Surprise Attack

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of
entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to
limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the
necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to
have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more
serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming
the prince of fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools
that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is,
after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools,
such as those who made him their President."

The above writing appeared quite by surprise in a very limited-audience website in the member forum section.  It appeared among several brief and lighthearted comments that a few other friends and I had been exchanging a day or two after some criticisms about the election had subsided.  Yes, this comment above was submitted by a fellow I have always called a friend, a man I had traveled a few miles to visit a year ago after having no contact since the 1960s.  During that visit we had shared a few words about government, and while he attacked "Obama-Care" I made it clear that I felt things were going to improve steadily and that the picture had already begun to improve early in the new administration but was halted by a recalcitrant congress after the 2010 elections.

My friend's retort to anything I said was all about how horrible Obama was for the country.  He got particularly glandular when he accused his own job loss on the new President, saying that the rescue of the auto industry was handled so badly that many such as himself had lost everything.

His personal upset was understandable (though it seems he would have had a better platform to criticize if no rescue had been accomplished), and his total rejection of the very idea that Obama could be re-elected made him lash out and vent his frustrations.  Still, I noticed that the quotation marks (above) were already there around his forum post.  Also, the verbiage didn't sound like the fellow I know.  I am assuming he found some harsh right-winger (a Limbaugh type) offering such a blast against the people who could be so stupid as to keep Obama in office.  Then this follower-type felt at liberty to post it for us all, even folks he might consider friends but who let him down by not voting for the (to me) unthinkable alternative.

My thanks again to all of my fellow fools who helped maintain some sanity in office, and a special thanks to those who brought back a few Dems to Congress to help the President.  Let's hope that in 2014, we can do the similar (opposite) number on the Congress that was done in 2010 when so much of the House turned red, which has kept us in red ink due to Republicans not cooperating with the President and his proposals for rebuilding.