“And I hope she'll be a
fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful
little fool.” – Daisy Buchanan, love interest from F. Scott
Fitzgerald's literary classic “The Great Gatsby” (1925)
By publishing “Our dishonest
president,” “Why Trump lies” and “Trump's Authoritarian
Vision,” the Editorial Board of the Los Angeles Times tries to play
their readers for
fools. To that end, this series should have been printed on
April Fool's Day. After all, they comprise an absurdist anti-Trump
hatchet job that actually epitomizes Barack
Obama. Some 70 days in (within any new president's
honeymoon) did any detractor treat the former president with
partisan
venom or unjustifiable disdain?
That answer is absolutely not. Back
then, everything for the inexperienced sophomoric senator from
Illinois was hope and change rainbows and unicorns. After 8 years,
his progressive
fantasy—a dystopian design to turn
America into a big government, European-style socialist
state—resulted in nothing good. Contrast that to Trump's
rejuvenating vision of “America First”. Hence, it's laughable to
claim, “He sees himself as not merely a force for change, but as a
wrecking ball.” By definition, that which destroys can't also be
that which restores. Utter hogwash! What of Obama's
record-shattering debt (9.3 trillion added), ObamaCare's
imploding failure (BHO's “Keep your plan” whopper: Politifact's
Lie of the Year in 2013), Middle East tumult and the likelihood of a
nuclear
Iran (funded by Obama's 1.7 billion dollar payout in January of
2016) to name just a few of the last administration's messes. That
unmistakable damage has nothing to do with President Trump. Per the
facts, exactly who's been a wrecking ball here? The politically
schizophrenic press can't find anything good about Mr. Trump—or
anything wrong with Mr. Obama. Should such naked bias and baseless
propaganda be trusted?
Under
Obama for most of a decade, they found nothing amiss as the world
burned with perpetual Middle Eastern strife and terrorist
insurgency. Simultaneously, America teetered on economic
insolvency enflamed by a domestic racial powder
keg. Meanwhile, the enigma “in charge” was a F. Scott
Fitzgerald style dilettante who led from behind and governed
via golfing greens. (Per CBS reporter Mark Knoller, Barack Obama
played 333 times over his two terms.) Interestingly, both high
living figures changed their names: James Gatz assumed the Jay Gatsby
persona while Barry
Soetoro became Barack Obama. Yet, the parallels run deeper to
equally murky pasts. After all, doesn't Gatsby's bootlegging and
shadowy mob associations eerily denote Obama's Indonesian childhood,
his controversial birthplace (read: Kenya or Hawaii?) and unclear
religious
persuasion (read: Christian or Muslim faith?). Furthermore, both
men abandoned humble roots for larger-than-life ego-building aims.
In pretender Gatsby case, to achieve wealth in order to be worthy of
his “golden girl”. Similarly, for Obama, to gain the ultimate
standing by playing at being a U.S. president.
Moreover, the two share a common
psychology: the same heedless mind-set of the unyielding dreamer.
The difference being Gatsby's obsession with the past (“Can't
repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you
can.”) versus Obama's sole interest in dominating
the future:
“Change will not come if we wait for
some other person or some
other time. We are the
ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” –
Candidate Obama on Super Tuesday, February 5, 2008
As president, he clearly enjoyed the
office's pomp and circumstance while, like Gatsby, completely
ignoring distasteful
realities. Specifically, what of his forgotten political
hometown of Chicago: the nation's murder
capitol for 5 of the 8 years of his presidency? Beyond that,
Obama told numerous bald-faced
lies and constantly stoked racial
tensions to distract from his litany of atrocious
mistakes. Even worse, he never took any responsibility
whatsoever. Abetted by the MSM—today same as yesteryear—the
political opposition is blamed for all of his failures. Thus, isn't
Barack Obama the moneyed archetype for a nefarious Gatsby playboy?
And speaking of careless
people, doesn't designer duds Michelle
roughly approximate superficial, shirt-obsessed Daisy Buchanan?
To ground things in a real-life
context, Democratic ex-president Bill
Clinton reportedly said: “Barack Obama is an amateur” in
Edward Klein's similarly titled 2012 book. In retrospect 5 years
later, that assessment is spot-on. Notice how today's LA Times's
fictional smear of Donald
Trump actually perfectly fits his predecessor:
“[Barack Obama] was a narcissist and
a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in
American voters. The Times called him unprepared and unsuited for the
job he was seeking, and said his election would be a 'catastrophe'.”
By any objective measure, the Obama
years were exactly that: the
worst of any modern U.S. president. For the record, Donald Trump opposes
the dysfunctional and dictatorial Washington “swamp” that Mr.
Obama exploited. While the LA Times freely vilifies The Donald as
“authoritarian,” they completely disregard the guy who actually
was. Of the two, which ultra-constitutional president ruled by
fiat with executive orders? Which one bragged about using a pen and
a phone as a middle
finger to Congress; our system's lawmaking body? It's frankly
Orwellian for them
to conflate Obama's totalitarianism with Trump's
anti-establishment stance that liberty-loving Americans cheer!
Like Obama, these anonymous scribblers
have a tenuous relationship with reality. See how desperate they are
to rehabilitate his failed
legacy; to change the subject by unfairly
besmirching his replacement. How is their extended Trump hit
piece not an adverse reaction to his ongoing dismantling of the last
guy's ruinous policies? How else does one logically explain this
newspaper's unhinged four-piece tirade that wrongly transposes
Obama's misdeeds and track record with Trump's? The LA Times's
premature condemnation proves their birdbrained publication had
indeed flown the coop! Ideologues' blind
devotion to a facade: same as Gatsby's deluded love for Daisy,
another unworthy
idol.
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