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Barack Obama’s Era of Hopelessness
Powerline ^ | 10/19/13 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 10/19/2013 7:11:36 AM PDT by Lakeshark

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To: Lakeshark

Yes. You’re right. I see plenty of good, moral people around me. Americans aren’t all statist drones. Consider the Steven Lonegan senate race. Booker received slightly more than 700,000 votes, but Lonegan received nearly 600,000 votes. This was in New Jersey which is supposedly and ultra-blue stronghold. Even in this bluest of blue states, about 45% of the voters voted AGAINST big government (Lonegan didn’t hide the fact that he was a staunch conservative, i.e. opponent of Obamacare, etc.)

So it’s really that close. The left may hold a lot of cards, but we’re not out by a long shot. Even if the Democrats manage to fundamentally transform America, conservatives will do fine. We’re may be self reliant during normal times, but we’re also the type of people who come together during crises. Conservatives help each other. Liberals run to government for their solutions.

What the Democrats don’t know is we win this either way. They can’t produce what they promise, and if they succeed in bankrupting the country, conservatives will pick up the pieces like we’ve always done. Those who are dependent on EBT cards or are highly paid bureaucrats living in the fantasy land that’s D.C.? Eh, they’re not likely to thrive in their brave new (dysfunctional) world. Shoot. The EBT holders aren’t exactly thriving right now.


21 posted on 10/19/2013 8:50:43 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Conservatives are not anarchists!)
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To: Lakeshark
It really is awful. Even race relations are worse than ever, just when it seemed that things were getting on the right track.

One would think at least blacks would be happy, or at least happier, but they're more bitter and angrier than ever.

22 posted on 10/19/2013 9:03:09 AM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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To: Lakeshark
We need to expel the deeply-Blue areas from the Union and encourage all Democratic voters and their spawn to move there. Geographically, we're talking about the coasts.

On the East Coast, from Wilmington in the south to Bangor in the North and about 100 miles inland. We'll call it "East Libtardistan."

On the West Coast, from the southern border of LA county to the northern border of Marin County, and from inland to about the crest of coastal mountains, or about 40 miles. We'll call it "West Libtardistan."

We'll move all registered Democrats remaining in the United States to one of the 'Stans. The litmus test for whether one is an American or not will turn on whether they voted for BHO in 2012. This phase of the plan will be called "Operation Boxcar."

The United States will be a far healthier organism, being purged of its parasites. Plus, we'll get to sit back and gloat as the Democratic Coalition actually gets to share the same polity. It will be fun watching aging Marin County self-righteous hippies pulled from the Chevy Volts and robbed by their coalition partners from Detroit.

Break out the popcorn.

Discuss!

23 posted on 10/19/2013 9:06:11 AM PDT by Gluteus Maximus
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To: Gluteus Maximus

Yabut...

What about Chicago?


24 posted on 10/19/2013 9:10:52 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The "government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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To: Lakeshark

Wasn’t it the “youth vote” that helped bring this communist to power?

Hey kids! Elections have consequences!


25 posted on 10/19/2013 9:35:08 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

They’re moving to East Libtardistan. I suggest the former Rhode Island. It’s almost pure libtard there. Democrats so richly deserve each other.


26 posted on 10/19/2013 9:40:14 AM PDT by Gluteus Maximus
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To: Gluteus Maximus

I was thinking maybe you’d say; Move them all into Lake Michigan.


27 posted on 10/19/2013 9:44:37 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The "government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Ha! Not a bad idea. Certainly, Lake Michigan is much closer and the logistics no doubt far simpler. But, that might be going too far. No, I say load them on buses, Rhode Island bound.


28 posted on 10/19/2013 9:47:51 AM PDT by Gluteus Maximus
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To: Gluteus Maximus

Well, we could add a few more buses to the convoy and pick up the remaining stragglers in Detroit.


29 posted on 10/19/2013 9:56:11 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The "government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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To: Lakeshark

The Clown will be discredited by history. A feckless ideologue who wasted 8 years of time. Worst occupier of the WH evah.


30 posted on 10/19/2013 9:56:24 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: Lakeshark

He accomplished what he set out to do. He is a bitter angry man who hates America, but enjoys his personal wealth gotten from our beautiful country.


31 posted on 10/19/2013 11:02:34 AM PDT by LilRhody
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Done!


32 posted on 10/19/2013 12:10:48 PM PDT by Gluteus Maximus
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To: Lakeshark
Barky, his minions, and his controllers require hopelessness be inflicted on the public, in order to ensure that people no longer believe in themselves, in order to destroy the uniquely American spirit of "I can do it!" and install the belief that we all need the government to save us. He wasn't just talking to businesses when he said, "you didn't build that." He was talking to every American man, woman, and child in order to let them know where American society is heading.

And that's another reason that amnesty for illegal aliens is so important. They need to boost the number of people who are directly reliant on government.

The feeling of hopelessness is the means to an end. The end of America as we've known it. To force a "fundamental transformation."

Mark

33 posted on 10/19/2013 2:01:32 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: CitizenUSA; Lakeshark; epow; Gluteus Maximus; ROCKLOBSTER
Last week, Congress gave up the last effective tool it had to oppose Obama. Knuckling under Obama’s threat to blow up world finance, Congress gave away, for all practical purposes, the power of the purse.

In the aggregate, Obama determines how much and where money is spent, what the law is, and how his law is enforced. Add a compliant federal court system to uphold his outrages, and I'd say his hold on executive, legislative and judicial authority is just about complete.

You counsel to “dust ourselves off, and continue the fight.” If you mean we should continue to pretend voting in national elections can restore republican freedom, I don't see how that can happen. Obama stole the 2012 election, and the machinery is in place to ensure the rats never lose another.

34 posted on 10/20/2013 2:27:00 AM PDT by Jacquerie (An Article V amendment convention is our only hope.)
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To: upchuck

BINGO,God help us all


35 posted on 10/20/2013 2:34:21 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: upchuck

BINGO,God help us all


36 posted on 10/20/2013 2:34:24 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: Jacquerie

I agree. At this point secession is the only answer. Most conservatives are in denial about that. But if we leave aside the emotions, it’s clear that we have no other option as our republic has been transformed into a “democracy” and we’re now a minority in our own country. Libtards are concentrated on the coasts. We need to expel the coasts and move the remaining Libtards there. That’s it. The sooner we can accept that this geographical solution is the only realistic option that we have, the sooner we can move forward with the winning our freedom back.


37 posted on 10/20/2013 7:56:44 AM PDT by Gluteus Maximus
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To: upchuck
That's right..he's not finished yet.....the push will continue!


38 posted on 10/20/2013 8:05:10 AM PDT by caww
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To: Lakeshark

Don’t think it’s going back. Too many have bought into the “Me-me-me” meme (just made that one up). Too many look to the government to solve problems (Road to Serfdom and all that).


39 posted on 10/20/2013 8:09:34 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Lakeshark

“Even on the eve of the Civil War, was there this much pessimism about our future?”
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I wasn’t around then either but I think the answer is certainly NO. There was not nearly so much pessimism about the future simply because the average person had grown up dealing with real hardship. Now we have millions who have grown up depending on the government and without parents who teach them how to cope with hard times. There was also a HIGHER level of CLASSICAL education in those days.


40 posted on 10/20/2013 11:51:42 AM PDT by RipSawyer (The TREE currently falling on you actually IS worse than a Bush.)
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