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.
Bingo...
Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
Mitt Romney is not responsible for Ms. Palins very public dismantling by powerful political heavyweights like Katie Couric.
Men at Work?
Congrats on the new ‘chick’!
Thanks!
Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Cant you hear, cant you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover.
I don’t agree.
If our Catholic bishops can issue a challenge to Obama and his administration about FOCA, then they also acknowledge a problem. It isn’t whistling past the graveyard.
Please allow for the possibility that some people voicing opposition to a potential Palin 2012 run do so for love of country.
LOL! Ah, the 80’s.
Sorry, I find that unlikely.
Any of the names
that are nameable have been named lots
and they are but mid-level bit players on the stage.
The real movers and shakers are deep in the shadows.
Probably Alex Jones et al have named as many as anyone.
The he just had to use that phrase ...
Now I'm hearing that song ... over, and over, and over, and ....AAAAAAAhhhhhhhggggggghhhhh!!!!
Soros et al are easy to name . . . just stalking horses . . . public fodder.
I didn’t say it was “whistling past the graveyard,” which I wouldn’t bother to do anyway, since I am not afraid of dead people.
What I question is the utility of terrifying oneself or making oneself ill over this ... or over anything, for that matter. If there’s a productive action to be taken - even in anticipation of a disaster that may not materialize - by all means, take it. However, throwing up, having palpitations, and retiring to bed are not productive actions.
Perhaps all the fear and illness are simply a poetic device, like my Guinness. I do tend to be overly literal.
BTW, something about the advice to run and take cover seems sort of appropriate ...
MuuWAAAAHahahahahahaahaha!!!!
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