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April 10, 2012 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

To hell with the GOP-e. Barring a miracle, they got their big government, unconstitutional mandate loving, socialist abortionist Obama-lite RINO on the ballot, they can now get him elected.

We are the resistance!!

Shove him down our throats today, we shove him up your donkeys in November!!

I can see November from my house!!

[EternalVigilance]

so blinded by conservatism, they forget the “love of country”.

Without the true principles that conservatism represents, there will be no America. That's what you don't understand.

And Mitt Romney has spent his entire adult life helping to destroy those principles.

[af_vet_rr]

Please, love America, Not your thoughts.

I do love America, which is why I'm done compromising on my principles and voting for somebody just because they have an (R) next to their name.

In case you've forgotten, Chief Justice Roberts was nominated by a RINO who was slightly more conservative than Romney.

The GOP is going to keep on moving us to the left, like they've been doing for decades, unless we start rejecting their nominees and voting for the most conservative person on the ballot.

[roamer_1]

Of all the insipid bleatings that pass as thought on this site, this type is by far the most fetid.

It's really a shame that freepers and Mr freeper are so blinded by conservatism, they forget the “love of country”.

It is certainly a shame that so many freepers are so blinded by fear that they forget that according to Conservatives, the principles we stand upon ARE 'love of country'. Do you even know what 'principles' are? I think not, or you would know that they CANNOT be set aside - Hence Conservatism, which is a collection of principles, CANNOT be set aside. To one who practices Conservatism, it isn't just unthinkable, but literally impossible by the very definition.

That you would come begging and whining, simpering about setting such things aside for the 'good of America' not only proves that you lack understanding about Conservatism, but that you lack understanding about what America is all about. It is shameful and embarrassing.

Romney has to beat Obama, or our country will never be what it was a few years back.

What utter pap. The reason our country will 'never be what it was a few years back' is precisely because of fearful appeasers (pragmatists) electing liberal republicans like Romney who create absolutely *no* opposition to the liberalism that is throttling our nation. In what insane reality does voting for a liberal battle liberalism? Whadderya, stupid?

In their hatred of Romney, they cannot see forest from the trees. For the love of country, I hope they will swallow their pride.

It has *nothing* to do with hate, and *nothing* to do with pride. That you would even offer such blather reveals your lack of understanding.

I'm just as conservative as them,

Obviously untrue, or you would not be here begging for what cannot be done.

Come on, WE Cannot Have 4 more years of Zero. Please, love America, Not your thoughts.

Again, your words betray you - Go ply your drivel at GOP.com

[Finny]

Perfectly well said. Especially: The reason our country will 'never be what it was a few years back' is precisely because of fearful appeasers (pragmatists) electing liberal republicans like Romney who create absolutely *no* opposition to the liberalism that is throttling our nation. In what insane reality does voting for a liberal battle liberalism?

Bravo!

[b9]

Thank you for this ping by awesome freeper gzzimlich.

Yours is the “still, small voice” of calm amid the storm of desperation and panic that would grasp at the debilitating Romney straw.

The three boys in the fiery furnace emerged without even the smell of smoke.
So can we if we vote smart and NOT allow ourselves to be compromised. You’re so right, Finny, that there is no such thing as “voting against.”

[Dr. Sivana]

Thank you for the ping finny, and also for your earlier support where I was bombarded by Romneyites for simply stating in a posted VANITY that I wasn’t voting for Romney, with no particular vituperation against the man except his disinterest in describing exactly how he will “act” to repeal Federal RomneyCare on Day One.

Ninety percent of the attacks were along the lines of “You are an idiot” and “Obama thanks you for your vote”.

The presidential election is already lost (barring a miracle at the convention, and at this point I would welcome resistance by Paul plants). Our efforts must go down-ballot.

[Elsie]

Without the true principles that conservatism Christianity represents, there will be no America. That's what you don't understand.

[Elsie]

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WASHINGTON'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS

OF 1789

A Transcription

							[April 30, 1789] 

Fellow Citizens of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

 Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the fourteenth day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years: a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me, by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my Country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens, a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with dispondence, one, who, inheriting inferior endowments from nature and unpractised in the duties of civil administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver, is, that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of eve ry circumstance, by which it might be affected. All I dare hope, is, that, if in executing this task I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances, or by an affectionate sensibility to this transcendent proof, of the confidence of my fellow-citizens; and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me; my error will be palliated by the motives which misled me, and its consequences be judged by my Country, with some share of the partiality in which they originated.

Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station; it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official Act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the Universe, who presides in the Councils of Nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the People of the United States, a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes: and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success, the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own; nor those of my fellow-citizens at large, less than either. No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. And in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their United Government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted, cannot be compared with the means by which most Governments have been established, without some return of pious gratitude along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage. These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me I trust in thinking, that there are none under the influence of which, the proceedings of a new and free Government can more auspiciously commence.

