** As posted at my new Column at The Conservative Camp (Bolded words are sourced links embedded there)
http://www.conservativecamp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=337247:the-raping-of-america&catid=216:wendi-tindall&Itemid=228
I knew it the moment the first plane hit the World Trade Center, September 11, 2001; America was forever changed. While there's no appropriate comparison to the huge loss of American lives that day, that is not my point. Please hear my heart as I mean no disrespect, having been personally affected by the events of that day. My following sentiments are only about the defining impact of that day and the grief associated specifically to that point.
As I sit here, just days after Obama Care has passed, I feel a similar anguished loss for America in that I know we are forever changed - we've begun to fundamentally transform. For certain this moment is historic; more of infamy for the majority of Americans who never wanted this raping of our Republic, this spitting on the shed blood of our forefather’s who died to give us the blessed inheritance of free America. Like 9/11, we will never forget.
To be clear and to the point, the majority of Americans do not want Obama Care, though president Obama claims otherwise. We fought it but he proclaimed “the American people championed it.” He’s repeatedly parsed statements like this, distorting the truth to suit his point. His tactics are so dysfunctional and manipulative; I’m amazed that any Mental Health expert worth their salt hasn’t yet called him out. I will.
Most offensive is how Obama uses the “either-or” tactic, excluding any other option – like the truth, from the equation. For example, he purports that if you’re against his reform, you’re for the status quo. The excluded truth is, we’ve long wanted Health Care Reform, and agree on several points of specific needed reforms; to say otherwise is 100% wrong. We don’t agree on how to reform, hence, his reform, and that’s the point, that’s the truth.
Regardless of the few “good” things that might be in Obama’s reform Bill, things repeated as their enticing talking points like children remaining on their parent’s coverage until they are 26, there are too many not so good things included. Drowning dog poop in chocolate sauce doesn’t make it a desirable dessert. Obama Care comes at too high a cost and too many chains attached: unnecessarily requiring the government to take over the Health Care System that works for 288 million Americans to help the 12 million Americans without care, and, taking over one-sixth of our economy in order to enact it.
Another less direct “either-or” tactic Obama uses is “guilt-manipulation” to allude that if we don’t want reform, i.e., his reform, and unless we agree with the way he cares about the less fortunate, then we are heartless, compassionless, selfish people that don’t care at all. He exploitatively props up the misfortunes of others to reinforce this point. The excluded truth is, we indeed do care, deeply and sincerely, but we disagree with his belief that government must mandate then facilitate our acts of compassion, and that, in a manner that undercuts empowering the helpless to rise to a better outcome for them. Like the saying goes, “Give a man a fish, feed him for a day; teach him to fish, feed him for the rest of his life.” The excluded truth is our compassion is true compassion as it reaches further than just giving fish everyday.
Jesus clearly exhorted that we’re each personally responsible to help the helpless, like the example of the Good Samaritan. He preached that we should give, directly, from the heart. He never preached that the government must facilitate your help, taking from you to redistribute to the poor. Conversely, in fact, He turned over the tables in the temple with righteous anger because the leaders were oppressing the people much as we’re being oppressed today. (I'll share a more in depth explanation on this verse in a forthcoming article entitled "Socialism is Not Christian.)
How we help matters just as much. For both the sake of the giver and the receiver, charity is to come from the heart, not mandated from, then facilitated by the government. 2 Corinthians 9:7 says, “Let each one give as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.” It’s not just about the one who is helped. It equally matters the heart that does the helping; the greater sincerity of heart, regardless of the amount, the greater the gift. The story of the “widow’s mite” beautifully illustrates this point. Being one of the helpless didn’t keep her from giving, and she gave all she had which was next to nothing, but Jesus said she gave more than all.
When government interferes in this process, by just handing out fish everyday, it undermines the good that’s meant to be gained, both in the heart of the giver and in the empowering life skills gained by the receiver. Do we need to improve in this area? Indeed, however, Obama’s socialistic way will ensure we never improve; in fact, it perpetuates the endless cycle of poverty and governmental rescue instead of breaking that cycle and charting a new course towards the true liberty of strong, self-respecting character and personal empowerment.
How weak when Obama and the Democrats call Republicans “the Party of ‘No,’” falsely accusing them of playing partisan politics and wanting Obama to fail as President only because he’s a Democrat. The first excluded truth is, we want his policies to fail; huge difference. Policies aren’t the same as the Office and to equate them is incorrect and dishonest. We love America so we don’t want any American President to fail. However, when it comes to unconstitutional, socialist policies which oppose American values, of course we want them to fail.
The other most infuriating excluded truth is, “we the people,” not the Congressional Republicans, are not only “the party of ‘No’” but “the party of ‘Hell No!’” This is what the grassroots TEA Party movement is all about. We’re the one’s opposing Obama’s policies. We’re the one’s marching on Washington, shouting from the collective depth of our hearts to be heard. The disparity in how each Congressional Party has responded to us is where you find the truth.
Obama and the Democrats have ignored us, belittled us, attacked us, lied about us, and eventually forced their will upon us. They’ve also demonized Republicans as the ones who are against us. We know the truth; it can’t be “spun” into anything else that we’ll ever believe. The more they’ve attempted to, the more they’ve exposed how devious they are, hence, their rapidly declining approval ratings.
Congressional Republicans are the only ones who have finally heard us and thus, are fighting and speaking for us in opposing Obama’s policies. If only they had done so sooner, we could’ve prevented having to enter into this fight for our liberty. Better late than never; we won’t surrender to becoming the USSA. Though we’ve failed in stopping the passing of Obama Care, we will fight to repeal it.
If Democrats believe in 7 months at the mid-term elections, that we’ll be so pleased with the “chocolate” in ObamaCare (the small part they’ll strategically enact immediately) that we’ll forget what they’ve done, they’re hugely deluded. This embarrassing ignorance is what comes from trampling on the voice and will of the people. By dismissing us and playing politics with our lives, we’ll appropriately respond in November with an unexpected and overwhelming passion, firing them, and they’ll continue to lose for a long time to come.
Forget? Think again! Though there’s amazing healing that makes you stronger like a bone after it’s been broken, make no mistake - no one who’s been raped ever forgets. On the contrary! We’re like a stampede of horses chomping at the bit to get out of this gate and to the mid-term elections. We’ll not stand for the remaking of America. But we’ll fight without ceasing to retake Her. The odds are in our favor; our Founding Fathers paid with their lives to ensure it would be so. Like 9/11, we’ll heal, but we will never forget - never.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
"Progressive Radicals Gone Wild"
** As posted at my new Column at The Conservative Camp (sourced links embedded there)
http://conservativecamp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=333518:progressive-radicals-gone-wild&catid=216:wendi-tindall&Itemid=228
We are America; not Cuba, not Europe. Our forefathers left Europe and fought the Revolutionary War to give us the gift of America, the shining light on a hill. Why would we throw that away to become like Europe once again? As Proverb 26:11 says, it is “like a dog who returns to his own vomit.” And yet, this is exactly what president Obama and the progressive Democrats want to do beginning with the passing into Law their infamous Health Care Reform Bill, or Obama Care. It matters not that the majority of Americans passionately oppose it; the desperation, with which they are driven to force this monstrosity of a Bill on the American people, from resorting to unconstitutional tactics to committing political suicide, is revealing of the obvious answer.
