Posted on 08/23/2009 1:01:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It was supposed to be so easy. Our nation's first openly black president was elected amidst thunderous cheers of joy from the Fourth Estate (the media for those of you in Rio Linda), the easily swayed, the Intelligentsia, Academia, College Students, the Unions, the Hard Left, those with White Guilt and, of course, the Black Community.
With both houses of Congress firmly in Democratic Party Control, it seemed at last that the Utopian, Statist, Green, anti-Military agenda of the Democrats since at least 1972 could at last be implimented. With 98% of the media firmly at their side, with the Sheeple content to watch TV and let their betters make all decisions for them, it was a slam dunk. But something funny happened on the way to Socialist Shangri-La: A few of the Sheeple got up on their hind legs and started raising a ruckus. How could this be?
Our first black president™ was up in arms! How dare these bitter clingers disrupt our march to destiny? What evil corporation was behind these townhall protests? Strange accusation, of course, since Mr. Obama had already cut a deal with the health insurance, drug and medical industries. Charges of Astroturfing, hand-wringing over citizens bearing arms legally, accusations of Un-Americanism from the House Speaker and Majority Leader, cries of "evil-mongering" from the Senate Majority Leader all ran like water off a duck's back to the "Angry Mobs" concerned that this was all going too fast, that we were losing the America we grew up in, and that healthcare would surely be rationed and denied under ObamaCare.
Along with the millions of concerned citizens that took time out of their busy lives to show up at their representative's townhall meeting (when they had the guts to have one), certain leaders emerged to speak for those unable to. Chief among those were Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Governor Sarah Palin, Michelle Malkin and Fox News. Faced with a similar situation twenty years ago, conservatives and other concerned Americans would have been nearly voiceless and powerless to stop the speeding train that is Obamunism. The big three networks, the newsweeklies and the newspapers would have assured us that Mr. Obama only has our best interests at heart and is doing everything he can to clean up the huge mess that the GOP left him. I suppose we should all write a thank-you e-mail to Vice President Gore for inventing the Internet and freeing us from the chains of Cronkite-ism.
Will this be our Pearl Harbor or 9/11? Will the "ram it down their throats" agenda of the Left finally awaken the sleeping giant, the "silent majority" that is usually too busy watching American Idol and holding down the sofa to care about what's going on in Washington? Only time will tell, but the trends are favorable, don't you think?
We've finally awakened to the fact that the double-dealing Congressional RINOs and the entire Democrap Party are un-American and need to be retired or locked up.
openly black? As opposed to what?
Many historians feel that several past presidents had African ancestry, including Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and almost certainly Warren Harding.
Thanks for pointing that out... wth...
Truly, he isn’t actually “black”, but only appears to be darker than a paper bag - if you want to go back to that test...
“openly” suggests something that could be hidden,
like...
actual citizenship
“Many historians feel that several past presidents had African ancestry, including Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and almost certainly Warren Harding.”
Many REVISIONIST historians feel that several past presidents had African ancestry, including Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and almost certainly Warren Harding.
Fixed a minor oversight for yo ..., OOPS! ! what about Bill Clinton?
;-)
As opposed to covertly black, such as Willy J. Clinton..
Rogers, J. (1965) The Five Negro Presidents. St. Petersburg, FL: Helga Rogers Publishing.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0960229485/ref=nosim/drleroyvaugha-20
During Pearl Harbor our soldiers and sailors defended themselves, helped protect others and in general defended the US. The American people did everything that was necessary to win.
Now most everyone is talking the subject to death and doing absolutely nothing or at best, as little as possible - hoping for someone else to take action first.
Sorry, I have no respect for people who won’t fight when the time has come - and the time has come. It may have already passed.
Obamacare could be the Picket’s Charge of American liberalism...a futile last ditch effort to transform America into a socialist state. From now on liberalism will be in retreat, though the war is not ended.
I don’t know about the war comparisons, but Obama’s overreach has brought the political fight into stark clarity, which is great for us every time it happens. My parents are devout New Dealers, and this idiot’s scaring the snot out of them. They know there will be “death panels,” and they’ll be at the business end of them. It’s passe if I say he’s like Hitler, but they remember Hitler and they think he’s the closest thing they’ve seen in domestic policy.
It’s when the Pubbies embrace RINOs like McCain that things get muddied and the Dems win.
Rogers is a revisionist, and one of that most interesting of intellectuals known as autodidacts.
Unlike the revanchists, he took a valid premise and expanded it into a life long work.
Proof he was on the right track is that Obammy now fouls the White House.
Alas, “Breeding will tell, you know”, as the English are fond of saying. Cross a commie sociologist with a few black commies and the offspring is what we elected.
Pity.
I wonder what Rogers would have said about Obammy and his obvious anti-American perspective.
Openly Black?
Did you mean Blatantly Black? or He woke up and was still Black? or that he is obiviously Black?
Whats up with that? /s
See my post #5. Thanks!
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