Posted on 11/10/2008 1:19:55 PM PST by Main Street
Whole world will pay for America's electoral mistake
A young student friend e-mailed me on Tuesday night.
"Have locked myself in my room because the place is full of little idiots -- who cannot spell Barack Obama's name and could not name one of his foreign or domestic policies -- running around screaming obscenities about George Bush, conservatives and how Sarah Palin is a bitch. I love democracy!"
Even so, the people spoke. A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the mainstream media who abandoned any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely because they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless but would not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups. A victory for Obama-worshippers everywhere.
A victory for the cult of the cult. A man who has done little with his life but has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his teeth. Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over history, rabble-raising over reality.
A victory for Hollywood, the most dysfunctional community in the world. Victory for Streisand, Spielberg, Soros and Sarandon.
Victory for those who prefer welfare to will and interference to independence. For those who settle for group think and herd mentality rather than those who fight for individual initiative and the right to be out of step with meagre political fashion.
Victory for a man who is no friend of freedom. He and his people have already stated that media has to be controlled so as to be balanced, without realizing the extraordinary irony within that statement. Like most liberal zealots, the Obama worshippers constantly speak of Fox and Limbaugh, when the vast bulk of television stations and newspapers are drastically liberal and anti-conservative.
Senior Democrat Chuck Schumer said that just as pornography should be censored, so should talk radio. In other words, one of the few free and open means of popular expression may well be cornered and beaten by bullies who even in triumph cannot tolerate any criticism and opposition.
WEAK TOWARD ENEMIES
A victory for those who believe the state is better qualified to raise children than the family, for those who prefer teachers' unions to teaching and for those who are naively convinced that if the West is sufficiently weak towards its enemies, war and terror will dissolve as quickly as the tears on the face of a leftist celebrity.
A victory for social democracy even after most of Europe has come to the painful conclusion that social democracy leads to mediocrity, failure, unemployment, inflation, higher taxes and economic stagnation. A victory for intrusive lawyers, banal sentimentalists, social extremists and urban snobs.
Also a defeat for one of the weakest presidential candidates in living memory.
Why would anyone vote for a man who seemed incapable of outlining his policies and instead repeatedly emphasized a noble but, if we are candid, largely irrelevant war record?
He was joined by a woman who was defended so vehemently by her supporters when it was cuttingly evident that she is years away from being and perhaps never will be a serious candidate for senior national office.
Most of all it was a terrible defeat for democracy and the United States. A politician of nothing defeated a nothing politician and a credulous electorate screamed in adoration. I fear we will all suffer very much indeed.
That’s all true but to 52% of the electorate, being a good orator trumps all the negatives you mentioned.
bttt.
bump
I think his sentiments are misplaced. Canada, along with other civilized nations with functioning market systems, could benefit handsomely from an Obama administration. When Obama sours the business climate in America, Canada (Alberta especially) would have to do very little to poach American companies, plants, workers, and capital. As Obama slides the tax bars up, Canada would be wise to slide their tax bars down. The effective rates aren’t all that different anyway. It is America that will pay - well-positioned foreign nations can benefit so long as the channels of trade are not severed.
Dugg!
“i may not live to 100, but the next 4 years will probably feel like it.”
you said it.
A lot of people are boycotting TV news, not because of any requested boycott, but because it is simply too annoying to look at the love fest.
It will have to be something of a major event for me to look at news stations again.
And let’s not forget to point to “his failed policies and foolish ideas”
“America may wake up before it’s too late.”
It’s already too late.
Hank
Too true. Even before the election I had cut back on TV news; too many commercials, too little content, annoying anchors. This election is just the icing on the cake. More and more I listen to podcasts.
Bump for later....
I give up trying to post a live link, next time i’ll fake it...
“Whole world will pay for America’s electoral mistake”. Thank the Lord, I thought he was gonna make us pay for it all.
its a huge defeat for the common man.....
I am not watching tv and just a little radio...
I'll just keep udated via the computer and hunker down...
we all have questions....what will become or our freedoms, the money we have worked hard for to save in 401's and what does the future hold....will they consider our 401's an offset to SS and medicare?....will everyone of us be broke when we die?
if I had answers......
Thank you...I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, this HTML is like Chinese to me.
The Pravda and the great unwashed have punished us with a Communist in Hart, Schafner and MARX clothing. We must start educating everyone we know now and not wait for the next election.
Start de-programming any democrats you know, we need to be as relentless and the U.S. Pravda and their minions if we’re going to be successful.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6KUDv1wzraWhwlBt1
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