Posted on 08/11/2014 8:46:10 PM PDT by Ari Bussel
Americans have always grown up believing we are the good guys. We fight the wars of the righteous, help the oppressed and free the world from despots and evil dictators.
I am seriously wondering when all that had changed.
Do I have to dig up John Wayne to do battle with evil? Isn’t anyone up to the challenge anymore?
It is no longer an assumption that America is on the right side of history, because now it seems we are on the wrong one or can’t even find the sides at all.
When good men ignore evil and allow it to run free, well you know the rest.
Recent ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas were held and brokered in Egypt after John Kerry botched the previous ones. He wasn’t even invited to participate.
Wow, America not part of the solution?
Obviously we have now become part of the problem.
When America does wrong, its size and power exacerbate its foibles. In the last six years, the U.S. has turned its back on allies, ignored murder and genocide in numerous countries and enabled the most evil Empire on earth to soon obtain nuclear capability.
Am I living in a parallel universe? Can this actually be happening? Sadly, it is.
The U.S. left Iraq to the devices of terrorists and Islamic extremists with no plan in place to protect what American men and women fought and died to protect. And we thought Sadam Hussein was a jerk?
Syria has murdered close to 200,000 of its people, Pakistan has taken billions in payoff money and thrown the US under the bus and Africa, well, is even more problematic than it has ever been.
The United Nations is a total failure and joke in the world, but we continue to support this pathetic sideshow to the tune of two billion plus a year.
Americans are murdered, kidnapped, falsely imprisoned and no one says a peep.
Our borders are open to anyone who feels like strolling over, at a time when America has more enemies who seek its destruction than Colorado has pot plants. Am I dreaming here?
The happiest man on planet earth right now is Vladimir Putin because it is free day for him. And America thinks it is going to stop Mother Russia with a few missing chickens?
Jews and Christians are being murdered all over the world, and the President hops on a plane to inhale clam chowder on Martha’s Vineyard and schmooze with celebrities.
I don’t have enough room on my computer anymore to list all the horrors going on in this world. What the hell happened to our white hat? Did we give it away to all the evil dictators of the world?
Sure, all of us in the civilized world would like to return to the past when our biggest problem was Cuba harboring nukes. When a US president could back Russia down with a phone call.
Ignoring the craziness only intensifies its growth.
Hitler didn’t burst on the scene like a 15-minute rock star but was duly elected by the German people.
That’s the scariest part of all. When people elect their own destroyer. Sort of like a worldwide StayPuff Marshmallow man marching through the planet, and now sadly squashing churches and synagogues in his wake.
The Palestinian people chose Hamas, a terrorist organization, through an election, in lieu of a more moderate government, and now when it has come back to bite them, they blame everyone else for their foolish choices.
Do most Jewish people probably wish Israel was located somewhere less dangerous, like Miami Beach? Maybe, but they didn’t choose where their history would lead them.
I am quite amused by those who wish to condemn and ostracize Israel, and yet I would bet anything that when these same anti-Semites need medicines or technology to save their lives, they are the first to demand the latest Israel advances.
If it all weren’t so tragic, it would be comical.
Over 1,000 French Jews fled that country last year to save their lives, and more leave daily. All the countries in Europe are more anti-Semitic now than Deutschland before WWII. In Germany they are now marching holding signs reading “Gas the Jews.” Seems like old times.
However, this time it’s different, despite the fact the Pope sits in his ivory tower and ignores the plight of Christians throughout the world. He’s not only King of the Church, he’s the Cleopatra of Popes, king of denial. He finally noticed there is a problem, gee maybe he needs to listen to the news.
This time it’s not just Jews that are being threatened and murdered, but also Christians.
The Holy War has begun and is in full swing. Mankind is marching backward at warp speed. Isn’t there some sort of oxymoron to that statement? How can the Hadron Collider, working on manufacturing time travel and the primitive savage beasts trying to take over the world actually exist within the same era?
Where is the United States of America? Why aren’t there marches on Washington now? Why isn’t there an outcry in our Senate against the war targeting the Judeo-Christian world?
It is shocking to me that it is business as usual as sympathizers of evil speak out in favor of terrorism.
Elites in Hollywood, who have no concept of the fact they are next on the hit list after Israel, speak out as though they are some righteous bunch saving humanity.
What a joke.
Years ago Mel Gibson made racist and anti-Semitic remarks and was ostracized and condemned. Today anti-Semitism is very chic and acceptable in Hollywood, especially by self-hating Jews. I rarely consider myself normal, whatever that may be, but I am beginning to wonder if normal exists any longer.
Unfortunately, the world is now in a position where it must choose sides.
When decent people watch as Christians are forced to escape to a mountaintop in Iraq like a replay of Masada and little innocent children stand with guns keeping watch, there is a serious problem here.
