Monday, February 23, 2009

Notice the difference....?

I pulled this quote from an essay at The Patriot Post, Friday Digest - Vol. 09 No. 07. I ask you to notice the difference in the tone this quote when compared to the tone and meaning of the rhetoric of Our Dear Leader, The Most Merciful, President, Barack Hussein Obama.

Campaigning for the presidency, Reagan said, "This is the issue: whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves. ... Somewhere a perversion has taken place. Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment."

In his 1981 inaugural address, President Reagan assured the nation: "The economic ills we suffer ... will not go away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go away. They will go away because we, as Americans, have the capacity now, as we have had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom. In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ... Our government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government, which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed. It is my intention to curb the size and influence of the federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the federal government and those reserved to the states or to the people. All of us need to be reminded that the federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government."

I urge anyone who isn't a regular reader of The Patriot Post to become a subscriber. No one on the internet does it better....

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