An Announcement: Part I

“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”
- Edmund Burke

I'm going to make a bold and risky prediction. I'll be labeled a conspiracy theorist, a paranoid schizophrenic. I hope I'm wrong. It is with great sadness that I have to make such an assessment. However, as Joe H. says, "never be afraid to speak the truth."

Drum roll please....

...um, wait...I must write some background.

Recently, I made the wife start reading the book Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell. I actually didn't make her, but I wanted to imagine the convulsions now happening in some readers.

The truth is, is that I strongly recommended the book in response to many of our conversations recently. Having intentionally married a "life-partner" (a PC bone for those liberal readers) who not only has a brain but chooses to use it to engage the world around her, we have discussions about politics and the world in general. Over and over, recently, she keeps asking things like, "Are people stupid? Are they blind? Do they not see what is happening?", etc., etc. I used to ask the same questions, that is until I recently read Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four.

I had the same types of revelations when reading C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. It explained the inexplicable. I asked questions like, "why do people do such bad things? Why have I done such bad things?" The Screwtape Letters (in conjunction with Perretti's This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness) answered my questions. These books explained why and how illogical things happen.

Okay, now the drum roll...

...RIM SHOT!!!!

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Barack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United States. There will not be a 45th President of the United States for a long time.
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...now we'll pause for that to be fully absorbed.

Let me put it another way, he's not going anywhere.

We, the current citizens, take for granted that we have had peaceable transitions of power every four, eight, and (in one case) twelve years. Most do not know what a modern marvel this has been. George Washington, whom many historians have suggested was so popular at the end of his second term that he could have snatched absolute power from the very beginning, set the precedence of limited power when he retired to his home in Mount Vernon. Since then, this seamless transfer of leadership from one President to the next has become a background miracle for over 230 years.

This will change. President Obama shows all the historical signs of a leader who intends to assume life-long power. Americans show all the signs of a people who are ready for a king (see "A Bible Story").

I have now "pinged" the nation in this humble blog. This is for what I now listen: the first politician, media personality, etc. to say something like, "You know, extreme problems require extreme measures. President Obama inherited some of the most prolific issues in this country's history. It will take more than eight years to fix them. We need to readdress the concept of term limits."

I liken this to another realization that many of us, who do have our ears to the ground, have made. Obama has a religious, cult-like following in this country. People almost seem to worship him. I couldn't believe that it was actually a possibility in the U.S. (history shows numerous examples of people regarding their leader as god-like), but I wondered how long it would be until someone actually dropped the "g-word".

It happened on Friday, June 5, 2009 when Evan Thomas of Newsweek (a mainstream media outlet) said "...in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world, he's sort of God."1. Kablow!!! There it was. Just came right out and said it. Note to self: make pilgrimage to Washington, DC.

Now, I may have to wait at least another five years to be proven wrong. The Republican Party has neutered itself. Obama and the Democrats have been giving the GOP a perpetual bitch-slap since McCain claimed the party's nomination in 2008. President Obama, the master manipulator, will see no need to take unprecedented action until his second term, when other democrats want his seat of power.

In "Part II" of this entry, I will explain specifically why I am predicting that Obama is not planning on leaving the White House.


Notes
1 "Newsweek's Evan Thomas: Obama Is 'Sort of God'" - NewsBusters 06/05/2009