"The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our Nation. The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America... In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption."
President Jimmy Carter"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK."
The "Malaise Speech"
July 15, 1979
Barack ObamaRelated... In 2006 Obama said he prefers SUV's.
Oregon Rally
May 18, 2008
Ace of Spades adds this:
Obama drove a Hemi V-8 sedan before someone noticed, and only after charges of hypocrisy were made did he switch to something a bit less carbon footprintish?Ed Morrissey has more on Obama's immature look at the Iranian threat.
So is Obama going to let the worldly U.N. decide what type vehicles Americans drive, how many calories a day & type of food Americans can eat and allocate how much energy each American household gets so that meets the approval of the world?
ReplyDeleteInstead of this whining negativism, we need a President who can rally Americans to solve the problems of the world so that every person can have a better, richer, fuller life.
"So is Obama going to let the worldly U.N. decide what type vehicles Americans drive, how many calories a day & type of food Americans can eat and allocate how much energy each American household gets so that meets the approval of the world?"
ReplyDeleteNail on head, sir. Nail on head. For a decade I have been telling anyone who would listen that the Marxist (Democrat) plan for America is to gain control of two vital things in the USA; Energy, and Healthcare. Once they control those, no one is free anymore. They can force you to live where they want (concentrated in urban areas, and disarmed, of course;), force you to conduct you life, and your children's lives according to their dogmas about health and well-being.
Once the state can decide who will receive health treatment and how and where, you will obey. Once they can force you to live where and how they want you to live, you have no real freedom left. Hopefully the people still have enough of a spark of revolution in them to fight back against Barack Obama.
I am completely staisfied that most Americans are too stupid to vote. Barraks numbers are increasing and his retoric is becoming more and more unmistakenly "world peace through our submission" like. I will not allow anyone to tell me what to drive or how much to eat, I am confident most Americans would join me in this. However, I am really worried that most people would support this BS.
ReplyDeleteBarrak is packing stadiums and most young people I talk to are voting for him. I ask why they want to vote for him and they really don't have a reason. My response to them is that they really need to investigate beyond what they see on the news but they really aren't interested in that. All the more reason for me to say they are far too stupid to vote.
We are in a world of hurt if he makes it. I am concerned... I am scared...
Yeah, Obamalamadingdong, the global warming assholes, the liberal left, etc are ready and willing to spoon feed our sovereignty over to the UN.
ReplyDeleteFuckers.
Hey, Barry O was bitching today that the TN GOP needs to "leave Britney, er Michelle, alone". Why dont you blog that?
At least Jimmy Carter was screwing things up for two years before laying the malaise speech on us. Obama isn't even waiting to get elected.
ReplyDeletePerhaps people get too preoccupied with material things but you know something, it's a social problem, not a government problem! The trouble is when people want certainty and entitlements, they're willing to trade away personal liberty. Did anyone take to the streets after New York and Chicago started regulating food? They should have. But the government got away with it, so more nannyism is on the way.
Obama is stating in essence that Americans are gluttons, and basically, they shouldn't think the world is going to find this OK, when we should all share the wealth - not his wealth of course because, you know, the world revolves around him, not the other way around.
ReplyDeleteanon @ 5:55 AM says: "So is Obama going to let the worldly U.N. decide what type vehicles Americans drive, how many calories a day & type of food Americans can eat and allocate how much energy each American household gets so that meets the approval of the world?'...
ReplyDeleteTo quote another anon, the one at 6:26 AM, "Nail on head, sir. Nail on head"...
AMEN!...
Well said!
Yet another anon @ 6:33 AM says: "We are in a world of hurt if he makes it. I am concerned... I am scared..."...
Well sir, you aren't alone...
Obama has the exact same Post-American world view that Jimmy Carter had! I wonder why he didn't use Carter as an example of diplomacy? Perhaps that would have exposed the man behind the curtain.
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ReplyDeletemeanwhile the UN's morality continues to shallow dive..
they complain they are 500 million short & cannot afford to feed the worlds hungry, but they do not hesitate to keep a running tab of materialistic renovations to their Perky Turtle Bay Caliphate toppling 1.9 billion deep so far..
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ReplyDeletemay be a bit OT, but it may apply..
David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'
excerpt:
[I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.
As a child of the '60s, I accepted as an article of faith that government is corrupt, that business is exploitative, and that people are generally good at heart.
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I'd observed that lust, greed, envy, sloth, and their pals are giving the world a good run for its money, but that nonetheless, people in general seem to get from day to day; and that we in the United States get from day to day under rather wonderful and privileged circumstances—that we are not and never have been the villains that some of the world and some of our citizens make us out to be, but that we are a confection of normal (greedy, lustful, duplicitous, corrupt, inspired—in short, human) individuals living under a spectacularly effective compact called the Constitution, and lucky to get it.
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Rather brilliant. For, in the abstract, we may envision an Olympian perfection of perfect beings in Washington doing the business of their employers, the people, but any of us who has ever been at a zoning meeting with our property at stake is aware of the urge to cut through all the pernicious bullshit and go straight to firearms.
I found not only that I didn't trust the current government (that, to me, was no surprise), but that an impartial review revealed that the faults of this president—whom I, a good liberal, considered a monster—were little different from those of a president whom I revered.]
of course i don't agree with everything he wrote, but it is a thought provoking & entertaining read all the same imo..
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