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Patriotic Stirrings in the Real America
Folks in Alabama sense a dangerous problem in this country — and his first name is “Barack.”
Point Clear, AL — Down here on the Gulf Coast, unlike in the Virginia suburbs of DC, people tend to display American flags even when it’s not the Fourth of July. But on the boardwalk in Point Clear on Independence Day weekend, flags are ubiquitous, their display joyous and un-self-conscious. My 13-year-old nephew, unbidden, flawlessly recites the key lines of the Declaration. Families on the boardwalk sponsor a children’s parade, with more red-white-and-blue on a single wagon or bicycle than you might see on a whole neighborhood in, oh, Los Angeles or somewhere like that. And the children can tell you, seeming to understand what they are saying rather than just repeating it by rote, that we are celebrating the facts that we are Americans and we are free.
All up and down the shoreline of Mobile Bay, private families or groups of families don’t merely shoot off a few bottle-rockets, but actually compete with the organized public fireworks displays with nearly half-hour extravaganzas of their own, each one visible a mile or more away. This isn’t “jingoism” or some such sentiment described by some trendy leftish pejorative; it’s just honest patriotism honestly expressed.
For me, newly repatriated on the Gulf after five years, everybody has questions. How can anybody think it’s okay to tell me I’m required to buy a certain service (the Obamacare mandate)? And How can they possibly think they’ll solve anything by having the government spend more money? And How can they even begin to justify these levels of debt?
There’s a genuine puzzlement, as if the attitudes of Official Washington and of the establishment media just don’t compute — for the very good reason that those lefty elitist attitudes really don’t compute, because they don’t make sense of any sort. The Washington elite’s attitudes defy logic, violate the ethics of ordinary life, trample on common sense, and offend the common decency usually upheld by communal norms of quotidian virtue.
More than anything else, though, again and again and again, the question comes at me, with a deep concern almost plaintive in nature: Who is out there who can beat Obama and do an okay job? This isn’t merely a “Clinton is a scuzzbucket” or a “Carter is inept” sort of sentiment. This is different. This is an expression of the conviction that what Obama is doing, along with the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, is alien to our very idea of what being an American means. And no, this isn’t a concern with where Obama was born or what color his skin is; instead, it truly is a reaction to the president’s ideas, warped ideals, and precipitate actions. What is alien is not Obama’s being, not his person, but his worldview, his arrogance and his cold disregard for American traditions and allies. Many people doubt not just Obama’s judgment but also his motives.
And it’s no wonder. American history hasn’t seen — not even at the depth of the New Deal — quite so brazen a government power grab as several actions Obama has countenanced. Not only taking over car companies but unilaterally destroying the obligation of contracts that ordinarily provide secured creditors — bondholders — with first rights under law, instead seizing their property and awarding it to union bosses without regard to any accepted principles of property rights. Violating legislative protocol in numerous ways to take over a sixth of the entire economy and impose the aforementioned individual mandate. Running roughshod over ordinary restraints on executive agency fiats, blithely declaring despotic rulings as faits accomplis and effectively daring objectors to file lawsuits to stop them. And, of course, operating the most lawless Justice Department since at least the days of Nixon’s John Mitchell.
These are dangerous actions by the president and his minions. These Obamite pursuits are the actions of people who would feel more out of place at a Point Clear Independence Day parade than the Connecticut Yankee felt in King Arthur’s court. Does anybody doubt that Van Jones would sneer at the tri-colored bunting? Does anybody doubt that White House Science Czar John Holdren would look askance at the propagation of so many carbon-emitting children? Does anybody really think that Obama himself feels real joy at hearing a 13-year-old recite the Declaration’s words about rights endowed by a Creator?
Abroad, this president is just as bad. He insults allies Great Britain and Israel. He reneges on missile-defense commitments to Poland and other allies. He undermines the legitimate, pro-U.S. government of Honduras. He lets semi-West-friendly protesters in Iran and Syria get slaughtered without offering even verbal support, but he actively helps revolutionaries of unknown sympathies force out flawed but American-friendly Hosni Mubarak in Egypt.
If people around the globe now are confused about when and how and even if the United States stands up for freedom and the friends of freedom, it’s no mystery why people in the American hinterlands are confused, worried, and even fearful as well.
And, lest this be misinterpreted as just the whining of an affluent subculture on Mobile Bay, rest assured that I hear the same talk in grocery stores, diners, hardware outlets, and just about everywhere else I go. Out here in the real America, patriotism supersedes socioeconomics. Furthermore, “when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design” antithetical to American freedom, “it is their right, it is their duty,” to become active in the civic realm — and to set things right. Those children in Independence Day parades — all across the “red” and “purple” states of the USA — certainly deserve no less.
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Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.
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l5j6| 7.8.11 @ 6:42AM
The elites (political class, MSM, academia) are pushing hard to dissolve nation-states and re-make the world into a borderless, stateless, "global community", where nearly every decision is made by the enlightened political class (folks, this is socialism/communism/marxism, statism) for the so-called "greater good". Everything and everyone brought down to the lowest common denominator.
The majority of Americans wish to remain a sovereign nation state. A sovereign state requires borders and laws (including immigration laws and those who violate immigration laws should be deported, period, no discussion needed). This is why immigration is so closely related to globalism.
Who will win out? Right now, the borderless/stateless socialists seem to be winning. But will it change? I tend to doubt it mainly because we as a people have changed so much. Because of mass immigration, there are so many people here who did not grow up raised as an American, they hold allegiances to other nations, cultures, religions, (global warming/climate change, extreme enviromentalism is a secular religion in itself) etc.
Alan Brooks| 7.8.11 @ 10:19AM
Maybe the GOP will win the presidency next year; now that the euphoria of bin Laden's demise has evaporated, the future looks grim (but not for China's economy!)
However if you do win next year, will it be a repeat of '88, '92, '96, 2000, 2004, 2008? will another empty-suit serve his four/eight years so as to write his memoirs and have it marked down 40% at Barnes & Noble? if such is the case then voting libertarian might be an option for some.
PJ| 7.8.11 @ 10:33AM
We don't know about China's economy. Their economic numbers are not that reliable.
Alan Brooks| 7.8.11 @ 10:39AM
what about America's economic numbers?
Clint| 7.8.11 @ 10:57AM
The U-3 Unemployment Rate For June Went Up To 9.2 Percent.
The U-6 Unemployment Rate Went Up To 16.2 Percent.
Alan Brooks| 7.8.11 @ 11:14AM
so does the future appear brighter for the Chinese, or for America? you don't know.
But my first question above was: if you elect a GOP president, will he simply be another careerist, and would voting libertarian make sense if the odds are high that that will be the outcome of next year's election?
Ken in People's Republic of MD| 7.8.11 @ 12:06PM
The problem, Alan, is that you're right. We just don't know.
Like my beloved Baltimore Orioles, I think the only way to fix things is to tear it down and get back to basics. Like the O's have gotten away from what them great for so long, this country has gotten far away from the policies and philosophies that made it great.
I just wonder if anyone, from Andy MacPhail, Buck Showalter, and Peter Angelos to Michelle Bachman, Rand Paul, and Herman Cain, has the foresight and gumption to fix these great institutions.
Clint| 7.8.11 @ 12:11PM
Did ObamaBoy Brooks Voting For His Mancrush, Obama Make Sense ?
The Big E| 7.8.11 @ 1:27PM
Alan,
In answer to your questions:
Q. If the GOP wins in 2012, will the winner be just another careerist biding his time?
A. Maybe, it depends on who the winner is. There are certainly some in the race who fit that mold, but other who do not. Of course, the relevant follow question is: If the GOP winner is another careerist, would that be worse than what we have now?
Q. Would voting Libertarian make sense if the likely outcome is that the GOP winner will be another careerist?
A. That depends on whether you want your vote to count for anything other than statistics. The Libertarian candidate, regardless of who it may be, has no greater chance of winning than I do, and I'm not running. So if you want four more years of Obama, vote Obama. If you don't, vote Republican. If want to cast a vote, but don't have the courage to take a stand, vote Libertarian.
Q. Does the Chinese economy have a brighter future than the American economy?
A. Probably not. China is facing an even more serious demographic problem down the road tan we are as a result of the their one-child policy, and in addition, their combination of external capitalism and internal communism is setting them up for a pretty bloody revolution/civil war in the not too distant future.
Alan Brooks| 7.8.11 @ 2:07PM
"Did ObamaBoy Brooks Voting For His Mancrush, Obama Make Sense ?"
I didn't vote in '08 mainly because I did not know much about Obama at that time, and McCain I wouldn't consider for vice president, even.
But unless you nominate someone very good I will vote for Obama next year. Plus although America is no longer racist, you aren't too keen on blacks moving too high up on the East Side, to a de-luxe apartment in the sky; you don't want them to get a piece of the pie that could go to your own people. Promoting a token such as Cain doesn't change that-- save for HIS own people.
Everyone looks out for their own and secretly thinks 'To The Victor Goes The Spoils'.
Clint| 7.8.11 @ 2:56PM
Neo-ObamaBoy Brooks,
" I didn't vote in '08 mainly because I did not know much about Obama at that time, and McCain I wouldn't consider for vice president, even.
But unless you nominate someone very good I will vote for Obama next year. "
That Answers The Question, Senseless Brooks.
Alan Brooks| 7.9.11 @ 4:06AM
Didn't vote for Clinton, either (heard too many rumors about him), but wish I had-- he was better than both Bushes combined and multiplied by x.
Clint| 7.9.11 @ 11:07AM
Ahh !
Negative Attention Craving ObamaBoy Brooks Just Ad Infinitum Comes To American Spectator To Praise Obama & Clinton, Not To Vote For Them.
That Answers The Question, Senseless Brooks
DG in GA| 7.10.11 @ 1:13PM
Even though it was the policies of Clinton that got us into this economic mess in the first place? We certainly know YOUR political leanings, Brooks.
alice moore| 7.9.11 @ 8:02AM
Alan, in answer to your first question about should we be concerned whether the GOP candidate is or would turn out to be a -GASP- careerist.
I have said this before and I will say it again. ALL of the GOP candidates would be an improvement over the current occupant. No Flash Mobs or broken glass will keep me from the polls in 11/2012.
Gladius| 7.11.11 @ 12:44AM
Thank you Alice. I have been saying that for months. Most all the Republicans are going to be much better than Obama ...they at least love America.
jmontesque| 7.10.11 @ 1:03AM
Wow. Just wow. Do you really believe that the worth of our president is exactly equal to a pile of black skin? Don't you think that it's what's under the skin that might be what people are objecting to? There is a big difference, for example, between having Herman Cain move in to the house next door as opposed to say, Jose Eduardo dos Santos or Robert Mugabe. With the former you wonder how you can get your kids to hang out with him to pick up some tips on entrepreneurship and with the latter you wonder if you're going to find your children buried in a shallow grave. With Obama, mark my words, I think we're dealing with the latter. It has nothing to do with skin color, friend, it has to do with dictatorships.
