'Someone' said that maybe all these posts were nothing more than 'hate Obama' tripe.
Here is why it is not -
Jimmy Carter was, and some would say still is, a very smart man. He is not dumb. He filled his administration in 1976, with capable and qualified people. This was true even in 1978 - his Vice President had a long history in Congress. His Under-Secretary of State was accomplished in the legal world (Warren Christopher), his Secretary of State was tolerably respected ... and yet he totally miscalculated Iran resulting in 55 Americans held hostage for 444 days. How did that happen? How can men who are so accomplished, so bright - Carter being one of the brightest presidents we have ever had - how can they so screw up the world, abandoning Iran to a theocratic tyrant who pushed Islamic theocracy around the globe - giving feet to terrorism and cash to killers. How can someone so brilliant fuck everything up so badly?
If Carter and his brilliant cohorts could screw things up so badly, why do you believe Obama can't? I am quite sure you believe Bush fucked everything up? Yet he had very capable men in office - regardless of what you think of Rumsfeld, he had more experience than Obama's entire cabinet combined, on the issue of defense. Yet, they screwed up on a number of issues. You have no problem attributing problems to Bush, but it suddenly becomes 'hate' when directed toward Obama. When it describes Bush it is simply analysis of, description of, and a reasonable evaluation of the Bush administration and what it did. Bush can screw everything up, Carter can screw things up (and is responsible for promoting world Islamic fundamentalism), but Obama ... he isn't. He is sweet as pie, and just a good guy trying to fix the world. Carter wasn't fixing anything was he? He had no intent on changing anything did he? I hope you understand he did, or your college education was wasted. Carter told the world that the US foreign policy would be one based on human rights – we would have relations with countries who adhered to the UN Charter on Human Rights and we would exclude countries who treated their citizenry badly – unless you were Russia or China. It was that clear with Carter.
The result - we abandoned countries due to their having serious problems with human rights violations, consequently turning them into nests for the Soviets where even worse human rights violations occurred. Carter was at the forefront of change.
Obama was still smoking pot at the time. Which is interesting in itself - Obama could smoke pot and that makes him cool, but Bush used some drugs and will not speak of it and he is uncool. It does say more about you than it does about Bush.
You say, Obama hasn't had much time, leave him alone, let him do the good things he says he wants to do. Real simple: Just because someone says they want to do good things does not mean they will or can, and by you sitting on your ass allowing them to do whatever they want (because it is all good, and for the good, and to be helpful, and good, and good, and helpful) you are the ass for doing so. The problem occurs when they so fuck everything up for the rest of us - at that point what you feel is irrelevant, but now we are all screwed, and while you can sit and wonder what happened, some of us can say we knew all along because the road to hell is well lit, and the signs say exactly where we are going.
You respond - well, if it was that clear then why aren't really important smart people saying the same thing? Why aren't people who have lots of letters after their name saying the same thing? While I have more letters after my name than most people have or could have, I suppose there are some letters I do not have, and I suppose those few percent who do have those letters are much smarter, much brighter, and much BETTER than I, so I should immediately sit down and do as I am told. Suck up even. That would be your argument - let the better people tell me what to do. How ironic. The 'better' people or Optimates ... could be considered the aristocracy which would, in your world, be Bush and his cohorts, yet you don't like being told what to do by the rich, just by the 'better' people you choose. Not at all hypocritical. A fine mess you made.
The fact someone has a lot of letters: AA, BA, DD, MA, PhD, JD after their name DOES NOT IN ANY BLOODY WAY MAKE THEM wiser or better. They are knowledgeable about a VERY NARROW area of subject matter - like knowing a great deal about the composition of a dust mite, and as important as the dust mite may be - that is the limit of their knowledge. Yet you believe, we should rely upon these awesome experts to run our country and lead the world. It is not those worthless sods who have the problem, it is you. I suspect you have a deep sense of worthlessness, and a need to be told what to do by someone much smarter. You will always find that awesomely smart person and will, I suspect be told what to do your entire life. What a brilliant mess you have created for yourself.
How long do you give someone? In 1979, Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education. In 1980, Ronald Reagan said he would disband the department. Reagan, with all his efforts, a Congress behind him, was unable to do so. Within one year, the bureaucracy and special interests of that entity became more powerful than a president. Now how long do you want to give Obama? Long enough to create a health service you know nothing about except from what he has said - wants to help you, wants to make you feel better, wants to give you choice and wants to ... from what he has said you know a considerable amount ... considering OBAMA HAS SAID HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT IS IN THE HOUSE VERSION OF THE HEALTH CARE BILL. Obama has no clue, yet apparently you do. Where do you get such brilliance from? Your glow lights all those dark places and makes us all smarter. There are people who actually have looked at the bill, and come up with an analysis and evaluation - no choice, no options, it is mandatory, and no private insurance will be permitted ... that comes from reading the bill, not listening to a man who cannot speak without his teleprompter, and he can't. On the campaign trail when he had no teleprompter he stuttered, misstated, flubbed his words, fumbled, stumbled, mumbled – he resembled Bush. You see what happens – no teleprompter is an equalizer. When He uses the teleprompter to speak, well, he floors the audience. They are wowed by his authenticity and genuine self shared with the audience. Sort of like using plastic surgery to enhance ones attributes ... and you of course will call that genuine.
