By Selwyn Duke
We all know the difference between normal
mistakes and those that hint at a deeper, more frightening problem, such as
Alzheimer’s or another brain condition.
In light of this, how do you interpret a shocking mistake recently made
by Barack Obama? Writes Terry Jeffrey of
CNS
News:
In two campaign
speeches over the last two days, President Barack Obama has twice mistakenly
mentioned "my sons" when defending his administration's regulation
requiring virtually all health-care plans in the United States to provide
women, without any fees or co-pay, with sterilizations and all Food and Drug
Administration-approved contraceptives, including those that can cause
abortions.
Given that Obama has, ostensibly, only
daughters, where does such a mistake come from?
And how do you make it twice on
two different occasions without correcting yourself? Then again, how can an American president say, “I’ve now been in 57
states, I think – one left to go” without correcting himself? Yes, Obama’s most recent bizarre slip of the
mind makes me think of that older, equally bizarre one. I mean, there are mistakes.
Then there are mistakes.
After all, it’s ingrained in every American
child when extremely little that our nation has 50 states. Fifty states, fifty states, fifty states,
fifty states…. It should just roll off
the tongue – in just the way the word “daughters” should when girls are all
you’ve ever had.
Of course, this invites the quip – and it’s
a good example of how there’s some truth behind every joke – that “American
child” never described Obama, at least not in spirit. But another possibility suggests itself:
Is Barack Obama brain-damaged?
I’m not just being a wise-guy. With the president’s admitted past drug use
and the recent revelations about how he was a member of the “Choom Gang” in
high school, is it hard to imagine that he might have damaged his mind through
the abuse of recreational drugs?
“Choom,” by the way, is slang for smoking
marijuana. And it seems that this gang
activity was Obama’s favorite extra-curricular option in high school. Writes ABC News’ Jonathan
Karl:
In his 1995 memoir
“Dreams of My Father,” Obama writes about smoking pot almost like Dr. Seuss
wrote about eating green eggs and ham. As
a high school kid, Obama wrote, he would smoke “in a white classmate’s
sparkling new van,” he would smoke “in the dorm room of some brother” and he
would smoke “on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids.”
He would smoke it
here and there. He would smoke it
anywhere.
Yes, I do like it, Uncle Scam I am. In fact, as the Choom Gang story goes, Obama
was a veritable Nikola Tesla of weed use who would actually start “pot-smoking
trends.” Add to this a diversity in drug
inclinations that led him to dabble also in hard drugs, and perhaps it explains
the soft head.
Of course, as for calling girls “sons,”
there are other explanations. Perhaps
Obama is like those parents who don’t want to sex stereotype their children and
thus are very pleased when their son dresses as a girl; maybe he’ll now refer
to Malia and Sasha as sons half the time.
Perhaps he subscribes to the fashionable LBGT idea that “gender” is all
a matter of perception. Heck, apparently
he already believes that one’s ideology and economic model needn’t have a
relationship to reality.
Then, American Thinker editor Thomas Lifson
theorizes that the explanation may be that Obama is hiding more than just a
sordid past, writing:
It has never
occurred to me that Barack Obama might have a second secret family, as Charles
Kurault did, hidden from his first family (pardon the pun) and the general public.
I still find this hard to believe.
But what kind of
brain freeze or derangement leads someone to refer to my sons, when two
daughters are the only fruit of conception one has created?
Perhaps the freeze symptomatic of a fried
brain?
Then again, Dr. Lifson could be right. Maybe Obama had more of a reason than we
think to say that if he had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.
All joking aside, the only thing we can
know for sure about Obama is that he’s a very bizarre man. He had an absentee father, and, in his
high-school yearbook, he acknowledged a drug dealer but not his quasi-absentee
mother. He seems to have received more
ideology than love, as he was mentored by communist-party member Frank Marshall
Davis, was drawn to Marxist professors in college and was a member of the
socialist New Party in the 1990s. And
when you consider this, it’s not surprising that he turned to drugs during
adolescence: it’s what kids with troubled upbringings often do.
As to this, C.S. Lewis once wrote something
very profound about the significance of upbringing:
No justification
of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against
the animal organism. I had sooner play
cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe
that “a gentleman does not cheat”, than against an irreproachable moral
philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.
It’s hard to know for sure how scarred, in
mind and soul, Obama is as a result of his bizarre youth. But should we continue to take the chance of
letting him play America