Behaving like a candidate instead of a President, Obama has campaigned for his Health Care Reform Bill like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, using deceptive rhetoric to appear as though it’s about charity and compassion, and that he is fighting for “we the people.” In truth, it’s not about the people at all; it’s about progressives obtaining power and control. It’s about this once in a lifetime opportunity to finally grasp their holy grail, to “fundamentally ">transform America” into a European style welfare state. Health Care is merely the door to achieving this ultimate goal; it’s the skeletal foundation for this radical transformation. And they’re determined to get through that door at any and all cost, even if it means politically raping the American people and falling on their swords in the process. Saul Alinsky, Mr. “the ends justify the means,” would be proud.
Americans now understand progressives, and thus, are finally fighting them. Progressives therefore realize, pushing through their agenda is no longer the slam-dunk they originally hoped it would be. With the November mid-term elections fast approaching, and the influencing voice of the grassroots TEA Party movement representing America’s true majority, time is of the essence. They can no longer afford patience, nor can they give up, especially when they are so close to their victory they can actually taste it. Instead, it’s become a fight to the death, either the death of their agenda or the death of capitalist America, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to pass Obama Care, of late attempting to use the unconstitutional “Deem and Pass” Rule. They’re willing, in their own estimation, to “heroically” sacrifice their soul for the cause - if they had a soul.
Emboldened and deluded with the arrogant intoxication of being the super-majority, progressives forget that the Constitution has ensured their power is temporary. While recent polls have shown that conservatives are the American majority, progressives behave like they are the majority, like their “moment” to rule has finally come, and conservatives will never be back in power again. This false sense of security has resulted in foolishly exposing themselves with the same gleeful abandon as the women in “Girl’s Gone Wild.” In doing so, they’ve ignorantly handed Americans the evidence needed to defeat them. Once Jack is out of the box, you might be able to put him back in, however, now we know what he looks like and who he really is. The element of surprise is gone. To then keep acting like we’re still clueless only underscores how exposed they really are.
One of the most perplexing reveals is how anti-American progressives are. They’ve stealthily infiltrated our schools, courts, and legislatures, like a “Trojan Horse” filled to the brim with an agenda that is a direct threat to the free America of our blessed inheritance for which our Founding Fathers gave their lives. John Quincy Adams said, “You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." Anything less is a shameful travesty, spitting on the blood shed to provide it.
If progressives hate America, why are they here? Why bother trying to fundamentally change her when there are Countries like China, Venezuela and Cuba, already made to their preference? For touting themselves as the voice of diversity and tolerance, they certainly have none for allowing the existence of America’s diversity in the world; they would rather have more of the same.
No matter how many speeches Obama gives, and no matter how deceptive the packaging, we fervently do not want to “fundamentally transform” America, especially destroying the world’s best Health Care System and with the governmental taking over of one-sixth of our economy to achieve it.
1) Obama claims if you oppose his plan, then you simply want the status quo.
- However, most Americans agree that we need reform. We disagree with the need to overhaul the whole system to resolve the issues at hand.
2) Obama falsely purports that 30 million Americans are without Health Care.
- The real number is more like ">12 million. In his book, “Liberty and Tyranny,” Mark Levin explicitly details the truth.
3) Obama claims there is such a dire urgency for reform, exploitatively propping up the misfortunes of others to reinforce his point.
- If it’s so urgent, why doesn’t it become effective until 2014?
Why is it necessary to completely overhaul the Rolls Royce in order to fix faulty or broken headlights and that for such a small percentage? Let’s just fix the headlights. If 12 million Americans are lacking coverage, let’s extend to them the already existing Medicaid program without disrupting a system that is working for the remaining 288 million. And while we’re on the subject, let’s fix the current problems with Medicaid instead of creating another dysfunctional government run program.
In the end, Obama and the progressive Democrats believe that they know better than us and once we have Obama Care, we will come to like it. However, no one who’s been raped goes on to later enjoy sexual relations with their rapist.
No matter how passionately we’ve said “no,” begging and pleading with Obama and the democrats to stop this America-altering atrocity, they’re proceeding with the unthinkable governmental rape of this Country anyway, smiling, without shame, like it’s perfectly normal. It’s disgusting on every level – except to them.
President George Washington said in 1787, "The power under the Constitution will always be in the People. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can--and undoubtedly will--be recalled."
Patrick Henry said, "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."
President Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”
If the Obama Administration believes we’re going to lie down and accept the “remaking” of America, they completely under estimate the vehement disapproval of the American people. Our votes hold the winning hand with plenty of Constitutional chips to spare.
Their holy grail - of power and control through Health Care - is so close they are willing to politically rape, pillage and die for it. And politically die they will, beginning in November. Progressive radicals gone wild, indeed…. gone off the deep end…. and then overboard.
http://conservativecamp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=333518:progressive-radicals-gone-wild&catid=216:wendi-tindall&Itemid=228
We are America; not Cuba, not Europe. Our forefathers left Europe and fought the Revolutionary War to give us the gift of America, the shining light on a hill. Why would we throw that away to become like Europe once again? As Proverb 26:11 says, it is “like a dog who returns to his own vomit.” And yet, this is exactly what president Obama and the progressive Democrats want to do beginning with the passing into Law their infamous Health Care Reform Bill, or Obama Care. It matters not that the majority of Americans passionately oppose it; the desperation, with which they are driven to force this monstrosity of a Bill on the American people, from resorting to unconstitutional tactics to committing political suicide, is revealing of the obvious answer.
Behaving like a candidate instead of a President, Obama has campaigned for his Health Care Reform Bill like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, using deceptive rhetoric to appear as though it’s about charity and compassion, and that he is fighting for “we the people.” In truth, it’s not about the people at all; it’s about progressives obtaining power and control. It’s about this once in a lifetime opportunity to finally grasp their holy grail, to “fundamentally ">transform America” into a European style welfare state. Health Care is merely the door to achieving this ultimate goal; it’s the skeletal foundation for this radical transformation. And they’re determined to get through that door at any and all cost, even if it means politically raping the American people and falling on their swords in the process. Saul Alinsky, Mr. “the ends justify the means,” would be proud.
Americans now understand progressives, and thus, are finally fighting them. Progressives therefore realize, pushing through their agenda is no longer the slam-dunk they originally hoped it would be. With the November mid-term elections fast approaching, and the influencing voice of the grassroots TEA Party movement representing America’s true majority, time is of the essence. They can no longer afford patience, nor can they give up, especially when they are so close to their victory they can actually taste it. Instead, it’s become a fight to the death, either the death of their agenda or the death of capitalist America, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to pass Obama Care, of late attempting to use the unconstitutional “Deem and Pass” Rule. They’re willing, in their own estimation, to “heroically” sacrifice their soul for the cause - if they had a soul.
Emboldened and deluded with the arrogant intoxication of being the super-majority, progressives forget that the Constitution has ensured their power is temporary. While recent polls have shown that conservatives are the American majority, progressives behave like they are the majority, like their “moment” to rule has finally come, and conservatives will never be back in power again. This false sense of security has resulted in foolishly exposing themselves with the same gleeful abandon as the women in “Girl’s Gone Wild.” In doing so, they’ve ignorantly handed Americans the evidence needed to defeat them. Once Jack is out of the box, you might be able to put him back in, however, now we know what he looks like and who he really is. The element of surprise is gone. To then keep acting like we’re still clueless only underscores how exposed they really are.
