Thinking Aloud

   My father (who I believe voted for BHO) and I had a conversation the other week which started out with discussion of the oil spill in the Gulf and rambled thru a number of hot button topics. I had at some point likened the BHO regime to the Carter presidency in that I believe BHO to be an abject failure as President, perhaps even more so than Carter. While Pop thought that indeed BHO was a failure and probably destined to be a one term President he said that Carter & BHO were failures for two different reasons and in a sentence distilled not only the reason for BHO’s inevitable failure but the reason that so many cannot stand the man. Carter failed because while a bright man, he appeared weak and incapable of making a firm decision. On the other hand BHO fails because he (and his wife) thinks that they’re the two smartest people on earth and that if you disagree with them you’re an ignorant backwoods racist.


  That to me is the heart of the matter. BHO (and his cronies Reid, Pelosi, etc) are so smug, so condescending, have so little respect for the American people or the Constitution that they have alienated, enraged, motivated the American people into a frenzy of anti-incumbent, anti-government, anti-administration furor such as has not been seen in this country since Nixon.

  I had lunch with an old friend the other day. She’s young, urban, college student and as you can imagine a leftist. Not one of those actively radical jerk-offs who bristles and blusters whenever anyone expresses a thought outside of approved Party dogma, but one who has accepted as gospel the Party line on abortion, separation of Church & State, global warming, etc. While our conversation didn’t set out to be a debate of politics it did eventually wind itself to that subject. This provided epiphanies for both of us. Mine was when I realized during a discussion of the Supreme Court and Separation of Church & State that my friend had never read the Constitution! Hers came when I handed a copy to her, opened to the Bill of Rights. She had no idea that the 1st Amendment, which though unread she regarded as inviolate contained the only mention of the Federal Government’s powers or rather lack thereof regarding religion. Nor did she know that the 10th Amendment gave to us and to the States all the powers and rights not specifically granted to the Federal government!

  This ladies & gents is my 2nd epiphany that our educational system has failed, possibly by design to teach children about their Rights, about our Constitution and about how the Founding Fathers envisioned that this great nation would function. We cannot win support; reverse the destruction, save our Republic as long as so many people don’t know the truth. Many of the Left’s supporters are simply ignorant of the facts. We need to educate ourselves and fight the myths and lies by educating others, friends, family, whomever.