Posted by
Jan@Oasis on Saturday, November 15, 2008 2:29:52 PM
A time to dance and a time to mourn. It's time for the latter. Even now, it is hard for me to believe that the United States has a president of such low moral and ethical stature, such vast inexperience, such a lack of accomplishment, such a checkered past--and present--and with such little known character. And what we know is not good.
Setting aside the rampant voter fraud which I suspect took place, and which I also suspect will be ignored by the wimpy Republicans, the fact is that many blacks voted for Obama because he is sort of black, and many whites voted based on some misplaced and thoroughly ridiculous "white guilt" over SLAVERY. Are you kidding me? I think a vast majority of those who voted for him are lazy and ignorant and simply didn't do their homework. Nor did they bother to learn the meanings of some key words, such as "communist," "capitalist," "Marxism," "freedom," "individualism," "personal responsibility," and "you will no longer have a right to own what you earn." Shame on all of you. If you did not wish to preserve the America of my youth, the America our Founding Fathers, now spinning at warp speed in their graves, envisioned and were willing to die for-- then by all means leave our shores and go reside in Europe, which, by the way, is on the downhill slide toward oblivion, thanks to none other than the ideologies espoused by your new saviour, Barach Hussein Obama.
Yes, I am in mourning. I read Burt Prelutsky's column with the same title, and many of the comments, both intelligent and loony. It won't matter to the Left what becomes of this great country, because they have NEVER recognized its greatness, nor the reasons for it. They stubbornly refuse to SEE what has happened in every socialist and communist country in history; they cannot SEE that those ideologies go against human nature and can never bring prosperity, but only apathy and greed. Once the incentive to do better is gone, human beings tend to lose their ambitition and their desire to TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES AND THEIR OWN. Europeans are immature, self-centered, and envious. They want what they want, and they expect the government to give it to them. When it doesn't, they never admit that socialism might be the cause of their situation. They simply go on whining. They are obsessed with and jealous of America, but they never admit we might have had a better idea.
Why would we want to be like them?? I once again urge everyone to read While Europe Slept by Bruce Bawer. You will see our future in it if we do not rein in the Left, and soon. I fear it may already by too late, and I do blame President Bush for his abject failure to communicate the stellar principles of conservatism. Well, after all, that was because he ISN'T one. One of the comments on Burt's column compared Obama's ability to communicate with Ronald Reagan's. That would require a whole pitcher of kool-ade to swallow. He is a pitiful communicator unless he is reading from his teleprompter, and he never SAYS anything either way. But at least with the teleprompter, we get fewer ers, ums, uhs, and ANNNNNNNNNDs. Still, Bush did not do any better, because he simply chose not to. What we needed to hear from him, over and over, we didn't.
So I do mourn. I mourn the loss of our education system to the Lefties, from whence we have come to revisionist, anti-American history, fuzzy math, ignorance of great literature, philosphy and religion. Public schools now fail on a MASSIVE scale, not for lack of funds, but for lack of truth and for substituting ideology for facts and feelings for thought. My grandchildren go to Christian School, and thankfully none of that occurs there. My ten-year-old granddaughter knows about actual history and global politics than any of you ignorant fools on the Left. Unfortunately, there are not nearly enough of such schools to counter the ubiquitous mis-education and Leftist indoctrination from the public schools.
I mourn for the can-do spirit that infused the America I grew up in. In a previous post, I apologized to my deceased grandfather and great uncles for our failure to protect and nourish that spirit which was so prevalent in their generation and that of my parents. Even during the Depression, there was no expectation that it was the government's job to take care of them and their families. That was THEIR job, and they accepted and even celebrated that that was so. It was very, very difficult for so many, but they were proud of their hard work and their adaptability to even the most dire of circumstances. I am so proud of them. They would be so ashamed of us.
I mourn for the grand sense of freedom that exists nowhere else on earth. I lived in Japan for two years after high school. A silly, self-involved teen-ager was I, but even then I could feel it. I came home after those two years away with an even greater--a more conscious--appreciation of the United States. I felt like literally kissing the ground when I walked off the plane. No one was as free as we. Opportunity was everywhere. We all had the same opportunity--NOT the same outcome. Talents, intelligence, ambition, perseverence vary among humans. Expecting EQUALITY of OUTCOME is not what we are about. Freedom is far, far more an American value--or it used to be--than equality. Besides, if you think the government can GUARANTEE equality for all, you are naive and you are dangerous. You will remove all incentive for people to work hard and be independent. You will move them to be pigs slurping at the government trough, and who will pay for the slop? Ask Europe.
