Posted on 01/15/2009 6:17:28 AM PST by bmweezer
Tonight, President Bush will give his final address to the nation, ending a rocky eight years in the White House. According to the Dana Perino, the president's press secretary, this will be Bush's final appearance in public until the Obama's come knocking on Tuesday morning. Already this morning, Barack Obama and his family will officially be welcomed into the White House 'bubble' by moving into Blair House, a stones-throw from the executive mansion. The transition, of course, has reached its end stages.
I, like many Americans that have supported this president have mixed feelings about the history that we are seeing right before our eyes. No one can argue that the time hasn't come for the Bushes to leave Washington and for our government to start afresh. Whatever the reason (and there are many), George Bush has overstayed his welcome and for he like the Republican party itself, will be better off by his exit from the stage. Still, call it early nostalgia or impending buyers-remorse, but Barack Obama increasingly scares the hell out of me.
Point of clarification: I did not vote for Obama, nor for any of the Democrats on the ticket last November. However, in the early days of the transistion (which seems to have gone on forever), I was ready to support the president-elect, knowing full well that most of his policies would either offend me, or quite frankly, make me sick. Yet, despite my own personal concerns about the president-elect, one can still be in awe at the peaceful transistion of power that is unique to America, and on that I hung my hat through November and the early parts of December.
That was then.
The recent weeks have proven what we all have suspected but were hoping that we were wrong on: that Barack Hussein Obama is neither a friend of America, nor someone whom believes in the principals of freedom and liberty. Whether it be Obama's permament campaign, his economic stimulus policies which amount to nothing more that the creation of a socialist state, his immediate decision to close Gitmo and move prisoners that want to kill Americans into America's boarders, or his silence in supporting Israel, this guy scares the hell out of me.
Regretfully, the feeling isn't mutual, at least at this present time. Sure, the liberals love the guy (as expected) and those devoid of daily politics watching wish the new president well, but when conservatives such as George Will become mystified and share bread with the fellow, you begin to realize that we are about to live in scary times indeed.
President-elect Obama will be my president on Tuesday, but whether I support him is another story. And, the rocky road begins.
Natasha Luke is the editor of Political Play and an occasional contributor to the GOPWilderness.com.
” but Barack Obama increasingly scares the hell out of me. “
Join the crowd. It will be getting larger over the nexrt four years.
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Turn to God and pray that He will send His Son to save those who believe so that they may be spared from the turmoil that will follow.
Have a Guinness and buck up, dear. Whining is for Democrats.
only beginning? i am at the dry heaves stage already!
I’ve been sick since Nov. 4, 2008.
Mark Twain
you have no idea of the nausea that can result from experiencing this stuff firsthand, here in the DC area.
But no....we had to go and run mcidiot and a strange lady from Alaska as the "best" republican candidates!
We've all gotten exactly what we deserve. Now we'll have to live (or die as the case may be) with it.
...”Barack Hussein Obama is neither a friend of America, nor someone whom believes in the principals of freedom and liberty.”...
Key point. I, too, have extreme misgivings, in particular with Obama’s intent to close Gitmo immediately, but more so with the appointment of Leon Panetta to DCIA. It is frightening to contemplate democrats in charge of national security in these times, even more so with a purely political animal in the Directorship of CIA. I could go on about the permanent campaign that has potential to evolve into a corps of brownshirts, al la Nazi Germany in 1939, but it makes me ill to contemplate.
Same thought. Bush’s spending binges and entitlement expansions have made me sick since the Medicare expansion and his underhanded tactics to strong-arm GOP senators and Congressmen into supporting it. But back then I was happy with most of the rest of his policies so I accepted it. Gradually as the years moved on, I have gotten to the point where about the only thing I approve of anymore is his Iraq and WOT policy. In terms of domestic economics, he is a disaster and is midwifing in Socialism for Obama.
Yeah, several bottles of Pepto-Bismol on hand are quite understandable.
I just avoid all such exposures as much as possible. Easier without the TV around.
Focusing on God first, most and always is becoming increasingly essential . . .
as it will be more and more—not just for spiritual health—but for survival at all.
I want AMERICA to succeed - to remain strong, prosperous and free.
Naturally I don't want America to be saddled with a failure as president. But Obama’s policies will hurt our country! it is he who does not want America to succeed, by supporting the policies he does.
I love my country. I have to hope he is unsuccessful in implementing policies that will ruin it.
strange lady?
What are you smokin’?
Sarah Palin is the future of the GOP.
Except of course, for a couple determined Mitt-supporters, determined against all hope to tear her down.
Before the election, I was sick and tired of hearing about Barack Hussein Obama. This morning I turned on Fox in order to see what was taking place in Israel and FOX was dwelling on the so-called historical inauguration and the TV was immediately turned off.
Might I suggest to all news media that scans through these post - EVERY INAUGURATION is HISTORICAL. Most of all, “NOT” all of us are conditioned to lock step with what the media has done and millions of us did “NOT” partake of the Barack Hussein Obama kool-aid.
Stop trying to stage American History for your own glory. This Hollywood production is destroying our “REPUBLIC”.
2 Chronicles 7:14
14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
“...in particular with Obama’s intent to close Gitmo immediately,”
“Immediately” means at least a year. No way it can happen right away.
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