Posted on 01/19/2009 2:12:47 PM PST by Scott Martin
I originally took the mindset that I would wish Obama the best during his presidency for the good of the country, but I kept having nagging thoughts that were bothering me. Rush Limbaugh said something the other day that made me realize the problem I was having:
I Hope Obama Fails
RUSH: I got a request here from a major American print publication. "Dear Rush: For the Obama [Immaculate] Inauguration we are asking a handful of very prominent politicians, statesmen, scholars, businessmen, commentators, and economists to write 400 words on their hope for the Obama presidency. We would love to include you. If you could send us 400 words on your hope for the Obama presidency, we need it by Monday night, that would be ideal." Now, we're caught in this trap again. The premise is, what is your "hope." My hope, and please understand me when I say this. I disagree fervently with the people on our side of the aisle who have caved and who say, "Well, I hope he succeeds. We've got to give him a chance." Why? They didn't give Bush a chance in 2000. Before he was inaugurated the search-and-destroy mission had begun. I'm not talking about search-and-destroy, but I've been listening to Barack Obama for a year-and-a-half. I know what his politics are. I know what his plans are, as he has stated them. I don't want them to succeed...
Look, what he's talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the US government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care... So I'm thinking of replying to the guy, "Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails...."
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If he succeeds then the following fail, pro life ,military, low taxes, consevative judges. The ? should be if obama succeeds how quick does the USA fail.
I want the Republic to prosper. I do not know if Obama is relevant to that desire, but I suspect what he considers success is antithetical to the prospering of the Republic. If that is the case, I hope he crashes and burns.
If he suceeds, the US will fail.
There is only one area that I don’t want him to fail: national security. I will not be a happy camper if Colorado Springs is nuked!
Depends. At what? I want him to succeed at what is good for the country, and fail at what is bad.
I’m torn here because I want the Republic to prosper as well. But I want this no count Poser to be shown for what he truly is. I want him to come to terms with the reality he has always manage to elude by being ‘ever so well spoken’. If he were white, he’d be lucky to be working on highway bills back in Springfield. From Occidental on, it’s all been an unearned gift.
Obama must fail epically for America to remain free and succeed.
I don’t want hard times either. Trouble is, some people have to hit the bottom before they wake up and are willing to make changes. This country may have to go through some severe ugliness to make it start heading in the correct direction. The problem for Obama is not if he can actually solve anything. His dilemma is can he keep things afloat and give the illusion of everything being under control despite the big gash that’s in the hull of the ship. He will use every socialist trick to do that, but eventually things will come tumbling down. It’s just a matter of when, IMO.
Get used to disappointment.
I want very much for him to succeed in some part for the sake of the country. But every indication is that he will be a failure far worse than Jeemy, for whom I voted in my foolish youth, believing that he was a believing, conservative and sensible southerner who had been a “nucular” engineer (not true as it turned out) and a successful farmer.
What we got was startling incompetence, potheads in high places on a scale never before seen, and South American style inflation, all of which he then blamed us for. And, I almost forgot, we got some of the worst military decisions by a C-in-C in our history, unmatched until Clinton (for whom I did not vote.) Since he won by discovering in the environmentalists and worshipers of the erdgeist a source of footsoldiers not theretofore utilized, we also got earth worship as an ersatz religion from which we are still suffering.
I don’t think it matters what I want.The inevitable end result will be a big fail.
Big difference. Nobody here cares about the man. We care about the office and his agenda.
He will succeed if his agenda fails, if instead he does his level best to mitigate harm from things beyond his control, and to neutralize and thwart evil men who seek to do our nation and its people harm.
He will fail if he forces other to live with bad, disproven ideas that will take decades to undo. He will fail if he puts the desires of the self appointed elites of the world over the needs of his nation. He will fail if his cabal of subordinates achieve through guile what they cannot through honesty.
He will succeed if he realizes that he is not a dictator, but a leader who executes the desires of the people, not just of a small group of loud-mouthed agitators.
He will fail if he demands that people do things they do not wish to do, follow goals they do not desire, and if he strives to reduce the complexity of their lives to make the job of the voyeurs and the controllers easier.
He will succeed if he protects and defends the office of the presidency as it is, not as how he wants it to be. If he realizes that the office is greater than the man, and that he lives under the sword of Damocles.
He will fail if he tries to undermine or subvert the system to expedite his beliefs. In a rare moment his party has near absolute power over our nation. When they abuse that power, as is likely, may it be remembered with anger by the people for a hundred years.
I want my country to succeed, to prosper in the traditions that made her great in the first place, and to be safe from foes at home and abroad.
I wish I could say I thought the President-Elect had the vision and agenda to accomplish that. I don’t think that he does. I do think we are in for at least four tough years, with the next 12-18 months being some of the very toughest our country has seen in a generation.
I want the American people to succeed. I don’t much care about politicians.
If he wakes up in the middle of the night and has a sudden epiphany that his high-tax/big-gov’t/blame-America-first policies will lead to disaster - then I hope he succeeds.
Otherwise, he will fail regardless who wishes him well or ill.
fail
His failure ensures the success of America.
“IMO hoping Obama fails is irrelevant. My hopes are on learning everything about whom, what is behind the man Obama whom I believe is simply a figurehead/marionette.
Who is pulling his strings? Not the people of this Nation. It is they I want to see fail as Obama will be crushed by the weight of their failure regardless.
It’s more than the MSM. It’s more than George Soros. It’s more than the Democrat Party. This election was well choreographed.
By who?”
I’ve often wondered about this Manchurian candidate. 2 years in the Senate & you get in as President? Doesn’t add up.
“I’d rather die as a freeman in my grave, then to live like a puppet or a slave”
The harder they come, the harder they fall........
FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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