“Unfortunately, finding that common ground — recognizing that our fates are tied up, as Dr. King said, in a “single garment of destiny” — is not easy. Part of the problem, of course, lies in the imperfections of man _ our selfishness, our pride, our stubbornness, our acquisitiveness, our insecurities, our egos; all the cruelties large and small that those of us in the Christian tradition understand to be rooted in original sin. We too often seek advantage over others. We cling to outworn prejudice and fear those who are unfamiliar. Too many of us view life only through the lens of immediate self-interest and crass materialism; in which the world is necessarily a zero-sum game. The strong too often dominate the weak, and too many of those with wealth and with power find all manner of justification for their own privilege in the face of poverty and injustice. And so, for all our technology and scientific advances, we see around the globe violence and want and strife that would seem sadly familiar to those in ancient times.”

Notice how Obama slips in “ownership” (acquisitiveness) in the list of vices. What Marxist wouldn’t include ownership as a key vice with which men struggle. Notice also how Obama impugns those with wealth and power but doesn’t manage to see sin in those who are impoverished and who have no power. This is the classical liberation theology that Obama learned under Jeremiah Wright. The rich are vicious just because they are rich. The poor are saintly just because they are poor. Obama, following liberation theology tenets, suggests that he is the one who must make the world “fair,” by redressing this problem.

Obama implies that people who don’t agree with him are guilty of self-interest, and crass materialism. Obama implies that people who don’t agree with him are guilty of prejudice and have a fear of those who are unfamiliar.

“We know these things; and hopefully one of the benefits of the wonderful education you have received is that you have had time to consider these wrongs in the world, and grown determined, each in your own way, to right them. And yet, one of the vexing things for those of us interested in promoting greater understanding and cooperation among people is the discovery that even bringing together persons of good will, men and women of principle and purpose, can be difficult.

The soldier and the lawyer may both love this country with equal passion, and yet reach very different conclusions on the specific steps needed to protect us from harm. The gay activist and the evangelical pastor may both deplore the ravages of HIV/AIDS, but find themselves unable to bridge the cultural divide that might unite their efforts. Those who speak out against stem cell research may be rooted in admirable conviction about the sacredness of life, but so are the parents of a child with juvenile diabetes who are convinced that their son’s or daughter’s hardships can be relieved.”

Lets be honest and note that the soldier and lawyer who both love their country with equal passion love it so much that they believe it would be a far better country if those who disagree with them were shipped off to some other country. This is true because the country they each love is a country where the convictions of the other are crushed and eliminated.

“The question, then, is how do we work through these conflicts? Is it possible for us to join hands in common effort? As citizens of a vibrant and varied democracy, how do we engage in vigorous debate? How does each of us remain firm in our principles, and fight for what we consider right, without demonizing those with just as strongly held convictions on the other side?”

Here Obama is building up to a technique that I’ve seen used countless times in the Church. Some issue comes up in a denomination where people have strong convictions on each side of the issue. What happens to jam the controversial issue through over the protests of those who are against the issue at hand is the recital of how noble the people are who want to see the controversial issue passed. There is a sense here that just because people have good intentions therefore whatever controversial issue they support must be embraced by the whole. From there what is lost sight of is the merits of demerits of the issue and what is turned to instead is the quality of the people who hold to controversial issues.

Obama seeks to fudge the lines of right and wrong by insisting that all the people who hold opposite opinions are good people. The implication here is that since the people who hold to varying convictions all have good intentions therefore all the varying convictions must be equally good.

The man who is sitting as President of these united States — B. Hussein Obama — spoke yesterday at Notre Dame. In a masterful speech that was a perfect piece of political propaganda Obama exhibited how one subtly undermines the opposition while at the same time practicing manipulation of public opinion.

B. Hussein Obama’s words are in blockquote and my interaction follows.

“You, however, are not getting off that easy. Your class has come of age at a moment of great consequence for our nation and the world — a rare inflection point in history where the size and scope of the challenges before us require that we remake our world to renew its promise; that we align our deepest values and commitments to the demands of a new age. It is a privilege and a responsibility afforded to few generations — and a task that you are now called to fulfill.”