Alan Brooks| 7.11.11 @ 1:10AM
Please note that in prior posts I stated that I voted for Obama while today denying it. I adjust the facts to support whatever my controllers tell me.
Occam's Tool| 7.8.11 @ 9:55PM
I love Alabama. If I could stand the summers....
By the way, here's how the Libertarian Beau Ideal, Ron Paul, just voted on foreign aid:
By the way, speaking of voting for moronic governmental outlays, RON PAUL JUST VOTED to continue foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority regardless of whether it engages in dialogue with Israel. Cutting foreign aid indeed. Kucinich voted with him.
Roll call---524 Date: 7-Jul H RES 268. Look it up in THOMAS, folks, under the July 7, 2011 roll call 524. That's how the lying murder supporting weasel voted---for FOREIGN AID TO HAMAS from beleaguered American taxpayers.
RCV| 7.8.11 @ 11:16PM
Well, Occam, he's all for not spending money unconstitutionally, unless it can be used to kill Jews.
Clint| 7.9.11 @ 11:17AM
Obama LawBoy RCV attempts to Play The Anti-Jew Card on Our Tea Party Co-Favorite Dr. Ron Paul.
We'll See You ObamaBoys in 2012, at The General Elections, Obama LawBoy RCV.
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.
Carpe Diem.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 6:42PM
C Elegans---truth is not a "card." When was the last time he spoke at the Galveston synagogue, which, by the way, is quite beautiful?
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 6:52PM
Answer: Never. Not on his website.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 6:41PM
Right, RCV. Watch out, your least favorite nematode is gonna threaten you...
O'tool's Cam| 7.8.11 @ 11:42PM
Ah lock (I like) Bama too! From the empty steel mills of Birmingham through the ubiquitous tall pines plum to the gulf. Their sweltering summers are a bit much, but not as dreadful as a yankee winter. OK, onto Ron Paul: "lying murder supporting weasel?" . . . Gosh, don't hold back your feelings. But looking at the bigger Paul picture, I would not be so judgmental for this one instance of his vote that you find objectionable. Ron Paul, admit it or not Doc, is your ally. Otherwise, you wouldn't be such an ardent and enthused A.S., liberty loving, libertarian bent, liberal loathing literary.
irish19| 7.9.11 @ 9:24AM
"liberty loving, libertarian bent, liberal loathing literary."
How very alliterative of you.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 6:45PM
Alliterative, yes, Irish.
Unfortunately, as any Irishman, such as yourself, worth his salt knows, alliteration cannot make up for "Human Stupidity, Against Which, the Gods Themselves, Contest in Vain."
irish19| 7.11.11 @ 10:25PM
True, true.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 6:19PM
I lived in 'Bama for 7 years, and still have a medical license there. But I honestly despise overly hot weather, now.
Ron Paul is an earmarking, Nazi donation accepting, Hamas supporting weasel. He is an ally of mine on domestic financial issues. But he believes in drug legalization, and wants to see Israel destroyed and Sharia law triumph. He is a shortsighted fool.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 6:43PM
O'Toole
That's not how they talk, moron. You obviously know about as much as Peter's empty whiskey bottle.
Clint| 7.9.11 @ 11:15AM
Do Your Homework & Save Our American Taxpayers Money from being handed over to Middle East Parasite Leeches, Screwball Israel Firster Fanatic Neo-Chickenhawk Troll PropagandaBoy Tool Job.
"Mr. Speaker I rise in opposition to this resolution. While I certainly share the hope for peace in the Middle East and a solution to the ongoing conflict, I do not believe that peace will result if we continue to do the same things while hoping for different results. The US has been involved in this process for decades, spending billions of dollars we do not have, yet we never seem to get much closer to a solution. I believe the best solution is to embrace non-interventionism, which allows those most directly involved to solve their own problems.
This resolution not only further entangles the US in the Israeli/Palestinian dispute, but it sets out the kind of outcome the United States would accept in advance. While I prefer our disengagement from that conflict, I must wonder how the US expects to be seen as an “honest broker” when it dictates the terms of a solution in such a transparently one-sided manner?
In the resolution before us, all demands are made of only one side in the conflict. Do supporters of this resolution really believe the actors in the Middle East and the rest of the world do not notice? We do no favors to the Israelis or to the Palestinians when we involve ourselves in such a manner and block any negotiations that may take place without US participation. They have the incentives to find a way to live in peace and we must allow them to find that solution on their own. As always, congressional attitudes toward the peace process in the Middle East reveal hubris and self-importance. Only those who must live together in the Middle East can craft a lasting peace between Israel and Palestine."
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.
Carpe Diem.
terry cook| 7.9.11 @ 6:21PM
Occam, I think this is the first time I have disagreed with you, and the 1st time ever to leave a comment. You are a 'bit' disingenuous with this comment. This was a resolution, not a bill, and it did not authorize ANY monies to anyone! the vote was 407 to 6 for: 'Reaffirming the United States' commitment to a negotiated settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, and for other purposes.' Why the prevarication?
O'tool's Cam| 7.10.11 @ 1:45AM
Thank you, Terry Cook for the correction to Occam's misleading, misinformed malice aimed at Ron Paul. As you so astutely clarify here: this was not a bill and no monies were authorized. This is good corrective medicine for the derogatory doctor.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 6:40PM
If one cannot read or think, C(lint) Elegans.
I fail to see the point of slandering Peter O'Toole.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 6:38PM
The Bill stated that PA money would be cut off if it did not negotiate with the Israelis and follow its other commitments. Since the likelihood of that is the likelihood od C(lint) Elegans being elected President of Israel, it would have resulted in funding termination.
Paul voted against CUTTING off funding by voting against the amendment. I don't prevaricate. I leave that to the professionals, like Clint.
Terry, I'll be nice to you this time. Observe section 9 of H. 268 (2011):
(9) supports the position taken by Secretary of
21 State Hillary Rodham Clinton on April 22, 2009,
22 that the United States ‘‘will not deal with or in any
23 way fund a Palestinian government that includes 24Hamas unless and until Hamas has renounced vio-lence, recognized Israel and agreed to follow the previous obligations of the Palestinian Authority.’’
What that tells me is that if the PA continues its current behavior that funding will be cut off. Paul voted against that. In short, he voted FOR continuation of funding to the PA regardless of behavior. No other way to read that vote. Sorry.
terry cook| 7.12.11 @ 9:04AM
My mistake, I misread the vote and actually thought Paul voted with majority.
PJ| 7.8.11 @ 5:05PM
There is an attempt by the various governmental stat depts to publish as accurate as possible. The problem with the USA govnt is that the definition of a number changes but that also is made public although it may be hard to find. On the other hand the Chinese govnt doesn't even understand the word, transparency. They will give you a reasonable but unverifiable number that makes them look good.
We the public know that USA govnt is playing around through various whistleblowers & good reporting. China stops immediately any possible questioning. China has a totalitarian govnt, so why should I believe their govnt numbers?
Pzkfw| 7.8.11 @ 3:04PM
Excuse me...we have a childish empty suit in the White House now.
masly | 7.11.11 @ 2:01AM
My God, somebody finally said it. I can only pray that the silent majority will speak loudly,soonly. God bless you,sir.
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voted against carter| 7.8.11 @ 3:34PM
al,...
Your comprehension ability is suspect so I try and keep it simple.
You are an idiot. STOP proving it with every statement you make.
Hey mental midget.,... GO BACK TO HUF PO
play nice| 7.8.11 @ 9:56PM
Alan, there is something seriously wrong with you.
Cosmo| 7.9.11 @ 5:58PM
Casey Anthony Case
A horrible verdict like this requires a perfect storm of events:
1) Lazy jurors...Unwilling to take the time to weight the evidence...Much easier to just dismiss each piece of evidence on some fanciful basis..
2) Sequestered Jurors: Blame the prosecution for their incarceration...They want to go home..
3) Unethical defense attorneys..."Win at any price" mentality...They are officers of the court and are required to serve the cause of justice.
4) Incompetent judge: Should have declared a mistrial after defense attorneys failed to present any evidence of a drowning...and after the grandmother of the murdered baby obviously perjured herself...
5) Criminal defense attorneys: Suborned perjury in this case without any doubt.
6) Prosecution errors: Instead of misdemeanor counts of lying to police, should have filed felony obstruction of justice charges & tampering with evidence charges.
7) Caylee's aunt and uncle must file wrongful death case vs. Casey and make her testify under oath, like OJ had to.
8) State of Florida must file civil suit for the costs incurred investigating Casey's lies. And blocking any attempt by her to profit financially from her
crimes.
9) State of Florida must file felony charges of obstruction of justice against Casey, of perjury against the grandmother, and of subornation of perjury against Jose Baez.
Justice will be done....sooner or later..
irish19| 7.9.11 @ 11:02PM
You sure you got the right thread?
pigletrios| 7.12.11 @ 1:57PM
One would hope that the American people have learned the lesson - make sure when you send your representative to Washington that you don't let him loose in the henhouse without being monitored. It's OUR job to make sure they do THEIR job.
RCV| 7.8.11 @ 11:05AM
Nationalism is trending up, not down, around the world. The myriad of Balkan nations has emerged from the conglomeration that was Yugoslavia; the Soviet Union has been transformed into a dozen or more independent Stans; the Czechs and Slovaks have their own nations now; Scottish nationalism is growing stronger. European collectivism is wearing thin on everyone from the Danes on up. The nation-state is alive and well.
Alan Brooks| 7.8.11 @ 11:15AM
Armaments is a growth industry!
Mike D.| 7.8.11 @ 11:26AM
Always has been. If history has shown us anything its that men will band together to form a group, a nation, a religion, a political party, a tribe or anything of the like and kill each other by the millions. After the bloodiest century in human history, its show that organized killing is going strong. Only the threat of nuclear weapons and their use has slowed killing down to a relative trickle. WW3(probably 1950's-60's) would have come and gone if Nukes had not been introduced into the mix.
Alan Brooks| 7.8.11 @ 11:41AM
There you go. Invest in armaments to make a tidy sum--
it's where it's AT.
Harry the Horrible| 7.8.11 @ 12:02PM
Too bad they don't allow private purchases. Some of the new ARs look pretty cool!
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.8.11 @ 2:34PM
What do you mean, "too bad"? Wouldn't a true, red-blooded, manly patriot ignore such sophistries as federal regulations and buy the automatic weapon of his choice?
What kind of back-sliding conservative are you?
irish19| 7.9.11 @ 12:19AM
No one would consider forcing you to own, use, or even look at a firearm. I'm sure the very idea offends your delicate sensibilities. However, kindly avoid projecting your metrosexual effemininity on those of us who choose to own guns.
Anyway, automatic weapons waste ammunition. The mantra of all red blooded manly men is one shot one dead goblin.
irish19| 7.9.11 @ 12:20AM
Oh, yeah. Manly men obey the rules because that is how they were brought up by the prior generation of manly men. If we don't like the rules, we work to get them changed.
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.11.11 @ 5:57PM
Interesting. I believe there are 26 whitetailed deer who would disagree with your characterization of me and my Ruger .30-06. Want to trade shots?
irish19| 7.11.11 @ 10:28PM
Of????
