"I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are still truly good at heart..."

The title to this post are words that I first read when I was in 8th grade. They are the last line of the diary written by Anne Frank, a Dutch Jewish teen who hid with her family in an attic in Amsterdam for three years in order to avoid death at the hands of the Nazis. I remember being astounded by the optimism expressed by this poor girl who was spending her life in hiding for no reason other than her religion. She had done nothing to those who wanted to kill her; she had, in fact, done nothing to harm anyone at all. But despite the irrational hatred directed towards her by an entire nation, she remained optimistic about both the future and about the basic decency of the human race.

Anne's outlook came to mind this morning when I was perusing the world and national news. We have an international group that seems to have taken leave of its senses. The Moslem communities around the world are in chaos. The supposed reason for all this is a youtube video that none of those who are rioting have ever seen. Thirty people or more are dead but those who killed have no real idea why they are killing. Even worse, if that is possible, is that the rage is directed against the USA when America has nothing whatsoever to do with the ostensible reason for the rage. It is the equivalent of hearing that the food at a particular restaurant is second rate and then protesting at City Hall because that restaurant (at which you never ate) is within the city limits. It is, at best, a mass delusion.

To compound the problem with the mindless but raging mobs, we have the cynical but psychotic terrorists who are using their fellow Moslems and the ignorance of that group to promote a political agenda. These people do not care if twenty or twenty thousand of their fellow Moslems die in the fighting. The goal has nothing to do with the rioters or their cause. Indeed, this is one of the most anti-humanistic causes since the death of old style Communism with the fall of the USSR twenty years ago.

On top of this we have the Chicken Littles in this country and elsewhere in the West who are frantic to tell us that the sky is falling. Instead of responding rationally and calmly to the crazy rage of the mobs that the jihadists have whipped up, these folks are instead trying to assuage that anger. Going back to my example of the restaurant and the demonstration at City Hall, this is the equivalent of the mayor having the police arrest the chef of that restaurant in order to satisfy the protesters. Our president cannot even bring himself to admit that the attack in Libya was a terror attack. No, Obama still says that it stemmed from the video. For over a week, the entire Obama administration stuck to that line, although now, finally, everyone other than Obama has admitted that it was a terror attack. The president, however, is still hiding from the truth. He is lying still to America, or even worse, he cannot recognize reality. We have seen Obama send police to arrest the filmmaker for exercising his free speech rights. We have seen America run commercials with Obama and Clinton on Pakistani television condemning the video. In short, we have seen these folks lose their minds.

But not everything is about the riots these days. The other day, Obama appeared for what he thought would be another softball interview, this time on Univision. Amazingly, Obama was asked why he broke his 2008 promise to pass an immigration reform bill. Obama was taken aback to actually be asked about his record, but then he proceeded to lie in response. Obama claimed that the Republicans blocked immigration reform. It was not an unexpected lie, but it was not accepted. Obama was asked why he did not even try for a bill, why he failed to even offer a proposal since the Democrats had total control of Congress and the Republicans had no power to block anything. In other words, they actually called Obama's bluff.

I truly believe that America is slowly catching onto Obama. Clearly, the man talks a good game. But his record sucks. He is a total failure when it comes to achieving anything positive for the United States. I think he will lose. "I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are still truly good at heart..." We will see soon.