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Old 04-01-2009, 12:33   #11
afchic
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Originally Posted by Blitzzz View Post
Please by all means believe in America and the American people after all a little over half voted for this, not knowing what "this" is. You mean to believe the same DEMs that have allowed a 3 trilion debt and still want to give more will stop what? Gun control, You do know better. The part about moving too fast too soon is correct but for the wrong reason. Obama didn't expect to move this fast and much of the timing of his distruction of America has been noticed by too many and honestly scares many. The MSM folks will always try to denigrate the Right. As I said the Constitution is a CONSERVATIVE document, a recipe for a great stew, which will be saurered by changing the recipe. Obama is no Chef, at least not enough to rival the founding fathers.
Blitzzz
I do believe in America and Americans. Every day I talk to people who have families, just like I do, who have the same worries I do, who get up in the morning and work their butts off, just like I do. The only difference between us is that they may be of a different political party than I support. Gee, let me stop being friends with them because they are "enemies of the state". They voted for Obama, so that means they do not care about this country as much as I do.

If my brother in law, who is the end all be all left wing liberal, who at one point believed Obama is the savior, can sit down and talk to me this past week about how he deplores the recent decisions of the current administration; then there is hope for us all. Yes there is a lot of buyers remorse out there. If the republicans can harness it in a way that does not rub their faces, and say "I told you so", so as to alienate them, then maybe we will be able to bring them a little closer to a different way of thinking.

If you don't believe the looming mid-term elections has anything to do with the President's time line, there is nothing I can do to change you mind. But having been in the legislative world for a short bit of time, I can tell you through experience it has a huge impact. Much the same as it did after the 2004 election, when President Bush knew he would have a huge fight after the 2006midterm elections.


As for me, I have never been, and never will be and Us vs. Them type of person when it comes to politics. Just because someone does not sign themselves up to the same political philosophy I espouse does not make them any less American than I am, and in the end, if I can be a good steward of my political philosophy, then maybe, just maybe I can get them to stand in my shoes some of the time and see things my way. They can expect the same of me. Bashing them in the nose only alienates them, and drives them further away, and thereby ending any kind of discussion before it starts.

JMHO.
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