Upside-Down, Inside-Out
Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you-if you're nave and stupid. Those may not be all the original words of Sinatra's "Young at Heart," but they're more realistic than Frankie's.
Maybe it's the age-or just my age-but I've been getting uneasy, queasy feelings, vibes in the current vernacular, that believing our nation will always be the great nation in which we grew up is wishful thinking, a fairy tale if you will.
Do forgive the purplish prose but I also firmly believe that we collectively stand at a precipice, a hazardous cliff overhanging an unforgiving plunge into chaotic change, into changes that threaten to forever alter who Americans are and what America is.
We were warned of this by candidate Obama, of change we could believe in, and it's in progress although it may not be the warm and fuzzy change we were misled to anticipate.
As Harry Reid dishes out unprecedented bribes to win senatorial votes, as China gives fair warning that the world's financial well is running dry, as the president's new bff's abuse and ridicule him, Obama blithely keeps marching on with his permutation campaign.
The essence of Obama's change is that we now seem to be living in a world not merely turned upside-down but inside out.
Previous absolutes are given a relativistic spin, traditional values and understandings are reduced to the level of antiquated absurdities, America is gradually being transmogrified into just one more nation in the United Nations' mob rather than Ronald Reagan's shining city on the hill.
It's worthwhile to read and consider Reagan's words in his Farewell Address: "In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here:" http://bit.ly/19M39E
President Reagan's Utopian city is fading quickly into Obama's amorphous quagmire of statism and its citizens turning into ACORN-ish, Orwellian automatons.
My queasy feelings may not be unique but few reasonable people seem prepared to accept and articulate them.
Perhaps it's only because of my limited associations, or perhaps not, but there's something in the socio-politico air suggestive of monumental transformation in how Americans live, what we think, and what our future holds.
Maybe that's all attributable to last year's election of an embarassingly-inexperienced and inept president or his equally-embarassing nominees to execute his domestic and international policies or the amateurish manner of those executions.
Maybe it's attributable to Obama's abysmal failures in both domestic and international initiatives, from an economy still wallowing in the doldrums despite various trillion dollar stimuli to the president's most recent, and fortuitous, failure in Copenhagen.
More than one observer has slung the carcass of that latter debacle around Obama's neck, one blaming him for his abject failure to lead: http://bit.ly/56CSaR
Maybe it's attributable to what appears to be the imminent Senate passage of Obamacare which will single-handedly transform the nation from one of self reliance and hope to just another socialistic country in despair.
Whatever the cause, our nation seems adrift in a sea of confused disillusionment and I'm not alone in believing that.
Because of his many callers who express that bewilderment and seek answers, who are looking for direction away from the precipice, Rush Limbaugh today predicted a revolution of sorts when the common citizenry rise up and say, No more!
In our increasingly Hispanic America, that should also read, No mas!
Obama has acted like the proverbial drunken Democrat by spending huge numbers of dollars without the foggiest concern as to how our children and grandchildren will pay back America's massive, intergenerational debt.
No problemo, says Obama, sotto voce. As Martha Stewart says, "It's all good."
As thinking Americans say, "What the hell is going on here?"
In time, with little time left, America's patriots may be able to reverse America's course. The only question is whether it will be too late to right our sinking ship of state and reignite the light on the hill
Maybe it's the age-or just my age-but I've been getting uneasy, queasy feelings, vibes in the current vernacular, that believing our nation will always be the great nation in which we grew up is wishful thinking, a fairy tale if you will.
Do forgive the purplish prose but I also firmly believe that we collectively stand at a precipice, a hazardous cliff overhanging an unforgiving plunge into chaotic change, into changes that threaten to forever alter who Americans are and what America is.
We were warned of this by candidate Obama, of change we could believe in, and it's in progress although it may not be the warm and fuzzy change we were misled to anticipate.
As Harry Reid dishes out unprecedented bribes to win senatorial votes, as China gives fair warning that the world's financial well is running dry, as the president's new bff's abuse and ridicule him, Obama blithely keeps marching on with his permutation campaign.
The essence of Obama's change is that we now seem to be living in a world not merely turned upside-down but inside out.
Previous absolutes are given a relativistic spin, traditional values and understandings are reduced to the level of antiquated absurdities, America is gradually being transmogrified into just one more nation in the United Nations' mob rather than Ronald Reagan's shining city on the hill.
It's worthwhile to read and consider Reagan's words in his Farewell Address: "In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here:" http://bit.ly/19M39E
President Reagan's Utopian city is fading quickly into Obama's amorphous quagmire of statism and its citizens turning into ACORN-ish, Orwellian automatons.
My queasy feelings may not be unique but few reasonable people seem prepared to accept and articulate them.
Perhaps it's only because of my limited associations, or perhaps not, but there's something in the socio-politico air suggestive of monumental transformation in how Americans live, what we think, and what our future holds.
Maybe that's all attributable to last year's election of an embarassingly-inexperienced and inept president or his equally-embarassing nominees to execute his domestic and international policies or the amateurish manner of those executions.
Maybe it's attributable to Obama's abysmal failures in both domestic and international initiatives, from an economy still wallowing in the doldrums despite various trillion dollar stimuli to the president's most recent, and fortuitous, failure in Copenhagen.
More than one observer has slung the carcass of that latter debacle around Obama's neck, one blaming him for his abject failure to lead: http://bit.ly/56CSaR
Maybe it's attributable to what appears to be the imminent Senate passage of Obamacare which will single-handedly transform the nation from one of self reliance and hope to just another socialistic country in despair.
Whatever the cause, our nation seems adrift in a sea of confused disillusionment and I'm not alone in believing that.
Because of his many callers who express that bewilderment and seek answers, who are looking for direction away from the precipice, Rush Limbaugh today predicted a revolution of sorts when the common citizenry rise up and say, No more!
In our increasingly Hispanic America, that should also read, No mas!
Obama has acted like the proverbial drunken Democrat by spending huge numbers of dollars without the foggiest concern as to how our children and grandchildren will pay back America's massive, intergenerational debt.
No problemo, says Obama, sotto voce. As Martha Stewart says, "It's all good."
As thinking Americans say, "What the hell is going on here?"
In time, with little time left, America's patriots may be able to reverse America's course. The only question is whether it will be too late to right our sinking ship of state and reignite the light on the hill
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