Obama vs. Common Sense
Senator Barack Obama could do with a little more common sense.
In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, after eloquently talking about the violence of the massacre, he went on to talk about other kinds of violence, which he referred to as “not necessarily physical violence, but the violence that we perpetrate on each other in other ways.â€
Non-physical violence? What is he talking about? Shouting?
No. He’s talking about outsourcing. I kid you not. He said “There’s the violence of men and women who have worked all their lives and suddenly have the rug pulled out from under them because their job has moved to another country†and he goes on to tell us how terrible this is.
I’m no enemy of metaphor or hyperbole. But Obama is doing violence to the concept of violence.
Life can be tough, true. But having to struggle to maintain one’s standard of living just ain’t the same as being murdered. Remember, this is a speech that the senator gave right after 32 professors and students were gunned down while going about their everyday lives.
Worse yet, this is a politician stretching the meaning of a very key term. Governments are instituted to use controlled violence to subdue and prevent citizen violence. If hiring someone from overseas — or, in another of his examples, not listening to children — is now called violence, what kind of response might we expect from a government run by Obama?
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
