Posted on 07/11/2011 8:50:00 PM PDT by PhilosopherStone1000
As we count down the 2nd year of Dumb0's recession and the ongoing debt crises, it’s appropriate to thank the President himself. I was actually kicked off FReeRepublic in January '08 for suggesting that I would prefer a Barack Obama over a John McCain because while McCain would lead us sleepily down the greasy slope toward Euro-Socialism, Obama would push us down in a head-long rush which might awaken independents from their ideological slumber. I was right. Herewith, then, three reasons to be thankful for the President this week
His Laziness
Dumb0 combines laziness with intellectual narcissism. By all accounts from White House insiders and former colleagues, Obama simply doesn’t much like to work. Combine this with an intellectual narcissism which refuses to make decisions that have objective consequences which might show that he's not as smart as he thinks himself to be and you end up with Obama letting two of the most radical members of Congress, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, write both the $787 Billion non-stimulating stimulus bill and the 2,700 page Health Care Reform monster.
Independents were exposed to the nasty underbelly of the left wing of the Democrat party nakedly and cynically using its power to help its friends, the rest of the country be damned. These independents have now seen that a substantial section of the Democrat party is really nothing more than an organized crime syndicate which works to take their money in order to buy votes from big labor and large public sector unions, members of which both despise and denigrate them. This led to both the TEA Party movement and the largest mid-term congressional shellacking in 70 years.
Putting a Stake through the Heart of the MSM
Never again will independents rely solely on the main-stream media to vet their candidates for them. The almost criminal negligence with which the MSM treated any questions about Obama's past or his qualifications to be President has been duly noted, and newspapers and left-wing TV networks have been hemorrhaging readers and viewers faster than a gut-shot hemophiliac since Obama’s election.
Despite being addicted to his Blackberry and generally feeling smug about his and his party’s use of the Internet, Obama apparently believes that it is still 1967 and that he can change the national conversation simply by placing a discrete call to Walter Cronkite. Those days are over, but Obama remains curiously oblivious to that fact. For that, we can all thank him.
Killing the Race Card
Don’t laugh. I don’t mean that the unhinged left won’t continue playing the race card, and doing so ever more shrilly. Most Americans, though, have simply stopped playing that game. If one can be called a racist simply for opposing a particular policy position, the word no longer means anything.
Many independents voted for Obama solely in an attempt to atone for America's legacy of slavery and racism. Paradoxically, perhaps, they have received that atonement. Independents voted for Obama and in return, Obama called them "scared" and "unable to think clearly" for opposing his policies. Whatever, dude. It will be a long time before independents ever again vote for someone strictly on the basis of gender or skin color. So as we take our staycations and celebrate our funemployment, let us drink a toast to Barack Obama for almost single-handedly and in spite of himself resuscitating American exceptionalism and saving us from a Euro-style Socialism. As he himself has said, "Well, the big difference here and in '94 was you've got me." Indeed we do. Jimmah Carter gave us 30 years of conservative (or quasi-conservative) leadership. Maybe Dumb0 can give us the next 50 years!
Thanks Barack!
There might be an awakening, but there’s not a damned thing to thank 0bama for because most of of us won’t be alive by the time we recover from his time in office.
I pray you are right, Phil. I guess my biggest fear is that our votes may not matter this time. They’ll find a way to cheat us totally out of it no matter what. I also pray that won’t happen.
With nearly 50% on the dole, there will be no turn-around.
This will be a crash and burn.
Obama is putting this in overdrive.
I want to spit every time I hear his name.
You are right as rain on a hot day! I too wrote the same when the HE>he won over McCain... hehe he he
The proof of that statement is residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as we speak.
I have friends, small business owners who, up until the “non-stimulating” stimulus bill claimed that they were “100% middle of the road” (partly because the “conservative brand” is so castigated by the modern media) but who now openly admit that Dumb0 is a disaster.
They will vote straight “R” in 2012.
Dumb0 has ruined the “democrat” brand for decades to come, as democrat insiders are finally beginning to realize.
Dumb0 will find an excuse not to run in 2012. And political hacks who will lie, cheat and steal to become Pres will think twice before trying to run under the Dimm banner.
Don’t forget November 2010. I have hope.
Obama also woke many Republicans. He helped give birth to the team party movement which in a short period of time has done a good progress of cleansing the RINO’s from the party and has made the good ol’ boys RNC obsolete.
Except those “50% on the dole” need someone to pay for it. And little by little, the people paying for it realize that they get nothing in return except demands for “more, more, more” from people who hate and despise them.
There is hope. Don’t despair!
Never be thankful for evil.
The “obama true believers” are either terrified little leftie white kids who think that voting “for the African-American guy” will keep them from getting mugged (look at an Electoral College map by county to see that lefties live in densely populated urban areas surrounded by the urban poor - they’re TERRIFIED of the urban poor and want to give them your wallet to keep from being mugged) or they are union/democrat thugs who want to take their money in return for making them feel morally superior.
Lefties would feed you to the alligators(or Muslims) if they thought that would buy them 5 more minutes of their pathetic little lives.
You can be thankful for evil if it finally opens your eyes to it.
Spend some time with members of AA. Many (most?) of them would not have come to their senses if they hadn’t reached rock bottom at some point.
Not all of us can see or appreciate God’s grace immediately. Some of us have to drink the evil dregs to the bottom of the cup before we can appreciate it.
Republicans hope people are smart while Democrats know people are stupid.
That’s exactly right.
“Never be thankful for evil.’
Agree 100%.
Maybe we should bring someone much worse than Obama, say Chavez, or Qaddafi, then we could be even more thankful. (/sarc)
My dad in his late 80s,, says he refuses to die as long as that marxist SOB is in office. Can i count that as a reason?
Yes. My very best to you and your Dad.
The last election was a preview of 2012. People are awake and taking notice. Most voters would rather have a job than be on the dole, so I wouldn’t worry about the freeloaders swinging the election just yet.
Like you said in your post it is God’s Grace we should be thankful for, not evil. God’s Grace lets us see evil for what it is. Without it would we never see the evil. Evil cannot produce good in men, only God can produce good from evil.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
