Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation.
Gary Hubbell
Aspen Times Weekly February
2010
Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in
the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America 's future. He is the
best thing ever.
Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among
recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as
the source of America 's resurrection.
Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that
we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize
health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts
and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on the national
economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain
that way for most of a decade; legacy entitlement programs have
ballooned to unsustainable levels, and there is a seething anger
in the populace.
That's why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America .
Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected
our society like a cancer for the last 100 years. Just as Hitler
is the face of fascism, Obama will go down in history as the face
of unchecked liberalism. The cancer metastasized to the point
where it could no longer be ignored.
Average Americans who have quietly gone about their lives,
earning a paycheck, contributing to their favorite charities,
going to high school football games on Friday night, spending their
weekends at the beach or on hunting trips - they've gotten off the
fence. They've woken up. There is a level of political activism in this
country that we haven't seen since the American Revolution, and
Barack Obama has been the catalyst that has sparked a restructuring
of the American political and social consciousness.
Think of the crap we've slowly learned to tolerate over the past
50 years as liberalism sought to re-structure the America
that was the symbol of freedom and liberty to all the people of
the world. Immigration laws were ignored on the basis of compassion.
Welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, the fracturing of families,
and a cycle of generations of dependency. Debt was regarded as a
tonic to lubricate the economy. Our children left school having been
taught that they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of
them cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy.
Legislators decided that people could not be trusted to defend
their own homes, and stripped citizens of their rights to own firearms.
Productive members of society have been penalized with a heavy
burden of taxes in order to support legions of do-nothings who loll
around, reveling in their addictions, obesity, indolence, ignorance and
"disabilities."
Criminals have been arrested and re-arrested, coddled and set free to
pillage the citizenry yet again. Lawyers routinely extort fortunes from
doctors, contractors and business people with dubious torts.
We slowly learned to tolerate these outrages, shaking our heads in
disbelief, and we went on with our lives.
But Barack Obama has ripped the lid off a seething cauldron of
Dissatisfaction and unrest. A former Communist is given a paid government
position in the
White House as an advisor to the president. Auto companies are taken over
by the government, and the auto workers' union - whose contracts are
completely insupportable in any economic sense - is rewarded with a stake in
the
company.
Government bails out Wall Street investment bankers and insurance companies,
who pay their executives outrageous bonuses as thanks for the public
support.
Terrorists are read their Miranda rights and given free lawyers. And,
Despite overwhelming public disapproval, Barack Obama has pushed forward
with
a health care plan that would re-structure one-sixth of the American
economy.
Literally millions of Americans have had enough. They're organizing,
they're studying the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, they're reading
history and case law, they're showing up at rallies and meetings, and a slew
of conservative candidates are throwing their hats into the ring. Is there
a revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that there is a keen awareness that
our priorities and sensibilities must be radically re-structured. Will it
be a violent revolution? No it will be done through the interpretation of
the
original document that has guided us for 220 years - the Constitution.
Just as the pendulum swung to embrace political correctness and liberalism,
there will be a backlash, a complete repudiation of a hundred years of
nonsense. A hundred years from now, history will perceive the year
2010 as the time when America got back on the right track. And for that,
we can thank Barack Hussein Obama.
Gary Hubbell is a hunter, rancher, and former hunting and fly-
fishing guide. Gary works as a Colorado ranch real estate broker.
He can be reached through his website,
aspenranchrealestate.com
IF YOU AGREE PASS THIS ON AND BECOME ACTIVE. IF
YOU DON'T, DO NOTHING AND KEEP YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND.
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