> BlankThe May Feature at The Return Of The Gods Web Site [An American
> Conservative Resource] begins as follows:
>
> "The emergence of Senator Obama, as a serious contender for the Presidency
> of the United States, may well precipitate a demonstration of just how truly
> confused, concepts of race and racial preferences have become in
> contemporary America.  The campaign also promises to stir cross-currents
> that seem certain to bring many of the chickens of Leftwing folly, home to
> roost.
>
> "While we could not support the Senator for ideological reasons, quite apart
> from any consideration of genes or genealogy, our primary focus will be not
> on specific issues, but on the perceptions and dynamics of race and racial
> preferences, in the social climate revealed by the Obama campaign, and its
> context among historic movements.  In this, we must take a functional look
> at two generations of focused agitation.
>
> "What has induced us to again turn to the Obama phenomenon has not been
> anything the candidate has said, nor what his supporters have said; although
> some of their comments are relevant--at least in the sense of being
> revealing.  Rather, we have been prodded by the idiotic remarks of some of
> Obama's "modern" Republican foes, who felt compelled to assure the world
> that while there might still be 'ignorant, hate' driven Whites who would
> vote against Obama because of his race; America--as a whole--has outgrown
> such bias.  One such talk show host, in particular, illustrated this not so
> clever analysis, almost as an apology for the obvious emergence of a racial
> factor in the Pennsylvania Democratic Primary.  The Republican, in question,
> felt a need to distance himself from any such racial preference, while still
> enthusiastically supporting Senator McCain!  Comments such as his, and the
> repeated images of huge crowds, of diverse types, chanting in a unison
> reminiscent of Nazi rallies from the 1930s, dictated our choice.
>
> "There is a familiar, almost pathological, need among pro-Administration
> Republicans, both Neocons and survivors of the Rockefeller faction from the
> Goldwater era, not to discuss the Democratic dilemma over Obama and
> race; certainly not with words that might suggest that any
> reasonable voter might choose to consider a candidate's lineage.  At
> least, this is clearly a taboo, if the hypothetical voter happens to be a
> rooted White Caucasian, who might take pride in a settler heritage.  In
> this, of course, the Republican Left 'apes' the long-standing attitude of
> the American Left, generally--those, who have not only advocated coercive
> legislation, both proper and judicial, in the name of "Civil Rights," but an
> increasingly vicious stigmatization of White Americans who still demonstrate
> pride in being part of that settler heritage.  Thus, such Republicans, as
> the confused White Democrats--currently in a quandary over Obama's past ties
> to a racially motivated and belligerent Rev. Wright, and the potential for a
> major White backlash destroying their prospects for November--are unable to
> rationally address the coming election (and the potential fall out
> therefrom) in an historic or ethnic perspective.
>
> "Meanwhile, those who seek to exploit minorities--the Jesse Jacksons, Al
> Sharptons, etc.--those, who feed off the intellectual confusion of the
> American mainstream on anything having to do with race or ethnic awareness,
> are being handed the opportunity of their lives to undermine what remains of
> social peace and tranquility in America.  When Obama--having drawn those
> huge crowds across the Continent--was confronted with the publication of
> some of Reverend Wright's anti-White pronouncements, he sought to distance
> himself, not by repudiating the attacks on traditional American culture--or
> on a political system, he seeks to lead--but by reference to their
> "divisiveness."  And he stated, in effect, that Wright was in error for
> advocating "self-help" without realizing that (according to Obama) self-help
> would not be effective unless America could be changed!
>
> "Obama is not more conservative than Reverend Wright.  To the contrary, he
> is to his Left.  Obama is no friendlier to traditional American concepts, he
> simply denies hating White people.  But this does not mean he does not hate.
> To Obama, it appears that the "more perfect Union," to which he has
> repeatedly adverted, is one where only a single American identity, in a new
> egalitarian society, will be acceptable.  Obama's "more perfect Union," is
> not one where individual States may dissent from a common unity of purpose,
> nor one where traditional communities may maintain separate identities;
> rather a monolithic coming together, in the name of "change," as defined by
> Obama.
>
> "The Obama phenomenon is the culmination of an over two generation attack on
> the Union of the Fathers, an increasingly frenetic attack on the ethnic
> identity of Americans of White settler stock, as a unique people; and, while
> it may appeal to the doctrinaire Leftist, it is hardly what even the modern
> 'Liberal' actually sought--or 'signed onto'--at the start of the process.
> No one, actually elected to Office in the 'New Deal,' would have joined the
> contemporary assault on the mere display of the Confederate Battle Flag; on
> the traditional pride of the American Southerner in his settler and
> Confederate heritage; on anyone's taking pride in his own race or lineage,
> and wanting to preserve same.  Nor were such assaults yet common in
> mainstream "Liberal" circles, in the days of Kennedy & Johnson.
>
> "There were certainly active efforts to attack practices deemed unfriendly
> to minorities.  But few mainstream Americans, indeed, equated simple pride
> in an Anglo-Saxon or Celtic heritage with bigotry; few, indeed, thought it
> unacceptable that a small town, with strong Christian roots, would display
> the Ten Commandments, or hold a community wide religious observance.  Only a
> small fringe attacked such things.  Yet the quality of our politics, on
> average, has been declining since the 19th Century.  While few attacked
> heritage overtly, few showed a proclivity to defend it against persistent
> attacks by that small fringe.  By the latter days of the Clinton
> Administration, a profound shift had taken place in public perceptions--and,
> as in the era of the Nazi accession in Germany, many things that would once
> have seemed unthinkable, became part of an accepted reality.  Intimidated,
> those who knew better remained silent.  What is ironic, in the present Obama
> phenomenon, is that the Clintons, who epitomized the promotion and
> acceptance of the new dispensation, would be among its early victims.  In
> the depths of Hell, 'Citizen' Robespierre may be smiling."
>
> The article then goes forward to discuss the possible Communist and Nazi
> contributions to the mass mindset, demonstrated by the chanting Obama
> supporters and their leader.  For access, use this link:
>
> http://pages.prodigy.net/krtq73aa/chickens.htm