Tony R| 7.11.11 @ 10:31AM
So, another immature liberal proves to be a sexist.
Why does a patriot have to be manly? My wife is a patriot and is well armed, by her own choice. She practices at the local range often, so as to cleanly hit her target without the need for multiple shots. And she is anything BUT manly.
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.11.11 @ 7:13PM
Because I made the rather reasonable assumption that Harry the Horrible is a male. Unless, of course, it was your wife writing the post. That's possible, I suppose.
Occam's Tool| 7.8.11 @ 9:56PM
Slight disagreement with you, RCV---among the non-Islamic sphere. In Dar-Es-Islam, I see pan-Arab Nationalism growing stronger; not quite the same thing.
I hope you had a blessed and restful 4th. I did. New Kitten.
RCV| 7.8.11 @ 11:27PM
I had a wonderful Fourth, Occam, thank you. Always do - one of my favorite holidays. Spent it barbecuing, with lots of relatives and friends around. Afterwards we watched our neighborhood's annual Fourth parade, with kids on trikes decked out in bunting, dogs all costumed up, floats sponsored by the local churches and synagogues, and an evening fireworks display in spectacular weather. Doesn't get better than that.
Even in the Islamic world, nationalism grows. The Kurds want their own place, Pakistan and Bangladesh split up. Yes, the Islamicists would love to reconstitute the Caliphate, but it ain't going to happen. Remember how long Nasser's United Arab Republic lasted? Those guys can't get along for a month with each other.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 7:26PM
By the way, I hope you're VERY, VERY right on this one. I'm just paranoid. Survival trait.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 6:53PM
Except, except my dear RCV---there are no children in the Soviet Union, Germany, or Denmark.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 7:25PM
You know what I mean by that---severely insufficient kids.
Mimi| 7.8.11 @ 6:53AM
I wondered when someone would write an article about this moment in time....about REAL-AMERICA and you captured us to a "T" ...Quin.
When the Democrats endure a massive defeat such as Nov. 2010 and Poo-Poo it, and act like they can win in 2012 just by dirty-ing up their competitors like the OLD days, their BOLD arrogance. America , America stands so wounded and yes betrayed....Thanks Quin for giving us this snapshot of Alabama....and I in Liberal N.Y. can say there are small towns all over here that feels like your REAL-AMERICA !
Alan Brooks| 7.8.11 @ 10:40AM
the West is Best, not the South.
Vikki| 7.8.11 @ 11:04AM
I could not agree more, Americans, we have to sTAND UP and be counted!
Alan Brooks| 7.8.11 @ 12:02PM
But if you're a Siamese twin, do you get counted once, or twice?
ripalinsky| 7.8.11 @ 7:03AM
There is ample cause to remove Obama right now! Why wait?
Alan Brooks| 7.8.11 @ 10:42AM
but you yourself wont take the initative to campaign to impeach him? or did you have something else in mind?
voted against carter| 7.8.11 @ 3:35PM
al,..
Your comprehension ability is suspect so I try and keep it simple.
You are an idiot. STOP proving it with every statement you make.
Hey mental midget.,... GO BACK TO HUF PO
Vikki| 7.8.11 @ 11:05AM
AMEN!!!
SpiralArchitect| 7.8.11 @ 1:38PM
To remove Obummer now would allow the Dimocrats to put anyone other than Obummer to run in '12
Much preferred to run against Obummer & all he has (& not) done.
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.8.11 @ 2:35PM
Is it too late to impeach W? I mean if Clinton's sexual adventure merited impeachment, doesn't wholesale lying and subversion of the Constitution rise to the standard of "high crimes and misdemeanors"?
Mike D.| 7.8.11 @ 5:11PM
Problem is that who is going to defend the constitution? Its been stomped on for about 100 years by professional political parasites. If anybody is looking for the supreme court to defend it, it may still for awhile, but bear in mind your one justice away from a leftist court that will negate anything in the constitution including gun ownership, privacy and anything else it wants to. Thats the real leftist prize. When the court goes socialist, your constitution is officially dead and the real tyranny begins.
Conservative Bob| 7.8.11 @ 8:06PM
You are absolutely right I hold my breath at every important decision. We are just a single heart beat away from real tyranny.
Skippy| 7.8.11 @ 5:16PM
What you call "wholesale lying", I call "doing his job well".
God bless GWB!
irish19| 7.9.11 @ 12:25AM
"doesn't wholesale lying and subversion of the Constitution rise to the standard of "high crimes and misdemeanors"
If it does, why is zero still in office? W is gone. You can gin up (with or without tonic) any accusations you want; but we can see what zero is doing right here, right now. Since he is still in office, he gets to go first if it comes to impeachment.
wodiej| 7.8.11 @ 7:08AM
I wonder what it will take for people to get out of their complacency and ideologue mindset of choosing political sides and take the side of our country and the principles it was founded on. Bread lines? Gas lines? Massive unemployment?
It takes more than displaying an American flag. It takes displaying actual courage and the willingness to fight for liberty by your time and your voice. Contributing a few dollars is not enough and never has been.
The reason we are here is because the American people have become fat, lazy and selfish. They have pampered themselves with 60 inch flat screen tv's, gas guzzling SUV's, video games and fancy gadgets and dining out as a rule instead of the exception.
People want to avoid the hard stuff but adversity is what made America and adversity is what will preserve it. Adversity means stretching your limits of hardship and testing your courage until you are like a sparkling glass of champagne. You will have character. You will have purpose. You will have a clear vision of goals and success.
That is what made America when thousands died in the Revolutionary War. When our Founding Fathers risked and sometimes lost their lives, wives, children, and all their material possessions all in the name of freedom. And that is what it's all about.
Vikki| 7.8.11 @ 11:10AM
A lot of us have already lost our jobs, and quite honestly, finding work is going to be a real challenge. Folks, it's time for real change and if Romney or his ilk is the Republican nomination, I am with with the Tea Party and firmly believe in supporting our Constitution.
SpiralArchitect| 7.8.11 @ 1:40PM
Ah, a third candidate? Brilliant, split the vote and asure Obummers tenure, or promotion to Overlord. Better to skip the (likely sham) election
if that is what you intend (third candidate).
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.8.11 @ 2:37PM
Oh, yes, please stay home. That's a brilliant suggestion. I love it.
That's even better than voting for a third party.
Hint - voting equals qualifying for a bitching license. Not voting means you and your cronies can sit back in self-righteous and re-assure yourselves that you really showed 'em.
By the way, who is "them"?
alice moore| 7.9.11 @ 8:21AM
So you want Obama instead of Romney or any of the other presumed squishy and wobbly pachyderms? This is a dream of the Obama Team. Vikki, the Left will be sending you flowers in 2013 if you decide on that course of action. Your 3rd Party vote will do that.
I will vote in the GOP primaries to try to have the most conservative possible candidate as the nominee. If that candidate does not win I will not be at home sulking in my tent. Any of the GOP field would be better than the current occupant and would bring change for the better.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 7.8.11 @ 7:10AM
There is nothing like standing on the shore line in Myrtle Beach, S.C. while tens of thousands line the shore from the inlet at Cherry Grove Beach, S.C. down past Pawley's Island, S.C. You're talking maybe 30, 40 miles of shoreline, mostly uninterrupted. I would imagine there's easily over a hundred thousand people there, perhaps two hundred thousand.
Although it's illegal for the most part, residents and tourists spend hundreds of dollars each to buy expensive fireworks.
I'm talking about expensive mortars ($50), artillery shells, rockets and thousands of wheels all going off simultaneously while thousands upon thousands scream and cheer.
There is nothing like it. One guy I was standing near had over $500 worth of fireworks, the big stuff.
As far as I know this has been going on for 30 years with no injuries.
And it isn't just for 15 minutes. Sometimes it goes on for hours.
It's the most amazing site you will ever see.
Richard| 7.8.11 @ 1:17PM
There is a dentist in Lander, WY who, with help, puts on a 4th of July show, open to all, with fireworks interwoven with patriotic rhetoric and patriotic music, all of which tell the story of America's founding. It is marvelous and so American.
Appleby| 7.8.11 @ 7:13AM
This is the Eschaton approaching. People who can tell in January that their team will not make the playoffs should try paying attention to the signs that are all around them:
Noun 1. eschaton - (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
Red at Heart| 7.8.11 @ 7:28AM
Obama's successfully tragic transformation of America would have no legs were it not for the very dangerous and powerful media we have in this country. From "We're All Socialists Now" to Michelle Obama appearing on kids' TV pushing her social agenda, it is Hollywood, MSNBC and the 3 major TV networks that consort to defeat patriotism, love of country and religious expression. The defeat of Barack Obama in the '12 election will be impossible unless every freedom loving American takes a stand against the propaganda. We must educate ourselves and learn from history. We're seeing NBC's political posturing in commercials prior to movies in our theaters; reminding us of the old newsreels of decades gone by when political messages were infused into our entertainment. Our president is a lead interview prior to the Super Bowl and he puts national business aside to do photo op's with his NCAA basketball brackets. We need to delve into what kids are learning in schools; for example, research the anti-American message being taught in the widely acclaimed IB schools. Recently, I checked the Cleveland Clinic's website to research some symptoms and immediately saw a photo of Obama dressed in a white lab coat appearing to be the National Physician. He doesn't bother with average Americans depicted in this article; he concerns himself w/ appeasing and appealing to those that mock them. Wake up, Average American; you have 16 months to decide if the present course is the one you want to be remembered by or if you are willing to do the hard work and have the courage to study and learn from history. Educate and inform everyone in your sphere of contact.
Anita| 7.8.11 @ 9:56AM
Wow. Quite the comment. I am afraid to the core of my heart that BO will have his second term merely because of the average laziness and nonchalance of the American people. People pooh pooh me when I bring up any view point other than the socialist lefts. Laugh out loud over Beck and his teachings. Snear at Sarah, Michelle, "the Mormon". I wonder just how long they will laugh when all their freedoms have been reduced or taken from them... permanently.
JimP| 7.8.11 @ 11:43AM
Where do you live, Anita? Sounds awful.
MPMadison| 7.8.11 @ 1:06PM
If she lives anywhere near Madison WI, AKA The People's Republic of Madison, I share her pain.
Seek| 7.8.11 @ 1:04PM
Glenn Beck's "teachings?" I never learned anything from that guy. But I do oppose socialism.
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.8.11 @ 2:40PM
Of course, people laugh out loud at Glenn Beck. What a pathetic example of self-serving whining.
When you bring up any viewpoint other than the socialist left's, do you do it with conviction and sources and backing or do you resort to the kind of name-calling and adhominem attacks so common here?
But fine - practice on me.
MM| 7.8.11 @ 5:26PM
Like him or not he has exposed a heck of a lot.
He got Van Jones fired.
I, for one, learned plenty.
TrueBlue| 7.9.11 @ 6:54PM
Ignore the conspiracy theories, then take what he says and do a little background research to confirm/deny it. Most of it isn't just opinion, regardless of how he presents it.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 6:54PM
Anita---feel the love from here, and know that you are not alone.