By the article establishing the Executive Department, it is made the duty of the President "to recommend to your consideration, such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." The circumstances under which I now meet you, will acquit me from entering into that subject, farther than to refer to the Great Constitutional Charter under which you are assembled; and which, in defining your powers, designates the objects to which your attention is to be given. It will be more consistent with those circumstances, and far more congenial with the feelings which actuate me, to substitute, in place of a recommendation of particular measures, the tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them. In these honorable qualifications, I behold the surest pledges, that as on one side, no local prejudices, or attachments; no seperate views, nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests: so, on another, that the foundations of our National policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality; and the pre-eminence of a free Government, be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its Citizens, and command the respect of the world.

I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my Country can inspire: since there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the oeconomy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity: Since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained: And since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care, it will remain with your judgment to decide, how far an exercise of the occasional power delegated by the Fifth article of the Constitution is rendered expedient at the present juncture by the nature of objections which have been urged against the System, or by the degree of inquietude which has given birth to them. Instead of undertaking particular recommendations on this subject, in which I could be guided by no lights derived from official opportunities, I shall again give way to my entire confidence in your discernment and pursuit of the public good: For I assure myself that whilst you carefully avoid every alteration which might endanger the benefits of an United and effective Government, or wh ich ought to await the future lessons of experience; a reverence for the characteristic rights of freemen, and a regard for the public harmony, will sufficiently influence your deliberations on the question how far the former can be more impregnably fortified, or the latter be safely and advantageously promoted.

To the preceeding observations I have one to add, which will be most properly addressed to the House of Representatives. It concerns myself, and will therefore be as brief as possible. When I was first honoured with a call into the Service of my Country, then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties, the light in which I contemplated my duty required that I should renounce every pecuniary compensation. From this resolution I have in no instance departed. And being still under the impressions which produced it, I must decline as inapplicable to myself, any share in the personal emoluments, which may be indispensably included in a permanent provision for the Executive Department; and must accordingly pray that the pecuniary estimates for the Station in which I am placed, may, during my continuance in it, be limited to such actual expenditures as the public good may be thought to require.

Having thus imported to you my sentiments, as they have been awakened by the occasion which brings us together, I shall take my present leave; but not without resorting once more to the benign parent of the human race, in humble supplication that since he has been pleased to favour the American people, with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquility, and dispositions for deciding with unparellelled unanimity on a form of Government, for the security of their Union, and the advancement of their happiness; so his divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this Government must depend.

Washington's distinctive signature

 

[Elsie]

WASHINGTON'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS

OF 1789

A Transcription

							[April 30, 1789] 

Fellow Citizens of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the fourteenth day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years: a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me, by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my Country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens, a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with dispondence, one, who, inheriting inferior endowments from nature and unpractised in the duties of civil administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver, is, that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of eve ry circumstance, by which it might be affected. All I dare hope, is, that, if in executing this task I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances, or by an affectionate sensibility to this transcendent proof, of the confidence of my fellow-citizens; and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me; my error will be palliated by the motives which misled me, and its consequences be judged by my Country, with some share of the partiality in which they originated.

Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station; it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official Act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the Universe, who presides in the Councils of Nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the People of the United States, a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes: and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success, the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own; nor those of my fellow-citizens at large, less than either. No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. And in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their United Government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted, cannot be compared with the means by which most Governments have been established, without some return of pious gratitude along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage. These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me I trust in thinking, that there are none under the influence of which, the proceedings of a new and free Government can more auspiciously commence.

By the article establishing the Executive Department, it is made the duty of the President "to recommend to your consideration, such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." The circumstances under which I now meet you, will acquit me from entering into that subject, farther than to refer to the Great Constitutional Charter under which you are assembled; and which, in defining your powers, designates the objects to which your attention is to be given. It will be more consistent with those circumstances, and far more congenial with the feelings which actuate me, to substitute, in place of a recommendation of particular measures, the tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them. In these honorable qualifications, I behold the surest pledges, that as on one side, no local prejudices, or attachments; no seperate views, nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests: so, on another, that the foundations of our National policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality; and the pre-eminence of a free Government, be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its Citizens, and command the respect of the world.

I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my Country can inspire: since there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the oeconomy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity: Since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained: And since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care, it will remain with your judgment to decide, how far an exercise of the occasional power delegated by the Fifth article of the Constitution is rendered expedient at the present juncture by the nature of objections which have been urged against the System, or by the degree of inquietude which has given birth to them. Instead of undertaking particular recommendations on this subject, in which I could be guided by no lights derived from official opportunities, I shall again give way to my entire confidence in your discernment and pursuit of the public good: For I assure myself that whilst you carefully avoid every alteration which might endanger the benefits of an United and effective Government, or wh ich ought to await the future lessons of experience; a reverence for the characteristic rights of freemen, and a regard for the public harmony, will sufficiently influence your deliberations on the question how far the former can be more impregnably fortified, or the latter be safely and advantageously promoted.

