PRESIDENT BARAK OBAMA IS OUR DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT
We had an election in November of 2008 and Obama was elected President. We thought that he was elected fair and square…there were none of the doubts and tribulations that marred previous elections like the one in 2000 when Bush won. Then, it was thought by many, including myself that the elections were not won in a clear and decisive way and it even had to go to the Supreme Court after a lot of publicized and shameful manipulations that left everyone a bit disappointed and some of us doubting the legitimacy of George W. Bush’s mandate.
There are still a lot of people who didn’t like the results of the 2008 elections and they are so frustrated over their loss that they can’t bring themselves to be American enough to accept the will of a clear majority of the voters and respect our President as our democratically elected head of state. This I think was a good example of DEMOCRACY AT WORK.
The curious thing about these people is that because they didn’t like the results of the election now they are talking about impeachment of the President, they are talking about “arming themselves” and exercising their 4th Amendment rights; they are talking in some places of cessation.
Many of the Neo-Cons have adopted Neo-McVeigh code words to incite paranoia in the Tea Party. Sarah Palin has spoken about death panels, Glenn Beck has discussed FEMA concentration camps on his show and Pat Buchanan has openly talked about the New World Order, saying:
"The West is disappearing into a New World Order, and against globalism, the Tea Party folks may represent our last best hope." Right Wing Christian fundamentalist, Pat Robertson wrote a book the New World Order which was based on the Jewish/Mason conspiracy to take over the world.
One example of the Neo-McVeighs are the Oathkeepers, a group of militia based ex-military and policemen who have taken an oaths to not cooperate in the “New World Order.” One prominent Oathkeeper, Charles Dyer was recently arrested and charged with raping a seven-year-old girl. Authorities found a grenade launcher and explosives residue in his apartment. Here’s a quote from Dyer on the New World Order.
"They’re trying to bring in the new world order and destroy our sovereignty. That means they are the domestic enemy I swore to defend and fight against to defend my constitution. And, I’m willing to put my life on the line to defend this country. And, I’m asking anyone who’s taken the oath to do the same."
The Neo-McVeighs have very similar ideologies and backgrounds to their namesake, Timothy McVeigh, who was responsible for the largest domestic terrorist attack in U.S. history. They both use a lot of pro-constitution and pro-gun rhetoric, often come from a military background and they are extremely anti-government and paranoid about a new world order.
One of the groups supporting the Tea Baggers and who co-sponsored the CPAC Conference this year was the re-emergent John Birch Society. The “JBS” is one of the key advocates of the “Patriot Ideology” AKA the Neo-McVeigh group. Here is a discussion of the John Birch Society by Rachael Maddow –
Both Newsweek and The New York Times both wrote pieces about the high level of New World Order conspiracy theorists and the paranoia and anger they are creating in the Tea Party, claiming that “the party movement is dominated by conspiracy kooks” and that Tea Party court jester, Glenn Beck “frequently echoes Patriot (Neo-McVeigh) rhetoric, discussing the possible arrival of a “New World Order” and arguing that Obama is using a strategy of manufactured crisis to destroy the economy and pave the way for dictatorship.”
Of course, the Republican Party is not condemning or admonishing any of these people because they are just as pissed that they lost the election and they are even more adamant about accepting responsibility for the mess they created and the President who left us with the biggest fucking economic mess since the Great Depression.
I think that President Obama not only had a tremendous burden and a disadvantage to start his term and embark on one of the most challenging endeavors any recent President has had to face. I even secretly wished that McCain had won the election because I thought that there was no humanly way that anybody, not Obama, not even Huidini would be able to fix the fucking mess the Republicans left behind.
This first year we have seen that not only do Republicans shy away and refuse to accept responsibility for the crisis they left for Obama but they are effectively blocking, opposing and obstructing any efforts on the part of the President and his party to bring about solutions and changes. This to me is so terribly unpatriotic and insane…that they should do this when they should be hanging their heads in shame over the legacy they left us with.
The Republicans have approved and encouraged all of these right wingnuts to go out and parade, demonstrate and disrupt because it energizes their ultra right conservative base. They figure that it brings negative and effective criticism of the Obama administration and the Democrats…they are right to a degree…we have seen people buying into “Death Panels”, Obama’s birth in Kenya, Socialism and the taking over the government, Obama increasing the debt, making government too big and saying that the government is interfering with free enterprise.
So that the mileage that these Republicans are getting from the likes of Palin, Beck, Limbaugh and O’Reilly is translating into potential wins in November 2010 and they like it so they don’t correct or admonish any of these fear mongers, denounce any of these lies and they just snicker away while our country is hopelessly divided…divided because the ones that oppose President Obama are really putting up all these lame excuses and arguments…they are pissed because Obama is a black man and they are losing their America.
Texas Governor Perry of Texas often talks about CESSATION
I would like to remind our Republican countrymen that we live in America and that the democratic process should be at work even if it has had its challenges in the hands of special interests and the undermining of the power given to the rich while it has been taken away from the non-wealthy majority…We do have a process called elections in which we give the authority to represent us in Congress and in the White House to an individual who represents our interests.
I may suggest that if you are in disagreement with this process, particularly those in the Tea Party and those who advocate violence and uprising against the Federal Government that they hand over their passport and go to live in Somalia where there is no government at all; or if they are in favor of a theocracy they should take similar steps, renounce their American citizenship and go to live in Iran…there they should have no trouble accepting some myth and superstition and live happily ever after under a very strict religious rule.
When President Obama’s term is over in 2012 and we have elections once more; if he screws up he will have to pay and then they should go and vote for the right-wing radical of their choice. In the meantime, Barack Obama is our democratically elected President.
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If BP Oil behaves like any good old red blooded greedy oil company like Exxon, then they will drag any litigation and delay any claims until it is absolutely imperative that they surrender any of their obscene profits. We have seen this happen before with Exxon and it is just recently that some of these claims are being paid decades after the Exxon Valdez incident.
them through legal action. And you know who is going to be stuck with all these bills? It is us, the tax payer who will be fronting all this money unless we either confiscate or freeze BP Oil’s assets.
We have found out, and I am one who was fooled by BP that they made such a big deal out of their interest and development of alternative sources, they had me and millions convinced that they were really doing this in earnest and vigorously; only to find out that what they really had was very effective advertising campaigns to enhance the image of the corporation and give the impression that they were diversifying when in reality they were cutting corners and ignoring safety standards to save a few bucks.
