CHRISTMAS CLARITY
By Maj. Gen. Jerry R. Curry (ret'd)
CurryForAmerica.com
It’s
the Christmas season and time for us Americans to
get serious and start calling a spade a spade,
instead of calling it an agricultural implement. We
all know, or at least should know, that the current
debt load President Obama has saddled the nation
with is unsustainable. Even though Obama assures us
that this is good policy, some day not much farther
down the road the American people recognize that
there will be a terrible reckoning. Not even Santa
Claus can save us from it.
Still
the U.S. Congress and our two political parties hear
the sleigh bells and go around humming Silent Night,
pretending that all is well and that our budget
needs simply require a little fine tuning. But the
American people are neither fools nor are they
fooled, even at Christmas time. That’s why the “Tea
Party” movement has had such great success. It is
the American people’s way of
saying, “Enough is enough!”
Our
failure to see things clearly started decades ago
and is climaxing now with Obama. President Clinton
told our youth that if you don’t like the definition
of a word such as “is” you just redefine it and
assign it a new meaning. Hillary told our young
ladies that they should not act like some country
singer who is just
“Standing by her man,” and then proceded to
do just that, because it gave her a basis from which
to launch a run for the presidency.
The
unfortunate message repeatedly given to our young is
that, “If they want to be
successful and respected in life,
they should emulate Bill and Hillary Clinton,
do what they did and act like they act.”
Of course everyone remembers George Bush the
Elder’s “No new taxes” pledge and how that ended.
Not
long ago Jeb Bush said, “I tell you, he’s (President
Clinton) been incredibly gracious to our dad. And if
somebody is gracious to our father – he ingratiates
himself to us. And we are grateful to Bill Clinton.”
Brother George W. Bush agrees, “We’re now members of
the ‘former presidents club.’ We have done speaking
engagements together... And I
generally
like him.” In short, a multitude of sins and faults
can be papered over by gracious actions.
When
President Bush the Elder’s sons put their personal
likes or dislikes above
character and the good of the country, what
message are they sending to America’s youth? They
are saying that it’s alright for Bill Clinton to
desecrate the Office of President of the U.S. and to
do reprehensible and despicable things in the Oval
Office with a young intern the age of his daughter,
and still be celebrated and welcomed into the finest
and most influential political, corporate and social
circles in America, and be over paid to give them
speeches and rub elbows with them.
So
when Obama was elected president it was only natural
that he would make all sorts of promises knowing
that he planned to honor none of tham, and to do
exactly the opposite. For example, he correctly
assesed that jobs and the economy were the American
people’s number one concern. So for the next two
years he ignored jobs and the economy and spent his
time forcing a “bankrupting” health care entitlement
program onto the financially bruised and bent backs
of the American people.
It
was not just an afterthought that caused our
founders to insist that a requirement to be
president is to be a natural born American. They
knew that only a person born in this country would
be able to resonate with the vibrations emanating
from the spirit and soul of those who adopted the
Declaration of Independence. Anyone with a less deep
and vibrant connection to America could not be
counted upon to uphold our constitution, liberty and
freedom of mind and spirit. That is why the failures
we are witnessing now in the actions and speeches of
our current president are so heartbreaking. He is
simply not in tune with America and its people.
On
the other hand, the Tea Party movement signals that
the American people have had enough of being ruled
by adolescents like Obama. It’s time the adults
regained control of the U.S. Government.
Don’t
look now but Obama’s Third World parentage is
showing. He acts more like a Robert Mugabe than
George Washington. This holiday season I fear that
not even Santa Clause can save us from his mistakes
and machinations.