No tears for America of yesteryear

[varun]

Cynthia Tucker - as usual - brilliant!

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/tucker/stories/2008/10/29/tucked_1029.html

GOP activist Sadie Fields, an ultra-conservative Christian, says she is frightened by the prospect of an Obama presidency. As chairman of the Georgia Christian Alliance, she believes other members of the Republican faithful should be scared witless too.

Last week, in an effort to rally the troops, Fields sent out a desperate, last-ditch plea claiming that an Obama victory will mean a “liberal tsunami” that abandons the vision of the Founding Fathers.“The country I grew up in will be no more,” she wrote...

...A new America — a more just America — rises.

Whether Obama wins or loses, the America in which Fields grew up — preserved as perfect in the amber of her memory — is passing away. The monochromatic America of Christian prayers before football games and New Testament scriptures read in fifth-grade classrooms; the America of all-white juries, an all-white Congress and all-white classrooms; the America of gay men denied security clearances out of fear they could be blackmailed and young pregnant women dying from coat-hanger abortions; the America of George Wallace, Phyllis Schlafly and Anita Bryant — that America recedes before a new tide. I do not mourn its passing.

[Old Codger]

1. ALL Good losses

But Some of the things that were also a large part of that America, being proud to be an American, safety in our streets, REAL family values(not the BS that the right has been passing off) And respect from the rest of the world as a moral and legal leader.

[King Coal]

2. Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Madison

No liberals there. Not one. Not a single founding father was a liberal. They were all conservatives. Tories, everyone of them. Yep, they wouldn't have dreamed of revolution.

[izquierdista]

3. Scared witless?

They were witless before Obama ever entered the national scene. Clueless, brainless, and witless as a sack of hammers. As for the scared part, it's Halloween soon, so
BOO!