Change We Asked For

When we the people voted in the Presidential elections, the majority of American’s

voted for Barack Obama and change. The Bush administration, criticized for having its own language, it’s own rules, regulations and customs, troubled many on the political left. According to them, the Bush Presidency was a world unto itself. “The white house is a political island of unreason”, mourned Wolf Blitzer of CNN in 2008.

As promised, the Obama administration has swiftly initiated change. Indeed, this new Presidential team has emerged with its own language, it’s own rules, regulations and customs. Gone is the language of terrorism (except when discussing returning Iraqi veterans and pro-lifers.) Gone are the rules of tough diplomacy. “If you’re not with us, you are against us” has been replaced with bows, hugs, and handshakes. Gone are the regulations of science to protect the sanctity of human life. In their stead is a free pass for strip mining human embryos (stem cell research) and federal funding of abortion. Gone is the Bush Administration’s inclination to respect Christianity and defend its symbols. In its place is sensitivity and praise of Islam. Obama attended a mosque before he attended a church, took off his shoes in reverence for Islam while his set up teams were taking down the name of Jesus in callous disregard to Christianity.

All this change is not hap hazardous. Obama, who seldom speaks without a tele-prompter, reads a script of change no doubt conceived in the 18 year exile of Democrats from power. Democratic strategy seems to be this: float so many balloons of change at once, that no journalist or investigating body can maintain focus. Indeed, the strategy seems to working. The most enterprising news media are suckered away from in depth journalism, pursuing the next Presidential “Shock and Awe” press release. “Obama fires head of G.M.”, “Obama seeks out Chavez”, “Obama reaches out to Castro”, “Obama frees funds for Abortion”, “Obama says America is not a Christian nation”, “Obama opens up stem cell research). You get the drift.

What the conservative electorate is left to do is read bills passed by Congressmen who have not read them and accept debt and penalty of debt, as a bill to be paid. As an electorate, we are left, quite frankly, to attend to the Obama Presidency the way folks in Albuquerque attend a festival of Hot Air Balloons. We cling to our blankets and bitter tea parties, exclaiming, at each news cycle, when another Hot Air Balloon of Change is released: “Wow. Look at that! Goodness. Well, I never. Oh my!”

It can never be doubted that the Obama administration is about change.

The spirit of this age is change. The spirit of this age is secular and decidedly Post-Christian. The spirit of this age decries religious moral constraint as ideology, not to be consulted. It views the Christian right, pro-lifers and returning veterans as “potentially” as dangerous as the Taliban. The spirit of this age, in confronting terror and nuclear threats is concession, friendship, bows, hugs, and handshakes. All we can do now is watch and remember.

What do we remember? We remember what the Judaeo-Christian heritage has taught us in its 4,000 year history, as it has survived tyrants, kings, dictators, rulers and prime ministers of all nations and of all persuasions. “He who marries the spirit of the age, is soon a widower.”