My Hopes Regarding President Obama
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| Wed, 11-05-2008 - 7:56am |
Last night I was pretty depressed. I cried when John McCain conceded. I prayed for our newly elected President Obama, and for our country.
I started thinking about this man with the paper thin record, and thinking of his words, "I'm a pragmatist", and I started to feel a glimmer of hope. Is it possible that he won't push an ultra liberal socialist agenda? Food for thought, maybe his "present" votes were votes cast so that he wouldn't "tip his hand"? Maybe in good conscious he couldn't vote to the extreme left but knew that if he didn't he could never make it as far as he needed to in the extreme environment where he was traveling up the ladder to the white house?
We really know nothing about this man aside from his thin record. Maybe he won't be the Socialist leader that we expect. Maybe, now that he is in a position of power, he will seek good council and steer our country in the right direction rather than the wrong one.
I'm praying for that, because I don't want to see the country brought to her knees with another great depression and oppressive laws that limit our success and our freedoms.
I think we conservatives should put our money where our mouths are and start praying that this man will see the light, and lead our country well. I much prefer this scenario than the Jimmy Carter scenario on steroids which messes up the country so badly that he will not serve a second term and set the African American cause back for another generation.

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I prefer to worry about the actual/factual unconstitutionality of the Patriot Act.
The 2nd isn't based on need.
Yeah....I agree with you. It's really bizarre.
Sort of both...I started wondering about the definition of "arms" and then thought of the second amendment, which led me to the question of suitcase nukes (after reading that in a post).
Thanks for explaining what an assault rifle is.
Look at the very specific wording of the second amendment. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
There's been a lot of controversy in interpreting that wording. Many pro-RKBA people would greatly prefer that the introductory and gerund clauses be ignored. But they're there for a reason. And that reason has to do with the INTENT of the writers. Presumably that wording, "a well regulated militia", is NOT extraneous. Soooooo, the questions arises: if you're not part of a well-regulated militia, why do you need a weapon of any kind, much less an assault weapon?
The Patriot Act was a farce, not only in its name but in the way it actively sought to suspend civil rights and freedoms. Any student of history will tell you that tyrants and despots have risen to power by invoking a specter, scaring people, telling them they need protections, and offering to provide it if they will just "trust" the judgment of those tyrants/despots. Ominous stuff.
And that's even part of the reason for the second amendment emphasis on "well-regulated militia". The young United States of America didn't have a standing army and perforce relied on those militias as ad-hoc defense. Remember the original Minutemen? They'd already had a British standing army quartered in civilian homes, enforcing rules in which the colonists had little/no say.
Wonder how they'd view our very large standing armed-forces today, neo-colonialism, and the high rate of death by gunshot in inner cities or when some addled idiot with a grudge decides to go out in a blaze of ammo and take as many as possible with him!
Gettingahandle
Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.
Facts stifle the will, hobble conviction.
Gettingahandle
Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.
Nope, the second is based on a well-regulated miliita.
What round is this, Mark? I've lost count!
Gettingahandle
Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.
Facts stifle the will, hobble conviction.
Gettingahandle
Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.
No misleading the noobs, it's not polite.
Many pro-RKBA people would greatly prefer that the introductory and gerund clauses be ignored.
Ignored?
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