I mourn for all the people who will die needlessly if we are subjected to universal health care. We boomers will be the first to be sacrificed to the "common good," especially if we are unable to be "reeducated" into the "new thought " (which isn't new at all). Suddenly there will just not be enough money to pay for our needs, nor enough time to wait for an appointment. Once you start promising free stuff to people, they want more and more of it, and as in Europe will be lined up three deep to see Comrade Doctor for a sniffle or a hang-nail. Then see how long you will wait for a hip replacement or cancer treatment.
I mourn for the classiness that once inhabited public office. Ronald Reagan had such class. Class isn't money- or education-based you see. It is in an attitude of grace and humility and wanting to put others at ease in your presence, regardless of how much higher your stature might be in the eyes of society. I shall miss that. I think that the Bushes had class, no matter how much I criticize his politics in some areas. Perhaps humility is part of having religious convictions. Our Judeo-Christian values are eroding along with any expectation of class.
I mourn for the loss of religious Judaism. It is, I am certain, the secular Jews who voted overwhelmingly for Obama. I cannot fathom that a religious Jew would do so and still expect to answer to God for his choice with any hope of redemption. A comment on Burt's column posed the question as to why American Jews would be so careless of Israel as to vote for Obama. The answer is because they ARE secular, not religious, and Israel is meaningless to them. Beyond sad.
I mourn for all the children who will NOT feel what I felt for America. The era of selfishness and demand is being ushered in by the most arrogant and self-aggrandizing politician ever to disgrace our presidency. He is naive, sneaky, and dangerously unaware of his short-comings, legion though they are. One of the comments on Burt's site quoted Churchill on people thinking they can tax themselves into prosperity. "...like a man standing in a bucket trying to lift himself out by pulling on the handle." Oh where are the Churchills? The era of the Statesman has ended, not with a whimper but with a bang.
I mourn the decline of the greatest military power of all time, used overwhelmingly for good and for saving ourselves and others from evil, evil the Left of the world has never been able to recognize or face. Obama will decimate it if he can, and his pledge to disarm us and his refusal to weaponize space at the same time China is building its military with lightning speed, should scare even the most determined fans. After all, does the Left envision that an invading force or a nuke dropped on our country will somehow benefit them? I know they are part of the "better Red than dead" crowd, but I doubt they can count on preferential treatment from either the nuke or the invader. Just a thought. My nephew in Germany announced this week that he is a pacifist. My reply: it is easy to spout pacifist pap when someone else is protecting your sorry behind. I might point out that his hero is Ghandi, who urged the Jews of Europe not to fight the Nazis. He said that would "impress" them. You know how THAT turned out, if you didn't go to public school or college or graduate school.
I will be sorry to see the end of free speech. I will be sorry to see the government goons try to disarm the public and stomp on the 2nd Amendment as well as the entire Bill of Rights. I will be sorry to see a Leftist Supreme Court make law from the bench and overturn the will of the people on a regular basis. For a preview, let's watch how fast the California Supreme Court, again, overturns the will of the people on the Marriage Amendment. Don't blink.
I am tired of all the gloom and doom I am feeling. I think I will go play with my newest grandbaby and try to forget for a moment or two that my feelings are based on THOUGHT, unlike the loony lefties' feelings, which are based on MORE feelings. We have a frightening four years ahead of us, and I pray that the Justices on the Supreme Counrt who are conservative stay healthy and don't retire or die. It seems as if right now that may be the only hope we have.
I thank my America for being my homeland, and thank God for the divine inspiration I have always believed was given our Founding Fathers. I thank them for their sacrifice and unbelieveable determination, and I apologize for not keeping their legacy alive longer. I thank our Military and their families for their gallant attempt to preserve us as we were, and I hope they do not feel discouraged. Many, many of us realize their gift to us, in spite of the MSM's attempts to hide it. We love you. You are the heroes of this struggle, and I pray it won't be for nought.
I thank Burt Prelusky for his column and his humor in the face of this tragedy. I thank President Bush for keeping us safe and wish him well, though he helped destroy the Republican party. I don't believe that was his intent. I thank Townhall for providing us a forum and some of the best writers on the planet.
I thank God for my country, my family of origin and the one my husband and I created. I thank God that my husband saw the America I saw when he came here at eighteen, and made it his own. I thank God for health and happiness in spite of the shadow that now hangs over us, and I vow to keep up the good fight. There is no hope for the Left, so we must simply take it all back from them when we can, if we can. If not, then it really will mean farewell to America.
Have a blessed Thanksgiving in the late, great United States of America.
P.S. I mourn too the illusion, assuming I ever believed it, that black liberals/Democrats are not the most racist, hate-filled people in this country.