Posted on 12/04/2010 5:01:34 AM PST by radioone
In fifty years I have little doubt that we will regard the administration of Barack Obama as the presidency that saved America. No, not in the sense that Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, and all the other media John the Baptists foretold as they proclaimed the coming of our political messiah just over two years ago. Rather, the history of our time will show that it was the radical nature of Obama's dogged devotion to a liberal progressive philosophy far out of the American mainstream that jolted awake a generation of apathetic and passive citizens just in time to save the republic.
Though that apathy has always been inexcusable, it was at least understandable. Our politics had become more theater than substance. In fact, voters reasonably began to view their choices at the ballot box as something akin to picking between airline food and hospital food: bland, insipid, uninspiring.
For all their posturing and crowing, the two parties had largely become mere reflections of one another. Seriously, how different was Bill Clinton's "triangulation" and George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism?" Candidates of either party who showed convictions contrary to the Washington establishment and challenged that establishment's control were labeled radical, and every attempt was made to marginalize them.
But Barack Obama changed all of that. For the last two years, the President has unleashed the most aggressively left-wing agenda he could muster. When the electorate began a backlash against his revolutionary designs at town halls and tea parties, he ignored them. And when they rejected his ideology by throwing his party out of power by historic proportions in the midterm elections, he pretended not to notice, or that he was misunderstood.
All this makes little sense to those attempting to view Obama's presidency through the conventional prism of political leadership. But Obama is not a conventional politician. He is a radical ideologue. Obama is not a leader. He is a bitter partisan. And as odd as it sounds, that is exactly what this country needed.
It has been generations since Americans have been exposed to a more vivid depiction of the significant differences between the left's and the right's views of this country and its future. The delineation between conservative and liberal had grown hopelessly blurred to a majority of citizens. But Obama and his leftist cabal have been successful not only in demonstrating the frightening vision progressive liberals have of making America into a European-style socialist state, but they have also managed to animate a vast conservative majority that has laid painfully dormant since the mid 1980s.
The distinction is glaring, and even for those who normally avoid politics, impossible to miss.
While Americans watch conservative Republicans like Eric Cantor explain that raising taxes on any citizens in the midst of a recession (particularly those who are being relied upon to invest and expand businesses to create jobs) is foolish, they see President Obama proclaim that "we can't afford" not to raise taxes on a group of citizens he determines are too wealthy.
Besides the glaring proof this offers of the left's obsession with using divisive class warfare to gain power, it also reveals a notable difference in philosophy. While conservatives like Cantor believe money belongs first to the citizen and is confiscated by government, leftists like Obama believe money belongs first to the government. That government then lets select citizens keep some of it...if and only if government "can afford" to be so generous.
Further, when Americans open their newspapers, they are greeted with the wise counsel of Obamabots like Tom Friedman and Paul Krugman. Friedman's recent piece in the New York Times called the Tea Party movement "narrow and uninspired" while touting that, "We need to raise gasoline and carbon taxes to discourage their use and drive the creation of a new clean energy industry." Krugman, meanwhile, laments that the waste of nearly one trillion taxpayer dollars on a government spending bill meant to stimulate a still stagnant economy wasn't enough, and should be followed up with an even bigger second stimulus.
Everywhere they turn, Americans see that the left is offering higher taxes, less freedom, more debt and regulation. They simultaneously see the right offering lower taxes, freer markets and fiscal sanity.
Voters' first opportunity to choose between those two visions occurred in the 2010 midterms. Their preference was unmistakable -- to everyone, that is, except Barack Obama. His recent pronouncement that, "It would be unwise to assume [the voters] prefer one way of thinking over another," reconfirmed that the president and his cohorts have no desire whatsoever to alter course, and instead will spend the next two years butting heads with the newly elected conservative majority. This conflict is sure to make the distinction between the left and the right all the more clear to an engaged American public.
