Anyone But Obama?

Hey folks!

So whenever I try to talk to a person about Ron Paul or really anytime the conversation turns to anything about the next presidential election, the person I'm speaking with 99% of the time ends the conversation with something like, "ya, well anybody would be better than Obama."  

This may be ultimately true, but that phrase drives me crazy. It is so frustrating to hear people say that. To me, it's almost just a concession. Well who cares, let's not discuss the issues, let's just cop out and just remind ourselves who the "bad guy" is that we're supposed to be against because he's a liberal democrat who is trying to bring socialism into our country. We're on Team Republican, so we have to take down Team Democrat at all costs. Carroll Quigley, a professor and historian who many say is unashamedly socialist (to say the least), pinned it right on the nose when he said: "The National parties and their presidential candidates, with the Eastern Establishment assiduously fostering the process behind the scenes, moved closer together and nearly met in the center with almost identical candidates and platforms, although the process was concealed as much as possible, by the revival of obsolescent or meaningless war cries and slogans (often going back to the Civil War). … The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can “throw the rascals out” at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy. … Either party in office becomes in time corrupt, tired, unenterprising, and vigorless. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies."
So basically, the two parties are just a circus to keep us occupied while the real important things are ignored and our liberty is undermined. Dig into records of Congress to see that this is true, but a few easy to see examples: Bush's No Child Left Behind = Federal overhaul of education, Obamacare = Federal overhaul of healthcare. Both unconstitutional, but since the guy on our team passed it, it's all good. Were there Republicans (so-called fiscal conservatives) all for the banker bailouts just because their buddy Bush passed them? Why were the Democrats (who voted for Obama to end the wars) outraged at Bush going into Iraq to overthrow the evil dictator but were all for Obama invading Libya to overthrow the evil dictator? 

Obama may be accelerating our debt twice as fast as Bush did, but Bush still accelerated our debt! They both made the federal government much much bigger. Point is, we can do better than the status quo! Let's look through all the available candidates while we still have time before the primaries and see if we can do better. If you want, vote for the Republican no matter who he or she is in the generals. Don't just roll over now. We have an amazing opportunity to start getting this country back on track for real. It is going to be hard. It will be long. But until people start getting out of the mindset that we're Democrats and Republicans instead of Americans, it's never going to get better. Have you seen the hockey movie, Miracle? This newly-formed hockey team was training for the Olympics, to be the best in the world. The coach makes them do like a million laps after a game because he wants them to learn a lesson. The only thing that could make him stop blowing the whistle was Mike Eruzione. The coach asked him who he played for, and instead of stating the name of the college he played for, he said, "[I play for] the United States of America!" Same kind of thing. We need to come together and change the status quo. Stop the corruption. Quit killing the Constitution, our liberty, and our freedom. 

Don't fall into the Fox News vs. CNN, Republican vs. Democrat trap. Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity make big bucks off of this silly illusion. They keep us occupied worrying about stupid stuff and never bring up things that matter. The important things can't be explained in a sound byte. Or a brief blog post (I'm trying my best). We actually have to read and study things that aren't always that entertaining.

Anyway, I know several of Obama's policies and actions are destroying America and the Constitution. I'm just saying he is not the only one who has done it (Democrat or Republican) and he is not the only one who would do it (intentionally or not)! We have a better choice. Look into Ron Paul. Listen to the debates and look into the voting records. Listen to the 2008 debates too, there was a lot less mention of the Constitution, no mention of the Fed, and a lot less mention of cutting spending. Except by Ron Paul. Look at his 1988 debates. He was fighting for the same things then! Let's not lose this monumental and historical chance to do join him in the fight for our liberty and our wonderful country.

Tell me why you like or dislike the candidates, just don't tell me anybody would be better than Obama.