Posted on 09/04/2010 11:24:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
EIGHT weeks from now, we will be voting in an election unique in American history.
We will be choosing whether to stand up and fight for the America of liberty and law conceived by our founders, or to stand down and allow our “shining city upon a hill” to be demolished.
We will decide whether to preserve and strengthen the American Dream for our children and grandchildren or to abandon our descendants to unexceptional lives in a gray socialist welfare state.
We will decide whether to take back Congress for those who believe in the rule of law, or to hand it over to those who would allow laws and liberty to be overridden by the whims of the men in power.
Those are the choices on Nov. 2, Election Day, when voting for U.S. House and Senate.
As a candidate, Barack Obama promised to “transform America” and too few voters questioned the precise nature of that transformation.
Today, many Americans see that Obama and his Congressional enablers are pushing our nation down a disastrous path in both domestic and foreign matters. Election Day will be time to push back hard and stop them.
Voters are sensing the danger ahead. The Rasmussen poll of likely voters shows disapproval of Obama’s performance nearly doubling, from 30 percent at the start of his presidency to 56 percent now.
A reader chastised me saying that just because I disagree with Obama’s policies that was no reason to say in my Aug. 15 column that he was the “most un-American of all presidents.” Well, his actions as president are most un-American. No other American president has equalled Obama’s apology tour, or debased the presidency by bowing to foreign leaders, including an odious Saudi king.
Obama’s administration just filed a report with the United Nations talking about the United States as a human rights violator. That wrongly smears the U.S. and hands anti-American ammunition to the world’s real violators of human rights.
This president of the United States joined the president of Mexico in criticizing Arizona’s immigration law, which mirrors federal law that Obama won’t enforce and which Mexico lets its departing citizens flaunt because they prop up its economy with the U.S. dollars they send home. Obama’s administration harasses Arizona in court when the state tries to handle its immigration problem, and then notes the Arizona law as a problem he’s working on in the human rights violations report to the U.N.
In his recent televised Oval Office speech on ending combat operations in Iraq, Obama also talked of the need to “turn the page” and “rebuild our nation here at home.” He lamented that over the last decade “We spent a trillion dollars at war, often financed by borrowing from overseas.” And yet, The Washington Examiner pointed out, one analysis shows that Obama’s stimulus spending will top the cost of the entire Iraq War by $100 billion. That ruinous level of federal spending hasn’t produced the desired healing effect on the economy, as unemployment remains stubbornly high at 9.6 percent as Labor Day 2010 arrives. In the city of Lorain, the jobless rate stood at 11.7 in July, the most recent available figures. And yet, Obama and Congressional Democrats plan to let the Bush tax cuts expire after this year, piling a job-killing new tax load on the nation.
In town for Labor Day festivities will be Democratic U.S. Rep. Betty Sutton, who brought us Cash for Clunkers last year. As a “stimulus” program it struck us as a costly waste of taxpayer money with no lasting effect. In fact, this year, August has reportedly been the worst for U.S. car sales in 28 years.
Atop all these disappointments and failings from Obama and Congressional Democrats, the biggest, most budget-busting and, for individual Americans, potentially deadly, legislative and policy disaster has been the immense health care “reform” bill jammed down Americans’ throats like a fat and bitter pill whose full effects won’t be known until it is literally too late to save the patient, that’s us.
Eight weeks until Election Day. Unless Americans vote out the Democrats who are backing Obama’s agenda in the House and Senate, we’ll be stuck in the disastrous mess they are making of our nation. Worse, we’ll likely be unable to stop the damage before the ruin of the United States is complete.
Americans either take their country back or it becomes just another third world, Marxist banana republic.
Amen!
If we do not win this election, there likely will never be another free election. They will be rigged like in Cuba, USSR, etc.
Morning bump.
Our slogan and motto should consider this one,
“Money won’t buy THIS election”!
Nails it.
Thanks for the post 2ndDivisionVet!
I’ll be spreading this as much as possible.
No one cares about what the president of mexico thinks.
The crucial issue is to prevent/expose voter fraud. Everybody, grab your camcorders.!
Ping 4 later
Yes, it does.
I NEVER thought we’d get such rotten SOB for a President.
