Mr and Mrs Obama: you are not like us! We are not like you. We don’t recognize the America you live in. It’s not because you are black and we are white. It’s because we see an imperfect America trying to do the right thing; you see a devil colossus rampaging against its own people and the rest of the world.
Most Americans would (rightly) rather be the poorest person in America than the richest person in most other countries around the world. We know our country isn’t flawless, but it’s sure as hell easier and better living here than many other places we could mention.
America fits its people like a glove. You can live the life you want to live in America—independent and proud in the South West or nannied (and taxed till you bleed) in California. Everyone can find a piece of America that works for them.
If you live in Denmark, France or Germany, there are no choices. There is the over-arching state involved in every aspect of your life, and the government has a permanent hand in your pocketbook. If you want to live free of the choking French government and social system, you leave the country, as millions of young French people are doing. We have everything we want—all of us—right here. You sometimes have to move State—big deal!
That doesn’t mean we don’t want better, more available and cheaper healthcare options. We’d like schools that actually teach our kids something useful and if we are going to pay into social security all our lives, we’d like to see something in return.
Heck there are a lot of things about our country we’d like to fix. But unlike you, Michelle and Barack, we don’t want to turn our country into Sweden….. or Venezuela!
Most of all, we don’t take kindly to be slapped (repeatedly) by the folks asking for our vote. You absolutely will not win the white working class vote by insulting them—you are a bitter, mean, ignorant racist—please vote for me! It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to predict that that strategy ain’t gonna fly come November!
We do want change and this country does need fixing, but we don’t need to (metaphorically) blow it up and start again. We like it (mostly) the way it is.
We live in the real world—on farms, working in businesses, teaching, policing, and looking after families. We make real decisions, based on real pay checks, paying real (high) prices for the things we need against a backdrop of a dangerous and complicated world.
The Obamas are not like us. What is a $300,000+ per year “Outreach” worker, Michelle? Why are you friends with someone who planted a bomb and tried to kill Americans, Barack? What is a “Community Organizer” and how does it prepare you for the Presidency, Senator?
No, the Obamas are not like us and we know it to our core. There’s no dressing that up in conference tinsel. We see through the glitter: an inexperienced young man, with no track record of ever doing the things he claims he will do for us. Past behavior is the best predictor of future intent and there is nothing in Senator Obama’s past that gets us comfortable with him being President.
The Democrats put up another northern liberal for the Republicans to knock down, and compound this failing by choosing the most left wing and least experienced candidate since Jimmy Carter. We see it as clear as day. Barack Obama will lose in November. Who are the ignorant ones in this equation?
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Dear SFSA,
I respectfully disagree. The Obamas are not only like us, they are us, and we are them. People are people through other people.
Now please go back to your day job.
- Your wife
Mr. Rix,
Please get a grip. Michelle earning $275,000 working for a hospital is a pittance compared to what most Harvard educated lawyers make. Please, don't drive us all crazy for the next 8 years of the Obama Administration. You will ruin our family get togethers. Have you completed your application for US citizenship, by the way? Or are you keeping your socialist passport just in case? Cheers! - Your loving cousin
Mr. Rix, you are beyond the pale. Tell me you are not the same Mr. Rix who is my daughter's husband and beautiful grandson's father. I don't think you are a people. Your mother-in-law
Shouldn't it be square fingers, sore arse? What you fail to mention is all the Anglo-Saxons escaping Britain for France/ Italy/ Spain... (or in our case trying to but not succeeding). Anglo Saxon (lack of) quality of life is rubbish - all work, not enough play. Given the choice between USA+Bush and Venezuala, Venezuala sounds quite appealing...
Bless. Weren't you a stauch labour supporter once?
Whilst I am not a fervent Obama supporter I am also in fear for an America that might elect a president who's pupils cover his entire iris. has no one noticed that McCain is a Replicant. Woe betide you you Blade-Runner lovers. big hugs big brother.
Hmmm, now i think about it weren't you campaigning for Tony Blair the year you forgot to vote?
Maybe it's the early onset of Alzheimers that's getting to me.....1997 is a bit of a blur.
