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Smith Speaks on Sunday, October 26, 2008 7:21:26 PM
Barack Obama…the mirror candidate. He is the product brought about by a society that has grown into a cancer that thrives on scandal and pop culture. Our society has devolved to the point where facts no longer matter, positions are rarely taken with any conviction and style is valued more than substance. These factors have given rise to the empty vessel that is the Democrat candidate.
I call Obama the mirror candidate because for his followers, he is the perfect reflection of what they want to see. No matter the position or the policy, the Democratic faithful see themselves reflected back every time that they look at him. The media is no different, in absence of any firm, clear positions, they are only too eager to ascribe their own hopey/changiness world view to him (because we all know that today’s journalists are not in the biz to report facts, they are out to “change the world”).
I truly believe that this is what Joe Biden meant when the termed Obama as “clean” in the run up to the primaries. Not a physical manifestation of a lack of dirt but a blank slate with no marks, no stated positions that could be used to an opponents advantage, no record and, in fact, no history. Far from being clean as the driven snow he was/is as yet just as antiseptic as the paint on a hospital wall. With a biased and predatory press, this may be the only kind of candidate that can survive a 2 year campaign process.
Many in the squishy middle of “moderate” America feel the same way. In opposition to clear positions staked out by John McCain, many of which they do not like because they imply effort on their part, they prefer to take the path of Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Buckley and Colin Powell and “pray” that Obama doesn’t become a claymation animation with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi pulling the strings. Perhaps that is what the “hope” part of the “Hope and Change” mantra really is.
Voting for a mirror candidate is unconscionable and inherently dangerous. Most people that I talk to about Obama know very little about him. Most supporters have absolutely no curiosity about Wright, Rezko, Ayers, Khalidi, his New Party association, absolutely no interest in his college years and how someone is on the Harvard Law Review and never gets anything published, no curiosity about how he won Illinois elections by effectively eliminating his competition through technicalities.
Since he is such a blank slate, judgments about him have to be made through his associations and in that light the reflection is something far from what the average American sees. His campaign says that is not permissible and in fact, racist but without a demonstrable record, that is the only way to make any legitimate assessment. You are judged by the company you keep. The crowd that has either been thrown under the Obama bus or in the League of People in My Neighborhood are not main street America, these are people who want to change Main Street to Stalin Way.
I understand the reluctance of his supporters to really look at their nominee. I believe that they know what kind of man is behind the mirror. What I see is a malleable entity that is already predisposed to socialism, one that if elected, will be totally consumed by the left leaning leaders of the Senate and House, one that could well destroy the fabric of the free enterprise system and trigger the age of John Galt. I hope that they do look and change their minds.