Your new god

Seen in an email signature:

"Rosa Parks sat so that Martin Luther King could walk.
Martin Luther King walked so Barack Obama could run.
Barack Obama ran so our children could fly.”
-- Unknown participant in the 2008 Presidential Election

And yet we're told race wasn't an issue. It shouldn't have been, but it clearly was for some people.

Oh the quote is very inspirational on the surface. And I do think there's truth in it. But there is also something else. Look at the last line. The best word I can think of to describe it is worshipful.
The implication is that Obama, through the power of the One True Government™, will enable and help our children to succeed.

Whether they want it to or not.

Love Affair

Ah, how sweet.

It started with the fist bump seen ’round the world. Soon there were stories of rousing family Scrabble battles and date nights, in spite of election mayhem. Then President-elect Barack Obama referred to his wife Michelle as “the love of my life” during his election night victory speech, embracing her tightly and kissing her afterwards, while millions of people worldwide watched.

“They took a moment to face each other, to kiss and hold one another, regardless of the magnitude and spectacle of the night,” said Camille Washington, a Bay Area blogger on Soulbounce.com, a music and culture site. “That says a lot.”

The Obamas represent a welcome change as an openly affectionate and romantic couple for many Americans. Some experts say that the soon-to-be first couple embody the ideal healthy relationship, and that they can stir up love around the country. The New York Daily News even predicted a baby boom attributed to election night friskiness inspired by the Obamas.

John and Cindy McCain love each other as well. But if McCain had won the election, do you think for a minute that anything like this would have been published about them? Of course not. More likely, it would have been some article that purported to discuss what it's like for them to be married but would be a subtle, or not so subtle, criticism of the fact that Cindy brought a lot of wealth to the marriage. It would have glossed over her extensive charity work, assuming it was even mentioned at all.

It continues

I just received this press release from the Second Amendment Foundation.

HOLDER NOMINATION SIGNALS OBAMA’S TRUE ANTI-GUN RIGHTS AGENDA

BELLEVUE, WA – The nomination of Eric Holder for the post of attorney general of the United States sends an “alarming signal” to gun owners about how the Barack Obama administration will view individual gun rights, as affirmed this year by the Supreme Court, the Second Amendment Foundation said today.

“Eric Holder signed an amicus brief in the Heller case that supported the District of Columbia’s handgun ban, and also argued that the Second Amendment does not protect an individual right,” noted SAF founder Alan Gottlieb. “He has supported national handgun licensing and mandatory trigger locks. As deputy attorney general under Janet Reno, he lobbied Congress to pass legislation that would have curtailed legitimate gun shows.

“This is not the record of a man who will come to office as the nation’s top law enforcement officer with the rights and concerns of gun owners in mind,” he observed.

Holder’s nomination, like the appointment of anti-gun Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel as White House Chief of Staff, tells American gun owners that Obama’s campaign claims supporting the Second Amendment were “empty rhetoric,” Gottlieb stated.

“America’s 85 million gun owners have ample reason to be pessimistic about how their civil rights will fare under the Obama administration,” Gottlieb said. “Mr. Obama will have a Congress with an anti-gun Democrat majority leadership to push his gun control agenda. Gun owners have not forgotten Mr. Obama’s acknowledged opposition to concealed carry rights, nor his support for a ban on handgun ownership when he was running for the Illinois state senate.

“Barack Obama vigorously portrayed himself on the campaign trail as a man who supports gun ownership,” Gottlieb concluded, “but now that he has won the election, he is surrounding himself with people who are avowed gun prohibitionists. What better indication of what to expect from Barack Obama as president than the people he is selecting to lead his administration? This isn’t a roster of devoted public servants. It’s a rogue’s gallery of extremists who have labored to erase the Second Amendment from the Bill of Rights.”

Hiatus

Since the election, I've been pretty quiet. I probably will be through the holidays, though I imagine I'll post something every now and then.

Of course, come January, all hell will be breaking loose and I'll be here watching it happen.

More revisionism?

The page on Obama's transition website that I referred to in my last post, the one where he details his Urban Policy that includes gun control measures, has been removed. The URL, http://www.change.gov/agenda/urbanpolicy/, now returns a simple message that the page is not available.

