Nation Faces a Critical Election
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"And the days dwindle down to a precious few." Those Maxwell Anderson words set to a Kurt Weill melody became "September Song," one of the most memorable Broadway songs of our time.
They also apply to the election, which is just around the corner. This is a midterm election, normally considered minor and not overly important. Why, then, are commentators and columnists plus pundits from both sides of the aisle dwelling on it so much? Could it be because it may well be the most important election in which we have ever voted?
It is increasingly clear that our nation is under a siege - pressured by groups determined to undermine all we have fought for and stood for down through well over two centuries. These groups are anti-American forces constantly putting the Constitution under attack. Unless they are stopped (read: voted out), we may well become little more than a banana republic.
It is for this reason that this is an election of consequence. If Congress and the White House remain under the control of one party, we face a continuation of bills designed to topple us and place us under the thumb of a government demonstrably unprepared to run anything.
Fortunately, our Constit-ution is still intact, and we get a chance to change part of that in November. We get a crack at unseating the White House occupant in 2012.
An interesting article in the Sept. 27 issue of Forbes -magazine points up strong reasons to replace Barack Obama. The article was written by Dinesh D'Souza, who was born and brought up in India. He accuses Obama of being the most anti-business president perhaps in American history and a man who sees America as a force for global domination and destruction.
D'Souza contends that Obama gives every indication of viewing "the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of neocolonial power within America." This explains why Obama is so apologetic about our country.
D'Souza's Indian background gives him a firsthand knowledge of anti-colonialism, and he implies that Obama thinks of us as colonialists. There is much more as D'Souza delves into our president's roots to determine how he thinks. I commend the article as excellent food for thought.
I wish I could also commend Karl Rove and the chairman of the Delaware Republican Party. Both seem smeared with sour grapes over Christine O'Donnell's victory in the nomination for senator from Delaware.
I have long been a fan of Karl Rove, but his withering criticism of O'Donnell after her win was totally out of line. She won, and thus deserves the full backing of her party. Their argument is that she can't win in November, but then they said she could not win the primary either.
It is obvious that the people in Delaware there don't agree with Rove and company. Watch out, fellows: Divisiveness is how we lose elections. Don't force us to split the vote. Republicans would do well to welcome the growing power of the tea party and embrace its voice of "we the people."
There may still be hope, since Christine O'Donnell has since picked up some support from other Republicans. If she has some baggage, it should be resolved in private and not on national TV or the front page. Karl Rove should have learned that lesson years ago.
It has become apparent that more and more Americans are determined to break the pattern of the power-mad who want only to be re-elected ad infinitum. It is why the Christine O'Donnells are winning. We are fed up with politics as usual. Maybe new blood will get us term limits and a fair tax.
Let's close this little essay as we began it, with one more line from "September Song": "Oh, it's a long, long while from May to December. And the days grow short when you reach September."
Short they are. Thirty-seven days until we vote in a vital election.
Allan Jefferys, a former New York theater critic and newsman, lives in Pinehurst. Contact him at oldjeff@nc.rr.com.
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nothingspecial 2 years, 7 months ago
One more commentary here backing up feelings about an anti-business administration:
“A president who does so little to counter the idea that he dislikes business is, self-evidently, a worryingly negligent chief executive. … The evidence that American business thinks the president does not understand Main Street is mounting”
http://www.economist.com/node/17095319
And one that likens the Democratic strategy to:
“…a newly peasant-minded America (that) is willing to become collectively poorer so that some will not become wealthier.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/247428/nation-peasants-victor-davis-hanson
Easygoing 2 years, 7 months ago
OK Allan we get it, you hate Obama. Generally I look to an editorial to be either informative or entertaining, yours is neither. Just more dribble about how we are headed to the abyss. Why can't any of these editorial writers be in any way specific? The answer is they really have no ideas or anything positive to offer. There must be some contributors out there that have some message of positive hope. I would like to see the paper give some space to these messages rather than the ongoing rants about doom and gloom from some of the current opinion writers.
nothingspecial 2 years, 7 months ago
Like children and parents/adults. Children complain we hate him and you. Parents/adults explain we don't hate you/him, we dislike the things he and you do...
OldPilot 2 years, 7 months ago
Oldjeff? Appropriate! Same depressing old song, columinist and message. Time for improvement. The sky isn't falling, the current administration isn't anti-American and we're not going to become a banana republic. This kind of constant drumbeat defeatest talk doesn't help and for certain impedes progress. How about getting behind the effort to climb out of the hole the last administration left instead of constantly carping?
teufelhunden 2 years, 7 months ago
Some people choose not to see the writing on he wall. Just plain naive...wait and see what's in store for this country when the full fury of "Obamacare" is upon us...we shall see...
JER 2 years, 7 months ago
I wonder what old Allen, 82soldier,nothingspecial and teufelhunden might have been moaning about back when social security was being proposed or when medicare was being discussed. Would each please respond and advise if they have opted to not accept the benefits provided in these government programs. Would they have trembled at the thought of "Rooseveltcare" or "LBJCare" ruining the nation. Is it merely coincidence that it's Democratic presidents that push through legislation that is designed to aid the common, everyday, taxpaying, hard working citizen. Is it also a coincidence that it's always the well-heeled minority that spends great gobs of their time and money trying to derail the efforts. Guess what, neither Roosevelt or Johnson kept you from getting into that well-heeled minority, the nation didn't self-destruct and you are still here, free to continue your rants against the current government. In the meantime, some of your fellow citizens were spared dieing in poverty or from disease that could be prevented.
JER 2 years, 7 months ago
Wow 82soldier, so I'm guessing that Nixon, Reagan and the Bush family are your heroes. And would you care to make a side by side comparison of Lady Bird and Dick Cheney?
moonchild7 2 years, 7 months ago
As reported by FOX NEWS on 10/17/2003 from a story by John Buchanan of The New Hampshire Gazette:
"Newly declassified documents show that even after America entered WW II, Prescott Bush(the OLD man) worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very businesses that helped to finanace Hitler's rise to power........
As reported by The Guardian/UK.com in 2003:
"Prescott Bush failed to divest himself of more than a dozen companies that had business relationships with the enemy, NAZI GERMANY, until 1951......
Isn't all of that just LOVERLY?