2008, the year American greatness collapsed

Washington Times ^ | Sunday, January 4, 2009 | Jeffrey Kuhner

[maddog55]

America ceased to be a great superpower. A war-weary public threw in the towel against Islamic fascism, and embraced President-elect Barack Obama´s policy of appeasement. Groveling in fear of a recession, Americans also overthrew their free-market ideals. This was the year of false hope by an Obama prophet who will only accelerate our demise. The core of Mr. Obama's appeal - behind the vacuous promises of "change" and "hope" - is that his election will "restore America's standing in the world." The muscular, unilateralist foreign policy of President Bush is over. Conservative nationalism is out; liberal multilateralism is in. Mr. Obama vows to wind down the Iraq war, restore our alliances and engage in direct dialogue with rogue states, such as Iran, North Korea and Venezuela.

[AbeKrieger]

At first read of the headline I thought thsi was goign to be a MSM classic anti-American hit piece. How wrong I was and how accurate the content is.

[bolobaby]

Wholesome goodness. Plenty of truthiness within.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

The Republicans had more than enough time to demonstrate the benefits of a truly conservative foreign policy (e.g. no entangling alliances, no ideological crusades), less government, and a well-regulated free market economy.

Instead they decided to go on a Wilsonian crusade against Islam, expand government in every way imaginable, and allow their crony capitalist sponsors to have their way with the "free" market.

Why blame Obama, or the people who voted for him, for continuing along the path trailblazed by the Republicans?

[Logical me]

This article hit it right on. We are in a world of hurt with this glib simple minded sick Obama. And what is frighting is the vast majority of Americans believed this nitwit. God help America.

[Alberta's Child]

A war-weary public threw in the towel against Islamic fascism, and embraced President-elect Barack Obama´s policy of appeasement.

Well, no.

The "war-weary public" threw the Republican Party out of power in both Houses of Congress in 2006. And it had nothing to do with "weariness," either. I think most of these folks simply got tired of the farce that the so-called War on Terror had become.

[ETL]

"2008, the year American greatness collapsed"

Not according to Obama's commie supporters...

Congratulations on an extraordinary history making election!

We can think back with pride to decades of hard work toward our strategic goal of a big enough, broad enough and united enough labor and all-people’s movement that could overcome the ultra-right blockage to all progress. That all people’s movement has come to life, it is dynamic and it has the potential to keep growing.

The election of Barack Obama and a strengthened Congress creates new conditions in our country. There is now the possibility to shift gears and move forward. This new day requires us to further develop our tactics in order to continue to deepen and broaden labor and people’s unity.

There are thousands of experiences that we all have had in these momentous days, some large, some small, all of which express the enormity of change in thinking and readiness for involvement that is underway and that steels us for the battles ahead.

The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in.

http://cpusa.org/article/articleview/991/1/154/
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"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html
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Saul Alinsky on "Change":

From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:

"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution."

Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain
http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm
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[goodnesswins]

"The only defensible war is a war of defense." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

We were on defense after 9-11 and you know it,.....don'tyou???

[Gaffer]

America collapsed when abortion became the norm - Federally legal and sponsored

America collapsed when the American Psychiatric Association and the American Medical Association proclaimed homosexuality normal behavior

America collapsed when Democrats determined the means to their power lay in pandering to and creating divisions amongst that consituency and real Americans

America collapsed when religion (i.e., Christianity) became a dirty word

America collapsed ....(you can insert a hundred or more reasons here - it only adds more nails to the coffin - the damage is done)

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

America collapsed when religion (i.e., Christianity) became a dirty word

Most churches and temples preach community, charity, sharing, tolerance, peace, hand-holding and so on. I hear the same from socialists and communists. Churches want my money as much as the socialists. No where do I hear the voice of a great champion of the individual. Self interest is the dirty word from which that Republicans fled and lost the support of people.

[Venturer]

You are on the right track.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

That article is the scary truth... I’m not so sure I’m glad I read that.

[ElayneJ]

And it took so few years for the collapse to occur.

[Regulator]

Neocon jive.

[deannadurbin]

Obama would have gone NOWHERE if George W. Bush hadn’t sacrificed conservatism and made it of none effect.

[blasater1960]

When Americans, became so fat and lazy, they refused to work and therefore, secure the border, thus insuring a Hispanic Majority in California and a demographic time-bomb nationally that will forever change the fabric of our nation to a socialist-welfare state.

[ScreamingFist]

They see him for what he is: a weak, naive and oscillating leader, who does not understand the growing threat against the West. In fact, he is even part of the problem.

Ouch

[stainlessbanner]

GOP supported open borders, amnesty, UAE port control, and $700B bailout. Complicit with the Dems - vote them all out.

[livius]

Not really. I think a lot of Bush’s bad economic stuff was actually motivated by 9/11 - he gets no credit, btw, for having averted a major financial collapse after the attack, even though perhaps his encouragement of spending led to some of today’s problems. However, if the spending had been sound, it wouldn’t have been a problem. And he actually warned several times about the problems with inflated mortgages and out of control speculation, but the (Dem) legislature refused to act.

I don’t think the prescription drug program was a good idea, and I think he was too generous with aid for that pit, Africa (and on top of that, he’s never even gotten credit for it), but he was very good in many ways.

What got Obama elected was the press and the fact that most Americans have handed over their brains to the media, which hated Bush from day one and found in Obama the ultimate anti-Bush: cruel, corrupt, arrogant, into social control to the nth degree, and sympathetic to all our enemies, especially the Muslim and Marxist ones.

[1-Eagle]

"so frustrated, so defeated, so lost"

This is the job of the leftist media to create this perception... they tell us we are frustrated, defeated, and lost so many times that many Americans begin to believe it as a fact. They have talked this economy down for years, so there is no surprise that the economy is finally tanking... or is it?

A real leader would pave the way to consumer confidence with positive talk combined with tax cuts, just like Reagan did. Why are the Conservatives sitting there silently letting them do this? Conservatives need to be out there everyday talking about how resilient our American economy is and how we're going to bounce back.