Posted on 01/10/2017 8:46:07 PM PST by Olog-hai
President Barack Obama reaffirmed his belief that change only happens when “ordinary people get involved, get engaged and come together to demand it” during his farewell speech on Tuesday.
Addressing thousands of supporters at McCormick Place in Chicago, the same city where he gave his presidential victory speech in 2008, the outgoing president said change was the “beating heart of our American idea — our bold experiment in self-government.”
Obama, who cultivated his empowering brand of American politics in Chicago, said the city had taught him that change starts at the grassroots level. […]
At one point, the president was interrupted by chants of “Four more years!”, to which he smiled and responded, “I can’t do that.” …
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True. And that's why we have a President-elect Trump.
“Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestrained by any laws.”That is the left’s purest definition of “empower(ment)”.
— Lenin
Mob rule.
Was it then a democracy the framers created? Hardly. The system of restraints, on the face of it, was directed not only against individual tyrants, but also against a tyranny of the masses.Of course, those who lie to the public and then subvert the checks and balances have succeeded in stealing power, only for as long as the people remain “disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable” as the Declaration of Independence puts it.
The framers were well aware of the danger posed by self-seeking demagogues—that they might persuade a majority of the people to confer on government vast powers in return for deceptive promises of economic gain.
And so they forbade such a transfer of power—first by declaring, in effect, that certain activities are outside the natural and legitimate scope of the public authority, and secondly by dispersing public authority among several levels and branches of government in the hope that each seat of authority, jealous of its own prerogatives, would have a natural incentive to resist aggression by the others. …
— The Conscience of a Conservative, Ch. 2, p. 18
Does he even know what country he’s in?
Change happened, bye Obama, bye Hillary, bye DNC.
Keep it up, Obama, there’s still another 15 states for the GOP to take over, and I’d love to see that senate get up to 65 seats on the GOP side.
To update an old song:
We fought the lawless — and the law won.
“Get in their faces” moment, eh Obamohamed?
Can we get a Change.org petition to tell this bastard (he is, look it up) to stfu?
When a Democrat makes a speech, whenever he says “democracy” or “change” or “progress”, just substitute “socialism”, and you will hear what he really means.
He’s was right about that part - ordinary people got involved and dumped him, his ideas, and Hillary like a sick cow taking a squirt dump.
I wish more people understood the truth of your post. I cringe when I hear people who actually support the original intent of the constitution but contine to extol the virtues of democracy. Democracy is no more to be desired than other forms of tyranny.
BHO got it wrong again.
We are not fighting for a mere democracy. We are restoring a Constitutional Republic based Democracy.
Correct definitions are crucial.
We only had that option because Trump stepped up.
The GOP was preparing to foist Yeb! on us as the Designated Loser.
They wanted an amnesty candidate to block the citizens from stopping the illegal alien inundation just like in every election since the last amnesty.
There are far more Cheap Labor Express Republicans in office than patriots.
They will try to stop Trump from enforcing immigration laws.
We must not be satisfied with just deporting the criminals.
We should not wait until illegal aliens commit other crimes before deporting them.
This man’s priorities are obtuse as those of Neville Chamberlain.
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This man’s priorities are Mad Mo’s, Islamic domination.
We had a vaccination from Obama, it’s called the natural born citizen clause.
Both parties decided we didn’t need it anymore.
The founders required a natural born citizen for President.
Obama is not one.
Both parties conspired to negate the requirement because they both want to run ineligible candidates.
He addressed his supporters when
He should have addressed the
Nation.
The fawning of the media was disgusting.
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