I certainly hope so.
Posted on 07/19/2010 12:41:02 AM PDT by neverdem
Mega Ditto, FRiend!
This Obama Regime will end badly and earn an infamous chapter in American history... Comrade Obama may replace Benedict Arnold as the greatest traitor.
Great quote...........
Wanna bet...$?
I'm serious.....
Thanks for the ping. I can’t say I hate Obama; that personalizes it. I don’t like him, his arrogance, his elitism, etc. but that does not translate into hate for me. And saying you hate the president comes very close to the edge where those that hate plan to take personal, violent action which in their own mind will resolve that hate. And the country does not need that; we must at all costs avoid making our first (half) black president a martyr.
However, I do hate his administration and what they are doing to the country with increased government control and bureaucracy in all areas; loss of freedom to chose, increased taxes and a debt that is rapidly making us a third-world bankrupt economy.
We need a leader like Reagan that will inspire us, lift us up, make us proud again, have us believe in ourselves again. And assist us by rolling back government programs and taxes. It will take time, but if we don’t do it, we will not survive as a nation.
It’s why Carter loves him. He’s now one step up from worst President ever!
Spot on. As someone has observed, if your enemy is destroying himself, just let him.
(I have naughty thoughts of kicking him after he's down, though.)
I certainly hope so.
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Burke spoke of the nature, purpose and nobility of revenge, so let's see if historical purpose and social analysis does a better job than drama:
If it should still be asked why we show sufficient acrimony to exact a suspicion of being in any manner influenced by malice or a desire of revenge, to this, my Lords, I answer, because we should be thought to know our duty, and to have all the world know how resolutely we are resolved to perform it.Burke is making this speech as his "Speech in Reply, First Day" at the impeachment trial of Warren Hastings for his vast crimes in India in Burke's capacity as leader of the Commons chosen to present the case for conviction on Impeachment.[We}...are not disposed to quarrel with the Divine Wisdom and Goodness, which has moulded up revenge into the frame and constitution of man. He that has made us what we are has made us at once resentful and reasonable.
Instinct tells a man that he ought to revenge an injury; reason tells him that he ought not be a judge in his own cause. From that moment revenge passes from the public to the private hand; but in being transferred it is far from being extinguished. My Lords, it is transferred as a sacred trust to be exercised for the injured, in measure and proportion, by persons, who feeling as he feels, are in a temper to reason better than he can reason. Revenge is taken out of the hands of the original injured proprietor, lest it should be carried beyond the bounds of moderation and justice. But, my Lords, it is in its transfer exposed to a danger of an opposite description. The delegate of vengeance may not feel the wrong sufficiently: He may be cold and languid in the performance of his sacred duty. It is for these reasons that good men are taught to tremble even at the first emotions of anger and resentment for their own particular wrongs; but they are likewise taught, if they are well taught, to give the loosest possible rein to their resentment and indignation, whenever their parents, their friends, their country, or their brethren of the common family of mankind are injured. Those who have not such feelings, under such circumstances, are base and degenerate.
Lord Bacon has very well said, that "revenge is a kind of wild justice." It is so, and without this wild austere stock there would be no justice in the world. But when, by the skilful hand of morality and wise jurisprudence, a foreign scion, but of the very same species, is grafted upon it, its harsh quality becomes changed, it submits to culture, and, laying aside its savage nature, it bears fruits and flowers, sweet to the world, and not ungrateful even to heaven itself, to which it elevates its exalted head. The fruit of this wild stock is revenge regulated, but not extinguished, -- revenge transferred from the suffering party to the communion and sympathy of mankind. This is the revenge by which we are actuated, and which we should be sorry, if the false, idle, girlish, novel-like morality of the world should extinguish in the breast of us who have a great public duty to perform.
This sympathetic revenge, which is condemned by clamorous imbecility, is so far from being a vice, that it is the greatest of all possible virtues, -- a virtue which the uncorrupted judgement of mankind has in all ages exalted to the rank of heroism. To give up all the repose and pleasures of life, to pass sleepless nights and laborious days, and, what is ten times more irksome to an ingenuous mind, to offer oneself to calumny and all its herd of hissing tongues and poison fangs, in order to free the world from fraudulent prevaricators, from cruel oppressors, from robbers and tyrants, has, I say, the test of heroic virtue, and well deserves such a distinction.
Could they have done this, if they had not been actuated by some strong, some vehement, some perennial passion, which, burning like the Vestal fire chaste and eternal, never suffers generous sympathy to grow cold in maintaining the rights of the injured or in denouncing the crimes of the oppressor?
I quoted it in the Clinton era, it is proper here as well.
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He must be neutered in 2010 and sent packing in 2012.
Ping of interest.
WOW - thanks for the ping.
Hmm...having seen the inaugural celebration I can sort of see where Burroughs got the purple toga and the pack of killer baboons story...
>>Hell, he makes Jimmy Carter look good — and I didn’t think anyone could ever accomplish that.
My sig for a big chunk of 2008 was “Obama: Carter’s only chance to avoid going down in history as the worst U.S. president ever.”
I think I nailed it. I’m not at all happy to have been so correct, mind you.
Shortly after he was elected, I predicted that within the space of two years, Obama would be the most hated man in America.
I also predicted (although I was not alone in this) that he would look for ways to mobilize fanatics in his political base into para-military goon squads that would intimidate and coerce average Americans in much the same way that has proven effective by fascists, Nazis, Communists and now Islamics. That will be the “Civilian National Defense Force” he was talking about.
Huge numbers of people have expressed puzzlement at Obama’s policies and actions since elected, but they all appear logical to me — if viewed from from the standpoint of increasing federal control over every aspect of American life and his control over that same government.
His unswerving goal is to rule. He does not and has never intended to relinquish power voluntarily. He is working to transform America into a one-party state with himself as the lifelong leader.
I think Obama knows he only has one chance at this. Hell, one of the reasons I think he takes so many vacations and plays so much golf may be that he doesn’t really expect to pull it off, so he is determined to enjoy the power and perks of the Presidency for as much time as he has. However, make no mistake about this, it fits right in with Emmanuel’s policy of “never letting a crisis go to waste”.
Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant.
I’m sending it out to my list, whether they like it or not.
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