Editor’s note: The following column is a work of collaboration by me and some friends of mine – some of whom feared retribution for speaking so plainly.
Looking back over the past four years, read this to better understand where we are going as a country under the leadership of Barack Obama.
WHEN he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan, Moammar Gadhafi and Hugo Chavez, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN it was pointed out that he was a total newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN his voting record in the Illinois Senate and in the U.S. Senate came into question, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he refused to wear a flag lapel pin and did so only after a public outcry, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he surrounded himself in the White House with advisers who were pro-gun control, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he said he favors sex education in kindergarten, including homosexual indoctrination, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN his personal background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found about him, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to produce a birth certificate, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezko – a man of questionable character and who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home – people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire globalist, spent a ton of money to get him elected, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he started appointing White House czars that were radicals, revolutionaries and even avowed Marxist/Communists, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he stood before the nation and told us that his intentions were to “fundamentally transform this nation” into something else, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he appointed Cabinet members and several advisers who were tax cheats and socialists, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he appointed a science czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he appointed Cass Sunstein as regulatory czar, who believes in “explicit consent,” harvesting human organs without family consent and allowing animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he appointed Kevin Jennings, a homosexual and organizer of a group called Gay, Lesbian, Straight, Education Network as safe schools czar and it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he appointed Mark Lloyd as diversity czar, who believes in curtailing free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth and who supports Hugo Chavez, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN Valerie Jarrett, an avowed socialist, was selected as Obama’s senior White House adviser, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN Anita Dunn, White House communications director, said Mao Zedong was her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for inspiration, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he appointed Carol Browner, a well-known socialist as global warming czar working on cap-and-trade as the nation’s largest tax, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed socialist, as green energy czar who was forced to resign, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN Tom Daschle, Obama’s pick for health and human services secretary could not be confirmed because he was a tax cheat, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once talking of her greatness, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he upset the Europeans by removing plans for a missile-defense system against the Russians, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops requested by field commanders to win the war, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay it off, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions and individuals that got him elected, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he took over insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc., people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he took away student loans from the banks and required they go through the government, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he designed plans to take over the health-care system and put it under government control, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy in the United States through cap-and-trade, people said it didn’t matter.
WHEN he finally completed his transformation of America into a socialist state, people began to wake up – but it was too late.
The last paragraph alone is not yet cast in stone. You and I will write that paragraph.
