Hollow Men

Bruce Walker has a piece at American Thinker that, in my opinion, is a blockbuster. In Negative Liberties and Obama Newspeak, Walker puts his finger on the essential wrongness that we all feel about Barack Obama, but haven't been able, exactly, to define. It is the inability to think clearly because one's mind is slack with indoctrination.

A New Man with a thought-less mind and meaningless language. (1984, by George Orwell; Brave New World, by Aldus Huxley; Anthem, by Ayn Rand.) A master of fuzzy buzzwords that signify nothing—not even to him—except as the vague, pastel-pretty images of an immature, atrophied mind.

"Is the Orwellian character of Obama's mind a surprise? No. He is a man young enough to have grown up in a cocoon of semantic babble. The subliminal contradictions of popular entertainment, the indoctrinary quality of his education, the pandemic use of "politically correct" language, the nonexistence in Obama's universe of any need for critical thinking, his absorption into a parish filled with surreal anger which numb his conscience -- almost every single aspect of the life of Barack Obama dovetails into someone for whom the word "liberties" has no authentic meaning."

Don't just read it. Save it. Print it. Reread it. Remember it. This is what we have to fight, starting with this election...and into the foreseeable future to keep these HollowMen from ruining our lives, our country and our future.

The Gunslinger