"Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils;
and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his
birthright." (Genesis 25:34)
Jacob and Esau were twins, but Esau was born first
and therefore, as the eldest son, heir to his father's holdings as a right of
his birth. Esau was a 'cunning hunter' the Scriptures say, while Jacob was a
'plain man, dwelling in tents." (25:27)
Esau, exhausted after a day of hunting, agreed to
trade his birthright inheritance to Jacob in exchange for a bowl of red stew.
In my mind's eye, I always pictured Esau as a kind of
Harrison Ford character playing off Jacob's Gene Wilder.
"And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And
Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this
birthright do to me?"
His inheritance was yet future. Esau lived in the
now. He was hungry now. Jacob had something tangible that would address his
immediate needs. The future was only a promise. You can't eat a promise.
Four thousand years later, the descendants of Esau
are still seething over it. They blame Jacob for being tricky. I don't blame
them. The alternative explanation is that Esau was self-centered, greedy, and
more than just a little bit stupid.
Nonetheless, God honors stupid. "But if any man be
ignorant, let him be ignorant." (1st Corinthians 14:38)
When Esau sold his birthright to Jacob, then Jacob's
it was. The God of Israel is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, not Abraham,
Isaac and Esau.
For almost two years, Barack Hussein Obama has
criss-crossed the nation, telling the voters precisely what an Obama
administration would offer them. Higher taxes. More government regulation.
Surrender in the face of the enemy in Iraq.
Obama dared the mainstream to investigate his
relationships with the Black Liberation Movement, the rabidly racist and
anti-American Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the unrepentant founder of the terrorist
Weather Underground, Syrian-born swindler Tony Rezko, his shady deals and
shadier association.
The few that took up the challenge were unprepared to
answer the charges of racism and found it much simpler to look the other way
than find themselves victims of "do-you-still-beat-your-wife?" inquisitions.
That the media was complicit in keeping Obama's
secrets while raking through McCain-Palin's trash is not even an open secret. It
is a celebrated reality. (Chris Matthew's leg must be enduring a thrill a minute
right now.)
At one precinct in Ohio, two Black Panthers, one
wielding a nightstick, ensured that voters knew who the right vote would be for.
Voter registration fraud, voter fraud, voter intimidation, broken promises and
outright lies were irrelevant in the end.
In the end, the election was decided by college kids,
first time voters and of course, Mickey Mouse.
This morning, Barack Husseiin Obama, an
hitherto-unknown politician of questionable background that emerged from the
old-style Chicago Democratic political machine twenty-one months ago is
President-elect Barack Hussein Obama.
What God honors in men, He honors in nations. And God
honors stupid.
Assessment:
There is a famous bit of footage shot in early 1940
in Paris of its citizens lining the streets to watch the German troops parade
through the Arch de Triumph.
As the camera pans the crowd, it lingers on the face
of a middle-aged Parisian, tears streaming down in his cheeks, his face
contorted in grief at the catastrophe that had befallen his nation.
The image of this grieving Parisian is brief; his is
but one face among many lining the street that day, but his grief was so
palpable and profound that it burns into the memory of the viewer.
As Barack Obama gave his victory speech to the
country, I felt a lot like that Parisian of long-ago.
Let's face it. President-elect Barack Hussein Obama
was not elected based on his legislative record. Nobody knows what it is, even
now.
He was not elected based on his exemplary personal
history. What we know of it is pretty bad stuff.
He wasn't elected based on the depth of his
experience or foreign policy acumen. He doesn't have any.
America just honored the legacy of Martin Luther King
by coming full circle. America just elected a candidate, not on the content of
his character, but by the color of his skin.
Barack Hussein Obama was elected so that Americans
could say the color barrier has been smashed. Ok. It's smashed. Now what?
Duh. Nobody seems to have thought very far past "now
what?" Now that we've made history, what are we gonna do tomorrow? (Tomorrow??)
We just elected a far left lifelong Marxist/socialist
president of the United States and handed complete control of the Congress to
the Far Left Marxist Democrats.
To 'fix' an economy that they broke in order to get
elected.
America has sold its position as a center-right
nation for a bowl of pottage. (Jacob was perhaps tricky, but Esau was just plain
stupid.)
America has handed over control of the Supreme Court
to the most liberal president in American history at a time when America faces
the greatest threat to its continued existence since the American Revolution.
Hal and I were talking a couple of weeks ago when it
occurred to us that what Hal has been preaching for fifty years and I for thirty
is upon us. Indeed, while we were looking the other way, it has overtaken us.
This is what we were warning of.
But it arrived so surreptitiously we didn't see it
until it was here.
It's going to take some time to analyze the full
implications of the catastrophe that has befallen America. I don't want to sound
like the Democrats who all promised to move to Canada if Bush won in 2000 and
2004. (He did, they didn't)
But we're already planning to mirror our servers
offshore so we can move the Omega Letter outside the reach of the new American
socialists.
Barack Hussein Obama is the President-elect of the
United States because God wanted Barack Hussein Obama -- and no one else -- to
be president for the next four years.
"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers.
For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. "
Whatever God has planned for the next four years, He
needs a mysterious, charismatic but inexperienced socialist dreamer with a
Muslim education and spiritual ties to the god of this world to facilitate those
ends.
Nobody else would do.