Obama Opposes McCain's Desire to Enshrine Mediocrity

Barack Obama is the closest presidential hopeful I've seen to the image I have of the heroes in Ayn Rand's books. He is innovative -- his campaign speaks for itself. Financed by people, and richer than any campaign in history. Run by those of his choice and no one else's. Defeated the juggernaut of the Clinton machine. Think about that.

Obama was President and Editor of The Harvard Law Review. I consider that no small achievement.

Obama spent 12 years as a law professor. By all accounts the subject of the classes was usually policy and government. The man taught policy and government for 12 years, and those students thought well enough of him to start the entire Obama movement.

How many times would you think students are impressed enough with a professor to create a grass-roots organization for electing the professor to public office? They form the basis of his supporters today.

During those 12 years he also served in the state senate of Illinois.

Illinois was apparently impressed with Obama as well because they sent him to Washington as their Senator.

I haven't mentioned his service to the church and his public and community service. I'm told that that doesn't count anyway.

A man who achieves these things on his own, a black man, of a single mother, no source of money other than what they can earn with humble but honest jobs, a man who reaches for the dream. A man that deserves respect.

A man who doesn't blame his situation, who pulls himself up by his bootstraps, who pays his way, who came from FOOD STAMPS to PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.

My idea of Howard Roark is just such a man. A man who doesn't come by his ideas and values cheaply. A man who lives by his spirit. A man who lifts up his fellow man rather than tear him down. A man who uses what he was given to improve the human condition, to invent new ways ahead, and to be able to attract the following needed to move the world forward.

Which brings me back to Barack Obama.

Are you telling me that in the new conservative America this man deserves vilification?

Are you telling me that his achievements are not acceptable in the United States of America?

Are you telling me that this is not the type of man for whom the American Dream applies?

If you say Barack Obama is not good enough to run for President of the United States, for who's USA do you speak? Certainly not mine. Never.

If you do not agree with my Obama/Rand connection and fail to see the correlation, I suggest you read Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged' and 'Fountainhead' again, this time look a little deeper and bear in mind that she hated political parties, but she loved people who lived their lives like John Galt and Howard Roark.

If you go only by virtue of what he has achieved, Barack Obama strikes me as a person cut of the cloth of which the United States of America is made.

Or, you can always go with those who desire to keep things the way they are. As the destructive and vindictive Ellsworth Monkton Toohey said in the 'Fountainhead': "Don’t set out to raze all shrines—you’ll frighten men. Enshrine mediocrity, and the shrines are razed."

There are always lots of Tooheys out there, waiting to tear good men down. Enshrining Mediocrity.

Enshrining mediocrity is a pastime with the Republican Party these days.