We have seen this time and time and time again. As long as the American people continue to place blind faith in the ballot box and the irretrievably broken two-party system, we will continue the slide into socialism, redistributionism, the destruction of the capitalist base, the destruction of the American middle class, and the ascendancy of a one-world-order existence of slavery and tyranny the elites have planned for us, after they have destroyed the Constitution and disarmed the American people. The ballot box is the myth and farce the globalists in Washington have foisted on the American people to tame them into submission. It’s not business as usual anymore. I’m dismayed by the number of otherwise sentient people who naively persist in the myth that going to the polls in November and pulling a lever is going to magically reverse the effect of the massive poisoning of this country’s political, economic, and educational systems that have recently taken place. It doesn’t matter who is elected anymore. Look at the record. When they get to Washington they all drink the Kool-Aid, and are co-opted by the elitist mentality of the club they have just joined. The constituency back home no longer exists. There are no conservative Republicans who will stand up against the Democrat destruction machine. Four Republicans just recently joined WITH Democrats to fend off an attempt by Republicans to filibuster the Senate Finance bill. The two-party system no longer works for those who care to look beyond the slick graphics and state campaign rhetoric. And we now have an electorate whose collective minds are closed to processing new information. In talking with people, I am seeing something I have never seen before—a palpable fear of even just hearing new information that might challenge or threaten old beliefs. People no longer seem to be able to trust themselves to process or analyze information without feeling threatened by it. It’s like just the listening or processing function has become a tremendous threat to personal equilibrium. I have had people go to great lengths in conversations to avoid having to hear facts or data they may not have been aware of. I think this is a result of the tremendous effort of the left wing bureaucracy in our educational system over the years to eliminate the development of critical thinking skills in the American populace. And it appears the strategy has worked.
I believe your right! It will take much more than mere elections to turn back the damage done.
I believe your right! It will take much more than mere elections to turn back the damage done.
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried."
As long as politicians continue to be able to buy votes with tax manipulation and redistributing public moneys, corruption will drive the system.
Got any solution? You go from the falsity of the ballot box, to the willful exclusion of new information, to the public education system.
If democracy is a loser, then what would you have in its place?
See there's the problem: we're not supposed to BE a democracy. We're supposed to be a Constitutional Republic.
Originally, only landowners could vote, and voting rights were racist and sexist as well. While I don't want us to go back to that, I do think that in order to vote, one should be a net taxpayer, rather than one who pays no income taxes and/or lives off government handouts. If you have no skin in the game, why should you get to call the plays?
A system where one group of people, by virtue of their vote, gets to use the government as proxy thieves to steal the productive earnings of another group of people, is inevitably doomed to self-destruct.
Folks, we're living in the dying days of our nation. Everyone is ignoring that we're supposed to be a Constitutional Republic in favor of the mob rule of "democracy". Humans are still flawed enough such that a majority think they are entitled to a certain standard of living at the expense of others. This will be our ruin.
And we as voters are going to put a big conservative exclamation point on it in November...
Screw the left and these progressive socialists...They’ve had this one coming!!!
I suggest you take your own advice. instead of clinging to your emotion based political dogmas, take in some NEW information that challenge those "the parties are all the same" feelings of yours.
For example, if you cannot understand how significant a difference a GOP Congress's $160 billion deficit for the fiscal year of 2007 and a Democrat Congress's deficit of $164 for just the month of July 2010 alone is, you are to fundamentally ignorant of the realities of US politics to be casting a vote.
Sorry the reality of US politics doesn't fit your pat little emotion based dogmas. Instead of clinging to your simplistic child like notions about US politics, trying learning the hard facts for a change.
A Constitutional Republic is a form of democracy. A pure democracy, people vote on everything -- not the way the U.S. runs, but maybe what you're alluding to. A democratic republic, people elect representatives, the head of state is not a monarch. That should sound familiar.
I'm with you on some degree of having a stake in the game. Wonder how that could best be put in place.
I’d place the elections of 1912, 1932 and 1964 as colossel failures of the American people. America has been having all kinds of problems electing the “right” president for nearly a century.
Except he uses the word spending when in actuality, he is giving money away to cronies. He is taking from those he opposes and giving to those he supports.
Stealing is a descriptive better word than spending
Once gone it can never be recovered. It is as he well knows a one time deal. His punishment should be far greater than not being reelected.
Thanks. One of my pet peeves is that we were not founded as a democracy (which is ussceptible to mob rule), but as a constitutional republic.
