Posted on 09/28/2010 3:13:02 AM PDT by Scanian
I recently caught the last five minutes of Rocky, the classic movie starring Sylvester Stallone. During the finale, Championship Boxing Exhibition, Rocky, the extreme underdog amateur, was knocked down several times by powerful punches from the reigning champion. Upon being knocked down yet again, Rocky's coach instructed, "Stay down!"
I thought, that is exactly what many family and friends, who love us, advise when the goin' gets tough: "Quit. Give up on your dream." Like such family and friends, Rocky's well-intentioned coach did not get it. Instinctively, Rocky knew he had to get back up, or he would never be able to look at himself in the mirror again. Even after seeing the scene for the gazillionth time, when Rocky struggles to his feet and battles the champion to the final bell, I still get a lump in my throat.
Rocky strikes a universal chord. I was in college when the movie was first released in the '70s. Several of my fellow black friends were militants running around touting "Black Power" with raised fists. And yet they were crazy about the Italian Stallion, Rocky.
Rocky is universally loved because he tells us that no matter how much life beats you down, if you can find the strength to pick yourself back up, you are a winner. Rocky also tells us that certain things are worth fighting for -- risking losing for the dream of winning. Rocky epitomized the American Spirit.
And then, along came the Obama administration. In fairness, while no other president has promoted entitlement and American unexceptionalism more than Obama, we have been traveling down this entitlement road for quite awhile.
Like Rocky's coach, but for sinister reasons, Obama and liberals advise Americans, "Stay down! Striving for personal success is evil. You're entitled to the fruit of the labor of someone else. Illegal immigration is fine. Enforcing the law is insensitive, heartless, and racist. Competition damages self-esteem. Capitalism is unfair. Expecting immigrants to learn English is cruel and racist. We expect very little of you."
In keeping with their constant appealing to our lower nature and "don't strive for excellence" mindset, liberals coach minorities with messages like "You're victims of American racism. You deserve handouts. America is controlled by rich white people." Much has been written about the Left's "bigotry of low expectations" in regards to minorities.
No longer do we celebrate the "Rockys" of America -- folks who sacrifice, take risks, and struggle to achieve a better life for their families and themselves. Obama and company demonize achievers, calling them selfish and greedy exploiters of the poor.
In the name of "social justice," King Obama has begun confiscating and redistributing the wealth of Americans who were knocked down by life several times but courageously kept struggling to pick themselves back up and became winners. Reading the biographies of the wealthy will confirm that most of them took risks and experienced failures; many faced bankruptcies, lost marriages, and tremendous sacrifices and struggles. But they kept getting back up.
Not only has Obama vowed to confiscate the wealth of these "American Rockys" -- and in his own words, "spread it around" America -- but he intends to redistribute their hard-earned money around the world.
Some say the American Dream is dead. Nobody wants to work hard to achieve a goal. They believe liberals have successfully divided Americans into various victimized groups, all believing they are entitled. These fatalists say far too many Americans would rather sit on their butts and wait for whatever entitlement crumbs the government throws their way.
I do not believe we have reached such an ugly un-Rocky/un-American critical mass. Traveling on the Tea Party Express, I have attended hundreds of Tea Parties across America. Rocky is alive and well in the hearts and minds of millions of Tea Party patriots who still celebrate ambition, courage, and personal achievement. These folks are downright repulsed by the idea of government controlling outcomes, dictating who wins and who loses.
Daily assaults by Obama have severely beaten down the spirit of America. He proclaims that the U.S. is no longer -- nor should it be -- the world economic leader. So how many more Obama brutal punches can the spirit of American exceptionalism endure? Will it survive the Obama regime?
Yes, it will. No matter how many times the American spirit is knocked down, it always gets back up. Tea Party patriots have declared, "King Obama, you're dethroned! We're taking back America!" Adriannnnnn, I LOVE YOU!!!
“What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
Here is the good news. Obama is Temporary. (his administration)
Same with the current Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) here in Japan. A bunch of bumbling idiots, the Chinese and NORKs are rolling them in the alley like a lone, drunken coastguardsman=--part of the reason they do it is because they know Obama is (gulp!) at the helm in Washington....
Nuff said.
Eagles Up!
We will relieve him of his command in November. Help is on the way.
It would be “easy” to destroy that second culture, actually.
Perhaps “simple” would be a better word, because “it ain’t gonna be easy”.
Simply remove their entitlements. When they can no longer eat without working, that “culture” of dependence and entitlement goes away pretty quickly, within a couple of generations.
I see it in "quitters". I think fundamentally he is a QUITTER, a "I'll take my marbles home" type of narcissist of the worst type. These people cannot function when all the praise, and adoration, and outright idolotry is sucked out of the room. (Remember this idiotic kids, prompted by their parents or teachers, singing those stupid Maoist type Cult of Personality songs??)
If the Democrats are smart, as a party, they are well advised to jettison this guy as soon as possible and look for an alternative in 2012. Regardless, they are still going to get creamed at the polls in two years. We are just warming up in the next 40 days. ;-)
I think the opposite. I think he is a committed Communist who will do everything he can against us. All the way. He will have to be completely beaten down and flushed out of his bunker.
Obama thinks it won’t survive. Fortunately he has a nearly perfect track record of being dead nuts wrong.
How bout, a COMMUNIST and a QUITTER?? (His narcissism just might check his Maoism). But we will see. At least his aides are starting to jump ship here and there, that is how it usually begins. Soon, he wont trust anyone in the West Wing.
OK. I hope he quits. I see more likelyhood of Impeachment once the investigations begin next year. Who do you think the Repubs will nominate for 2012. I think it may be Gingritch but hope for Palin or DeMent.
“If we lose freedom here, there’s no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”
RONALD REAGAN, “A Time For Choosing” speech, October 27, 1964
At this time in our history, we must ask ourselves:
Are we living in the country that our founding fathers envisioned when they sacrificed their lives, fortunes and sacred honor?
Do we sit idle while our country is on a course of soon becoming a place that we ourselves would flee if given a choice?
Do we live a life of ease today, so that our children and grandchildren can face the consequences of our inaction when we are gone?
The fact that we and our children’s children have nowhere else to go... the fact that HUMANITY has nowhere else to go... gives those questions an even heavier weight than the one our Founders pondered many years ago when deciding whether or not to break with England.
“I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.”
RONALD REAGAN, First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981
Time to choose, America.
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