It was the worst of times, it was the worser of times

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McCain appeals for the votes of 50,000 Harley-riding Americans. Senator Obama appeals for the approval of 200,000 Germans. So which demographic would you rather have: 50,000 Harley riders casting their ballots for you on Election Day, or the support of 200,000 non-citizens who can’t cast a ballot for you?

And a 7 year old girl asks Senator Obama why he wants to run for president of the United States of America.

“America is, uh, is no longer, uh, what it could be, what it once was. And I say to myself, ‘I don’t want that future for my children.’”
Barack Obama, 8/7/08, in response to the question of a 7-year old on why he was running for president.

“No longer what it could be. What it once was.”….?!?!…….sounds like he’s endorsing John McCain. He certainly isn’t taking us to a previous time in American history, since the country has never swung as hard left as his policies seem to want to take us.

There’s an interesting book by Gregg Easterbrook called The Progress Paradox How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse. In it, the author talks about how it is within human nature to romanticize the past and fabricate a belief that somehow, our grandparents had it better; and that today, we are far worse off. Easterbrook points out, in so many significant ways, how the world is a far better place to live in today than it ever was in human history….even as we feel as though things are a disaster.

I believe some of that is going on here, injected by a steroid shot of BDS political hyperbolic scaremongering that for the last 8 years President Bush has become “the worst president in history”- even though his legacy’s history can’t possibly be known yet- taking the country down a dark path of misery, imperialistic overreach, ruining the economy and taking from the poor and giving to the rich, gas prices shooting up to levels paid at by so many people in other countries, failure to prevent 9/11, failure in Katrina, failure to stop global warming and ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, Terri Schiavo, causing Americans to be hated around the world, taking us lying us into war, abu Ghraib and human rights violations through Gitmo and rendition programs, stripping away our civil liberties, the Constitution’s just a piece of paper, and seizing unprecedented presidential powers. I’m sure I missed a few.

If I had the time on my hands, I’d go through and point out statistical comparisons and facts that on so many points, the BDS sufferers have placed personal politics over reality, because it’s all happening under Bush’s watch.

If these last 8 years have been the worst years in American history due to the leadership of one man, I’d say give me more of the same. Give me more of the McSame over Barack Obama, any year of the decade.

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Eloquently put and an accurate assessment – the problem is of course that Obama is not thinking that deeply about any of this. As a reformed left-winger turned neocon – a conversion borne out of having lived abroad in the 90s and then experiencing the reality of 9/11 upon returning home to NYC – I see the Obama Movement as simply a quest for power without regard for principal. The election for the Dems, I am convinced, is just a flat-out power grab. I have no doubt that a Dem controlled federal govt will in fact yield some pretty stupid legislation, however I am even more convinced that it will yield a fatter budget deficit, a lackluster impact on any legislation intended to clean up DC (i.e. campaign finance, etc.) and perhaps on the extreme end of potential problems, a reduction in our country’s ability to affect meaningful change in global hotspots, with special disregard to the Middle East and Central Asia. Oh yeah, if Obama wins, which I have serious doubts, we will definitely experience economic recession for the duration of his term – and it will be a bad one – because any attempt to control the natural unwinding of the credit bubble will simply prolong the process and inflame the symptons.

I guess that Jimma Carter’s presidency was top notch, I mean after all Gasoline lines, very high interest rates, high unemployment, allowing Iran to evolve into what it now is, was top notch? Either they weren’t alive at the time to revel in the absolute stupidity of Mr. Carters reign, or they are dishonest, either way it makes President Bush to be one of the best in History by comparison.

Interesting.

When I read many of the posts from MataHarley, Mike, Curt and the other regulars here one message coming through time and again is that things were indeed better ‘back then’ and that ‘we’ (our parents, grandparents, etc.) were ‘better’ people as well.

Go figure.

Easterbrook is onto something.

I think we need to get Barry and Michelle and all his supporters to pinpoint for us exactly when America was a good country. Because, as far as I can tell, America has always been horrible, based on its founding with the sin of slavery. And, as Michelle Obama noted for us, she has only now become proud of her country, because they are supporting the nomination for President of her husband.

So now I am confused. I thought that, according to the Obamas, America has always been bad based on slavery and racism, until just recently. So if Barry is now saying that we are no longer what we once were, that would be a good thing, wouldn’t it? Since we no longer have slavery and we are no longer as racist as we once were?

But wait, he states that he does not want his children to live in this new America, which is not what it once was. So does that mean he wants to bring back slavery and racism?

I’m so confused!

It’s an interesting application of Obama doublespeak yet again. This nation has improved in human rights and opportunities. Because of his, and his wife’s, position and opportunity today, he is walking proof he is incorrect.

Yet we have regressed as a people in our appreciation of all we have, and how far we have come – becoming more whiny, demanding and endowed with a sense of entitlement. So he is also correct.

Since I doubt he was suggesting the latter, what he was referring to in his response is beyond me. The man is never clear, despite his favorite precursor, “let me be clear”….

Slavery and the Jim Crow era were somehow better than today?

Does Obama still smoke crack? Cause he sure must have been high when he said this.

He’s such an O hole!