JohnB| 7.8.11 @ 7:31AM
"...Confused, worried, and even fearful": Well, this reader isn't confused, but I am worried and fearful. You see, it isn't confusing to me what is going on -- we have an out-and-out traitor in the White House; a wannabe-Caesar who hates what America was founded as and meant to be, namely, a beacon of shining liberty set upon a hill.
"...so many carbon-emitting children": This one phrase is spectacularly evocative of how the Leftists view the great "un-washed" masses "out there": that WE are a threat to their Gaia-worshipping, God-hating, post-Christian, materialist, Darwinist world view. Thank you, Quin, especially, for this phrase -- I intend to use it in conversation with friends the first chance I get!
POST American| 7.8.11 @ 7:39AM
---MORE empty, Made in RED China, American
flag fetish?
This is ----NOWHERE.
In fact, with the Globalization -TREASON op
rounding off so smoothly, with NO ONE being
exposed, nothing being examined, we should
go one better and be retrograde ---hang up the
original precursor of the stars and stripes ---the
'British' East India Company banner.
Afterall, the China Opium crowd and their
minnions are running the entire show.
We all know what groovy things they pulled on
the good people of China, to say nothing of
on the English themselves.
WHAT A MESS------------------------------------
Carol| 7.8.11 @ 7:42AM
Quin:
I imagine there is a large black population in Alabama.
Are you including them in the group of people who feel something isn't right with Obama?
I'm afraid blacks along with freeloaders, moochers, parasites, union thugs, welfare slugs, illegals who are allowed to vote for Democrats, will still vote for Obama because they receive that monthly stipend courtesy of US.
And don't forget the dumb factor. They are getting dumber by the minute.
Larry| 7.8.11 @ 8:35AM
Quite correct Carol. 95-98% of blacks will vote for Comrade Golfer simply because of the color of his skin AND because he's a socialist. If it came down to Comrade Golfer and Herman Cain, we'd be inundated with cries of "oreo" and "uncle Tom" toward Cain.
They may think or know that something isn't right about Comrade Golfer. That wont stop them from voting for him however.
Alan Brooks| 7.8.11 @ 2:10PM
"we'd be inundated with cries of "oreo" and "uncle Tom" toward Cain."
No, just 'TOKEN'.
voted against carter| 7.8.11 @ 3:37PM
al,..
Your comprehension ability is suspect so I try and keep it simple.
You are an idiot. STOP proving it with every statement you make.
Hey mental midget.,... GO BACK TO HUF PO
Curtis Rasmussen| 7.8.11 @ 3:58PM
Brooks, when it comes to race relations, you have your head so far up your ass that you can't see daylight. The condescending tripe emanating from your isolated group of friends, real or imaginary, is racist of itself. Get out of your mom's basement and live a little.
And Carol, not all blacks will vote for a marxist clown like Obama. The statistics are high but not 100%, meaning the politicians have successfully destroyed most minorities long term self-reliance, but they will never take mine away.
Tony R| 7.11.11 @ 10:37AM
Alan is exposed as a racist as well as an idiot.
alice moore| 7.9.11 @ 8:28AM
We can hope that the enthusiasm factor will be less in those communities come 2012.
Martine| 7.9.11 @ 11:24AM
I believe you are right, Alice. Black unemployment stats are higher than white. That's going to tamp down the enthusiasm.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 7:24PM
Actually, Black Unemployment under the ONE has been Catastrophic.
Mike D.| 7.8.11 @ 10:08AM
Stupidity has become a national disease. With the schools and universities churning out good little brain dead socialists by the millions the numbers are ever increasing against turning this thing around. Its now or never, simply that. Far too many have and will in the future gladly accept a government check and cash in the country and not think twice about it. I see certain states in the future try to band together and save themselves as a group while other parts of the country, i.e. California, NY, IL, and others become virtually unsalvagable and lost for good. States that are financially responsible will NOT sacrifice $$$ to support states that will become Federal money pits, the first of will be California. Interesting to see that the southern part of California wants to secede from the rest of the state. Unthinkable now, but as time goes on not so unthinkable as one might think. The first step HAS to be getting these utopian nutjobs and their fearless leader in 2012. I firmly believe that this election in 2012 will go down in US history as possibly THE most critical since the civil war.
Redstateboy| 7.8.11 @ 11:46AM
That's the plan Mike D. To have a population of un/undereducated, dependent dolts who'll compose the Storm Troopers of the future Totalitarian Slave (Democrat) Party State. The flash looter mobs are just the precursor.
Mike D.| 7.8.11 @ 12:40PM
None of this is by "accident". Things happen for reasons. There are evil people, out for money and power and the subjegation and enslavement of the many is the route to this power. Its the same old theme of history repackaged as "social justice"(formally known as Communism in the bad old cold war days) or a religious Theocracy known as Islam where the few control the many and the few of course don't allow themselves the luxery of living by the system they dictate to the many. Its always been good vs. evil. Always will be. Communism and all its forms are inherently evil and so is religious theocracies, whether Catholic, islam, or Monarchies with kings and emporers. Its been the ultimate battle in this world since man came on the scene and 100's of millions have died fighting for and against it. Power over men is the ultimate drug and now the very evil and face of tyranny that we fought so many times has evolved in our midsts. Man's greatest experiment in self-determination is now facing its greatest challenge.
Conservative Bob| 7.8.11 @ 8:19PM
I am not so sure this election will not be like the one the brought Lincoln to office, and the War that followed.
I think we are on a similar road.
Vikki| 7.8.11 @ 11:18AM
AMEN!! Those who should not be geting Social Security, i.e., illegals, are not supposed to be voting! I would go back to having to vote on one day, Election Day, and having to present photo identification. However, we should also make very clear, WE DO NOT WANT THE NATIONAL I.D. CARD! I have read too many scary things that they could do, if we, the sheeple, accept it!
Appleby| 7.8.11 @ 1:54PM
No, they won't be so stupid as to make it a "National ID Card."
They will make it an "App" and give you a lollipop with it and tell you that All The Beautiful People Already Have It, and you will fight and trample each other to be the next one to possess it.
That's the way they do it these days.
jo blo| 7.8.11 @ 12:50PM
Black and Hispanic racism is a huge problem in this country.
Seek| 7.8.11 @ 1:07PM
Yes it is. And I guarantee you, you'll find at best a small handful of American flags if you walk through an all-black or (especially) Hispanic neighborhood around July 4 (I have many times). Their attachment to this country just isn't that deep.
Pecos Pete| 7.8.11 @ 4:08PM
Seek, depends on where you look. In New Mexico the population is approx 50% hispanic and the flag of the USA is everywhere. The state offers special license plates for cars of veterans and you will lose count of veteran autos.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 7:23PM
Does not sound like Seek.
RCV| 7.8.11 @ 6:03PM
Yeah, well next time you see a list of the dead and wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, count how many "unpatriotic" Hispanic Americans you see. Jerk.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 6:56PM
Actually, Hispanic Americans have won many more medals than their percentage of population, I think. I object to Illegal aliens. I have two Hispanic legal citizens I arranged for at home---the World's Two Cutest Children.
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.8.11 @ 2:41PM
Moderator, who allows this kind of racist trash?
And what "monthly stipend"?
Clint| 7.8.11 @ 3:38PM
The same "who" who allows you to run your mouth here, Crybaby.
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.8.11 @ 3:42PM
So, Clint, you're defending these racist remarks. Very telling.
MM| 7.8.11 @ 5:29PM
I didn't see anything racist. Maybe, like my 14 year old child, you need to look up the definition.
Stating facts and saying something that is true is not racist.
MM| 7.8.11 @ 5:31PM
Oh! SORRY everybody -- that is a new troll.
I didn't recognize the 'name' so I didn't know or I would obviously not have replied.
Clint| 7.8.11 @ 6:40PM
No Asshat Any Butt, You're attacking The Free Speech Rights of American Freemen.
Occam's Tool| 7.8.11 @ 9:58PM
Yes, Carol, but the good news is that they will be outvoted in Alabama.
Melvin| 7.8.11 @ 7:47AM
So my brothers and sisters, what are we going to do in our current untenable postilion?
We have done allot of talking, even if Obama doesn't get reelected, he has put into place a socialist infrastructure that will haunt and torture us for years to come.
He has given the regulatory agencies immense power that will be with us even after he has gone.
Even if a Republican/Conservative candidate gets elected as President. The Obamites in government postilions will fight him or her ever step of the way or disregard the new President altogether.
So again I ask you, what are we going to do to destroy the Communist Virus that has infected this Country?
Carol| 7.8.11 @ 8:11AM
We are going to elect somebody with balls into office and they are going to write executive orders to get rid of Obama's policies.
Obama's people will lose their jobs - just like the Republicans lost their jobs when Hussein took over.
Cass Sunstein - another Commie SOB who is doing the most damage - will be gone. We'll put in another Regulations Czar to regulate out Sunstein's regulations.
I'm not going down without a fight - even if it means you know what!
Vikki| 7.8.11 @ 11:20AM
Le's go for it! I agree, we have to get rid of all the regulatory agencies and his czars (communist) and their crazy ideas!
Redstateboy| 7.8.11 @ 11:49AM
The only candidates I suspect have enough balls to impliment what Carol and Vikki propose and agree with is - in my opinion - Bachmann, Cain and may be Perry - possibly Pawlenty. Definitely Not Romney - He believes all the same crap that Hussein believes.
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.8.11 @ 2:43PM
No, what does it mean? Are you advocating armed insurrection? Oooopppss, that's probably too hard a word?
Let's try - are you talking about a bunch of you picking up your deer rifles and start shooting anyone you fancy doesn't agree with you?
And points for honesty.
Clint| 7.8.11 @ 3:40PM
You find out in 2012, Butt.
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.8.11 @ 3:42PM
OK, no points for honesty, Clint.
And demerits for not answering the question.
And further demerits for the lame insult.
Clint| 7.8.11 @ 6:37PM
Your Only Point Is On The Top Of Your Asshat Head, Any Butt.
Occam's Tool| 7.8.11 @ 10:03PM
DEar sir,
I will answer you in calm terms, unlike my bete noir, C(lint ) Elegans. Simply put: America is a Center Right Country. We were expecting Obama to be a Clinton redoux (I voted for neither Clinton nor Obama, but Teflon Bill would have been preferrable); instead, he was the greatest ideologue voted to the Presidency since Woodrow Wilson (and just as racist).
You cannot govern a Center Right country froim the far left; therfore, I believe Obama would be beaten by any Republican candidate sans Ron Paul, who recently voted for FOREIGN AID to Hamas, with only 5 others in the House, including Dennis Kucinich, the arch-Leftist.
In short, Obama sold us a bill of goods, and he will reap the reward of his perfidy.
Disagree with me or agree, I avoided insult and answered your question directly.
