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Obama: "Take Our Country Back"
One of the things that irritates me the most about the Liberal-Left is their constant whining about the need to "take our country back." Obama has now proved himself to be one of the whiners on the Liberal-Left. From FoxNews:
In a video message on his Web site Friday, Obama said he was launching "a journey to take our country back and change the fundamental nature of our politics."
According to this kind of rhetoric, Obama must mean he wants to take America from freedom loving Americans. It means increases in taxes, government control, welfare, and poverty. It also means abandoning our allies in the Middle East, especially the people of Iraq.
He introduced a bill to prevent President Bush from increasing troop levels in Iraq and to remove U.S. combat forces from the country by March 31, 2008 - legislation that has virtually no chance of becoming law while Bush is president.Obama was not yet elected to the U.S. Senate when Congress voted to give Bush the authority to go to war, but he gave a speech in 2002 opposing the war. He said Saddam Hussein posed no imminent threat to the United States and predicted the invasion would lead to an occupation with undetermined costs and consequences.
In other words, Obama would happily have left a mass-murdering dictator in power. He would have left the weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological weapons remain in the hands of an oppressive regime that has a history of using such weapons against civilian populations. Obama was also okay with Hussein's torture chambers and the rape rooms run by Hussein's sons. It is also possible had Hussein been left in power, we would not only be facing a nuclear armed North Korea, and the developing potential of Iran with nuclear weapons, Iraq would also be in possession of such weapons.
Obama is also the darling of the anti-war crowd, with rhetoric like "What I am opposed to is a dumb war." (Anti-war rally in 2002.) According to Obama, our troops are fighting, and dying, in a dumb war.
Obama's qualifications to lead this country are also lacking. He touts as one of his major qualifications that he has lived in foreign countries (lots of people have, including me) and he has a degree (again, lots of people have degrees). His ego has been pumped up by an easy victory n the 2004 Senate race in which he was virtually unopposed, save for a token effort by a GOP candidate imported to Illinois in order to have a Republican on the ballot in that race. What makes him believe he can pull off a national electoral victory, especially with Hillary in the mix? Perhaps Obama is positioning himself for the number 2 slot.
Obama is a man who has lived the American Dream. It is too bad he doesn't understand what the American Dream is, and that other countries should be helped in shedding the shackles of oppression and tyranny so that they can pursue Liberty as well.
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