How long do you want to give him? You complained for eight years about the war and cost of war and the debt from that war, and now within six months Obama has put us deeper into debt than Bush did in his entire eight years. And you are not complaining because Obama just started, give him a chance you say. The problem is, if we give him longer - he will rack up three times as much debt as our entire total at this time. It is estimated that the Recovery Plan will total over $25 trillion – only about twice our entire debt. Waiting and giving Obama time will only fuck us all, not just you, who wants to give Obama more time. You see, we all live in this country - not just you and the other 5% who are so wise and erudite, and we all have to deal with the major fuck ups Obama is creating - not just you who wants to wait awhile and give him a chance.
My country is unique, he said it wasn't. My country is exceptional - he believes it isn't. My country is the greatest hope for all mankind - he does not believe it is. He believes we are all the same. He is wrong. He believes al qaida is misunderstood and needs to be talked to and negotiated with - it shows a lack of wisdom and a gross ignorance that borders on recklessness.
My country is more important than all of his policies, in fact the country and our future is more important than the whims of 5% of the people. This country has accomplished a great deal – put away great evil on three occasions, when the world was unable or unwilling. We did so using the values of this country at that time. It is depressing to hear Obama or Biden speak of doing great things – of a great America, when our values are torn down and our economy wrecked, our military demoralized – I am not sure if al qaida could do a better job of destroying America.
The values of our Founding fathers created the greatest nation on earth. Today those values are ridiculed, and we are told we need new values, and do you suppose those new values will enable this nation to fight off evil when it appears? If not, they are not American values. My country is not a social experiment for Mr. Obama and his wise group of friends, to play with. My country must last and remain intact, or no one will be around to stand up to evil when it reappears. Obama and his ilk have demonstrated how they will respond to evil - negotiate. Simply look at Honduras. It is our future – negotiate away our future for peace because Obama says so, and you believe that we should give him a chance.
If it was only you and him playing your insipidly stupid game – fine, but it is my country, based on the values of 200 years and over a million lives sacrificed for the ideals we believe in - worth dying for, including our exceptionalism. Those values made this the greatest nation on earth - not Obama's values of today. Education does not make you wise, it actually makes you very foolish, for you lose certainty and everything is ambiguous and unclear.
This country is more important than Obama having time to fuck it up, is more important than allowing the government control over industry and business, than allowing the largest concentration of power in American history, in the hands of one man. Ironic really. Bush wanted power to fight terrorism and you moaned and groaned about your rights being taken. Obama has set the course for the largest concentration of power in American history to be held by the Executive branch - for good or bad, it is happening, and you have no clue or don't care, because you want to give Obama a chance.
Hate? No. I believe my country is greater than the pettiness of Obama and the socialist side of the Democratic party. And before you roll your eyes at my calling them socialists - find the government platform for Norway or Finland, or Sweden in 1980, and then compare it to the policies, programs, and plans of the Democratic party. If you find more than one major difference, I will cease calling it socialist. If you do not, you must donate $1000 to the Boy Scouts of America.
It is important to be clear. It is important that we understand what we are talking about. if you are a Democrat, you belong to a party that espouses socialist values. That does not mean I think much more of the retardicans. I do not. They are equally as loathsome in their stupidity and idiocy. Be clear. Accept who you are, isn't that the liberal motto - be true to yourself, come out of the closet and admit - I am a socialist. Be proud of it.
Give Obama a chance?
To do what? Create the largest bureaucracy in American history, to change the fundamental structure of America, to turn us toward socialist goals when socialist states are turning toward free market and capitalism - to re-write history, as he did in Russia two weeks ago:
"The American and Soviet armies were still massed in Europe, trained and ready to fight. The ideological trenches of the last century were roughly in place. Competition in everything from astrophysics to athletics was treated as a zero-sum game. If one person won, then the other person had to lose. And then within a few short years, the world as it was ceased to be. Make no mistake: This change did not come from any one nation. The Cold War reached a conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years, and because the people of Russia and Eastern Europe stood up and decided that its end would be peaceful."
Obama studied the history he wanted to study - under teachers who were Marxist in their theory and interpretation of history (and I don't mean that as a bad hateful thing, simply an observation of fact). Give Obama a chance.
Our country cannot weather any more change. The people did not elect him to fundamentally change the entire structure of the United States - they did not understand what he was telling them, and he counted on that fact. Words sound good - change, hope. Nice catchwords, but they mean very little unless attached to a plan, and the plan Obama has rolled out is not one the American people want or asked for. His Marxist plan is his own, not ours. Can he be impeached? No. What we can hope for is - Democratic congressmen from the Western states and Southern states standing up and opposing his socialist agenda for America. 10-20 Democratic Congressmen from the House and 3-4 in the Senate and his agenda can be stopped. then, in another year, we un-elect the liberals from the House and give the power back to the people (and yes, I know that at this point you are rolling your eyes again - as if the Republican party is the party of the people. Trust me this time - it is far more aligned with the people than the Democratic socialist party of America however retarded most of its membership).
The House and Senate would then be in a position to balance the power Obama is collecting and negate the effects of his agenda when necessary. Change when reasonable and prudent, not simply because.
Hate for Obama? No. I am simply looking at him with Eyes Wide Open, not Shut.
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