Clint| 7.9.11 @ 11:24AM
Screwball Israel Firster Fanatic Is All Fixated & PMS'y Because Tea Party Clint and many of We Tea Party Patriots and Our Tea Party Senator Dr.Rand Paul and Our Tea Party Co-Favorite Dr. Ron Paul Don't Asskiss Tool Job's Personal Israel Firster Agenda.
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.
Carpe Diem.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 7:01PM
C Elegans has only 302 nerve cells, and reproduces by self-fertlization. Thank you for validating you nickname, C(lint) Elegans.
You will notice, however, that "The Right" stopped that line of argument, Clint. It's called civility. Try it some time. Now, I understand your hatred for me; it's mutual. But when you act like a retard towards Stuart Koehl, whose left pinky finger has forgotten more than you will ever know about defense policy, I begin to wonder just how many times daddy dropped you on your open fontanelle before age 18 months.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 7:22PM
He also won't defend our country well. RR was a long time ago, and the enemy was the USSR. RP is clueless regarding the Islamics.
Butch | 7.9.11 @ 4:47PM
Occam, I fear Romney can't beat him. Obama is good at one thing: heaping scorn. He will wrap Romneycare around Romney's neck, and Romney will be defenseless on that one. Also, I don't think Romney would "go negative" until it is already too late, as did Dole and McCain before him.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 7:02PM
I don't want Romney, myself. I would like: Allen West, followed by Michele Bachmann, follwoed by Sarah Palin, followed by Herman Cain. I am presuming my ultimate dream rabbit, John Bolton, is not running.
Mimi| 7.8.11 @ 4:56PM
It's the "O" Regime shooting wildly, hopeful that something....anything ...hits ! So far only misses !You NEWBIE SORO'S boys now on board to help Obama get out of 20% rut he's really in are trying on this site and others.....we know when truth hits the page you are on it like fly's on COW-MANURE. You second and third string guys are HOPELESS get the Pros after us....your boring!!!
martin j smith| 7.8.11 @ 7:53AM
The main hope for this country I think is the continued expansion of the Tea Party. Its the organized as well as spontaneous that are needed to galvanize the feelings of those who do not want to be thrown around as if they are garbage by those of either Political party.
I live in a Blue city in a Blue state and for the most party-except for a few pockets of real understanding most have the same teleprompter bumper sticker knowledge and attitude. But, even here there are thousands of small businesses, mom and pop. There are millions to be affected by unemployment and inflation etc.
Its going to be about the ECONOMY in the end here where I live and sadly things have to get reeeeeeeely bad for some knee jerK Democrat voters to switch--but they might stay home. Here it is not about Patriotism unless we are again attacked as in 9/11. Then we will have a day of
that.
Siegfried X| 7.8.11 @ 8:53AM
The main hope for this country I think is the continued expansion of the Tea Party"
Totally right. In general the Republican and Democratic parties are left-leaning, and continually move the country towards socialism. That only changes on those rare occasions when a specific conservative group manages, against all odds, to grab control of the leadership and move the country to the right for a short period, with the leadership of both parties fighting him / them all the way.
In my lifetime the only three times that happened, that conservatives were in control were:
(1) Reagan Presidency
(2) Gingrich Speakership
(3) Tea Party
JimP| 7.8.11 @ 7:54AM
There you go again, Quin. Quoting the Declaration of Independence. Everyone in Washington, and up North generally agrees that the D of I was a one time and one time only deal. 'Honest' Abe settled that argument, or so the Yanks claim. You may not refer to the D of I, especially those sections-even if clipped short- that speak of a right and duty to get rid of tyrannical government etc, etc. That is SECESSION talk and we can't have any of that you seditious, rebel, rabble rouser, you. Now be quiet and vote for a big government Repub in the primaries.
fmm| 7.8.11 @ 9:23AM
JimP - Those in Washington and up North shoud actually read the Declaration of Independence. About two thirds of the language specifically applies directly to what the situation is right now!
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.8.11 @ 2:46PM
Oh, please secede. Really. Go. I think Lincoln made a huge mistake in 1861 in going after the South anyway. (Hint: the South would have crumbled as its economy and social structure were unsustainable.)
And would you take those who agree with you regardless of residence with you? Please?
JimP| 7.9.11 @ 6:58AM
LOL Hey would we love to oblige. It's your kind that STILL would not let ANYONE leave. Thanks for the hateful 'well' wishes though.
alice moore| 7.9.11 @ 9:06AM
Your argument is an emotional one. Would it surprise you that the feeling are mutual? What you say of the South in the 19th Century can be applied to Northeast and California of today. Many say if those 2 regions were countries on their own it would be good riddance to bad rubbish. Be careful what you wish for.
As for forcing out those that disagree with you.... It's been tried many times. Look to the Khmer Rouge, Mao, Stalin, or Hitler as recent examples.
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.11.11 @ 6:01PM
I'm not forcing anyone to do anything. I simply respond to the posters on this site who appear to yearn for secession and/or armed struggle against "them."
Maddox| 7.8.11 @ 7:56AM
My confusion is not over what Obama and his fellow traitors are doing, it is caused by other pathetic politicians who are allowing it and the lying liberal media who are deceiving so many. Politicians with the power, granted by our Constitution, to stop this travesty are as evil as Obamites with an agenda, they are ruled by greed and power. The media is nothing but a puppet being used by people who will destroy them just as they are destroying America. They see this as we do but are selfishly grasping at the hope that will make them part of the chosen ones, they disgust me as much as the obvious traitors.
tsd| 7.8.11 @ 8:04AM
All accross our country you could see the real America and the wants and dreams for a better life, earned by our efforts, not hand outs, during our 4th of July celebrations. What is so hard for the nimrods in Washington to understand. We are willing to work for the rights to keep our property, our freedom and our rights to self government. Elitist Morons be gone!!!
Siegfried X| 7.8.11 @ 8:06AM
It's a nice fantasy, but day dreams won't defeat the Democrats. It must have been enjoyable to sit in one of the most conservative parts of the USA, and then pretend like the rest of the country was the same.
The problem is that is just isn't so. Huge portions of the country that were neutral or leaned Republican 20 or 30 years ago are now deeply Democratic, verging on Communist. Some of those state Republican parties haven't won a state wide election in 20 years.
The Republican Party leadership and media are full of ex-Democrat, Democrat-wanna-bee RINOs and Neo-Cons. Mitt Romney is headed towards an easy primary victor because the big Republican money favors left-leaning candidates, and because the primary rules (winner-take-all) are designed to allow Democrats (and RINOs) to choose the Republican nominee.
But time will tell. No reason to argue the point. If a strongly conservative Republican wins the presidential nomination, then beats Obama, I'll admit that Quin was right and I was wrong.
(I am not hoping that the Democrats win. My point is that in order to elect conservatives, we need to start by being realistic.)
Carol| 7.8.11 @ 8:14AM
Being realistic means not voting for Mitt RomneycarewhobelievesinGlobalWarmingandthinksUnionsaregreatandiswillingtoworkwithDemocrats.
Vikki| 7.8.11 @ 11:30AM
Carol -
I couldn't agree with you more! The fact that he believes in Global Warming and what he has done to his state with RomneyCare are unconscienable!
fmm| 7.8.11 @ 9:29AM
A good place to help blunt the RINO's is to support the Senate Conservative Fund fostered by Senator Jim DeMint. They are working hard to identify true conservatives and to support their campaigns for the senate. Head to their web site and offer your support.
winterhawk| 7.8.11 @ 8:23AM
That sense is not only felt in Alabama but across the nation. obama is a very scary individual. Four more years would ruin us. He has a year and a half left and if we don't hold him down that ruination will happen before he's gone.
USSAlabama| 7.8.11 @ 8:30AM
Quinn, Thanks for the article, it is so true.
I love Point Clear and almost bought a house there. If I described it you would know immediately which one it was.
The most poignant statement to describe how we feel here in Real America is that of the feeling that all that is going on is alien to every American thing we know.
I still hear talk of a new American Revolution. In Alabama we finally began to clean out the state legislature and in the past session the newly elected State Congressmen had the most productive single session in 100 years!
We threw out the Dems in the districts where it could be done. Look at that as an example of how we are really feeling here.
Much frustration that we cannot do that to Washington DC.
fmm| 7.8.11 @ 9:32AM
"the feeling that all that is going on is alien to every American thing we know"
If you read about Post Modernism, you will start to understand why you have these feelings. Obama has been identified in several articles as the first postmodern, affirmative action president.
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.8.11 @ 2:48PM
So, by your definition, my place of residence is automatically disqualified as the "Real America"?
Unless I live in a vividly red state, I can't possibly live in "Real America"?
skip| 7.8.11 @ 4:57PM
Until just now I didn't know you could claim a shitter as a place of residence.
MM| 7.8.11 @ 5:32PM
Skip - don't. That is a troll.
Tina B| 7.8.11 @ 6:55PM
I don't think you even live in the real world Right-But.
Occam's Tool| 7.8.11 @ 10:07PM
Alabama is one of the prettiest places G-d gave us. From the beautiful Lookout Mountain to the glorious Waterfalls to the exquisite White Sand Beaches where Quin lives (If you noticed a radiant 8 year old Native American girl on the beach down there, Quin, accompanied by a very handsome Latino 7 year old boy, then you saw my kids this June.), it is stunning and pleasant, with the best behaved children in the world.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 7:03PM
If you have not been to the Gulf Coast in Alabama, you have not seen heaven. Unfortunately, my heat intolerance forbids me from living there anymore.
D. Singh| 7.8.11 @ 8:33AM
Sir
A truly wholesome article by Mr Hillyer.
P.S.: He may wish to introduce his 13 year-old nephew to the wonderful essay by Mr Stephen E. Lucas: The Stylistic Artistry of the Declaration of Independence.
MacDaddy| 7.8.11 @ 8:48AM
Rise up!
D. Singh| 7.8.11 @ 8:59AM
Sir
May I add that the Declaration of Independence is (and should be) a vital component of the intellectual furniture that our children hold in their minds upon which to meditate and act:
‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.’
Mimi| 7.8.11 @ 9:34AM
Thanks for the post...the D of I brought tears...." The long train of abuses and usurpations " is getting longer and longer and we sure do need " New GUARDS " for our future security and well being....AMEN !!
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.8.11 @ 2:56PM
Guards doesn't necessarily mean people with guns, Mimi.
Clint| 7.8.11 @ 4:13PM
Doesn't necessarily exclude them either.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 7:08PM
My, my, my...
"Clarence: Ooh, guns, guns, guns! Tigers are playing ... tonight! I never miss a game!" From Robocop.
You really are a peurile runt, C(lint) Elegans.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 7:10PM
Sorry---puerile. Damn.
Mimi| 7.8.11 @ 5:08PM
Heh Soro 's "NEWBIE" I did not mean Guns you fool.....Just to be clear....I meant new GUARDS as the Republicans running to replace your 2012 Nominee!!! That Harvard Study...Named the GOP as the ones celebrating Independence Day...called us the PATRIOTS out recruiting...The DEMS ??? I think they think your the TRAITORS...mmmmmmm!
Appleby| 7.8.11 @ 1:57PM
Then teach them that the D of I does not say you are guaranteed HAPPINESS, only the opportunity to PURSUE it.
