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| -Election 2012 |
| Dear Ruler |
| 2012-07-19 |
| First, let me say how thrilled I am that you went off-teleprompter last week. This "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen" thing was just wonderful. Now I know how Chris Matthews felt. Oh .. I know. Your handlers weren't all that thrilled with your amazing screw-up, and, frankly, they have been worried this day was coming for a long time. They know how you feel about the private sector. They know of your antipathy toward free enterprise and those evil small businessmen out there who are not likely to support your move to a government centrally-controlled economy. They had hoped to keep your true feelings in check with those teleprompters ... but nooooooooo ... you just had to improvise, didn't you? You just had to wander off the tightly-controlled rhetorical reservation. Well, thank you. You certainly didn't gain any significant voter support with that asinine utterance, but you most certainly did lose some. Now we're having fun watching and listening to your sycophants trying to defend your "somebody else made that happen" line. Somehow they have to make your blunder sound marginally reasonable. Apparently they've had a meeting somewhere, because they're all running with pretty much the same message. It was the government that built the roads those trucks travel on to bring stuff to your business for you to sell. It was the government that built those utility systems that keep your offices cool and the water clean.  They really love that quote from Henry Ford about not being able to build his cars if the government had not built those roads. Well guess what, Dear Ruler. We built that stuff too. Not government --- the private sector -- America's evil private businesses. Get in Marine One, Obama, and fly off to visit a road construction project. Look at those graders, rollers and the machines that lay the asphalt. See those logos on the doors? Those logos are for private construction firms. Those workers in yellow vests? Their paychecks and benefits are coming from private businesses -- many of them the very small businesses you want to hit with tax increases. Next you can fly off to take a look at a utility project somewhere. Maybe you can find a sewer line being laid, or some electrical transmission lines being strung. Again -- those are private companies doing that work with private sector workers. You see, there's a document out there that, frankly, I doubt you have ever read. It's called The Declaration of Independence. I'm sure there's a copy around your office somewhere. But I do want to save you a bit of trouble here -- knowing you busy you are fundamentally transforming American and all -- so I'll provide you with a little excerpt from that document: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- There! Do you see that? That government you're so enamored of ... that government you credit with Americas greatness ... well, to paraphrase one of our presidents, "You didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." That's right, Dear Ruler, somebody else made that government happen .. and that somebody else is US. The government is OURS. We built it. We hire the people to run it. We have regular meetings every two years or so to decide whether we want to keep those managers or get rid of them to find better talent. Those roads .. our national infrastructure? We HIRED the government to build those things for us, just as we hire contractors to build our business locations and to design and manufacture the equipment we will use in the course of our businesses. We created this government -- the government did not create us -- and we contract with this government to do things for us on a grand scale because we recognize the inefficiencies of trying to do those things for ourselves. Government is just another contractor we hire to get our private business done. But hold on a minute, Ruler Obama. There's something else I want you to read before you put this letter down. You see, I didn't include the whole quote from The Declaration of Independence above. I left something off ... and here it is ... ---That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Maybe it's just me, but I'm of the opinion that when our elected leaders become so enamored of themselves, and of the government we have hired them to manage, they become a grave danger to those unalienable rights set forth in The Declaration -- you know, the rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The Declaration says we may "pursue" happiness. It does not guarantee it. You and the party you represent seem to think that happiness is a right, and have created a government that has now become destructive of the very ends it was designed to support. There's more than one way to alter or abolish at government, Ruler Obama. We'll give one of them a good old college try in November. Again .. thanks for your incursion into extemporaneous speech. We've learned a lot from and about you in the last week. With all DUE Respect. Neal Boortz.  |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #11 If you became president, you didn't do that. Somebody else made that happen. But not again. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2012-07-19 22:04 |
| #10 Hear, hear, Rob! |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-07-19 19:48 |
| #9 The Declaration wasn't intended to be a body of laws. It was intended to be a "petition for redress of grievances". It was telling the King how patient his subjects had been at the abuse of the rights of all Englishmen, and asking him to stop it, or he may find himself without any subjects in the colonies. So, really, it's still applicable. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2012-07-19 18:15 |
| #8 One other point: A troll may correctly point out that the Declaration of Independence is not the Law of the Land, and thus is not binding on 0bama or the federal government. That is correct, and that is by design: Its to make sure it isn't abolished by Congress, declared unconsistutional by the Supreme Court, or have it subject to "discretionary non-enforcement" by Caesar wanna-be Presidents. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2012-07-19 10:04 |
| #7 An excellent response! It would be perfect if neal had pointed out, when 0bama steps off Marine One, to point out that it was made by private enterprise on contract to the Military. Y'know, that Eeeeevil Military-industrial complex you hyperventilated about. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2012-07-19 10:00 |
| #6 Turn Champ loose without his teleprompter, a complicit media, and handlers; who knows what is possible? The truth might even emerge. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-07-19 08:50 |
| #5 Damon Knight's "the Handler" Just reminds me of the Zero/Whoever pulls his strings combination. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-07-19 07:40 |
| #4 Thanks Dale. The word "stray" is often used to describe those moments ["visiting 57 States" moment] when the Champ moves away from the teleprompter. Boortz used the reference "went off-teleprompter" vs "strayed". I personally prefer "strayed", but it does carry with it that awkward Canis connotation, which could be perceived as racist. But then again "OFF" might bug some people as well. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-07-19 06:59 |
| #3 Nice touch there Mr. B. Ominous ring to it. |
| Posted by: Dale 2012-07-19 06:35 |
| #2 Again .. thanks for your incursion into extemporaneous speech. WeÂ’ve learned a lot from and about you in the last week. Like the old song...."Getting to Know You" ..... getting to know all about you.... |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-07-19 05:46 |
| #1 Boortz has been a long time companion, and has been an asset to all of us. AMF |
| Posted by: newc 2012-07-19 00:17 |