Is the page not available because:

1. It's yet another attempt to flush something down the memory hole?
2. The President-elect has changed his mind?
3. The page is being altered and will return once the changes are complete?

You're guess is as good as mine.

And so it begins

Updated: see below.

The following comes as absolutely no surprise.  I suppose I thought he’d wait a short while but that is not to be.  The Democrats are already drunk with power and they’re moving fast.

Item the first: The disarmament of the American people

On the official transition website of Barack Obama, President-Elect, (http://change.gov) he lays out his Urban Policy.  Among other things is this:

Address Gun Violence in Cities: As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals who shouldn't have them. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.

The best analysis of this policy that I've read can be found here. It's not the only one, of course.

This will only be the beginning.  The market is already reacting with sales of guns of all types going through the roof and stocks are being quickly depleted. The steps listed above will be just the first salvo in an all-out effort to render the Second Amendment meaningless. The decision in the Heller case will act as a roadblock but expect any Supreme Court justices nominated to be amenable to overturning it if not eager to do so.

Item the second: The new conscription

I now point to the America Serves page at Obama's transition website (http://change.gov/americaserves/) containing the overview for the new plan for "service". Before I continue, though, a funny thing has happened. The page has been changed since it was first brought to my attention.

Of course, this isn't the first time that the Obama website has been changed. See here and here. Welcome to the new revisionism, and remember that it's a favored tactic of Communism. Yes, I went there. I'm sure I will again.

The GeekWithA.45 has the original text which I reproduce here with his emphasis intact:

America Serves

"When you choose to serve -- whether it's your nation, your community or simply your neighborhood -- you are connected to that fundamental American ideal that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness not just for ourselves, but for all Americans. That's why it's called the American dream."

The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation’s challenges. President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps. Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to

require

50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year. Obama will encourage retiring Americans to serve by improving programs available for individuals over age 55, while at the same time promoting youth programs such as Youth Build and Head Start.

He also notes the irony of the situation in the face of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. I expect that, though the text has changed, the plan has not.

The ever-irascible Kim du Toit has something to say about it:

Wow. If I didn’t know better, I’d have called those things by their proper names: Obamajugend, Arbeitsdienst and Volkssturm.

As one of those “over age 55” types, allow me to make this suggestion to Comrade Urkel: you want me to work; you pay me. Otherwise, go fuck yourself.

And that goes for my kids, too. If they want to work in soup kitchens or for church charities, they’ll do that. If they don’t want to, you’re not going to force them. Or you’ll have to force them over my dead body, and over those of several of your Gruppenfuehrers.

The GeekWithA.45 is much more to the point:

You. Shall. Not. Teach. My. Children. To. Be. Slaves.

Ever.

Mark my words: This is just the beginning.

Update: Item the third: The biggest heist in history

Of course, in the end, it's always about the money:

Democrats in the U.S. House have been conducting hearings on proposals to confiscate workers’ personal retirement accounts — including 401(k)s and IRAs — and convert them to accounts managed by the Social Security Administration.

This comes via Nicki at The Liberty Zone who has some rather choice comments:

Confiscate. Appropriate by the government. Deprive of property. Steal.

This is no longer a pithy little catchphrase about helping everyone. This is theft, pure and simple. This is YOUR government, whom YOU elected, telling YOU that they will take what YOU earned away from you, take away your freedom of choice as to what to do with your property, give it to an inept government bureaucracy to mishandle and hand out to those who haven't earned it. This isn't funny, and it isn't noble. It's criminal.

Good job guys. I dare you to justify all of these, and all the other infringements on our liberty that are sure to follow. Go on, I'm listening.

This pretty much sums it up

From today's Patriot Post digest:

The Democrats' large majorities no doubt mean America is in for at least two years of full-steam-ahead socialism. Priorities include raising taxes on everyone (not just the wealthy, despite their promises to the contrary), even more severe environmental regulations, a policy of defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan and reviving the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" to stifle conservative objections to any of the above.

