I pray for our country

[Big N' Blue]

SOMETHING OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS IS HAPPENING

By Tim Wood

Professor of History at Southwest Baptist University
Bolivar, Missouri .
417-328-2067
twood@SBUniv.edu


I am a student of history. Professionally. I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied it all my life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into sharper focus.

Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten - fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.

We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back. Why?

We learn that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has 'loaned' two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom, or why, or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700B we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of 'we the people', who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.

We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why? We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and we no longer teach our founding documents, showing why we are exceptional and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, and school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?

We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over a proposition that is so 'controversial' that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman!). Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago? We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then allow mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?

Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, Social Security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government, and our education system is worse than a joke. (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about.) The list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x ten. And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same religion, an enemy who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.

Now we have elected President a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla , Alaska . All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling, if not downright scary. Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a 'mandatory civilian defense force' stronger than our military for use inside our borders. No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over, and then demand he explain it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more important to the media.

Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: change. Why?

I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now! This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.

And that is only the beginning.

I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed. He edged his way onto the political stage through great oratoryand promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his 'brown shirts' would bully them into submission. And then, he was duly elected to office as full-throttled economic crisis was at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department-by-department,person-by-person, bureaucracy-by-bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his
name, where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people on his side? He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in their country, across Europe , and around the world.

He did it with a compliant media. Did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and ..... change. And the people surely got what they voted for. (Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.)

Read your history books. Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though.

Don't forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe .. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And in less than six years --- a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency --- it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to hell is paved with them.

As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me.

Some people scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe, and why I believe it.

I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am.

[liontracker]

This is what I've been expecting for awile now. Think about it, we have been groomed for this type of "change" since the vietnam war. It has come from the T.V. a little at a time. Between the news media and the content of the popular shows we have been desensitised and brainwashed as a society. Now, right is wrong and wrong is right. Men are women and women are men. The average person is content to go to work and sit on their ass for 8 hours and then go home and sit on their ass for 4 more. What are we accomplishing in the big picture? How many people actually create something. Most are just paperpushers that fuel the engines of this corrupt government that we call ours.
Take a look at the taxes our government collects. If I could skim 27% off the top of everything I did, my life would be a lot different. How much morals, values, ethics and integrity do you see now, as opposed to 40 years ago? Too much T.V. my friends!

[houndcrazyfool]

I AGREE WITH ALL OF IT!!! good work guys. Im glad to see their are still open minded intelligent people around...

The US has become a bunch of puppets because of television. We (not myself) as a country voted in a president that we know very little about(i think we should kick our own ass), and what we do know are his obvious red flags. Such as; his religious history, strong racist/radical connections, rediculous promisses, and ext... Not to mention we elected a man with the same middle name as the SOB that it took us 20 years to kill. Because why? because he told everyone what they wanted to hear!!! When you elect someone to run our country please people take a look into the persons background, lifestyle, and previous accomplishments to see if they are qualified

[R.M.]

Well said guys. I’m afraid you’re right, nothing short of a miracle can save our country from the destruction it is heading in. KEEP PRAYING!!!
I also think we should become more like “activist”, pressuring our government before “Obama’s Gestapo” is a real thing and has us all unarmed and afraid to standup for what we believe in.

R.M.

[Frontier]

This is a little long but if your interested in Blues post here's some more that fits in the puzzle somewhere.

