Downhill Time for Obama

The gang came out from the fall retreat, my the leaves are nice, to start wondering about this Obama. The main focus is whether he is the "New Nixon" with his enemies list especially the Fox Network, the "New Fascist" with his attempt to control thought as with the NEA grants, or the "New Marxist" with his obvious set of marxist advisors and redustribution of wealth advisors. So hard to figure out a guy so flustered and going down the tubes that he is a cloud of contridictions.

His enemies list makes him the New Nixon. His people have opnely declared war on Fox News. I supose he has lost his look at Kennedy and Roosevelt and shifted his admiration to Nixon.

That he is attempting to control the health care debate so tightly is Fascist policy. The National Endowment for the Arts giving out grants for artists with grants or wnating them to promote health care change is not an American way of doing things. He beats down Humana for its suggestion to clinets that the new policy might damage thier policies with Humana. Nixon was never this bad.

And he is surrounded by advisors who are Marxist. Dunn admires Mao in a speech she gave. Others have that kind of redustrutionist leaning. He is on the attack at American buiness and thinks jobs will just appear as you beat down those who create them. He went to the G20 and acted like the French have, apologizing for being more than a Third World place over the last centrueis. Let us now rejoice as we take a back seat in world affairs and just become also rans like some of Europe. He sees American not as a beacon of freedom but as a bully to be destoyed and cornered. Michelle's not being proud of America was actually her husband's full view if he were honest with us.

Now where were those bunker plans?

Going Downhill

The gang was horrified to see the health care debate turn racist over night. The supporters of Obama;s plan are now equating opposition to it with racism. Jimmy Carter has joined this crowd. We knew Obama's friends would be his worst enemies. We never could expect they would be this controlling and dictatorial in their attempts. If you do not want the government running your health care, you are a racist? These people should be shamed and the public should see them for the racists they are. There is no place in America for them.

Ted Kennedy Passing

The passing of Ted Kennedy brings another pause for the gang. So many of the names the gang has grown and lived with are leaving us. Never supporters of Ted Kennedy, for obvious reasons, he nonetheless has been there with so many others. The gang noted that in the Fargo Forum, when you left the fronyt page for the remainders of the articles on Kennedy, and ad for alcohol products took the whole center 3 inches of the page from top to bottom. Just not the right place for the ad, yet Kennedy never seemed to be in just the right place either. Such prospects he had, yet such failures.

Growing Rebellion

The gang has noted a growing rebellion. They also have noticed that the same Liberals who shouted down conservatives these last years are now crying and moaning that someone is doing the same thing back to them and how terrible it is. Health care is very personal to people. You can range far and wide on tiopics like Iraq, but health is near to home. As the phrase goes, "All politics is local", when you talk nationalization of health care it is not an unemotional issues for many. This people live every day. Iraq most do not. Expect outbursts of emotion then.

Gang Comes Up From Basement

The gang has been in the basement, feeling locked in by work. They were shocked to finally come up the stairs and find the sun shining. It was short lived. Obama’s stimulus package might spend something on jobs in a year or so, but the debt load is staggering. Is there enough money to actually cover it? After surveying the world, the gang debated whether to go back in the basement, launch a festival of Susan Hayward films, or apply to for stimulus fun ding to determine how many Julie London songs fit on an iPod Shuffle.

Of Course, we are dosing ourselves in more Keynesian economics. Spend to get out of a downturn. To bad we never learned the second half of the lesson: be responsible and save when times are good. We started spending in 1933 and never stopped seeing places to spend it. Half the theory is worse than none.

Obama Begins

The gang at the lake has been busy sitting back and watching it all happen. Obama is in and things seem to be settling down. Of interest to the gang is that Obama does not seem so bad so far. He seems to be following his predicted pattern subject to the economu taking some steam out of his more socialist plans. Even Marx would have said captialism has to be well advanced to provide for all, so that is expectexd. A good thing.

The gangs attention is directed at the non-change oriented people that Obama has around him. Both in the Congress and some of his own people will have to embrace that the word change does not mean they get to be the recivers of graft instead of others. The Clinton appointment probably brings that out the most. Reid and Pelosi are the big two fears Obama must have. I think Obama wants to move on in an honest way, but the rest of his crowd does seem to have other plans. His look as Biden chided Justice Roberts told the gang Obama might be ok but Biden joined in with Reid and Pelosi in not being on the team.

Obama has some team building to do. Change is not we now punish those who have not agreed with us. That is not a new direction. That one goes back to Jefferson and Adams.

Elelction Eve Sadness

On the massively long awaited eve of the election, it is time to review this newly extended period of American life. The calm may last all the way to March 7 and Obama’s second walk on the waters of tehe Potomac; except that this time he sinks. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, in scuba gear, will provide the weight to make him sink. Obama’s promise of change as the people see it is in such a totally different universe from what will take place in the business as usual Congress, only with new people getting the meat of the fattened calf. Not a new calf or dinner plate, just a new crowd with the knife.

The gang at the lake still hopes for a Huckabee come from behind victory, but they suspect this is only the glimmer of too much sherry.

With a slight inkling of a withdrawal of the Christian Right and other conservatives from the American Community several years ago repressed, it may explode anew. The Baptist movement has done it before, only now the crowd leaving and taking their American flags with them will be bigger and more diverse. With no limit to San Francisco values taking over Washington now, they will return to the older view that the political community is tainted and a risj to one’s salvation. Withdrawl is required. Flags will come down. Army volunteers will look elsewhere. Obama’s collection will find that it built on a base of anti-Americanism including the anti-America mass media. When it calls for patriotism and sacrifice as John Kennedy did, the silence will deafen.
Talk is of America’s decline. Will those most enamored to political correctness and it’s anti-American attack on free speech that is not derogatory to America and its limits to freedom suddenly shift, as Michelle Obama did, to now loving an America cloaked in socialism and limits on freedom?

Why should the inventiveness of any America be used here when the financial rewards will go to those who ridiculed them in school for paying attention and not partying? That they should be patriotic and pay it in taxes will generate laughs then goodbyes as they realize that the statements come from those who have mocked patriotism for years.

Sad.