On the other hand, Republicans were beaten because they deserved it. Eight years of spending and generally behaving like drunken Democrats convinced Americans to vote for the real thing instead of the imitation. It's safe to say that "compassionate conservatism" was an unmitigated disaster. If Republicans get back to their conservative roots, they will not wander in the political wilderness for another generation.

The One Ring

One of the analogies making the rounds of the Intarwebz is that, with the election of Barack Obama, it feels (there's that word) like "Frodo has finally destroyed the Ring."

Let's hope so, because I fear that a better analogy might be that Faramir did not let Frodo and Sam go in Ithilien. Instead, he carried the Ring to Minas Tirith. There the people of the White City surrendered the Ring to the Witch King of Angmar hoping that Sauron would stop his invasion of the West.

It doesn't take much to imagine how that would turn out.

Reactions

Here's a collection of reactions to yesterday's events.

The GeekWithA.45 realized something yesterday.

Any man's, group's or nation's right to claim that America in an inherently racist nation ceases today, and is lost forever.

The ever-irascible Kim duToit lays out just what kind of Change™ the American people have just voted for.

The inestimable Steven den Beste says it's not the end of the world. He even lists some positives:

1. It is no longer possible for anyone to deny that the MSM is heavily biased. The MSM have been biased for decades but managed an illusion of fairness. That is no longer possible; the MSM have squandered their credibility during this campaign. They'll never get that credibility back again.

2. Since the Democrats got nearly everything they hoped for in this campaign, they'll have no excuses and will have to produce. They'll have to reveal their true agenda -- or else make clear that they don't really have any beyond gaining power.

3. Every few decades the American people have to be reminded that peace only comes with strength. The next four years will be this generation's lesson.

He also has some predictions. Here's a partial list:

1. Obama's "hold out your hand to everyone" foreign policy is going to be a catastrophe. They'll love it in Europe. They're probably laughing their heads off about it in the middle east already.

2. The US hasn't suffered a terrorist attack by al Qaeda since 9/11, but we'll get at least one during Obama's term.

3. We're going to lose in Afghanistan.

4. Iran will get nuclear weapons. There will be nuclear war between Iran and Israel. (This is the only irreversibly terrible thing I see upcoming, and it's very bad indeed.)

The Wall Street Journal, before the results were known, noted that We Could Be In for a Lurch to the Left. It discusses why the Democrats will be much more likely to enact liberal policies now than they were when they enjoyed Congressional majorities under Carter and Clinton:

The most significant change is in the ideological makeup of the Democratic majorities. In the Carter and Clinton eras, there were dozens of moderate and conservative Democrats in Congress, a disproportionate number of them committee chairs. Now the Democratic majorities in both houses are composed almost uniformly of liberals. Those few who aren't, including the tiny but heralded gang of moderates elected to the House in 2006, usually knuckle under on liberal issues. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi bosses them around like hired help.

And it also reminds us that the media has played and will continue to play a large role:

There's still another change in Washington that shouldn't be overlooked: a mainstream media that's become reflexively liberal. It's true the national press corps has been monopolized by liberals for years. The difference now is that the media's liberal tendencies are unleashed and permeate reporting on national affairs.

Finally, the inestimable Bill Whittle notes the Historic nature of the occasion and sums up my thoughts rather well:

When he is inaugurated, President Obama will be my president. He cannot be otherwise. I will disagree with him at just about every turn, likely, and that is my right and duty as an American. However, in an emergency he will have my unqualified support, and I will always wish him wisdom and hope that he may do what is best for this great country of ours. I do not wish – I do not ever wish – to see my country suffer so that I may gain political leverage. If at this same time four years from now, President Obama has acted in such a way to make us more prosperous, more safe and more free, it will be my greatest pleasure to admit I was wrong about the man. I look forward to that day. I hope to see it come to pass.

Regardless of all of that, we have together achieved something noble and magnificent tonight. We have, after a long and hazardous journey, taken the final step in erasing the one real stain on our nations history. That war is not over, but it is won. And we may all take a great deal of pride in that.

Here we go

I could write a long post about why you should vote a certain way, but I won't. I'm too tired. All I'm going to say is may God help us all.