Posted on 09/28/2010 5:01:10 AM PDT by Lloyd Marcus
I recently caught the last five minutes of Rocky, the classic movie starring Sylvester Stallone. During the finale, Championship Boxing Exhibition, Rocky, the extreme underdog amateur, was knocked down several times by powerful punches from the reigning champion. Upon being knocked down yet again, Rocky's coach instructed, "Stay down!"
I thought, that is exactly what many family and friends, who love us, advise when the goin' gets tough: "Quit. Give up on your dream." Like such family and friends, Rocky's well-intentioned coach did not get it. Instinctively, Rocky knew he had to get back up, or he would never be able to look at himself in the mirror again. Even after seeing the scene for the gazillionth time, when Rocky struggles to his feet and battles the champion to the final bell, I still get a lump in my throat.
Rocky strikes a universal chord. I was in college when the movie was first released in the '70s. Several of my fellow black friends were militants running around touting "Black Power" with raised fists. And yet they were crazy about the Italian Stallion, Rocky.
Rocky is universally loved because he tells us that no matter how much life beats you down, if you can find the strength to pick yourself back up, you are a winner. Rocky also tells us that certain things are worth fighting for -- risking losing for the dream of winning. Rocky epitomized the American Spirit.
And then, along came the Obama administration. In fairness, while no other president has promoted entitlement and American unexceptionalism more than Obama, we have been traveling down this entitlement road for quite awhile.
Like Rocky's coach, but for sinister reasons, Obama and liberals advise Americans, "Stay down! Striving for personal success is evil. You're entitled to the fruit of the labor of someone else. Illegal immigration is fine. Enforcing the law is insensitive, heartless, and racist. Competition damages self-esteem. Capitalism is unfair. Expecting immigrants to learn English is cruel and racist. We expect very little of you."
In keeping with their constant appealing to our lower nature and "don't strive for excellence" mindset, liberals coach minorities with messages like "You're victims of American racism. You deserve handouts. America is controlled by rich white people." Much has been written about the Left's "bigotry of low expectations" in regards to minorities.
No longer do we celebrate the "Rockys" of America -- folks who sacrifice, take risks, and struggle to achieve a better life for their families and themselves. Obama and company demonize achievers, calling them selfish and greedy exploiters of the poor.
In the name of "social justice," King Obama has begun confiscating and redistributing the wealth of Americans who were knocked down by life several times but courageously kept struggling to pick themselves back up and became winners. Reading the biographies of the wealthy will confirm that most of them took risks and experienced failures; many faced bankruptcies, lost marriages, and tremendous sacrifices and struggles. But they kept getting back up.
Not only has Obama vowed to confiscate the wealth of these "American Rockys" -- and in his own words, "spread it around" America -- but he intends to redistribute their hard-earned money around the world.
Some say the American Dream is dead. Nobody wants to work hard to achieve a goal. They believe liberals have successfully divided Americans into various victimized groups, all believing they are entitled. These fatalists say far too many Americans would rather sit on their butts and wait for whatever entitlement crumbs the government throws their way.
I do not believe we have reached such an ugly un-Rocky/un-American critical mass. Traveling on the Tea Party Express, I have attended hundreds of Tea Parties across America. Rocky is alive and well in the hearts and minds of millions of Tea Party patriots who still celebrate ambition, courage, and personal achievement. These folks are downright repulsed by the idea of government controlling outcomes, dictating who wins and who loses.
Daily assaults by Obama have severely beaten down the spirit of America. He proclaims that the U.S. is no longer -- nor should it be -- the world economic leader. So how many more Obama brutal punches can the spirit of American exceptionalism endure? Will it survive the Obama regime?
Yes, it will. No matter how many times the American spirit is knocked down, it always gets back up. Tea Party patriots have declared, "King Obama, you're dethroned! We're taking back America!" Adriannnnnn, I LOVE YOU!!!
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Of course, that’s why it’s starting to get all Colonial up in here.
bttt
We’ll know on election night.
I believe it will. November 2, 2010, will be a political earthquake.
America will survive if Obozo is limited to a single term (or less!).
