Posted on 10/15/2008 4:58:08 PM PDT by ladyjane
For the first time in my adult life, I am ashamed of the people of my country. I was a college student in the sixties and I parroted the "liberal agenda" about Viet Nam, so that I would fit in with my peers. And then, I grew up and real life began to teach me that I was not the center of the universe and that MY ideas and MY needs were not the most important things in the world. After I had children, I found that there really WERE other people for whom I would lay down my life without a moment's hesitation. I had become a MOM.
I taught my children that it was important to be kind to one another, to share, to use their words instead of hitting, to take care of themselves, their friendships and their surroundings, to treat others as they would want to be treated, to stand up for what they believed in- all of those simple things that we all learned in kindergarten.
When the Duke Lacrosse Frame began, I was shocked that three innocent young men and their families could almost be destroyed because of false accusations of racism and sexual assault, solely for the satisfaction of an agenda. I kept thinking, "Surely not, surely this cannot be happening in OUR country." I believed that SOMEONE in the media would expose the FRAMEUP for what it was. Never in a million years did I think that it would take so much time and so much money and so many people working hard to exonerate Colin, Dave and Reade before they were declared "INNOCENT!"
Initially, I believed that Barack Obama was the candidate for the presidency who would put a stop to the divisiveness that has been fomented in this country ever since we decided to forget what happened on 9/11. Surely, I thought, this man can be the President for ALL of the people. I was wrong. I was once lambasted several months ago for suggesting that Obama had become the most divisive candidate in my lifetime and for saying that he was fomenting racial tension. I knew little about the man, save what he had written about himself and his soaring rhetoric about his vision for this country.
I have never before felt FEAR for my country. Even after 9/11, I felt angry and I felt proud of this country, knowing that we have always fought against those who would destroy us and what we stand for. Now, I feel disgusted; now I feel ashamed of many of the people in our country.
I have watched the Obama campaign and the old media systematically set out to destroy Sarah Palin- and her young children. I have seen a former President say demeaning things about a sitting President. I have seen obscene mockery in the media for a man who spent five years of his life in a prison camp in the service of our country. I have seen rank racism on the part of the Obama campaign and a lynch mob mentality on the part of the media who are so vested in having this man as President. I have seen more ugliness from the media and the "entertainment" industry than I knew existed. When a Larry Flynt seems "normal" in comparison to a Keith Olbermann, you know that we have lost every shred of decency that we may have had.
I am thoroughly disgusted with our elected officials and our media. We have so lost our moral compass that I doubt that we will ever find it again. I am ashamed of the people of our country- of all of those angry, vicious, slandering people who do not want to know what the candidates stand for, but who only want to impose their "vision" for this nation on all of the rest of the decent people who go about their daily lives, trying to make good lives for their families and raising honorable young people.
There are NO standards of behavior any more and most of what i see today smacks of a gang of sociopaths. I can only remind them of what the Soviet defector/spy said in his interview. After the takeover is completed, their usefulness will be at an end. I suspect that the media will be surprised when "they come for them." They should be more careful in what they wish for.
Today on Brit Hume's show, Krauthammer was talking about the false charges of racism leveled by the Obama campaign against McCain and Palin and he said, "As we saw in the Duke Lacrosse Case," false claims of racism can destroy people. We all saw it, we all worked against it. But, when even the most articulate, the most dogged researcher in the Duke Frame, is taken in by high flown rhetoric and ignores information that doesn't fit into the narrative of the "post-racial" candidate for the highest office in the land, I fear for the future of all this country and the good people who are trying to live their lives according to principle.
So true.
This was posted over at Liestoppers. As soon as I read it I knew people here at FR would find it interesting. Not sure if Texas Mom here is the same one over there. We’ll find out.
Amen sister!!
You mirrored my thoughts perfectly. I have four grown children and 14 grand children. It worries and saddens me that they may never again know freedom as we have known it.The people who would vote gladly for Obama haven’t a clue as to how bad it will be. They will be the ones protesting the loudest after they realize what they have done. But it will be too late by then.I value our freedoms ,but I fear that we have turned our back on the very principals and morals that this country was founded upon. And turned our backs on God. Now I worry as to what will transpire. Heaven help us.
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“I can only remind them of what the Soviet defector/spy said in his interview. After the takeover is completed, their usefulness will be at an end. I suspect that the media will be surprised when “they come for them.” They should be more careful in what they wish for.”
Bump, the only good thing that I can think of after reading this article is that the obama mama is still a mama will wake up once the political smoke of election time clears.
The problem is that people with no shame don’t care how you feel about them.
A few, a very few, will. Most will say nothing. If pressed, they'll say "it's just the way of the world, what can I do about it?"
I’m reserving judgment until the election results come in. I want confirmation that the voters of this country have actually gone insame.
The people of this country are not going to know what hit them. When they get a look at the real Obambi and his policies will they be outraged? When the Fairness doctrine is passed and Rush and Sean and Mike and Hugh are silenced will they be outraged? When the congress passes legislation repealing the ammendment that says a president can only be president for 8 years will they be outraged? When they come for our guns will they be outraged. When they come for us will they finally outraged? I am ashamed of Americans far and wide right now. We fought the Soviets for 60 years and they are finally coming home and the American people are going let them walk in. A bloodless revolution till the revolutionaries are are in charge.
Sorry for the rant.
I’ve been up at nights lately, wondering what kind of America my children will live in. I am going to pray that all of this socialsim garbage is just a bump in the road and our Country, as a whole, will finally come to it’s senses. I believe that either McCain or Obama will be the catalyst for finally turning in the conservative direction. How much damage is done between now and then, we’ll see.
Whether McCain wins or loses, I will no longer be calling myself a Republican. I am mostly ashamed of the GOP at this point.
Do it and REMEMBER the White Rose!
Bump.....
You are really very right.
It breaks the hearts of those that value justice and justness that these things happen.
Disappointed in many people in this Nation, not all.
Disappointed in the leadership of our Nation. Especially those in Washington, D.C.. and our Congress mainly.
This in not the United States that it once was. A lot has changed in the 81+ years that I have been here.
Some of the changes have been good, but for the most part very poor.
Most positive changes involve advances in technology.
Most negative changes are in the area of character, which to me is far more important. There is not much that is commendable in this area.
Just an opinion viewed from 81+ years.
I salute you!
Unfortunately, there is jusr more HATRED inculcated in our people and very little LOVE. When that emotion rules, we are lost. Just look at the loveless nation of China or Russia.
Unfortunately, there is jusr more HATRED inculcated in our people and very little LOVE. When that emotion rules, we are lost. Just look at the loveless nation of China or Russia.
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