For
a president who has boasted about the power of his pen and who has not
hesitated to use it to legislate from the oval office through executive orders
to advance his agenda and sidestep Congress, President Obama has resisted using
it to save American lives by imposing a travel ban from West Africa to the U.S.
Instead, his Acting Surgeon General has contradicted the centers for Disease
Control and assured Americans that the Ebola virus is difficult to
transmit--something that might come as somewhat of a shock to the nurses in Spain and the U.S. who contracted the disease while treating infected patients
and following established protocols.
If
medical professional in protective suits can become infected, what hope is
there for the luckless traveler unfortunate enough to sit next to a
sneezing/coughing/sweating Ebola-infected traveler on an airplane, bus, subway,
restaurant, school or workplace? If the virus can live for many hours on hard
surfaces touched by an infected patient's sweat, mucus, blood or other bodily
fluids, (to say nothing of penetrating protective clothing designed to be
impenetrable) the deflection from the Obama administration's various
spokespersons during press conferences and talk show visits has as much
credibility as the statement from the President about there being "not a
shred of evidence" about misconduct by the IRS in its targeting of
Conservative organizations and denying of tax-free status applications for
Conservative groups in violation of federal law during a post Superbowl
interview with Bill O'Reilly.
One
has to wonder whether there is a shred of credibility left for the current
administration--for the man behind the curtain telling us not to trust our
eyes, ears, noses or brains but rather the pretty, reassuring messages on the
screen that all is well.
As
dangerous as Ebola may be, it is not the worst pandemic affecting us today.
That dubious honor belongs to a far more wide-spread illness with which we are
all being intentionally infected by both government, the media and the
entertainment industry: political correctness. This is by no means a new
disease; its roots date back to the 1960s and grow from the well fertilized
soil of relativistic ethics and left of center political theories that planted
it with careful tending by a sympathetic media and academics. Public safety
must take a back seat to possibly giving offense to West Africans/African
Americans/liberals/open border advocates/Ebola victims or making any of these
groups feel bad about themselves.
Preventing
harm to the economies of West African countries trumps the health and safety of
the American public. These are the actual reasons that President Obama will not
impose a travel ban on travel from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. The rest
is just a smokescreen--a mendacious narrative that distorts facts in order to justify
doing what the administration wants to do--nothing.
Temporarily banning travel
to the U.S. by anyone with a passport from these three countries or from any
other country that shows travel to these affected countries in the past three
months is a first step in stemming the flow of additional infected individuals
into the U.S. It is a logical, rational, and effective solution demanded by an overwhelming
majority of Americans in recent polls.
Yes
we should allow humanitarian relief and travel to these countries by special
permission aboard military aircraft or chartered flights, but NOT on regular
airline flights. Constructing a patently absurd rationale for doing nothing is
unconscionable.
I
predict President Obama will eventually give in to the demand for a travel ban,
but not until there are additional deaths in the U.S. from Ebola-infected
victims. Perhaps when a child dies of the disease transmitted by an infected
teacher or classmate school or in daycare, or by an infected passenger on a
flight the administration will see the wisdom of imposing a travel ban. Why
must more people die before the political machinery acts? On whose heads will
those deaths be?
Doubtless
some will reject what I write off hand as a partisan attack on the President.
I've voted for Republicans and Democrats since I first voted at the age of 18.
Yes, I've voted mostly for Republicans, but Robert Kennedy and Senator Daniel
Patrick Moynihan were also heroes of mine, alongside President Ronald Reagan,
and William F. Buckley, Jr. And my best friend was a former delegate for the
People's Party when we were both in college.
This
is not about politics, but rather about a secular religion of political
correctness being forced on the American public. It was incubated in college
campuses in the '60s and '70s and moved well beyond the Petri dishes of
academia into the general populace nurtured by the media and the Hollywood
elites to a point where we have become a nation paralized by this disease.
Civil discourse is discouraged on topics found to be "offensive" to
the social/political/lifestyle predilections of the few. Those who challenge
political correctness and the preferred narrative of the left are subjected to
ad hominem attacks and labelled as bullies / racists / mysogynysts / homophobes
/ reactionaries (and sometimes all of the above) in a vile attempt to silence
voices of dissent by any means necessary. These are the tactics of the
extremists from time immemorial and call to mind such paragons of utopian bliss
as Nazi Germany, Maoist China, and the Stalinist Soviet Union, to name but the
tip of a very cold, dirty and dangerous political iceberg.
So
what is the current Administration doing about the Ebola issue? judge for
yourself based not only on the record but on today's news report in The Daily
Mail of President Obama's naming of an "Ebola Csar":
"Obama names Ebola czar with NO healthcare experience
to take over bungled response to crisis"
"Ron Klain will coordinate the Obama administration's
Ebola response efforts
- He is a longtime Democratic Party political operative and generous political donor with no background in medicine or public health
- Klain was chief of staff to Vice Presidents Al Gore and Joe Biden
- Managed Gore's legal team during the 2000 presidential election recount in Florida and ran debate prep for John Kerry in 2004
- Kevin Spacey portrayed him in the movie 'Recount' – and his character in the movie 'Outbreak' died of Ebola
- Klain boasted that he was responsible for hiring Obama's second White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney"
Were this not tragic, it would be very funny.
You simply cannot make this stuff up. If President Obama simply created an
"Disinformation Csar" or a "Ministry of Propaganda" there
would at least be a refreshing ring of truth from an administration that
promised transparency but has thus far delivered all the transparency of a
lead-lined bunker.
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