Most Freepers saw it coming. I made this graphic in April 2008. Even managed to get it banned elsewhere!
Posted on 11/07/2009 10:47:36 PM PST by Steelfish
Obama, Obviously
By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
WASHINGTON -- What strikes me about politics over the last couple of years is how obvious it all has been. In 2008, as the junior senator from Illinois campaigned across the country demonstrating his gifts as a motivational speaker and community organizer, all one had to do was review his recent life to know that he was about to bring down on the country -- ever so incompetently -- the most left-wing government in American history. And so he has -- with the utmost incompetence. Think of the paucity of swine flu vaccine, in large part the consequence of his government's meddling with production.
As I say, it was all so obvious. No president in modern times has come to power with less political experience and less managerial experience. On the other hand, no president has come to power with a clearer record of political extremism. Senator Barack Obama had the most left-wing voting record in the Senate, brief as his record was. Back in Illinois he had a record of associations with extremists that would have sunk any other presidential candidate. Think of his friendship with Bill Ayers, a co-founder of the Weather Underground that actually bombed public buildings in the 1960s. Think of Obama's attendance week after week at religious services where the Rev. Jeremiah Wright thundered forth with diatribes lilting with such lines as "God damn America." The radical direction of the Obama presidency was foreordained.
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Anyway, I think the queasiness that's settling in over Obama is going to get far stronger with this weekend. I suspect that his shout out and the ramming through of the bill will be a double-barrelled hit to the fence-sitters, who will think "I may not be able to articulate why, but I finally feel this guy is not to be trusted."
The Dems can high-five each other tonight, but by the end of this coming week, I think more people will have finally decided they don't trust him, and will take action to defeat this in the senate.
I am just wondering when he will call on his minions to burn the Capital and blame it on us conservatives to be able to declare Martial Law and really crack down on us conservative extremists....
Those who have sacrificed liberty for security have left ME with neither...
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. It is now time that we obey this document...
“It is now time that we obey this document...”
We now have a constitutional structure for the overthrow of government. It’s called free elections.
Obvious to you, because you have internet access and can learn about his history. Not obvious to those who still rely primarily on the MSM.
You truly trust the “free” elections. We have Senators and congress men and women who now get pensions for life, health care for life and most of them have never actually owned or created a job ever. I want term limits, 12yrs for Senators and 8 yrs for congress. I want to get rid of the lifelong politicians. I am not sure we will have a fair and free election again. They did not listen to the electorate on this Tax Bill.
It's coming soon to a nation near you.
Where's the part about economic justice?
I agree. It's time to stop paying lipservice to our love of this document, and time to start fulfilling it. Our government is no longer OUR government, but is a government of the traitors, by the traitors, for the traitors. We've strayed far from the path of our founding documents. We have nothing to fear except our own lack of resolve to take our nation back from the despotic leeches that have run it into the ditch.
I keep seeing people refer to elections as the vehicle to take our nation back. I really hope it's still possible. I have serious doubts.
God save America. The politicians sure as hell won't, and half the people of this nation only care about how much of the fleecing they can partake of. Damn them all to hell.
We were asleep when the socialists undermined and infiltrated our public school systems, colleges and universities. They finally took over the professions (AARP, AMA, ABA) and the entertainment (Hollywood) and mass media (CBS; NBC; ABC; NY Times; LA Times etc)
We have in Pogo’s words, “met the enemy and it is us.” The Supreme Court has declared term limits for Congress as unconstitutional. (See U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton 1995)
The remedy lies in a new energy and activism.
Most Freepers saw it coming. I made this graphic in April 2008. Even managed to get it banned elsewhere!
The Court sayid that term limits requires an Amendment. If that is the route then better we return the selection of Senators to the States. That change to popular election of Senators eliminated the States from political decision making in the nation.
We vote our guys into office and they ain't our guys any more.
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I hope that you are right, but I think that you are dreaming.
Have you been paying attention to the elections, in say, Washington state the past few years? Do the antics of ACORN ring any bells? Obvious voter fraud has occured that has been ignored.
The 2010 census is going to include illegal aliens giving states with a high illegal alien count more representatives than they should have, and shorting other states with a lower count.
“Free elections”?
Incompetence a democrat thing.
There are 143 MILLIONAIRES in congress. Think about that.
That's going to take an amendment too... Repealing the 17th... And good luck to that! After all, more and more we keep hearing about doing away with the electoral college, because it's not "democratic!" Damn! I would guess that less than 40% of the citizens of the USA know that the government was never supposed to be a democracy, for exactly the reasons we see today! only 1/2 of 1/3 of the government was supposed to be popularly elected, and as such, had the shortest term!
Those "old white guys" we hear denigrated over and over again may well be greatest political thinkers in history, and those that distort and demean their memory may be among the most corrupt and low-brow.
Mark
Obamau Akbar! Arguments that we are impoverishing our grandchildren through government spending carry no weight with pathological narcissists. If you are one, I have news for you Quinosabe. Our Great Leader will demonstrate to you that you are someone’s grandchild. The fraud, waste, and abuse that we know as government bureaucracy has been increasing dramatically for decades. Even under Ronald Reagan it expanded dramatically. George Bush sent millions of dollars to ACORN, and they are just a small fraction of this diseased institution. Finally, a Savior has come. Obamau Akbar. He will defund the useless Department of Education and all the other agencies, departments, and bureaus that eat away at the marrow of the American economy. He will do this by following the economic policies of that little know economics genius, Gideon Gono, Financial wizard of Zimbabwe. This was illustrated by a woman on YouTube who was decrying the cuts in the budgets for state parks in California. Who needs parks when bread costs a thousand dollars a loaf. By 2011 average Americans will be on their way to becoming millionaires. Well over the 250,000 dollar tax level.
Washington state has all absentee balloting....methinks this is how they control the outcome....all fraud all the time.
“...when in a war, foreign or intestine, the enemies get a final victory, so as, the forces of the Commonwealth keeping the field no longer, there is no further protection of subjects in their loyalty, then is the Commonwealth dissolved, and every man at liberty to protect himself by such courses as his own discretion shall suggest unto him.”
Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan, 1651
Good find. Bookmarked.
Yup. It’s amazing how these “absentee” ballot problems always crop up in King county. AKA San Francisco north.
I thought so & thought you might miss it.
Amen to that.
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