One of the most perplexing reveals is how anti-American progressives are. They’ve stealthily infiltrated our schools, courts, and legislatures, like a “Trojan Horse” filled to the brim with an agenda that is a direct threat to the free America of our blessed inheritance for which our Founding Fathers gave their lives. John Quincy Adams said, “You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." Anything less is a shameful travesty, spitting on the blood shed to provide it.
If progressives hate America, why are they here? Why bother trying to fundamentally change her when there are Countries like China, Venezuela and Cuba, already made to their preference? For touting themselves as the voice of diversity and tolerance, they certainly have none for allowing the existence of America’s diversity in the world; they would rather have more of the same.
No matter how many speeches Obama gives, and no matter how deceptive the packaging, we fervently do not want to “fundamentally transform” America, especially destroying the world’s best Health Care System and with the governmental taking over of one-sixth of our economy to achieve it.
1) Obama claims if you oppose his plan, then you simply want the status quo.
- However, most Americans agree that we need reform. We disagree with the need to overhaul the whole system to resolve the issues at hand.
2) Obama falsely purports that 30 million Americans are without Health Care.
- The real number is more like ">12 million. In his book, “Liberty and Tyranny,” Mark Levin explicitly details the truth.
3) Obama claims there is such a dire urgency for reform, exploitatively propping up the misfortunes of others to reinforce his point.
- If it’s so urgent, why doesn’t it become effective until 2014?
Why is it necessary to completely overhaul the Rolls Royce in order to fix faulty or broken headlights and that for such a small percentage? Let’s just fix the headlights. If 12 million Americans are lacking coverage, let’s extend to them the already existing Medicaid program without disrupting a system that is working for the remaining 288 million. And while we’re on the subject, let’s fix the current problems with Medicaid instead of creating another dysfunctional government run program.
In the end, Obama and the progressive Democrats believe that they know better than us and once we have Obama Care, we will come to like it. However, no one who’s been raped goes on to later enjoy sexual relations with their rapist.
No matter how passionately we’ve said “no,” begging and pleading with Obama and the democrats to stop this America-altering atrocity, they’re proceeding with the unthinkable governmental rape of this Country anyway, smiling, without shame, like it’s perfectly normal. It’s disgusting on every level – except to them.
President George Washington said in 1787, "The power under the Constitution will always be in the People. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can--and undoubtedly will--be recalled."
Patrick Henry said, "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."
President Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”
If the Obama Administration believes we’re going to lie down and accept the “remaking” of America, they completely under estimate the vehement disapproval of the American people. Our votes hold the winning hand with plenty of Constitutional chips to spare.
Their holy grail - of power and control through Health Care - is so close they are willing to politically rape, pillage and die for it. And politically die they will, beginning in November. Progressive radicals gone wild, indeed…. gone off the deep end…. and then overboard.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Check and Check Mate
Memo from “we the people” to President Obama: Republican Scott Brown’s miraculous election to the newly ordained “people’s seat” in liberal Massachusetts – Check. Just how much this game changing move has resonated with Obama remains to be seen. However, I do think I could venture a good guess – not much… yet.
Prior to the recent State of the Union Address, I correctly predicted President Obama wouldn’t triangulate and move to the middle as Clinton did in 1995. He’d dismiss Brown’s win and remain course with his radical agenda. Since his community organizing days, this has always been the priority, to “fundamentally transform America.” He’s repeatedly told us this outright so my prediction isn’t impressive.
Obama’s agenda will never change, especially now that he’s so close to achieving his far left goals, but after Brown’s win, how he delivers it will; he’ll give the appearance that he’s moving towards the middle without actually doing so. For Obama, perceptions are everything and reality is of little consequence, as long as the ends justify the means, as Saul Alinsky taught him.
It’s important to Obama that we buy the “perceptions” he’s selling. Any affront to them is met with his immediate attempts to correct it. He rewrites the truth to create a new “reality” no matter how obvious and ridiculous. This is why the White House dispersed the “spin trifecta” of David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Robert Gibbs, who shamelessly echoed Obama’s false interpretation of Brown’s election. Instead of acknowledging the clear referendum it is, they audaciously asserted that it’s an Obama affirmation. Obama told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos “The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office.” When Fox News’ Chris Wallace addressed that Brown ran on being the 41st vote against Obama Care, Gibbs replied, “Well, that may be what he campaigned on, but that's not why the voters of Massachusetts sent him to Washington.”
The incessant defensive spin makes it appear that criticism and clear referendums fall on deaf ears, especially coming from the rapidly growing grassroots TEA Party movement, who strongly oppose his policies; even from an election like Brown’s. Rest assured, Obama hears. He’s keenly aware of more than his ego will allow him to admit. Unfortunately, that same ego is buried under thin skin that exposes just how much the criticism so frequently strikes a nerve. He can’t help himself; the distracting Achilles heal of his narcissism is predominant and everything else is viewed and prioritized through that skewed lens. He spends more time responding to criticism than he does to the concerns of “we the people.” He hears us, but he refuses to listen; there’s a vast difference between the two and therein lays the problem.
Obama interprets "we the people," spinning the truth to affirm the agenda he pushes at our expense. He campaigns against us for that agenda with the same focus and fervor employed against McCain in the 2008 election. We’re mere pawns to him in his chess game of political strategy, manipulated with sweeping, crafty rhetoric in order to serve his purpose. We’re smart enough to recognize political posturing that gives the appearance of connecting with us. But, real connection can’t be faked; it’s there or it isn’t, as revealed by subsequent actions. Obama’s actions speak so loud we can’t even hear what he’s saying.
During his State of the Union speech, Obama reframed our anger at him as being about partisan arguing. He claimed our anger was because “TV pundits reduce serious debates into silly arguments and big issues into sound bites,” and as frustration with “a Washington where every day is Election Day.” He invalidated the legitimacy of our anger by implying we believe partisan lies told to us by the GOP. At the recent annual retreat for the House Republicans, Obama said, “You've been telling your constituents, 'This guy's doing all kinds of crazy stuff that's going to destroy America.'" Oh, if we only had the truth – his truth, then we wouldn’t be angry.
Oh, if Obama would only listen to the messages on the clever, homemade TEA Party signs then he would know our truth:
- We don’t want government controlled Health Care or Cap and Trade – ever.
- The only way to stimulate the economy is – get government out of it! Get out of the private sector and leave us alone – period.
- We don’t want tax increases, spending bills, or bigger government.
- We want the president to uphold his oath to protect and defend our Country and the Constitution.
- We don’t want to fundamentally transform America – never!
A recent Rasmussen poll revealed that the majority of Americans feel this way. That it doesn’t matter to Obama is beyond infuriating. Instead of listening and appropriately responding to what “we the people” want, he continues to pull hard left to achieve his long time goals, whether we like it or not. He believes he knows best and will eventually win us over. He doesn’t know how wrong he is! Recently, on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Obama said Wall Street Fat Cats “still don’t get it.” How ironic! This is how we feel about Obama. How can we be any clearer? What will it take for him to listen and finally get it?
