Posted on 02/26/2008 9:59:10 PM PST by 2nd amendment mama
Last night I got together with my neighbors in Murrells Inlet, SC. By unanimous decree, they decided to appoint me as their voice. We've decided that I will speak for all of us 'average' Americans who seldom have their voices heard. You know who I mean, the ones you never see on TV. We're all too busy working, raising our families, going to church and paying our taxes.
The reason I'm writing is to let you all know that we're getting pretty sick and tired of the media, the politicians and the snotty elites who keep claiming to speak for us. They don't.
A good example is all those candidates who say we want change. They're right about that, but the change we want is to be able to voice our own opinions without being called racist, sexist or homophobic. Another change we'd like is to be able to click on the tube and not be assaulted with teenage pop-tarts, same-sex couples swapping spit, and sneering, anti-American self-annointed elites who give the US a bad name. They, most especially, don't speak for us.
We'd also like to let you all know that we can take care of our own neighbors and families just fine without some fancy uplifting government program that ends up doing more harm than good. We don't need welfare or subsidies or grants and we don't need government schools frightening our kids about 'global warming.' Most especially, we don't want our 4 year olds being taught how to put a condom on a banana or reading about Heather's two mommies. Mostly we'd just like government to get out of our way. Oh, and we'd also like all those patronizing idiots we see on the TV to quit claiming to speak for us.
Read the rest of the article RightBias.com
Home Run!
Finally something worth reading! Thanks for posting!
I live in rural upstate NY, but due to some weirdness in radio signals, listened tonight to the post-debate chatter on a talk show in Charlotte, NC. What a breath of fresh air. It was great to hear normal decent people just speak from their hearts.
I love Nancy’s writing style! Check out some of her other articles on RightBias
Nancy Morgan ‘08!
God Bless those folks who keeps our beloved country strong. Where ever they are.
Amen!!!
Hey Joe! Your Famous!
I’m sure the people of Murrells Inlet, SC are wonderful, fine people, and this is a pretty good column. But I’m not so sure about the headline. I don’t think the term “flyover country” was coined to describe towns on the east coast.
I went to college in Virginia, and I was always amused at the dichotomy in their minds between “north” and “south,” but they seemed to have no concept of “west.” If I could have gotten inside their minds to see what their mental map of the USA would have looked like, I don’t think anything west of the Appalachian Mountains would have been on there.
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“...but they seemed to have no concept of “west.” If I could have gotten inside their minds to see what their mental map of the USA would have looked like, I don’t think anything west of the Appalachian Mountains would have been on there.”
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For those somewhat north of Virginia, the world seems to end at the Hudson River — west of there be monsters or blood-thirsty savages, depending on their worldview in such matters.
Once upon a time, I was visiting with a young lady in Mass. She noted that I had a slightly different accent than she did, and asked where I was from.
When I told her "Oklahoma", she though about it for a bit, then said:
"Oklahoma... Isn't that west of New York?"
I said, "Yeah, about 1500 miles..."
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