Jewish Odysseus: 2018

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

"Down the Memory-Hole," huh? Not so fast!!...

My, my, myyyyyy, leftist bots & trolls on Twitter just about came unglued when I pointed out a self-evident fact (self-evident to anyone with eyes and ears who didn't live in a cave from 2009 to 2017) about our verbissoner 44th President: that "Obama was the first President in American history who actively enjoyed seeing Americans fighting each other, and encouraged it. I tell my son this was the worst thing about him."

Wow, you'd have thought I'd written that a marriage is between a man and a woman, to see the knees jerk. He was so uniting, so calming, so consensusing, they roared. Hahaaa, I can take a joke as well as anyone. But then they actually challenged me to prove it. Like they were living in rubber rooms through eight long years of Obamunism. Maybe they were?

There's no point in wasting anytime to try to persuade these mugs, even if they are, maybe, something more than algorithms. But as a public service, I decided to put together a little handy reference guide for anyone looking for a few examples of Obama's divisiveness, all in one place. In about ten minutes, I could recall 16. I'm sure I've barely scratched the surface, if you think of more contact me here or on Twitter (@JewishOdysseus), I'm happy to add to the list!

Herewith--

Obama The Great Divider, Part I:

1) Even before he was elected, Obama was inciting his minions to "get in the faces" of people who planned to vote for someone else, in Nevada, September 17, 2008.

2) Obama went onto a foreign broadcast platform, Univision, and freely told Hispanic voters to "punish your enemies" in the midterm US elections, on October 25, 2010.

3) After Trayvon Martin made the unwise choice of jumping a man who had a lawful firearm, and pounding him into the pavement, Obama chose immediately to pour gasoline rather than water on the fire, by saying "If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon." (White House remarks, May 23, 2012)

4.) In one of the most breathtakingly condescending and obtuse comments ever made by a candidate, Obama wrote off about 70% of the US population by characterizing them as rural dolts who "get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them." (Fundraiser in San Francisco, April 6, 2008)

5) Obama maligned his own grandmother as "a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe," but then clarified that a few days later as "she is a typical white person." (Philadelphia, March 18 and 20, 2008)

6) Obama was in favor of traditional marriage, before he was against it, before he was in favor of it, before he was against it... (May 9, 2012)

7) Of all the pastors in Chicago, Obama chose to bring his children to the church of Jeremiah Wright every week...yet Obama never heard a word of Jew-hating or racism.

8) Candidate Obama openly admitted to planning the bankrupting of coal-fired power-plants, sabotaging one of America's most important, and highest-employing industries.(San Francisco Chronicle interview, January 17, 2008)

COMING SOON...PART 2

The Odyssey by Homer, Chapter 21:

For long Odysseus stood with the bow in his hands, handling it as a minstrel handles a lyre when he stretches a cord or tightens a peg. Then he bent the great bow; he bent it without an effort, and at his touch the bow-string made a sound that was like the cry of a swallow. The wooers seeing him bend that mighty bow felt, every man of them, a sharp pain at the heart. They saw Odysseus take up an arrow and fit it to the string. He held the notch, and he drew the string, and he shot the bronze-weighted arrow straight through the holes in the back of the axe-heads. Then as Eumæus took up the axes, and brought them outside, he said, ‘Thou seest, lord Telemachus, that thy guest does not shame thee through foolish boasting. I have bent the bow of Odysseus, and I have shot the arrow aright. But now it is time to provide the feast for the lords who woo thy lady mother. While it is yet light, the feast must be served to them, and with the feast they must have music and the dance.’ Saying this he nodded to Telemachus, bending his terrible brows. Telemachus instantly girt his sword upon him and took his spear in his hand. Outside was heard the thunder of Zeus. And now Odysseus had stripped his rags from him and was standing upright, looking a master of men. The mighty bow was in his hands, and at his feet were scattered many bronze-weighted arrows.