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| Barack Obama Has Awakened A Sleeping Nation |
| 2010-03-20 |
| H/T Hugh Hewitt -- read past the first few paragraphs. It ain't what you think it is Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America's future. He is the best thing ever. Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America's resurrection. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on the national economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a decade; legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels, and there is a seething anger in the populace. That's why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America. Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years. Just as Hitler is the face of fascism, Obama will go down in history as the face of unchecked liberalism. The cancer metastasized to the point where it could no longer be ignored. Average Americans who have quietly gone about their lives, earning a paycheck, contributing to their favorite charities, going to high school football games on Friday night, spending their weekends at the beach or on hunting trips -- they've gotten off the fence. They've woken up. There is a level of political activism in this country that we haven't seen since the American Revolution, and Barack Obama has been the catalyst that has sparked a restructuring of the American political and social consciousness. Think of the crap we've slowly learned to tolerate over the past 50 years as liberalism sought to re-structure the America that was the symbol of freedom and liberty to all the people of the world. Immigration laws were ignored on the basis of compassion. Welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, the fracturing of families, and a cycle of generations of dependency. Debt was regarded as a tonic to lubricate the economy. Our children left school having been taught that they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of them cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy. Legislators decided that people could not be trusted to defend their own homes, and stripped citizens of their rights to own firearms. Productive members of society have been penalized with a heavy burden of taxes in order to support legions of do-nothings who loll around, reveling in their addictions, obesity, indolence, ignorance and "disabilities." Criminals have been arrested and re-arrested, coddled and set free to pillage the citizenry yet again. Lawyers routinely extort fortunes from doctors, contractors and business people with dubious torts. We slowly learned to tolerate these outrages, shaking our heads in disbelief, and we went on with our lives. But Barack Obama has ripped the lid off a seething cauldron of dissatisfaction and unrest. In the time of Barack Obama, Black Panther members stand outside polling places in black commando uniforms, slapping truncheons into their palms. ACORN -- a taxpayer-supported organization -- is given a role in taking the census, even after its members were caught on tape offering advice to set up child prostitution rings. A former Communist is given a paid government position in the White House as an advisor to the president. Auto companies are taken over by the government, and the auto workers' union -- whose contracts are completely insupportable in any economic sense -- is rewarded with a stake in the company. Government bails out Wall Street investment bankers and insurance companies, who pay their executives outrageous bonuses as thanks for the public support. Terrorists are read their Miranda rights and given free lawyers. And, despite overwhelming public disapproval, Barack Obama has pushed forward with a health care plan that would re-structure one-sixth of the American economy. I don't know about you, but the other day I was at the courthouse doing some business, and I stepped into the court clerk's office and changed my voter affiliation from "Independent" to "Republican." I am under no illusion that the Republican party is perfect, but at least they're starting to awaken to the fact that we cannot sustain massive levels of debt; we cannot afford to hand out billions of dollars in corporate subsidies; we have to somehow trim our massive entitlement programs; we can no longer be the world's policeman and dole out billions in aid to countries whose citizens seek to harm us. Literally millions of Americans have had enough. They're organizing, they're studying the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, they're reading history and case law, they're showing up at rallies and meetings, and a slew of conservative candidates are throwing their hats into the ring. Is there a revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that there is a keen awareness that our priorities and sensibilities must be radically re-structured. Will it be a violent revolution? No. It will be done through the interpretation of the original document that has guided us for 220 years -- the Constitution. Just as the pendulum swung to embrace political correctness and liberalism, there will be a backlash, a complete repudiation of a hundred years of nonsense. A hundred years from now, history will perceive the year 2010 as the time when America got back on the right track. And for that, we can thank Barack Hussein Obama. Gary Hubbell is a hunter, rancher, and former hunting and fly-fishing guide. Gary works as a Colorado ranch real estate broker. He can be reached through his website, aspenranchrealestate.com. