A plan to survive the Obama years

[NateIU10]

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A plan to survive the Obama years
BY Z. DWIGHT BILLINGSLY
Thursday, Nov. 27 2008
As Jack Buck once said, "I don't believe what I just saw!" Americans on Nov. 4
turned over control of the United States of America to a management team
possessing no executive experience, having never run, as I liked to put it,
nothing.

Well, Americans usually get the government they deserve, and I urge you all to
get ready for this 21st century version of amateur hour. It's going to be an
embarrassing and dangerous time for America and American ideals. There won't be
much, I'm afraid, to be thankful for.

Bill Kristol, writing in The Weekly Standard, reminded me that every 16 years
we get a Democrat president with no experience in national security or
international affairs who's elected after Republican presidents have made and
kept America safe: After Eisenhower, we got Kennedy; after Nixon/Ford, we got
Carter; after Reagan/Bush, we got Clinton. And after Bush II, we get Barack
Obama.

Every strong Republican president who succeeded in protecting America has
allowed Americans to become complacent about national security, thereby opening
the door for weak Democrats who allowed enemies to threaten and attack America
without penalty. Obama will be no different, and Americans will have to learn
again that there can be no economic security without national security.

That's not to say that Obama's election doesn't come with a couple of
interesting side effects. For example, henceforth no black man in America may
be called unqualified for any job that he might seek, no matter his prior
education or experience level. Want to be a nuclear scientist but lack a Ph.D.
in physics? If the applicant is a black man, it's no problem. Just offer hope
to the profession and promise change from all those stuffy theorems that have
given the discipline its structure over the years, and you're in.

That's on a par with throwing out the fact that tax cuts lead to more
investment, job creation and increasing government revenues, just because the
black man, that transcendent agent of change, says it's OK.

Another side effect has been white people contacting me to say that I should be
proud to see a black man become president. Could there be a comment that is
more condescending, more insulting, than that? If I believed that in America a
black man could not be president, then I would be proud to see any black man
elected president. But because I always have believed that nothing in America
prevents a black man from becoming president or anything else he wants to be, I
can be embarrassed, not proud, to see someone as unqualified and inexperienced
as Obama become president.

Jackie Robinson, the first black man in modern-day major league baseball,
illustrates my point. He was the right man with the right combination of
talent, temperament and character at the right time to be successful for that
important "first." Obama? An empty suit who will fail.

I'm going to approach the Obama years the same way liberals handled the Iraq
war. Just as they claimed to support our troops while opposing the war, I'm
going to support my country while opposing Obama and what he stands for in
every way that I can. It's only four years and with the astute Sen. Mitch
McConnell of Kentucky as Senate minority leader, Republicans can stop the Obama
extremists for two years until mid-term elections in 2010 give Republicans the
boost in Congress that inevitably will come.

And in 2012, we'll have Sarah Palin to clean up Obama's mess and remind us
again of America's exceptionalism.

Z. Dwight Billingsly is a principal of Branford Gateway Investment Co. and a
financial services industry specialist for the Missouri Department of Economic
Development. He serves as co-chair of the Missouri Spectrum political action
committee, an auxiliary of the Missouri Republican Party.

E-mail: zdbcomment@gmail.com


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[Hoosier8]

Great article and the way I feel.

 

[Bill of Rights]

The post is good and well-written, but if it has not been already, it will be decried as "racist". Very sad.

Blessings,
B

 

[NateIU10]

The post is good and well-written, but if it has not been already, it will be decried as "racist". Very sad.

Blessings,
B

The Liberals can't call him racist. In their eyes, calling a black man (the author) racist is racist in of itself

 

[kludge]

I could care less about a politicians lack of experience.

I care about principles, and whether you cherish my liberty above your agenda.

 

[4sarge]

Seems to be an interesting fellow

Some people don't think America is special

BY Z. DWIGHT BILLINGSLY​

10/23/2008​

The headlines you see over these columns are written by editors, but if I were writing this one, I'd call it "Family Secrets." Having attended Yale University and Harvard Business School, I spend a lot of time around blacks who went to Ivy League schools and sit around and congratulate themselves on being the "chosen" ones. I believe many of these people would be dangerous for America if they were to gain political power.​

Many of the black people I spend time with don't love America, despite the fact that they have benefited from America's blessings. I have been in million-dollar homes in which I've listened to black elites talk down about America. I've heard them go on and on about slavery, about racism, about how black people have been held down and held back. They see nothing great about America or in how it has overcome that past.​

How can that be, you ask, when they have taken advantage of the political system to gain power? I believe they hate America and hate what America stands for. They believe in the United Nations and a world in which America is no better than any other nation.​

