It's easy to fall into a big blue funk these days. The leader of the Free World thinks the "Last best hope on earth" doesn't deserves that description. His cheerleaders, sycophants and minions try to get the country to buy into the idea that American decline and dependency is "the new normal." Yeah, like olive drab jump suits with little red stars on the breast is "the new black." Nevertheless, he would be happy to be merely the leader of the world. He is exceptional, America is not. He envies the authoritarian thugs ruining China. He thinks he and Tim Geithner are smart enough to run a $15T economy with a $6T government and decide what "the American people want" besides. The Articles of Impeachment that could be written on the abuses of his Attorney General alone would have caused Samuel Adams to take up arms. Add the usurpation of his Secretary of Health and Human Services, so-called, and John Dickinson of Pennsylvania would be calling for revolution. Consider the unsustainable burden of debt loaded upon the country and Alexander Hamilton would be challenging Bernake and Geithner to settle matters on the field of honor. I could go on, but one only needs to read the papers to see a new threat to our country. I could go on. No, I couldn't. It is too frightening.
Decline is a Choice. Now is A Time for Choosing. In my darker moments, I fear that between "up or down: [up to man's age-old] dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism,"
And yet...the Electoral College map at Real Clear Politics is projecting 233 electoral votes for the incumbent, with 270 votes needed to win. Who can doubt that he will take full advantage that ""This is my last election ... After my election I have more flexibility" to "fundamentally transform America."
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