"What Did You Think Would Happen?"

Interesting question, ne?

Before I begin, I need to explain some backstory. Some of my friends and I meet at a local coffee shop every Friday. Sometimes it's in the wee hours of the morning, sometimes it's in the afternoon, and once it was after 6pm. (But only once.) But no matter the time, it's Friday.

We sit, drink coffee (OK...time for that full disclosure thing again, they drink coffee, I drink Mr. Dew) and talk about current events. Since the place has wifi, they bring their laptops. I would if I still had one...but I digress ... so I use theirs.

As has been happening frequently lately, our discussions turn to politics. Not one of our group likes Mr Obama. Frankly, we believe he's ruining the United States.

Yesterday, one of the other regulars at the coffee shop came up to our group and asked if he could sit down. He'd been listening to us rail against Mr Obama repeatedly over the past months, and he wanted to know exactly why we disliked him.

It turns out that he didn't know about the $800,000 that Mr Obama has spent in lawsuits to keep the vault copy of his birth certificate from being revealed. He didn't know about Mr Obama's ties to Project Vote and ACORN.

But he found out yesterday. We showed him Ms Thatcher's comments about socialist states (see my previous post about it here: http://gregb1967.blogspot.com/2009/07/margaret-thatcher-on-socialism.html

His jaw dropped. Bill turned to him and asked "What did you think would happen? He'd wave a majic wand and fix our economy just like that?"

We showed him this:

"- Free speech and voting rights. A liberal supermajority would move quickly to impose procedural advantages that could cement Democratic rule for years to come. One early effort would be national, election-day voter registration. This is a long-time goal of Acorn and others on the "community organizer" left and would make it far easier to stack the voter rolls. The District of Columbia would also get votes in Congress -- Democratic, naturally." (emphasis added. The italics are due to those words being italicised in the article.) "

We showed him the Black Panthers at the voting place: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX4dcvIYk9A

and: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4MTQVMatW0

Indeed. What did you think would happen?