The Change I Was Afraid Of

I learned of Barack Obama's election as president after my plane landed and I turned on my phone. I had one text message. It read: Welcome to Obamaland. My response was a one word expletive. I didn't yell it, it just kind of rolled out like a cup of poison would fall from the hand of the one who just drank it and died. That is dramatic, but that is how I felt. On some level, right then and there, I knew we were in for some bad turns.

Our nation has joined a cult. And like any cult, you don't find out what it is you are in, until you are in. No one really knew who Barack Obama was or what he stood for. Though he was a senator, his record was blank (voting "present" will do that). We knew he was pro-abortion and wanted to "spread the wealth around", but we really didn't know much more than that. Now that we're in, we are learning just what it is we have (been) signed onto. And again, like a cult, any disagreement is quickly beaten down. Those who adore the leader take care of that task for him, without having to be asked to do so.

The TEA parties held thoughout the nation this past April 15 are the first, I fear, in what will be a long and progressively uglier scrap over the next four years. The MSM's utter digust of the people's right to gather and protest the Beloved Leader was truly disheartening to me as an American. The irony of community organizer types to loathe the very idea that people would gather in protest is stunning. From the verbal battering by CNN's Susan Roesgen to the truly back alley gutter language used openly by Anderson Cooper of CNN and David Schuster of MSNBC, we have crossed over to a new place of language use. Read this article from Greg Hengler at Townhall.com. The author makes important points about the type of language used in civil discourse and debate. It is also important for you to see with your own eyes and hear with your own ears what was allowed on air by CNN and MSNBC. I had no idea what either reporter was talking about, but have now been "re-educated" by those two informative news outlets.