Obama Quotes

About Bush:

"We were told by our President that we could fight two wars, increase our military budget by 74%, spend more on education, initiate a prescription drug plan, have tax cuts, all at the same time. We were told by Congress that they could make up for lost revenue by cutting government waste.
The result is the most precarious budget situation we have seen in years. We now have an annual budget deficit of almost $300 billion, not counting more than $180 billion we borrow every year from the Social Security Trust Fund.
It is not the debt that is most troubling. The bulk of the debt is a direct result of the President’s tax cuts, 47.4% of which went to the top 5% income bracket.
We can eliminate tax credits that have outlived their usefulness & close loopholes that let corporations get away without paying taxes. We can restore a law that was in place during the Clinton presidency–called Paygo–that prohibits money from leaving the treasury without some way of compensating for the lost revenue." Ah, hello? How much has the Obama administration spent in just eight months?



"Over the last seven years, what we’ve seen is an economy that’s out of balance because of the policies of George Bush and the Republicans in Congress. Not only do we have fiscal problems, but we’ve got growing inequality. People are working harder for less and they’re seeing costs go up. So what I want to do is get the long-term fundamentals right. That means that we are investing in education & infrastructure, structuring fair trade deals, and also ending the war in Iraq. That is money that can be applied at home for critical issues" Oh, really?

"We heard the President say he has a stimulus plan to boost our economy, but we know his plan leaves out seniors and fails to expand unemployment insurance, and we know it was George Bush’s Washington that let the banks and financial institutions run amok, and take our economy down this dangerous road. What we need to do now is put more money in the pockets of workers and seniors, and expand unemployment insurance for more people and more time. And I have a plan that to do just that." He let the banks run amok and Obama refueled their cache with his own stimulus plan...and took them over.

"We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential." Then why are you bringing in a socialistic government and wrecking capitolism? Ordinary people don't have a chance to realize their full potential undedr the Obama plan.

"I will never forget that the only reason I’m standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it was risky. Stood up when it was hard. Stood up when it wasn’t popular. And because that somebody stood up, a few more stood up. And then a few thousand stood up. And then a few million stood up. And standing up, with courage and clear purpose, they somehow managed to change the world." Yet we are labeled astroturf, phoney, and angry mobs when we try to do the same.

Secrets

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernurishment. Robert Maynard Hutchins
Jan 17, 1899-May 17, 1977

Secrets

It comes not from a sudden ambush
Or an unknown evil source
It happens while you are sipping tea
Right on your own front porch

It happens while you are so intrigued
About the latest Hollywood death
That all the news on all the channels
Cover it in every breath

They'll run right down the middle
As you chase the wide reciever
Even though you know who has the ball
Is in fact the great deceiver

They'll hit a run right over the fence
Just as you creep up for a bunt
They are so atuned to tricking you
They've practiced every stunt

So while you're barely seeing
What the politicians have in mind
Wake up and question what they do
Before you're totally in a bind

Marian
June 28, 2009

Times Passed

No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged---
in some places perhaps irreparably---our life has been, we can not in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, aquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, a poetic glamour. Randolf Sillman Bourne 1886

Times Passed

Broken minds and broken hearts
are sometimes scars we carry
as we look back on the life we've led
Perhaps saddened, perhaps not very.

Spirited debates won or lost
love sweet, at times so sour
Had my life just passed me by?
It seems but just an hour.

Places seen and of places dreamed
stored neatly in my head
I will not regret lost chances
to do everything I said

People known and people bemoaned
Friendships strong and true
The one thing I will treasure most
Is the day that I met you

Marian
August 31, 2009

The Final Season

The Final Season

In the gardens so anticipated
When the summer just began
Stand plants naked of the produce
That grandma already canned

The children are almost happy
To see their many friends
as the school doors are opened wide
and the students are filing in

Summer tans will soon be fading
and the air will chill each night
when Halloween approaches
to bring an autumn fright

Trees will be undressing
with colors so defined
as a painting could do no justice
before their leaves are left behind

Autumn brings such wonder
and hope for a better year
but it also is the time in life
that many often fear

For winter comes right behind it
and it closes the book of life
Some see it as ending paradise
Others look forward to ending their strife

But whatever winter brings you
if not another year
Be certain that there's a spring ahead
both far away and here

Marian
August 28, 2009

Summer Storm

Lying silently upon my bed
with a pillow comforting my weary head
I sleepily became aware
of distant thunder rumbling somewhere

The air was warm and still
outside my open window sill
But in an instant the wind blew in
As applause before the show begins

The pattering on my rooftop grew
as good as any percussion I ever knew
Raindrops bounced from leaf to leaf
adding a melody beyond belief

Thunder joined as a big bass drum
as a light show in the sky begun
The rustling tune of all the trees
was a song included in the stormy breeze

The concert was brief but melodic
and I find it quite ironic
that in all the years I failed to listen
I had no idea what I had been missin'

Marian

August 27, 2009

My country right or wrong: If right, keep it right and if wrong to set it right.