PS. Piece of advice - never let your dangerous leftist family know you're blogging for the Republicans. you'll never live it down!
I have a friend here called Renee who is the Representative for Republicans Abroad - you'd be right up each others' streets!
Yes, your lovely sister has given me the link to your wonderful post! You gotta love family. Hehe. My brother worked for Paul Wellstone so you know insanity runs in my family as well.
I lived from 1996-2002 in the city where dead people DO vote, the slogan "vote early vote often!" is used and where the Daley family has ruled for 47 out of the last, what, 60 years?
Dirty democrat politics caused the destruction of Jack Ryan in 2004 which paved the way for the empty suit, aka the "Obamination" his Senate seat in 2004. Alan Keyes? Come on.
The Chicago papers have been doing a good job getting the dirt on "the One" a-la Rezko and his dirty money, William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn--everyone's favorite domestic terrorists, Obama's pro-infaticide positions, but the foreign press just can't be bothered to report this stuff. Why not? Facts just get in the way of their new black JFK. Once he's coronated, I mean, ELECTED, the whole world can marvel at how far America has come. Please.
Keep up the good fight. Remember, liberalism is a mental disorder. I'm trying to spread "the good conservative word" here in India and am working ever-so-slowly on that sister of yours here. {*kisses Kate*}
As for our former imperialist rulers, Gordon Brown? Come on? Who else? The Boy King? Lets see a real man lead England! Thatcher was more butch than these two petticoats!!! ;-)
More Chicago thug tactics by the Obama Campaign---and this reported by the LA Times?! Me thinks Obama doth protest too much....
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As nation watches Denver, Obama campaign muscles Chicago station over ex-radical Ayres
In a surprising attempt to stifle broadcast criticism of its candidate, the presidential campaign of freshman Illinois senator Barack Obama is organizing supporters to confront Chicago's WGN radio station for having a critic of the Illinois Democrat on its main evening discussion program.
"WGN radio is giving right-wing hatchet man Stanley Kurtz a forum to air his baseless, fear-mongering terrorist smears," Obama's campaign wrote in an e-mail sent to supporters. "He's currently scheduled to spend a solid two-hour block from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. (Wednesday night) pushing lies, distortions, and manipulations about Barack and University of Illinois professor William Ayers."
Station logo of Chicago's WGN Radio 720 the target of an orchestrated protest effort by the campaign of Democrat presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama
Kurtz, a conservative writer, recently wrote an article for the National Review that examined Obama's ties to Ayers, a former 1960s radical who helped found a protest group that advocated violence.
The magazine was blocked in its initial attempts to obtain records from the University of Illinois at Chicago regarding the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a school reform project that Obama chaired and Ayers co-founded.
As The Ticket reported here, the school later reserved its position and opened the records Tuesday. Media organizations are poring over scores of boxes of documents to study the Obama-Ayres relationship, which the senator has described as merely casual.
Obama's campaign is urging supporters to call the radio station to complain. "Tell WGN that....
...by providing Kurtz with airtime, they are legitimizing baseless attacks from a smear-merchant and lowering the standards of political discourse," the note said.
WGN, like the Chicago Tribune and The Times, is owned by Tribune Co. As a clear-channel station at 720 on the AM dial, WGN's signal reaches dozens of states. Such efforts to prevent programs often backfire by calling even more public attention to the controversy.
***more at the below link***
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/08/obama-wgn.html
Renee: I can't wait till you come back to Chicago when we will slap some sense into the local GOP and take on the MACHINE!
Good luck in spreading the word to all JM's friends in India.
PS It's looking like Palin for Veep. Great choice. Welcome to the family, Hillary voters!!
Jez: You are such a Marxist!!!!
Rest of family: You have outed me in very way: as a Limey; as a former non-believer; for forgetting to vote (it was a busy day--all that door knocking, what can I say); WOW! You guys play HARDBALL!
I'm just jealous. My apologies. And it's because I'm a Limey that I am so bitter and twisted! I need a year in LA! LOL
I don't know what you're complaining about. At least people read your bloody blog. When I last opened mine up to put some of my Marxist thoughts into paper (as it were) I could hear the sound of tumbleweed being gently blown across its pages...
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