It is hard not to envy people like entrepreneurs or those of faith who are eternally optimistic, who always find the bright side, for whom the glass is more than just half full even in darkest times but filled to overflowing during the best of them. Those people make things work in spite of obstacles, which they see as opportunities. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
For me, this feeling of dread won’t go away, as if told we had two to four years before an asteroid obliterates all life on Earth. While no official bureaucracy will confirm or deny the world is ending, the world we know is on its way out, barring a miracle. Indeed, we have been told by the President–Elect that change is coming. He said we can believe in it, which his supporters interpret to mean it will be a good thing. Familiarity with the concepts of good and evil suggest otherwise.
How to recover our optimism? Just go along to get along? Sacrifice liberty in the name of unity? That is what’s in store, and the common word for it is socialism. Words from the immortal (for now) Gettysburg Address come to mind:
“Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. . . can long endure.” Read more »

The Wall Street Journal has a nice piece reflecting on the hate directed to President Bush by the left.

“The treatment President Bush has received from this country is nothing less than a disgrace. The attacks launched against him have been cruel and slanderous, proving to the world what little character and resolve we have. The president is not to blame for all these problems. He never lost faith in America or her people, and has tried his hardest to continue leading our nation during a very difficult time.”

We agree as those people who vilified and pilloried Bush better bone up and expect nothing less than the same being thrown against Obama: effigy’s of Bush’s head on Hitler’s body? Obama supporters will no doubt be exposed to the same for their messiah. That popular leftist rant: “Fuck Bush” will turn into “Fuck Obama”. Its just what happens when you elect a vapid populist as  your leader.

Importantly, however, we speculate that the let will, indeed, wuickly become disenchanted with Obama. Obama will try to appease those who elected him and the liberal Congress without any clear mandate to govern. The biggest trouble … we have *no idea* how he will actually govern! We have not prior actions or experience to look upon. All we have are his associations and time spent as a “community organizer”.

So, what kind of challenges will Obama face, just look at the morning news: 

Russia deploys missiles in response to the US Missile shield: Fox News. 

The **Taliban** is calling on Obama to bring peace by removing troops from Afghanistan … didn’t Obama promise to increase troop levels in Afghanistan? BreitBart

and Israel is launching missiles into Gaza. BreitBart

Maybe Obama can give the Taliban, the Russians and the Israelis a speech about Hope! No doubt aggressive countries and organizations see Obama as a limp noodle that will do nothing to stop their actions.

America’s run was great while it lasted.

Glad we elected a radical with zero experience? I am, becasue when we have a deep financial crisis and two unpopular wars, the guy with no experience a history of radicalism is exactly what the free world needs!

Americans elected a radical with no experience in government to run this country. The American people have entrusted the mantle of freedom and liberty with a man that wants to redistribute wealth and punish those who create jobs. I pray that we get through the next two years with little damage and clear out Congress.

God Bless everyone, and may God keep us and our liberties safe.

They called Ohio for the Messiah. This is why the background of our page is black.

In a morning interview with Fox News’ Bill Hemmer, New York Senator and Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Comittee, Chuck Schumer discussed the need for government censorship over America’s radio airwaves. Comparing political speech, the Nation’s most protected form of First Amendment speech to pornography, Schumer argued that it was unfair for advocates of free political expression on the radio to oppose government regulation, while supporting decency standards, calling it “not consistent.”  Schumer predicted that high Democratic turnout would give he and his colleagues close to 60 seats in the U.S. Senate - margins that would allow for the reimplementation of the Fairness Doctrine, and the curbing of free speech.

The Fairness Doctrine was repealed in 1987, and the result was a flourishing of political discourse on the radio. The success of conservative talk shows such as the Rush Limbaugh Show, and the lack of success by liberal leaning radio programming such as Air America, has led many Democratic lawmakers to seek to limit free expression on the radio in order to eliminate what has become an effective communications tool for conservatives. The Fairness Doctrine does not apply to television and many other forms of media, so “news” organizations like MSNBC can broadcast from a biased (liberal) perspective with impunity.

Schumer did not elaborate on why he felt pornography and political speech were equivalent basis for comparison, or exactly how pornography would work on the radio.

