Posted on 08/27/2009 3:29:41 AM PDT by Scanian
President Obama has a problem, one familiar to smarmy salesmen since the beginning of time. His product stinks, and consumers know it. The packaging looked nice at first. The copy was well-written and well-delivered, but the dogs won't eat the food. What to do?
The genius of the Obama campaign was inspiring millions of Oprah worshippers, teenyboppers, and similar pop culture aficionados whose only previous experience with voting involved texting a 5 digit number on Tuesday night to choose the next "American Idol," to discover those other elections, the ones with actual consequences. As it turns out, while this strategy was great for Barack Obama and his presidential prospects, it was a disaster for this country. Whether you loved David Cook for his impish good looks and his inspiring story about his brother, or rooted for Adam Lambert because of his slightly brooding, semi-sinister persona, neither of them could destroy our health care system, embolden our enemies, weaken our national security or otherwise "remake" America.
In that charming style he no doubt perfected while learning his craft in that stinking slough of corruption, the Chicago political machine, Barack Obama responds to any suggestion that he might want to proceed with caution before jettisoning virtually everything that makes America great, with a simple answer: I won. Get lost. Your role is to submit and pay, serf. Clearly, even if many of his voters didn't realize it, Barack knows that elections have consequences. Now that the people have voted for they supposedly want, to paraphrase H.L. Mencken, he's looking to see that we get it good and hard.
One important consequence of the presidential election is that as The One (or is it the Won?), has the prerogative to appoint Supreme Court justices, life-tenured and unaccountable: in other words, the perfect agents of change for a lifelong Marxist hell-bent of turning this country into a socialist utopia. The Left understands that it is impossible to impose its agenda on people through popular elections. The reason is easy for normal Americans to understand, although it may beyond the ability of some of the myopic members of the panting, slobbering pack of Obama acolytes who laughingly refer to themselves as "journalists" to appreciate. I'll speak slowly so that even Keith Olbermann can understand.
Things we normal Americans believe in: God, American exceptionalism and self-reliance. Things we don't believe in: the all-powerful State, surrendering to our enemies, and handouts of our hard-earned and shortly thereafter confiscated money from the political class to its cronies and mascot groups, otherwise known as the Left's agenda. It's a non-starter at the ballot box, so they've had to come up with some other strategies, such as enactments by an activist Supreme Court. That method is effective, as far as it goes, but it may not be sufficient to implement all the sweeping changes envisioned by the Radical Leftist in Chief.
Like me, some of you may fondly recall a town meeting back in 1989, when the corrupt, toadish future felon and then Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Dan Rostenkowski (D-Mail Fraud) was literally chased out of a Chicago hall by an enraged mob of his elderly constituents, whose hair colors ranged from blue to white to none. He barely escaped into his waiting getaway car ahead of the rapidly -- "rapid" being a relative term -- advancing horde of seniors, menacing him with their walkers, canes and AARP cards sharpened into makeshift shivs. OK, I made that last part up, but the congressman's hasty and desperate retreat is true. Honestly, from the way they beat it out of there, you'd have thought that he and his aide had knocked over a liquor store. Later we learned that Danny "the Stamp" Rostenkowski preferred to steal from taxpayers in the comfort and privacy of his own Congressional office.
In other words, making revolution or civil war most likely.
The revolution is already underway: Marxist/Communist infiltration into the highest levels of our government. What is also brewing (like tea) is the American conservative counter-revolution.
btw, I tried posting to you a couple of times in yesterday’s Mark Levin thread, but there were gremlins wreaking havoc on FR during that period of time.
Thanks for posting back. FR has been acting quirky as of late.
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