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Dreading our future
« on: December 20, 2009, 02:10:00 PM »
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I am a baby boomer, which is to say my life has coincided with turbulent and awesome times. From the Cold War to Vietnam, from Watergate to Monicagate, through the horrors of 9/11 and the stunning lifestyle advances, my generation's era has been historic and exciting.
Yet for all the drama and change, the years only occasionally instilled in me the sensation I feel almost constantly now. I am afraid for my country.
I am afraid -- actually, certain -- we are losing the heart and soul that made America unique in human history. Yes, we have enemies, but the greatest danger comes from within.

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Watching the freak show in Copenhagen last week, I was alternately furious and filled with dread. The world has gone absolutely bonkers and lunatics are in charge.
Mugabe and Chavez are treated with respect and the United Nations is serious about wanting to regulate our industry and transfer our wealth to kleptocrats and genocidal maniacs.
Even more frightening, our own leaders joined the circus. Marching to the beat of international drummers, they uncoupled themselves from the will of the people they were elected to serve.
President Obama, for whom I voted because I believed he was the best choice available, is a profound disappointment. I now regard his campaign as a sly bait-and-switch operation, promising one thing and delivering another. Shame on me.
Equally surprising, he has become an insufferable bore. The grace notes and charm have vanished, with peevishness and petty spite his default emotions. His rhetorical gifts now serve his loathsome habit of fear-mongering.


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Re: Dreading our future
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2009, 02:29:56 PM »
Excellent article.
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Re: Dreading our future
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2009, 02:44:30 PM »
@#$% it! Virtually anyone who paid the least attention to info about Obama that wasn't controlled by Obama knew he would be what he has proved to be! Would that this character had been paying attention to more than Obamian smoke and mirrors! The buyer's remorse of Obama voters coming out of their wishful thinking trance is infinitesimally small compensation for the destruction being wreaked on this country!

Realistically, I find small comfort in the approach of the 2010 Congressional elections. They're almost a year away, with the swearing in more than a year away. A H@#$ of a lot of destruction can be accomplished 'twixt now and then! And does anyone seriously believe Obama will hesitate to rule tyrannically, bypassing Congress and daring them to try to stop him?! WASS!!!
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Re: Dreading our future
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2009, 04:08:21 PM »
Quote from: SVPete on December 20, 2009, 02:44:30 PM
@#$% it! Virtually anyone who paid the least attention to info about Obama that wasn't controlled by Obama knew he would be what he has proved to be! Would that this character had been paying attention to more than Obamian smoke and mirrors! The buyer's remorse of Obama voters coming out of their wishful thinking trance is infinitesimally small compensation for the destruction being wreaked on this country!


A couple of acquaintances I've met who expressed remorse over their 0 vote has been due to his not magically making everything perfect within the first few weeks of his presidency. They seem to really have believed that he was a magical black man, their own personal savior.  How one could be so deluded and still function is beyond me. I asked what did they think would happen, and they couldn't put into words other than they thought he would "fix stuff." These couple of people I talked to were your run-of-the-mill rural country democrats, who vote democrat, "Because my family has always voted democrat. They're for the little people."

I haven't yet met anyone who is upset over their vote because he is not what they wanted. So far, it looks like he's not enough of what they wanted.
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Re: Dreading our future
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2009, 05:46:35 PM »
Quote from: SVPete on December 20, 2009, 02:44:30 PM
@#$% it! Virtually anyone who paid the least attention to info about Obama that wasn't controlled by Obama knew he would be what he has proved to be! Would that this character had been paying attention to more than Obamian smoke and mirrors! The buyer's remorse of Obama voters coming out of their wishful thinking trance is infinitesimally small compensation for the destruction being wreaked on this country!

Realistically, I find small comfort in the approach of the 2010 Congressional elections. They're almost a year away, with the swearing in more than a year away. A H@#$ of a lot of destruction can be accomplished 'twixt now and then! And does anyone seriously believe Obama will hesitate to rule tyrannically, bypassing Congress and daring them to try to stop him?! WASS!!!

