God Save the President Elect
Politics — By Dustin R. Steeve on November 5, 2008 at 5:01 pmBy Robert Stevenson
Last night, for the first time, a black man accepted his election as the next President of the United States. In that sense, today is a glorious and redemptive day in American history. As I look forward and ask “what is a young conservative to do?,” let us consider what we have seen.
In the past eight years, President Bush has been maligned in ways that were not only personally vicious, but also demeaning to the office of the President. I pray, whatever our opinions, that we treat our next chief executive with the highest respect and dignity, as befits his office.
Someday America will stray so far from its founding that the time for revolution would be recognized even by Burke, and even the most conservative among us will demand radical, violent change. Not today, and not soon. Up to that day I will serve my country. Up to that day, whether he be republican or democrat, liberal or conservative, intelligent or idiotic, Christian, atheist, or Muslim, I will always, always take a bullet for the President of the United States.
President-elect Obama is certainly not the sort of leader America needs. His radical social ideas, his background is shady and, perhaps worst of all, he seems out of step with the Burkian, Jeffersonian, and Lockeian ideals upon which this nation rests. Nevertheless, God save the President of the United States, and God save Senator Barack Obama.
Robert Stevenson is a Senior at Biola University and a student at the Torrey Honors Institute. Robert is a candidate in the United States Marine Corps and has completed Marine Corps Officer Training. In addition to his work as a student and for the Marine Corps, Robert has worked as an assistant producer for the Hugh Hewitt Show.
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Check out the end of comment 45 again. Your problem is that the same can be applied to Obama. I said – Not for lying in general no, but when the target happens to be somebody a lot of people do happen to like… well, it smells like fear to me. Your next problem is that I never said lies about Obama weren’t lies, and it’s rather obvious to somebody stupid like me that it would be a contradiction if I did. Since I never engaged in lying about him though, I don’t know what is and what isn’t a lie about him. You could even be lying about him to make him look good and I wouldn’t know it. On top of that you are trying to set up a contradiction by demanding that I tell you which lies about Obama are not lies.
If the lies about Palin bothered you even half as much as the lies about Obama, then you might have a leg to stand on, but it doesn’t look as if you are bothered by them at all.
“Your next problem is that I never said lies about Obama weren’t lies,”
You implied so with your series of questions to me in comment #46, which, curiously, change the language I used in presenting the lies. One can, of course, make a lie not a lie by changing some words.
“…and it’s rather obvious to somebody stupid like me that it would be a contradiction if I did.”
Then let me help you by rephrasing the challenge: which of those that I presented as lies would you say are not lies in the form I presented them?
Actually what I was implying is that you may have distorted some other peoples comments to the extent that you thought they had been lying. I phrased the questions to the best of my recollection as they were to public knowledge; stuff taken at face value for what Obama had said in front of witnesses. I was also curious whether or not you would deny that he had said some of the things that others had witnessed. If that stuff doesn’t disturb you enough to discourage your liking him, then it should be fun watching you squirm and spin over the next four years trying to convince people these are good things happening.
In the form you presented them? If I take that to mean by the definition and nuance you place on the words you used, then it is highly probable that they are all lies. For instance, I know you think William Ayers is rehabilitated and not a terrorist. Some might think that is a highly specious claim considering his lack of remorse, his lack of having done time for his crimes, and his continuous flaunting of his activities from that time as not having done enough. That he has pictures taken of himself stomping on the American flag and goes down to Venezuela praising a dictator’s education system does him no credit either. Sure he hasn’t made any explosive devices for a while. He might be too afraid to after watching his buddies get blown up that night. If that allows you to think he is not a terrorist, then of course it’s a lie that Obama pals around with terrorists. Who am I to argue? I’m not interested in lying about Obama. I’m not even interested in speculating what is or what isn’t a lie about Obama. What I would really like to know is whether or not he’s just going to be a rubber-stamp approver for Congress… that and whether or not I should quit my job and cash out my 401k before Congress appropriates it for “my own good”.
Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, is radical? I suppose – but of course, it’s radical in that Jeffersonian way that expressed Locke’s ideas in clear, democratic fashion. It’s radical in the way that Lincoln thought it important to hold the union together, rather than let it fragment over any issue.
Obama’s not the guy we need right now, if you’re hoping Jefferson Davis might rise from his grave and lead the South to victory in the Civil War. Obama’s not the guy we need if you’re still standing with Lindbergh against Churchill in 1939. Obama’s not the guy we need if you think Lawrence was a fool about Arabia.
Jefferson and Locke are smiling right now, and Burke is only worried that he’s slipping another notch in the list of great orators. He’ll smile about that, too, before it’s over.
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I would be very skeptical of anything that is coming out about Palin now, for the simple reason that it reflects every stereo-type East Coast elitists (liberal and conservative) have about small town America.
For the record, since I know everyone’s dropped this thread, this nonsense was written by ucfengr nearly two months ago (11/6/8)
What a guy. Of course you destroy any goodwill you might have earned here by spreading anonymously sourced gossip as fact.
Well the FEC filings now put Palin’s clothing spree at closer to $300K. What we haven’t seen, yet, is any news of that big auction that is supposedly going to raise money for worthy charities from all those clothes. That’s a shame because we are going into a cold winter with a lot of unemployment and a lot of foreclosed houses…..that could have brought a lot of winter coats for needy kids. Ahhh well.