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #12 Barack H Obama has awakened many people.... Poem by me in October 2008, a parable about you-know-who before he was elected... UPON THE APPROACH TO THE EVENT HORIZON On a ship. In the vast expanse, A myriad of lights, But this trip is different. We are all together, Yet we are split in two, Many in the ship are drawn, To a brilliant shining mass. Yet as we approach it, The center is hollow and void, Half donÂ’t care, Half see alarm. We pull against Against each other, We are drawn close, CanÂ’t they see danger? God knows the answer, In the end our fate, Our fate is with Him, The bell tolls. Poem goes with this music: UPON THE APPROACH TO THE EVENT HORIZON An artistic type on the right side of the political spectrum... I know I am a rare bird.. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2010-03-20 23:31 |
| #11 Maybe so, Rambler, but perhaps the some of the Dems who are still there untill 2012 will be scared enough by the November 2010 results that they'll vote to override. Best thing is if they just fail to pass it this time. Any of y'all who have fence-sitting Dems for reps, call them again and tell them to vote no. E-mail too. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-03-20 23:05 |
| #10 Unfortunately, Barbara, it takes a two-thirds majority in the House AND the Senate to override a veto. There is no effin way that the Republicans will get two-thirds majority in both Houses in November. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2010-03-20 21:37 |
| #9 "any efforts to repeal will be vetoed by this POS in the WH" His veto can be overridden buy Congress, NMBS. Not saying it would actually happen, just that it could. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-03-20 18:02 |
| #8 Someone tell me how I'm wrong about the following statements. The tragedy of this is that once past, it cannot be stopped, because any efforts to repeal will be vetoed by this POS in the WH, and the agencies and commissions and civil servants will still be hired and established in the next 3 years. reversing that tumor is impossible. And, the immediate and onerous taxes will bust the economy back into a double dip recession, breaking our ability to borrow more from the increasingly reticent ChiComs and Japanese. SO additional deficit spending will come through massive inflation and increased reductions in Defense and national security activities. American power in the world declines and the ascendent Chinese waste no time in reshaping everything their way, to include the basing of forces in out hemisphere, forever making economic colonies of willing dupes like Hugo and the Latin Amercian socialists. At home, no jobs, permanent 10%+ unemployment, a profligate government transferring benefits/entitlements/payments/special preferences to selected supporters and an overwhelmed tax paying public. The relationship of the actual tax payers in this country with the aristocratic, tyrannical government and their non-taxpaying Democrat voter allies has just become overtly adversarial, not just conflicted. Empires and nations do not survive these kinds of stresses. It takes a couple of decades, but the process has started. Our POS leader talked about change, and he was right. Tomorrow, the inevitable decline of the Republic was sealed! Sauve qui peut! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2010-03-20 17:28 |
| #7 Great article -- not something I'd normally expect from the AspenTimes. He does describe himself as a redneck treehugger, though LOL. |
| Posted by: Gomez Threter7450 2010-03-20 15:59 |
| #6 Some flat spins are recoverable, see the F106 that landed itself in Montana 2 Feb 1970, after its pilot ejected. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-03-20 12:29 |
| #5 If as I fear, we are now in an unrecoverable flat spin, please permit me to slumber on. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-03-20 08:57 |
| #4 A sleep greatly assisted by the blindfold put in place by the MSM. You know the one that endlessly drones about Abu Ghrab and Gitmo but seems to have a serious memory lapse [aka Memory Hole(C) 1984] about 9/11 where thousands of Americans really died. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-03-20 08:52 |
| #3 Barack Obama Has Awakened A Sleeping Nation 9/11 was all a nightmare, never happened |
| Posted by: Sir Victor Emmanuel Glomomble IV 2010-03-20 04:57 |
| #2 Too bad the millions that voted for him in 2008 didn`t see what the deal was then! All these promises will just never happen while he is president. |
| Posted by: apchevy 2010-03-20 03:26 |
| #1 sharing this. i so hope he is right |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2010-03-20 02:49 |