Barack Obama: savior of America’s future.

By Gary Hubbell, Broker/Owner United Country Colorado Brokers Hotchkiss, CO

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 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 being said, here’s why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America.

Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism infecting 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 - have gotten off the fence. They have woken up. There is a level of political activism in this country we haven't seen since the American Revolution and Barack Obama is 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 American 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 they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of them cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy. Legislators decided 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 went on with our lives. But Barack Obama has ripped the lid off a seething cauldron
of dissatisfaction and unrest.

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 unsupportable 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.

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 "FANTASTIC" 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.

It's not about race you moron!

As you read through this, notice how quickly the "race" card is played and how quickly I'm dubbed a bigot by those referred to as "THEM".

All names have been changed to protect the stupid. Changing the names to THEM and ME may make it a little difficult to follow in spots but it relieves me of any liable or slander issues so you'll have to suffer through it.

Moderator: THERE IS A DISEASE IN AMERICA!!!! It is called Talk Radio. Hannity, Savage, Limbaugh, Sheldon (from Boise) are making bucks by bashing the greatest office in the land and fanning the flames of disrespect of the Office of President.

This comment is not about Obama's policies, actions, or anything he is doing. IT IS about radio personalities such as Nate Sheldon, who said, "I'm making bucks" by bashing this countries leader.

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ME: Speaking as a soldier it’s their right to do it. Just as Janeane Garofalo and Air America did when Bush was there. The office isn't any more sacred than the man and no one who's held that office is sacred. Policies aside, if you have issues with the president it's the man and the position. They are one in the same.

Thursday at 7:17pm

ME: At least they have the balls to do it in the States. Unlike the Dixie Chicks, Sean Penn or former Congressman Cynthia McKinney who have all waited until they're overseas somewhere to bad mouth the president or the country.

THEM: Obama makes the bitter white loser bigots feel bad because he's more successful, brilliant, and handsome then they'll ever be...and he's half African American. They are threatened by the loss of their hegemony, which is inevitable, no matter who is president. He's already won the Nobel peace price, edited the Harvard Law Review, and killed Osama Bin Laden, but they'll tell you he hasn't accompllished anything. The haters are incapable of respecting anyone who challenges their view of the world---and they've channeled their inadequacy and hatred at the first African American president. And they will deny all of the above.
You asked ;-)

Thursday at 8:40pm

ME: What was everyone else's excuse. This isn't the first president to be attacked by pundits on the other side of the political spectrum. You're mad because its obama. They did it to Reagan, Clinton, both Bush's and you can trace the diatribe all the way back to Washington. So since none of them were black why were they attacked? Because they were the president and they're fair game. I don't dislike obama because he's black. I dislike him for his policies and as long as he's president than it’s the president’s policies. When he's no longer in office it will someone else's turn. If I don't like the new policies I'll talk poorly of the new president too. It's politics, not race. I'm sure some dislike him for the color of his skin just as there were people who hated the others for being white but they are not in the majority.

For the record obama did not kill Bin Laden. He authorized the mission to take him out. That is all. He had no more to do with Bin Laden’s death than Bush did for Hussein’s capture. They only authorized the operations. The difference is Bush didn’t take credit for what the men on the ground actually carried out, he gave credit where credit was due, not an “I, I, I, I,” speech. After that speech you would have thought obama himself fast roped into that compound and pulled the trigger. As for the Nobel Prize, if I had known you could get one for just having an idea I would have put myself in for one years ago. I could eat a dictionary and shit better ideas than obama.

Thursday at 8:56pm

Moderator: While true ME:, it seems like, to me, that the rhetoric is a bit over the top and nonstop. That is what is bothering me.

Thursday at 8:59pm

ME: I don't see any difference between the way right wing radio treats obama and left wing media treats any of the candidates or past republican presidents. Neither is more over the top than the other. I'll be honest the only one that bothers me is the ones who say they're "journalists" who slant one way or the other. If you're a journalist you have no opinion put to print. You state facts. Period. I know what to expect from O'Reilly or Hannity or Beck or Sheldon. They are OpEd's, opinion pieces, but when someone (e.g. anyone working for MSNBC or CNN) presents themselves as a journalist than moves on to calling all of the republican candidates morons, etc... you're not a journalist and should be taken off the air. And I'm so damn tired of the race card being played. It's over done. Why is it anytime someone disagrees with the president they get called a racist or a bigot? Why does the left think this is such great ammunition? It's not. Calling me a racist for disliking the man won't make you win the argument, won't make me change my mind and won't make me a racist. Enough with the race card already, it's way over played.

Thursday at 10:35pm

THEM: Haters never see hate and insterad justify it. Bigots rarely see their own bigotry and claim they are victims of the "race card." The world is leaving them behind, and they're angry agbout it. They are the losers in a game that used to be stacked in their favor.

Republicans now argue aginst THEIR OWN ideas only because Obama now supports them. Tea Party rallies regularly feature racial hatred and stereotypes (watermelon, apes, etc.) Last night they whined that the president was "lecturing" them. Doesn't that black boy know his place?? The right wing is keeping America in the dark ages of race, enlightenment, education, equality, etc. and will eventualy destroy is. It's done a damn fine job.

