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Barack Obama has awakened a
sleeping nation
Gary Hubbell
Aspen Times
Weekly February
2010
Barack Obama is the best
thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the
savior of America 's future. He is the best thing
ever.
Despite the fact that he has
some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will
see Barack Obama as the source of America 's resurrection. Barack Obama
has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have
previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met
with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus spending
have shown little positive effect on the national economy; unemployment is
unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a decade;
legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels, and
there is a seething anger in the populace.
That's why Barack Obama is
such a good thing for America .
Obama is the symbol of a
creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the
last 100 years. Just as Hitler is the face of fascism, Obama will go down
in history as the face of unchecked liberalism. The cancer metastasized to
the point where it could no longer be ignored.
Average Americans who have
quietly gone about their lives, earning a paycheck, contributing to their
favorite charities, going to high school football games on Friday night,
spending their weekends at the beach or on hunting trips - they've gotten
off the fence. They've woken up. There is a level of political activism in
this country that we haven't seen since the American Revolution, and
Barack Obama has been the catalyst that has sparked a restructuring of the
American political and social consciousness.
Think of the crap we've
slowly learned to tolerate over the past 50 years as liberalism sought to
re-structure the America that was the symbol of freedom and liberty to all
the people of the world. Immigration laws were ignored on the basis of
compassion. Welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, the fracturing
of families, and a cycle of generations of dependency. Debt was regarded
as a tonic to lubricate the economy. Our children left school having been
taught that they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of them
cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy. Legislators
decided that people could not be trusted to defend their own homes, and
stripped citizens of their rights to own firearms. Productive members of
society have been penalized with a heavy burden of taxes in order to
support legions of do-nothings who loll around, reveling in their
addictions, obesity, indolence, ignorance and "disabilities." Criminals
have been arrested and re-arrested, coddled and set free to pillage the
citizenry yet again. Lawyers routinely extort fortunes from doctors,
contractors and business people with dubious torts.
We slowly learned to tolerate
these outrages, shaking our heads in disbelief, and we went on with our
lives.
But Barack Obama has ripped
the lid off a seething cauldron of dissatisfaction and
unrest.
A former Communist is
given a paid government position in the White House as an advisor to the
president. Auto companies are taken over by the government, and the auto
workers' union - whose contracts are completely insupportable in any
economic sense - is rewarded with a stake in the company. Government bails
out Wall Street investment bankers and insurance companies, who pay their
executives outrageous bonuses as thanks for the public support. Terrorists
are read their Miranda rights and given free lawyers. And, despite
overwhelming public disapproval, Barack Obama has pushed forward with a
health care plan that would re-structure one-sixth of the American
economy.
Literally millions of
Americans have had enough. They're organizing, they're studying the
Constitution and the Federalist Papers, they're reading history and case
law, they're showing up at rallies and meetings, and a slew of
conservative candidates are throwing their hats into the ring. Is there a
revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that there is a keen awareness that
our priorities and sensibilities must be radically re-structured. Will it
be a violent revolution? No. It will be done through the interpretation of
the original document that has guided us for 220 years - the Constitution.
Just as the pendulum swung to embrace political correctness and
liberalism, there will be a backlash, a complete repudiation of a hundred
years of nonsense. A hundred years from now, history will perceive the
year 2010 as the time when America got back on the right track. And for
that, we can thank Barack Hussein Obama.
Gary Hubbell is a hunter,
rancher, and former hunting and fly-fishing guide. Gary works as a
Colorado ranch real estate broker. He can be reached through his
website,aspenranchrealestate.com
IF YOU AGREE PASS
THIS ON AND BECOME ACTIVE. IF YOU DON'T, DO NOTHING AND KEEP
YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND.
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