http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=20928
Anyways, when I was at McCain’s townhall today, a lot of this stuff was going through my head. Things like “What if we lost America, the real essence of America?” No, ‘bots, not some Confederate Flag bs, but the freedom and will of America. What if we lost that, you know? What if we allowed some wannabe-dictator punk who didn’t know his head from his ass to come into power and all of the sudden things changed drastically, and our national security went to hell? What could happen? How much damage could be done? With our economy already faltering and with our standing in the world already shaky, how far could we fall? Would Obama stop any of this? Could he? Does he want to?
This country gives you freedom and opportunity. Some people don’t want that. They want to be part of a herd. They want to be told what to do and how to live by people like Obama, or too many of the “we know better” Dems. They want a ruler, not a President.
As I said, I think for a long time in my life I felt that way. And I could easily stay that way but now things have become clearer and I see around me the effects that such thinking has on people who have been told year after year that they didn’t need to make any decisions, the decisions would be made for them by those, unlike themselves, who were ‘really’ smart enough and wise enough to dictate to these people.
Admin (Murphy) wrote up something about this the other day, the abused spouse syndrome thread. That phenomenon presents the same kind of sickening dependency cycle that certain pols love to try to inflict on others. Obama is the king (no pun intended) of this kind of thinking. He is Lord and Liege, and no one can question him on anything. We need him, supposedly. Garbage. I don’t want an effing Messiah. I don’t need to be told what I can and can’t think, what I can and can’t say.
To me, that’s not America. If you want to live like that go to Europe, or many other places around the globe.
I thought about that when they flew the colors today. Most of my life I have thought, like Obama and his crowd, that America was about unjust empire, evil big business and fake patriotism.
But it’s not. And it’s not because of men like John McCain, and women like Hillary Clinton. People who fight for what they believe in; people who sacrifice for what they believe in. People who say ‘no’ to an early exit to their personal torture because of principle and devotion to a principle greater than themselves.
That is what made America great, that spirit. The Spirit of Freedom.
And I don’t want to lose that freedom, a concept I have finally begun to grasp in my own life, to some radical puppet who is giving enormous hints of his incompetence and revolutionary blueprints.
That is what I thought about today, as the men who sacrificed to help preserve that freedom flew the colors. I felt pride, and humbleness, as a truly great man recounted the choice he made to subject himself to years of torture because he would not let down his men and he would not let down his country.
That is America.