SVPete,

I agree with you 100%.  You sir, just wrote all that I feel; I do not know where our Country is heading and I am painfully aware that we cannot sustain the path we are on.  Watching the "change" unfold has been a freakin' nightmare!   A revolution is coming... 

I am proud to say - I did not vote for this man!
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Re: Dreading our future
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2009, 06:00:42 PM »
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President Obama, for whom I voted because I believed he was the best choice available, is a profound disappointment. I now regard his campaign as a sly bait-and-switch operation, promising one thing and delivering another.

While it is good to "see" someone come to their senses it still baffles me that anyone could have been fooled or deluded by the charlatan.
Anyone with a foot in reality knew he could not deliver on such contradictory nonsense as he promised.
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Re: Dreading our future
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2009, 07:15:08 PM »
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Anyone with a foot in reality knew he could not deliver on such contradictory nonsense as he promised.
To me, that was a second issue: A.) He's an empty suit, of the four D & R Pres. & VP candidates, easily the least qualified/accomplished; B.) He vastly over-promised (and his followers thought he was under-promising!). FWIW, I'm not suffering from buyer's remorse.
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Re: Dreading our future
« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2009, 08:06:08 PM »
Quote from: Carl on December 20, 2009, 06:00:42 PM
While it is good to "see" someone come to their senses it still baffles me that anyone could have been fooled or deluded by the charlatan.
Anyone with a foot in reality knew he could not deliver on such contradictory nonsense as he promised.

Carl,

As we watched the "anointed" one campaign, it became crystal clear to me that he could not possibly fulfill all that he had promised.  And now most everyone else sees this too.  What really gets me (still), is when he said he'd go through the "budget" with a scalpel. :bs:  I'M STILL WAITING - think I'll have a long wait?
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Re: Dreading our future
« Reply #8 on: December 20, 2009, 08:21:15 PM »
Quote from: Ladywinter on December 20, 2009, 08:06:08 PM
Carl,

As we watched the "anointed" one campaign, it became crystal clear to me that he could not possibly fulfill all that he had promised.  And now most everyone else sees this too.  What really gets me (still), is when he said he'd go through the "budget" with a scalpel. :bs:  I'M STILL WAITING - think I'll have a long wait?

He will stand in front of a camera and read the lines that say he will reduce spending while his administration officials will propose millions more.
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Re: Dreading our future
« Reply #9 on: December 20, 2009, 08:32:43 PM »
Quote from: Carl on December 20, 2009, 08:21:15 PM
He will stand in front of a camera and read the lines that say he will reduce spending while his administration officials will propose millions more.

It makes me sick to think our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren (wait, this may take awhile)...
will be strapped with this debt.  How do we stop the madness!!!
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Re: Dreading our future
« Reply #10 on: December 20, 2009, 08:41:28 PM »
Quote from: Ladywinter on December 20, 2009, 08:32:43 PM
It makes me sick to think our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren (wait, this may take awhile)...
will be strapped with this debt.  How do we stop the madness!!!

We beat the hell out of the Democrats in the 2010 Congressional races, or we heed Thos. Jefferson's admonition about watering the tree of liberty.

If we succeed at the former, then we have to start getting serious about developing a robust conservative academia that will go into the schools, colleges and universities to challenge the heretofor unchallenged hegemony of the left in educating our children.  William F. Buckley, Jr., described the disease, and prescribed the cure, almost 60 years ago in God and Man at Yale; regrettably, conservatives never really picked up on the long-term consequences of the liberalism disease that was just then beginning to infect American academia, and thus essentially left teaching to the liberals and the left.  Is it any wonder then, that an unrepentant terrorist bomber like Bill Ayers was able to worm his way into American academia and end up with a plum tenured professorship?  It should be an outrage, and it should never have happened; yet it did because we conservatives ignored the alarum sounded by Buckley and let liberalism/the left slowly take over the education of our own offspring.  That should never be allowed to happen again.
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Re: Dreading our future
« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2009, 08:43:04 PM »
Quote from: Ladywinter on December 20, 2009, 08:32:43 PM
It makes me sick to think our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren (wait, this may take awhile)...
will be strapped with this debt.  How do we stop the madness!!!

