Obama, Christmas,
and the American Spirit
Thursday, December 11, 2008
By David Yeagley
Christmas time is here
Happiness and cheer...
Carols everywhere
Olden times and ancient rhymes
Of love and dreams to share
Sleigh bells in the air
Beauty everywhere
Yuletide by the fireside
And joyful memories there
As we write, the American president-elect Barack Hussein Obama is covered in more scandal than any president-elect in history. His person is beleaguered by more confusion and contradiction than his own name belies. It is a heinous prospect America faces. Indeed, the American spirit seems a thing of "olden times and ancient rhymes." Of "dreams to share" and "joyful memories." These wonders are all things of the past, no longer with us, no longer possible. America seems just a lovely memory.
And what of the Christmas spirit? What of Christ? How does the Christian relate to so dim a view brought before him? An alien black African Muslum Communist, president of a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant nation? Can it be? What does this catastrophic circumstance portend?
Herman Meville, (1819-1891) a wishful thinker?
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As Herman Melville wrote in Moby Dick, as Ishmael contemplated the future of Starbuck:
But were the coming narrative to reveal, in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to write it; for it is a thing most sorrowful, nay shocking, to expose the fall of valor in the soul. Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.
Is the Christian spirit, then, to cover for Hussein (may his name be changed, inshallah)? Shall we seek to look the other way, when nothing but grave suspicion has surrounded the man from the day he became involved in American politics (--to say nothing of the confusion and mystery associated with his birth, education, religion, and country of origin)? Do we just write it all off, and go with the flow, or, the plodding muck of inequity, or, the overwhelming, torpid tide of evil doing and sin?
That this aching dilemma should loom before us now, at such a time, in such a way, is truly remarkable. Unspeakable corruption, false images, facades of faith, whole betrayal, treachery, and cruelty of spirit dominate our national condition at this tragic time. The media is desperate. "Obama avoids stain of Chicago's political scandals," says Sharon Cohen's AP wire. How sick and laughable. His stains are deeper than Lady McBeth's, dark as his natural hue. "Obama calls on Illinois governor to resign," in order to "distance himself" from the crime center (Chicago) out of which he grew. Just another "I don't know him" tactic, like Obama used toward Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Tony Rezko, and others. How long does he plan to keep this up?
By contrast, Christians are warned against a time when they profess the most intimate and intense association with Jesus, only to hear His devastating pronouncement: "I never knew you." (Matthew 7:22)
So how shall we ponder the birth of Christ when we have the death of our country in our face, a country deconstructing before our eyes--by the hour? How shall we clothe our spirits with Lord's song in a land which has become strange to us? (Psalm 137:4)
Yes, America is fast becoming something it never was before, never intended to be, and specifically designed not to be. Patriots are becoming foreigners in our own land. Our hearts are truly broken. It is a desperate situation.
Is it anything prayer can change? (Indeed, was it the lack of prayer that brought forth the fluke Barack Hussein Obama and his "change"?) Can it be that only the force of arms can end this national ruin? Shall the people have to rise up against the government--as the government prepares to disarm them and to put troops in the cities? (In October, 2008, The Lakeland Times declared, "Barack Obama is the most radical anti-gun candidate for president ever, and, if he is elected, he will absolutely try to take your guns and your gun rights away.)
George Washington, in prayer before battle.
The question is this: Is armed revolution by the public the only thing that can save America? Arms and prayer were what created America, certainly. Is this the only hope for preserving America? If so, we need to organize, to prepare, to be ready. It appears the only alternative is to sit back, vote now and then, and simply watch it all crumble in our face. If we do nothing, we will see America dissolve into some other political entity, some hideous, atribilious amalgamation of Communism, corporate capitalism, all miserably mixed with elections--of corrupt individuals who will wreak only more of the same upon us.
America is about to be over, for good. It seems that a rally of righteous indignation is our last gasp for life. Yes, Christmas season is here. The wind will blow, the snow will fall, the lights will sparkle, many gifts will be given. But this Christmas, 2008, is shadowed by the very worst time American history. It is not the birth of Christ, but the yeaning of mostrous deformity that dominates this Christmas. It is not sentiment, but tyranny that prevails. It is an impossible Christmas. It was never so far from our present state of mind.
Do we give ourselves then to war? America has not had such a privilege since WWII. We're not allowed to have enemies as a nation. Congress has castrated us. (Pardon my Christmas spirit, but just about every Congressman in DC at this present time should be taken out and shot for treason.) Why, there is no war in the world. It's all individualism. We're not allowed to say Arabs and Pakistanis go home--to your own countries. It's all a "religious" thing. An individual thing. "Freedom," our enemies call it. We must deal with each Arab individually, and harbor his anti-Christian religion, giving him every opportunity to destroy ours, spiritually and ideologically, if not literally. The terrorists are all individuals. Why, there is no country to go to war with. There is no people to condemn. Just ideas.
The spirit of America is fast fading. How can we have a national spirit, if we're not allowed to behave like a nation? And we certainly can't have the sentiments of the Christmas spirit when the very country that provided us the freedom of Christmas is now controlled by the most vomitable, corrupt deceivers in history?
We're either going to be free Christians, or persecuted Christians. We're already tasting the latter. It will only get worse. The force of arms alone can change that. Force alone can change the change Obama is set upon. Will we see it? Will the blood of patriots once again water the tree of liberty, or will true Americans remain some mass of nosferatu (un-dead), living on some remote reservation of memory?
Dr. David A. Yeagley [email
him]
is an enrolled member of the
Comanche Nation,
Elgin, Oklahoma. His articles appear in
TheAmericanEnterprise.com,
FrontPageMagazine.com,
and on his own Web site
BadEagle.com,
and he is a regular speaker for
Young America’s Foundation.
David Yeagley is the author of Bad Eagle, Hot Topics---PATRIOTISM
and
Altered States: The State of the Dead and the State of the Holy
.
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