Galt Lines

I find it fascinating that the top two books on Amazon today are:

1. A pro-America book called Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, by Mark R. Levin, and
2. An anti-America book called Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, by Eduardo Galeano

The Press is alternately downplaying and praising Obama for yukking it up with Hugo Chavez, the anti-America, Marxist dictator of Venezuela.

Much has been written and said about the virulently anti-American book (Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent) that Chavez gave Obama.

Obama himself says:

“It’s unlikely that as a consequence of me shaking hands or having a polite conversation with Mr. Chavez that we are endangering the strategic interests of the United States,” Obama told reporters at a news conference. “I don’t think anybody can find any evidence that that would do so. Even within this imaginative crowd, I think you would be hard-pressed to paint a scenario in which U.S. interests would be damaged as a consequence of us having a more constructive relationship with Venezuela.”

Really? I can see a scenario very clearly. It has to do with Obama’s ideology, which is shared by his friend Bill Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist who believed in bombs and anti-American, Marxist propaganda in the 1960s, and uses the classroom today to achieve the same ends.

In 2006, Ayers was invited — by Chavez — to speak at an education conference in Venezuela.

From Bill Ayers’ web site:

“I walked out of jail and into my first teaching position—and from that day until this I’ve thought of myself as a teacher, but I’ve also understood teaching as a project intimately connected with social justice. After all, the fundamental message of the teacher is this: you can change your life—whoever you are, wherever you’ve been, whatever you’ve done, another world is possible. As students and teachers begin to see themselves as linked to one another, as tied to history and capable of collective action, the fundamental message of teaching shifts slightly, and becomes broader, more generous: we must change ourselves as we come together to change the world. Teaching invites transformations, it urges revolutions small and large. La educacion es revolucion!

Totalitarianism demands obedience and conformity, hierarchy, command and control. Royalty requires allegiance. Capitalism promotes racism and militarism – turning people into consumers, not citizens. Participatory democracy, by contrast, requires free people coming together voluntarily as equals who are capable of both self-realization and, at the same time, full participation in a shared political and economic life.”

In other words, Ayers agrees with Chavez that America’s capitalism needs to be replaced by Marxist socialism, and the classroom is the catalyst.

But let’s connect the dots to see how Obama’s friendliness with Chavez could be viewed as a problem:

1. Obama is a long-time friend of Bill Ayers, an unrepentant terrorist who uses the classroom as a laboratory to turn students against capitalism and America
2. Obama appears to be chummy with Hugo Chavez, even accepting a leftist, anti-America book from Chavez
3. Obama is still on his “America is sorry for everything” tour of the world in which he apologizes for America’s actions and attitude
4. Obama’s on record as saying the Constitution is flawed in that it doesn’t “spread the wealth”
5. Obama’s economic and social philosophy (as evidenced in his bailouts, right-wing extremist Homeland Security report, disdain for capitalism, and “spread the wealth” comments) has echoed Karl Marx’s: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”

So, it appears Chavez, Ayers, and Obama all have the same view of America, the same view of capitalism, and the same view of ones countrymen — namely, that they should be controlled and forced to be “citizens” of the government rather than free-thinking, free-market people enjoying “unalienable rights” endowed by their Creator. That’s the scenario that I find troublesome. Obama appears to be giving credence to every anti-American dictator in the world, including Hugo Chavez who shares a political philosophy with his friend Bill Ayers.

How will that sit with Americans here at home? Will it add to the divisions? Will it further separate people, especially veterans, who put their lives on the line to protect America? Will it create more “right-wing extremists” who take umbrage at Obama’s choice of friends?

I think this can be distilled down to two questions:

Why does Obama hobnob with brutal dictators, but voices nothing but disdain for “right-wing extremists” in America — salt-of-the-earth Americans who value the Constitution, own guns, are pro-life, and believe the Bible?

Why does it appear Obama would rather dialog with dictators than with FOX News, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and other conservative leaders?

I see lots of problems with Obama befriending America’s enemies. If he, at the same time, befriended those within America whom he considers enemies, it might not be a problem. But Obama is alienating decent, hard-working Americans while he’s embracing America’s enemies. That’s causing massive rifts within our country and will surely lead to political upheaval in the years ahead, as evidenced by the estimated one million people who participated in Tea Party celebrations on April 15th.