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The awakening of America

  • QuakerOats
    The article sums up the situation well. With the liberals spending us into insurmountable debt, seizing large portions of the economy by force, and openly talking about redistribution of wealth, it is time to take back the country.


    http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20100228/ASPENWEEKLY/100229854

    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 adviser 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.
  • derek bomar
    seriously? He plunged us into unimaginable debt? Really? REEAAALLLY???? Dude, get a clue. The stimulus/healthcare/whatever...all that is like a fraction of our debt load. And all of that came way before Bammy
  • ptown_trojans_1
    As soon as I saw the Hitler comment, I stopped. That is not too constructive. There better ways to explain your points.

    Secondly, what credibility does this guy have? He is a hunter, rancher, and former hunting, fly-fishing guide and Colorado ranch real estate broker. Good for him, but this is pretty much a letter to to editor.
  • eersandbeers
    derek bomar wrote: seriously? He plunged us into unimaginable debt? Really? REEAAALLLY???? Dude, get a clue. The stimulus/healthcare/whatever...all that is like a fraction of our debt load. And all of that came way before Bammy

    Agreed.

    It's funny how the right wingers didn't post this stuff when Bush was running up unimaginable debts on a useless war.
  • cbus4life
    How have liberals stripped the citizens of their right to own firearms, as he says?

    I mean, i know that generally Liberals are in favor of more strict gun-control, but i've not seen it yet...

    And rofl @ the "going to high school football games on Friday night."

    I will give him credit for managing to fit every BS talking point into a rather small editorial, without any facts or the like to support them.
  • bigmanbt
    Using the term Hitler is a bit much, but it really isn't that far of a stretch. If you take out the murdering, they both believe in collectivism. Our country is turning to fascism, government control with private ownership. Using the term Hitler has awful connotations (and it should), but I don't think people are talking about the mass murders when they compare the two, it's more based on their ideologies.
  • Paladin
    Classic Right Wing B.S. Not a shred of credibility. All those years of W. piling up debt from not funding two wars, not funding a massive tax cut and not funding prescription drug program, then handing off the massive debt to Obama.

    The Right Wing really thinks everyone is stupid enought to fall for more of their lies. Deathpanels ?:p
  • derek bomar
    I really don't understand how someone with a functioning brain could claim that liberals are running up the debt to unimaginable levels without at least acknowledging the fact that the Right is just as guilty of it
  • eersandbeers
    derek bomar wrote: I really don't understand how someone with a functioning brain could claim that liberals are running up the debt to unimaginable levels without at least acknowledging the fact that the Right is just as guilty of it

    Well Obama has already outspent Bush by a wide margin I believe, but they are both clearly responsible.
  • derek bomar
    eersandbeers wrote:
    derek bomar wrote: I really don't understand how someone with a functioning brain could claim that liberals are running up the debt to unimaginable levels without at least acknowledging the fact that the Right is just as guilty of it

    Well Obama has already outspent Bush by a wide margin I believe, but they are both clearly responsible.
    I think the circumstances surrounding each are pretty different...but yea, even if he has outspent him, Bush's debt isn't the only debt we currently have. This isn't a liberal/conservative thing...both parties suck. You can't just throw this on Obama and say hes spending us to the poorhouse, when most of the debt is structural.
  • gibby08
    Those polls are so off from others you cant take serious
  • ptown_trojans_1
    Point? Polls, again, are meaningless.

    They were meaningless under Bush and Clinton before.
  • fish82
    gibby08 wrote: Those polls are so off from others you cant take serious
    Rasmussen is at 46. So no, it's not that far off.
  • majorspark
    gibby08 wrote: Those polls are so off from others you cant take serious
    We know, only the polls you post can be taken seriously.