Note here how Obama’s speech writers stroke the sense of self importance of the graduates. Obama fills his audience with a sense of mission that will only be satisfied by their remaking the world in ways that he is going to suggest.

It is ironic though in a sense Obama is right because we have come to a inflection point in history, and that inflection point is whether or not Americans will find the moral and political will to reject the totalitarianism that Obama represents. Obama is correct that the size and scope of the challenges before us are monumental. The largest of those challenges is to see through the fog screen of political propaganda that is pouring out of the White House sponsored major media.

On this quote, we would note again of Obama’s stated intent to “remake the world.” We should take very seriously this oft repeated sentiment of Obama. Obama is a clear Marxist who has already taken steps to introduce a hardening of the incipient socialism and nanny tyranny that we have lived with for decades now.

“This is the generation that must find a path back to prosperity and decide how we respond to a global economy that left millions behind even before this crisis hit — an economy where greed and short-term thinking were too often rewarded at the expense of fairness, and diligence, and an honest day’s work.”

We should understand that the cry of “fairness” is the standard cry of collectivists of all stripes. This is just the same old complaint that the bourgeoisie is unfair to the proletariat. Obama is just your garden variety Marxist.

Obama will remake the world by legislating “fairness,” which means a redistribution ethic. We have already seen Obama’s pursuit of “fairness” in sticking it to the investor class of the auto industry as he forced them to take pennies on the dollars of their investment while giving the UAW a huge share of ownership. Acting explicitly against the constitution Obama pursued his sense of “fairness.”

Secondly, there is a subtle undertone here that it was the private market that is to be faulted for the recent economic problems when in point of fact the problems of greed of the Government and the short term thinking of the government in their fiscal policies have been continually rewarded despite the governments lack of fairness, (as seen in their continued pursuit of affirmative action policies and quotas, as well as how they tax the producers in favor of the parasites of society) lack of diligence (unless you count the diligence of screwing the American public) and complete ignorance on what it means to do a honest days work. Obama keeps pointing to the private sector and to American businessmen as being greedy but continues to conveniently forget the rapacious greed of the state.

“We must decide how to save God’s creation from a changing climate that threatens to destroy it. We must seek peace at a time when there are those who will stop at nothing to do us harm, and when weapons in the hands of a few can destroy the many. And we must find a way to reconcile our ever-shrinking world with its ever-growing diversity — diversity of thought, of culture and of belief.”

Notice how our Marxist President invokes “God” in order to support his socialist agenda which is shielded with the evil mask of “global warming.” The planet is no more in danger of being destroyed by climate change then I’m in danger of being destroyed by biting snardarks.

Second, the Obama administration has already told us who it thinks are the ones who seek to do us harm and those people are not Islamic Jihadists but rather they are Ron Paul voters, Second Amendment believers, People who believe that the Constitution should be taken seriously, and people who believe in States rights. These are the folks that Obama believes intend to do this nation harm.

“In short, we must find a way to live together as one human family.”

This is Utopian nonsense. Humans have been existence for thousands of years and they have never lived together as one human family and the only way to find a way to live together as one human family is by the Gospel of Jesus Christ going forth triumphantly to conquer by Word and Spirit the members of the human family who refuse to bow the knee to King Jesus.

“It is this last challenge that I’d like to talk about today. For the major threats we face in the 21st century — whether it’s global recession or violent extremism, the spread of nuclear weapons or pandemic disease — do not discriminate. They do not recognize borders. They do not see color. They do not target specific ethnic groups.

Moreover, no one person, or religion, or nation can meet these challenges alone. Our very survival has never required greater cooperation and understanding among all people from all places than at this moment in history.”

Only Christianity alone can meet the challenges that Obama mentions. Christ alone is the answer to bring peace to the nations. Only Christian’s disciplining the nations can reduce the threats that the Marxist President fears.