Don's Tuesday Column

                 THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson  Red Bluff Daily News   6/07/2016

           Obama, Clinton, leftist outrages

It was just another day off from managing a restaurant, in the late 1980s, watching a movie in one of Los Angeles’ best theaters, the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. I recall seeing three African-American gentlemen in suits and ties take their seats behind me.

My attention to the screen was distracted by what seemed to be one of the men breathing through his mouth onto my neck. I turned around and whispered a request for him to please exhale away from my neck. Then, the man behind me leaned forward and said, in a low, husky voice, “Do you know who I am? My name is Muhammad Ali.”

Now I’m thinking that he’s a mouth-breathing prankster, to whom I turned and said, in the dimly lit theater, “I don’t care who you are, please stop breathing my direction.” Nothing else occurred until I went to the men’s room; a few places to my right stood one of the men in suits.

At that moment, it dawned on me that, if it was Muhammad Ali, he could have had a couple of Nation of Islam bodyguards in their typical dark suits, white shirts and ties. To this day, I think it really was the boxing legend himself, just taking in a movie with a couple of associates. I also think I might have come way too close to getting beat up, you might say, for my temerity. If he was a mean man, it might have ended that way; the Champ, however, was not a mean man.

It seems hardly a week goes by without some new, or even recycled, outrageous statement, proclamation or speech from Emperor Obama (he said only an emperor could ignore immigration law, then went ahead and did it, anyway). I omitted intentionally, from last week’s Memorial Day tribute to America’s fallen warriors, comments on Obama’s Hiroshima speech. In his backhanded way of besmirching the use of nuclear weapons by President Truman, he also displayed his cavalier attitude toward dead American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines.

It was, you see, an irrefutable fact of anticipated warfare on the island of Japan itself—warfare promised by Japanese military leaders—that hundred of thousands, perhaps millions, of American casualties and deaths would most certainly have resulted from the house to house street fighting necessary to subjugate our enemy.

I’ll simply refer the reader to Ben Shapiro’s “President Obama Gives One Of The Most Repulsive Speeches In American History In Hiroshima” for an extended analysis and refutation of Obama’s utterances. “On Friday, President Obama said America’s use of the A-bomb to end the threat of Japanese fascism sprang from American desire for conquest, suggested that America had ushered in an age of ‘atomic warfare’, and said that we could achieve a ‘world without nuclear weapons’ if only we clapped for Tinkerbell…Yes, our president is a total disgrace.”

Shame on Obama for ignoring the unprovoked attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor, killing 2,335 servicemen and 68 civilians. “Hiroshima happened because the world slept as fascism rose; Obama wishes to sleep on evil again (or worse, forward it), hoping that national narcolepsy becomes contagious internationally, and we share the same peaceful dreams. We don’t. If we go to sleep again, our enemies will use that reverie to rise…The result will be more Hiroshimas after 70 years of nuclear peace.”

A similarly astute critique came from “Barack Obama, Pacifist” by John Hinderaker. “The lesson that Obama draws from World War II—the most epic conflict between good and evil in history—is the same for all nations. Those who started the war have nothing special to learn from it. [America and the nuclear-armed west are] the most indicted by history…

“What Obama calls the logic of fear is actually the logic of deterrence. But the practical need to defend oneself from evil regimes is not Obama’s concern. Rather, he calls for a ‘moral revolution’ that will make war obsolete. Whatever. There is no mystery as to Obama’s ideology…Obama is an old-fashioned pacifist: indiscriminately hostile to the use of force, he papers over the fundamental difference between aggression and self-defense.

“Pacifism of this sort was rather common during the years between the wars, but World War II refuted it, seemingly, forever. It seems that the passage of time has allowed fuzzy thinkers like Barack Obama to use that black-and-white conflict to illustrate, not the need for eternal vigilance in defense of liberty, but rather the moral case for disarmament. How far we have come in a few short years.”

Some short points: the Inspector General’s report on Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal server for her official correspondence shows that Hillary has lied at every step, on every material point, every time she has opened her mouth and continues to this day falsely restating her case. And yet, we have the ad infinitum, ad nauseam calls to ignore such outrages and elect a woman.

Trump’s detractors rush to harp on Trump University but ignore the waste of millions of taxpayer dollars by Bernie Sanders’ wife who ran a small university into financial ruin. They also say nothing about the trillion dollars in student debt, averaging $30,000 to $100,000+, for degrees that, in many cases, have no practical use in securing jobs with income sufficient to ever repay the loans. People err; businesses fail; only government creates massive catastrophes.

On the San Jose anti-Trump rioters, I only wish there had been 1,000 bikers with chains and pool cues escorting Trump attendees out of the hall to their cars. They could have burned a few Mexican flags to boot. National socialist (nazi), leftwing and fascist violence has come to America’s streets.