Barack Obama claims to represent change, and he does. But the change he stands for is change in the worst way. Obama represents change from American exceptionialism to America as just another nation. He represents change from America as a leader of the free world to America as just a peer with the likes of France or Germany. I also am deeply concerned by Obama's past associations with admitted 1960s terrorist William Ayers, convicted Chicago felon Tony Rezko and the voter-registration-fraud specialists of ACORN.​

I told you in my previous column that when I was at Martha's Vineyard this summer I didn't really learn anything that might be useful in defeating Obama. What I did hear at a party of black people was a lot of talk about how it's "our time" and about "white guilt." I am very concerned about who Obama would bring into his cabinet and who would be running the government.​

These black elites do not respect America. America is special, truly exceptional. I don't think that Obama believes that about America.​

Z. Dwight Billingsly is a principal of Branford Gateway Investment Co. and a financial services industry specialist for the Missouri Department of Economic Development. He serves as co-chair of the Missouri Spectrum political action committee, an auxiliary of the Missouri Republican Party.

STLtoday - Some people don't think America is special​

 

[danielocean03]

What a great article, mirrors my thoughts and opinions. I've said this more than a few times before, this country had to survive Carter for Reagan, and now we'll have to survive Obama for Palin.

 

[flagtag]

Where do these fools get the "White guilt" garbage?

I am white, and I feel NO guilt for what happened in the past, WAY before I was born, and which I had no control over.

Do some whites really feel "guilt" over slavery? I don't know, but I certainly don't see why they would. After all, unless one of them or a member of their family once owned slaves, there is NOTHING to feel guilty about. And even if a member of their family did own a slave, they don't now and are probably dead anyway. The guilt dies with the one who committed the offence. Give me a break!

 

[dburkhead]

What a great article, mirrors my thoughts and opinions. I've said this more than a few times before, this country had to survive Carter for Reagan, and now we'll have to survive Obama for Palin.

Repped just because you spell Molwn labe right in your sig. (Everywhere I've seen that where someone uses the Greek, they get it spelled wrong).

 

[danielocean03]

Where do these fools get the "White guilt" garbage?

I am white, and I feel NO guilt for what happened in the past, WAY before I was born, and which I had no control over.

Do some whites really feel "guilt" over slavery? I don't know, but I certainly don't see why they would. After all, unless one of them or a member of their family once owned slaves, there is NOTHING to feel guilty about. And even if a member of their family did own a slave, they don't now and are probably dead anyway. The guilt dies with the one who committed the offence. Give me a break!

Couldn't have said that better myself, we have no control over the past, we can only learn from history.

 

[flagtag]

Couldn't have said that better myself, we have no control over the past, we can only learn from history.

I wonder why it is that we never hear of African-American/Black guilt over slavery. That is never mentioned. Strange, huh?

 

[danielocean03]

I'll say. I was so impressed by those two articles I emailed the author and thanked him for spreading the good word and being a fine American. I couldn't help myself, reading his work just made me feel a little better about the raw hand we've all been dealt. Now I just have to impatiently wait until 2012....

 

[Scout]

Where do these fools get the "White guilt" garbage?

I am white, and I feel NO guilt for what happened in the past, WAY before I was born, and which I had no control over.

Do some whites really feel "guilt" over slavery? I don't know, but I certainly don't see why they would. After all, unless one of them or a member of their family once owned slaves, there is NOTHING to feel guilty about. And even if a member of their family did own a slave, they don't now and are probably dead anyway. The guilt dies with the one who committed the offence. Give me a break!

+1. While there are plenty who grew up in the 60's, there are none who were born into slavery. If parents would stop teaching racism to their children we could get past it and move on.

 

[flagtag]

+1. While there are plenty who grew up in the 60's, there are none who were born into slavery. If parents would stop teaching racism to their children we could get past it and move on.

Got that right!!
The parents do their children a great dis-service by teaching them that.
Instead of encouraging their children to work to make it on their own, with their own talents, they teach them to use the slavery issue as a crutch. If the child doesn't make it (in whatever) then, blame it on being held back by racism, instead of not having the "talent" for the particular area of interest, or because the child didn't work hard enough.

I believe many blacks are more racist than a lot of whites. (And, like I posted earlier, blacks are also responsible for selling their own into slavery.)

 

[Relay4]

"White guilt"!...Bull$hit! My paternal ancestors were Romanian peasants whose daily lives were were probably much worse than Southern slaves. I owe them nothing.

 

[flagtag]

My great-great grandmother came to this country as a child as an indentured servant. (Translation: Owned/slave! At least until she could pay off her "debt".)

Who do I sue?