Obama's Selfishness

Remember back in August when Obama and McCain were interviewed at the Saddleback Forum?

Obama declared then that America's greatest failing was its selfishness. Never mind that it's not true- what he actually meant, it seems clear now, is that they aren't taxed enough by his kind of government- one which knows best how to spent your hard earned dollars.

I think America’s greatest moral failure in my lifetime has been that we still don’t abide by that basic precept in Matthew that whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me, and that notion of — that basic principle applies to poverty. It applies to racism and sexism. It applies to, you know, not having — not thinking about providing ladders of opportunity for people to get into the middle class. There’s a pervasive sense, I think, that this country, as wealthy and powerful as we are, still don’t spend enough time thinking about the least of us.

He also spoke of his own selfishness, stating-

So — but look, you know, when I — when I find myself taking the wrong step, I think a lot of times it’s because I’m trying to protect myself instead of trying to do God’s work.

An interesting revelation when you put it in light of the news on his Aunt Zeituni. There she is, an illegal immigrant- a deportation fugitive apparently too- living in poverty in Boston.

Millionaire Obama, who just happens to live in a mansion in Chicago, has done nothing to help lift her from this poverty-stricken life. Would it have been so hard for him to have moved her in some place nice, helped an old lady out of a hard life and given her some ease in her later years? Let's not even get started on his half-brother living in even worse poverty in Kenya or the poverty-stricken school named in his honour he promised he would help. Those folks didn't get a penny, so what chance does a mere aunt have?

Obama has spent months chastising America for not spreading the wealth around to help the less fortunate. It's selfish not to want to pay higher taxes, don't you know! Never mind that the Obama campaign thinks it fitting to blow $700,000 on stage settings in Germany- or that he thinks it's appropriate to waste over $5 million on a single night.

Imagine if he's come out and said this instead-

"You know, we were going to spend $5.3 million on this crazy Greek temple stage- not even bother to use the facilities we spent over $14 million on- and then I thought, no, that doesn't make any sense. I'm going to live by all the "America is selfish, you people don't do enough for the poor" crap ideals I've been flinging around all campaign season. Besides, I feel guilty that I'm a millionaire and I donate less to charity than the average American household. I'm going to give that $5 million to charity and demonstrate my commitment to all the campaign rhetoric you suckers voters have been listening to for so long."

Anyone think that his poor aunt is still living like that because he believes that helping her might harm his political career? Isn't that selfish, to put his ambition above the welfare of his elderly, beloved aunt?