First Lady Michelle Obama may be wrong about a lot of things, but she got this right. The 2012 presidential election will determine “the kind of world we’ll be leaving to our children”:
(CNSNews.com) – Urging support for her husband’s re-election, First Lady Michelle Obama told a campaign event Monday evening that the “kind of world we’ll be leaving for our children” was at stake.
“[W]hether it’s health care or the economy, whether it’s education or foreign policy, the choice we make will determine nothing less than what kind of world we’ll be leaving for our children,” she told an Obama for America bowling fundraiser at New York’s Chelsea Piers complex.
“In the end, it really boils down to one simple question: Will we continue all the change we’ve begun and the progress we’ve made? Or will we allow everything we’ve fought for to just slip away? But that is the choice we face.”
Do we want to bequeath our children and grandchildren a nation that is head over heels in debt and addicted to spending money that we don’t have on things that we don’t need, a nation that is morally bankrupt and corrupt, and a nation that is a beacon of hopelessness and despair for people around the world? If the answer is “yes,” then vote to reelect President Obama. If the answer is “no,” then do everything you can to help elect whoever the GOP nominates. I know what my answer is, and I’m doing my part. Are you?
Neil Snyder is a chaired professor emeritus at the University of Virginia. His blog, SnyderTalk.com, is posted daily.
The United States is not going to become nothing but ward politics writ large. Maybe if they of the Left had waited another decade to make their big push, but they didn’t. The old time American middle class still survives, the class that said we ultimately would not give up on the Cold War, the class that said we in fact are notgoing to be a country of segregation nor would we be a nation dividing the spoils by race, the class that said we will neither abandon completely the weak and poor to be solely on their own nor will we elevate them to a state of unquestioned sainthood having perpetual right to a government check–this class still survives, and will make itself known.
Barack Obama and his ilk may triumph for a while, but they can never truly win. I promise you that. They do not understand that regardless of the actual ethnic heritage of those pulling the levers, or regardless of where they actually live, in their hearts the people of the middle class of America are still from the land of the midwest, still of those values, because they are timeless ones for a Jacksonian Republic and they recreate themselves, because they work. That middle class is sensible, practical, and fair, but also able to think for itself and not yet automatically believing everything coming out of the acdemies or an institution merely because someone with a credential says so. They, in the end, will not support or keep Obama’s policies forever if they do not work. And since those policies cannot work, especially if the people choose to keep a spirit of independence about themselves, which they will, he can ride the media tide all he wants, he can get reelected all he wants. In the end, whether November or ten years from now, he will still lose. And lose for all time.
Should Michelle have her way and Obama re-elected then future generations will no longer be able to blame the state of the economy… the country, on the Boomers (or Bushes). The failures of the future will rest directly upon the shoulders of the Obama Generation. They’ll be old and gray before they know what hit them.