Elin Nordegren's Lesson for America

We could not help noticing the honesty and wisdom that emerged from Elin Nordegren (a/k/a the former Mrs. Tiger Woods) in her said-to-be first and last public interview in People magazine regarding her recently finalized divorce. There are lessons in this as America prepares to rid itself of the lies and radical leftism of Soros/Obama/Reid/Pelosi.

The truth of Tiger Woods’ rampant infidelity dawned on her with devastating impact. "I've been through hell," Nordegren is reported to have said. "It's hard to think you have this life and then all of a sudden -- was it a lie? You're struggling because it wasn't real. But, I survived. It was hard, but it didn't kill me."

Recognition of the lie that was and is Barack Obama has been sweeping America, gathering traction and then momentum almost from the time he was inaugurated, and now broadening and accelerating throughout the populace. Unwavering radical leftist ideologues will defend him to the very end just because he is one of them, but everyone knows that the words and actions and decisions of the man acting in the role of President are not remotely in accord with the carefully cultivated image of the man who ran for President.

In simpler terms, everyone knows the truth: Obama lied blatantly and deliberately as to who he was and what he believed in during the election campaign of 2008. The manifest fraud is eating away at Americans; they are nearly beside themselves trying to determine what to do within their freedom-loving, law-abiding heritage to stop the fraud and unwind it. They are, in Ms. Nordegren’s words, being put ‘through hell’; they are being made to see that they thought they were electing this post-partisan, high-minded, American ‘uniter’, only to find it was all a lie. Obama is a post-partisan, high-minded American uniter in the same way Tiger Woods is a faithful husband and family man who lives by bedrock moral values.

Elin Nordegren did what every self-respecting woman would do once she discovered that the Tiger Woods she thought she was married to was a lie, wasn’t real, and was putting her through hell. She divorced him. As she noted, without trust and love, there is no marriage to be salvaged.

Before the divorce, Ms. Nordegren probably spent at least a little time trying to verify that Woods was in fact the out-of-control philanderer that he appeared to be. She didn’t want to believe it. Americans also have not wanted to jump too fast into believing that Obama is a bully, a Chicago thug, a Marxist/socialist and more of a Muslim than a practicing Christian. But facts matter; truth matters. And sooner or later, the truth has to be faced and dealt with.

Ms. Nordegren probably had some voices telling her that she should just live with it; that this is the new meaning of marriage that ‘everyone’ agrees with. Only problem: none of that is true. What’s true is what Nordegren instinctively knew—where there is no trust and love, there is no marriage to be saved.

America has a few voices trying to argue that what Obama has done is just politics; that Americans really do want bigger government; that ‘we are all socialists now’. None of that is true, either. Fraud on the scale committed by Obama is unconscionable, inexcusable. Americans instinctively know that this man and his policies are not American, and they want a return to the America of the founding. They are freedom-loving individuals; they are not socialists and never will be.

America is also still comprised mostly of self-respecting Americans who know the only right thing to do: divorce Obama.

Americans want the full divorce, and they want it now. Their political system and the ruling class are telling them they have to wait two more years, but we’re not sure they will have to wait. The trust and love is gone; and pretty soon even the ruling class will have to admit it and deal with it.

One final lesson from Ms. Nordegren: she said ‘it didn’t kill me’; and that despite her husband's betrayal, "I also feel stronger than I ever have. I have confidence in my beliefs, my decisions and myself."

An America divorced from Obama will be stronger than it ever was, with renewed confidence in the rightness of America’s founding ideals, and the good that will come from following them. The decision to divorce Obama is the right decision. Let’s get on with it.

Paul Gable

August 27, 2010