Posted by
Steve C Conlon on Sunday, August 24, 2008 4:24:52 AM
McCain v. Obama: Face-off against The Jabberwocky
Sunday August 24rd 2008
Steve C Conlon
Lewis Carroll purposefully penned "The Jabberwocky" as an example of how not to write a poem. It now appears to any thinking man or woman that Barack Obama has been given to the American people to understand what characteristics are missing in a candidate for the office of President of the United States. Looking to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, we find - "jabberwocky: meaningless speech or writing". That appears to be a quite cogent definition of what has been the leading democrat's platform to Americans as we are offered up platitudes, obfuscation of events with shady characters, and a doctrine born of Marx. Barack Obama may well have a date with literary destiny when this election is over as he has been every bit the Jabberwocky of which Lewis Carroll wrote.
To have a new word generated from Washington politics would not be a rare or unusual feat. Jurist Robert Bork was denied confirmation to the Supreme Court due to his strict constructionist beliefs of what a Justice was charged with performing from the bench. So blatantly wrong was his denial of confirmation that the American lexicon now contains the word, "borked", as slang for someone who received the short end of the stick, to put it politely.
What places Barack Obama in the running for this addition into our vernacular? Numerous gaffs can be selected as evidence as his townhall meetings are replete with examples once his teleprompter is removed. We were graced with an astonishing one this past week while most in America cheered for our Olympians as they raced for the gold. Never missing a chance to go on the offensive against America, Obama stated:
"Everybody's watching what's going on in Beijing right now in the Olympics. Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure. Their ports, their train systems, their airports are all vastly superior to us now, which means if you're a corporation deciding where to do business, you're starting to think Beijing looks like a pretty good option."
Were Beijing located outside of communist China, and had events truly been as they appeared and not staged at great expense, then indeed American business might being looking to invest in Beijing. However, the extraordinarily myopic Barack Obama, again veering off into an area he knows nothing about and without his teleprompter, apparently failed to hear the reports of military camps where the participants of the opening ceremonies stayed for a year while practicing on two meals a day. I suspect that the discipline dispensed inside the camp for an ill-timed movement would have the offender begging for a Catholic nun with a brass ruler overlooking them instead. And of course, Mr. Obama does not consider that this illusion was also brought to us by 900 members of the PRC military. They were charged with operating the huge scroll and wore diapers as they were not allowed to leave their posts for six to eight hours.
Having spent over twenty-five years on Wall Street, I suspect that businesses are not relying on only this one televised event to make their investment decisions. Rather than taking the words of a politician, they likely have seen one of many articles in publications such as "The Epoch Times", which reported in February of this year that when a snowstorm arrived in China it left millions without power or transportation, all due to insufficiencies in its core infrastructure. That is not the China that Obama now speaks about so glowingly.
And last, but not least, we cannot forget the 1989 student massacre at Tiananmen Square. After the cameras were ordered removed they were savagely gunned down to the tune of 2000 or more. This is particularly salient as that young man who stood in front of the tank reminds me of Obama's position on how to deal with ones enemies. Is there anyone who thinks that student survived the massacre that followed? When Chinese students are shown that picture today it is as unfamiliar to them as "The Rape of Nanking" is to Japanese students because it has been ommitted from Japanese textbooks. Just as Stalin did to his enemies, that picture of the young man has been removed from Chinese history.
These behind the scenes Olympic events are just two of the incidents clouding the Opening Ceremonies that some have hailed as being prima facie evidence of China now being a world power. Personally, I'd say the better evidence is the blue water fleet they have been building, as did Japan prior to WW II, with all the scrap metal they have stripped from America.
So it is now seasoned John McCain versus a presidential "Jabberwocky." Oh fabrous day, conservatives, oh fabrous day indeed. And as to China's "vastly superior" infrastructure, it appears to be built upon the same foundation that Barack Obama's "vastly superior" platform and lead in the polls was built upon - SAND!
Steve C Conlon