The conservatives, Republicans and sundry non-lefties I know in show business have had nothing to say but positive and helpful things about the coming Obama presidency.
“We wish him well.” “He is our president now and he needs our help.”
These are the types of things I keep hearing.
And this is exactly the right attitude and exactly the right message.
God bless, President Obama. Even though I didn’t vote for him, and disagree with much of his agenda, he has my best wishes and all of my best efforts.
Obama does not have my best wishes. He will shortly be the President of the United States, and I find almost all of his agenda both dangerous and threatening to the health and welfare of the American people and the country as a whole. Obama wants nationalized medicine, vast new federal expenditures rolled out for the purpose of constructing and then cementing a permanent left-wing majority, an end to free market capitalism (he likes capitalism, sort of, as a heavily-regulated, strongly-fettered cash cow that only invests in “good things”), an ever-more powerful state, and an ever-greater constriction of individual liberty that he and his ilk find disagreeable to their New International Order.
I don’t wish him well in any of this, nor do I wish him success as a president since these are his goals. In fact, I will oppose, to the best of my ability, all of his efforts like these starting from tomorrow, the first day of his presidency, until I see him defeated in all of them and driven from office as soon as possible.
He is my president only in the sense that he is the legitimately elected president of the United States. But his goals, agendas, and ideologies are not mine, and I wish him only the greatest ill in his pursuit of them. Further, I intend to treat him with all the tenderness, compassion, understanding, warmth, and support that his followers offered President Bush and any Republican, conservative, or libertarian politician or leader.
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Agreed, Bill. But I will say one thing: I will not call for the assassination of Obama, or for his death by other means. I don’t want him dead, I just want him discredited and out of office.
At that, I’ll be giving Obama more of a break than some liberals gave Bush.
“Dead” would suit me just fine. Not by assassination (at least not by an American assassin)—that would validate all the conspiracy theories. The funniest way for it to happen would be for him to continue the daily workouts that make him “the fittest politician in the world” or whatever that recent tongue-job called him. Then the first crisis to come along would put extra strain on his heart and -plonk!- he keels over while jogging.
No, the funniest way would be for him to keel over while doing some hoodrat.
I didn’t do that. Nor do I feel any need to announce that I won’t do that. I’m not a whackjob. I’m just a diehard enemy of Obama’s agenda, and defeating that will also involve defeating him and his party as thoroughly as possible.
Of course not. But I’m just reminding everyone that, unlike the moonbats, we as conservatives have some principles. Admittedly, “not calling for the death of people you disagree with politically” is pretty basic as principles go, but it’s something, by God.
Bill, I’m right with you. Perry DeHavilland over at Samizdata expressed much the same sentiment regarding President Obama’s policies.
Absolutely - smite them (politically) breast and thigh, as frequently and as mightily as your body and brain will allow.
Besides…although I am generally a supporter of the death penalty where warranted by an individual’s actions, I make an important exception where “professional politicians” guilty of crimes against their constituency are concerned. I consider it far more horrible and much more just a punishment, where these type of transgressors are involved, to cause them to remain face-to-face with the ugly nature of their crimes, preferably on a daily basis and for all time.
Death - however briefly horrible it might be - would be too easy a way out for them.