In the address, Obama threw the Republican’s a few bones, giving the appearance that gets it. He mentioned freezing discretionary spending, looking at offshore drilling, and building nuclear power plants. And all of a sudden Health Care Reform is not urgent anymore. Finally the focus is on jobs and the economy. Big deal! It doesn’t really matter how many bones he throws or which part of his agenda he works on if his solution is more government. As former President Reagan eloquently made clear, “Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.”
He may dismiss Scott Brown’s election as being any kind of serious message. Some called it the “Scott Heard Round the World,” heard by everyone except the Obama Administration! After all, Brown represents only one changed Senate seat and Obama still holds the majority with 59. However, at the coming mid-term elections, our votes will reduce that number more significantly. Our Founders were wise to establish a Republic providing a system of “checks and balances,” putting proper use of power in the hands of the people at the ballot box. Come November 2010 and 2012, make no mistake, we the people will finally be heard - “Check mate!”
Prior to the recent State of the Union Address, I correctly predicted President Obama wouldn’t triangulate and move to the middle as Clinton did in 1995. He’d dismiss Brown’s win and remain course with his radical agenda. Since his community organizing days, this has always been the priority, to “fundamentally transform America.” He’s repeatedly told us this outright so my prediction isn’t impressive.
Obama’s agenda will never change, especially now that he’s so close to achieving his far left goals, but after Brown’s win, how he delivers it will; he’ll give the appearance that he’s moving towards the middle without actually doing so. For Obama, perceptions are everything and reality is of little consequence, as long as the ends justify the means, as Saul Alinsky taught him.
It’s important to Obama that we buy the “perceptions” he’s selling. Any affront to them is met with his immediate attempts to correct it. He rewrites the truth to create a new “reality” no matter how obvious and ridiculous. This is why the White House dispersed the “spin trifecta” of David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Robert Gibbs, who shamelessly echoed Obama’s false interpretation of Brown’s election. Instead of acknowledging the clear referendum it is, they audaciously asserted that it’s an Obama affirmation. Obama told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos “The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office.” When Fox News’ Chris Wallace addressed that Brown ran on being the 41st vote against Obama Care, Gibbs replied, “Well, that may be what he campaigned on, but that's not why the voters of Massachusetts sent him to Washington.”
The incessant defensive spin makes it appear that criticism and clear referendums fall on deaf ears, especially coming from the rapidly growing grassroots TEA Party movement, who strongly oppose his policies; even from an election like Brown’s. Rest assured, Obama hears. He’s keenly aware of more than his ego will allow him to admit. Unfortunately, that same ego is buried under thin skin that exposes just how much the criticism so frequently strikes a nerve. He can’t help himself; the distracting Achilles heal of his narcissism is predominant and everything else is viewed and prioritized through that skewed lens. He spends more time responding to criticism than he does to the concerns of “we the people.” He hears us, but he refuses to listen; there’s a vast difference between the two and therein lays the problem.
Obama interprets "we the people," spinning the truth to affirm the agenda he pushes at our expense. He campaigns against us for that agenda with the same focus and fervor employed against McCain in the 2008 election. We’re mere pawns to him in his chess game of political strategy, manipulated with sweeping, crafty rhetoric in order to serve his purpose. We’re smart enough to recognize political posturing that gives the appearance of connecting with us. But, real connection can’t be faked; it’s there or it isn’t, as revealed by subsequent actions. Obama’s actions speak so loud we can’t even hear what he’s saying.
During his State of the Union speech, Obama reframed our anger at him as being about partisan arguing. He claimed our anger was because “TV pundits reduce serious debates into silly arguments and big issues into sound bites,” and as frustration with “a Washington where every day is Election Day.” He invalidated the legitimacy of our anger by implying we believe partisan lies told to us by the GOP. At the recent annual retreat for the House Republicans, Obama said, “You've been telling your constituents, 'This guy's doing all kinds of crazy stuff that's going to destroy America.'" Oh, if we only had the truth – his truth, then we wouldn’t be angry.
Oh, if Obama would only listen to the messages on the clever, homemade TEA Party signs then he would know our truth:
- We don’t want government controlled Health Care or Cap and Trade – ever.
- The only way to stimulate the economy is – get government out of it! Get out of the private sector and leave us alone – period.
- We don’t want tax increases, spending bills, or bigger government.
- We want the president to uphold his oath to protect and defend our Country and the Constitution.
- We don’t want to fundamentally transform America – never!
A recent Rasmussen poll revealed that the majority of Americans feel this way. That it doesn’t matter to Obama is beyond infuriating. Instead of listening and appropriately responding to what “we the people” want, he continues to pull hard left to achieve his long time goals, whether we like it or not. He believes he knows best and will eventually win us over. He doesn’t know how wrong he is! Recently, on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Obama said Wall Street Fat Cats “still don’t get it.” How ironic! This is how we feel about Obama. How can we be any clearer? What will it take for him to listen and finally get it?
In the address, Obama threw the Republican’s a few bones, giving the appearance that gets it. He mentioned freezing discretionary spending, looking at offshore drilling, and building nuclear power plants. And all of a sudden Health Care Reform is not urgent anymore. Finally the focus is on jobs and the economy. Big deal! It doesn’t really matter how many bones he throws or which part of his agenda he works on if his solution is more government. As former President Reagan eloquently made clear, “Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.”
He may dismiss Scott Brown’s election as being any kind of serious message. Some called it the “Scott Heard Round the World,” heard by everyone except the Obama Administration! After all, Brown represents only one changed Senate seat and Obama still holds the majority with 59. However, at the coming mid-term elections, our votes will reduce that number more significantly. Our Founders were wise to establish a Republic providing a system of “checks and balances,” putting proper use of power in the hands of the people at the ballot box. Come November 2010 and 2012, make no mistake, we the people will finally be heard - “Check mate!”
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
"Obama Hears Us, He Just Refuses to Listen"
** (Due to the timeliness of the subject and the Presidents State of the Union Address in a few hours, I am publishing this article here instead of another outlet.)
The recent miraculous Massachusetts Senatorial election of Scott Brown to the sacred “Kennedy Seat,” appropriately renamed by Brown as “the people’s seat,” was a huge, definitive message sent to Washington: “We the people” passionately oppose the Obama Administration’s far left policies, specifically the taking over of our Health Care System, and we desperately want to stop the incessant bleeding out of our liberty through the steam roll of a Democrat Supermajority. A post-election CNN Poll affirms that 70% of Americans believe ending this super majority is best for the Country.
Washington’s answer to our escalating question “Can you hear us now?” is an undeniable “Yes we can!” However, they actually are denying that they received the message we sent with Brown’s election. The White House dispersed the “spin trifecta” of David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Robert Gibbs, who shamelessly echoed Obama’s false interpretation of our message. Obama told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos “The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office.” When Fox News’ Chris Wallace laid out Scott Brown’s platform, specifically that he ran on being the 41st vote against Obama Care, Gibbs replied “Well, that may be what he campaigned on, but that's not why the voters of Massachusetts sent him to Washington.” Instead of acknowledging it as the clear referendum that it is on Obama’s agenda, they audaciously assert that it’s an Obama affirmation.
Obama-spin is the typical knee-jerk reaction we should expect. Obama responds to criticism by rewriting the truth, no matter how obvious and ridiculous, to create a new “reality.” When it appears to tarnish his “image,” he comes out swinging. He can’t help himself; his narcissism is predominant and everything else follows. On Martin Luther King Day he gave a speech finally admitting that it “stings.” We know this as his frequent defensive public reactions are embarrassingly more transparent than he realizes. His unpresidential war with Fox News is one of many exposé’s of his thin-skinned nature. He even mockingly retaliated against the grassroots TEA Party movement by saying that we were “waving tea bags around.”
