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.
“Have a Guinness and buck up, dear. Whining is for Democrats”.
...now Guiness is an excellent idea! Perhaps mixed with a “Harper’s Ale” for a “black and tan! Thanks! My evening is set.
Maybe this explains the very uncomfortable feeling that I have had in my stomach all week. I’m really going to miss President Bush. He’s not perfect by any means, but, I do think that he’s had our country’s best interests at heart, the illegal immigration issue aside. Obama creeps me out.
Quix, well said. I am trying to do the same thing. However, my faith needs to be stronger. You see, I am in sales and I have never seen it this slow. 20 years at the same company,and I am usually in the top in sales. I can honestly say that I was very busy until November 5th!!! It was like someone shut off the faucet...coincidence? others are scared as well...there is no doubt!
There is no doubt, at least in my industry (we sell processing equipment to Chemical/Pharma companies) that the next few months will be really bad. If this administration does radical stuff right out of the gate, I am concerned that I will no longer have a company to work for. If they give incentives and tax breaks I think business will boom again by June.
If sensible conservatives don’t stop the bumbleheaded criticism of Governor Palin - who has the potential to actually drive Obama off his agenda, if we do things right - America will never be brought back to plumb.
Wake up. She’s immensely popular - the most popular governor in America. She’s unabashedly conservative, but just rambunctious enough in her sense of fair play to mix it up even with the GOP power structure in her state.
If we don’t rally behind Governor Palin, we’re truly clueless. Even liberals recognize her potential threat.
In fact, it seems pretty clear they’re far more astute in their recognition of what Sarah Palin presents as far as an existential threat to liberalism itself, than conservatives are.
It’s the old “circular firing squad” thing.
We really need to stop that.
I think I’ll just turn off all the news on T.V. the next four years, then I’ll vote against O again. I might even vote for someone in the GOP if her last name begins with “P”
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.
BINGO!!!!!
I like the lady, I do. I just don’t believe in her as a candidate for POTUS. I feel that if we “rally behind her” we will go down in flames.
Then God help us, we are surely doomed.
Agreed!!!!
other freepers can turn off the tv or mute the sound and pretend he isn’t president. living here it is an omnipresent reality. like you, i am hopeful that he will disappoint and disillusion those who are emotionally invested, rather than ideologically invested in him.
I’m amazed at the Palin-bashing here. Of all places.
Perhaps Palin is the candidate, we should convince to stand at the front of a new party.
A party which has not sold its soul.
The cool-aide drinkers think it was all the media's fault!! LOL!!!
Always happy to help!
I personally don't know any person that voted for the Republican ticket on Nov 4th state after the election that they were ready to support Obama. Something is not quite right with her statement.
LoL, I have not seen one thing that convinces me the woman has an IQ above a mop bucket!!!
I have been sick since Thompson and Hunter dropped out.
While the thought of Zero involved in domestic policy is enough to make me ill, what scares me more than anything else is what the enemies of the United States will attempt to do once he assumes power.
the bamster will be “my president” when I see an honest birth certificate
Mitt supporters (sycophants) wouldn’t do that would they?
(LOL...)
“LoL, I have not seen one thing that convinces me the woman has an IQ above a mop bucket!!!”
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Let’s see:
She’s conservative. Christian.
She married her childhood sweetheart, and has a wonderful family. She’s governor of the largest state in America.
Her husband is a good guy. Her friends seem to have been chosen well.
Seems pretty smart to me. Brilliant even.
She certainly makes important decisions very well.
How do you judge intelligence?
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