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    The night we  waved goodbye to America ... our last best hope on  Earth... 

    by Peter Hitchins, The Daily  Mail


    Anyone would think we had just elected a hip,  skinny and youthful replacement for God, with a plan to  modernize Heaven and Hell - or that at the very least John  Lennon had come back from the dead.

    The swooning  frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception  and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced  civilization. At least Mandela-worship - its nearest  equivalent - is focused on a man who actually did  something.

    I really don't see how the Obama devotees  can ever in future mock the Moonies, the Scientologists or  people who claim to have been abducted in
flying saucers.  This is a cult like the one which grew up around Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts.

    It  already has all the signs of such a thing. The newspapers which  recorded
Obama's victory have become valuable relics You  may buy Obama picture books and Obama calendars and if there isn't yet a  children's picture version of his story, there soon will  be.  Proper books, recording his sordid associates, his  cowardly voting record, his astonishingly militant  commitment to unrestricted abortion and his blundering  trip to Africa , are little-read and hard to find.

    If  you can believe that this undistinguished and conventionally  Left-wing machine politician is a sort of secular saviour,  then you can believe anything. He plainly doesn't believe  it himself. His cliché-stuffed, PC clunker of an  acceptance speech suffered badly from nerves. It was what you would expect from  someone who knew he'd promised too much and that from now on the easy bit was  over.

    He needn't worry too much. From now on, the  rough boys and girls of America 's Democratic Party  apparatus, many recycled from Bill Clinton's stained and  crumpled entourage, will crowd round him, to collect the  rich spoils of his victory and also tell hi m what to do,  which is what he is used to.

     Just look at his sermon by the shores of Lake Michigan . He really did talk about a 'new dawn', and a 'timeless creed' (which was  'yes, we can'). He
proclaimed that 'change has come'. He  revealed that, despite having edited the Harvard Law  Review, he doesn't know what 'enormity' means.

    He  reached depths of oratorical drivel never even plumbed by our own  Mr. Blair, burbling about putting our hands on the arc of  history (or was it the ark of history?) and bending it  once more toward the hope of a better day     (Don't try this  at home).

    I am not making this up. No wonder that  awful old hack Jesse Jackson sobbed as he watched. How he must wish he, too,  could get away with this sort of stuff.

    And it was  interesting how the President-elect failed to lift his  admiring audience by repeated - but rather hesitant -  invocations of the brainless slogan he was forced by his  minders to adopt against his will - 'Yes, we can'. They  were supposed to thunder 'Yes, we can!' back at him, but  they just wouldn't join in. No wonder. Yes we can what  exactly? Go home and keep a close eye on the tax rate, is my advice. He'd have  been better off bursting into 'I'd like to teach the world  to sing in perfect harmony' which contains roughly the  same message and might have attracted some valuable commercial  sponsorship.

    Perhaps, being a Chicago crowd, they knew  some of the things that 52.5 percent of America prefers not to know. They know  Obama is the obedient servant of one of the most squalid and unshakeable  political machines in America.They know that one of his alarmingly close  associates, a state-subsidized slum landlord called Tony Rezko, has been  convicted on fraud and corruption charges. 

    They also  know the US is just as segregated as it was before Martin  Luther
King - in schools, streets, neighborhoods,  holidays, even in its TV-watching habits and its choice of fast-food joint. The difference is that it is now done by  unspoken agreement rather than by law.

    If Mr Obama's  election had threatened any of that, his feel-good white supporters would have scuttled off and voted for John McCain, or practically  anyone. But it doesn't. Mr Obama, thanks mainly to the now-departed grandmother  he alternately praised as a saint and denounced as a racial bigot, has the huge  advantages of an expensive private education. He did not have to grow up in the  badlands of useless schools, shattered families and gangs which are the lot of  so many young black men of his generation.

    If the  nonsensical claims made for this election were true, then  every positive discrimination programme aimed at helping  black people into jobs they otherwise wouldn't get should  be abandoned forthwith. Nothing of the kind will happen.  On the contrary, there will probably be more of them. And if those who voted for Obama were all proving their  anti-racist nobility, that presumably means that those  many millions who didn't vote for him were proving themselves to be hopeless  bigots. This is obviously untrue.

    Yes we can what?:  Barack Obama ran on the ticket of change - I was in Washington DC the night of the election. America 's beautiful capital has a  sad secret. It is perhaps the most racially divided city  in the world, with 15th Street - which runs due north from  the White House - the unofficial frontier between black  and white. But, like so much of America , it also now has  a new division, and one which is in many ways much more  important. I had attended an election-night party in a smart and  liberal white area, but was staying the night less than a  mile away on the edge of a suburb where Spanish is spoken as much as English,  plus a smattering of tongues from such places as Ethiopia  , Somalia and Afghanistan .


    As I walked, I crossed  another of Washington's secret frontiers . There had
been  a few white people blowing car horns and shouting, as the result became clear.  But among the Mexicans, Salvadorans and the other Third World nationalities,  there was something like ecstasy. They grasped the real significance of this  moment. They knew it meant that America had finally switched sides in a global  cultural war. Forget the Cold War, or even the Iraq War. The United States,  having for the most part a deeply conservative people, had until now just about  stood out against many of the mistakes which have ruined so much of the rest of  the world.


    Suspicious of welfare addiction, feeble  justice and high taxes, totally committed to preserving  its own national sovereignty, unabashedly Christian in a world part secular and  part Muslim, suspicious of the Great Global Warming panic, it was  unique


    These strengths had been fading for some time,  mainly due to poorly  controlled mass immigration and to  the march of political correctness. They had also been  weakened by the failure of America 's conservative party - the Republicans - to  fight on the cultural and moral fronts.

    They preferred  to posture on the world stage. Scared of confronting Left-wing teachers and sexual revolutionaries at home, they could  order soldiers to be brave on their behalf in far-off  deserts. And now the US ,  like Britain before it, has  begun the long slow descent into the Third World. How sad.  Where now is our last best hope on  Earth?








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