I’ve long suspected the problem isn’t that president Obama can’t hear us. Oh sure, he strategically tries to appear to not, but the aforesaid examples are among many that expose how he clearly does. What’s worse is that he refuses to listen and respond appropriately; that’s the real issue. The evidence, as revealed in his constant spin, belies the truth that he’s intentionally disregarding us in order to push through his radical agenda at all cost. It foretells what Obama will do moving forward, which is as he’s always done from his community organizing days and from day one of his presidency – continue hard left. His agenda will never change, but how he delivers it will. He’ll wrap his far left policies in a more populist and fiscally conservative package to give the appearance that he’s moving towards the middle without having to actually do so.
What else can Obama do? Continuing to be unwaveringly dogmatic and obvious, especially now after the Brown win, will undermine all Democrats heading into the upcoming November mid-term elections. He has to back down without appearing to surrender. A sudden move to the middle will only seem like obvious, disingenuous posturing to save his political hide. It’ll also further anger his far left base which he can ill afford. In the realm of political games, he has backed himself in between the proverbial rock and a hard place. Continuing to play those games is exactly what has turned off the majority of Americans.
The only acceptable response he could and should give is a humble one – to “we the people.” To acknowledge the truth and genuinely change course would reflect that he understands our message, as Clinton did in 1995. He should say that he has finally heard us, he understands clearly what we want, and the point is to do right by the American people instead of executing his own personal agenda. Anything less would simply be more of the same bitter pill we just made clear we desperately cannot ever swallow. However, he won’t do this because he sincerely believes his radical policies are best for America. Eating any kind of crow, even for the American people, isn’t something he can chew let alone digest.
Obama has made it clear that he’d rather accomplish his agenda and serve one term than to not accomplish it at all. He acknowledged this potential outcome in a recent interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, stating, "I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president." He admitted, "I will not slow down in terms of going after the big problems that this country faces." In other words, his agenda hasn’t and won’t change. Even Vice President Joe Biden insisted that the administration is "not backing off a single thing we believe in."
There’s no mystery; Obama will move ahead with his agenda however he must, whatever the cost, re-wrapping it in new populist packaging, hiding it in smoke and mirrors,. His refusal to listen and heed our message, in the end might be worse than eating political crow; it might just indeed be his Waterloo after all.
The recent miraculous Massachusetts Senatorial election of Scott Brown to the sacred “Kennedy Seat,” appropriately renamed by Brown as “the people’s seat,” was a huge, definitive message sent to Washington: “We the people” passionately oppose the Obama Administration’s far left policies, specifically the taking over of our Health Care System, and we desperately want to stop the incessant bleeding out of our liberty through the steam roll of a Democrat Supermajority. A post-election CNN Poll affirms that 70% of Americans believe ending this super majority is best for the Country.
Washington’s answer to our escalating question “Can you hear us now?” is an undeniable “Yes we can!” However, they actually are denying that they received the message we sent with Brown’s election. The White House dispersed the “spin trifecta” of David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Robert Gibbs, who shamelessly echoed Obama’s false interpretation of our message. Obama told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos “The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office.” When Fox News’ Chris Wallace laid out Scott Brown’s platform, specifically that he ran on being the 41st vote against Obama Care, Gibbs replied “Well, that may be what he campaigned on, but that's not why the voters of Massachusetts sent him to Washington.” Instead of acknowledging it as the clear referendum that it is on Obama’s agenda, they audaciously assert that it’s an Obama affirmation.
Obama-spin is the typical knee-jerk reaction we should expect. Obama responds to criticism by rewriting the truth, no matter how obvious and ridiculous, to create a new “reality.” When it appears to tarnish his “image,” he comes out swinging. He can’t help himself; his narcissism is predominant and everything else follows. On Martin Luther King Day he gave a speech finally admitting that it “stings.” We know this as his frequent defensive public reactions are embarrassingly more transparent than he realizes. His unpresidential war with Fox News is one of many exposé’s of his thin-skinned nature. He even mockingly retaliated against the grassroots TEA Party movement by saying that we were “waving tea bags around.”
I’ve long suspected the problem isn’t that president Obama can’t hear us. Oh sure, he strategically tries to appear to not, but the aforesaid examples are among many that expose how he clearly does. What’s worse is that he refuses to listen and respond appropriately; that’s the real issue. The evidence, as revealed in his constant spin, belies the truth that he’s intentionally disregarding us in order to push through his radical agenda at all cost. It foretells what Obama will do moving forward, which is as he’s always done from his community organizing days and from day one of his presidency – continue hard left. His agenda will never change, but how he delivers it will. He’ll wrap his far left policies in a more populist and fiscally conservative package to give the appearance that he’s moving towards the middle without having to actually do so.
What else can Obama do? Continuing to be unwaveringly dogmatic and obvious, especially now after the Brown win, will undermine all Democrats heading into the upcoming November mid-term elections. He has to back down without appearing to surrender. A sudden move to the middle will only seem like obvious, disingenuous posturing to save his political hide. It’ll also further anger his far left base which he can ill afford. In the realm of political games, he has backed himself in between the proverbial rock and a hard place. Continuing to play those games is exactly what has turned off the majority of Americans.
The only acceptable response he could and should give is a humble one – to “we the people.” To acknowledge the truth and genuinely change course would reflect that he understands our message, as Clinton did in 1995. He should say that he has finally heard us, he understands clearly what we want, and the point is to do right by the American people instead of executing his own personal agenda. Anything less would simply be more of the same bitter pill we just made clear we desperately cannot ever swallow. However, he won’t do this because he sincerely believes his radical policies are best for America. Eating any kind of crow, even for the American people, isn’t something he can chew let alone digest.
Obama has made it clear that he’d rather accomplish his agenda and serve one term than to not accomplish it at all. He acknowledged this potential outcome in a recent interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, stating, "I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president." He admitted, "I will not slow down in terms of going after the big problems that this country faces." In other words, his agenda hasn’t and won’t change. Even Vice President Joe Biden insisted that the administration is "not backing off a single thing we believe in."
There’s no mystery; Obama will move ahead with his agenda however he must, whatever the cost, re-wrapping it in new populist packaging, hiding it in smoke and mirrors,. His refusal to listen and heed our message, in the end might be worse than eating political crow; it might just indeed be his Waterloo after all.
Monday, January 18, 2010
The Great Hate of the Left
* As Published by American Thinker
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/the_great_hate_of_the_left.html
The left has long accused the right of being compassionless hatemongers. We stand for law and order, but they call it fascist oppression. We attend Tea Party rallies to express passionate opposition to the radical agenda and policies of the Obama administration, and we are called hateful racists. Our accusers forget that our president is also half-white, and further, that we couldn't care less either way -- race has long been a non-issue for us.
We attend town hall meetings to make it clear that we oppose a health care bill the Democrats insist on forcing down our throats, and they call us a hateful, angry mob. All passionate opposition to their point of view, even on the faces of smiling Tea Party participants, is considered angry hate. Because conservatives do not show compassion in the same way that liberals do, liberals say that conservatives have no compassion at all.
