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Obama's'revenge'is the antithesisof American ideals
http://www.thecommentator.com ^ | november 8, 2012 | joel d. hirst

Posted on 11/08/2012 6:43:31 AM PST by lowbridge

America was not built on revenge. America as an idea was thought up in the burning embers of the revolutionary war and built by a successive line of patriots who achieved their joy in giving back, not taking.

Sacrifice, character, patriotism, family and the faith of successive generations built this great land. Through the blood of our soldiers overseas and the tireless work of our industry and inventors at home we forged a new reality and created a shining beacon that the entire world looked to in envy.

We are a people who have never had to ask permission from Washington, render accounts to our overlords, or report back in fear. We have always been a free people whose un-coerced interactions served to build up, not to tear down. And they have always been enough.

I wonder how much longer this will be the case.

In his forward to Friedrich Hayek’s masterpiece “The Road to Serfdom”, Dr. Walter Williams explains what is happening. Intellectuals, as Hayek calls “second-hand dealers in ideas (…) are masters in the technique of conveying ideas but usually amateurs so far as the substance of what they convey is concerned.”

In their intention of doing good they undermine the pillars of a free society, leaving it bare for tyranny. This happens so much as to not even be controversial. From Venezuela to the old USSR to modern-day France – and now the USA – collectivists subjugate based upon the proclaimed intention of creating fairness or equality.

They use the tax code and the regulatory environment on the one hand and the expansion of social services, benefits or entitlements on the other to bind poor to rich, with an army of nameless, faceless bureaucrats as intermediaries.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; revenge; sourcetitlenoturl

1 posted on 11/08/2012 6:43:38 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

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2 posted on 11/08/2012 6:45:21 AM PST by Evil Slayer ((Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war....))
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To: lowbridge

The laws of economics will have revenge on the Obamadork.

My only hope is that we stop him at the border before he tries to escape.

And we can let the crowd do what they wish with that “thing”.


3 posted on 11/08/2012 6:47:26 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: lowbridge
Obama's "revenge" is the antithesis of American ideals

Given Tuesday's results, it's not the antithesis of today's Amerika...

4 posted on 11/08/2012 6:48:33 AM PST by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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To: lowbridge

The Road To Serfdom in comics:

http://stewartglass.net/readings/the_road_to_serfdom_in_cart.pdf


5 posted on 11/08/2012 6:59:23 AM PST by Bon mots (Abu Ghraib: 47 Times on the front page of the NY Times | Benghazi: 2 Times)
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I’d be angry if I were Obama if I saw the area that voted AGAINST me.

http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president

The REAL map. The urban areas’ population outnumber the rural areas, but look at the real map. MORE areas voted AGAINST Obama.


6 posted on 11/08/2012 7:06:52 AM PST by griswold3 (Big Government does not tolerate rivals.)
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To: lowbridge
Obama's'revenge'is the antithesis of American ideals

First, you need to understand that 0bama is a muslim, born in kenya, who grew up in indonesia. He is NOT an American and any American "Ideals" he is aware of, he rejects. Just ask Bill Ayres.

7 posted on 11/08/2012 7:18:22 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Never Underestimate the Power of Evil or Evil Doers)
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To: Da Coyote

I hope employers are paying close attention to who’s doing the obama victory dances. They should be the first to be laid off. Revenge can be sweet.


8 posted on 11/08/2012 8:13:58 AM PST by virgil
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To: lowbridge

So we continue down this perilous road until the whole socialist mess blows up in our face. Then what?

I don’t see nobama making a nation-wide speech and saying, “I’ve had an epiphany and am changing direction. Unrestrained capitalism is the only way forward.”

When the US is as far down as it can go, then what? Will some ambitious country see us as easy pickings?

Will this be like alcoholism where you have to hit absolute bottom before recovery can begin? In alcoholism, recovery means a dramatic change in direction. That just doesn’t sound like nobama to me.


9 posted on 11/08/2012 8:22:58 AM PST by upchuck (We are not finished yet. But when nobama chooses some more SCOTUS judges, we will be. For ever.)
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To: lowbridge
America was not built on revenge.

But Marxism is. Obama's Marxist background probably put him in contact with Marxist and communist fictional literature.The literary school approved by communism is called socialist realism. Socialist realism, the official literary theory of Soviet Russia, was conceived by Maxim Gorky in the 1930's.

The typical story of socialist realism starts with a class struggle, followed by eventual triumph of the proletariat over the capitalists in a heroic battle. And then, this was followed by revenge against the capitalists. So, after being exposed to this line of thought all his life, the idea of revenge become second nature to a Marxist.

10 posted on 11/08/2012 9:40:19 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Da Coyote

He won’t escape he will die of a stroke when he learns that his plans will be stopped dead in it tracks.
Obama,Reid and pelosi have made many enemies in it’s own party.


11 posted on 11/08/2012 9:42:59 AM PST by Vaduz
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