Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation!

Aspen Times Weekly ^ | Gary Hyubbell

[RetiredArmy]

Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation!

Gary Hubbell - Aspen Times Weekly

Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America's future. He is the best thing ever.

Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America's resurrection. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on the national economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a decade; legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels, and there is a seething anger in the populace.

That's why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America.

Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years. Just as Hitler is the face of fascism, Obama will go down in history as the face of unchecked liberalism. The cancer metastasized to the point where it could no longer be ignored.

Average Americans who have quietly gone about their lives, earning a paycheck, contributing to their favorite charities, going to high school football games on Friday night, spending their weekends at the beach or on hunting trips — they've gotten off the fence. They've woken up. There is a level of political activism in this country that we haven't seen since the American Revolution, and Barack Obama has been the catalyst that has sparked a restructuring of the American political and social consciousness.

Think of the crap we've slowly learned to tolerate over the past 50 years as liberalism sought to re-structure the America that was the symbol of freedom and liberty to all the people of the world. Immigration laws were ignored on the basis of compassion. Welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, the fracturing of families, and a cycle of generations of dependency. Debt was regarded as a tonic to lubricate the economy. Our children left school having been taught that they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of them cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy. Legislators decided that people could not be trusted to defend their own homes, and stripped citizens of their rights to own firearms. Productive members of society have been penalized with a heavy burden of taxes in order to support legions of do-nothings who loll around, reveling in their addictions, obesity, indolence, ignorance and “disabilities.” Criminals have been arrested and re-arrested, coddled and set free to pillage the citizenry yet again. Lawyers routinely extort fortunes from doctors, contractors and business people with dubious torts.

We slowly learned to tolerate these outrages, shaking our heads in disbelief, and we went on with our lives.

But Barack Obama has ripped the lid off a seething cauldron of dissatisfaction and unrest.

In the time of Barack Obama, Black Panther members stand outside polling places in black commando uniforms, slapping truncheons into their palms. ACORN — a taxpayer-supported organization — is given a role in taking the census, even after its members were caught on tape offering advice to set up child prostitution rings. A former Communist is given a paid government position in the White House as an advisor to the president. Auto companies are taken over by the government, and the auto workers' union — whose contracts are completely insupportable in any economic sense — is rewarded with a stake in the company. Government bails out Wall Street investment bankers and insurance companies, who pay their executives outrageous bonuses as thanks for the public support. Terrorists are read their Miranda rights and given free lawyers. And, despite overwhelming public disapproval, Barack Obama has pushed forward with a health care plan that would re-structure one-sixth of the American economy.

I don't know about you, but the other day I was at the courthouse doing some business, and I stepped into the court clerk's office and changed my voter affiliation from “Independent” to “Republican.” I am under no illusion that the Republican party is perfect, but at least they're starting to awaken to the fact that we cannot sustain massive levels of debt; we cannot afford to hand out billions of dollars in corporate subsidies; we have to somehow trim our massive entitlement programs; we can no longer be the world's policeman and dole out billions in aid to countries whose citizens seek to harm us.

Literally millions of Americans have had enough. They're organizing, they're studying the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, they're reading history and case law, they're showing up at rallies and meetings, and a slew of conservative candidates are throwing their hats into the ring. Is there a revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that there is a keen awareness that our priorities and sensibilities must be radically re-structured. Will it be a violent revolution? No. It will be done through the interpretation of the original document that has guided us for 220 years — the Constitution. Just as the pendulum swung to embrace political correctness and liberalism, there will be a backlash, a complete repudiation of a hundred years of nonsense. A hundred years from now, history will perceive the year 2010 as the time when America got back on the right track. And for that, we can thank Barack Hussein Obama.

Gary Hubbell is a hunter, rancher, and former hunting and fly-fishing guide. Gary works as a Colorado ranch real estate broker. He can be reached through his website,aspenranchrealestate.com .

[RetiredArmy]

Good read.

[wmpok]

This was in the Aspen Times? As in Aspen CO?

[duckworth]

When this clown was running, I felt that this might happen. Just as Jimmy Carter begat Ronaldus Maximus and David Dinkins begat Rudy Guliani (yeah, I know, but he cleaned up NYC...) I thought Zero might lead to something good. I’m just sorry we have to endure his four years of nonsense.

[RetiredArmy]

Sent too me by a friend from WA state. I cannot guarantee exactly what Aspen newspaper it came from. But, he said he read it on line.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I’m just sorry we have to endure his four years of nonsense.

