Vanity: Memoirs of the America that was

11/6/12 | Cato in PA

[Cato in PA]

Well, it was good while it was lasted.

Now that Barack Hussein Obama has won re-election, there can be no doubt that America is not a center-right nation, as many talking heads in talk radio have claimed.

I graduated from college during the start of Obama's recession in 2008. I've been unable to find steady work since then, and I was hoping and praying with all my might that God would remove this burden from the companies of this country. Unfortunately, he didn't.

I wonder if I'll ever be able to find a job.

I wonder if I'll be able to find a woman my age (I'm 26) who genuinely believes in free enterprise, God, and traditional American values the way that I do.

I wonder how so many people could have turned out to sweep Barack Obama back into office after trouncing the Democrats in 2010.

But I know that in the minds of the political elite, it doesn't matter. Just watch them on television: they don't care. They know that their paychecks are secure and that they'll rake in a fortune doing election coverage. And the pollsters? They were right, like they were in 2008.

There's no turning back now: it's over. America is over. The Republican Party is over. By the time 2016 rolls around, America will be a husk of its former self that isn't worth fighting for.

Mourn now, my FRiends, but remember that God is in control. Remember that we still have each other, even if most of the country is fixated on its Obamaphones and food stamps. We'll find a way to make it through this - what other choice do we have? - but for now, let's get it out of our systems.

May America reap the rotten fruits of the demon seed it's sown.

[autumnraine]

Apparently many are doing ‘better’ than four year ago.

And I a in a delusional state of mind.

I give up. On America.

[gotribe]

Cato, the GOP is blind to Blacks and Hispanics, that’s how. They are completely blind. I’m not amazed at how large a percentage of blacks the Dems get; I’m always amazed that the GOP gets so few, has done virtually NOTHING to go after that block which would provide huge benefits at the margin.

BTW, if you truly believe in free enterprise you would do well to gear your new business to Hispanics in America. GL

[Shadow44]

I’m only 23, and I know exactly what you mean. I graduated college so I could get seasonal part time employment that I could do when I was 16? I feel like the American Dream is dead.

I just wish I could have been around to see it for myself.

[LottieDah]

I just want to thank those who stayed home in protest and did not vote and those who did not vote for Romeny because he wasn’t “conservative” enough or because he was a Mormon. Thanks a bunch folks. Tonight the devil dances while the rest of us brace ourselves as we circle the drain.

[JSteff]

I wonder how so many people could have turned out to sweep Barack Obama back into office

There was no sweeping going on except in your delusional mind.
I bet we see that just the voting dead in one county in Wisconsin could be the difference.
Hopefully Romney will not concede until there is a chance to look everything over.... it is close now, but may be closer when the wash is taken out.

[bgill]

Embrace burger flipping.

[Cato in PA]

Business? What business? Do you think I would go into business for myself with so little experience and a Marxist dictator ready to crack down on the free market?

[doc1019]

We have witnessed tonight the results of the slow creep of socialism into our democratic system. Our children are subjected to socials indoctrination day in and day out in public schools. These children grow up and vote, not knowing that they are voting their own demise as free citizens.

[Panzerfaust]

I haven’t seen this level of depression since Antichrist I (Bill Clinton) won in 1992. Well, check that. The hyperbole was worse when he won again in 1996.
The level of crying is surprising me here a bit on FR tonight. So, what has really changed? Nothing. The Republicans still hold the house and the fiscal cliff is approaching.

Does no one remember 2008? The election that destroyed the Republicans for 20 years? You know, those same Republicans who came back 2 years later and crushed the Dems in the House, handing them the worst mid-term defeat in 70-plus years? So, what did Obama accomplish from 2010 onward? Nothing, that’’s what. And he’ll accomplish nothing until/unless Dems can retake the house in 2014.

Guys, 16 trillion in debt will stop “big government” faster than anything else. Irrespective of who is President, the merry-go-round will stop soon and then the real fight will begin. Eventually a candidate will emerge who will focus on the economic reality of the debt and not on peripheral social issues. Let the sting of tax increases, military spending cuts and continued gridlock set in. You’ll see change in 2014.

Go have a beer and calm down. The only thing worse than losing an election is losing your dignity.......At least Obama isnt humping interns in the Oval Office. You younger guys don’t know what “ridiculous” looks like unless you were voting in 1992.....

[Swede Girl]

I agree completely. I am so angry at the morons in this country who voted to destroy the future for my family. If they want to spit in faces of their own children, so be it. But, they are spitting in mine also.

We can’t blame Obama for being the evil that he is. We must blame the electorate who say that evil is a good thing and let’s have more of it and continue to destroy this great country piece by piece.

I have nothing but disdain for every voter who gave him carte blanche to do so today.

[Dapper 26]

America, R.I.P.

[SaraJohnson]

I decided to join the fight to get Obama out but I was never under the impression that Romney was going to be able to fix or improve anything in this country. It’s gone too far from it’s roots - legally, socially and econmically.