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An hour of purple shirts and submission,
when the age of freedom comes crashing down!
But it is not this day!
THIS DAY WE FIGHT!

My fantasy is to have the bunch of them end up lying outside on the ground in handcuffs (and leg cuffs) while the meeting goes on inside. (Hey, there could be some MPs among those veterans.) And when the vans come back to pick them up, somebody tosses military-grade caltrops on the road in front of them.

Let’s see the news media try to spin that!

As opposed to those of us who have more energetic and trenchant thoughts on the matter.

“Still, it’s possible that even if Obama is planning to leave the bunker in a year or so and go to the center, it will be too late to restore his rapport with voters.”

I was just thinking today somewhat along similar lines.

You never get a chance to make a second first impression.

Yes, Obama made a first impression as a candidate and a lot of people fell for the act.

However – he’s forgotten that he still had to make a first impression as president once he got the job.

That first impression, unlike his candidacy’s first impression (at least to the gullable) kind of sucks…..

Think of it this way – a guy makes a great impression in the job interview and people are excited he’s coming on board.

When he starts the actual job everyone realizes just how shallow his experience and judgement are and it becomes a matter of how to mitigate the damage.

Do you fire him, try to train him, or sideline him until he gets the hint he needs to really look for a job someplace else?

Furthermore, very little of the last January’s stimulus will reach the US economy until next year. It’s a matter of bureaucratic inertia and, I suspect, intentional timing for the 2010 elections. It is an artificial stimulant of course but it will have some salutary short-term effect.

Nonetheless I do believe that the Obamameisters are not quite so clever as they think and I’m betting that they have underestimated the US economy’s resilience in the face of all their meddling.

Obama and the Dems’ only hope is that the economy recovers to some extent so they can do well in the next couple elections.

Listen to Summers/Geitner and the rest of the puppetheads lately? These guys are ready to jack up all sorts of taxes and hit us with a VAT tax with an unemployment level hovering around 10%. You couldn’t pick a more anti-growth policy if you tried. That is unless you are trying to turn the country into the United Socialist States of America (USSA). Check out what happened to Europe once they enacted the VAT. The size of government exploded.

Imagine what our anger will be like when that happens. Its going to be off the charts baby! The public is very aware of the recent growth of the deficit under BO and polls show it being a big item on their radar. They know the spending is out of control and want the remaining stimulus money back in the bank or in their pockets.

Personally I don’t see how they can recover from all this. If I had to guess, by the end of Obama’s first term, he will have been completely abandoned by all you see around him now including the press. And don’t be suprised to see the WH surrounded with torches and pitchforks either.

@huxley Says:
August 14th, 2009 at 1:59 pm

Today I read an interesting theory that Obama will spend the first year or so swinging for the leftist fences then tack back to the center in time for the economy to get better and for him to be re-elected in 2012.

Maybe. I remain one of the possible minority on neoneo to believe that Obama is still dedicated to Obama and not the dreaded Cloward-Piven strategy for destroying America as a capitalist country.

Still, it’s possible that even if Obama is planning to leave the bunker in a year or so and go to the center, it will be too late to restore his rapport with voters.

Healthcare is too intimate and frightening an issue for Obama to turn into a leftist toy.

August 06, 2009
ObamaCare and me
By Zane F Pollard, MD

It’s too long to post, so if you wish use the link and read.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/obamacare_and_me.html

PS – Mandy, Since you have probably already turned in enough people to Big Brother to meet your quota I don’t recommend you reading article.