To the preceeding observations I have one to add, which will be most properly addressed to the House of Representatives. It concerns myself, and will therefore be as brief as possible. When I was first honoured with a call into the Service of my Country, then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties, the light in which I contemplated my duty required that I should renounce every pecuniary compensation. From this resolution I have in no instance departed. And being still under the impressions which produced it, I must decline as inapplicable to myself, any share in the personal emoluments, which may be indispensably included in a permanent provision for the Executive Department; and must accordingly pray that the pecuniary estimates for the Station in which I am placed, may, during my continuance in it, be limited to such actual expenditures as the public good may be thought to require.

Having thus imported to you my sentiments, as they have been awakened by the occasion which brings us together, I shall take my present leave; but not without resorting once more to the benign parent of the human race, in humble supplication that since he has been pleased to favour the American people, with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquility, and dispositions for deciding with unparellelled unanimity on a form of Government, for the security of their Union, and the advancement of their happiness; so his divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this Government must depend.

Washington's distinctive signature

[Elsie]

Presidential inaugurations are important civic rituals in our nation's political life. The Constitution requires that presidential electoral votes be opened and counted by the Senate and House of Representatives meeting together, that the candidate with a majority of electoral votes be declared the victor, and that the president-elect, before taking charge of the office, swear an oath of office to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

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After the address, Washington and assembled government officials walked to St. Paul's Chapel for more prayer and supplication.

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The rear of St. Paul's Chapel faces Church Street, opposite the east side of the World Trade Center site. After the attack on September 11, 2001, which led to the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, St. Paul's Chapel served as a place of rest and refuge for recovery workers at the WTC site.

For eight months, hundreds of volunteers worked 12 hour shifts around the clock, serving meals, making beds, counseling and praying with fire fighters, construction workers, police and others. Massage therapists, chiropractors, podiatrists and musicians also tended to their needs.

The church survived without even a broken window.  Church history declares it was spared by a miracle, a large sycamore on the northwest corner of the property that was hit by debris. The tree's root has been preserved in a bronze memorial by sculptor Steve Tobin.

 

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http://www.walmart.com/ip/The-Harbinger-The-Ancient-Mystery-That-Holds-the-Secret-of-America-s-Future/17023921

[Elsie]

Barring a miracle, they got their big government, unconstitutional mandate loving, socialist abortionist Obama-lite RINO on the ballot, they can now get him elected.

[so_real]

As Obama tries harder and harder to throw this election to his liberal republican counterpart, Romney rises in the polls. Be confident, however, that my vote is not destined for any amnesty-granting, baby-killing, bailout-providing, gun-grabbing, homosexual-advocating, healthcare-ransoming, stimulus-providing presidential candidates. Trading a liberal president with a "D" behind his name for a liberal president with an "R" behind his name does not better this nation.

[Windflier]

...insipid bleatings that pass as thought...whining, simpering...shameful and embarrassing...utter pap...blather, drivel...

I see you've met our friend factmart.

[Sirius Lee]

If you truly love your country then vote for someone who actually does: Virgil Goode.

[formosa]

Folks seem to be under the impression that Romney will step in and save them and America from their really bad choices. However, Romney is a liberal at heart and will move back to the left as soon as he steps into the DC circuit. He is not a strong man with a strong moral center, nor is he a visionary that can provide a direction to go and explain or inspire others into seeing what can be created from the ideology of small govt and enlightenment.

Thanks for the ping. England’s situation should stand as a warning for us all.

[formosa]

Folks seem to be under the impression that Romney will step in and save them and America from their really bad choices. However, Romney is a liberal at heart and will move back to the left as soon as he steps into the DC circuit. He is not a strong man with a strong moral center, nor is he a visionary that can provide a direction to go and explain or inspire others into seeing what can be created from the ideology of small govt and enlightenment.

Thanks for the ping. England’s situation should stand as a warning for us all.

[factmart]

You are as bad as Obama, you can be happy when ObamaCare is unkillable.

Al the rest is irrelevant.

Loving conservative is not above love of country. There is a time when compromise is Patriotic.

Helping Obama over Romney is not Conservative or holing on to your principles is not a good thing when the house is on fire.

It's time to let go of your principles, Pick up the bucket of water and put out the fire.

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By the way the founding fathers would be supporting Romney 100% and would think of you as REDCOATS.

[factmart]

You are as bad as Obama, you can be happy when ObamaCare is unkillable.

Al the rest is irrelevant.

Loving conservative is not above love of country. There is a time when compromise is Patriotic.

Helping Obama over Romney is not Conservative or holing on to your principles is not a good thing when the house is on fire.

It’s time to let go of your principles, Pick up the bucket of water and put out the fire.

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By the way the founding fathers would be supporting Romney 100% and would think of you as REDCOATS.

[factmart]

You are as bad as Obama, you can be happy when ObamaCare is unkillable.

Al the rest is irrelevant.

Loving conservative is not above love of country. There is a time when compromise is Patriotic.

Helping Obama over Romney is not Conservative or holing on to your principles is not a good thing when the house is on fire.

It's time to let go of your principles, Pick up the bucket of water and put out the fire.

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By the way the founding fathers would be supporting Romney 100% and would think of you as REDCOATS.

[COBOL2Java]

By the way the founding fathers would be supporting Romney 100% and would think of you as REDCOATS.

Good Lord.