It's a different country now compared to when Carter was in the White House. We have a new breed of criminal holding elected office...from the state level all the way to the top. They will stop at nothing to hold the reigns of power and now have the means to do just that.

Rooting this POS out of the Oval Office will take a supreme effort, I believe.

[JasonC]

Hear hear.

[WHBates]

Good read.

Yes it was and I think true. Let's just hope that the giant will stay awake through the November elections, and replace this buffoon in 2012.

[FrankR]

Excellent article...I’ve had many of the same thoughts but this person has nailed it perfectly.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

It is a good read. Obama will not only go down the toilet, he will take the entire Democrat Party with him. In post after post, I have begged and urged the Democrat party to force Obama to resign, and if he refuses his Democrat party should impeach him. Failure to do that will cause the Democrat party to self destruct. Look, folks, with each passing day we learn how devastating “Obamacare” is in reality as both higher costs and declining medical services will give us third world medical care. Every Democrat that voted for this bill and told their voters this bill will reduce costs and provide better care was lying through their teeth, as was their leader POTUS Obama. You can follow the story on and on!!! November, 2010 cannot come soon enough!!! Obama and the Democrat party must go!!!

[Typical_Whitey]

WAKE UP AMERICA.... vote them all out put in common sense Conservatives that represent AMERICAN vaulues... NOT post American ideas

[annieokie]

Excellent Read. Very true statements. Obama has certainly made sure there will never be another black man in the White House.

The blacks should be very alarmed by what he has done to them, but at least that "RACIST CARD" has certainly ran it's full course, and is now ready for the grave yard. It is finished, we no longer care how they feel.

[mlocher]

The Obama Legacy:

S timulus

H ealth Care Reform

I llegal Alien Amnesty

T axes

[RetiredArmy]

And, you must remember, that we are now “governed” by the bayonet, by the gun, by the threat of jail, the IRS taking our homes, money, belongings. We live under “THREAT” by the very individuals who were elected to “represent” us. But, few in Sodom on the Potomac represent me, my beliefs, or country. THIS is not the United States of America. This, friends, is simply a new Soviet Union, a new Islamic Republic of Islam in the US, founded by a criminal element of thieves, crooks, and those with anti-America, terrorists leanings.

[Basement Dweller]

The author name is Gary Hubbell.

Here’s a link to the original article.

http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20100228/ASPENWEEKLY/100229854&parentprofile=search

[smokingfrog]

Typical "Angry White Guy"

[Art in Idaho]

Awake is an understatement. We are wide awake and paying attention daily and working every free hour we have to defeat this communist mole in our midst. We are going to defeat him, his cadre, his representatives, his senators and his party.

Obama has awakened the Sleeping Giant and the Giant is Mad as Hell! You are not going to destroy our Sacred Republic!

[StraightDave]

“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”... attributed to Admiral Yamamoto after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

[Windflier]

I have begged and urged the Democrat party to force Obama to resign, and if he refuses his Democrat party should impeach him. Failure to do that will cause the Democrat party to self destruct.

Never interrupt your enemy while he's busy destroying himself.

(apologies to Bonaparte)

[rockinqsranch]

Simply put is that anything in this country is screwed up, one can trace the source straight back to the Left in every case.

Screwing things up is what the Left does better than anything.

[truthguy]

I've heard this theme before, that unless things get a lot worse, they cannot get better. Obama tried to throw the frog into boiling water and the frog jumped out! Oh how I hope this author has it right. I hope he has awakened the sleeping public and I hope it's not too late.

But my biggest fear is that we are so divided. I'm greatly oversimplifying things but we have a situation where roughly 50% of the population is paying for the other 50%. That's not sustainable and it must change. What happens when the people who are being supported constitute a voting majority? I tell you what happens; Greece. That's what happens. Only we are too large to be bailed out.

It's like an old economics professor of mine use to say:
In any society there are basically 3 types of people economically speaking:

1. There are those people who produce more than what they consume.

2. There are those people who produce what they consume.

3. There are those people who consume more than what they produce.

Right now in America, those who consume more than what they produce outnumber 1) and 2) and constitute a voting majority. This has resulted in Obama in the White House and the problems of society cannot be fixed until that's reversed.

In the immortal words of Bette Davis:

"Fasten your seat belts, it's going to bumpy night".