November 5, 2008
Two points
Wolf here.
First, I will say that the results of the presidential election have really surprised me, in the sense that I now realize that this country consists of a majority of people who are either unmitigated mullet heads or who haven’t, despite living for the number of years it takes to become old enough to vote, yet grasped the concept behind the success of America during its short 200 year history.
Either way, while I’ll never be ashamed to be an American, I am ashamed of the so-called Americans who contributed to the election of Barack Obama, that they have the moxi to call themselves Americans, putting themselves in the same context as those of us who cherish our liberty and our Constitution.
Second, and very important, at least for me.
I put my butt on the line for the better part of 36 years so that Americans, even those among us who voted for Obama, could continue to enjoy the right to vote according to their choice, even if that choice is just plain stupid; It’s still an American right to vote for whomever one chooses.
Having said that, unlike the lefties (the media, Democrat politicians, your average liberal, etc), I will not lower myself, as an American, to bashing our next president, no matter who he may be, when he is serving (or whatever it is he’ll be doing) in the White House.
By majority vote, he’s what we have to live with as POTUS for at least four years, and whether I respect the man or not, I will respect the office.
We saw the results of liberals going against the government, rather than supporting them, during the Vietnam war. Because of that, America projected itself to the enemy as a country whose people were not behind our government, and General Giap hung in there when he would otherwise have surrendered, waiting for our dissenters to win out over our leaders. As a result, we lost a war we were winning right up until we withdrew our troops.
During the Bush Administration, we have seen the same thing: Our lefties attacking POTUS at every opportunity, once again sending a message to the rest of the world that the American people didn’t support our government.
I served under presidents like Carter and Clinton, whom I viewed as the two worst presidents in my lifetime, but both were elected by the people, and I gave them the respect they deserved as such, no matter how much it pained me to do so. They were still my commanders-in-chief.
I hope that as conservatives, we conduct ourselves more responsibly over the next four years.
Attacking a serving president does not serve any useful purpose other than to show America as a divided nation, so while Obama is in the Oval Office, I will shut my trap and hope that the man comes to realize what it actually means to be the President of the United States, and serves accordingly.
Who knows? Maybe being there on the front lines, barrage after barrage of economic, security, global and the full gamut of other problems that are daily directed a president’s way will make him grow up and address the office in a responsible, America-first mode of service.
Wolf out.
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November 5th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
“Unmitigated mullet heads”? My wife laughed right out loud. She said that is one of the nicest things she has heard about us liberals to come from the farside.
You shouldn’t be ashamed of us who supported Obama; “so-called Americans”..I wore the uniform under Kennedy and Johnson and spent my life
developing and producing the initiating explosives used in small-medium cal ammo percussion primers..
a couple million lbs. Guess I didn’t ‘put my butt on the line’. Wait..neither did Limbaugh/Rove/Cheney.
OK, unmitigated mullethead is tolerable…but, so-called American? C’mon now, Wolf…
November 7th, 2008 at 5:12 am
Wolf,
Respecting the office is one thing, the man in the office another.
I predict that most conservatives will calm down and get to work after blowing off some steam. At least, that is my hope.
After posting a graphic, which I believe sums up what we’re going to have for at least four years, I’ve turned my blog back to what it used to be — a mix of topics.
November 7th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
BB-Idaho,
A true American honors the Constitution as the rule book for the three branches of government. Obama will not do so, his stated ambitions for the office of the chief exec contain too much “free style” governance, which is right in keeping with the Pelosiites presently running rampant in Congress.
A vote for Obama was not a vote for the continuation of the principles that have built this country into what it was. I say “was” because we (not all of us, thank the Lord) have seen fit to elect, in the last couple of years, a far left leaning government that does not care a wit about the Constitution.
I am not saying you are not a true American, as it is possible, even for those with the best intentions, to be hoodwinked by fast talking latent communist politicians from time to time.
November 7th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Always On Watch,
Great graphic, and very true.
