Is This Really America? Can Sarah Palin Save It For Us?

Over the past few weeks, I keep asking myself the same question over and over again.  Is this really America?  I ask the question, but end up coming up with mixed answers.  I feel like the America I know and love  still exists, but it is not being represented in Washington D.C.  The White House and Congress are promoting ideas and implementing programs that scare the daylights out of any freedom loving American.

Since being inaugurated in January, President Obama has kept his promise to voters of trying to “remake” America.  Most voters thought it was a cool catchphrase during a presidential campaign, but they were wrong.  Instead, it is Obama’s mission.  He wants to “remake” the greatest country in the world, the United States of America.  When you look at that goal in print, it should send shivers down your spine.  The United States of America was created by the founding fathers whose main goal was to give each individual “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”  These principles which Thomas Jefferson wrote in the “Declaration of Independence” are the foundation of this republic, which all other ideas are built upon.  They are the building blocks of America.  These “unalienable rights” are “endowed by our creator” and therefore cannot be infringed upon by any internal or external force.  The founders were stating that this new nation would be governed under rights given to us  by God.  Our creator gave us life so that we could live in liberty and be free to pursue our own happiness.  God desired “liberty” for all men to praise him by using their talents to build a successful society.  Man’s ability to create a livelihood and contribute to his family and society would be bring him happiness.

President Obama seems not to believe in allowing Americans enjoy the  right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”  Instead, Obama and the Democratic Party believe it is their right to decide “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” for all Americans.  The elites in this country, whch include Obama, the media, academia, and Hollywood believe that they are the “best & brightest” and therefore have the right to decide what America should be.  They believe that America should be modeled after Europe, which believes in a strong centralized government that’s main purpose is to provide goods and services for its people.  They believe in a European model that stresses equality over liberty and fairness over free enterprise.  However, the Constitution does not give Obama or any one else the authority to force what the president calls “positive” rights on its people.  American citizens in the Constitution are not granted a right to free health care, a right to affordable housing, or any other particular service.  All Americans are given rights that CAN’T be infringed upon by the government.  So, for Obama and the Far Left, the Constitution is a document that needs to be worked around in order to pass their agenda.  So, this is why Obama consistently apologizes for American when he goes abroad.  He is embarassed that his country, America, doesn’t give him the “freedom” to pass government programs easily.  He also is confused by the idea that the federal government is supposed protect the freedom of all Americans through administering strong national security measures.  Instead he sees these policies not as American strength in pursuit of world peace, but as arrogance.  President Obama’s ideal America would be one in which nationalism and exceptionalism is non-existent and instead it is just one of many nations involved in a consortium that makes decisions regarding the world on the basis of consensus.

This is why President Obama does not have a problem allowing the trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalik Sheik Mohammad take place in a Federal court room in New York City.  He does not understand that only Americans have the “right” to a fair trial.  This “right” is for Americans only, and does not have to be extended to our enemies abroad, especially a terrorist who plotted to kill 2,000 New Yorkers more than eight years ago.  For the entire history of America, enemy combatants have been tried in military tribunals, which are just trials, but don’t extend the same rights to defendants as Americans receive.  And why should they? It is unfathomable that a president of the United States would grant a terrorists a fair trial roughly hundred yards away from where he committed the biggest single day attack in our nation’s history.  Obama must believe that this will win him points with foreign leaders (he bows to) and show them that America is truly a nation they should befriend and help him “remake.”  A nation that he wants to see adopt redistributionist economics, government-run health care, and a cap on carbon emissions.  If his vision comes to fruition, then individuals will be able to keep less of what they earn, be limited in making decisions about their health, and be restricted in their ability to innovate and create.  Simply put, Liberty is being assaulted by the tyranny of government control.

