As promised I have entered the belly of the beast, strolling down the National Mall yesterday as they ready themselves for the "Rally to Restore Sanity". I also stood and watched as they closed down the length of Pennsylvania Avenue as the President drove by - probably on his way to visit Jon Stewart.
Meanwhile, as the President hops from talk show to talk show, the police struggle to stop extremists plotting to blow up the Metro here at Arlington Cemetary and to track down shooters firing on the Penatagon and the Marines Museum earlier this week.
It brings to mind a very stirring exhibit regarding the Lincoln Presidency at the Smithsonian.
In response to the effort and ultimate sacrifice of President Lincoln to overcome the evil of slavery and to assure the security of the Union, on a wall in the Smithsonian reads this quote:
"Some men stand still, amazed, when the tempest darkens around them; others grow and rise to the height of the occasion; but few have ever grown and risen as did this man; his mind maturing and his views expanding under the stirring of his times."
—Robert Dale Owen, reformer and Indiana congressman, 1870
I walked to the Washington Monument today, through the World War II Memorial, along the Reflecting Pool and up the steps to the Lincoln Memorial. There I stood looking into the eyes of Lincoln's great statue.. then moving aside to read his Gettysburg Address.
I took time to consider the significance of his sacrifice and the sacrifice of so many others. I confess to having a tear in my eyes, but said nothing to my wife until as we walked by the Vietnam Memorial - watching a woman in tears copying a loved one's name with a pencil and a piece of paper -I said "What they did matters".
With all respect to the President and other well-intentioned liberals, I think they miss the point. The purpose of government is not to equalize wealth or even opportunity.. for what do we have if we do not have freedom? First and foremost, the job of a democratic government is to assure the liberty of it's citizens. To acquire comfort without freedom betrays the sacrifice of those who gave their lives for little more than an abstraction called "liberty".
So many have given so much to assure that "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
4 comments:
Exactly.
They did not die for socialism or a just society. They gave their lives for liberty.
Collectivism has failed everywhere and Greed exists in every system. Why do Liberal believe people in government are beyond the same failings?
Well Said! Them left-winger nut cases, with their causes for this and rights for that, need to spend more time supporting our troops and less time complaining about things.
I know it aint always easy to get along with everyone. We're all different folks. We're not Watusi. We're not Spartans. We're Americans, with a capital 'A', You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts! But there's no animal that's more faithful, that's more loyal, more loveable than the mutt.
Who didn't love that movie "Old Yeller"? Who didn't cry when Old Yeller got shot at the end? I cried my eyes out. As Americans, we're all dogfaces, we're all very, very different, but there is one thing that we all have in common: We're AMERICAN!!! Our Boys have been kicking ass for over 200 years!
I'm not really sure I agree with spending all that money on those war monuments though. I mean, it's well known that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. I guess we'll agree to disagree on that one.
But I tell you that anyone who doesn't think that fighting for freedom and winning all them wars isn't important, has got a screw loose.
Anybody that disagrees with me that America isn't the greatest country in the world, doesn't know Jack! Anyone not willing to fight for the Stars and Stripes, don't know nothin' about Lady Liberty standin' there in the harbor, with her torch on high screamin' out to all the nations in the world "Send me your poor, your deadbeats, your filthy." And all the nations send 'em in here, they come swarming in like ants. Your chinamen, your Krauts and your Hebes and your English fags. All of 'em come in here and they're all free to live in their own separate sections where they feel safe. And they'll bust your head if you go in there. *That's* what makes America great.
God Bless the USA! Great Post!!!
Finally, someone who gets what we Americans are all about. If it wasn't for the good old stars and stripes all you weenie socialist countries, who think feeding the poor is a more worthy cause than feeding a marine, would be speaking German singing Deutschland Deutschland uber allies.
I'm a proud verteran myself from that little trouble we had over in South East Asia.I can tell you, the best damned poontang I ever paid for was in Da Nang. The girls were checked out daily. And we got ourself laid in a safe, orderly, proficient, military manner. That is until some suckhead writes home to mama and says he dipped his wick in the Republic of South Vietnam. Then the shit hits the fan. A committee of congressmen who asshole to asshole who couldn't make a beer fart in a whirlwind, start telling your basic-ass-in-the-grass, Marine " No more short time ".
We responded in true Marine Corps fashion. We salute, do an about face, double time back to the boom-boom garbage dump where we get the clap, and the drip, and the crabs and a generally poor attitude towards the female of the species. War is hell, boy. That's a fact!
Obama is not a liberal.
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