Published: October 29, 2009 09:00 pm      

Our Readers Speak - Oct. 30, 2009

Obama’s acts spark a storm of civil dissent



Though he fantasizes so, Barack Obama didn’t receive permission to change America’s foundation or create a new country.

Even with the manufactured crisis of the so-called stimulus bill and the societally taxing and transforming Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, Obama, his machine and the Democrat Party leadership continue their ram-it-through-now socialist takeover, using the cover of health care reform.

In his angry and bitter speech Sept. 9 before Congress, Obama threatened, “If you misrepresent what’s in the plan, we will call you out.”

Oh, really?

Well, I call you out — you who appear to have no identity with America’s heart and character.

Stop your scare tactics, of which you accuse those disagreeing with and/or disbelieving you.

Cease your endless blame-gaming and campaigning.

Speak with some consistency, even in the same speech, and with specificity.

Present evidence that whatever health care plan you’re hawking would add “not one dime” to the federal deficit.

Offer substantive proof the health care plan would lower costs for the public, businesses and governments.

Confirm with more than hot air that most costs of the health care plan would come through waste/fraud elimination in social programs Medicare and Medicaid.

Decide how many are unable to get insurance. Pre-speech 47 million? New estimate 30 million? The millions fewer the number likely is?

Stop your hyper-partisan, divisive speeches and actions — for example, your Sept. 9 speech — that characterize your political career, especially presidency.

You, your minions’ and the state-controlled media’s continual derision and shameful dismissal of ordinary Americans — deeply alarmed about the fiscal, moral and constitutional directions of your administration’s leftist radicalism and Congressional activities — have sparked a civil storm you never envisioned.

Note, though: The tea parties, August’s town halls and the mostly unreported 9-12 demonstration in D.C., which appears the largest in American history, represent just the first stages.

If Obama and Congress, but especially its majority, don’t dismount their high horses, engage reality, slow down, and then hear and respect the public — remembering they work for us, should represent all Americans, and should protect and defend the Constitution — then the Second American Revolution will dramatically and necessarily broaden and intensify.



C. Kenna Amos Jr.

Princeton