Sword and Sextant

For the last eight years, the word fearmongering was thrown around alot.  The liberal fringe even suggested that we used a false flag strategy to attack ourselves on 9/11 and stir up a bloodlust so we could get after Iraq.  I haven’t heard that word used much since Obama came into office, but he’s earned the tag, alright.

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.”

Rahm Emmanuel

Let’s just keep that quote in mind when we read this story.

We’ll never recover?!?!  What a load of absolute garbage.  Listen, this country is going to survive all these economic problems as long as you don’t take this opportunity to shove socialism down our collective throats.  You’re scaring people into supporting a bill they are already showing flagging support for, despite you being the most popular dude in a decade politically.  That is textbook fearmongering.

“I reject these theories, and so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change,” he wrote.

You just don’t get it, do you?  No one voted against tax cuts, dude.  Remember when you promised tax cuts, even to people who don’t pay them?  You ran, at least rhetorically, on tax cuts!  You convinced the public you would cut taxes more than McCain, who had a full on tax cut plan!  What the hell bipartisan healer even says that anyway?  

This is becoming eerily similar to the early Carter years, where a fawning press helped an overrated decisionmaker into office.  He was ineffectual at best, and slowly lost the favor of the press and the public, but had too big of an ego to admit it was his fault.  Instead, he gave dreary speeches about the decline of America and the inevitable depression that awaited us.  He is now a bitter old man who visits China to laud their human rights and Columbia to monitor their fair elections.

I remember when America was a special place in the world, and a grand example of overcoming hurdles to achieve greatness.  Please don’t convince people that this place sucks, because it doesn’t as long as we have our freedom and our lives.  President Obama, try and be proud of your country for a change I can believe in.