Do We Doubt What Our Eyes Have Seen? [Good read]

The Pilot ^ | October 24, 2010 | Geoff Cutler

[2ndDivisionVet]

When Barack Obama was elected president, many of us were able to suspend disbelief that someone with as little leadership experience could gain the White House. This was made easier by the most anemic Republican campaign since Bob Dole ran for office.

We put aside candidate Obama's less-than-savory personal associations and inexperience and gave the newly elected president the benefit of doubt because of a hope that maybe, just maybe, this charismatic personality, the first black president in the history of the land, would truly unite the country, both racially and in a spirit of bipartisan middle-of-the-road politics. This is what was promised the nation, and Obama deserved a chance to live up to his rhetoric.

Two years later, Americans know the truth. Together with Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have slingshot the country so far to the political left that it was only a few months into Obama's presidency that our nation witnessed the rebirth of conservatism.

Said to be dead and buried by a fawning and sympathetic media and other politicos, conservatism, as represented by a broad spectrum of public grassroots movements, has arisen from interment to the point that, according to Democratic pollster Peter Hart in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, "It's hard to say Democrats are facing anything less than a Category 4 hurricane."

Nonetheless, races are tightening as we get closer to Nov. 2. This comes as no surprise since we now live in a country where allegiance to political correctness reshapes us in a mold of moral relativity, and worship for big government and entitlements has gotten to the point where the members of the left in America are so politically wedded to the false hopes of liberalism that they refuse see that French, English, Irish and German governments are bankrupt and reining in runaway deficit spending on entitlements as fast as they can. One wonders, does the left read newspapers?

So if Republicans reclaim the House of Representatives, and less likely the Senate, Democrats will have nobody to blame but themselves. There was no mandate for Obama, Pelosi and Reid to shove America so far to the left.

That's why Democrats are losing independents. They gave Obama the benefit of doubt with their vote, and he has betrayed them with a far-left political agenda, the signature legislation being a massive and disastrous health care entitlement bought and paid for by Pelosi's political threats and bribery.

It should be clear now what Obama meant by "change," and I for one respect the man's passion and unwavering doggedness. President Clinton pranced to polling data. Not Obama.

Unlike so many progressives on the left, scared to admit who they are, and herded about like so many collective sheep, Obama truly believes this stuff. As he told Joe the plumber, America would be a better place if wealth were redistributed more evenly. And he's following through with that social-justice agenda despite the fact these policies have economically crippled Europe.

Wealth redistribution is the core intent of the Obama government. Pelosi said so in a speech to the United Steel Workers Union last week. Getting there is more problematic. It means bypassing an opposed electorate, reworking the Constitution to suit the 21st century, and subjugating the role of the individual in American society to that of a central government.

Evenly distributing wealth means that government must receive higher taxes and unearth more taxable income from new sources to pay for these entitlements. It must control health care to further control the economy. It must regulate and control banks, insurance companies and other big business. It must have education and labor union support. It must be able to count on liberal federal judges to overrule state and federal legislatures. With media friends, it must isolate and demonize detractors.

It will deflect blame to others if policies don't show immediate fruit, and it will ignore public sentiment to pass laws by whatever means necessary.

Once willing to give Mr. Obama the benefit of the doubt, can we doubt any longer what our own eyes have seen? If we do, we commit ourselves to the broken roads of history.

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Geoff Cutler is owner of Cutler Tree LLC in Southern Pines and is a regular contributor to The Pilot and PineStraw magazine. Contact him at geoffcutler@embarqmail.com

[2ndDivisionVet]

Not surprising that the author is a businessman.

[jaz.357]

‘NUFF SAID!

[anniegetyourgun]

The nation committed to its own destruction on 11/4/08 when it elected Obama & 1-party rule.

[grobdriver]

gave the newly elected president the benefit of doubt because of a hope that maybe, just maybe, this charismatic personality, the first black president in the history of the land, would truly unite the country

Oh, just PUKE.

[ilovesarah2012]

I am sick of all these people who voted for Obama coming out now, saying we didn’t know he was this or that. Well, morons, if you had looked past the color of his skin, you sure as hell would have known what he was. I knew exactly what he would do if elected, which is why I seriously prayed that he not be. Maybe God is punishing America.

[Redbob]

"When Barack Obama was elected president, many of us were able to suspend disbelief that someone with as little leadership experience could gain the White House."

Speak for yourself, a-hole!

Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knew what a total freaking disaster this Marxist "community organizer" would be!

[Redbob]

"...races are tightening as we get closer to Nov. 2.

In your DIMocrat dreams, bud!

[Redbob]

"So if Republicans reclaim the House of Representatives...

IF???

IF?

Earth to Planet Geoff Cutler: The word is "WHEN,"
and "when" is January, 2011.

[RobinOfKingston]

The nation committed to its own destruction on 11/4/08 when it elected Obama & 1-party rule.

"The Nation" did not commit anything of the sort. A bunch of evil b@st@rds lied their way into the wheelhouse and are doing everything they can to run us aground. The ugly, putrid face of evil.

They have damaged us, but I'll be d@mned if I am going to give in to them.

[Personal Responsibility]

It may make you sick but a lot of people - those who don’t pay that much attention, to be honest - voted for Obama for that exact reason.

[anniegetyourgun]

The deluded masses of our fellow Americans gave us this.

No, we should never give into them. However, the manner in which we’ve done business in the past will not work with leadership that is determined to impose its will on the masses - even if it means lawlessness.

We aren’t simply “in a cycle.” All things changed on 11/4/08.

[patriciaruth]

Maybe God is punishing America.

God doesn't need to punish America. If America withdraws from Him, we create our own Hell.

[Liz]

Wealth redistribution is the core intent of the Obama government. Pelosi told United Steel Workers Union last week. It means bypassing an opposed electorate, reworking the Constitution to suit the 21st century, and subjugating the role of the individual in American society to that of a central government.

PASTE THIS ON YOUR BATHROOM MIRROR AND MEMORIZE IT Vladimir Lenin: "Medicine is the keystone of the arch of the socialist state."

Three Charts that Will Infuriate Taxpayers

........diligent personnel could not fit all of O'Care's new law’s boards, commissions, mandates, and other elements on this chart. So they created “bundles of bureaucracy.” Seven collective symbols respectively represent clusters of four loan repayment and forgiveness programs, four other new regulatory programs, 17 insurance mandates, 19 special-interest provisions, 22 other new bureaucracies, 26 other new demonstration and pilot programs, and 59 other new grant programs.....

These 151 additional items within Obamacare do not appear individually on this diagram. As Representative Brady explains, “If we included all of these units, this chart (above) would be three times larger.”

Your new healthcare system.

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O/CARE will transfer to the Obama Admin, authority in a number of ways over the lives of Americans, and their businesses. Once govt gets control of medical care, all the defining, controlling features of socialist govt can be introduced, one by one. E-v-e-r-y-thing Americans do is related to health.

O/CARE Page 58 and 59: The government will have real-time access to an individual’s bank account and will have the authority to make electronic fund transfers from those accounts.

Socialized health care is impossible without seizing private medical records----BUT the 4th Amendment prohibits seizure without warrants. He'll do it anyway.

We ain't seen nuttin' yet. Ohaha’s got BIG plans, much much BIGGER PLANS for us. Ohaha keeps saying: "I'm not tired. I'm just getting started." The whole thing is a scam---no matter what they say, no matter what they look like they're doing, it will all change to fit Obama's agenda.

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Socialism, Fascism, Communism.........no real difference, except whether one goes willingly or at gunpoint.