We Must Choose

If you were to ask 10 random people on the streets of New York who Rahm Emanuel is, you'd be lucky to get one person who knows. Most people, especially people who call themselves 'Democrats' or ‘Progressives' or 'Liberals' are totally disengaged from the political process. Therefore, all the bloviating about Rahm or anybody else in the Obama administration is a waste of time.

The only face that matters is Obama's. If you happen to be skilled at painting by the numbers, examine the backgrounds of his czar appointees. This will supply you with the shades needed to complete Obama's portrait. Since we were given essentially a blank slate re our current occupant in The White House, it is entirely appropriate that we now try to find out who he is. (Better late than never.) Should we not like where he's taking us, attacking his people will miss the mark.

I understand Barry Hussein is not alone in this. But he is the face. He and only he can be defined - either as friend or foe.

I saw a movie yesterday about 'Doctors w/o Borders’ (Beyond Borders, '03). It dramatized three of the world's hot spots and the tremendous suffering there. The people helping out all were well-meaning souls who nobly put their lives on the line against impossible odds - trying to help.

But since the film was essentially a propaganda ploy for the Left, all the good Samaritans essentially succumbed to blaming themselves for all the evils in the world. They did so by triangulating their common sense in hopes of rising above the warring factions; they made no judgments, took no sides, and ended up crushed with not much to show for it. It was a modern version of Sisyphus’ plight: Intelligent, highly-skilled, good people - crushed by the madness of partisan violence.

At some point, I believe, it is required of us to take a side and fight impeccably to win. We’ve had it too easy. In elections, we happily voted for the lesser of two evils. Sometimes we flipped a coin. Granted (apart from at Louis Gates' house), nobody’s shown up in the middle of the night with guns yet.

Too many people are beginning to figure out that, despite the rhetoric, the math just doesn’t add up. They’ve begun to question the divergence between rhetoric and the results that can be expected. Too many people have decided that the time to take action is now; to commit; to take a stand; that a refusal to do so in the interest of avoiding the slings and arrows from either side is sheer lunacy. In my view, we no longer have the luxury to simply sit back. We must choose (if only to protect our ability to make choices in the future).