And we’ve been paying that price ever since. The real joke is on us and our future generations. We will never have another opportunity to taste that kind of freedom, because Obama is going to make sure it stays gone…for good.

I feel the same way, and have felt this way for a long time. Not only Washington, but Tocqueville also would have agreed.

The worst thing is that the conservative opposition–both political and intellectual–offered so weak a defense of freedom when it was on the line. We all own this failure, as Americans, and as Americans we shall have to repair it.

I sincerely hope that you and I are both wrong. That is the “hope” I have on this day of “change.”

And it shouldn’t be long now…

is that most of those in power don’t care about my freedom or your freedom.

Please find a way to get this into the editorial pages of the NY Times, the Washington Post and the LA Times. People need to read this and comprehend every written word. We, as a nation, are many things, but what we shouldn’t be is ungrateful. President Bush stood firm and strong when others fled and fought him with words to undermine his actions. We are free to disagree and criticize anything we choose, but we should also have the decency to acknowledge that which he accomplished, in the name of our country, under adverse circumstances. Unlike the MSM who don’t seem capable of any decency, he deserves our respect; our thanks to him and his family for their efforts. And with your writings, you’ve helped to make that happen.

but his nod to Bush was trite

It must hurt the far left to hear the Lord’sPrayer nd So Help me God and then to hear all those slave owners praised!

We just had a presidential campaign in which neither candidate even mentioned the world. We had a freedom-free campaign with freedom-free candidates.

If I did not believe in God, I would be neck deep in dispair. However, I do so . . . so what is disguarded can energetically be elevated in the future . . .

Good day Francis (and everyone).

Taking a bit of a break at the range and thought I’d try out my new ‘Crackberry’ on RedState.

I want to sincerely thank you for another amazing column. Your words are on-point with a vast number of Americans, including almost everyone here at RS.

We are in the midst of a monumental shift in what passes for good and bad ; right and wrong in our country and I fear a multi-generational time span will be what it takes to set the freedom train back on the track. And that’s just from the damage already done to the American people on a confidence and trust perspective caused by our left-side friends.

Ok, back to the firing line I go. That’s how I’m “celebrating” today….. Armed and excercising my 2nd Amendment rights.

Cheers !

Kenny Solomon

Today, the mindless masses are celebrating “change”. They are the” frog in the warm wate”r. When they realize it is boiling — it will be too late. The power brokers in D.C. care little about our “rights” and I wonder if the Constitution will survive this Socialist?

I see this as a melancholy moment, with many so overwhelmed by disorienting pomp that the foreground and horizons are obscurred.

There is little doubt this concentration of power and socialist vision will trample that which has made us great.

Undoubtedly we will lose freedom as this power enthralls a public largely tempted by the trappings of a misguided government which is intent on becoming a behemoth of financial rationing and control. It is a creature of voracious appetite, never satified, always elusive and characterized by a need to gradually gain control.

In the end we will become subjugated by ethereal oratory that never expresses its material actions taken in the name of change. The affects will disguised as “progress”, global brotherhood, kinship, charity and healing. But it will be paid for by countless generations, who will never know the freedom or equality we feel at this moment.

Truly shameful that so many could be misled and cajoled into surrendering liberty without so much as a whimper.

I believe we have been betrayed by the leadership in both parties.

Both sides sold us a bill of goods, which might have been OK had the goods not been switched upon delivery. The next four years should in part be spent identifying which of our Republican Party leaders can be trusted to be more than just “better than a Democrat,” and which ones also understand and support individual and economic freedom to be the backbone of our national strength.