And with a 2012 election cycle that already sees Democrats poised to face even more devastating Congressional losses (they are defending far more Senate seats than Republicans, and could lose upward of 30 House seats due to redistricting), Obama's persistent, unapologetic left-wing crusade is shaping up to be the political equivalent to Pickett's Charge.
In the end, the era of Obama will do more damage to the progressive left than any Republican presidency could have ever done. For that, posterity will owe him a debt of gratitude.
OUTSTANDING...
Drooling idiots brainwashed by (Saudi) American TV as Prince Al Waleed has mega deals and shareholding in ALL 6 TV networks. O will cause irreparable damage to America and there is no guarantee he will lose in 2012. He owns TV, the papers, media, SCOTUS plus the other courts.
Perhaps. But the rats still have Obamacare and a whole new constituency of takers that will make it's repeal very difficult. No matter who gets elected the ball just keeps moving left. It may slow down, or even pause, for short times. But it never moves right, for some reason.
Large swaths of people understand how poisonous and dangerous the political correctness that has taken over is. It is openly mocked an ridiculed. But does doesn't seem to matter. The radical minority of misfits that have foisted it on us, are undeterred, and still continue to rule over the institutions that matter.
I agree. Maybe someday we will look back but we have to stop this admin from damaging us to the point where we can’t come back.
Whoever said it would ony be for 4 years didn’t relaize how much damage could be done in a much shorter timeframe.
Eric Cantor a conservative? I am not sure about that. He seems awfully RINOish to me.
And tops it off with a perpetual smirk.
And you have to have leadership to make it happen. So far, we’re lacking severely. All I hear is “bipartisanship” and “compromise.”
bttt
“. . . Republicans like Eric Cantor explain that raising taxes on any citizens in the midst of a recession. . . .”
This kind of talk really scalds my hind end because it shows the even the so-called conservatives don’t understand. Taxes were already too high before the recession. Washington is simply levying taxes to buy constituencies with government programs. We don’t owe our politicians jack . . . what we owe is to our country and our neighbors. Reinstating the estate tax is simply a way for commie rats to destroy capital needed to fund business operation. The government, and ESPECIALLY THE CITIZENS, need to get out of the mindset that the government owns our income and production . . . that is a totally bass ackwards way of looking at things.
Makes sense to me.
To round out the whole thought we need to add the fact that All Gore and Rev Wright are the spiritual leaders of this Godless Leftist group.
“The Presidency that Saved America”
I understand the literary device that the author employed to make his subsequent points, but the notion that Øbongo might actually save anything - even inadvertently - is borderline repugnant.
I think of it as the ...
...”man God used to save the United States...by waking up the people!”
From “Modern Times” by Paul Johnson p 78:
“His aims were fourfold.First,to destroy all opposition outside the party;second,to place all power,including government,in party hands;third,to destroy all opposition within the party;fourth,to concentrate all power in the party in himself and those he chose to associate with him.”
First,the 2008 election pretty much destroyed the GOP opposition for awhile.
Second,Immediately after their victories,the Dems rushed to place all power,including government,in party hands.
Third,the 2010 elections destroyed all opposition (bye bye blue dogs) within the party.
Fourth is now happening as Obama is concentrating all power in the party in himself and his closest cronies like Pelosi and Reid.
The above excerpt was about Lenin—the only reason it mirrors what Obama is doing now is that the Bolshevik wrote the Marxist manual for fascist enslavement—and though devils like Ayers or Alinsky may fine tune the manual the prime directives have not changed in almost a century.
So let us try to eschew sanguine notions,however tempting,on this and be ever vigilant still.
Barack Obama presidency has made America what it is BROKE and in debt to other countries,hell of a president huh?.
I see this article’s point. Initally, I thought this was just another Obama sycophant who was gleeful that all of America was becoming part of the poor class.
Actually Picket’s Charge was a miracle. They should of been wiped out to a man but a slight depression in the terrain saved many of them.
“that is if not too late.”
It’s not too late if the Republicans won’t be afraid to act tough and fight every bit of this socialism with all they have.
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