How's it feel the be a pathetic sad sack?

Trying to decide between buying a scrap of bread to go with your water or prescription drugs for your baby; feasting on a can of dog food for dinner so you can save up enough money to put a couple gallons of gas in your tank; living in a cardboard box under an overpass because "the man" threw you out of your house on your ass for not being able to make your house payment?

Yes, it's apparently a very pathetic and sad world out there if you ask The Messiah. In fact it's so pathetic out there, that The Messiah felt compelled to describe it right at the top of his acceptance speech last Thursday:

Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit card bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's beyond your reach.

Actually, there are far more people working today than there were when Slick Willie left office in the middle of the last REAL recession. And as far as the home values plummeting, such is the correction of the overvalued market in some areas. Out here in flyover country, home values are holding up pretty well and even if they weren't, it's not the government's job to bail you out if you are upside down on your home. Ditto for your "car you can't afford to drive" and "the credit card bills you can't afford to pay".

Obama as much as admits what I just said:

These challenges are not all of government's making.

But despite the fact that he pays lip service to the actual truth of the matter, he apparently thinks it IS the government's job to make it all better:

But the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush.

It's clear from this speech (and, in fact, the entire premise of his campaign) that Barry thinks we just suck as a country, it’s the Republican’s fault, and he has no trouble finding examples of real or imagined sad sacks:

America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.

This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio, on the brink of retirement, finds herself one illness away from disaster after a lifetime of hard work.

This country is more generous than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment he's worked on for twenty years and watch it shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news.

We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep on our streets and families slide into poverty; that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes.

Yes Obama’s Thursday speech was replete with every commie lib cliche about "downright mean" America. This, in a nutshell, is the way the country's top Democrat sees this country: It sucks. We're just a bunch of struggling sad sacks in need of a savior and the Lord Obama is that savior in his pompous narrow little commie lib mind. In fact, this is the way every Democrat presidential nominee has seen America for the last 30 years: Yes this country sucks and every Democratic presidential nominee for better than three decades has been more than happy to tell you how much it sucks.

Jimmy Carter in 1976:

When deprivation results from a confused and bewildering welfare system, they never do without food or clothing or a place to sleep. When the public schools are inferior or torn by strife, their children go to exclusive private schools. And when the bureaucracy is bloated and confused, the powerful always manage to discover and occupy niches of special influence and privilege.

Walter Mondale in 1984:

First, there was Mr. Reagan's tax program. What happened was, he gave each of his rich friends enough tax relief to buy a Rolls Royce - and then he asked your family to pay for the hub caps. Then they looked the other way at the rip-offs, soaring utility bills, phone bills, medical bills. Then they crimped our future. They let us be routed in international competition, and now the help-wanted ads are full of listings for executives, and for dishwashers - but not much in between. Then they socked it to workers. They encouraged executives to vote themselves huge bonuses - while using King Kong tactics to make workers take Hong Kong wages.

Michael Dukakis in 1988:

It's time to wake up to the new challenges that face the American family. Time to see that young families in this country are never again forced to choose between the jobs they need and the children they love; time to be sure that parents are never again told that no matter how long they work or how hard their child tries, a college education is a right they can't afford.

Slick Willie in 1992:

Tonight 10 million of our fellow Americans are out of work, tens of millions more work harder for lower pay. The incumbent President says that unemployment always goes up a little before a recovery begins, but unemployment only has to go up by one more person before a real recovery can begin. (Applause) And Mr. President, you are that man.

In short, for literally decades now the Democrats recurring theme in all of their campaigns is “this country sucks, it’s the Republican’s fault, and we’ll make it all better for you if you elect us.”

Have they really made it better for anyone? Time for a little reality check here.

Jimmy Carter was arguably the worst president of the 20th Century. Many people today weren’t old enough to remember the double-digit unemployment and mortgage interest rates that characterized his one and only term. Those of us who were, remember gas going from the mid-fifty cent range to well over $1 a gallon in a matter of months. Yeah, he really made things better. So good in fact that the people threw him out on his ass in 1980.

Walter Mondale? It’s really kind of hard to get people to believe that life sucks when they’ve just been given huge tax cuts and unemployment and interest rates are plummeting because Ronald Reagan’s policies have turned the country’s prospects around on a dime. In case you were too young or happened to forget what happened just after Reagan’s rout of Mondale in 1984, revenues to the treasury soared after Reagan’s tax cuts (as they have done every time huge tax increases have been implemented although Democrats are loathe to admit this).

Michael Dukakis? Well what can you say about the dork in a tank? Economic conditions only got better throughout the 80s. We were on the verge of winning the Cold War thanks to Reagan’s get- tough stance with the Soviet Union that scared the crap out of the Democrats. (You’ll remember most of them wanted to unilaterally disarm to curry favor with Soviets under the belief that if we we "nice" to them, they'd be "nice" to us.)

Slick Willie? Things still weren’t bad when this shyster came onto the scene in 1991. The main problem with the economy back then was the minor downturn caused by George HW’s refusal to understand the basic economic premise he ran on: Don’t raise taxes because tax increases are always – without exception – a drag on the economy. Thanks to his reneging on his “read my lips no new taxes pledge and the candidacy of the hand grenade with a bad haircut (H. Ross Perot) we got eight years of the one of the most corrupt political syndicates in the history of our nation.

Now The Messiah has come along promising change that is really just more of the same tired BS the libs have been pushing for the last 30+ years.

Let’s remember what Democrat “change” has gotten us over the last 70 years or so:

1. A 40+ trillion un-funded liability in a ponzi scheme disguised as a retirement plan that really was never intended to be a retirement plan in the first place. Ah, yes “Social Security” where they promise me that they’ll pay me $2100 a month 20 years from now but where is that money coming from? It’s going to come from the hard work of my children and grandchildren and at the expense of their prosperity because the “Social Security trust fund” is nothing more than a bunch of general fund IOUs that has been unsustainable for decades now.

2. Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” another multi-trillion dollar un-funded liability we have foisted upon our children and grandchildren with legendary inefficiency and 30% fraud whose future cost was under-projected by hundreds of billions of dollars.

3. Seventy percent dependence on imported oil thanks to Obama, his buddy Joe Biden, and the rest of the Democrats steadfastly refusing to allow us to keep up with our demands for energy over the last 30 years.

4. Huge reductions in military spending and the accompanying reductions in troop levels with every Democrat administration that have left Republican administrations scrambling to re-build, this one with the major disadvantage of having to fight a war on terror simultaneously with the rebuilding effort.

Such is the history of this country over the last 40 years: A Democrat president and congress screw up nearly everything they touch and a Republican president is left to clean up the mess as best as they can. It's getting to the point now where these messes are getting more and more difficult to clean up.

In light of these vast Democrat failures, what is Obama promising? More of the same commie lib mess to power of ten. Nearly a trillion dollars in new social spending; disincentives to achieving energy independence in the form of a “windfall profits” tax on an industry with one of the highest overhead costs and the lowest profit margins; and a promise to slash military spending. “Change we can believe in” or more of the same tired crap the Democrats have been peddling for the last 30 years? I think the answer is clear.