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.
Not everyone drank the ‘60e koolaid, not every silly little nitwit who was a college student in the ‘60s bought that crap:
I was a student then (and for a little while afterward... LOL!) and I was not alone in seeing through the crap.
Bullcrap! This is different. The damage he can do in 4 years (hopefully, he’ll be impeached before that) will take a generation or two to fix, if it can be fixed at all. We’re being told that a majority of voters are going to vote to convert to a socialist system. No more capitalism. No more free enterprise. No more freedom. Ironically, the Europeans who are rooting for us to go socialist went conservative themselves. The America that our founding fathers risked their lives to found will no longer exist.
Bullcrap! This is different. The damage he can do in 4 years (hopefully, he’ll be impeached before that) will take a generation or two to fix, if it can be fixed at all. We’re being told that a majority of voters are going to vote to convert to a socialist system. No more capitalism. No more free enterprise. No more freedom. Ironically, the Europeans who are rooting for us to go socialist went conservative themselves. The America that our founding fathers risked their lives to found will no longer exist.
Look at the damage done in 2 years of Pelosi and Reid. Now tell me that Obama, Pelosi and Reid can’t destroy America in 4 years.
Let’s wait and see what happens.
We’ve got to try to stay optimistic.
It's hard to convince people after what's gone on for the past eight years. The Republicans controlled congress for six of those years and what did they do?
I will be unable to sleep tonight...you are absolutely right - it WILL take a generation or two to fix...if at all. God help us!!
You’re right. Crystal Mangum has never been charged. Her lies have already cost Duke and the city of Durham millions. What was AG Cooper thinking? Why did’t he charge her?
He's afraid of a riot?
A lot of people are attracted to smooth-talkin, good looking politicians. What things they believe in are a distant second. Just look at how many of Obama’s supporters gave blank stares and stuttered incoherently when asked what he stood for. It was both pitiful and eye-opening.
Obama could burn down orphanages and throw Jews into ovens and these people would find some way to justify his actions.
Can’t recall who first said it (Buchanan?), but political correctness will be (has been?) the ruination of America.
I had a heck of a time getting to sleep last night myself. I took two benadryls and it was still hard. There’s some good poll news on Freep today, though. But the experts are expecting Hussein to get a bounce from last night. Dick Morris says it will be fleeting. We can’t give up. We’ve got to get through this alive to fight on.
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