Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation
GARY HUBBELL
ASPEN TIMES WEEKLY
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.
In the time of Barack Obama, Black Panther members stand outside
polling places in black commando uniforms, slapping truncheons into
their palms. ACORN – a taxpayer-supported organization – is given a
role in taking the census, even after its members were caught on tape
offering advice to set up child prostitution rings. 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.
I don’t know about you, but the other day I was at the courthouse
doing some business, and I stepped into the court clerk’s office and
changed my voter affiliation from “Independent” to “Republican.” I am
under no illusion that the Republican party is perfect, but at least
they’re starting to awaken to the fact that we cannot sustain massive
levels of debt; we cannot afford to hand out billions of dollars in
corporate subsidies; we have to somehow trim our massive entitlement
programs; we can no longer be the world’s policeman and dole out
billions in aid to countries whose citizens seek to harm us.
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.
Thanks to Beth Ann Bowerman for sharing this article with us.
