Yes, we should. There is no reason to believe that he is not going to do everything within his power to reshape the United States according to his own vision - a vision which sees America as a nation of dependent mediocrities in need of unending guidance and support from the State; a nation, furthermore, whose interests are to be subsumed into the tangled cravings of teetering socialist Europe, predatory China, the Marxist caudillos of South America and the homicidal fanatics of Islam. This is a president who fundamentally despises the notion of individual liberty and the necessary, attendant attribute of personal responsibility. The following scenes from the movie-version of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead are eerily prescient, and should strike a responsive chord with anyone who looks with dismay on the trends of the first 30 days of the Obama presidency.
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Paco, I was beginning to think it was just me & Rush! Thank you! I'm NOT crazy!
ReplyDeleteI no more want President BarryO & his disciples to succeed than I want the Dallas Cowboys to win every game next season. UGH! Yes, I know Rush used the football analogy in his speech yesterday. So sue me, it works & I can't come up with anything original right now.
The changes he is proposing & putting into practice - the wants & ambitions of BarryO & his administration - go against every capitalist, constitutionalist, individual-liberty-loving fiber of my being. They're WRONG, they're BAD for the COUNTRY and I hope he FAILS.
BIG.
I disagree with you on one poiint, Paco.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with you. He doesn't despise the notion of "individual liberty and the necessary, attendant attribute of personal responsibility".
He simply believes these freedoms are only for the philosopher kings, such as he, and not for the Hoi Poloi.
Eerily prescient, indeed.
ReplyDeleteIf Obama succeeds, we will certainly be the United Socialist States of America.
So, yes, I want him to fail.
I don't think there's any question that he will fail. The real question is, will the rest of us have to suffer his failure. To that question, I answer, sadly, yes. But we're a strong people, and while we suffer, we will survive.
ReplyDeleteBarack Obama is the first African-American president of America. What tragedy that he will leave behind a legacy of failure.
Rebecca: That is one reason why I would be delighted to see him succeed - if he were to pursue sensible policies, which, to date, he hasn't. We will know, for sure, whether we are "a nation of cowards" on racial matters when it comes time to reevaluate his performance at the next election. If we are the mature nation that I hope we are, and if Obama has failed, then he will be returned to private life, rather than be maintained in office as merely a symbolic racial milestone.
ReplyDeleteHe had a chance to help workers weather the gathering financial storm with a REAL stimulus bill. Unfortunately, he deliberately chose to sign a patronage pay off in an ode to Chicago politics.
ReplyDeleteHe has already failed and doesn't have the financial background to realize it.
It's pointless wishing a Left-leaning cause to succeed, because it can't, an effect directly proportional to its divergence from Capitalism. The whole thing's a non-sequitur.
ReplyDeleteIf he doesn't fail, then a great society will cease to be so great.
ReplyDeleteWhy the US would choose to experiment with socialist crap after an entire century of multiple failed socialist experiments is beyond me.
And thanks for the clip. Brilliant and just as poignant today as ever.
"Why the US would choose to experiment with socialist crap after an entire century of multiple failed socialist experiments is beyond me."
ReplyDeleteBecause it has yet to be 'done properly".
Cheers