Posted on 11/04/2008 9:46:21 PM PST by Awana56
cheers for you who voted for Obama! cheers I toast to you who voted, an honorable deed. For in four years from now I will look back and say, you are the people who made America what it is then. Tell your children, and their children, that once upon a time you COULD vote for the president. Tell generations to come that democracy in it's purest form was what made America the great nation it once was. Tell them you voted and because of that filling in of that little circle next to the democrats name America is now defined as socialist. Reminisce about an America where if you have a dream you can make it happen, small or large businesses flourish and grow there, where inovation and imagination are allowed to grow. Until now. TELL THEM YOU VOTED.
I pity a country that votes because of race. I am honored to exist in a country where a man of any race, religion, and background can run successfully for any political office, however America is no more color-blind then before the civil war.
Ask yourself this: Do you know what is said in the constitution? What is the purpose of a President? What were the claims Obama made? Where did Obama stand? Did you vote for policies or pigment? What are the 10 first amendments? (I'll give you a hint, it's called the BILL OF RIGHTS) Does the 13th, 14th, or even 15th ammendment declare 'the spreading of wealth' an 'equal right'?
Can you even answer ONE of those questions with even 60% confidence!? Most likely not. Ignorance is bliss?? Ignorance has set our country to a place where ignorance is the means.
I hope you enjoyed your ability to vote. Think back to this day when the option is no longer given to you. Maybe you should read 1984, because if you like ignorance you can look forward to that world.
I am nauseated by my country. God Bless America, well what's left of it anyway.
so CHEERS eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow? Tomorrow you, me, no; U.S. may die. That beautiful constitution that grants the right to a black man to run for an office that is elected by the people is the very thing the man empowered by it will destroy. who doesn't love Irony. I pity those of you who do not realize how great the forefathers were, only to be crushed by the one they foresaw to protect. You might as well spit on the deceleration of Independance, the constitution and burn your bill of rights. At one point they belonged to you and you just gave them away.
2012 looks to be a very promising end to the world.
I need to go throw up now.
I’ll join you in a toast to obama by barfing.
I think you are a fine teenager who knows more than most adults in this country do, apparently.
If I weren’t physically and emotionally drained, I would give you a standing ovation.
May God bless you.
If you are 17, that means that you don’t remember the Clinton administration or the Carter administration. Both Clinton and especially Carter did their harm but America endured and America will endure this. It’s like being the fan of a sports team when it’s on a winning streak being stunned when their team starts to lose, despite the fact that their team has had many losing streaks in the past. Conservatives got used to winning and that made them complacent. Conservatives can and will earn the support of the American people again.
Welcome to Free Republic. There are a lot of vanities here today. It is not a criticism, it is an observation.
There were distractions during the campaign (how much did Palin’s wardrobe cost, is Tina Fey going to have to keep doing that impersonation, is McCain now just like Bush, etc.)
But the issue of Barack’s socialist mindset was revealed to the public before election day. We may not be able to keep him in check through Congress, but for now, there remains a free press.
The CINO Republicans who turned to endorse Barack in the final weeks of the election have played their cards. Meanwhile there are well written conservatives and talk show hosts who can still make the case against Obama’s policies as he is NOW made to cough up the details of just what his plans are.
And while there are some who will say that those making charges of “socialism” are racists just trying to hold Barack’s presidency back, there are black conservative voices (who were erroneously reported in the press as SUPPORTING Obama in the election, JC Watts and Armstrong Williams among them). Walter Williams and others. If America is “truly” post racial now with the election of Barack Obama, the black liberal establishment is going to have to bury the “Uncle Tom” slur with the racism of the past.
The problems with President Carter are two fold. We owe a lot of our headaches in the Middle East today to him, and what’s more, he continues to muck about in foreign policy contrary to the policies of the elected administration.
Remind them that H will be, until he shows to the public some indication he is consitutionally eligible to serve, President-elect - even after Jan. 20!
And if you run into someone halfway reaonsable, ask them how, mathematically, an economy can survive with more deadwood than producers.
Don't let them revel in their ill-gotten and fraud-larded victory. We've eaten sh!t sandwiches from them for eight years. Payback's a real b!tch.
The wages of sin is death.
I hope you're set for a good fight to reclaim your future.
Most of us here are a little bit older then 17 (ahem) but most of us will have your back!
The reason that we still have racial “inequality” in this country is because race-hustlers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton keep making it an issue.
Absolutely Carter was bad and Obama very well may be, too. His victory isn’t a good thing but it’s not the end of the world, either.
dude, i love dev art!
Welcome to Free Republic!
Nice essay and the “policies vs. pigment” statement gets my applause.
Stick around and grow with us - you will see what conservatism is and grow stronger with us each day.
Welcome to Free Republic!
Nice essay and the “policies vs. pigment” statement gets my applause.
Stick around and grow with us - you will see what conservatism is and grow stronger with us each day.
Excellent thread, for one so young. ;) Glad to see not all your age are brainwashed.
Voting for someone because of skin color is just as racist as not voting for someone because of skin color. So we really haven’t come that far w/r civil rights. It’s alwasy been that the opponents of those with the chosen skin color that are discriminated against. Same song, different verse, still wrong.
Coming here at age 17 means at age 21 (next election) having a background to argue passionately and with facts about some issues.
The great thing about the internet is that you can follow back links/quotes in peoples’ excerpted passages to the original source materials. When you do that with a book, you have to hunt for where a passage was quoted (possibly out of context) from, provided that what you are reading even credited the sources in print.
I try (time permitting) to back up claims I make on FR with hyperlinks and referenced articles.
Even as people said that JC Watts and Armstrong Williams “endorsed” Obama, I had to refute the claims (in the case of Armstrong Williams, one of his paper’s fellow columnists had even overlooked his outright opposition to Obama’s politics or the notion of any pending endorsement; and in the case of JC Watts, I heard him as a guest on the radio Monday, maybe Michael Medved’s radio show, and he’d made it clear that Obama’s agenda was not good for this country).
Likewise when I questioned Obama’s Christianity by pointing out his own interview in 2004 where he came across as a secular humanist or unitarian, but in no way a “Christian” in the traditional sense.
There are a lot of rumors and falsehoods on the internet. Don’t take anyone’s word for it. Do the research. After awhile, you too can correct the misstatements when you see them.
I just hope this site survives another 4 years.
Your post is a bright spot on a very dark night!
Yell your dad it's his turn! ;o)
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