The Middle is Always Evil

Last night, Sarah Palin gave what was by all accounts an excellent speech.

This is a woman who, in the last week, has been the target of multiple, scurrilous attacks. The left wing press has made her into a pariah, a target upon which it can unload all of its hatred for conservatism. Much has been said, and it has been roundly speculated that McCain’s vetting process was anything but thorough. But between Palin and Barack Obama, can there be any question as to whose record has been more carefully examined by the media– by the American public?

Briefly consider the following facts, and ask yourself how many times you’ve heard about them in the mainstream press:

Obama, a black man, is a former member of a church that endorses Black Liberation Theology, a faith that believes that Christianity teaches us to free the “oppressed” through redistributing the wealth– the oppressed, in this case, being everyone who is black; this is a church that he attended for twenty years.

While visiting his father’s homeland, Kenya, in 2004, Obama met with and campaigned on behalf of fellow Lou tribesman and openly socialist Ralia Odinga, who is now the Prime Minister of Kenya.

Obama is a known associate of William Ayers, unrepentant domestic terrorist directly responsible for bombings on both the Capitol Building and the Pentagon; it is in that man’s home where Obama held his political coming-out party in 1995, when he first announced his candidacy for State Senator of Illinois.

Many are familiar with Barack Obama as a “community organizer,” but few seem to know what work he did specifically; Obama worked for the Developing Communities Project of the Calumet Community Religious Conference in Chicago, organizations based around the principles of the Communist writer, Saul Alinsky. Alinsky wrote a book called Rules for Radicals, which Obama says he read in college in his autobiography, The Audacity of Hope. Considered by many to be the Bible of bloodless socialist revolution, Rules for Radicals surely had an effect on the just-out-of-college Obama, considering that he went to work for organizations dedicated to the principles that were laid out in it. Alinsky’s son, L. David Alinsky, recently said to the Boston Globe:

“Barack Obama’s training in Chicago by the great community organizers is showing its effectiveness. It is an amazingly powerful format, and the method of my late father always works to get the message out and get the supporters on board. When executed meticulously and thoughtfully, it is a powerful strategy for initiating change and making it really happen. Obama learned his lesson well.

“I am proud to see that my father’s model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday.”

According to Alinsky, Obama has learned his lesson well. What lesson, and from whom? The answer: how to affect “Change” as taught by an avowed Communist. This is how Obama earned his stripes– organizing.

When Barack Obama, the man who may quite possibly be the next Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States of America, is free from the intense scrutiny that has been given to Sarah Palin’s seventeen year-old daughter’s romantic life, something is not right.

Its been awhile since my last post– too long. Since then, a lot has happened.

Sarah Palin is John McCain’s running mate; she’s awesome, and as I’ve mentioned in the past, a true conservative. Now, there is this whole controversy with Bristol Palin, her daughter. Almost immediately after McCain announced Palin as his choice, the left wing blogs went crazy with wild speculation as to whether her youngest son, Trig, was not her’s, but in fact Bristol’s– even going so far as to conjecture that pictures of the Alaskan governor when she was pregnant were faked, and to openly consider the possibility that she had been wearing a “pregnancy suit.”

In order to rebut such ridiculous claims, Palin confirmed that it would be impossible for Bristol to have given birth to Trig, since at the time of Trig’s birth, Bristol herself had been pregnant. Unsurprisingly, this has started yet another controversy.

Teenage pregnancy creates a difficult situation for everyone involved. Over the past few days, this poor girl has been dragged through the mud on national television. Now, as someone who is Bristol Palin’s age, I know many girls who have had pregnancy scares; it must be a frightening thing to experience– I can only imagine. But the liberal media is treating this poor girl like a pariah, shamelessly using her to attack her mother.

“If she can’t run her own daughter, how can we expect her to run the country?!”

Is this offensive to anyone else? The implication here is that at seventeen years old, Bristol Palin is wholly incapable of making decisions for herself. Our parents do their best to teach us, to nurture us, and to give us guidance and instruction– that we might be the very best people we can; but at the end of the day, they cannot decide for us. We make our own decisions– sometimes we make good ones, sometimes not.

It would have been easy for Bristol Palin to quietly get an abortion, saving herself the unforgiving scrutiny of the liberal media that she now faces– but she chose life. Liberals talk about pro-choice, pro-choice, as though, for them, the abortion issue is about the choice– but it seems that when a young woman, faced with a difficult decision, chooses life, they can do nothing but pile on the criticism. If things had gone differently, would we not be hearing from the lib media how brave young Bristol is, to make such a difficult decision so boldly, in defiance of her mother?

You see, liberals in this country pretend to be advocates of women and minorities, but when these groups do not live up to the neat little caricatures that liberals draw, they get angry. If anyone doubts me on this, I offer you Clarence Thomas as the stalwart example. And now their doing it to Sarah Palin– oh she’s pro-life! There are no pro-life women in this country! Only misogynistic men are capable of a pro-life stance. Oh! She uses guns! She hunts! She fishes! A woman with a gun? Oh! Not in my vision of America!

Do you see the ultimate sexism that is feminism?

This kind of behavior by the media– the clear bias, has been going on for decades. This is a media that went easy on Kennedy; this is the media that has given Bill Clinton multiple passes; a media that was far too easy on the Soviet Union; this is a media that, as far as I’m concerned, has aided our enemy, by pressuring our military to go easy on them– both on the streets of Baghdad and Fallujah and in Guantanamo Bay.

BUT, when a family member of the Republican vice presidential candidate is going through a crisis– no one gets a pass!