If the Kenyan fraud has six more years in office, that spells T-R-O-U-B-L-E.
Long term, the demographics do not look good without making some major changes. Allowing the NEA and MSM to indoctrinate Americans into Marxism will result in...MORE MARXISTS.
JMO.
Lloyd, you’re such a racist!
:)
I rather put it..Will Obama survive the American Spirit? Answer NO!
They have the question backwards.
If the GOP takes control in November, there will be calls to repeal Zero’s legislation, investigate his actions with the Justice Department, and maybe even a look into his citizenship.
Obama’s position is what’s in danger, not the American Spirit.
The left can confiscate my income and property in the name of ‘social justice’.
The left can enact health ‘reforms’ in order to govern my be behavior.
The left can pass ‘speech’ laws to control by public expression.
The left can preach endlessly about multiculturalism and diversity.
The left can restrict resources in the name of saving the environment.
HOWEVER, the left can NEVER take away the spirit of America in my heart.
I’ll die a free man regardless of what the left does or says.
Great article! I’m loving this rise of true American Patriots of all colors who are rising above the beat down of the left.
“My eyes, I can’t see...Cut me Mick!”
America has been beat up too much, for too long...
They are starting to wake up...
Just shooting from the hip here...I wonder how people should feel who have been in the fight, all this time, trying to get America to wake up, and finally it takes the election of the most polarizing, progressive, devisive President in our countries history to get them to start paying attention...
A part of me (and some other people) says well, “welcome to the party”...That sounds selfish or unappreciative, but it does resonate in certain circles...
Another part of me, and some people might be grateful for this “conservative” ressurgence...
I just hope that it (conservative activism) carries through and that some of these “new” folks realize that the next two years might very well not turn out the way some of y’all might expect...
Don’t have any unrealistic expectations in the folks we elect into office this time...They might actually have a rougher time getting anything done considering the immature, narrcisistic leadership we have running the show up in D.C.
He might very well take his toys out of the sandbox and we’ll not be able to get anythign done...Much less defunded, reversed or resolved...
Just remember we still have an issue(s) to resolve in 2012, and if the tone and exhuberance of the people now is quelled, then we get our just desserts if we do not follow through down the road...
The media will definitely try to expand on the fact that these “new” Republicans might not get anything done, and will obviously misrepresent what might be accomplished, if anything...
I’m not so sure that folks caught up in this Tea Party movement will have a very long attention span or longevity after this election...
Don’t get me wrong, I believe it is the right thing at the right time, but I have my doubts about the pressure it can exert on the political processes we are all up against...
I hope to be proven wrong...
Nice post.
Exactly as I feel. I may be close to the end of the road but my spirit will not be daunted, not one bit.
just like iraq and afghanistan, true leftists believe brown types and poor ignorant whites are destined to live under strict tyrannical rule.
they (the elite leftist) and their private schooled children shall show the great unwashed the way to salvation.
compliance, or a mass grave.
One of the worst movies ever made, and it marked a turning point in when Hollywood began to go down the tubes. It’s so hard to be a Conservative when a publication that uses the word.”Thinker” in its title publishes an ode to philistinism.
“If we lose freedom here, there’s no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”
RONALD REAGAN, “A Time For Choosing” speech, October 27, 1964
At this time in our history, we must ask ourselves:
Are we living in the country that our founding fathers envisioned when they sacrificed their lives, fortunes and sacred honor?
Do we sit idle while our country is on a course of soon becoming a place that we ourselves would flee if given a choice?
Do we live a life of ease today, so that our children and grandchildren can face the consequences of our inaction when we are gone?
The fact that we and our children’s children have nowhere else to go... the fact that HUMANITY has nowhere else to go... gives those questions an even heavier weight than the one our Founders pondered many years ago when deciding whether or not to break with England.
“I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.”
RONALD REAGAN, First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981
Time to choose, America.
Survive Obama? American spirit been dead since Kennedy/Johnson/Nixon. We’re the dead man walking, the sick old man of North America.
“he America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a “warm body” democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction.... [O]nce a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader — the barbarians enter Rome.”
“To Sail Beyond the Sunset”, Robert A. Heinlein
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