Patriots Be

Peaceful be, Americans
in times that feel so right
Ask questions, my Americans
if feeling times of plight

Be aware, my dear Americans
you are here with freedom's choice
Be silent in the good times
but forget not your powerful voice

Be a patriot, dear American
when called to take a stand
For faithful true Americans
are seriously in demand

Marian
August 14, 2009

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect delicate balance between freedom to and freedom from. Marilyn vos Savant Aug 11, 1946

Our Rights

Freedom to be
Freedom to choose
Freedom to win
Freedom to loose
Freedom from cruelty
Even for crooks
Freedom from censorship
of all of our books
Freedom to bear arms
Freedom to vote
Freedom to admonish
Freedom to gloat
Freedom from slavery
and radical acts
Freedom to review
all of the facts
Freedom of speach
Freedom to assemble
Freedom from tyranny
and all it resembles
Freedom to live
Freedom to earn
Freedom to wave
a flag or to burn
Freedom to worship
at the church of your choice
Freedom from some
trying to quiet your voice
Freedom to vote
and to be represented
Freedom from laws
not your wishes invented
Freedom to change
which has intruded your life
Freedom from your government
causing you strife
Freedom to stand
for what has been written
in our Constitution
of which we are smitten

Marian
August, 12, 2009

God's Answer

Of all the pills and medical inventions
I have seen of any kind
There is one created by God's intentions
To ease a muddled mind

Daily grinds and life's disruptions
Bring headaches that we get
The only cure worth all discussion
Is God's magnificent sunset

The beauty and awe brings peace
and causes pause within
and the pain inside begins to cease
with the colors rolling in

The sunset is made to quiet
The evening from the day
Of an inner turmoil riot
God meant it to be that way

Marian
August 27, 2009

This quote today is actually a 1972 supreme court decision in a trial (Laird v. Tatum)" Those who already walk submissively will say there is no cause for alarm, but submissiveness is not our heritage. The first ammendment was designed to allow rebellion to remain our heritage. The constitution was designed to keep government off the backs of the people. The Bill of Rights was added to keep the precints of belief and expression, of the press, of political and social activities free from surveillance.. The Bill of Rights was designed to keep the agents of government and official eavesdroppers away frrom assemblies of people. The aim was to allow men to be free and independent and to assert their rights against government" William O Douglas

Freedom Of Speach

Included in the Bill of Rights
And upheld by The Court
I'm going to have my say, you know
And will welcome your retort

For when it comes down to it
what we say is surely our right
And if in the content we don't agree
we'll just say good night

My words may change your mind, I hope
And yours, they might change mine
And if we fall on cool discourse
I'll say Ok, that's fine

To say it is the principle
that makes our words take hold
to agree or not means nothing
we're free to have it told

Marian
August 30, 2009

I'm Pleading

I'm Pleading

The left is playing tricks on us
Why aren't we even curious
While we sleep they will achieve it
While we don't even see it

As socialism comes creeping in
Obama's wearing a big ol' grin
Why don't the people know it?
Do they think that we'll outgrow it?

Our liberty is on the clock
and it's not a case of culture shock
Politicians about to steal it
Am I the only one who feels it?

He said it right to our faces
in the presidential races
We didn't even fear it
Could not we even hear it?

They call us false and angry mobs
as tension causes my head to throb
Is it too late to bring in masses?
Before our freedom passes?

Pray we all will open their eyes
to evil forces that they reprise
So easily we've given in
Apathy is our one true sin

Raise your voices one and all
Don't let the republic take the fall
We have the people to take this war
That's what our patriots past died for

Listen, Americans, to your true heart
Don't let them tear our lives apart.
If you're a patriot you will show it
Before we go and blow it

Marian
August 26, 2009

Majority Rules

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority. James Reston 1909-1995

Majority Rules

If they are so politically motivated
to plan what's best for all
Just trust the whole majority
to hand over the proverbial ball
For while the majority is sleeping
or swimming at a pool
Political representatives
are playing us for a fool

Marian
August 26, 2009

My Stance

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. Robert Heinlein 1907-1988

My Stance

I trust in me and my moral code
I have scruples that will not erode
If rules are reasonable
I'll tolerate them
If they're unfeasable
I'll surely break them
I take responsibility in what I do
And will live civilly, for me and you
But I come first
in all my choices
I follow true
my inner voices
I am my keeper, and take that stand
Though I will listen to your demands
And I will live
in some tranquility
with your laws
to my best ability
For I am free in my heart, my soul, and my own mind.

