George Washington's Exhortation to Defeat the Obama-Tyrants

Our own Country's Honor, all call upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions - The Eyes of all our Countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings, and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the Tyranny mediated against them. Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and shew the whole world, that a Freeman contending for Liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.-- George Washington (General Orders, 2 July 1776)

I've been listening to audiobooks of Joseph Ellis' works on the Founding Fathers, the Founding Brothers, and his college course on tape, American Brotherhood. I'd recommend them to everyone. Google "Joseph Ellis" on your library's home page to see if these audiobooks are available for free loan thru your interlibrary loan system.

One of my favorite quotes, being he was talking about my people

“If all else fails, I will retreat up the valley of Virginia, plant my flag on the Blue Ridge, rally around the Scotch-Irish of that region, and make my last stand for liberty amongst a people who will never submit to British tyranny whilst there is a man left to draw a trigger.”

George Washington, at Valley Forge.

(I should probably write this in George-speak, but I’m at work and don’t have the time.)

Recapturing the corner office (i.e. the presidency and maybe a few seats in Congress) in November is just the opening in a much longer struggle. By itself, that victory will mean little.

If we don’t press, press, press our conservative philosophy, until people respect the role of the Constitution again and accept that government must be just as fiscally responsible as mom and dad with the family checkbook, then we’ve gained nothing.

I sure hope we’re ready for the rest of the fight to come, or else we are wasting our time and our votes — and the future of our nation — in November.

I think Thomas Jefferson's words are far more relevant: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. If Obama wins, I think secession is the only choice. I will not live in a country that could have elected that simpleton to office; it's time to start over.

Agreed. We have so far failed to do what Reagan exhorted us to do, in recapturing our institutions (education, media, and government).

From Reagan's 1989 farewell speech:
Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom—freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs protection.

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