with fatally flawed ideologies, their nations' success may rest on
their failure.
I'm
just stating the obvious. Only servile, cult-of-personality types confuse
the leader with the country. Would
we have called a German who wished for Hitler's failure in 1934 unwise and
unpatriotic? What about Stalin, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Idi Amin and Saddam
Hussein? Would it have been wrong to curse them with failure? On the
contrary, even wishing that God would promptly liberate such people from the
bounds of this material fold would be quite justifiable.
What
I have just explained isn't really that hard to figure out. And this is
the reason why I said that those on the left who seize upon Limbaugh's comment
are either just playing political games or are supremely ignorant. And now
we come to the reason why they also may be hypocrites.
The
left absolutely hated George W. Bush. Their contempt for him was so
profound and palpable that it was even given a name by psychiatrist Charles
Krauthammer: Bush Derangement Syndrome. Now, most of the millions of
leftists who despised the ex-president absolutely wanted him to fail; in fact,
while they're loath to admit it, they felt this way even when his success was
synonymous with our nation's (this even included the failure of the Iraq war).
And "felt" is the operative word; they were governed by emotion and
hated the man with a burning passion. Thus, they were more than miserably
happy to wish for a descending tide that lowered all boats if it meant the
U.S.S. George W. Bush would be sunk.
Oh,
by the way, you leftists don't have to bother denying it. You're not
nearly as sophisticated as you imagine and you're really not that hard to read.
The screeching, vicious lies, dripping venom, borne fangs and apoplexy sort of
gave you away.
Besides,
a few of the more honest leftists would even admit that they wanted Bush to
fail. In fact, I seem to recall one man in particular (I don't remember
his name but he was a guest on the O'Reilly Factor) who even confessed that he
wanted the Iraq war to go south. And his reasoning was exactly what I had
propounded earlier. That is, he claimed to believe that Bush's policies
were so toxic that a greater good would be served by their failure. I was
adamantly opposed to his ideology, of course; however, I did understand the
principle in question. It is in no way moral to wish the president success
in the pursuit of a policy that we know is damaging to the nation.
This
brings me back to President Obama (PBUH). We are not children who are to
just play "follow the leader" unquestioningly. We must first
ascertain where the leader is leading. Is it toward the promised land or
into an abyss? I know Obama (PBUH) to be a hard-core leftist – and
perhaps a neo-Marxist. I know that his agenda could drive the last nail
into America' coffin and that it is a blow against all that is great and good.
Thus, if I wished him success, it could only mean I hated my country, my fellow
man, and God himself.
Selwyn
Duke is a writer, columnist and public speaker whose work has been
published widely online and in print, on both the local and national
levels. He has been featured on the Rush Limbaugh Show and has been a
regular guest on the award-winning Michael Savage Show. His work
has appeared in Pat Buchanan's magazine The American Conservative and he
writes regularly for The New American and Christian Music Perspective.