Not everyone's anticipating the One
According to a Pew Research poll released last week, about 2/3 of Americans plan to watch all or part of Barack Obama's inauguration on Tuesday.
But the numbers certainly reflect a partisan and racial divide, with Obama voters naturally in a celebratory mood and willing to watch the festivities, while McCain voters are pretty much split.
Because of the chilly weather and difficulties getting in and out of our nation's capital, perhaps the best vantage point for anyone wishing to watch our 44th President be sworn in may be sitting at home, plopped in front of your television set with your own choice of beverage in hand. Some may be drinking an adult beverage to celebrate while others drink to forget.
There's a group which hasn't quite gotten into the euphoric mood the media wants to portray Americans as having; instead they're questioning the wisdom of Barack Obama's Cabinet vetting process:
Yes, it's my old friends at Our Country Deserves Better, who think we do deserve better than the field nominated thus far. Notes Sal Russo of OCDB:
“It’s ideological suicide for conservatives to sit back silent while Obama pushes for untold hundreds of billions in new spending and bailouts. If conservatives and Republicans can’t find within them the ideological conviction to oppose this fleecing of the taxpayers, then what is it that we stand for?”
Damn, that's a good question. But Russo's not finished asking:
“Some people have said we shouldn’t speak up now for our beliefs, but instead hold off for now. To these individuals I ask when do they propose we begin to stand up for our principles? Will waiting a month or year to fight for our beliefs somehow advance the cause of conservatism? Will it help America for us to sit back and let Obama push his agenda forward unopposed?
It seems to me that being silent and acquiescent now further empowers Obama, and further entrenches this notion that big government liberalism is somehow acceptable. It’s the antithesis of our individual liberty and freedom, and it requires men and women of good conscience to step forward, take action and oppose it vigorously.”
With Obama having an extended honeymoon thanks to the media and voters who really aren't considering the long-term effects on their wallets when they clamor for something, anything, to be done about the economic situation we're in, it will be easy for much of the socialist agenda Obama seeks to be adopted through a compliant Congress with a docile GOP following right along like a lost puppy.
There's not a lot of us at the moment who stand vigilant because the events of the last 12 months have worn us down. (Can you believe that it has been over a year since Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee won the Iowa caucuses, yet we're still days away from the swearing-in ceremony?) But fight on we must, in the name of limited government, capitalism, and freedom.
So this little ad is a nice reminder that there's still people who don't believe everything the One would have you think about his "centrist" ideas.