Here is an article written by one of my new heroes, Dr. Anne Wortham. Dr. Wortham’s an Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University ’s Hoover Institution. She’s black, voted for Ron Paul, reads Ayn Rand, and holds liberty and objectivism as ideals of the highest order. My friends Todd and Liz simultaneously sent me emails containing this article, which perfectly illustrates my feelings as a human who happens to be of black heritage. This woman is a champion of liberty.

No He Can’t

By Anne Wortham

Fellow Americans,

 Please know: I am black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul’s name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a black president to love the ideal of America .

 I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival, – all that I know about the history of the United States of America, all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the “change” that Obama asserts has come to America . Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared “progressive” whites who voted for him because he doesn’t look like them. I would have to wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration, – political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

 I would have to believe that “fairness” is the equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that man who asks me to “go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice” is speaking in my interest. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes from the “bottom up,” and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the generators of wealth.

 Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting “Yes We Can!” Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead – and no one, including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism.

 So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a black man to the office of the president of the United States, the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over – and that Fonda won. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a black person. So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America . Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to – Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine, – what little there is left, – for the chance to feel good. There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness.

Ron Paul, the Congressman from Texas, is one of the only patriots we have left in the federal government. His unflappable voting record has been directly in line with the Constitution for over 30 years. He is one of my heroes, I’ll write more about him soon.

This is propaganda plain and simple. It’s reminiscent of that jolly old German slogan “Arbeit macht Frei ” or “Freedom through Work” which graced the rust ridden iron gates of the Nazi concentration camp known as Auschwitz.

After watching this video, I can’t help wishing horrible things would befall all of these people. I’m not a fan of Barack Obama, one look at my site will tell you that. I wasn’t a fan of his predecessor nor his predecessor’s predecessors. I’m not a fan of the federal govenment period. Hearing well intentioned, yet willfully misguided Hollywood fools tell me that I need to become a servant of the President and my fellow man pisses me off to no end. Do any of you know how this country started or what its prosperity depends on!? It’s the key to your wealth and fame!

This Union isn’t a monarchy, oligarchy nor a dictatorship. It’s a Constitutional Republic where the President is an elected official and therefore a SERVANT by and for the people; not the other way around! I for one do not want his servitude, I expect him to simply clean up the mess made by his Constitution violating mildly retarded forerunner then lessen his executive power to the Constitutionally appropriate levels which he swore to preserve (protect, and defend) not once but twice on Tuesday. I know there is no way this is going to happen, but let a brotha dream.

The way I see it, the only person that you can depend on and control 100% of the time is yourself. So instead of getting other people to give you hand outs, live by this simple motto:

“I swear, by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

If we all depend on ourselves then we will never have anyone else to blame for our problems. Live by your own code. Don’t expect me to come down on my white horse to save you from yourself and I won’t expect the same in return. 

Gerald Warner of the Telegraph Newspaper in London wrote an incredible article about Barack Obama’s celebrity status and its future. It’s a dry, British, no bullshit, perspective on the hype our “Emperor” is receiving. The British have a way of simplifying any subject down to its lowest common denominators. Why are they so damn witty?

Barack Obama inauguration: this Emperor has no clothes, it will all end in tears 

By Gerald Warner

This will end in tears. The Obama hysteria is not merely embarrassing to witness, it is itself contributory to the scale of the disaster that is coming. What we are experiencing, in the deepening days of a global depression, is the desperate suspension of disbelief by people of intelligence - la trahison des clercs - in a pathetic effort to hypnotise themselves into the delusion that it will be all right on the night. It will not be all right.

We have been here before. In the spring of 1997, to be precise, when a charismatic, young prime minister entered Downing Street, cheered by children bussed in for the occasion waving plastic Union Jacks. A very few of us at that time incurred searing reproaches for denouncing the Great Charlatan (as I have always denominated Tony Blair) and dissenting from the public hysteria. Three times a deluded Britain elected that transparent fraud. Yesterday, when national bankruptcy became a formal reality, we reaped the bitter harvest of the Blair/Brown imposture.

The burnt child, contrary to conventional wisdom, does not fear the fire. After the Blair experience there is no excuse for anybody in Britain falling for Obama. Yet today, in this country, even some of those who remained sane during the emotional spasm of the Diana aberration are pumping the air for Princess Barack. At a time of gross economic and geopolitical instability throughout the Western world, this is beyond irresponsibility.

To anyone who kept his head, the string of Christmas cracker mottoes booming through the public address system on Washington’s National Mall can only excite scepticism. It is crucial to recall the reality that lies behind the rhetoric. Denouncing “those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents” comes ill from a man whose flagship legislation, the Freedom of Choice Act, will impose abortion, including partial-birth abortion, on every state in the Union. It seems the era of Hope is to be inaugurated with a slaughter of the innocents.

Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan is like one of those toxic packages traded by bankers: it camouflages many unaffordable gifts to his client state. With a federal deficit already at $1.2 trillion, Obama wants to squander $825 billion (which will undoubtedly mushroom to more than $1 trillion) on creating 600,000 more government jobs and a further 459,000 in “green energy” (useless wind turbines and other Heath-Robinson contraptions favoured by Beltway environmentalists).

It is frightening to think there is a real possibility that the entire world economy could go into complete meltdown and famine kill millions. Yet Western – and British – commentators are cocooned in a warm comfort zone of infatuation with America’s answer to Neil Kinnock. We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity to prove themselves, the worst should be in jail.

It is questionable whether the present political system can survive the coming crisis. Whatever the solution, teenage swooning sentimentality over a celebrity cult has no part in it. The most powerful nation on earth is confronting its worst economic crisis under the leadership of its most extremely liberal politician, who has virtually no experience of federal politics. That is not an opportunity but a catastrophe.

These are frank, even ungracious, words: they have the one merit that, unlike almost everything else written today about Obama, they will not require to be eaten in the future.

Read all about it.

“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”

Abraham Lincoln during his Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858 (The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, pp. 145-146.)

This ridiculous news tells me one of two things. Either Barack Obama, like so many, is completely uninformed about the racist, Constitution violating, traitorous scum that was our 16th President. Or he is using the image which the vast majority of people associate with justice and purity of political thought as a device to manipulate them into thinking he is one in the same. I hope his rationale for using the Bible is the former, but I’m afraid it’s the latter. Pure manipulation.

Here’s the irony of it.

“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.”

- Abraham Lincoln

Now I found this quote without reference, source or citation. But even without it, given his actions how God-fearing could he really have been? Someone who thrusts America into a senseless Civil War which claims 600,000 lives and injures hundreds of thousands more. All the while jailing his dissenters and making racist remarks about the very people he is “known” for having liberated. What a good guy, we should all hope to achieve his “greatness”.

President-elect Obama, like so many other politicians, is simply preying on the sympathies of the American people. Nothing more to see here folks.