Too many people in the USA are convinced that somehow the Constitution guarantees them Happiness.
irish19| 7.9.11 @ 9:35AM
"Too many people in the USA are convinced that somehow the Constitution guarantees them Happiness."
And we have a Winner!!!
That statement is at the root of nearly every domestic problem we are facing. People have been indoctrinated to think that way. Equality of opportunity has given way to equality of results-by legislation if necessary. No thought is given to the fact that not everyone can be a success at whatever they want. Therefore, the gov't must not only level the playing field, but must also determine the final score of the game.
2Anglico| 7.8.11 @ 9:09AM
Quinn writes that even in the depths of the Raw Deal, there was not as much power grabbing as is going on now. The time FDR stole American's gold coins rivals anything Obama is doing. Gold for paper, what a deal!
USSAlabama| 7.8.11 @ 1:26PM
Well be sure to check out that health care law for a new rule on buying gold.
2Anglico| 7.8.11 @ 9:22AM
Oh, I forgot, FDR putting Americans of Japanese descent in concentration camps and causing them to lose their property was not very nice either!
Jean| 7.8.11 @ 9:24AM
You sir, are in God's country! My favorite place in the world besides home. I never estimated the amount of damage the liberals could do with Obama in the WH. They have literally about done us in. I am a small business owner and we are holding on by our fingernails! Changing the congress and the occupant in the WH cannot come too soon for me!
russel| 7.8.11 @ 9:39AM
Factual points Quinn . Our Founders knew all too well how fragile freedom is and how many faults possess humans . This is a person dead set on transforming their hard work and sacrifice into his own twisted idea of some sort of country . A blind man can see it . Precicely why they gave us the second ammendment and gave us permission to use it if the situation got dire . They knew that when you're dealing with a menace , force is the only option . Now , this dictator- in -waiting can see this and is moving , as we speak , to get control over this last means of our Constitutional protection . He is mobilizing his own ' citizen army ' and once our means of communication is shut off ( very easy with cell phones and internet ) , we could seriously be looking at some sort of dictatorship . I don't think this some crazy nut job theory but one very real . Problem is so many in this country will fall to their kness and acquiesce .
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.8.11 @ 2:57PM
"Citizen Army"?
Cite your sources. Put up or shut up. Otherwise, this is the kind of crap my father heard back in the second decade of the last century when the Knights of Columbus were forming an army for the overthrow of Protestant America.
irish19| 7.9.11 @ 12:43AM
"Obama's reference to the civilian force came during his "Call to Service" speech in Colorado Springs in which he insisted the U.S. "cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set" and needs a "civilian national security force."
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?f.....geId=92109
There is a video of the speech in which he first mentioned it. Now kindly STFU!
ds80| 7.9.11 @ 8:25AM
irish ... better to ignore the likes of TryAButt. They soon wither from lack of attention.
irish19| 7.9.11 @ 9:37AM
I s'pose. But sometimes I just like to whack them about the head and shoulders for the sheer joy of it.
This one makes it easy.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 7:11PM
Yes, but you are my favorite Irishman.
irish19| 7.11.11 @ 10:34PM
I thank you, sir.
I do wish you and Clint could agree to bury the hatchet (and not in each other's skulls). He was doing a credible job, IMO, of playing Whack a Troll until he devolved into Bad Clint.
martin j smith| 7.8.11 @ 9:56AM
One other point: I want to see if our great Leaders Boehner and McConnell do the right thing or throw us around like garbage. The debt ceiling talks will reveal something one way or another.
JP| 7.8.11 @ 10:15AM
One way to save a few hundred billion a year is to raise the Social Security retirement age to 72. All in favor, raise your hands.
But Social Security is easy to reform when compared to both Medicare and Medicaid. Add in ObamaCare and both programs are beyond repair. Medical costs in this nation sky-rocketed ever since Congress implemented various "reforms" begining in the 1980s. Both private and public health systems suffered due to these new laws, mandates, and regulations. The problem affects both doctors and patients. A huge non-valued added bureaucracy sprouted up that does nothing but consume dollars. This entire bureaucratic system which we've all grown accustomed to must change; otherwise, costs will continue to grow no matter who is in office.
But, ultimately those are political questions. And many people all across the nation have much to gain with the current system(s), and much to lose if they are reformed. I don't think there are more than 40% of Americans who are willing to go through the changes needed to reduce our defecits. And our President just plays to thier worst instincts. The GOP has yet to produce a leader who can lead on this issue.
Frekki| 7.8.11 @ 12:31PM
You retire at 72. I work in a Steel Mill and have to run up 5 flights of stairs 20 times a day. It's easy for an office drone to contimplate sitting in their chair another 7 years. But at 55, I am counting down the days 'till I get to sit down.
ds80| 7.9.11 @ 8:30AM
Your job was your choice, Frekki. Now get your hand out of my pocket.
Anthony| 7.8.11 @ 10:25AM
Obozo stooge David Plouffe says the unemployment rate won't be a factor in the 2012 election.
Obozo cancels (briefly) another vacation, this time to Montana, (can that Grizzley bear make it to Montana in time?) to speak about the job numbers, in contradiction to what Plouffe had to say about them. Abbott and Costello do the job numbers.
What golf courses will Obozo play upon his arrival, the faithful ball washer Chris Matthews wants to know?
Washington pols are playing Russian roulette with the debt ceiling. Obozo eyes raising the debt ceiling without Congressional approval.
Folks, Quin is right, it's all of our sacred duty to take back America from the leftist bastards and spineless Rs seeking to destroy it.
Tick tock....tick tock....
KennesawJack| 7.8.11 @ 10:46AM
As for Boehner and McConnell, I have no doubt they'll fold and throw the country under the bus once again. I'm reminded of a great Sam Cook song, "Change is Gonna Come". If the Republicans leaders don't get their collective heads out of their collective butts, I fear the change that's going to come won't be pretty. There are so many more Americans like those folks in Point Clear than our politicos realize and they will reach a point when they simply won't stand for this nonsense any longer. I fear if we don't soon see some political courage in Washington those people will take matters into their own hands. What a sad thing to contemplate. On a lot of levels, I'm glad I'm an old man. I look back over my nearly 70 years and see clearly, now, how we got here. On another level, it would be nice to be a young man and be around for the re-birth of liberty.
Anthony| 7.8.11 @ 11:15AM
Agreed, it would be fun to be young again to kick some ass..... however, we can still go out with a big BANG!!!
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.8.11 @ 2:51PM
You guys want to start with me? I'm tired of this phony talk about taking back the country and dropped these thinly veiled promotions of violence and armed struggle. Name the place and the weapons.
You can even paint your faces red, white, and blue and pound your chests and sing some songs first. Your choice.
voted against carter| 7.8.11 @ 3:39PM
triab,..
Your comprehension ability is suspect so I try and keep it simple.
You are an idiot. STOP proving it with every statement you make.
Hey mental midget.,... GO BACK TO HUF PO
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.8.11 @ 3:48PM
You do realize that one of the hallmarks of insanity is doing or saying the same thing over and over again and getting the same results?
Clint| 7.8.11 @ 4:16PM
We Get It. You're Insane, Any Butt.
Take Two Shock Treatment & Call Us In The Morning.
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.8.11 @ 4:19PM
Wow. A riposte scintillating for its lack of intelligence and lack of brevity.
Clint| 7.8.11 @ 6:34PM
I'm fencing against the unarmed imbecile Any Butt
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 7:21PM
Yourself?
Doug| 7.8.11 @ 5:39PM
Here's the proper quote: "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Albert Einstein
Does your brain require that you state everything backwards or is that you just amusing yourself (in your own mind) at the expense of others?
Here's a freebie just for you: http://i1.tinypic.com/s26yko.jpg
Doug| 7.8.11 @ 5:40PM
Whoops, forgot to add this: http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26032.html
Tony R| 7.11.11 @ 10:46AM
You would know, wouldn't you triabutt? Move on back to your comrades-in-insanity over at the huffpo.
KennesawJack| 7.8.11 @ 6:18PM
What a typically emotional response from the left. Tell me, are you as distressed by the less-than-veiled threats from Calypso Louie and the Reverend Jackson? Probably not. Are really so foolish as to believe the American people will stand idly by and allow their lives to be controlled by fools such as those in Washington? Just for my edification, are you an academic, a politician, a member of the press, or un-employed and living on that which the government confiscates from me?
ds80| 7.9.11 @ 8:35AM
My browser is set up for troll-scrolling, so he's ignored. But I suspect he's either a slack-jawed drooling looter or a corpulent sneering moocher. Or a community organizer.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 7:15PM
Dear The Right:
Clint does not represent our mean. It's possible to be a bit on the left and not get kicked on this site. Hey, I took you on politely. But it would be nice if you adopted some civility. I did with you. State your piece and show your documentation.
Mike D.| 7.8.11 @ 10:50AM
They will doctor the unemployment numbers, count on it and the butt barnacles in the media will declare a full on tidalwave recovery in progress by 2012 even of half the country is out of work in reality. Your going to see a propaganda campaign that would make Pravda blush.
Rad Manley| 7.8.11 @ 11:31AM
Been reading Spectator and comments for quite some time and never issued forth. Today, I was struck by the posits of many of the right thinking who simply ignore the likes of "Alan Brooks" and the liberal pablum he lamely proffers as though it ever has any meat. He is but one of the squealy lemmings who squirms to latch on to the legs of we who carry the weight and go directly into the fight. Just kick him over the edge and be done with it.
Big J| 7.8.11 @ 5:49PM
Comment of the day Rad. The same applies to the half dozen others that have nothing to say, but say it over and over and over again.
Brooks would go away if he were ignored for 2 days, maybe 3 tops. As for the others, 5 minutes would probably suffice.
Thanks.
irish19| 7.9.11 @ 9:40AM
Good points.
"Squealy lemmings" would be a great name for a rock band, BTW.
Gary| 7.8.11 @ 11:34AM
I have vacationed in Point Clear in the past with my late wife and it is a special place. I recently moved to rural Arkansas and many of the people I've met possess the same beliefs discussed by Mr. Hillyer. I too feel the vast expansion of federal power is frightening. Obama has accelerated this ongoing trend. He is using executive fiat, the NLRB, the EPA, Immigration, etc. to do what Congress won't pass in addition to the health care monster railroaded through Congress. Now the government is telling us what kind of toilets we buy, light bulbs, cars, health care, medicine, and on and on. Where does it end? Make no mistake, if the Schumers and Pelosis had their way every state would be forced to recognize" gay marriage." (I always use quotes as the government cannot redefine an institution that predates any government) These attitudes are not shared by millions of Americans but in the liberal media and academia are treated as gospel. "They" know what's best for us? So did Lenin and Trotsky.
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.8.11 @ 2:52PM
So YOU know what's best for me?
Give me a list so I can get started.
voted against carter| 7.8.11 @ 3:41PM
triab,..
al,..
Your comprehension ability is suspect so I try and keep it simple.
You are an idiot. STOP proving it with every statement you make.