The way the left spins the truth about the right is deception at its finest. It is no wonder there is so much confusion about the truth in politics! The truth is that looking at conservatives through liberal-colored glasses makes for a complete distortion.
- Why is it considered "hate" to oppose the left but considered "civil rights" to oppose the right?
- Why do the left see government interference and control as compassionate liberation while conservatives see personal empowerment and responsibility as truly compassionate and liberating?
- Why is the Fairness Doctrine fair only if it shuts down the voices of conservatives?
- Why do the left call themselves pro-choice when the only thing they choice they endorse is to kill an unborn or partially born baby?
- Why can the left be harshly partisan when a conservative president sits in office, but when a far-left president sits in office, they want us all to come together? (And if we don't, we are hatemongers.)
Why are those on the left permitted to do and say appalling things that would destroy anyone on the right? Such hypocrisy is infuriating because it masks the truth that the hate is really a projection of the misery and hate within their own hearts.
However, every once in a while, we are provided a perfect teachable opportunity to expose the truth, as was the case during the recent health scare of Rush Limbaugh, in which the left exposed themselves in full regalia. Shameful and beneath any American was the hate displayed not fifteen minutes after it was reported that Rush was taken to the hospital in serious condition. There was a flood of responses in online commentary -- so many praying for his recovery, and disgustingly, some for his demise.
It is one thing to hate someone. However, for Americans, it crosses the line when that hate makes one wish for the harm or demise of another. To pray for anyone to die, let alone with such brazen arrogance and glee, is appalling and breathtaking.
As usual, I saw no compassion from a left who hail themselves as the "leaders of compassion for all people." I saw more hypocrisy from the left, who railed in hyperbolic outrage against anyone on the right who didn't grieve with them over the loss of Senator Ted Kennedy. Reading their hateful commentary made me wonder if these people all graduated from the Alan Grayson School of the Shameful and Ignorant.
Where are Nancy Pelosi's crocodile tears now? Where is her heart-wrenching concern for "this kind of rhetoric" -- the kind that creates a climate in which violence takes place (from the left, might I remind her)? Where is the co-called "nonpartisan" outrage at such behavior, the kind that screams from every biased mainstream media outlet when a clever and homemade Tea Party sign disagrees with the Obama administration? Why are they not also being called out on their legitimate hate behavior and language?
The truth is that no matter how passionately we oppose the policies of President Obama, no matter how fervently we want to remove Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid from office, and no matter how angry we are about being ignored by Congress and the Obama administration, no true conservative would ever, ever wish for the harm, illness, or death of any of them! It is unconscionable to even think it, let alone to say it, even in jest.
For a people who constantly talk about restoring our best values, I daresay they need to take a good look in the mirror -- and then consider that they should be first in line for that handout. Praying for anyone to die is beneath any American. Those whose hate would compel them to wish another person to die desperately need the grace of God for a heart and a conscience, as they are already reprobate and half-dead themselves. For all of their prayers for death, they need our prayers for life so much more.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/the_great_hate_of_the_left.html
The left has long accused the right of being compassionless hatemongers. We stand for law and order, but they call it fascist oppression. We attend Tea Party rallies to express passionate opposition to the radical agenda and policies of the Obama administration, and we are called hateful racists. Our accusers forget that our president is also half-white, and further, that we couldn't care less either way -- race has long been a non-issue for us.
We attend town hall meetings to make it clear that we oppose a health care bill the Democrats insist on forcing down our throats, and they call us a hateful, angry mob. All passionate opposition to their point of view, even on the faces of smiling Tea Party participants, is considered angry hate. Because conservatives do not show compassion in the same way that liberals do, liberals say that conservatives have no compassion at all.
The way the left spins the truth about the right is deception at its finest. It is no wonder there is so much confusion about the truth in politics! The truth is that looking at conservatives through liberal-colored glasses makes for a complete distortion.
- Why is it considered "hate" to oppose the left but considered "civil rights" to oppose the right?
- Why do the left see government interference and control as compassionate liberation while conservatives see personal empowerment and responsibility as truly compassionate and liberating?
- Why is the Fairness Doctrine fair only if it shuts down the voices of conservatives?
- Why do the left call themselves pro-choice when the only thing they choice they endorse is to kill an unborn or partially born baby?
- Why can the left be harshly partisan when a conservative president sits in office, but when a far-left president sits in office, they want us all to come together? (And if we don't, we are hatemongers.)
Why are those on the left permitted to do and say appalling things that would destroy anyone on the right? Such hypocrisy is infuriating because it masks the truth that the hate is really a projection of the misery and hate within their own hearts.
However, every once in a while, we are provided a perfect teachable opportunity to expose the truth, as was the case during the recent health scare of Rush Limbaugh, in which the left exposed themselves in full regalia. Shameful and beneath any American was the hate displayed not fifteen minutes after it was reported that Rush was taken to the hospital in serious condition. There was a flood of responses in online commentary -- so many praying for his recovery, and disgustingly, some for his demise.
It is one thing to hate someone. However, for Americans, it crosses the line when that hate makes one wish for the harm or demise of another. To pray for anyone to die, let alone with such brazen arrogance and glee, is appalling and breathtaking.
As usual, I saw no compassion from a left who hail themselves as the "leaders of compassion for all people." I saw more hypocrisy from the left, who railed in hyperbolic outrage against anyone on the right who didn't grieve with them over the loss of Senator Ted Kennedy. Reading their hateful commentary made me wonder if these people all graduated from the Alan Grayson School of the Shameful and Ignorant.
Where are Nancy Pelosi's crocodile tears now? Where is her heart-wrenching concern for "this kind of rhetoric" -- the kind that creates a climate in which violence takes place (from the left, might I remind her)? Where is the co-called "nonpartisan" outrage at such behavior, the kind that screams from every biased mainstream media outlet when a clever and homemade Tea Party sign disagrees with the Obama administration? Why are they not also being called out on their legitimate hate behavior and language?
The truth is that no matter how passionately we oppose the policies of President Obama, no matter how fervently we want to remove Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid from office, and no matter how angry we are about being ignored by Congress and the Obama administration, no true conservative would ever, ever wish for the harm, illness, or death of any of them! It is unconscionable to even think it, let alone to say it, even in jest.
For a people who constantly talk about restoring our best values, I daresay they need to take a good look in the mirror -- and then consider that they should be first in line for that handout. Praying for anyone to die is beneath any American. Those whose hate would compel them to wish another person to die desperately need the grace of God for a heart and a conscience, as they are already reprobate and half-dead themselves. For all of their prayers for death, they need our prayers for life so much more.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
An Expose of Hypocrisy and Hate – On the Left
The left has long accused the right of being compassionless hate mongers. It’s one of the more common liberal mantras; a staple in their cupboard of ‘talking points’ that poison the political spectrum. The way the left spins the truth about the right is deception at its “spinning” finest. It’s no wonder there’s so much confusion about the truth in politics. Looking at conservatives through liberal colored glasses is a complete distortion.
- Conservatives with a passionate opposition to the radical policies of the Obama Administration, are irrelevantly labeled as hateful racists, forgetting that the President is also half white, and further, conservatives could care less either way – race has long time been a non-issue for them.
- All strong disagreement with liberal ideology, even on the faces of smiling Tea Party participants, is considered extremism and angry hate.