The founders had an opposite vision for America, which favored individual liberty over bureaucracy and the elite.  When King George III wanted to tax the colonialists tea, they told him to stick it.  This is what thousands of Americans have conveyed to Washington this past year through tea parties and town halls.  They have fought back against a massive increase in government and a restriction on their personal liberty to make choices for themselves and their families.  They have cried out again massive government spending leading to increasing debt and inevitably higher taxes for future generations.  They have made their case against a government run health care system that would fine the uninsured unless they participated  and run private insurers out of business through a public option.  Simply put, during Obama’s first year in office, many Americans have been ”going rogue.”  They have tuned out the elites in the media, academia, Hollywood, and Washington D.C. and instead have clung on to their Constitution and the American ideals handed down by the founding fathers.  Now former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin looks to lead them in their quest to defeat those who “reshape” America.

This is why Sarah Palin needs to be destroyed by the elites.  She is the antithesis of what they believe and therefore she threatens everything they desire for America.  The elites believe that America is controlled by them and therefore they decide what policies it is governed by and what its makes up its culture.  No document, individual, business, etc. will get in the way of shaping their agenda for America.  The elites believe they are only ones who can shape public opinion through education, the media, and popular culture.  This is why someone like Sarah Palin scares them to death.  She cuts through all the “messaging” coming from the elites and makes a connection with people one-on-one.   Her personal story, charisma, appearance, and political ideas all make her very interesting to an American public who is fascinated with her.  She is the antithesis of Obama, who is revered by his followers for his grace, elegance, intelligence, and perceived wisdom.  He is seen as the “hope” that will bring about ”change” in the lives of his followers.  Obama’s control of the government will finally allow his followers to get ahead in America.  Sarah Palin on the other hand is revered by her followers for her optimism in them and what they can create in America.  She believes strongly in American Exceptionalism and that American gets its strength from everyday, hard working people.  They are the foundation of America and if we give Americans the liberty to pursue their goals and work towards their ambition, then their is no nation in the world that can achieve what we can achieve.  By granting citizens the liberty to pursue their own happiness, they are able to use their God-given abilities innovate and create the technologies of the future.  Just like President Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin believes that America is a “Shining City On A Hill” that is the envy of the world.  With that honor, comes responsibility to confront threats from enemies around the world with a foreign policy built on strength rather than likeability.

In conclusion, I believe the statement made by Sarah Palin to Barbara Walters in her hour-long interview to air this Friday regardin her interview with Katie Couric truly encapsulates her appeal to conservatives, and especially Middle America:

Unfortunately, I was wearing my annoyance on my sleeve. And I shouldn’t have done that. Because, it seemed to me that she was asking “Do you read? How up there in Alaska, in this kind of nomadic, Neanderthal atmosphere that you live in, how are you connected to the world?” When I had just done an op-ed in her hometown newspaper, the New York Times, when I had just been interviewed by all those national media outlets. And that surprised me that she hadn’t done that home work. Very unprofessional of me, though. My fault, my bad, that I answered the way I answered. And that was with that proverbial roll of the eyes. Like, are you kidding me? Are you really asking me that?

By this statement, Sarah Palin taps into the frustration of conservatives, tea partiers, and town hallers.  She is simply saying are you “listening” to us.  Do you know we even exist?  Do you know what makes us tick?  Do you even care?  This is what ordinary Americans were expressing in outrage this summer.  They feel forgotten, overlooked, and sneered at by the elites who think they are misguided in their views.  The elites think they are so misguided that they wonder if they even “read” or know what is going on.  How could someone who hunts moose, talks with a funny accent, and is from Alaska know how to govern?  This is what runs through the minds of elites.  She scares them because she is so different and rejects what they and Pres. Obama are selling.  If she gets control of the government, then elites will be marginalized in their control of country.  This is what made them so crazed during the Bush presidency.  President Bush didn’t care what they had to say and was going to do what he thought was best for America.  Being shut out of the process drives the elites crazy. With Sarah Palin, they fear more of the same. Let’s hope so.  Its time to for the elites  and their abstract ideas to go away, so Sarah Palin and conservatism can save America for the rest of us.  God, we truly “hope” for that kind of CHANGE. Please answer our prayer.

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