November 7th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
OK, guess that puts me in there with Gen. Powell
I’m not sure Obama will subvert the constitution..heck, even Lincoln tried that..the system
precludes such shenanigans, and if it takes too long, the people react in further elections. Its the way it has been all along. ..and it is true, sitting at a desk in the Pentagon at HQ Missile Command was hardly putting my butt on the line…in a comfy chair, maybe.
November 8th, 2008 at 9:20 am
BB-Idaho,
The guys in the back office have their uses, too.
Having served, imagine doing so in a combat zone where you have been putting life, limb and butt on the line, and having a presidential candidate like Obama visiting, as he did in Afghanistan not long ago.
He totally ignores the troops waiting to shake hands, walks in to jaw with the brass for a bit, then spends the better part of the day at the basketball court doing lone photo ops to hoodwink the voters back home into thinking he was there playing with the same brave men and women he has just “dissed” as insignificant.
As far as the system precluding shenanigans goes, when we have a hard left congress and a hard left president with mutual hard left agendas working in concert, a whole heck of a lot of irreparable damage can be inflicted way before the time comes, once again, for the people to go to the polls.
November 9th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Beware a Left leaning President supported by a Left Leaning House of Reps and Senates. It took that arch traitor to the British people, The Right Dishonourable ‘Tony’ Blair, less than four years to undermine almost every principle of the English legal system, destroy our nation and our Union with Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The left is now so entrenched in Whitehall’s Bureaucracy that the only way to shift them now and make this country great again is to drag them all out of their cushy and expensively furnished offices and decorate all of London’s bridges with their heads.
The next four years could be crucial for the survival of the “American way of life” and possibly the Union as you know it. Good luck.
Anyone who believes that a “socialist” government is about a fair deal for the lower end of society should have a reality check. Socialism is about bigger and bigger bureaucracies, centralising power to the exclusion of the electorate (While maintaining the charade of “democracy” and pretending to respect the voters) and entrenching themselves and their sycophants in power. Socialism is a poison in any nation state or society, it deludes the poor, entrenches the ideologue and robs the Middle Classes and hard workers of their earnings under the mantra of “fair distribution of wealth.”
Socialist leaders of one sort or another along the politcal spectrum have started almost every war of the last century - something else worth considering carefully. Remember that in politics “left” and “right” describe 180* arcs on a circle, not a straight line, both end in the same place!
November 9th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Wolf,
Firstly, WELCOME! Seth is missed, but you’re doing an excellent job of filling in for him.
After spending several decades as a Stevenson Democrat it was an odd sensation to find myself not only voting for a Republican Presidential candidate, but actually doing some ‘word-of-mouth’ campaigning for him. The main problem with the Obama ‘groupies’ is that they chose to ignore the fact that in one breath Obama promised one group one thing while in the next he was promising another group something that was pretty much a 180 degree about-face to that which he had already promised the first group.
Having spent over a decade in local politics (in New England) I learnd that when a person promises everything to everyone, he/she can neither deliver nor can they serve the oath of office to do their elected job in a way that serves any of the people other than their own ‘private agenda’ they had in mind. Alarm bells should have gone off in the voting public’s minds!
It boggles my mind to see the results! To see a person elected to serve our country who has publically stated that neither he nor his wife had any respect for America until he was nominated is a clear message that this was not a person that should have gained the nomination.
As far as the so called ‘race card’…well that’s a joke as well…had a person of integrity such as Colin Powell been nominated I doubt that anyone, other than the hard and fast bigot, would have had a problem supporting him, black, white, or purple with pink polka dots.
The next four years are frightening to contemplate. A President elect who, less than 72 hours after winning was already beginning to back down from his promises…it looks to me as though it will be 4 more years of lunacy in the oval office…the fox (although only a figure head) is now truly in charge of the hen house!
November 10th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Gray Monk,
The U.S. Constitution, while providing a degree of freedom unprecedented in documents of its kind, has that one drawback, that of allowing, via our pretty much unrestricted freedoms of speech and of the press, the two most potent vehicles that, used irresponsibly, can lead to the undoing of the United States as we know it.
This is what we are seeing now.
