Does anybody remember back on 9-NOV-2008, when Valerie Jarrett the Co-Chair of the Obama-Biden transition team said this?
“ However, given the really daunting challenges that we face, it’s important that President-Elect Obama is prepared to really, ah, take power and begin to rule day one.”
“ … begin to rule … “ ?!?
Perhaps I’m just dense about this, as the liberals keep telling me, but an elected President does not ‘rule,’ he governs. There’s an important distinction to be drawn here. A dictator rules, but somebody who is elected governs. Back I went to dictionary.com to see what their definition of ‘rule’ is. And I’ll quote the 5th definition that they have: “tenure or conduct of reign or office: during the rule of George III.” (italicized in article.)
However, it could be argued that Ms Jarrett meant ‘rule’ as in ‘govern.’
But let’s go further. Here’s another link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUfo-RxkXA8&feature=related
There’s a lot going on in this clip, so let’s distill it down. First we learn that, according to the moderator, every time the capital gains tax was increased, revenues from the tax dropped. While it sounds counter-intuitive, it really isn’t. It is, however, an ‘inconvenient truth’ that the liberals love to forget. Every time the capital gains tax was increased, revenues from the tax fell. Conversely, every time the capital gains tax was lowered, revenues from the tax increased!
But there’s also this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYrlDlrLDSQ
And then this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYrlDlrLDSQ
" If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to - this is the last stand on Earth. "And then Mr Reagan said something prophetic. It was almost as if he were aware of the situation that now faces us. He said:
" This is the issue of this election; whether we believe in our capacity for self-government, or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. "
And then, most dammingly for Mr Obama and his supporters: " And among themselves and all of the things I will now quote have appeared in print: these are not Republican accusations.
" For example, they have voices that say 'The Cold War will end with our acceptance of a not-undemocratic Socialism.'
" Another voice said the profit motive has become out-moded, it must be replaced by the incentives of the Welfare State.
" Or 'Our traditional system of individual freedom is incapable of solving the complex problems of the 20th Century.
" Senator Fullbright has said at Stanford University that the Constitution is out-moded. He referred to the President as our 'moral teacher' and 'our leader.' And he says he is hobbled in his task by the restrictions of power imposed on him by this antiquated document. He must be freed so that he can do for us what he knows is best.
" And Senator Clark of Pennsylvania, another articulate spokesman, defines liberalism as 'meeting the material needs of the masses through the full power of centralized government. "
When did President Reagan say these things? 27-OCT-1964.
It certainly fits today, doesn't it?
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