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.
In the time of Barack Obama, Black Panther members stand outside polling
places in black commando uniforms, slapping truncheons into their palms.
ACORN — a
taxpayer-supported organization — is given a role in taking the census,
even after its members were caught on tape offering advice to set up child
prostitution rings. 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.
I don't know about you, but the other day I was at the courthouse doing
some business, and I stepped into the court clerk's office and changed
my voter affiliation from
“Independent” to “Republican.” I am under no illusion that the
Republican party is perfect, but at least they're starting to awaken to
the fact that we cannot sustain massive levels of debt; we cannot afford
to hand out billions of dollars in corporate subsidies; we have to somehow
trim our massive entitlement programs; we can no longer be the world's
policeman and dole out billions in aid to countries whose citizens seek
to harm
us.
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
