As I say on the side there, I reserve the right to reverse myself. As I think about it, the Jobs Bill is not a failure of marketing, but rather of producing the actual steak. They have the sizzle. Obama has his very own flag, and was branded quite well in 2008, which is why he won.
What his handlers cannot grasp, though, is that lies have shelf lives, and that shelf life, in an economic downturn, is much less than 4 years. FDR kept getting reelected because he was cunning like Bill Clinton, because he made better use of the political bribes made possible by the money flow from Washington (harder in our information age), and because people liked him. There is nothing likeable about Barack Obama. He is stiff, arrogant, and seems to have no genuine affability or warmth, which FDR plainly did.
And to the point, he does share with FDR a history of economically deletrious policy-making. Every time things get worse, he tells us he prevented a true disaster; yet, history is clear that recoveries happen much more quickly, normally, than they have here, just as the Great Depression is the only one which lasted that long, and is the only one which people tried to fix.
One of my favorite jokes has “Salesman” as the punchline, but I’m going to insert Barack Obama.
A man got married to a woman, and they went on their honeymoon. The first night she said to him:
Please be gentle, this is my first time.
Honey, how could that be? This is your fourth marriage.
Well, my first husband turned out to like men, and never showed any interest to me.
That makes sense. I’m sorry to hear that.
The second husband was drunk all the time, and never showed any interest in making love.
I understand. You had told me about him, but I didn’t realize it was that bad.
And my third husband was Barack Obama.
Sweety, I don’t get it.
Turns out all he knew how to do was sit on the edge of the bed and tell me how good it was GOING to be.
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The great realization that dawned on half of America after this election, was that the other half of this nation not only has no interest in reason, logic, or Truth – we knew that already – but that they now hold power, and are not likely to give it up anytime soon. Indeed, their access to power into the indefinite future – by any means possible – has now pretty much been guaranteed.
(As an aside, I don't know how/why you keep dealing with these people. When I go onto any of their websites, I immediately start visualizing the hate-filled screamers on there, as the throng of dark souls that kill Aslan in the Lion/Witch/Wardrobe. The pleasure that some of these people take in darkness – and in forcibly foisting that darkness onto others via political power . just chills me. Perhaps they feel the same about, say, evangelical Christians, I don't know.)
So – how has our half reacted to this? From the discussions of a whilte homeland on American Renaissance, to the popularity of the secession petitions, to the wavering and imminent complete abdication of principles by our legislators on the right. What DOES a people do when confronted with the realization that half the people in this country have, in one way or another, willingly given themselves over to darkness, and are intent on controlling the rest of us?
Perhaps in this case, it just comes down to individual goodness, and how much light we can bring into the world through our own small actions. However, this is something that Our Side has always done, and it's done nothing to stop the great onslaught of the Left (and indeed is derided by them).
I don't know. We're at a very dark hour. I've managed to climb out of despair, and am successfully batting back at the fear, but find myself still in complete dismay, disarray and unbelief, like half of my countrymen.
Well, it's positive that you are capable of feeling emotions other than anger, hatred, and a superficial and smug humor to cover them up.
I don't have the answer. All I can say is that answers show themselves to those who persist. There's no way to know what's around the corner.
What if, as just one example, the NSA is populated with actual patriots who refuse to cooperate with Obama?
What if some crisis comes up that even the complicit media can't manage to spin in Obama's favor?
I play Solitaire sometimes, and it is funny to notice that sometimes the difference between losing and winning is just one card, just one thing you saw but almost missed.
Keep on, don't regret grieving, treat yourself well, allow through what hope you can muster, and stay busy daily doing something to improve the world. That's my strategy.