IS AMERICA BEING DISMANTLED? - AT 5:55 A.M. ET:   The great Tom Sowell, who deserves a Pulitzer Prize for commentary, but won't get it because he's a black conservative, raises the chilling notion that the Obama administration really is out to dismantle what most Americans consider the building blocks of their country.  This is must reading:

Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many "czars" appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?

Did you think that another "czar" would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers-- that is, to create a situation where some newspapers' survival would depend on the government liking what they publish?

Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of so-called "experts" deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments?

And the list goes on. 

How about a federal agency giving school children material to enlist them on the side of the president? Merely being assigned to sing his praises in class is apparently not enough.

And the heart of the matter:

Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to "change the United States of America," the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country...

...Among the people appointed as czars by President Obama have been people who have praised enemy dictators like Mao, who have seen the public schools as places to promote sexual practices contrary to the values of most Americans, to a captive audience of children.

Those who say that the Obama administration should have investigated those people more thoroughly before appointing them are missing the point completely. Why should we assume that Barack Obama didn't know what such people were like, when he has been associating with precisely these kinds of people for decades before he reached the White House?

Finally...

Nothing so epitomizes President Obama's own contempt for American values and traditions like trying to ram two bills through Congress in his first year-- each bill more than a thousand pages long-- too fast for either of them to be read, much less discussed. That he succeeded only the first time says that some people are starting to wake up. Whether enough people will wake up in time to keep America from being dismantled, piece by piece, is another question-- and the biggest question for this generation.

COMMENT:  It's safe to say that Tom Sowell won't be getting the NAACP Man of the Year Award.  But he has said what needs saying - that this president is fundamentally different from all the others who preceded him.  One pundit called him the first "post-American" president.  He accepts and embraces the idea of contempt for the very nation he leads.  Sowell is right that those radicals he's hired merely reflect his own background. 

And Sowell is also right when he says that the issue of whether Americans wake up to what's happening is the biggest question for this generation.  There are signs of an awakening, but there are powerful forces rushing in with sleeping pills - the mainstream media, the academic world, the special interests who will make millions from Obama's "progressivism."  It's our job to keep the people awake, and to get them, awakened and angry, to the polls.

October 27, 2009