Posted on 11/06/2008 4:48:39 AM PST by alnitak
In Britain, there is a collective swoon over the election of Barack Obama. Media superlatives have exhausted the lexicon of cliches. Journalists wept with joy over his acceptance speech. Even members of the Conservative shadow cabinet are firmly in the fan club. There’s been nothing like it since... well, I was going to say Dianamania, but actually the person who most comes to mind at this moment is Britain’s former prime minister, Tony Blair.
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A couple of observations: the Labour party in the UK has pursued a radical left wing agenda while being protected by the media which has portrayed it as centrist and "reformed". As a result the country is now economically screwed, with colossal levels of taxation and debt - and that's before we head into the recession.
Secondly, your biggest fear should not be that Obama will oversee a train wreck of a goverment and harm the USA, no your biggest fear should be that he won't be too bad and WINS A SECOND TERM. If you follow us, what happens is "death by increments" - outright Marxism is out of fashion, but a little tax increase here, an extra regulation there, another "human right" over there....and pretty soon the goverment builds a colossal client state of dependent voters. Be afraid, be very afraid.
This is the scariest of all possibilities.
I did a post on this last night laying it out
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126484/posts
A huge civil war ensued within the british conservatives as the old guard refused to stand aside for the younger genration, it took 10 years to get them to relinquish the party and Blair has gone on to be one of the most hated people in Britain. We cannot afford the old guard to hold the new young republicans back.
A Warning To America From South Africa
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Writing letters to the press, manning stands at county fairs, hosting fund-raising dinners, attending rallies, setting up conferences, writing your Congressman - that is what you know, and what you are comfortable with. Those are the political methods you've created for yourselves to keep your country on track and to ensure political accountability.
But woe to you if - or more likely, when - the rules change. White Americans may soon find themselves unable or unwilling to stand up to challenge the new political methods that will be the inevitable result of the ethnic metamorphosis now taking place in America. Unable to cope with the new rules of the game - violence, mob riots, intimidation through accusations of racism, demands for proportionality based on racial numbers, and all the other social and political weapons used by the have-nots to bludgeon treasure and power from the haves - Americans, like others before them, will no doubt cave in. They will compromise away their independence and ultimately their way of life.
That is exactly what happened in South Africa. I know, because I was there and I saw it happen.
The barbarians are truly at the gate - and we have give Barack and his minions (or masters if you are so inclined) the keys.
Has anyone heard when Obama is going to attend his grandma’s funeral?
Its because we didnt learn the lessons and see the writing on the wall in 2006. It was there laid out and we still trotted out the same old republican face whereas the Dems trotted out a smooth fresh articulate halfwit.
Conventional wisdom should be that the Dems have done nothing in the house and senate since then in 2006 and still won again because we keep trotting out the same old tired model. Thats not going to win elections.
So so true this in Quebec Canada land of Marx and eggels is what it is. If you truely want to see incremental socialism lite in action take a looka t Quebec . Pretty scary stuff.
She’s probably dead and buried months ago. It just seems weird the whole thing, nobody caring for her but Obama’s sister, no one seen the granny in public in over a year?
“Its because we didnt learn the lessons and see the writing on the wall in 2006. It was there laid out and we still trotted out the same old republican face whereas the Dems trotted out a smooth fresh articulate halfwit.”
You are right. Who in the primaries weren’t old hat already?
It is just based on a raging hatred of the US, and tinged with envy.
But don't believe me. Just read the Readers' Comments on the Daily Mail and the Telegraph for a month. Any month. Why, their media hates the US almost as much as OURS does!
Sorry, I last "visited" Que. (~1983) by mistakenly driving across the river during a visit to Ottawa. When I saw the signs only in French, I turned tail and never looked back. Bunch of hypocrites. Why they get to run Canada is beyond me.
Tony Blair? Chance would be a fine thing.
I'm thinking of Pierre Trudeau or David Lange
some vindication ...I’ve been saying that the greatest risk from Obama is not that he is an utter failure, but that he is not. That was my last post 1 or 2 days ago, and I fear that is what will happen. It would make the takeover complete. Too many people here think in totally linear terms, when things are actually obtuse in nature.
That's a truthful mouthful.
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