Rally ‘Round The Flag: Message From A Friend
Britisher Nile Gardiner is one of the most insightful foreign affairs analysts and commentators on American politics. In the latter he brings an outsider’s perspective combined with a very perceptive mind.
In his latest column for The London Daily Telegraph, Mr. Gardiner uses Lady Michbeth’s royal procession stop in Spain to make some astute observations. A few highlights:
What the great French historian Alexis de Tocqueville would make of today’s Obama administration were he alive today is anyone’s guess. But I would wager that the author of L’Ancien Régime and Democracy in America would be less than impressed with the extravagance and arrogance on display among the White House elites that rule America as though they had been handed some divine right to govern with impunity.
And…
The First Lady’s ill-conceived trip to Marbella and the complete disregard for public opinion and concerns over excessive government spending is symbolic of a far wider problem with the Obama presidency – the overarching disdain for the principles of limited government, individual liberty and free enterprise that have built the United States over the course of nearly two and a half centuries into the most powerful and free nation on earth.
It is epitomised above all by the President’s relentless drive towards big government against the will of the American people, and the dramatic increases in government spending and borrowing, which threaten to leave the US hugely in debt for generations. It is also showcased by Barack Obama’s drive towards a socialised health care system, which, as I’ve noted before, is “a thinly disguised vanity project for a president who is committed to transforming the United States from the world’s most successful large-scale free enterprise economy, to a highly interventionist society with a massive role for centralized government.”
There is however a political revolution fast approaching Washington that is driven not by mob rule but by the power of ideas and principles, based upon the ideals of the Founding Fathers and the US Constitution. It is a distinctly conservative revolution that is sweeping America and is reflected in almost every poll ahead of this November’s mid-terms. It is based on a belief in individual liberty, limited government, and above all, political accountability from the ruling elites. The Obama administration’s mantra may well be “let them eat cake”, as it continues to gorge itself on taxpayers’ money, but it will be looking nervously over its shoulder as public unease mounts.
We have to make sure Little Barry and his red diaper playmates have a continuous and major pain in their necks [and arses] as we force them to keep looking over their shoulders for the next two-and-a-half years.
We have to hound the bastards and never let them rest [even on their royal cruises].
Never despair, never give-in, never ever give-up on America.
WOLVERINES!
Trackbacks
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That is a great piece, Bob. I’m sure to steal the source (with appropriate reference to where I found it, of course).
Nicholas: Steal away!
Hi Bob. Nile is a great writer. The Brit writers can see through all the phony media cheerleading for obummer.
I read somewhere thatMEshell picked Marbella because lots of the foreign lefties obummer loves have summer homes out there. Also there was Jessie Jackson, Jr.
This was reported in the Spanish papers. She was up to something at the behest of the horrible dictator BHO.
Bunni: Where she stayed is, I believe, owned by Muslims.
Bunni… Does Spain have an extradition treaty with the US? And how many of Spain’s wind-turbines are visible from Marbella?