912: AMERICA AWAKES IN 2009
I'd call it a new dawning...and the sun if going to shine bright in 2010, and then brighter yet again in 2012.
Posted on 10/25/2009 9:08:12 AM PDT by maggief
(CNN) -- Nearly a year after the presidential election, the excitement of Barack Obama's campaign has faded into the reality of an Obama White House.
As observers try to determine what time it is in American politics, they arrive at opposite conclusions.
To some, said Tulane University political scientist Thomas Langston, Obama is like Jimmy Carter, and the nation will soon hammer the nails into the coffin of a dying Democratic coalition just as voters, tired of the Carter "malaise" era, handed the White House to Republicans in 1980.
To others, Obama has come to usher in a new understanding of the relationship between the government and the people. To them, Langston said, it's the dawning of a new age, as depicted in a famous 1984 Ronald Reagan campaign ad that declared, "It's morning again in America."
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I'd call it a new dawning...and the sun if going to shine bright in 2010, and then brighter yet again in 2012.
Hope has given way to intense irritation with Congress and the WH.
No malaise for me. I am waiting, impatiently, to take back our country from this anti-American marxist.
Malaise?
What other word will we revive from the Carter administration?
Stagflation???
Cheers!
Liberals always project..so what this guy is saying is that LIBERALS are feeling malaise..but not us.
MEANWHILE...I was at the Arizona Federation of Republican Women convention this weekend and we are JAZZED UP!!! We have record numbers of people joining up and we are ready to take back Congress with CONSERVATIVE candidates.
The loneliest table was the McCain table. I actually had a nasty “discussion” with the McCain people until his guy actually told me he was, himself, a lot more conservative than McCain. McCain called during the banquet to talk to us and it was completely uninspired. He just generates NO excitement. Next week Chris Simcox is coming to town..he might be the guy we’re waiting for to beat McCain. I’ll keep you guys posted.
Gergen strikes again.
Chris Simcox would make for a nice change.
Mourning In America.
“To others, Obama has come to usher in a new understanding of the relationship between the government and the people”.
...these are the Oprah watching drones that I worry about. No understanding of history or economics except for what they learned at the public Karl Marx School of History and Economics and what Hollywood tells them.
July 15, 1979 Malaise Speech:
“I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy... I do not refer to the outward strength of America, a nation that is at peace tonight everywhere in the world, with unmatched economic power and military might...
The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.
I’m asking you for your good and for your nation’s security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel... I have seen the strength of America in the inexhaustible resources of our people. In the days to come, let us renew that strength in the struggle for an energy-secure nation.”
You wake up With a skull splitting headache and vaguely recall drinking grain alcohol tequila straight from the bottle. Somehow you wound up with a hideous President. You don't know how he got there, but your considering chewing your arm off to make a getaway.
Anger is what I feel about this administration and congress. Malaise is how I feel about the chances of the GOP coming up with solid conservative candidates for the upcoming elections.
I met him a few months ago and I am hearing him speak in two weeks. He holds his own, he sounds good, but he comes with some baggage. After I hear him again, this time will be a bit more scrutinizing, I’ll let you know more!
Is it me, or has anyone else arrived at the conclusion that “political scientists” are little more than cloistered english or psychology professors who vote? Karl Rove comes off as one of the few of that persuasion who is intelligent and interested in passing good legislation. The rest of them just invent new heroes and mythologies every four years so that they can write books and articles about them.
Are you doing anything about it? GET OUT THERE..JOIN YOUR LOCAL REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATIONS AND GET TO WORK.
Drill Here, Drill Now and in ten years all will be well.
Yes, your’re right. But the baggage cuts both ways. I think he might prove most useful in changing the direction things are taking, even if he does not end up on the ballot.
People have become so soft headed I think they really expected that suddenly on Jan 20 everything would be wonderful and we would all be walking on air for 4 years. Then reality hit home, nothing much changed (and unemployment got much worse!) and it appeared to be business as usual. So now zer0’s ratings are mediocre and all that excitement of a year ago is essentially gone.
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