While I spent my entire career as a blunt instrument of politicians, Seth has spent many years following politics. When a liberal is elected to the White House, my own reaction is “BOHICA” (bend over, here it comes again) whereas Seth spends more time trying to work out where the voters went wrong or, more to the point, where the Republicans went wrong.
In his words, “While the right tends to become complacent, the left never sleeps”.
We now see that his maxim is 100% correct
Unfortunately, there is little we can do within our system of government, short of waiting for the next election, to change the course events have taken. The right has shirked its responsibilities to its base, leaving the left to take the helm. On 28 January 2009, they will control all three branches of government.
I fear that by the time the midterms arrive in two years, too much damage will have been done to slow the leftward momentum upon which the United States will have embarked.
NH Meri Wido,
Thanks, though I continue to feel rather humbled that Seth asked me to fill in. You have no idea how much self restraint is involved here, as when I post I struggle to use more “mixed company” phraseology and vocabulary than I might were I venting on any site I owned. My personal attitude toward liberals in general is, well, I’d better not go there.
Obama was elected more by the media (along with the naivety of the present crop of voters) and the failure of the Republican Party both to do its job and to articulate its positions to the American people than he was by means of anything of any virtue he “stands for”.
The GOP has got to be dumber than any box of rocks in existence, it’s the only explanation for their losing first Congress to the Pelosiites, then the White House to a transparent and dangerous lefty con artist like Obama.
The next four years ain’t gonna be pretty.
November 15th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
I’m just a tad late getting over here. Here it is November 15th already. Al Frankin - of all people - is happily busy trying to steal the election for his senate seat. What a mess!
I swear, if the GOP doesn’t get it’s sh*t in aligator bags we aren’t ever going to win another election! I will also not disrespect Obama, but I will hold him accountable, and I believe you will too. We can do that without acting like the deranged left did with President Bush. No offense meant to BB. He may be a liberal but he is not a deranged leftist, thank goodness!
We’ve got some good people in the party and we need to get rid of the wishy-washy, spineless RINOs. We need to return to our core principles and cease and desist from trying to make the liberals like us. It ain’t ever gonna happen!
Great post, Wolf. Time for another one.
November 17th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Gayle,
Thank you.
I will post again ASAP.
I confess I was surprised that even after losing the long held majority in Congress two years ago, the GOP showed it hadn’t learned any kind of lesson. Our Republican representatives and senators continued to continue along the same road that lost them that control like a bunch of sleepwalkers.
I was more appalled than anything else at the lackluster campaign run by McCain, so poorly executed that Obama, using tired bumper sticker cliches and saying nothing of substance the entire time he ran, was able to defeat him without breaking much of a sweat.
A lot of things have to change on the right side of our political equation, that’s for darn sure, before the Republicans regain any grip at all on government, and from what I see at the moment I see no encouraging signs that this is gonna happen in the foreseeable future.
It sucks, but unless there’s a major change in the GOP, such as, as you rightly suggest, we manage to vote out the RINOs and replace them with real, stiff spined conservatives, our only hope will lie in the (as of 28 Jan 09) completely Democrat run government screwing things up badly enough that even the mulletheads I mentioned in the post can’t fail to see what a big mistake they’ve made at the polls, and elect a Republican Congress and POTUS in the course of the next two election years to try and reverse at least some of the damage we’re sure to see done.
However, when the midterms arrive, we must hold the Democrats accountable (I have no doubt that Seth will do just that right here) for their actions to that time, and when the 2012 elections come around, the same must apply to Obama for any and all of his own misdeeds.
In the meantime, though, we must support him as our president, rather than stoop to the level of the lefties and disparage a sitting Chief Executive, and pray that he doesn’t do any damage a conservative POTUS and non anal congress can’t fix later.
November 20th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Any idea when Seth will be coming “In From The Cold”?
November 21st, 2008 at 1:07 pm
BB-Idaho,
I can assure you that where Seth was when we last communicated and where he probably is at the moment, it is anything but cold (no, I don’t mean the big H, just someplace much more equatorial than N.Y.)
I have no idea when he’ll finally conclude this enterprise of his and return, though I hope it is soon. As it is, he has been gone a lot longer than anticipated.