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.
I can only wish that a Guinness would fix it. I don’t do Guinness, but even if I did, it wouldn’t change my mind about our present situation.
We are in for a rocky road and I’m comfortable with acknowledging it.
Agreed also...I like Sarah Palin as a governor...the reality is her most serious wounds were self inflicted. The Couric interview was a disaster. I had to watch it as my daughter is in government...Couric is a rat, but the questions were really softball.
You didn’t answer my question.
Ping
Palin has support only in the base...she is unelectable right now.
“How do you judge intelligence?”
I’ll start with a clearly stated opposition to amnesty.
Oh, I agree ... and I don’t actually drink Guinness, it’s just a literary trope.
However, I also don’t see the utility of working oneself into a funk over events (the Obama administration) that have not yet occurred. It reminds me of the environmental-wackos having to get counseling because they’re so terrified of global warming.
I’d say we just found something to agree on. :)
Gotta run. Best regards.
Creeps you out?
Makes my skin crawl.
Alinsky’s dedication to satan in his book is under the bottom.
[vs over the top]
Gotta run. So you get the last word.
But a hint. You can sometimes identify a question, through careful examination of punctuation.
If you identify a question mark, it can sometimes point to a question.
:)
They're Mitt lovers and infiltrators for the most part, imho.
Dude....why you got to dis the people of Alaska like that???
I wasnt happy when odumbo won but I was not sad when McCain lost
Even my banker
KNOWS, IS CERTAIN
that the PTB
are deliberately crashing the USA and even world economy to make setting up the overt global government monetary system easier.
It’s going to get deeply ugly. And not get better until AFTER Armageddon
UNLESS it’s for 3.5 years or so of PSEUDO ROSEY to make the global boys look seductively wonderful.
Any reprieve will be shallow, mostly window-dressing, mostly a seductive charade.
The PTB don’t give a gnat’s fart’s worth about ‘the little people’ . . . least of do all Shrillery et al care a flip about real people, patriots, working folks . . .
They care only for their power-mongering and setting up satan’s system more overtly, more powerfully.
That’s ALL they care about. They’ve sold their soul to hell in a list of ways. The “ET’s” have deluded the powers that be into thinking that satan WINS at Armageddon. Satan knows better but he loves suckering humans.
I fiercely agree with you.
Well put.
I fully and completely support his true conversion, repentance, and repudiation of all his Marxist, totalitarian, baby-killing, islamist campaign promise and policies.
As if ...
Conspiracies are fun but dude...you gotta name names!!!
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