The Corpus Callosum

The urge to fisk is an omnipresent danger for all bloggers.  Usually I am strong.  Usually I resist.  But this essay on World Net Daily got my fisking neurons all in a twitter.  It's by David Kupelian, and it's a World Net Daily Exclusive!  (Because no one else would print it.)

How Hillary will lead America into hell
Posted: May 02, 2008

As November's election nears, some otherwise right-thinking conservatives and Christians, unhappy with GOP presidential candidate John McCain, have concluded America would actually be better off in the long run with Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama in the White House for the next four years.

Yes, they have.  And it is their vote to cast.  Maybe they have learned something in the past seven years.

The damage that will occur to America if Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama is elected president will go far beyond what we can rationally anticipate on the policy level.

Don't get me wrong. Policy disasters like socialized medicine (radically expanding government and reducing freedom), an untimely retreat from Iraq (betraying our soldiers and the Iraqi people, and fanning the flames of worldwide jihad for another generation), the appointment of pro-abortion zealots to the Supreme Court (resulting in a pro-death high court for the rest of our lives, and no hope of overturning Roe v. Wade) are appalling enough - and more than ample reason to choose McCain over either of the Democrats.

First of all, the term "socialized medicine" is meaningless.  He probably means universal-coverage, single-payer health care.  This would neither expand government, nor reduce freedom.  

Withdrawing from Iraq would not be a betrayal to anyone.  Plus, the supreme court is already pro-death.  Just look at their recent decision about capital punishment.

Kupelian is making so many straw men, you'd think he lives in Oz.

Quick story here. I happened to be in K-Mart in the electronics department on March 23, 1983. I remember the date because, while I was strolling around, killing time by checking out a large display of TV sets all tuned to the same channel, President Reagan came on and delivered his historic speech introducing the Strategic Defense Initiative, or SDI, in which he announced that America was going to change policy and actually defend itself against nuclear attack.

I was stunned. On that day, I discovered new hope for America. We were not going to rely forever on Mutual Assured Destruction and the "balance of terror" doctrine. We would actually protect our beloved nation from the Soviets or anyone else threatening us with annihilation. Clouds of cynicism and doubt about my country's future lifted from my mind, as it did for millions of others.

Many years and many billions of dollars later, all we have done is wasted money.  We are no safer now.  SDI does not and will not work.  By the way, it does not matter how many TV sets there are.  All they broadcast is nonsense, anyway.    

What I'm saying is, the president is like the father of a big family, and who he is and what he is - his spirit - affects everyone, like the sun. It's a radiant energy that directly shines on people. Presidents invisibly shape the character and worldview of the country, with a particularly profound effect upon the young, since they are the most impressionable.

Poor guy.  Kupelian tried to kiss the Blarney Stone, but his slipped and bashed his forehead on it.  Now he tries to talk, and all that comes out is baloney like this (the Blarney-forehead effect).  It's really a pity.

This radiant effect works in the negative, too. Bill Clinton's sexual addiction and utter lack of responsibility and self-control led to the entire world knowing what he was doing with a young intern in the Oval Office. Whereas Ronald Reagan had such respect for the Oval Office that he reportedly never entered it without wearing a coat and tie, Bill Clinton turned it into his private sex club. And the radiant effect of his monumental selfishness was that he infected an entire generation of young people, in high school and even middle school, influencing them to sexually mimic the national trauma of a president exploiting an intern barely older than his daughter.

It is true that young people engage in oral sex more, these days.  Perhaps the President had something to do with it, but I seriously doubt it.  Plus, there is less teenage pregnancy, and fewer abortions are being performed.  Tell me this is a bad thing.

So ask yourself: If Hillary Clinton - widely recognized as a pathologically lying chameleon for whom nothing is sacred but her own aggrandizement - becomes the "father of our country," just what sort of "radiant" effect do you suppose she'll have on America?

President Bush presented himself as a moderate in his first campaign, and as a tough guy in his second.  Tell me, who's the chameleon?  He lied about his intentions in Iraq, lied about torture, lied about weapons of mass destruction.  Tell me, who's the liar?

For that matter, what about an equally dysfunctional "President Obama"? What would be the effect on young people of a leader so deeply and radically anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-military, pro-homosexual, pro-abortion and pro-socialist - and yet who hides his true identity behind a shimmering veneer of faith, hope and love?

He just made that up.  None of it is true.  Tell me, who's the liar now?

Just reflect, for a moment, on the bizarre and seemingly inexplicable behaviors of young people we see right now - youths Tasering each other for fun on YouTube. Ubiquitous sexual debauchery at younger and younger ages. The mainstreaming of transgenderism. Body piercing and tattooing at an ever-more pathological level - tongues, lips, eyebrows, deep body parts. Pandemic gang activity and drug abuse. Witchcraft. Satanism. Suicide. (I take readers on a guided tour of this bizarre underworld in the "Killer Culture" chapter of "The Marketing of Evil.")

Thanks for letting us know about your book.  I'm sure you will sell literally tens of copies.  By the way, if your premise is true, which is isn't, then these behaviors are due to the effect of the current President -- a Republican.  

And what is a "deep body part?"  The pancreas?  I've seen a lot of piercings, but no pancreas rings.  

Of course, nobody would be able to prove any cause and effect...

No kidding.  You can't prove it, but you want us to believe it anyway.

...But remember these words: Elevating a person like Hillary Clinton to the presidency of the United States will unleash hell in America in a way very few of us can even comprehend, let alone remedy.

That would be like Dante Alighieri's Inferno.  I happened to see Dali's rendition of that, recently, and I have to admit that it was difficult to comprehend.  But it is not particularly new.  

In fact, The Divine Comedy was written between 1308 and 1321.  Some things never change.  

But some things do.  The fact is, we will have a new President in 2009.  It will be a gamble.  There will be risks.  We cannot control that, nor can we avoid it.  We should either trust the process, or change it.  

If you want to make a real difference, talk to us about voter-verified paper records of voting, proportional representation, campaign finance reform, lobbying reform...things like that.  Presidents come and go.  Some leave behind a big mess.  The key is not to focus on particular candidates.  Rather, the key is to look at how the candidates are selected and elected.