America alredy is another third world, Marxist banana republic. Debt/GDP, percent of manufacturing jobs, foreign-held debt, open borders, “living document” Constitution, etc. America alredy is another third world, Marxist banana republic, people like you just can’t quite allow yourselves to grasp the truth yet. For the liberals, everything, literally, depended on getting people to take federal money and like it. And it’s not just Social Security, Medicare/caid and Welfare I refer to, there’s federal highway, college, development, and business grants, stuff similar to ACORN Obama’s stimulus slush funds and Wall Street Bush Congress Obama’s TARP bailouts. America’s over. Been over for decades. Only thing left to do is conserve (we are Conservatives) your political and economic wiil and keep fighting, setting a better example than our parents did.
‘Twasn’t any Tytler that first said it, but it’s true, any republic or democracy that loses its shame over voting itself chunks of the treasury is doomed.
ussceptible = susceptible
Never stood in line for the proof reading gene.
“alredy”. Don’t know how I missed that...
Like me you probably missed the line for the proof reading gene. I tend to optimistically see what I planned to type, not what I actually typed.
I always use the term "anti-America," rather than anti-American. A subtle difference. But the Progs will always claim that in their little heart of hearts they are "for" Americans -- indeed, their whole goal in life is to bring the unwashed masses into a Socialist utopia. So to avoid all that Barbara Streisand, I just point out that Progressivism, including that arduously pursued by this President and his gang of political thugs, is most certainly anti-AMERICA.
It is hellbent on destroying the very foundations of America, the ones that make this country exceptional. The ones based on the core values and national identity that arise from the fact that Americans are the only people on earth who have ALWAYS BEEN FREE.
We have never be subject to a king, tyrant, dictator, military coup or feudal lord. Our country was born of individual freedom. And, because Obama opposes this with every fiber of his being, he is anti-America.
Even Europeans know this fact clearly. Here's an excellent commentary by a German economist who argues that the problem with the U.S. economy is not economic; it is that our government presently is trying to force socialism onto a nation uniquely unable and unwilling to accept it. The problem is failure the failure to return to and restore Americanism.
Obama's Misguided Approach: America has become too European.
No sir, we are supposed to be a representative republic! These representatives are supposed to be democratically elected on a local bassis and then represent those people who have sent them to the legislature.
The basic problems, as I see it, are that while representatives are voted for (or out)of office locally, the vast majority of the costs for their election campaigns come from outside their district, outside their home states, and not infrequently, outside their country!
Next, the house of representatives is simply unable to reflect the will of the people they are elected to represent. How can one person represent the interests of three quarters of a million constituents, 95% of which he has never met? How many times during the course of a two year term does the typical constituent actually see in person, let alone have access to their elected representative? What kind of response does the typical citizen get when attempting to communicate with their representative?
There are many other problems in that regard, but if these two were able to be resolved, it would go a long way toward restoring order in our government and liberty to the people.
>>>Originally, only landowners could vote, and voting rights were racist and sexist as well. While I don’t want us to go back to that, I do think that in order to vote, one should be a net taxpayer, rather than one who pays no income taxes and/or lives off government handouts. If you have no skin in the game, why should you get to call the plays? <<<
I agree, especially about the constitutional republic and limited government with the consent of the governed. I agree that the property ownership clause in the original document was placed there to ensure that those who moved and guided the government would be the same ones who had the most to lose from government overreach or tyranny.
I’m liking that idea that paying taxes determines voting eligibility.
However - and the founder knew this, having had the examples of Athens, Rome, Venice, and a few other places behind them - constitutional republics do not last long. There are vulgar human desires which press us towards tyranny and a desire for excessive power.
If I see wholesale theft of the 2010 election by the left, that’s my “crossing the Rubicon” sign. Of course, I’m a little too old to go off into the wilderness with a rifle and a gang of Wolverines. Not that I’m incapable, if you understand my meaning, and I fully intend to do whatever I can to preserve liberty and God-given rights. In fact, it might even more effective than the Wolverines in the long run. We’ll see where the currents of history take me in the next several months.
Just remember the cause of Liberty like the Phoenix never permanently dies. You can crush it with the oppressive weight of government for a time. But eventually that weight will crush the same oppressive government.
From the ashes of the old the cause of liberty will be reignited.
They can’t keep us down forever even if they do win this battle and event his war. They can at best suppress us for a few generations. But we the cause of liberty will inevitably rise again!
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