Abraham Lincoln once warned his fellow Americans that, “as a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” It is an axiom that still holds true. So it is on the eve of a great election that will have profound consequences for our national character that we implore our fellow citizens to remember the brave men and women who have gone before you, who have built this country from a frontier nation of 13 colonies to the great republic you see before you. We implore you to remember the vision of our founding fathers, to build a new society of strictly limited government but nearly unlimited freedom; a nation that prized natural and individual liberty over artificial, collective equality; a nation whose mission has been to foster life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

To our fellow conservatives, we entreat you in these final hours to fight as hard as you have ever fought, to mobilize and focus all your efforts toward victory, while ignoring those who would cause you to lose faith. We remind you of the stirring words of President Reagan, who believed that the success of our America - an America of limited government, personal freedom and responsibility, and one rooted firmly in the fertile soil of our God-fearing, visionary forefathers was inextricably linked to the future of all humanity: “You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.” Remember the charge of our greatest leader, the father of our nation, George Washington: “It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.”

To John McCain, a man of inestimable integrity and uncommon valor, we thank you for tireless service to this nation. You are unquestionably the better man, the greater patriot and the right leader for America at this trying moment. With you we cast our highest hopes and offer you this parting interpretation on words that have often brought encourgement to our nation :

 Sail on, Oh man of State!

Sail on, Oh warrior strong and great.

America with all Her fears

With all the hope of future years

Is hanging breathless on thy fate.

Finally, we offer our prayers to the Almighty, that He will guide our nation in this moment of historic significance. As a nation we have not always lived up to our highest ideals, but we remain a good and free people, and from our shores the light of liberty still beams out across a weary and dangerous world. May God continue to bless America and light our path forward.

This morning, the silver-tongued orator, Barack Obama told a Jacksonville, Florida audience that the Republicans were spending huge sums of money against him, “here in Ohio.” He was resoundingly booed: Obama Booed in Flordia. 

He must have been off his script for a moment. It brings up an interesting and consistent issue - that whenever Obama is off his script, we get an entirely different person, a man who thinks there are 57 or more states, a man who thinks Pennsylvanians are bitter and cling to their guns and God out of xenophobia, a man who wants to spread your wealth around to pay for his economic justice schemes, and a man who has no problem bankrupting the key energy industry of coal in order to comport with his extreme environmental agenda. Just to name a few. Remember when you go to the polls tomorrow, the real Obama has yet to show himself. We know next to nothing about this man who desires to hold the most powerful position in the world.

The New York Post is running a three-part series looking forward the the endo of Obama’s four years. It projects that in 2012 Hillary Clinton will have the democratic nomination (a prediction shared by GOPublius). In an interesting paragraph from the series highlisght exactly why we project that Obama can do nothing but underachieve in his possible Presidency:

A general consensus among political observers is that Obama’s essential problem was that he was oversold and too naive and arrogant to realize he wasn’t as his most devoted fans believed. A senior Democrat on Capitol Hill marveled: “In 2008, this guy promised to send everyone to college, vastly increase foreign aid, create a ‘civilian national security force’ that was just a well-funded as the U.S. military, his wife said he’d fix our ‘broken souls,’ and he said he’d make the oceans stop rising, all without increasing the deficit. The amazing thing is he thought it was all true. He makes Jimmy Carter look like he should be on Mt. Rushmore.”

Oversold and naieve indeed. Like Jimmy Carter you say? We wholeheatedly agree

Update: With this soothsaying in mind, we can’t overlook the fact that Obama wants to bankrupt the coal industry. Read about it here.

We found this on Free Republic. Considering that the Obmaites are whining about change becasue the country is in such a dire position”

George Bush has been in office for 7½ years. The first six the economy was fine. In spite of the mid-2000 Clinton recession, it was even resilient enough to rebound after 9/11. A little over one year ago:

1. Consumer confidence stood at a 2½ year high;
2. Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3. The unemployment rate was 4.5%.
4. The Dow Jones hit a record high—14,000
5. Americans were buying new cars, stoking the economy, taking cruises, vacationing overseas, living large!

But Americans wanted change! So, in 2006 they voted in a Democratic Congress and yes—we got CHANGE all right. In the past year:

1. Consumer confidence has plummeted;
2. Gasoline is now over $3.75 a gallon, and it had hit well over $4 a gallon;
3. Unemployment is up to 5.5% (a 10% increase);
4. Americans have seen their home equity drop by $12 TRILLION dollars, with prices still dropping;
5. 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
6. As I write, the Dow is probing another low: $2.5 TRILLION dollars have evaporated from Americans’ stocks, bonds and mutual funds investment portfolios.

Yes, in 2006, America voted for change … and we sure got it! Remember, the President has no control over any of these issues - only Congress. And what has Congress done in the last two years? Absolutely nothing! They certainly haven’t improved the situation. They’ve made it much worse.

Stop and think about that for a moment. Now the Democratic candidate for President claims he is going to really give us change along with a Democratic Congress!

Just how much more change do you think you can stand?