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It's beginning to make me sick
The GOP Wilderness ^ | January 15, 2009 | Natasha Luke

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.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: barackhobama; barackhusseinobama; barackobama; bho2008; bush; georgebush; georgewalkerbush; georgewbush; obama
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To: Tax-chick

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.


61 posted on 01/15/2009 7:14:19 AM PST by Running On Empty ((The three sorriest words:"It's too late"))
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
If you think that is what passes for IQ, you have a lot of problems.
62 posted on 01/15/2009 7:14:27 AM PST by org.whodat (Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts for Super-Rich Bankers! Republicans do!)
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To: org.whodat

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.


63 posted on 01/15/2009 7:15:04 AM PST by bronxboy
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To: org.whodat

You didn’t answer my question.


64 posted on 01/15/2009 7:15:30 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (During any "d" administration: USA's msm, become indistinguishable from the ussr's pravda.)
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To: bmweezer

Ping


65 posted on 01/15/2009 7:16:14 AM PST by Running On Empty ((The three sorriest words:"It's too late"))
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Palin has support only in the base...she is unelectable right now.


66 posted on 01/15/2009 7:16:57 AM PST by bronxboy
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

“How do you judge intelligence?”

I’ll start with a clearly stated opposition to amnesty.


67 posted on 01/15/2009 7:17:29 AM PST by The Toll
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To: Running On Empty

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.


68 posted on 01/15/2009 7:17:47 AM PST by Tax-chick (To oppose the god of this world by lifting up Christ.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
You made a statement, a silly one at that, you did not ask a question??
69 posted on 01/15/2009 7:19:01 AM PST by org.whodat (Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts for Super-Rich Bankers! Republicans do!)
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To: The Toll

I’d say we just found something to agree on. :)

Gotta run. Best regards.


70 posted on 01/15/2009 7:19:15 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (During any "d" administration: USA's msm, become indistinguishable from the ussr's pravda.)
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To: NellieMae

Creeps you out?

Makes my skin crawl.

Alinsky’s dedication to satan in his book is under the bottom.

[vs over the top]


71 posted on 01/15/2009 7:19:39 AM PST by Quix (LEADRs SAY FRM 1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: org.whodat

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.

:)


72 posted on 01/15/2009 7:21:28 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (During any "d" administration: USA's msm, become indistinguishable from the ussr's pravda.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
I’m amazed at the Palin-bashing here. Of all places.

They're Mitt lovers and infiltrators for the most part, imho.

73 posted on 01/15/2009 7:21:57 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: org.whodat
LoL, I have not seen one thing that convinces me the woman has an IQ above a mop bucket!!!

Dude....why you got to dis the people of Alaska like that???

74 posted on 01/15/2009 7:22:22 AM PST by Getsmart64
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

http://www.geocities.com/rnseitz/Definition_of_IQ.html


75 posted on 01/15/2009 7:22:32 AM PST by org.whodat (Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts for Super-Rich Bankers! Republicans do!)
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To: trillabodilla

I wasnt happy when odumbo won but I was not sad when McCain lost


76 posted on 01/15/2009 7:23:14 AM PST by italianquaker
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To: mikelets456

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.


77 posted on 01/15/2009 7:23:57 AM PST by Quix (LEADRs SAY FRM 1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

I fiercely agree with you.

Well put.


78 posted on 01/15/2009 7:24:41 AM PST by Quix (LEADRs SAY FRM 1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: bmweezer
but whether I support him is another story

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 ...

79 posted on 01/15/2009 7:25:20 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Quix
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.

Conspiracies are fun but dude...you gotta name names!!!

80 posted on 01/15/2009 7:27:44 AM PST by Getsmart64
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