Hey mental midget.,... GO BACK TO HUF PO,..
Your comprehension ability is suspect so I try and keep it simple.
You are an idiot. STOP proving it with every statement you make.
Hey mental midget.,... GO BACK TO HUF PO
Occam's Tool| 7.8.11 @ 10:12PM
Sure, The Right...here's what's best for you---anything you want so long as I don't need to clean up your messes and/or you don't hurt anyone else. That's all. I don't believe in threats, or anything of that sort. I dealt with the Alabama Chain Gang for years. I have been stabbed and thrown against walls and threatened with death more times than I can count in the course of my dangerous job.
I wish you and C(lint) Elegans would save the idiot histrionics for your own time. Quite frankly, I like to argue with RCV, because we can discuss arguments.
martin j smith| 7.8.11 @ 11:35AM
Support the Tea Party and neither the Repubs nor the Socialists ( they are the same ). Being Patriotic will mean not only voting but whenever possible make sure your voice is heard especially with the Repubs ( Socialists don't give a crap ) Repubs can be pushed.
Redstateboy| 7.8.11 @ 11:52AM
Hussein being reelected would produce the same atmosphere in the country as when Abe Lincoln was elected President - Civil War would be imminent.
Anthony| 7.8.11 @ 1:13PM
Red state boy, You are 100% on the money. If the spineless, feckless, Boehner and his boys cave into raising the debt ceiling, as reported by Rush, we are indeed in a state of civil war.
America stands at the edge of the river Rubicon.
Washington and its elitist establishment will need to flee if the river is crossed........
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.8.11 @ 2:53PM
If your comment had included some other credible sources along with "as reported by Rushm," you'd have some standing.
Endlessly repeating what you read in a closed circle of fellow travelers does not substitute from a position derived from many sources.
voted against carter| 7.8.11 @ 3:42PM
triab,..
Your comprehension ability is suspect so I try and keep it simple.
You are an idiot. STOP proving it with every statement you make.
Hey mental midget.,... GO BACK TO HUF PO
RCV| 7.8.11 @ 6:10PM
...and with the same result.
Oldefarte| 7.8.11 @ 11:52AM
Being not to far up the road from Point Clear, I'll argue the simplistic fact that my adjacent city has had a fireworks ban [due to the fire danger possibly resulting from exploding fireworks] in place recently but sadly their county allows the sale of these fire-dangerous fireworks which are detrimental to our county's property. That trival fact said, I too lament the downsizing of our historical/traditional value system in this country which eclipsed on 11/4/2008 [when Americans apparently lost it collective mind and voted STUPIDLY]. How can we get back to THAT SHINING CITY ON THE HILL? Simple, folks.......by voting intelligently, studeously for the conservative candidates with proven track records that are complementary to our collective value system, that's how. If we vote and elect morons, then we can't complain about these elected morons' policies and procedures. Look in the mirror for why this government and these politicians are doing this, that and everything else to us. It's our fault because we're stupid, or at least we ignorantly don't pay attention to political matters, read the MSM's bullexcrement and allow ourselves to be collectively brainwashed by same, allow our children to be propagandized by Hollywood's TV shows and movies filled with liberalized garbage, don't demand that our families attend church or receive some sort of religious information on a regular basis, buy into the cries of racism, disenfranchisement, discrimination etc that assigns bogus collective guilt over slavery allowing the proponents of same messages to force us into voting for completely un-American, non-capitalist, socialists weirdos to obtain the powerful offices of the presidency and of congress. WAKE UP, people and vote responsibly and correctly next year, and you will thereafter get back to the Point Clear's [and their value systems] of this world eventually!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seek| 7.8.11 @ 1:10PM
I did not know that "Green Lantern" and "X-Men" qualified as "propaganda."
Oldefarte| 7.8.11 @ 3:51PM
You can be assured that contained within the dialog somewhere are subliminal messaging concerning GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS, RACISM, DISENFRANCHISEMENT, GENTRIFICATION, DISCRIMINATION and the like. Oh, and for your information, check out the new California state law that requires the inclusion of references to contributions of members of the LGBT crowd in the public school texctbooks [and which is editorialized by Michael Reagan on today's Newsmax], so take your obviously liberal viewpoint and try bullexcrementing someone else concerning same, okay?????????
Oldefarte| 7.8.11 @ 3:56PM
PS: Green Lantern and X-Men are typical pieces of garbage anyway that are an insult to anyone so-called intelligence who wastes the $8/ticket required to sit through such trash. Once upon a time Hollywood produced true entertainment and movie classics with dialog from qualified actors worthy of movie patrons admission [without the political inserted crap also], but no longer!!!!!
Tenn Slim| 7.11.11 @ 8:49AM
"Simple, folks.......by voting intelligently, studeously for the conservative candidates with proven track records that are complementary to our collective value system, that's how. If we vote and elect morons, then we can't complain about these elected morons' policies and procedures. Look in the mirror for why this government and these politicians are doing this, that and everything else to us. It's our fault because we're stupid, or at least we ignorantly don't pay attention to political matters, read the MSM's bullexcrement and allow ourselves to be collectively brainwashed by same, allow our children to be propagandized by Hollywood's TV shows and movies filled with liberalized garbage, ...."
True enoug. BUT, we have to have a CANDIDATE. As of this date, there are NONE.
Obama may well win by default, by a Tea Party 3rd candidate, splitting the vote. He may well win by a "Chicago Crisis" , who knows?
LOCAL governmental involvement in the end is probably our only National Salvation. Ignoring the DC feds may well be the answer.
It is and going to be, a long political summer.
end
Semper Fi
irish19| 7.11.11 @ 10:36PM
Excellent analysis!
CharlieEcho| 7.8.11 @ 12:12PM
Whom will we find that is pure enough to challenge the great one? This is Chicago people. No one will stand the test until we begin to look beyond the grime. Obama is a tool, though he is a willing tool because it is what he too wants. He happen to fit the mould at just the right time. These people know how to appeal to the ignorant non-voters in this nation of world patriots.
If by some stretch the American people begin to realize they are being taken for a ride Obama and his organizers will scortch the earth if they do not get their way. It's the Chicago way. I don't win, you don't win. You think we have bills due now, just wait. Give them their debt un-limits and we will bury ourselves. Our leaders or our elected followers had better take a stand prior to 08/02/2011. Don't look for it. China knows better and has already prepared to own us more. China is being played too and once again these flag waving patriots, I am one, will be required to pay the bills while the Chicago socialists will change their stripes and fill in where ever it profits. Our time is short. It can be changed but the odds are against us at the moment. Make your voices heard.
Tenn Slim| 7.11.11 @ 8:45AM
Spot on post.
Arrogance to a Southerner is abhorrent. To a Chicagoan, a way of normalcy.
What we have, we let happen.
Never, EVER again.
end
Semper Fi
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 7:17PM
Hey, hey, hey...I'm a Chicagoan, and I'm married to an Alabaman. But I know UT football is quite good and your theme song is "Rocky Top." Cut us a Leetle slack, Slim.
Now, if you're referring to Chicago Liberals, well, you're spot on.
Michael L. Hauschild| 7.8.11 @ 12:59PM
Wow, that was really good Quin, thanks.
Joe D.| 7.8.11 @ 1:24PM
Your article and many other unconstitutional things he has done warrant Impeachment. I know everyone is saying Oh no. But I am saying that we need to do this if for no other reason that the bad presidents for others to follow. If he can get away with all of this then anyone else can as well.
Bill| 7.8.11 @ 1:53PM
Many of us find ourselves -unfortunately- beaten back to first principles, and now we must cite, not the Constitution but the Declaration of Independence: "...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them (the ruled) under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.8.11 @ 2:55PM
So if a blow job rises to the level of impeachment, how about a little fairness and holding W accountable for his string of lies?
voted against carter| 7.8.11 @ 3:43PM
triab,...
Your comprehension ability is suspect so I try and keep it simple.
You are an idiot. STOP proving it with every statement you make.
Hey mental midget.,... GO BACK TO HUF PO
Redstateboy| 7.8.11 @ 4:12PM
and those lies would be? Liber-ul bomb thrower?
skip| 7.8.11 @ 5:19PM
Your moniker implies The Left is preferable to The Right. Can you provide any reasons why this would be true?
Can you provide what Clinton was impeached for, has a token of good faith you intend to debate with a little fairness?
Can you provide as many of the string of lies Bush avoided accountability on, and as a demonstration of the fairness you seek provide any lies Obama has told you know of?
Earlier you mentioned 'demerits', can you provide what qualifies as a demerit so the debate will contain an understood method to gauge a level of fairness?
Earlier you stated 'cite your sources', and 'put up or shut up', so a little fairness requires you to do so as well, correct?
KennesawJack| 7.8.11 @ 6:25PM
Ah, a little more dis-information from the left. Bubba was impeached for Obstruction of Justice and Perjury (for which he later lost his law license), not for a bj from an overweight intern.
W| 7.8.11 @ 9:19PM
Hey Right, I didnt lie. Bill and Hillary, and Bill's CIA guy Geroge Tenet, and Algore, and Jean Kerry, and Chuckie Schumer, and and everyone in Congress told me Saddam had them weapons. We waited to long to go in and he got rid of them probably. And as for Iraq/Alquaeda/Hezbolla/Hamas, what is the diff, they are all crazy radical muslims who want to kill us, and borders dont mean anything to them. And many terrorists used Iraq as a safe haven, Saddam was paying terrorrist to kill Israelis. What is wrong with getting rid of Saddam, Obama is bombing Libya to kill Moamar, and Obama didnt even go to congress like I did. And Obama is killing them with drones all over the middle east.
Occam's Tool| 7.8.11 @ 10:14PM
The sexual act was not what he was impeached for. Lying under oath for something outside of National Security and Commander in Chief perogatives (Truth is the first casualty of war) is what got Clinton impeached and disbarred.
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 7.8.11 @ 4:25PM
Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.
Iraq is in cahoots with Al Qaeda.
Iraq had a nuclear weapons program and tried to buy yellowcake in Niger.
Let's start with those. All demonstrably proven to be untrue.
I know you'll discount these or question my manhood or patriotism or sanity and in every avoid clear, coherent rebuttals. But hey - that's what you're here for.
skip| 7.8.11 @ 5:21PM
You aren't 'citing your sources'?
What happened to 'put up or shut up'?
W| 7.8.11 @ 5:52PM
Right, what happened to you? is it Friday and you are tired? You were sounding almost sane when I showed you were wrong about Justice Scalia. Focus, you can do better. You are backsliding towards the lefty rants.
irish19| 7.9.11 @ 12:55AM
Secret U.S. mission hauls uranium from Iraq
/www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25546334/
He must have gotten it from somewhere.
Kingofthenet| 7.8.11 @ 4:48PM
OK stupid, here it is. We are trying to rein in Medical Costs and cover Everybody. The problem lies in the people who are the BEST risks, don't feel they 'need' to buy insurance. Of course even the BEST have accidents which we ALL pay for since they aren't insured. So how do we fix this, we REQUIRE insurance. Just like if you drive a car in NJ, you might not WANT insurance, but the rest of us want to collect from you when you cause accidents so we REQUIRE it.