- Conservatives attend Town Halls to make it clear that they oppose the Health Care Bill which Congress insists on forcing down their throats anyway, and they are called a hateful, angry mob.
- Because conservatives don’t show compassion in the same “way” that liberals do, they say that conservatives are hateful, having no compassion at all.
Why are those on the left permitted to do and say things that are appalling and outrageous but would otherwise destroy anyone on the right? In a liberal world, what is good for the goose is definitely not good for the gander. The now famous, recent “misspoken statement” from Senator and Majority Leader Harry Reid is a great example, the one where Reid referred to Obama as “light-skinned” and with “no negro dialect.” The judgment of liberals is, for Harry – forgiveness; for a Republican – not so much.
Obama said, “As far as I am concerned, the book is closed.” The ever vociferous Al Sharpton, who calls out every perceived instance of racism he can find on the right, also gives Reid a pass, excusing Reid’s poor “word selection” and redirecting the issue back to his work on Obama Care. Clearly, Sharpton exposed his own hypocrisy, only caring about racism when it serves the left and their socialist agenda. That agenda comes first; it is far more important. Any threat to it must be shot down, even if it means swallowing racist crow in the form of “forgiveness.” Even Senator Diane Feinstein stands behind Reid, stating that “all of us are imperfect.” That is, if you are standing on the left.
As for anyone on the right, we need only look back 2 months to October 2009 at the renewed outrage at Rush Limbaugh for a 2003 comment he made about Donavon McNabb while working at ESPN. For weeks, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and others relentlessly beat this dead horse, crying “racism” with such moral indignation. As a result, Rush was disqualified from the opportunity to become partial owner of the Rams.
Then of course, in 2002, former Mississippi Senator and Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott, made his own statement. The ensuing relentless outrage resulted in Lott resigning from his leadership post. The ever forgiving then-Senator Obama helped lead the charge in calling for the Republican Party to “drive out Trent Lott.”
Those who are normally outraged by a comment like Harry Reid’s, say, if it came from someone like Glenn Beck, are now shamefully not so outraged at all. They held more contempt over the frivolity of Sarah Palin’s wardrobe during the 2008 Presidential campaign! It is like Whoopie Goldberg saying that Roman Polanski wasn’t guilty of “rape, rape.” I guess Reid’s comment isn’t really racist, racist – because he is on the left. Such hypocrisy is infuriating because it masks the truth that real hate comes from the left. .
Every once in a while, we’re provided a perfect teachable opportunity as was the case during the recent health scare of Rush Limbaugh, in which they expose the truth about themselves in full and proud abandon. Shameful and beneath any American is the flood of shocking and appalling hate displayed in online commentary, praying for his demise, not fifteen minutes after it was reported that he was taken to the hospital in serious condition. It’s one thing to hate someone; however, it has gone too far when that hate spurns prayers for the death of another, and with such brazen arrogance and glee, it is disgusting and breathtaking.
As usual, I saw no compassion from a left that hails themselves as the ‘people of compassion.’ I saw more hypocrisy from the left who railed, in hyperbolic outrage, against anyone on the right who didn’t grieve with them over the loss of Senator Ted Kennedy. Reading their hateful dribble made me wonder if they graduated from the “Alan Grayson School of the Shameful and Ignorant.”
Where are Nancy Pelosi’s crocodile tears? Where’s her heart wrenching concern now, for “this kind of rhetoric” – the kind that creates a climate in which violence takes place (from the left might I remind her)? Where is the co-called “non-partisan” outrage at such behavior, that only otherwise screams from every biased media outlet when a clever, home-made TEA Party sign disagrees with the Obama Administration? Why are they not being called out on their legitimate hate behavior and language?
The truth is that no matter how passionate the opposition to President Obama’s radical policies, no matter how fervently conservatives want Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid out of Office, and no matter how angry they are about being ignored by Congress and the Obama Administration, no true conservative would ever, ever wish the harm or death of any of them! It is unconscionable to think it let alone to say it, even in jest.
For those who constantly talk about restoring our best values, I dare say, they need to take a good look in the mirror and then stand in line first for that handout. Those whose hate would wish another person to die desperately need a reality check as they are reprobate and half dead themselves. The accusation of conservatives being hateful is really a projection of the misery and hate within their hearts. For all of their proudly displayed hateful death prayers, they need our humble prayers for life so much more. Their political double standard is blatantly obvious. Indeed, in the recent displays of political games, the liberal left is once again showing their true colors - embarrassing shades of hypocrite and hate.
- Conservatives with a passionate opposition to the radical policies of the Obama Administration, are irrelevantly labeled as hateful racists, forgetting that the President is also half white, and further, conservatives could care less either way – race has long time been a non-issue for them.
- All strong disagreement with liberal ideology, even on the faces of smiling Tea Party participants, is considered extremism and angry hate.
- Conservatives attend Town Halls to make it clear that they oppose the Health Care Bill which Congress insists on forcing down their throats anyway, and they are called a hateful, angry mob.
- Because conservatives don’t show compassion in the same “way” that liberals do, they say that conservatives are hateful, having no compassion at all.
Why are those on the left permitted to do and say things that are appalling and outrageous but would otherwise destroy anyone on the right? In a liberal world, what is good for the goose is definitely not good for the gander. The now famous, recent “misspoken statement” from Senator and Majority Leader Harry Reid is a great example, the one where Reid referred to Obama as “light-skinned” and with “no negro dialect.” The judgment of liberals is, for Harry – forgiveness; for a Republican – not so much.
Obama said, “As far as I am concerned, the book is closed.” The ever vociferous Al Sharpton, who calls out every perceived instance of racism he can find on the right, also gives Reid a pass, excusing Reid’s poor “word selection” and redirecting the issue back to his work on Obama Care. Clearly, Sharpton exposed his own hypocrisy, only caring about racism when it serves the left and their socialist agenda. That agenda comes first; it is far more important. Any threat to it must be shot down, even if it means swallowing racist crow in the form of “forgiveness.” Even Senator Diane Feinstein stands behind Reid, stating that “all of us are imperfect.” That is, if you are standing on the left.
As for anyone on the right, we need only look back 2 months to October 2009 at the renewed outrage at Rush Limbaugh for a 2003 comment he made about Donavon McNabb while working at ESPN. For weeks, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and others relentlessly beat this dead horse, crying “racism” with such moral indignation. As a result, Rush was disqualified from the opportunity to become partial owner of the Rams.
Then of course, in 2002, former Mississippi Senator and Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott, made his own statement. The ensuing relentless outrage resulted in Lott resigning from his leadership post. The ever forgiving then-Senator Obama helped lead the charge in calling for the Republican Party to “drive out Trent Lott.”
Those who are normally outraged by a comment like Harry Reid’s, say, if it came from someone like Glenn Beck, are now shamefully not so outraged at all. They held more contempt over the frivolity of Sarah Palin’s wardrobe during the 2008 Presidential campaign! It is like Whoopie Goldberg saying that Roman Polanski wasn’t guilty of “rape, rape.” I guess Reid’s comment isn’t really racist, racist – because he is on the left. Such hypocrisy is infuriating because it masks the truth that real hate comes from the left. .
