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I agree with the spirit of this article. It’s good that the tea parties and health care protests have begun to shake things up, and let these leftists know that American’s are completely comatose, but we shouldn’t get complacent even if we are able to defeat a few of his plans. Obama is a dyed in the wool Communist, and he will behave like every other Communist in history who has obtained executive powers.

In order to save our country, it’s of foremost importance, I believe, that Americans assert their right to bear arms. Not just by buying guns, but by organizing a display of force to let the government know that we are ready and willing to resist them if the time comes. We need to set a date, where all 60 million+ gun owner in America, regardless of the state they live in, take their guns out of the home and bear them as they go about their daily business. For some, this is nothing more than their daily routine, but for others it is currently illegal and would pose a risk to those citizens.

However, if Americans of all walks of life exercised the right in unity at the same time, the government would not dare to stop us, and all of their extralegal infringements on our natural rights would become moot in an instant. A law that is unenforceable is no law at all. Let’s teach our government that lesson and make sure that they remember it!

Yours is a solution which will bring Obama to his knees to thank Allah, but for saving his presidency and giving him his very own Reichstag fire. You are his dream conservative for the reasons expressed in the article here:

More important than all that, though, is that Obama's personal skills, aims, and training are like nothing we have ever seen before in the White House. Every other president before him has intended at most to achieve change within the American political system. Obama wants to change the system itself. He is a radical's radical, with an authoritarian impulse. His Alinskyite training means that social unrest doesn't unnerve him; it plays right into his hands. Social unrest is both his modus operandi and his mid-term goal. The more unrest, the greater the crisis; the greater the crisis, the more excuse he has to use and consolidate central power in order to completely remake society.

To defeat Obama's radicalism will take plenty of political savvy on the right. Until the 2010 elections, discontent should simmer, but not boil over. Civil unrest will not win the day; it will only help him. The one, and perhaps only, opportunity to stop his juggernaut will be in those mid-term elections. Every bit of conservatives' efforts should be directed at building a massive voter turnout to defeat Obama's leftist allies in 2010. The TEA parties and town hall protests and all the rest should be aimed at building a political infrastructure and political arguments sufficient to win those elections. The energy of conservatives should climax then and only then. Anything premature, anything over the top, will allow Obama to more effectively mobilize his own troops in the supposed name of order and stability.

Another major point, during the late 70s, decades of bad “economic engineering” by government central planners had discredited Keynesianism, not just in the eyes of the public, but among many economists as well (this was when free market economists like Hayek, Friedman, and Stigler started winning Nobels and getting serious respect in their field). Stagflation had convinced people that the government planners couldn’t run an economy as they had promised, since they were at a total loss to explain it, let alone fix it.

Not so, now. Hackonomists like Krugman and Stiglitz, desperate for free market economics to be “discredited” as economic engineers such as themselves had been decades ago, coupled with the left-wing media, have tried to paint this current recession as a result of deregulation and the free market. It’s hogwash, for reasons that go beyond what I’m trying to say here, but it’s sticking with a lot of people (just as the commonly believed “causes” of the Great Depression stuck fast). A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth has got its boots on.

It took decades of hard work to show that the Great Depression was caused by the Federal Reserve, and was not alleviated by the New Deal. How long until mainstream economics concedes that this recession, begun as a financial crisis, was due to over-regulation and central banks, and not the free market? Probably a while.

So, voters in the next election will not have the same bad taste in their mouth for central planning, this will help Obama, or at least it won’t put him at the same major disadvantage Carter had.

I could be wrong. Obamanomics could go downhill so quickly that by 2012 most voters will blame the poor economy on the government. There will be plenty of free market economists there to provide a credible attack on Obamanomics, anyway.