GOPMOM Note: Elections have consequences – Chas Freeman
Elections have consequences.
I have to say today was a down day for me – I actually broke down crying on my way to school when I heard about Chas Freeman. I thought of the exchange student I just sent home to S Korea and what our President’s complete disregard and contempt for our international obligations means for her family. I though of our Jewish friends and their family members in Israel and what this means for them. I thought about my distant cousins in the Czech Republic and how beautiful Poland is and how much I want to take my daughter there one day. And I am angry that we are standing on the playground laughing and chatting while our world falls to pieces and no one is paying attention. Between Geithner, the mega-hypocrite, Sebelius, the grim reaper and Freeman, the mortal enemy of freedom, I had to be talked off yet another ledge.
More on Freeman at:
Thankfully, I spent the afternoon in the sun watching my daughter and my friends’ children enjoy their last ski Wednesday of the season. I returned to find dozens of emails asking to sign up for or volunteer to organize the Boston Tea Party on April 15th. And we settled in with a fire and had “breakfast for dinner” – ham, eggs and biscuits. Not so bad in the end.
Anyway, what has occurred to me over the past few abominable days, with their foreboding economic news and threatening portents of the Obama social agenda, is that us conservatives will come out of all of this just fine. Why? Because we understand what is of true value. Do I want the economy to tank – no, not for me, not for the country, not for the world. (But I do want Obama and his plans to fail.) Do I want my husband’s business to fail? Do I want to give up my car, my house? (Forget IRAs and college funds – almost all gone anyway.) Do I want to keep lowering my standard of living, sacrifice, suffer? Of course not.
Do I know that I am lucky? Yes. Do I know that losing or giving up or going without the material objects I have come to possess would be difficult and unpleasant? Yes. But I have a great husband, a fantastic daughter and two great dogs – and a cat, but the novelty has definitely worn off. I have a large extended family that I love and I know that we would all pull together and sacrifice to help each other out. If things get really bad, that is where I will go to weather the storm.
Obama and his left-wing regime can take away all the money, resources and freedoms they want – I’ll still have more than the bitterest of liberals – even if it is just a memory of how it used to be. (Plus, I know how to grow food, catch fish and start a fire and the men in my family can hunt.) It’s the anger and bitterness that kills you, from the inside out – just ask Ted Kennedy. I know that I’ve been right all along – that Obama is basically a power monger fronting for the most evil of forces in our world – freedom haters. The irony is that these liberals and their minions, many who still believe the age of Obama will usher in some sort of equality utopia, will be the ones the most miserable when all is said and done. They will never be satisfied whether they get what they want or not because someone will always have more. They will always feel cheated and exploited because they do not know the value of making your own way, earning your own keep. They are takers and takers are never as content as givers – even if it’s your last dime.
If you don’t have the perspective that someone is always worse off than you and it is your responsibility to help, if your view is “someone is always better off than me and they don’t deserve it”, you will never be satisfied, you will never be happy.
So, if all of us end up living at my uncle’s farm, growing and raising our own food, home schooling our kids and chopping wood for heat, I am confident we will still be better off because we have what money cannot buy and no President, not even Obama, can deliver. You know what I’m talking about. And that is what you will pass on to your children – no inheritance of wealth can touch an inheritance of values and perspective.
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I gotta say… guy who thinks America’s approach to the Middle East has done little to prevent spawning more terrorists and that American’s Israel policy should be more even-handed… what’s not to like? And, why are you surprised that this is the type of person that Obama would nominate?
Whatever Chas Freeman “says” about his vision of the Middle East, his actions and connections say differently. (Hmmm, reminds me of a recent Presidential candidate.) And what about his abhorrent writings about the 1989 Chinese Democracy uprisings? Oh yeah, someone who thinks governments should stamp out opposition is exactly who Obama said he would include in his inner circle.
I’m not surprised – that is the story. If you had paid attention, you would know exactly who Obama is. If you just watched the news, you would have thought he was a moderate and you might be surprised right now. And thankfully, many are. Just because we all know now he is a lying crapbag, radical leftist socialist doesn’t make it right.
Here’s an interesting take on Freeman. Essentially the gist is that yes, Freeman is out of the mainstream, but the position he has been put in has no formal authority and is essentially a think tank within the Executive branch, and is therefore a useful place to stick a quirky contrarian like Freeman, where he can present the President with alternative viewpoints to dwell on without wielding any formal authority.
http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/03/a_fight_i_didnt_intend_to_get_into_chas_freeman.php
I especially like this quote, which I think sums up the argument nicely:
Who said that?
I find this quote much more interesting:
Or this one:
You are truly ridiculous.
The quote was from the article I linked to.
Why am I ridiculous? I thought it was an interesting take on what the role of somebody who is clearly controversial could be in the White House. Nothing ridiculous about that.
I still don’t completely understand that quote of his, but it sounds to me like he wasn’t saying that the Tiananmen massacre was acceptable (which would be reprehensible), but that the Chinese shouldn’t have let it get to that point. Our government would probably arrest people if they were actively disrupting government functions before we decided to roll the national guard in. I don’t really agree with his take of what happened, but his intention wasn’t to say it was okay for the Chinese government to massacre civilians.
Our former gov’t didn’t, but this one might.
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And you are ridiculous because everyone in the WH “is clearly controversial.” If you don’t understand the implications of the guy who reports to the Exec based on reports from all intelligence sources supporting the crushing of dissent, you, a guy who was preaching at me earlier this week about surveillance and search warrants, then you are just wasting my time. Are you 9 years old? Even my ten year old could recognize this as inappropriate. Even the guy that announced his possible appointment (Blair) is backpedaling. Obama isn’t fighting for him – why are you?