>
> Subject:* Observations about Obama
>
> *Dr. Sam Vaknin is an Israeli psychologist. Interesting view on our new
> president. *
>
> *Dr. Vaknin has written extensively about narcissism. *
>
> *Dr. Vaknin States "I must confess I was impressed by Sen. Barack Obama
> from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black
> candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident - a
> wholesome presidential package. I was put off soon, not just because of
> his shallowness but also because there was an air of haughtiness in his
> demeanor that was unsettling. His posture and his body language were
> louder than his empty words. Obama's speeches are unlike any political
> speech we have heard in American history. Never a politician in this
> land had such quasi "religious" impact on so many people. The fact that
> Obama is a total incognito with zero accomplishment, makes this
> inexplicable infatuation alarming. Obama is not an ordinary man. He is
> not a genius. In fact he is quite ignorant on most important subjects." *
>
> *Barack Obama is a narcissist. *
>
> *Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the Malignant Self Love believes "Barack
> Obama appears to be a narcissist." Vaknin is a world authority on
> narcissism. He understands narcissism and describes the inner mind of a
> narcissist like no other person. When he talks about narcissism everyone
> listens. Vaknin says that Obama's language, posture and demeanor, and
> the testimonies of his closest, dearest and nearest suggest that the
> Senator is either a narcissist or he may have narcissistic personality
> disorder (NPR). Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of
> themselves. Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of People's Temple, the
> man who led over 900 of his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide
> and even murder their own children was also a narcissist. David Koresh,
> Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Stalin, Saddam, Mao, Kim
> Jong Ill and Adolph Hitler are a few examples of narcissists of our
> time. All these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers.
> They created a personality cult around themselves and with their blazing
> speeches elevated their admirers, filled their hearts with enthusiasm
> and instilled in their minds a new zest for life. They gave them hope!
> They promised them the moon, but alas, invariably they brought them to
> their doom. When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you don't
> know it until it is too late. One determining factor in the development
> of NPD is childhood abuse. *
>
> *"Obama's early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic
> and mentally bruising dislocations," says Vaknin. "Mixed-race marriages
> were even less common then. His parents went through a divorce when he
> was an infant (two years old). Obama saw his father only once again,
> before he died in a car accident. Then his mother re-married and Obama
> had to relocate to Indonesia, a foreign land with a radically foreign
> culture, to be raised by a step-father. At the age of ten, he was
> whisked off to live with his maternal (white) grandparents. He saw his
> mother only intermittently in the following few years and then she
> vanished from his life in 1979. She died of cancer in 1995". *
>
> *One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of pathological
> narcissists. They project such an imposing personality that it
> overwhelms those around them. Charmed by the charisma of the narcissist,
> people become like clay in his hands. They cheerfully do his bidding and
> delight to be at his service. The narcissist shapes the world around
> himself and reduces others in his own inverted image. He creates a cult
> of personality. His admirers become his co-dependents. Narcissists have
> no interest in things that do not help them to reach their personal
> objective. They are focused on one thing alone and that is power. All
> other issues are meaningless to them and* *they do not want to waste
> their precious time on trivialities. Anything that does not help them is
> beneath them and do not deserve their attention.*
>
> *If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in one way or
> another, he has no interest in it. The "present" vote is a safe vote. No
> one can criticize him if things go wrong. Those issues are unworthy by
> their very nature because they are not about him. Obama's election as
> the first black president of the Harvard Law Review led to a contract
> and advance to write a book about race relations. *
>
> *The University of Chicago Law School provided him a lot longer than
> expected and at the end it evolved into, guess what? His own
> autobiography! Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing on race
> relations, for which he had been paid, Obama could not resist writing
> about his most sublime self. He entitled the book Dreams from My Father. *
>
> *Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own autobiography when
> he was still nobody. So did Stalin. For a narcissist no subject is as
> important as his own self. Why would he waste his precious time and
> genius writing about insignificant things when he can write about such
> an august being as himself? Narcissists are often callous and even
> ruthless. As the norm, they lack conscience. This is evident from
> Obama's lack of interest in his own brother who lives on only one dollar
> per month. *
>
> *A man who lives in luxury, who takes a private jet to vacation in
> Hawaii, and who has raised nearly half a billion dollars for his
> campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no interest in the
> plight of his own brother. Why? Because, his brother cannot be used for
> his ascent to power. *
>
> *A narcissist cares for no one but himself. This election is like no
> other in the history of America. The issues are insignificant compared
> to what is at stake. What can be more dangerous than having a man bereft
> of conscience, a serial liar, and one who cannot distinguish his
> fantasies from reality as the leader of the free world? I hate to sound
> alarmist, but one is a fool if one is not alarmed. Many politicians are
> narcissists. They pose no threat to others...They are simply self
> serving and selfish. *
>
> *Obama evidences symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is different
> from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or a Bill Clinton
> for example. To him reality and fantasy are intertwined. This is a
> mental health issue, not just a character flaw. Pathological narcissists
> are dangerous because they look normal and even intelligent. It is this
> disguise that makes them treacherous. *
>
> *Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama. But this man
> could put an end to their party. The great majority of blacks have also
> decided to vote for Obama. Only a fool does not know that their support
> for him is racially driven. This is racism, pure and simple. The
> downside of this is that if Obama turns out to be the disaster I
> predict, he will cause widespread resentment among the whites. *
>
> *The blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their man. Cultic
> mentality is pernicious and unrelenting. They will dig their heads
> deeper in the sand and blame Obama's detractors of racism. This will
> cause a backlash among the whites. *
>
> *The white supremacists will take advantage of the discontent and they
> will receive widespread support. I predict that in less than four years,
> racial tensions will increase to levels never seen since the turbulent
> 1960's. *
>
> *Obama will set the clock back decades... America is the bastion of
> freedom. The peace of the world depends on the strength of America, and
> its weakness translates into the triumph of terrorism and victory of
> rogue nations. *
>
> *It is no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Castrists, the
> Hezbollah, the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists and
> virtually all sworn enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect
> of their man in the White House. America is on the verge of destruction.
> There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as
> president. *
>
> *Frank H. Chamberlain, III President Resource Technologies, Inc.
> "Success Strategies for the 21st Century"*

[Charlie Burger]

"Obama's Gestapo" is already becoming real, The GIVE Act passed. Funny how that wasn't on the news , unless I missed it. Look it up: http://www.govtrack.us

[Charlie Burger]

For some reason I can't get the link posted on here so you can just click and watch, but go to youtube or googlevideo, and watch The Obama Deception. Make sure you get the HQ Full Length version, it will open your eyes. It's about 2 hours long, so put on a pot of coffee.

[chilcotin hillbilly]

This is an interesting view and discussion. Being fom Canada you might think I care about what goes on south of the 49th, but this topic comes up often at work. Obama, will cause the downfall of the USA with his leftwing beliefs. I am defiately not an expert on what goes on in your country but an idiot can see when your president stands and proclaims you are no longer a christian country ,you are understanding people who accept everyones belief and respect them. You boys are in for a lot of trouble in the near future, and Bin Laden and his boys are having the last laugh, as Obama softens up the country with his stupid lefty views. Even the Americans that live around me in the remote location think Obama is the greatest thing thats happened to the States. I say if you like him so much go home where you belong and throw your support behind your country not like they did in the late 60's and early 70's( draft dodgers). I feel bad for you guys that still have the old school values that built your country much like Canada but we are a minority and will be until both countries hit the gutter face down laying in its own puke. Then and only then will people understand what has taken place.

[livetohunt]

I just found this law on
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-hj5/text
They want to remove limitations on the number of terms a president can have.
Can you imagine Obama for 10 or 20 years?????

HJ 5 IHCommentsClose CommentsPermalink
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4Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
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Mr. SERRANO introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the JudiciaryCommentsClose CommentsPermalink
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1Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

[Ike]

Obama must be a cocky son of a gun to think he's gonna be around longer than eight year--wow!