Every once in a while, we’re provided a perfect teachable opportunity as was the case during the recent health scare of Rush Limbaugh, in which they expose the truth about themselves in full and proud abandon. Shameful and beneath any American is the flood of shocking and appalling hate displayed in online commentary, praying for his demise, not fifteen minutes after it was reported that he was taken to the hospital in serious condition. It’s one thing to hate someone; however, it has gone too far when that hate spurns prayers for the death of another, and with such brazen arrogance and glee, it is disgusting and breathtaking.
As usual, I saw no compassion from a left that hails themselves as the ‘people of compassion.’ I saw more hypocrisy from the left who railed, in hyperbolic outrage, against anyone on the right who didn’t grieve with them over the loss of Senator Ted Kennedy. Reading their hateful dribble made me wonder if they graduated from the “Alan Grayson School of the Shameful and Ignorant.”
Where are Nancy Pelosi’s crocodile tears? Where’s her heart wrenching concern now, for “this kind of rhetoric” – the kind that creates a climate in which violence takes place (from the left might I remind her)? Where is the co-called “non-partisan” outrage at such behavior, that only otherwise screams from every biased media outlet when a clever, home-made TEA Party sign disagrees with the Obama Administration? Why are they not being called out on their legitimate hate behavior and language?
The truth is that no matter how passionate the opposition to President Obama’s radical policies, no matter how fervently conservatives want Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid out of Office, and no matter how angry they are about being ignored by Congress and the Obama Administration, no true conservative would ever, ever wish the harm or death of any of them! It is unconscionable to think it let alone to say it, even in jest.
For those who constantly talk about restoring our best values, I dare say, they need to take a good look in the mirror and then stand in line first for that handout. Those whose hate would wish another person to die desperately need a reality check as they are reprobate and half dead themselves. The accusation of conservatives being hateful is really a projection of the misery and hate within their hearts. For all of their proudly displayed hateful death prayers, they need our humble prayers for life so much more. Their political double standard is blatantly obvious. Indeed, in the recent displays of political games, the liberal left is once again showing their true colors - embarrassing shades of hypocrite and hate.
Monday, January 11, 2010
For A Republican, Outrage but For Reid, Forgiveness
** As published by Stand Up America
http://standupamericaus.com/wendi-lynn-g-for-a-republican-outrage-but-for-reid-forgiveness:23642
Remember the recent renewed outrage at Rush Limbaugh for a 2003 comment he made about Donavon McNabb while working at ESPN? For weeks, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and others relentlessly beat this dead horse, crying “racism” with such moral indignation. As a result, Rush was disqualified from the opportunity to become partial owner of the Rams.
Remember in 2002, when former Mississippi Senator and Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott, made his own “poorly misspoken” statement while attending a birthday party for then Sen. Strom Thurmond? The ensuing relentless outrage resulted in Lott resigning from his leadership post. Then-Senator Obama helped lead the charge in calling for the Republican Party to “drive out Trent Lott.”
Now liberal Senator Harry Reid has taken his own turn at “poorly misspeaking” – about President Obama. During the 2008 Presidential campaign, in a private conversation with authors Mark Halperin and John Heileman of the new book, “Game Change,” Reid referred to Obama as “light-skinned” and with “no negro dialect.”
In each case, there were apologies. However, unlike Rush and Lott, the astounding difference for Harry Reid is, he is forgiven. Obama said, “As far as I am concerned, the book is closed.” Wait, it gets better! The ever vociferous Al Sharpton, who calls out every perceived instance of racism he can find on the right, also gives Reid a pass. Sharpton’s response excuses Reid’s poor “word selection” and endeavors to redirect the issue back to his work on Obama Care.
“While there is no question that Senator Reid did not select the best word choice in this instance, these comments should not distract America from its continued focus on securing healthcare or creating jobs for its people.”
Clearly, Sharpton has exposed his hypocrisy. He only cares about racism when it serves the left and their socialist agenda. It is that agenda that comes first; it is far more important. Any threat to it must be shot down, even if it means swallowing racist crow in the form of “forgiveness.”
Even Senator Diane Feinstein stands behind Reid, stating that “all of us are imperfect.” That is, if you are standing on the left, then you are forgiven; if you stand on the right, not so much, if ever.
I don’t know why it continues to amaze me, their audacity of hypocrisy. They can deny it all they want, but the political double standard of the left is blatantly obvious. Those who are normally outraged by a comment like Harry Reid’s, say, if it came from someone like Rush Limbaugh, are now shamefully not so outraged at all. They held more contempt over the frivolity of Sarah Palin’s wardrobe during the Presidential campaign! It is like Whoopie Goldberg saying that Roman Polanski wasn’t guilty of “rape, rape.” I guess Harry Reid’s comment isn’t really racist, racist – because he is on the left.
Indeed, in this recent display of political games, the liberal left is once again showing their true color - an embarrassing shade of hypocrite.
http://standupamericaus.com/wendi-lynn-g-for-a-republican-outrage-but-for-reid-forgiveness:23642
Remember the recent renewed outrage at Rush Limbaugh for a 2003 comment he made about Donavon McNabb while working at ESPN? For weeks, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and others relentlessly beat this dead horse, crying “racism” with such moral indignation. As a result, Rush was disqualified from the opportunity to become partial owner of the Rams.
Remember in 2002, when former Mississippi Senator and Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott, made his own “poorly misspoken” statement while attending a birthday party for then Sen. Strom Thurmond? The ensuing relentless outrage resulted in Lott resigning from his leadership post. Then-Senator Obama helped lead the charge in calling for the Republican Party to “drive out Trent Lott.”
Now liberal Senator Harry Reid has taken his own turn at “poorly misspeaking” – about President Obama. During the 2008 Presidential campaign, in a private conversation with authors Mark Halperin and John Heileman of the new book, “Game Change,” Reid referred to Obama as “light-skinned” and with “no negro dialect.”
In each case, there were apologies. However, unlike Rush and Lott, the astounding difference for Harry Reid is, he is forgiven. Obama said, “As far as I am concerned, the book is closed.” Wait, it gets better! The ever vociferous Al Sharpton, who calls out every perceived instance of racism he can find on the right, also gives Reid a pass. Sharpton’s response excuses Reid’s poor “word selection” and endeavors to redirect the issue back to his work on Obama Care.
“While there is no question that Senator Reid did not select the best word choice in this instance, these comments should not distract America from its continued focus on securing healthcare or creating jobs for its people.”
Clearly, Sharpton has exposed his hypocrisy. He only cares about racism when it serves the left and their socialist agenda. It is that agenda that comes first; it is far more important. Any threat to it must be shot down, even if it means swallowing racist crow in the form of “forgiveness.”
Even Senator Diane Feinstein stands behind Reid, stating that “all of us are imperfect.” That is, if you are standing on the left, then you are forgiven; if you stand on the right, not so much, if ever.
I don’t know why it continues to amaze me, their audacity of hypocrisy. They can deny it all they want, but the political double standard of the left is blatantly obvious. Those who are normally outraged by a comment like Harry Reid’s, say, if it came from someone like Rush Limbaugh, are now shamefully not so outraged at all. They held more contempt over the frivolity of Sarah Palin’s wardrobe during the Presidential campaign! It is like Whoopie Goldberg saying that Roman Polanski wasn’t guilty of “rape, rape.” I guess Harry Reid’s comment isn’t really racist, racist – because he is on the left.
Indeed, in this recent display of political games, the liberal left is once again showing their true color - an embarrassing shade of hypocrite.
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