Marian
August 22, 2009

Want Free?

If you think health care is expensive now, wait til it's free. You will pay with your life.

Want Free?

So you want to save your pennies

and have no doctor you need to pay
You want your health care free for all
until your dying day
Well if medicine is socialized
your wishes will come true
your dying day will sooner come
and your paying days are through

Marian
August 27, 2009

I Cared

Aesop: He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. This of course could follow along with John Morley's quote...You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

I Cared

I spoke today with grave concern
About a controversial topic at hand
I was feeling too many people
Had firmly buried their heads in the sand

I stirred up so much ire
That my friends went into revolt
Not about the issues, mind you
They considered me a dolt

So much has been spoken by liars
Of the fakers they are immune
And they hate the voice of reason
And those who have become atuned

So I silently cry a river
About lost friendships that I came to bear
Because I am cursed with curiousity
and question issues that I feel unfair

As I listen to each and every side
And come to conclusions my mind can embrace
I hope to hell I must be wrong
so others won't be burdened with disgrace

When the issues that do haunt me
carry consequenses that have me scared
I don't want to say "I told you so"
I just want friends to know I cared

Marian
August 26, 2009

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing what happened. Norman Thomas 1834-1968

The Virus

Cynisizm, no criticism
apathy, complacency
Reject it if you will
the full blown takeover

Libralism about capitolism
security, obscurity
Reflect a society
Mindless to the makeover

Socialism creeps and crawls
in hidden agendas it continues to sprawl
Until we wake up one morning
To find it there

Rejection to reflection
False security and peace of mind
As socialism has taken its place
and left our democracy behind

Marian
August 22, 2009

Welcome The New

...Let's not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber 1894-1961


Welcome The New

Damaged by the anger past
Living in memories that shouldn't last
Never happy in present times
Grieving of some unforgiven crime

Remembering friends who did you wrong
Not making new relasionships strong
Living with memories of hurtful things
Smothering in feelings these memories bring

Dwelling on those who have long been gone
Crying over a sad sad song
Not dancing with joy of hope anew
Can't even see it coming to you

Never looking around for pleasure to see
Not letting past injustice set you free
Licking wounds open again and again
Not letting a new era bloom within

Days of thunder and darkness gone
Friend it is time to now move on
Don't let sad memories hold you a slave
Let the past lie in untended graves

Marian
August 21, 2009

Tea Party

Sandusky Ohio

5 to 7 PM Thursday August 20

Shorline Park

There were 300 on April 15, let's make it 3,ooo this time

Be peaceful but show your support for our Republic!

Why I Am Pissed

The Bush administration did a HORRIBLE job with this country. Obama (who I was FOR, BTW) was handed a mess and has proceeded to mix the mess around the floor with a dirty mop while adding to the crap that Bush started. Obama is moving way too fast, he is surrounding himself with advisors and czars who will do nothing but make worse what was started in past administrations. His healh care is not reform, it is a government take-over which will in the long run not only hurt the people who already have health insurance, it will not help the people that it is meant to cover. The cash for clunkers is a farce. Puttting people into new cars when the economy is saying to watch your pennies. Then perfectly good older cars are being demolished and limiting the used car market. The Cap and Trade bill will raise rates for everyone, including small businesses who will have no choice but to close up shop and head elsewhere. Not to mention what it is going to do to the consumer when their utility bills and gasoline rise by 40%. And the taxation on small business to fund the proposed health care bill? THEY CAN'T AFFORD it! Small business employs the bulk of Americans and they are failing because their operating costs cannot bear anymore taxation!

I am all for green and conservation, but Obama is trying to put three loads of clothes in to a compact washer. I would be behind this president 100% if he would step back and see his agendas through at slower pace and get things done right. I got goosebumps when he was elected and was all into the historic meaning of a first black president. I was hoping our first black president would represent a better image for his constituents. He is taking community organizing to a whole new level.

There are now 40 czars that answer to and advise the executive branch. They have the power to impliment change in their charges without running it through the congress. Our system of checks and balances is compromised.

All the liberals can scream about is "it is a racial thing" and it is NOT. I am about as unbigoted a person as you will find, and I find what is happening to our country a very scary experience. It is not left and right either. The republicans and the democrats have equal blame in what has been happening for years before Obama was even elected. The lobbyists have the ears of our representatives as the people are being tuned out. No wonder laws get passed that no one wants.