Friday at 7:15am

THEM: This is really the best summary of what the right wing has become. I wonder when the everyday Republicans will realize how they have been played, used, and manipulated by powers that don't care if they live or die, literally. http://www.truth-out.org/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operative-who-left-cult/1314907779

Friday at 7:17am

ME: No, the race card comes out anytime the left doesn’t have an intelligent argument or can’t support their ideology, which has been a lot lately. You brought it up with “He’s half African American” because it’s easier to blame us for being racists than to face the fact he has piss poor policies. It's a shame you can't see past his color. You seem enamored with him because he's black, or are you seeing past his color to the good you think he's done? If you can see past his color to the perceived good without being a racist, why can't I see past the color of his skin to my perceived bad without being a racist? You can't lump everyone into a single category because you disagree with them or they disagree with the president. I've heard the left scream about the racist happenings at rallies but just like everything else the leftist media only tells you what they want you to think.

I would love to see someone produce evidence of racial hatred and stereotyping you threw out there. I hear a lot about it but no one has proof. In this day and age you would think someone got it on a cell phone or something. It would be foolish to say that not a single, solitary tea party member, anywhere in America, is a bigot. In any discussion involving such large numbers, it’s almost impossible to say there’s zero of anything (besides net U.S. job creation).

But it is just as foolish to believe that so many Americans not only would support a group that was fundamentally racist but would, in our politically correct era, admit as much to a stranger.

Friday at 10:13am

THEM: It's a shame you can't see that this is 2011, and that overcoming racism isn't about "seeing beyond color." It's about accepting that America has a long and vicious history of systemic, political, and economic oppression based on race (among other things). You need to SEE someone's race; to see them as equal even though their skin, culture, upbringing, and 1,000 other things may have made them different from you. I see that Obama is half-African American, and that shaped how he grew up, how his identity was formed, how his values evolved---and it shapes how people see him now, though most deny it.

I have no problem with legitimate opposition to Obama's policies. That's the right and obligation of every American; to think and stand up for what you believe. But there is no legitimate opposition any more; only reflexive bigotry, hatred, knee-jerk infantile reactionary crap. The last time the GOP put forth a good idea, Nixon was president.

Friday at 10:24am

ME: Seeing past color, race, etc., is exactly what overcoming racism is about. To see someone as your equal; race should never be part of the equation. If you see their race, creed, culture or sexual orientation; you don't see them as your equal, they become your black friend or your gay friend, not just your friend, which means they are not equal with each other or with you. And who are you to state there's no legitimate opposition? If I don't like his policy of taxing the rich or not putting a fence on the border or not drilling for domestic oil those are legitimate reasons to me. Maybe not to you but they are to me and most of the people I know. Not because we're bigots but because those are policies we don't agree with. Who's to say what's legitimate and what isn't? The left? The right? This administration? How about the voters? That's our right. The problem with the left is all they see is skin color and because of that some people are more equal than others.

Friday at 11:06am

THEM: Your statement shows that you don't see other races, creeds, culture, etc as equal to your own---otherwise you should have no problem seeing people for who they are, sociologically and psychologicall, including those things. If you have to "overlook" that someone is black in order to see them as your equal, you are racist. I've yet to meet a conservative who understands this, though.

Your ideas are nothing but the same things that did not work for eight years under Bush. Try to come up with legitimate ways to solve the country's problems.

Friday at 11:14am

THEM: Jeez, Moderator:, where'd ya go? Lol

Friday at 11:14am

Moderator: bystander on this one. My grievance isn’t one of being pro or against obama...IT IS about how the media personalities who are blatantly fanning the anti-presidential office flames.

Friday at 11:30am

ME: You're right I don't see other races, creeds, cultures, etc... I see another human being that is on every level equal to me. Wow, what a horrible concept. I should be ashamed but I'm not. I'm pretty proud of the person I am and I sleep peacefully. But maybe people should rethink calling me a bigot or a racist when they know nothing about me other than labeling me a conservative. That's pretty prejudice if you think about it. I'm actually a libertarian but you couldn't see fit to take the time to learn that about me. You decided, with nothing but a glimpse of me, that I was a white conservative and therefore a bigot and a racist, or do you not see your own bigotry?

You want a plan? Here you go:

1. 15% federal sales tax. No income tax, etc. Everyone buys stuff, pimps, whores and drug dealers all spend money and right now they don't pay taxes. This will ensure the rich pay tax on the expensive stuff they buy and the poor pay the same share on the crap they buy. That is a fair tax.
2. Put full force patrols with all available technology on the borders (yes, both) our country is being invaded and the government is too stupid to do anything about it.
3. Drill for oil in Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma, N and S Dakota and Alaska and let China buy from OPEC.
4. Support refineries
5. Support nuclear power
6. Eliminate all of the Department of Redundancy Departments there are too many doing the same thing.
7. Reorganize the military to the modern battlefield we are currently engaged in and stop funding pet projects.

8. Defund special interest groups. All of them. If they have a special interest find like minded friends to support your group but quit using tax money.

That’s for starters.

@Moderator: I still think the right has no more disdain for the president than the left did for his predecessor and no one on the left was crying about the treatment of him. It's the ebb and flow of the political climate. No matter who is there - there will be those who hate him. It's just a fact of life.

Friday at 12:06pm