Two For Thursday
November 6th, 2008 at 10:13 am by Preston Taylor HolmesTwo great posts that deserve linkage.
The first one comes from our friend Ken at Blue Collar Muse. Ken asks the question, is President Hussein “my president” or “the president.” There is a big difference, and Ken nails it.
When Obama says his Presidency was launched in “the living rooms of Concord” and financed “by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give … to this cause” I marvel at his deception. When he enters the Oval Office it will complete a journey begun in the living room of William Ayers’ and which traveled a path financed by thousands of people Obama will not identify, many of whom are not even Americans. He will enter the office of the President, but not my President.
I’ve seen and heard a lot of people (on the enlightened right) talking about how they’re going to get behind President Hussein now that the election is over. My question is, what is it that he’s said he’s going to do that makes you want to fall in line? Is it the socialist economic policy? Is it nationalized health care? Is it his new civilian security force of leftist brownshirts? Is it his destruction of our national defenses and capitulation to terrorists? Is it his support of infanticide? Is it his class warfare and greater government invasion of the private sector? Is it his crushing of dissent? Well, I know McCain is totally down with crushing of dissent, but are the rest of you?
If President Hussein suddenly starts pushing conservative economic and national defense policy, I’ll support him. That will also be the time that hell freezes over. Until this happens, I will be part of the opposition – proud to oppose this country’s quick slide to socialism.
Speaking of socialists in the GOP (and there are many), our friend John Hawkins has a great post outlining seven reasons why the GOP can’t build the party around moderates. That is, unless they want to continue getting their ass kicked and become a thing of the past in two short years.
The Democrats, on the other hand, have put hard core left-wingers in charge of every important post in their party and ran the most liberal man in the Senate — and they were the ones who pulled in the “moderates” during the campaign.
Read both of these in their entirety. It’s worth the time.
November 6th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
I would hardly count myself among the “enlightened Right” but I can tell you why I am going to get behind him.
I will get behind him because he is the President of My United States.
I will get behind him because he and his ilk did not get behind President Bush.
I will get behind him because I believe in the sovereignty of Almighty God, who raises up and brings low the rulers of this world.
I will be an example to any and all of the idiots, and traitor that threatened not once, not twice, but three times over 8 years to leave this country if a conservative attained the highest office.
And finally I will get behind him because a Majority of the citizens in My Republic elected the man, and I respect our democracy.
That said, I do not agree with 99.9% of his policies, nor am I either confident or hopeful that he has even a modicum of the balls a president should have to handle times like these in our country. But I have Faith in God, and confidence in His will for this country and for me. I will oppose President Obama when and if he violates the oaths of his office and/or the sovereignty of my country, and I will do so with impunity. But until I have reason, my stand is that he is the commander in chirf of My Country.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Great insights.
I feel no more obligation to support Obama than I had to support Clinton, which was nonexistent.
I hope that Obama turns more centrist, but I see no evidence that this will be the case. He is naming hard-line liberals to his leadership roles, and the leftist illuminati who placed him in this position will be gratified over the next four years as we have a remarkably liberal president.
There’s no such color as purple in the White House.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
John said it a lot nicer than I would have. I’m sick of these Brooks Brothers Bolsheviks passing themselves off as Republicans.
GTFO. Conservatism did not lose this week. Big Government Republican Liberalism lost – Big Time. McCain let the media define what he was allowed to talk about. No mention of immigration, abortion, gay marriage, terrorism. It got stuck on the economy and never strayed. He tried to out-pander the Pander Party, lost 70% of the hispanic vote (another telling number), and continually pissed off the base.
Now he’s waiting to play musical chairs with Lieberman. Lieberman will go Independent and McCain will join the Democrats like asshole ideological traitor he always was.