Words Of Wisdom From The Old Eagle

Back when I was a lad in Boone, Iowa I had a friend whose brother was three years ahead of us. Know what this means? Being a 'big guy' we listened to what he said. Sometimes, we did it out of fear we might get pounded(not by this guy) but mostly to be able to say we were acquaintances. That's pretty heady stuff for a 9th grader-------to be on speaking terms with a cool guy in the 12th grade.

Anyway, through a series of circumstances the Boone guy and myself reconnected a few years ago. Luckily, too, we're of the same political good common sense. He went by the name of 'Old Eagle' when he was writing his blog. I think, though, it has gone into hibernation.

Regardless, he sent along a blog piece to me he penned in 2009 about Obama. I thought you might be interested. I should have such talent.

 

It’s January, 2014, and a young, eloquently-speaking black man entered the White House on a wave of popular support. With the entire Congress at his call. The black population segment of America’s time has surely come.The past can finally be buried once and for all. For them, a focus on opportunity for them now resided at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Their very own numbers supplied the voting margin that put him in office.

 

With his power, and by the virtue of his rise from obscurity to the most powerful position in the world, and with his unique credibility, rested the chance to lift them up as he led by example...to give them real hope. In his first term and halfway through his second term he could have spent six years already guiding them to putting nuclear families and education first and foremost in their lives. To believe that real men are the rock of their families...and that black education was cool....that with special education achievement recognitions from him, the better student you were, the cooler you were. If anybody could sell that, it was him. In fact, only he could.

 

He could have spent time every week in their neighborhoods, all over the country. He could have met with mothers, fathers, and the kids, on their turf, wherever and everywhere they lived. With a constant presence and a constant message: that a better life is there for you and your children with hard work, dedication to your family, dedication to improving yourself, and taking back your community from drugs and gangs. Intense special education and job improvement skill training could have been funded and rolled out for a miniscule fraction of the $700 billion spent on shovel-ready projects, that didn’t even exist.

 

He could have been Their President. He could have been their guide. He could have taught and shown by his example the doctrine of inclusiveness, that they were part of this whole thing and that the American Dream was for them too.....that they should believe that.

 

He could have helped them lift their employability quotient year by year, He could have opened the door and pulled them through to full participation of all the opportunities that are there by virtue of our free society.

 

He could have been another Martin Luther King, and much more.

 

But he wasn’t.

They meant nothing to him. Except at election time when he would go briefly into their neighborhoods and nail the race card right onto their heads with his demagoguery. “Your life is not fair. It’s their fault. You are not part of America. You are the wronged people. Republicans are to blame...they’re taking from you...taking advantage of you. It’s not fair! Vote for me and my party. I will even make it unnecessary for you to search for work in order to receive entitlements. We feel your pain. Vote for me.” And on the way out the door..” See you again in two or four years”. Race baiting at it’s finest. And leaving them behind, and feeling more downtrodden than before he showed up.

 

Obama and the Democrats race card tactic has driven it’s wedge of race divisiveness right into their minds at every election cycle opportunity. In effect, teaching them no hope, leaving them with no hope, with no reason to have any optimism...perhaps harboring a festering resentment toward our larger society instead. The majority black condition, as shown by six years of doing just this, has been the furthest thing from his mind. Hob-knobbing with Hollywood stars, entertainment stars, sports stars, and playing hundreds of rounds of golf have had more importance on his priority list.

 

By lifting America’s black people, had it been his quest, or had he seen it as his obligation, he could have been an amazing force in weaving the tapestry of America into a better fabric than it was before. He would have taken his place among select company as one of America’s legendary and greatest Presidents and citizens.

 

Instead he came in with a white-hot ideological far left agenda, fused to a retreat-America and apologize-for-America agenda that would attempt at every moment and in every way to change the country and weaken America’s influence in the world. It’s not that he didn’t tell us his grand objective up-front, because he did....that he would “fundamentally transform America”.

 

Enough didn’t listen...few could fathom what he really meant. Perhaps none really could.

 

What he did not mean was that he would champion and help those people who called him one of their own.

 

There has not been another that has been in position, who has had the power, the bully pulpit, the power of the purse, to do what he could have done.

 

And therein will lie one of the greatest lost opportunities in the history of our country.