I tend to think catastrophically (“oh, this’ll be a DISASTER!!”), and KNOW that, so I try to calm myself down when a disaster-in-the-making seems headed in my direction. Over 99% of the time, the TIDAL WAVE I was bracing for turned out to be a boat wake that got my sneakers wet and inconvenienced my cat. So, the Obama phenomenon has been a whole new experience for me, emotionally. Let me explain.
I am always prepared to be disgusted at Democratic candidates in general. The Democrats, as a rule (1% of them excepted) tend to want to throw taxes, regulations and new government agencies at problems. When that fails, they pile on MORE tax money and regulations, and a BIGGER agency, or bring in another, already-created agency to “assist”, with predictable, resulting inefficiencies. Government agencies as a whole are inefficient,slow,corrupt,FOREVER,glacierlike in their speed to reacting to new realities,and burn money like it’s just paper (which it pretty much IS, nowadays). Democrats have yet to see that. They STILL have absolute faith in the ability of a big-enough, monied-enough government to solve EVERY problem, meet EVERY need,and the fact that the United States government has so far miserably failed to bring about paradise on earth means that the taxes aren’t high enough, the government isn’t big enough, what’s worse, the EUROPEANS are therefore jealous of us, and so the government MUST get bigger and more intrusive into its citizens’ lives, and MUST squeeze MORE taxes out of those with some income who are not in a protected group. And they talk and behave as if “change” and “progress”, in and of themselves, are absolute goods, as if to “keep on keepin’ on” is totally UNACCEPTABLE, whether it is right and works, or not. As if “going back to what works” is UNPARDONABLY TERRIBLE.
I saw that Obama was black, and was ALMOST willing to vote for him just for that. (I myself am white,female, and an Army veteran.) I am a lifelong conservative, though, and a patriot, with a particular soft spot for the military (having been in it). From that point of view, I felt that skin color was secondary to “the content of [a man's] character” in electing him for any public office,ESPECIALLY the presidency, where he will be the chief executive of the most powerful nation on earth. I didn’t like what I saw of Obama’s character. He’s good-looking,only in his 40s,has a nice smile, a charming personality,an impressive speaking voice,a slim wife who dresses well and has a HUGE smile…and that was about the end of the positives. I NEVER heard him talk publicly about what SPECIFIC policies he planned to put in place as the president. His speeches were well put-together, but devoid of any real information or sharing of himself, his goals, where he planned to lead us. He used the words “hope” and “change” a lot, without describing at all what change he MEANT, or what he hoped FOR. I saw him avoid saluting the flag, I heard some of the stupid things he said, like blaming ALL our fiscal problems on President BUSH alone,and I turned against voting for him, especially when I found out how pro-abortion he is and has been,not wanting his daughters to be “punished” by a baby. I found out further about all the funny business in Chicago, and saw how several of his friends and financial backers are or have been in prison, about Reverend Wright, and other things. I also saw how the media were practically SLOBBERING over him, “tingles up my leg” and all,and were AWOL in their responsibilities to actually INVESTIGATE this man that wanted to be President, and stayed silent while Hillary Clinton was practically hounded from her own Presidential campaign. What’re they trying to PULL? I thought, very uneasily. It further disgusted me that the press allowed hinm to turn them into his own PR staff, obviously setting himself up for photo and video ops that they fawningly turned out for. His lack of openness about himself and his plans and goals as president, they totally ignored.
The GOP, as if trying to help him win, managed to put up the worst GOP candidate in history, with their “open primaries”. The “moderates” and “undecideds” voted for McPain in the primaries, giving us the worst candidate possible, then voted for OBAMA on election day.
The Wall Street “collapse” looked a little too conveniently timed to me,especially given that “Wall Street” had given Obama several TIMES as much money as they had McCain. It seemed obvious to me that they were gonna get him into the White House so that their “investment” would PAY OFF. History has shown that when a financial downturn occurs a few weeks or months before the election, the voting public ALWAYS blames it on the sitting President and his Party,and vote for the OTHER Party’s candidates. Wall Street KNEW that, so they engineered a “collapse” to ensure an Obama victory. I was a little comforted when Charles Krauthammer said the same thing on TV.