The sooner people realize it is not about Obama, McCain, dems, and republicans, the sooner the people will take back the country. There has to be a point where people and the government start taking fiscal control of things. If your car breaks down you don't go out and buy a whole fleet of them. That is what the government is doing...they are spending us into a hole so deep we will never get out.

JMO. Because I give a shit.

Marian

Three Poems For Our Country

What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.
Ebenezer Elliot (1846)

~~
As Our Republic Crumbles

I had my eyes on a successful life
I did what I needed to earn it
Yet when I had what I had toiled for
I had to share it with those who yearned it

Up to my eyeballs in hours of labor
It got me the car I drive
Now the government says I must share all I have
With the slackers who don't try to thrive

I dreamed of a mountain
And reaching the sky
But they level my dreams
The more that I try

Now who wants to labor and toil each day
When you're ordered to give it away

Marian
July 31, 2009

The state is not abolished. It withers away. Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)

We Melt Away

Candy melting in the sun
Water evaporating
Just like the state of our economy
There's no reason for celebrating

Our Republic stands above us all
We were the ones who grew it
It grew wildly out of control
Before we even knew it

Apathy and ignorance
Laziness and lack of pride
Is what will be etched on the stone
The day our country died

Marian
July 31, 2009

~~
The less government we have, the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)

Their Mess

They were meant to represent us
As citizens with our goals
But we allowed then to bankrupt us
And bury us in the holes

They live the life of Riley
Leaving all of us the spoils
They lavish highly as icons
Upon their congressional soils

They say they'll give us health care
That won't cost us a dime
But the taxes we will pay for it
Should surely be a crime

They bailed out failing companies
And took their full control
They'll rule our children's future
With the education they will extol

They'll take all that we worked for
and stomp out all our dreams
They'll spread the wealth to all of those
Who never worked, it seems.

They'll substitute our power
As they borrow all they need
So today they all can have it
And lavish in their greed

Then down the road our children pay
For the ruin that we made
For what they did for us today
Can never be repaid

Marian
July 31, 2009

Politician's Creed

When a man takes an oath...he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then...he needn't hope to find himself again. Robert Bolt 1924-1995

Politician's Creed

Hold yourself closely with the oath you've taken
Don't let your purpose be foresaken
Be the man we hoped you'd be
Be happy with the image of yourself you see

Hold yourself to the truth you pledged
Through adversity or rumors dredged
Be the man who made your parents proud
Though ugly voices invade the crowd

Don't let power sieze your soul
and steer you from your promised goal
Politicians need not be hated
Remember truth is under-rated

Don't let past resentments do you in
Or let money lead you to your ultimate sin
With the oath you took to heart
Be proud of what service you impart

Bless the public servent who
remains the candidate that we knew
would lead us with hope and honesty
in this land of what we hope is free

Marian
August 12, 2009

Humility

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all. William Temple 1881-1944

Humility

Some thoughts about humility
before I reach senility
I've pondered on that subject here
and this is the answer that comes so near

It means not thinking less of myself
or minimizing what I do,
Or thinking that what I have done
doesn't measure up to you

Humility as I can figure
and is my final call
Is the freedom not to think of myself
for days or not at all

Marian
August 6, 2009

Contempt

Our government...teaches the whole people by example. If the government becomes the lawbreakersatings of main stream media , it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become law unto himself; it invites anarchy. Louis Brandeis 1856-1941

Contempt

Born in a country I have been taught to honor
Respect the law
No one above it all
Now I see the leaders disrespecting the people
Taking in hand
What was once our land
They expect the citizens to fall in line
Yet their contempt does show
How can we not know
When the lawmakers break the law we honor
We become udone
All, not one
And society suffers in the end

Marian
August 11, 2009

Power

Abe lincoln "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, GIVE HIM POWER


Power

Such a handsome man I see
Predicting change for all to see
Hope forthcoming, recession gone
I wonder where he has been so long?

Such a vigorous righteous man
Elected to do all that he can
With trust we pass him full control
After all, he was favored in the poll

He stands up to adversity
Where has this man been for you and me?
Change will come, and for the better
He said so in his campaign letter

He feels the power his office brings
His focus is on greater things
Seems he has had issues deep inside
now with this power he need not hide

Indescertions in the past
coming to the surface at last
His power brings a cross to bear
Of percieved injustices of yesteryear

A man who had the ability
to stand up to adversity
Has tasted power and craves it more
Than the learned man he was before

Marian
August 12, 2009

My Stand

You have enemies. Good. That means you've stood up for something in your life. Winston Churchill nov 30 1874-Jan 24, 1965

My Stand

I spoke my mind

My friends were mad

But were they friends

That I really had?

I now have enemies

This is true

But self respect,

I have that, too

I took my stand

It meant much to me

I hope my true friends

Will always be

Marian

August 11, 2009