BTW: I would prefer the 'REAL' America had less red, white and blue and MORE green, as in cash. I am tired of subsidizing those 'leech' Red States.
W| 7.8.11 @ 6:33PM
Bad analogy. Having a driver's licenses is considered a privilige, not a right, therefore the state can impose regulations.
Being alive is not a privilige, yet, that the feds can regulate. Many of the unisured are unisured because they cannot afford health insurance but are not poor enough for Medicaid. Some are illegal aliens. Providing insurance to them will means we, taxpayers, even Jersey taxpayers, have to pay for their insurance.
Most people are already covered by some form of insurance, such as Workers comp if you get hurt at work, Auto insurance if you get hurt in an auto accident, Medicaid, Medicare, private health ins., clinics, etc.
The problem is the cost. The cost is high because the services of doctors, nurses, therapists, hospitals are expensive. Do you intend to cap the salaries of health care providers? The tests, such as MRI, CT scans, etc are expensive. You can reduce some of the costs by passing tort reform so that medical malpractice costs for doctors decreases and they do not order tests and services for defensive medicine as they do today. Tort reform exists today. Try suing the feds or state or city, there is a cap, usually $500,000 for pain and suffering, that you can recover. Why do you think the government did that? If it works for them it would work for private industry.
There are other solutions to covering poor people. We have Veterans Hospitals for vets, why not public clinics or hospitals for the poor?
Forcing the few young, healthy who do not have insurance will not solve the problem., Most young people are working and covered by health insurance.
Kingofthenet| 7.8.11 @ 7:08PM
Thoughtful post W, I agree medical costs are high, to tell you the truth, I am with Rush on this one. Insurance RUINED regular fee for service. Did our Grandparents have insurance? No they paid out of pocket, the costs HAD to be reasonable or no one could pay. I am not talking about 'outliers' just regular folks.When a 'common' problem could conceivably cost more than one make in 10 yrs something is wrong. Take a 'quad bypass' operation, with everything included, you could EASILY be talking a half million dollars, and that operation is a COMMON one. Why do we need a middle man anyway? The insurance industry adds NOTHING to save money or improve medicine, and obviously costs alot to pay salaries and overhead.
W| 7.8.11 @ 9:05PM
You are correct,K. I am self employed and chose a high deductibe plan, therefore I shop around and check prices which I would not do if all was paid by insurance. For example, there was one medicine that cost $600 at Rite Aid, and $280 at Sam's Club, exactly the same generic medicine. One other example would be to have more competition among insurance companies. In Pa, you are required to carry on your auto policy a minimum of $5,000 for medical payments for injuries caused by an accident, regardless of who is at fault. The cost of this 5,000 is about $50 per year. I chose $100,000 which costs about 125. the state should require 50,000 or 100,000 because it is so cheap and there are so many accidents. In my experience, the worst and most inefficient insurer is Medicare. Dont have enough time, space and band width to go on. Any way,there are many small things that could be done to increase competition and provide health care to the poor. Keep trying, K.
Occam's Tool| 7.11.11 @ 7:19PM
Part of the problem, too, King, is the fact that prices get jacked around when "standards of Care" include excessive testing.
Marc Jeric| 7.8.11 @ 6:57PM
This former refugee from a communist hell had no illusions about Mullah Obama, a dedicated marxist/Muslim. The same propaganda, the same words even, the same actions, the same means (local soviets, i.e., community organizations in Russian), the massive nationalizations, "social justice", tax the rich, "spread the wealth", diversity, multiculturalism, affirmative action, union thugs, election fraud (Iremember when a communist boss, dictator for life and mass murderer was re-elected by 99.9% majority)...
The One Who Runs Like a Duck| 7.8.11 @ 7:39PM
We're rolling up our sleeves now, Anything Butt. We are rolling up the sleeves and going into full campaign and golf mode. If you get the chance go and see my new campaign add, "Fast and Furious, Obama sends his leetle friends to Mexico." We need your help. You are as good as we got for trying to make stupid things sound rational. You get lots of practice here even though you seem to cause only amusement. I mean my main excuse maker, Fluff or something, came up with the idea that our trailer park country won't get that we have high unemployment if we can keep them stocked up with beer, guns and Bibles. That is inspiring. We should never let the schmucks know what we think of them except that time I made the guns and religion statement at the Gay Bowel Syndrome Parade in San Francisco. Did you like my list of excuses for the state of the economy, hurricanes, Greece, Spain, Portugal (see the connection. Three left wing governments taking nose dives into oblivion.), Jupiter has aligned with Mars, I walked under a ladder last week and then tripped over a black cat (no not Jeremiah Wright), racists are keeping me from taking the country into the full Greece dysfunction, the corporate jet gimme that I introduced in the Stimulus Bill was not effectively grandstanded against the Republicans. Somehow my crazy energy policy, Obamacare, all kinds of stupid and inefficient financial regulations, and really just about any idea we have implemented managed not to make the list. If people would just have faith in high speed rail, wind farms and the Chevy Volt the good times would be rolling. Did you see the the Washington Examiner article on the train that Bill Richardson got New Mexicans to pay for. Actually they won't be through paying for it until next decade. Wow, what a screw job and it is not even high speed. I wonder if all the high speed rail spending are just a way of taking tax payer money and giving to our friends? That is what we Democrats do. Oh well, it is not my problem this weekend. I will be living the good life while the schmucks try to get jobs I have sent to Brazil on high speed rail, baby.
irish19| 7.9.11 @ 12:59AM
Booger, is that you?
ds80| 7.9.11 @ 8:41AM
++++1000
:-)
Rick| 7.8.11 @ 8:50PM
Your a bigget and a rasist!
Occam's Tool| 7.8.11 @ 10:15PM
Rick, this is a joke, right?
Martine| 7.9.11 @ 11:33AM
Thank you, Mr. Hilyer. We feel the same in my corner of the midwest.
I think the explanation for the behavior of Capt. Brilliant and MIchelle Antoinette is simple -- they don't like this country.
russel| 7.9.11 @ 1:55PM
Does sound like him Irish . There was a Duck once in a while , that guy was funny . What a relief from the socialist who stunk up this room .
shukov| 7.9.11 @ 8:35PM
It may be too late to work within the system but it is still too early to shoot the bastards.
irish19| 7.11.11 @ 11:41AM
Yes, it is. Keep your powder dry, though. And get more ammo-the currency for this millennium.
patroness| 7.9.11 @ 11:16PM
Nacy Pelosi's looking a bit disheveled. 'Bout time!
POST American| 7.10.11 @ 2:31AM
---And once you've put away your RED Chinese
made 'American' flags ---TAKE HEED!
Even after 4 months of Rockefeller Globalist
media blackout on the greatest world nuclear
disaster in history (Fukishima) --yet another
quake!
AMAZING, in this world that doesn't have, and
certainly would never use, HAARP technology
---how things just miraculously keep chiming in to aid the stated 'agenda'.
SIMPLY AMAZING
Chef Schnauzer| 7.10.11 @ 4:40PM
I don't remember if the Soviets had to build separate 'government towns', I know they had the separate stores for the government henchmen. I honestly don't know how these useless paper pushers can look into the mirror with any pride or self respect. They will need separate gated communities in the future (it won't be enough) unless they change on their own. With Congressional-Douche-Bags refusing to meet constituents (donors only, please) they have become a joke and an enemy of the Republic.
terrywalsh| 7.10.11 @ 9:58PM
My God, somebody finally said it. I can only pray that the silent majority will speak loudly,soonly. God bless you,sir.
Tenn Slim| 7.11.11 @ 8:40AM
Well, Well, Well, Patriotism expounded.
Seldom, if ever, said as well.
Folks further North and West agree. We GET IT.
The US cannot stand nor will it, another 4 years of this tyranncy. The Czars, the DC Elites hired under the TARP, Stimulus funds etal, will eventually be tossed down the Capital Steps.
In 2012, I hope, If not then G.. help us.
end
Semper Fi
Gerald Stephens| 7.12.11 @ 4:19AM
The air is rife with plaintiff hand wringing in the matter of the nature and extent of the Obama attack on Constitutional governance. Alarmed and frightened, citizens desperately seek and cling to each daily scrap of news that might indicate serious and effective countermeasures. But they despair noting that the Administration’s criminal activity is ongoing and growing bolder with each act.
The despair is deep and painful exacerbated by that which appears as indifference to the greatest constitutional crisis since the country’s life and death struggle in the War Between the States. Politicians avoid even recognizing or speaking of the mountain of evidence, far beyond any question of burden of proof, that the person acting as the President of the United States of America is an ineligible fraud. Likewise, the courts ignore the people’s right to consideration of a lawful redress of grievances, and major media organs ridicule those opposed to the criminality and cheer on the perpetrators.
And thank you Mr. Hillyer for your bold call to action, “it is their right, it is their duty,” to become active in the civic realm -- and to set things right. Your exhortation is PC drivel.
The founders enshrined in their work on behalf of a nation and people, by way of unequivocal statement and writings, that circumstances threatening the very existence of the liberty and freedom for which that nation engaged the then most powerful country in the world, England, could doom its people to the slavery of tyranny.
The glaring difference between those patriots and present aberrations is not lost. We are at war with a diabolical confluence of communists, progressive Marxists, control freak liberals, and organized criminals. The call to, “…become active in the civil realm” absolutely wreaks with the stench of passivity.
The Constitution was handed on to all who would be subject to its jurisdiction as a blueprint, that if adhered to faithfully, possessed the means through which that current and all succeeding generations would protect and defend life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Enshrined in its Amendments was one that authorized the people to act in, a) presentment of a warning to all enemies, including domestic, that the people possessed a physical mechanism that would be unleashed in the event that redress of grievances was not forthcoming, and b) authorized the people to act in utilizing the provided mechanism. Therein exists the appropriate defense of this Great Nation when required. It is designated as the Second Amendment.
And for those PC members of the community, unwilling to even speak of its place and purpose within the Constitution, it authorizes ‘force of arms’ as the ultimate safeguard of liberty and freedom.
To each and every person adherent to the Second Amendment, it is your solemn duty to organize now for a collective effective means of utilizing the powers contained in the Amendment in the horrific event that a redress of grievances is not forthcoming from those charged with ensuring our Constitutional governance
Daring to ignore this Amendment’s appropriate applications is the fools path to a tyrannical hell.
Gerald J. P. Stephens
dr.gerald.stephens@gmail.com
weddingdress | 7.12.11 @ 5:14AM
However if you do win next year, will it be a repeat of '88, '92, '96, 2000, 2004, 2008? will another empty-suit serve his four/eight years so as to write his memoirs and have it marked down 40% at Barnes & Noble? if such is the case then voting libertarian might be an option for some.
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Mistral| 7.12.11 @ 3:52PM
This is a very pertinent question: who will replace the big idiot narcissist already grown out of his presidential suit? The Republicans look more and more like their political counter-parts but they want to spend less. God help America!