The Content of Their Character

The title to today’s essay is taken from a speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. on the occasion of speaking to the future when people were judged not by their skin color but by the content of their character. 

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character."
– Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream Quote

You can buy a copy of the speech for $10 at:  http://www.mlkonline.net/dream.html

We are going to use the meaning of this expression - content of their character and look at a situation that recently received some notoriety.  It all started when one of those endless, political hanger-onners, this time one from the church of Obama, said something really dumb and thoughtless about Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann.  The gist of it was that Ann never worked a day in her life because she was a housewife or words to that effect.

We have no interest in identifying the foolish woman who made this thoughtless comment.  We were much more intrigued about the reaction to the comment.  In particular the reaction coming from PBS and its learned political commentators.  It has two of them – tweedledee- dee and tweedledee- dum.  The former is progressive light (a bone for the republicans) and the latter is progressive heavy (a bone for the democrats.)  This is PBS’s version of balance.  The moderator brought up the “never worked a day in her life” remark.  TWD-dee, the light weight progressive, dismissed it as a comment that no longer was viewed with merit meaning most folks know raising children and maintaining a home for them is a real job.  So, TWD-dee rose above the issue. 

What caught our attention was the reaction of TWD-dum, the spokesperson for the democrat progressive viewpoint.  He addressed the political impact of the remark and in so doing castigated the woman who made the remark because her comment could actually cause voters to leave the democrat progressive candidate, Obama, and vote for Romney.  A pox on her house for possibly moving voters away from the chosen one.  This logic (?) by which a comment is analyzed solely based on its voter impact consequence immediately brought to our mind the MLK Jr. Speech.  Whatever happened to “content of one’s character” we thought.

Apparently if you belong to the church of Obama what matters is not what you say or even do; what matters is will what you say or do cause a vote(s) to come to or stay with the chosen one or will it cause a vote(s) to stay with the other guy or, horrors of all horrors, move away from the chosen one.  Just follow this logic because it says more about the content of the character of Obama and his minions than listening to them or even trying to understand them

If you say something that could damage their vote count, regardless of its veracity or falseness, it is bad.  That was TWD-dums point the other night.  Simple logic tells us that the other side of that coin then is also true.  If you say something that could benefit their vote count, regardless of its veracity or falseness, it is good.  Which means “content of character” is meaningless.  It doesn’t matter whether what you say or do is right, wrong or just more of the same.  If it gets or keeps a vote it is good.  If it does not get or keep a vote it is bad.

What TWD-dum didn’t realize in his glibness about the silly woman’s comment is that he was going to give the viewers a much greater insight in the democrat/progressive motivation than the topic at hand.

It all comes down to votes.  And now you know why Obama has bought more votes with borrowed and printed money than any president ever and if you give him your vote in November you will guarantee that he and his church will buy more votes in eight years than every president and congress has bought in total since the July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence.

The result is incalculable damage and it is brought to you by people with no principles; no “content to their character” and absolutely no basic fundamentals other than vote buying with money borrowed and printed in your name.   These people have no financial comprehension or concern (e.g. live within your means, repay debt and balance the budget) – not for today and certainly not for tomorrow.  The content of their character is corrupt to the core.   And the tweedledee-dee’s and tweedledee-dum’s give daily witness to the corruption.