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Published on November 7, 2012 By Tova7 In Blogging

Edited 11/11/2012 for clarity and because I was really pissed off when I wrote this and it's just not very coherent.

“Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.”

~ Someone in the Czech Republic via a newspaper

 

I’m disappointed.

Yesterday the morning started out with such hope.  By the time I went to bed last night.  Crash and burn.

Ohio results weren’t in yet, but I could tell it was going to go for Obama.  Disgusted with half my fellow buckeyes, I went to bed.

Usually a night of rest makes things seem less grim, less hopeless in the morning.

Not so today.

It’s worse.

What I can’t wrap my head around?  How could white Americans vote for more debt?  Why do I differentiate between white and black?  Because I get racial pride.  I have black friends.  Even though Obama doesn’t have anything close to their background, their “black American” experience, he’s still “one of them.”  I think it’s retarded to vote for or against someone based on race.   Retarded when thought about logically.  But emotion, and racial pride, can blunt the senses.  And there is a simmering hostility in the black community.

The flavor of perceived oppression is often as bitter as the actual pill.

So I can understand the racial pride vote.  Or understand it as well as a white girl in the suburbs can    

So how could white, Latino, whatever vote for a man who has more debt than all other presidents combined?  Are they not paying attention?  And for the record, every single person I know who is on welfare, or gets SSRI, or some other gov. handout, voted BO.  Without exception.

The right to vote at the federal level for president isn’t a Constitutional right.  People getting checks from the government for doing nothing more than existing, shouldn’t get to vote imo.  That aside….

One of the reasons this election was so important is….Obamacare.  It is the cannon that will blast us over the fiscal cliff into oblivion and irrelevance.  Do not pass go.  Do not collect $200.

Can you say 50% income tax?

Don’t worry, you’ll have lots of practice.  It will be part of the common American experience in the not too distant future.

It is highly ironic that in my suburb, people voted for BO, and voted down the much needed school levy.  Meaning, they don’t want to pay more taxes.  hahahaha.  They elected the king of taxes!! 

Don't get me wrong.  Our current medical system is broken.  The cost of care is unrealistic.  There are things in Obamacare I support, but at the same time don't believe my family should be forced to pay for healthcare for grown-ass adults.  It's a quandry.

History shows, as a super-power declines, it is challenged by  other nations.  Usually war.  That’s what happens when the biggest kid on the block isn’t as strong anymore.  Others, who secretly resented their power all along, or simply want the resources that kid has, gang up to bring them down.  When that happens….if there is anything left of what once was America…I say we split it.  Liberals and government check collecting Dems on one side, the rest on the other.

The split is already here, but for the geography anyway.

So we split officially.  Obama-bots have their own place, one plagued with debt, taxes, and gov. dependency…and the rest of us?  Free to build the life we choose, live or die by our own ability and ambition, unlimited by gov. tax burdens. 

Our motto?

Live free or die.

Until then, I am an American.

But I have to wonder, will my grand-children be?

 

 


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on Nov 08, 2012

Jythier
We are slowly giving people more freedom to make more bad choices, and people are making them. I've made them myself.

The problem with giving people enough rope to hang themselves...they aren't just hanging themselves...they're dragging down an entire nation.

I do not think people should be punished for the rest of their lives for bad choices, like having a child at 16. 

However, once the mistake is made, help should be based on the person's ability to help themselves. 

No one should get paid to sit home on their ass.  That person is taking food off my family's table, limiting the things we can do with our own earnings.

It is these moochers that need to be cut off.  And I personally KNOW PLENTY OF THEM.

Sit around, smoke cigarettes, do NOTHING, and get paid.  Sure their lives aren't awesome, but I'd really like to use the money we earn to go on vacation, buy a bigger house, WHATEVER..not support that crap.

on Nov 08, 2012

Lula,

There is a reason we’re called the “Rome of the West" by some historians.

Oh, yeah, Santa Claus breads and circuses is what is keeping them on the Democrat rolls. 

 

on Nov 08, 2012

lulapilgrim
Oh, yeah, Santa Claus breads and circuses is what is keeping them on the Democrat rolls.

Or as your friend put it so well....they just want to sit on the couch and watch dancing with the stars. 

on Nov 08, 2012

Quoting Jythier, reply 28We are slowly giving people more freedom to make more bad choices, and people are making them. I've made them myself.

The problem with giving people enough rope to hang themselves...they aren't just hanging themselves...they're dragging down an entire nation.


 

Agreed.

 

But I'm not sure I would agree with you on every bad choice.

on Nov 08, 2012

Quoting lulapilgrim, reply 32Oh, yeah, Santa Claus breads and circuses is what is keeping them on the Democrat rolls.


Or as your friend put it so well....they just want to sit on the couch and watch dancing with the stars. 

 

The Voice is way cooler.

on Nov 08, 2012

Daiwa
We can only be grateful we lived to see America's greatest years, and disappointed we lived long enough to see the beginning of the end.

AMEN! I feel sorry for my children and grand children.

on Nov 08, 2012

I'd like to be more optimistic but I think the die is cast. We'll only be able to delay and 'manage' the inevitable at the margins, best case scenario. Were I 40, I'd stay all Brietbart, but my time will be up before any meaningful course correction can be achieved, if one ever can be. May have cast my last vote of any kind, for that matter.

