AUDACITY OF CONTRADICTIONS
This morning a well-known writer asked for advice. After indicating he would give a major speech
on Barack Obama’s presidency and American democracy, he said “I need to tell
the truth. And be balanced. What do you advise?
Summoning moral courage, I wrote to him:
You should speak a
balanced truth, although your message will be bittersweet.
A. Barack Obama the man, the husband, the father
is a person we can admire without reservations.
He has a good heart; he possesses the virtues of faith, love, charity,
and hope; he is a good American citizen.
He is a candidate for earned rewards when he dies.
B. President Barack Obama is a different
person, a different case. In his second
term, he has swiftly learned to project himself as a master of Machiavellian
politics and as a superb servant of the hypocrisy that does dirty work behind
the mask of angelic democracy. He is
obedient. He willingly stains his hands
in blood and does all the reprehensible things that anyone who occupies the
Office of the President is required to do by the global cartels that call the
shots. Like all Presidents of the 20th century, he spits on virtues
and does what is pragmatic and effective by any means necessary. His rhetorical
postures do not match his disguised activities.
Tell your audience
that each individual is condemned to deal with this glaring contradiction
between A and B.
Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
March 8, 2013
