tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post1239261414331485339..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-45884954781272687642008-10-18T07:03:00.000-05:002008-10-18T07:03:00.000-05:00Last night I watched the McLaughlin Group. They were going back and forth over who won the McCain-Obama debate and all the other ad nauseum clap trap that political talking heads spew when a comment by Eleanor Clift real hit me. She stated that when BO is "installed" as president. <BR/><BR/>For those who do not know Clift, she was a stanch supporter of Hillary during the Clinton years and once called the US military "mercenaries." <BR/><BR/>Her slip of the lip by stating "installed" instead of "elected" may seem inconsequential to some, but it is very telling of the liberal media's view of BO. The possible election of BO is sounding more and more like a coronation rather than an inauguration. <BR/><BR/>Two hundred thirty-seven years ago we fought a war to throw off the shackles of kingship. The Declaration of Independence states, <I>"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their </I>[the citizens]<I> right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security"</I>. <BR/><BR/>As we head into the final days and weeks of this election, ask yourself if you are willing to give up more and more of your rights, money, and freedoms. Ask yourself if you are willing to negate all the efforts, sufferings and loss that our parents and grandparents endured to make this country what John Winthrop called in 1630 "a city upon a hill" to be watched by all nations. <BR/><BR/>If we allow our country to sink into the morass of socialism, if we allow our country's ideals and principles of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" to be jettisoned for the sake of ease while, we as a nation, endure the tempest of the storm we face, we will be as Winthrop wrote, "We shall shame the faces of many of God's worthy servants, and cause their prayers to be turned into curses upon us til we be consumed out of the good land whither we are a-going." <BR/><BR/>Our children and grandchildren deserve to be handed a nation that allows for personal freedom, dignity and responsibility. Not a nation were the government decides where to live, how to live and what to think.Shofarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10797039592108775302noreply@blogger.com