Where once the US was a problem solver, now it is a Band-Aid fix. Admitting we were caught off guard by a bunch of savages, if that’s even true, makes our CIA look like kiddy day at the gym. Dropping in food and sending a few jets in after the enemy has taken a stronghold is laughable.
I only hope that the American Eagle, who I understand is old and pretty worn out by now, can fly again.
Without him soaring over the world and fighting evil, good people will have nowhere left to run.
we got Obama in spite of 3 Million stay at home GOP.
I don’t need your history lessons or reminders on ANYTHING, as I’ve likely been at this as long as you.
You and I simply disagree on tactics.
Neither kept Obama out of office.
I’m grass roots Tea Party, and have listed on this thread the work I’ve done to clean up the GOP here in Colorado.
As previously noted, I want Ted Cruz for 2016.
I’d like to know who you think is better?
If you have been at this as long as I have, then starting in the 1960s (for my generation) actual conservatives have been fighting the special interests and the monied powers constantly within the GOP. Goldwater (as an abortion and perversion cheerleader he was not a very good man) was nominated and Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney, William Scranton, and the rest of the uberwealthy marching band collectively lost what passed for their minds.
So they compromised Nixon, got rid of the formerly liberal Agnew who had turned conservative, saw to it that Nixon was replaced by Feckless Ford. Reagan, having narrowly lost to Ford in 1976, was nominated and then elected by landslide in 1980 and 1984. Then a more anonymous gang of the usual suspects came back and seized the reins under Bush the Elder an have been indulging their delusions ever since.
You are getting the history since, voting for the Mittwit as you did, you obviously fail to understand it.
Your tactic is to vote for any POS no matter how radical so long as he/she has an R after the name on the ballot. I think that is the definition of party hack. I used to be one, however conservative. OTOH, my resume is primarily conservative. So I guess we do disagree on tactics if that is what you think you have in reflexively voting Republican no matter how bad the nominee. If they are leftists in GOP drag, I won't encourage them.
So you told off a GOP Congresswoman and she retired. Who? Why did you tell her off? Does it matter? Does the new Congresscritter vote to depose Boehner, McCarthy, Scalise and Cantor before them? If not, why not?
My goal was first of all to keep Romney out of office and prevent a four year Kumbaya fest between the Demonrat leftists and the GOP-E monarchist zombies. I think that was successful. I don't remember his inauguration or the Kumbaya fest. Do you?
I voted for our own Eternal Vigilance. Cleanest conscience I’ve had since voting for Reagan. Neither I nor most of that rising tide of permanently fed up actual conservatives stayed home. Voting third party is an option and besides there were some lower office candidates worth voting for. Nominate another Romney and see what a small number of defections 3 million can be. We aren’t sneaking up on you at the last moment. We warn you well in advance. And it’s a promise and not a mere threat.
Oh?
It appears that your data source is wrong.
| 2008 | 2012 |
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Barack Obama (Democrat) 65,915,796 51.06% |
Source: FEC pdf files for 2008 and 2012
It appears you never know which yardstick to pick up!
>http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2004/tables.pdf<
CANDIDATES LISTED ON AT LEAST ONE STATE BALLOT
Candidate (Party Label) Popular Vote Total Percent of Popular Vote
George W. Bush (Republican) 62,040,610 50.73%
I’m not “whining” about anything.
I posted 2004 data to illustrate the number of GOP voters back then, to help you recognize how many stayed home in 2012.
Stayed HOME?
There were MORE than in 2008!!!
Fred was in the fertilized egg business.
He had several hundred young ‘pullets’, and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.
He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.
This took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and attached them to his roosters.
Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing.
Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.
Fred’s favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine specimen, but this morning he noticed old Butch’s bell hadn’t rung at all!
When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.
To Fred’s amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn’t ring.
He’d sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.
Fred was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Brisbane City Show and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.
The result was the judges not only awarded old Butch the “No Bell Piece Prize,” but they also awarded him the “Pulletsurprise” as well.
Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making.
Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the unsuspecting populace and screwing them when they weren’t paying attention.
Vote carefully in the next election, you can’t always hear the bells.
I think you’re catching on.
That’s how you tell folks stayed home in 2012.
You look at the data from 2004 and when you notice there were 2 Million more (R) votes than there were in 2012, you conclude that some folks stayed home.
Now, we can do some more homework and look at Registered (R)s voting in 2004, 2008, and 2012, and that will paint a clearer picture.
Oh; I did this LONG ago!
Folks want to complain that Pubs stayed home and didn't vote for Romney over Obama; when this is patently FALSE.
Obama only ran twice; so it's no fair going back to Teddy Roosevelt and pulling up some numbers.
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