Amen again.

 

I'd have had some hope that Benghazi would create conditions ripe for impeachment

Benghazi is not an impeachable offense.  It is definitely a horrible decision.  And the lying is as bad as it gets (quality wise).  But foreign policy is the purview of the president.  He can sacrifice a million men, and the only recourse is to vote him out of office.

If the american electorate could be impeached, it should be.

on Nov 08, 2012


Quoting Daiwa, reply 15In what may have been the shrewdest move of Obama's political career, he purchased absolute impeachment immunity when he picked Joe Biden for VP. Obama's completely untouchable, no matter how bad Benghazi and the coverup most certainly were.

I was thinking along those same lines this morning.

There is a way out.  The Agnew way.  Biden is easily impeachable.  Him first, Obama next.

on Nov 08, 2012

I cut off an internet friend yesterday. She used to blog here.

Now we are all going to be guessing!  It was not wise fawn was it?

 

I find it HIGHLY ironic that my Democrat uneducated acquaintances feel it is the more educated party.

Here is even more irony. Education is hard.  It is work to get a good one.  The election just proved that most people do not want to work to get things.  So in 4 years, those uneducated democrats are going to be even more uneducated.

on Nov 08, 2012

Dr Guy
Now we are all going to be guessing! It was not wise fawn was it?

No, it was Forever.

Jythier
But I'm not sure I would agree with you on every bad choice.

Could you elaborate?  I'm not sure what you mean.

on Nov 08, 2012


Quoting Dr Guy, reply 39Now we are all going to be guessing! It was not wise fawn was it?

No, it was Forever.


Quoting Jythier, reply 34But I'm not sure I would agree with you on every bad choice.

Could you elaborate?  I'm not sure what you mean.

 

The whole point of things being choices is that we make them.  We don't make them because we think they're the wrong choice.  So I would suspect that given all the things I've chosen, and you've chosen, we wouldn't see eye-to-eye on all of them.

on Nov 08, 2012

Talk about timely.

I played golf with my usual foursome this morning.  Two doctors and a retired teacher, liberal Democrats all.  Been playing with them for years and there's always been lighthearted political ribbing off & on, but rarely any substantive discussion as we're just there to enjoy a round of golf.  We're good friends and enjoy playing together but the friendship is largely limited to our golf outings.

This being the first post-election round, the inevitable came up.  The conversation got around somehow to birth control, believe it or not, and I was stunned to learn that 2 of them believe, with absolute conviction, that Republicans, had Romney won, planned to ban birth control.  Not just to ban use of taxpayer dollars to pay for it, but ban it altogether.  That's how good the left's propaganda machine has been at disinformation and demonizing the opposition.  Two highly educated men in their 60's completely believe it, despite it being ludicrous on its face.  I kept quizzing them if they really believed it - they were adamant that it was absolutely true.  I asked for any specifics, a reference, a quote, a position paper or party platform language they could point me to to support that belief, but of course they couldn't - they just knew, near as I can tell entirely on the basis of Republicans being 'pro-life'.  Never mind that even the poor among us have cell phones, flat screen TV's, computers, cigarettes, liquor and cars, asking any female to pay for her own birth control is beyond the pale.  Asking Georgetown law students to fork over a co-payment for their own birth control is beyond the pale.

They were also absolutely convinced that had Romney won, Republicans would have shut down Planned Parenthood, not just withheld tax dollars from it.  We have to have free birth control to keep 13 year old Philly ghetto girls from getting pregnant.  Failing that, we have to have taxpayer funded abortions to keep them from adding to the welfare rolls.  This apparently is their idea of compassion.

I was just dumbfounded by the whole conversation.  All I could say was OMG.

on Nov 08, 2012

Dr Guy
Benghazi....

If the american electorate could be impeached, it should be.

Actually, the mainstream media should be impeached. Had it not been for FOX who would know? Same goes for Fast and Furious!  

My husband was working on one of our properties and had 3 appointments for an estimate on installing window blinds. Now, most anyone he meets, he always bends their ear about politics in one way or another.  He said that none of them knew anything at all about Benghazi.

  

2 of them believe, with absolute conviction, that Republicans, had Romney won, planned to ban birth control.  Not just to ban use of taxpayer dollars to pay for it, but ban it altogether.  That's how good the left's propaganda machine has been at disinformation and demonizing the opposition. 

Yup, I read that Planned Parenthood all over the nation had its folks working, with flyers, calling, actually pounding the pavement in their neighborhoods, going door to door, spreading the fear of Romney and the big bad Republicans banning birth control.

They did it for self-preservation...that's alot of tax payer moola coming in.

 

 

 

 

on Nov 09, 2012

Jythier
The whole point of things being choices is that we make them. We don't make them because we think they're the wrong choice. So I would suspect that given all the things I've chosen, and you've chosen, we wouldn't see eye-to-eye on all of them.

No, you miss the entire point.  The problem is not suffering any consequences of making bad choices.  Once you eliminate the consequences, then you eliminate the lesson.  SO you are condemned to keep making them because there is no down side.  In other words, you are institutionalizing stupidity.

And that is what happened this week.

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