Get rid of ALL the current members of congress and get a conservative majority elected.
Unfortunately, I don't think people are going to wise up until the tax increases start hitting them in drastic ways.
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Re: Dreading our future
« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2009, 08:48:58 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on December 20, 2009, 08:43:04 PM
Get rid of ALL the current members of congress and get a TRUE, COTUS SUPPORTING conservative majority elected.
Unfortunately, I don't think people are going to wise up until the tax increases start hitting them in drastic ways.

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Re: Dreading our future
« Reply #13 on: December 21, 2009, 12:03:29 PM »
Quote from: kenth on December 20, 2009, 04:08:21 PM
A couple of acquaintances I've met who expressed remorse over their 0 vote has been due to his not magically making everything perfect within the first few weeks of his presidency. They seem to really have believed that he was a magical black man, their own personal savior.  How one could be so deluded and still function is beyond me. I asked what did they think would happen, and they couldn't put into words other than they thought he would "fix stuff." These couple of people I talked to were your run-of-the-mill rural country democrats, who vote democrat, "Because my family has always voted democrat. They're for the little people."

I haven't yet met anyone who is upset over their vote because he is not what they wanted. So far, it looks like he's not enough of what they wanted.

I'm tempted to ask if you work with Special Education students, but unfortunately I know far too many nominally-functional people with advanced professional degrees who were just as wilfully blind to the obvious as your acquaintances.
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Re: Dreading our future
« Reply #14 on: December 21, 2009, 02:52:10 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on December 21, 2009, 12:03:29 PM
I'm tempted to ask if you work with Special Education students, but unfortunately I know far too many nominally-functional people with advanced professional degrees who were just as wilfully blind to the obvious as your acquaintances.

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Re: Dreading our future
« Reply #15 on: December 21, 2009, 08:09:06 PM »
Quote from: SVPete on December 20, 2009, 07:15:08 PM
To me, that was a second issue: A.) He's an empty suit, of the four D & R Pres. & VP candidates, easily the least qualified/accomplished; B.) He vastly over-promised (and his followers thought he was under-promising!). FWIW, I'm not suffering from buyer's remorse.
I agree with all-- he has not idea as to what he is doing. It is like a Hollywood movie. He is not only an empty suit-- he has no emotion, his eyes show no life. Scary to say the least!
Has anyone ever read this? If you are scared not-- wait till you read this one!
Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer
http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html
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Re: Dreading our future
« Reply #16 on: December 21, 2009, 09:22:23 PM »
Quote from: Patriot Lady on December 21, 2009, 08:09:06 PM
I agree with all-- he has not idea as to what he is doing. It is like a Hollywood movie. He is not only an empty suit-- he has no emotion, his eyes show no life. Scary to say the least!
Has anyone ever read this? If you are scared not-- wait till you read this one!
Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer
http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html

I will read this.  Thanks for posting the link.  Have you ever watched "The Obama Deception"...very, very interesting!!  You can find it on YouTube.  Check it out if you have some time cause it's over an hour, but well worth it; just unbelievable stuff.
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Re: Dreading our future
« Reply #17 on: December 22, 2009, 09:55:50 AM »
Quote from: Ladywinter on December 21, 2009, 09:22:23 PM
I will read this.  Thanks for posting the link.  Have you ever watched "The Obama Deception"...very, very interesting!!  You can find it on YouTube.  Check it out if you have some time cause it's over an hour, but well worth it; just unbelievable stuff.
Yes- I have seen it---We have been so stupid and apathetic for so long!...either we revolt or we are obviously doomed. We will be singing the Banana Boat song
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