That Same Old Grimy Feeling
I am in another one of those situations where my 'real' job is all consuming, hence I haven't been posting here as often as I would like. I know I am supposed to be grateful I am gainfully employed, but what I am going through right now at work is ridiculous.
Anyway....
I remember well the depressing malaise of the late 70's. Stagflation, oil embargoes, Three Mile Island, and a sense of national impotence over the Iran Hostage Crisis. That same sense that things had gone horribly wrong is back. Jimmy Carter was the poster-child for ineffective governance back then, and today he has been usurped as the worst President in our modern age by President Obama, who is still tracking well to unseat James Buchanan as the all time worst.
All this is very sad, and the saddest part of all is that many millions of us foresaw this train-wreck, but couldn't quite shout down the press sponsored marketing/propaganda machine that pushed candidate Obama over the top. Sure we didn't know precisely how the train-wreck would unfold, but we knew two basic truths that would combine into a toxic mess: Barack Obama was wholly unqualified to be President of the United States - something he has now concretely demonstrated to the nation, as well as the world, and Barack Obama was a radical leftist.
So now we have had just shy of three years of pathetic ineptitude, of a leader functionally illiterate in economics, incapable of understanding and actively despising the engines of industry, determined to dish out American comeuppance on the world stage, and drag the people of the United States mostly kicking and screaming to the far left. People are wondering, just as they did back in the Carter days, if we are witnessing the historic decline and fall of the United States after a brief 235 years of existence. After all, the light that shines twice as bright burns half as long. So it is said.
Rubbish.
One of my favorite sayings, supposedly of ancient Turkish origins is: No matter how far down the wrong road you've traveled, just turn back.
We can turn the United States around. We are not living through the waning days of the United States, and the first step towards turning back is to vote Barack Obama, one of the most destructive Presidents in the history of the nation, out of office.
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