Post by OLKoot on Apr 3, 2010 4:16:07 GMT 12.75
Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation
GARY HUBBELL
ASPEN TIMES WEEKLY, Aspen, Colorado
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
ASPEN TIMES WEEKLY, Aspen, Colorado
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.