The Call to Rally Behind Obama

by Jerry Ryburg

The election is over, and the American people have spoken. It was an electoral landslide, 364 for Sen. Obama to Sen. McCain's 163—53% of the popular vote to Sen. Obama to Sen. McCain's 46%--not a landslide. Now that the presidential election has culminated and everything is done, we are now called by liberal and conservative pundits alike to rally behind Sen. Obama. After all, he is our president-elect, and we have Sen. Obama for at least the next four years. It is our duty to support our new president, regardless of our party affiliation. We must rally behind Sen. Obama and support him through this transition process, and accept defeat, for the American people have spoken and have done so decisively.

In response, as a conservative/libertarian, I will answer the call.

I will rally behind Sen. Obama, who is an unashamed socialist who is looking to “spread the wealth around.” I will support him and his VP, Sen. Joe Biden, who stated that paying higher taxes is “patriotic,” and also claimed that Sen. Hillary Clinton was more qualified to be VP, and even president, than he is. I will stand behind Obama, who finds among his friends a spiritual mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who has said some of the most damnable, hateful diatribes I have ever heard against this country. I will support Obama in his effort to wave the white flag of surrender, and support him in his attitude of giving up on our troops.

I will rally alongside Obama by joining him in his disdain for first and second amendment rights and push for a revival of the fairness doctrine and support stiffer gun control laws for lawful citizens. I will join Obama in agreement with his wife, Michelle, in declaring with her that for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country. In fact, I will voluntarily sign myself up for Obama's newly proposed “citizen national security force” which is an idea straight out of Marxism. I also applaud his political courage in raising taxes for small businesses which make over $250,000(or is it $100,000?), after all small businesses make up only a fraction of the economy, and the consumer base would not be affected at all. I also applaud Obama on exposing “Joe the Plumber” for what he is, a McCain plant, and someone who has “the audacity of hope” in asking questions and desiring straight answers.

With the calls for “change,” and all of the “yes, we cans” we have heard, I cannot see a problem. Obama has promised he will be a bipartisan unifier. This is why I support his pick for chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, a true bipartisan, who once said something to the effect of “If the republicans don't like it, f*** them.” Along with the help of non-partisan Democratic leaders such as Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, I have no doubt that we will achieve the unification which Obama aspires for. Robert Kennedy, Jr., who is possibly being tapped to head the EPA, has said that anyone who disagrees with or disputes global warming is traitorous—a true bipartisan at heart.

Yes, I support our new president, who formed a close relationship and launched his political career with anti-American and unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers(a cop killer), who does not believe the Weather Underground did enough with their bombings. I will gladly and openly receive any tax hike proposals on the capital gains, homestead exemption, and applaud the return of the death tax, especially in our current time of economic crisis. I will now drop unequivocally any and all concerns which I had in suspecting voter fraud committed by ACORN and other hard working “grass-roots” organizations responsible for “getting the vote out.”

But then alas, I woke up.

The conservative response to this election is not to wave the white flag of surrender to President-elect Obama. We may have our hands a bit tied in the legislature, but it is up to us as conservative Americans to lobby our senators and members of congress to fight against any new radical leftist proposals which come up for a vote. I have faith in the American people, and I have faith that much of the Democratic majority in the House and the Senate are not the leftist radicals which Obama represents. If we choose to remain silent, that is our fault. The task is on us, and in two years, we can regain control by sending a resounding “NO” to Obama by regaining control of the House and Senate.

Our new platform is stated thus: uncompromised conservative values, a thorough definition of why conservatism is the way it should be, and a condemnation of liberalism as a threat to individual freedoms.

This is America, “the land of the free, and the home of the brave,” not the land of the bogged down, and the home of the weak.

We pride ourselves in living in a country which encourages all to seek, “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” not to seek living by dictates of government, liberalism, and the happiness of pursuit.”

Revive the GOP, or else! I fear the very fabric of our county will be demoralized, and America as we “knew” it will be an entity of the past.