I read some uncomfortable info about Obama BEFORE the election,both on the Internet and in books, and watched Fox News, the only news outlet on TV that WAS checking into Obama’s politics and background, and a sick dread of what I knew was coming gripped me. Obama’s politics and background made him an obviously VERY poor choice for president. I would hear, again and again, that he said something REALLY stupid, childish or evil, and would not believe it, then someone would email a YouTube link about it, and I could see and hear Obama saying it,IN CONTEXT. Even so, they kept calling him a “rock star”, and crowds ACTED like he was one. Oprah openly campaigned for him, and said on her show after he was elected how happy she was. She called him “The One” after the Messiah-type guy in “The Matrix”, and millions of people who had forgotten that “The Matrix” was only a fictional MOVIE picked up on her enthusiasm, and bought Obama as enthusiastically as they ever had “Oprah’s Club” books. THAT was scary, that a popular and powerful, billionaire Hollywood celebrity and businesswoman could virtually pick the President she wanted by encouraging millions of mindless fans to follow her and vote for him. I braced myself for the disaster that would be Election Day,2008.
I was disgusted almost as much by McCain. He had been all for open borders, and it had taken an ENORMOUS public outcry to defeat the idea in Congress, and he was angry about it still, and I was pretty sure that he’d open the borders as president. He voted AGAINST the marriage amendment, and he wasn’t the strongest pro-lifer ever, either. He seemed pretty erratic in his politics, too, His “maverick” status, so admired by the media, disgusted me. In my experience, the maverick is the person who will not commit to a side, or to a group of like-minded people, but wants to be a maverick because he only wants to be for HIMSELF. Like a HIPPIE, always “expressing myself”. His “straight talk” too often was ill-conceived, off-the-cuff remarks that he later had to apologize for. Also, he was known for being bad-tempered and for calling names and swearing at people who disagreed with him. He behaved as if he thought that NOBODY who disagreed with him could POSSIBLY have good ideas OR good motives, they were all either idiots, lying, or corrupt. His only real firm stands were pro-McCain and pro-illegal immigrants.He”crossed the aisle to get things done” so much that they had a SEAT saved for him, and tried to use that as a selling point to get himself elected president.Not the kind of man I wanted in the White House. “Getting things done” in Washington is NOT a Constitutional requirement, or even a virtue,in fact, the less they DO do, the better off The People are, as a rule.
So, there I was, almost literally worried SICK when Obama won. What would the “unknown devil” DO? And it has been an emotional HORROR for me, ever since. I awake,and check the news, and DAILY, he says or does something ELSE that is spectacularly ill-informed, misinformed, stupid,evil,or Communistic. Or a BUNCH of things. I am worried about the rubber-stamp Congress, the flouting of my Constitutional rights, about my tax burden, about funding my retirement, about LIVING that long (if I can survive socialized medicine),about life for my grandchildren with the “public service” bill that’s been proposed and includes “service” for CHILDREN, and the huge public debt THEY will have to “service”. I am worried about us conservative bloggers being “scrubbed” and our posts being rejected,about the parade of NON-Christianity in the federal government and what it might mean to Christian churches in this country,about the simultaneous TRIPLING of the federal debt, expansion of “work-free” welfare and shrinkage of the military, of Obama’s demonstrated ineptitude in conducting foreign policy and ignorance/denial of the existence of IslamoNazism, the list is LOTS longer, and grows almost DAILY.
I am disgusted at how he STILL won’t be open. Where’s the “TRANSPARENCY”??? He never explains ANYTHING, or answers any questions off the cuff. He stutters and stammers and can’t even put together a sensible sentence WITHOUT a TelePrompter. A FIVE YEAR OLD would have handled the visit from PM Brown better than Obama did. The press has also been strangely non-critical about his announcement that he would 0nly allow the WHITE HOUSE PHOTOGRAPHER to take photos in the White House,and that only those photos that were passed by Obama himself would be allowed to be published.
Who IS his handler?? MICHAEL MOORE?????
Did YOU think it would get this bad?? I must say, it is MASSIVELY WORSE than I ever really thought POSSIBLE.
