I have faith that the Republic will endure. I'm also curious to see how President Obama differs from candidate Obama. We may be pleasantly surprised, we may not but I refuse to despair.
I completely support and understand how this effects your immediate plans toward military service.
No despair, but I’m definitely not happy. The country could be decades recovering from the damage a committed Marxist/big-government-interventionist could do in just one four-year term. In fact — though I’m not taking this as a given, just recognizing the possibility — we could actually be looking at the point where the U.S. began to cease existing as a sovereign nation.
As for how it affects my military service, nobody knows what that will be. The world situation could change drastically (and badly) with no advance warning. Whatever comes, I’ll be committed to whatever my duty demands.
It was in no way my intent to imply you would ever shirk your duty. I simply recall you were not very confident in the idea of President Obama as Commander-in-chief.
For me, the worst part is remaining silent out of love and respect while my mother gushes on about "morning again in America". It's embarrassing and disheartening to see otherwise intelligent adults twittering about like a bunch of starry-eyed adolescents. The only difference being that even your average teen with a crush has more of a grasp on reality.
Someone's comment regarding Microsoft "embracing open source" I find quite relevant:
If your abusive spouse buys you flowers, you don't stop planning your escape.
Unfortunately for the 'love it or leave it' crowd, I ain't going nowhere. This is my last, best hope.
The Obama administration will overreach itself very quickly. Liberals always overreach. It’s in their nature; if they didn’t try to cram through changes people weren’t ready for, they wouldn’t be liberals. When they do, the conservative reaction — and this is still an essentially conservative country — will change the landscape again. (See 1994, or better yet the advent of Reagan after the debacle of the Carter years.)
Obama enjoyed not only support but total immunity from the mainstream media on his way to Election Day. They may still be friendly, but they can’t protect him anymore. Before, he only needed to win; now, he must actually do something productive. His breathless followers will feel betrayed when he doesn’t part the waters and heal the planet; everybody else will be displeased with his attempts to enact the leftist agenda that his entire background demands. Either way, the free ride is over.
Conservatives didn’t lose; the Republican Party lost. Only once in the last sixty years (Reagan/Reagan/Bush) has either party won the presidency in three consecutive elections. It can be done, but the trends are for a shake-up every now and then, and — deservedly or not — our current President is so unpopular that it was practically impossible for a Republican candidate to win, this time around. Even so, Obama took the election with only a respectable but far from crushing margin.
Finally, there’s the entire matter of foreign policy. If the by-then-President Obama turns out NOT to be a foreign-policy disaster, then … well, no disaster. And if he does, that means a different leadership will suddenly be in demand.
I would rather we’d won. But just because we lost doesn’t mean we’re beaten.
Conservatives didn’t lose; the Republican Party lost.
Amen. And I'd rather see the Republican Party die than continue shambling on as the zombie joke it's become. McCain didn't lose because of Sarah Palin, he lost because he failed to present a real alternative to the competition and his predecessor. A choice between Commie A and Socialist B is no choice at all.
Me, I didn't ask anyone for permission to live my life before the election, and I'm not starting now. As long as I'm breathing, I ain't beaten.
(I'm probably more concerned about domestic enemies, whereas it sounds as though you're more worried about foreign ones. But if push comes to shove, we'll see if those domestic enemies have a taste for fourth generation warfare. When the rubber meets the road, they're cowards who sit at home in comfort and safety while sending others out to do their dirty work. At this point, all politics is merely a metaphor for civil war, and I doubt they have the stomach for it if the metaphor becomes reality.)
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Date: 2008-11-06 05:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-06 03:45 pm (UTC)I completely support and understand how this effects your immediate plans toward military service.
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Date: 2008-11-08 02:49 am (UTC)As for how it affects my military service, nobody knows what that will be. The world situation could change drastically (and badly) with no advance warning. Whatever comes, I’ll be committed to whatever my duty demands.
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Date: 2008-11-09 11:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-10 03:31 am (UTC)No, I didn’t take your comments as questioning my commitment. That isn’t your style.
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Date: 2008-11-07 02:58 pm (UTC)Someone's comment regarding Microsoft "embracing open source" I find quite relevant:
If your abusive spouse buys you flowers, you don't stop planning your escape.
Unfortunately for the 'love it or leave it' crowd, I ain't going nowhere. This is my last, best hope.
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Date: 2008-11-08 02:53 am (UTC)- The Obama administration will overreach itself very quickly. Liberals always overreach. It’s in their nature; if they didn’t try to cram through changes people weren’t ready for, they wouldn’t be liberals. When they do, the conservative reaction — and this is still an essentially conservative country — will change the landscape again. (See 1994, or better yet the advent of Reagan after the debacle of the Carter years.)
- Obama enjoyed not only support but total immunity from the mainstream media on his way to Election Day. They may still be friendly, but they can’t protect him anymore. Before, he only needed to win; now, he must actually do something productive. His breathless followers will feel betrayed when he doesn’t part the waters and heal the planet; everybody else will be displeased with his attempts to enact the leftist agenda that his entire background demands. Either way, the free ride is over.
- Conservatives didn’t lose; the Republican Party lost. Only once in the last sixty years (Reagan/Reagan/Bush) has either party won the presidency in three consecutive elections. It can be done, but the trends are for a shake-up every now and then, and — deservedly or not — our current President is so unpopular that it was practically impossible for a Republican candidate to win, this time around. Even so, Obama took the election with only a respectable but far from crushing margin.
Finally, there’s the entire matter of foreign policy. If the by-then-President Obama turns out NOT to be a foreign-policy disaster, then … well, no disaster. And if he does, that means a different leadership will suddenly be in demand.I would rather we’d won. But just because we lost doesn’t mean we’re beaten.
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Date: 2008-11-08 03:08 am (UTC)Amen. And I'd rather see the Republican Party die than continue shambling on as the zombie joke it's become. McCain didn't lose because of Sarah Palin, he lost because he failed to present a real alternative to the competition and his predecessor. A choice between Commie A and Socialist B is no choice at all.
Me, I didn't ask anyone for permission to live my life before the election, and I'm not starting now. As long as I'm breathing, I ain't beaten.
(I'm probably more concerned about domestic enemies, whereas it sounds as though you're more worried about foreign ones. But if push comes to shove, we'll see if those domestic enemies have a taste for fourth generation warfare. When the rubber meets the road, they're cowards who sit at home in comfort and safety while sending others out to do their dirty work. At this point, all politics is merely a metaphor for civil war, and I doubt they have the stomach for it if the metaphor becomes reality.)