Posted on 02/12/2008 8:23:24 AM PST by eaglephin
It takes more than a pretty video and a bunch of celebrities singing to make a great president. It takes a person who understands where the true greatness of America lies.
Long before anyone ever heard of Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan challenged Americans to hope, to dream, to believe....
In themselves.
He brought change. He told us that "yes we can". Except he told us we didn't need government to do it. He inspired us with his words and his actions. He showed us that our individual liberty and creativity is what makes our country great not any government program.
Today, Americans are wowed by the empty oratory of politicians who promise nothing but failed socialism in disguise. Even the presumptive Republican nominee cloaks himself in the mantle of Reagan but has shown that he doesn't understand Reagan's philosophy.
Reagan was an idealist AND an ideologue. His policies were based in his rock solid conservative ideology. That doesn't mean he never compromised. But compromise is something different than standing on the same side of an issue with those who are supposed to be your political adversaries.
John McCain is no Ronald Reagan.
Timely post - thanks. And you are quite correct about the “Yes we can” message. Including Government in the “we” by Obama is perverse.
An intriguing morsel: Republicans are happier than Democrats
Obama is a fine orator. However, the ideas he is “orating” in such a fine manner are Marxist at worst and National Socialist at best, which means they are doomed to failure.
There may well be enough useful idiots out there who will be “inspired” by his pied-piper promises of the government taking care of everyone, but ANY student of history knows exactly where that Marxist/Socialist path leads.
Some of us are not fooled by the pretty face, the good speaking voice and the “uplifting” promises, the keeping of which means the destruction of absolutely everything our founding fathers held dear.
The “Yes we can” chantings by the liberal left is nothing by copying from the Republicans.......Again. I don’t think they have any original ideas. Even their phylosfy is from Marx and Stalin..socialism/communism.
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