Posted by
ConservaTease on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:48:31 AM
The difference between hopes and goals are enormously huge, and play
a large role in the schism between Americans versus people who voted
for Barack Obama.
Barack Obama offered his followers a warm,
squishy feeling when he offered them "hope". But there is a very real
reason why he offered America the inspiration for a feeling, and not
inspiration toward action.
Hopes take away the need for action from you. You wait for change.
You hope for change. Like a lamb hopes not to be slaughtered.
Passivity
and acceptance are key to the success of an Obama Administration,
because they are the keys to a peaceful transition to socialism. The
people must be passive, if the government is to take action. And this
becomes a transition from your freedom to act and pursue your
happiness, to the government's power to act against you and to pursue you.
Yet
every American who has made this country work, since the days of
General George Washington, has had goals. Washington did not hope
that the British Army got back into their ships and left our land. And
he did not hope that the Congress would send him the right battle plan
or enough money to clothe and feed his troops. He made it his goal to
ensure that the British were defeated, that his troops were victorious
and that America was free from tyranny. And then he did it.
Goals
mean a list of objectives and a plan of action. Goals mean a small
business man can wake up in the morning, knowing that he has the tools
to make his business a success that day. Goals mean a homeschooling
mom, like me, can ensure that my children receive the best education.
And that they don't eventually become "hopers", but instead "doers".
The
hordes of Barack Obama followers are passengers on this journey,
hoping that their ride on the Obama Express is a pleasant one. It is a
truly selfish choice to make. Because they have decided our fate. In
this eocnomic turmoil. In this dangerous world. The "hopers" have
decided that we should all sit back and wait for Obama to provide us
with success, and a better economy, and a safer world.
They
miss the uniqueness of this country's success and vitality, when the
"hopers" wait for change. Free markets are only successful when the
American people act. Not when the government commands.
So
conservatives have a patriotic duty to continue to make their lives a
success. To work hard and be vigilant, despite President Obama's
attempt to silence our vigilance.
Conservatives like us, and
like Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin, don't hope that the President and
his plunge toward socialism will fail. He will do that on his own,
because his ideas don't work. It's our goal to point out those
failures, and to put the country back together when they do. Like
Ronald Reagan did after the utter and contemptible failure
of Jimmy Carter.
That's patriotic. That's the exercise of our freedom and our right to dissent. Now that, is change we can believe in.
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