A letter from the Aspen Times (that they have subsequently removed)

Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation

Gary Hubbell
Aspen Times Weekly

Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America
in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America's
future. He is the best thing ever.

Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval
ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack
Obama as the source of America's resurrection. Barack Obama has
plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have
previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have
been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts
and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on
the national economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and
looks to remain that way for most of a decade; legacy
entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable
levels, and there is a seething anger in the populace.

That's why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America.

Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has
infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years. Just
as Hitler is the face of fascism, Obama will go down in history as
the face of unchecked liberalism. The cancer metastasized to
the point where it could no longer be ignored.

Average Americans who have quietly gone about their lives,
earning a paycheck, contributing to their favorite
charities, going to high school football games on Friday
night, spending their weekends at the beach or on hunting
trips — they've gotten off the fence. They've woken up.
There is a level of political activism in this country that we
haven't seen since the American Revolution, and Barack Obama has
been the catalyst that has sparked a restructuring of the
American political and social consciousness.

Think of the crap we've slowly learned to tolerate over the
past 50 years as liberalism sought to re-structure the
America that was the symbol of freedom and liberty to all
the people of the world. Immigration laws were ignored on
the basis of compassion. Welfare policies encouraged
irresponsibility, the fracturing of families, and a cycle of
generations of dependency. Debt was regarded as a tonic to lubricate
the economy. Our children left school having been taught that
they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of
them cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and
literacy. Legislators decided that people could not be
trusted to defend their own homes, and stripped citizens of
their rights to own firearms. Productive members of society
have been penalized with a heavy burden of taxes in order
to support legions of do-nothings who loll around, reveling
in their addictions, obesity, indolence, ignorance and
“disabilities.” Criminals have been arrested and re-arrested,
coddled and set free to pillage the citizenry yet again. Lawyers
routinely extort fortunes from doctors, contractors and business
people with dubious torts.

We slowly learned to tolerate these outrages, shaking our
heads in disbelief, and we went on with our lives.

But Barack Obama has ripped the lid off a seething cauldron
of dissatisfaction and unrest.

In the time of Barack Obama, Black Panther members stand
outside polling places in black commando uniforms, slapping
truncheons into their palms. ACORN — a taxpayer-supported
organization — is given a role in taking the census, even
after its members were caught on tape offering advice to
set up child prostitution rings. A former Communist is given a
paid government position in the White House as an advisor to the
president. Auto companies are taken over by the government, and
the auto workers' union — whose contracts are completely
insupportable in any economic sense — is rewarded with a
stake in the company. Government bails out Wall Street
investment bankers and insurance companies, who pay their
executives outrageous bonuses as thanks for the public
support. Terrorists are read their Miranda rights and given
free lawyers. And, despite overwhelming public disapproval,
Barack Obama has pushed forward with a health care plan that would
re-structure one-sixth of the American economy.

I don't know about you, but the other day I was at the
courthouse doing some business, and I stepped into the
court clerk's office and changed my voter affiliation from
“Independent” to “Republican.” I am under no illusion that
the Republican party is perfect, but at least they're
starting to awaken to the fact that we cannot sustain massive levels
of debt; we cannot afford to hand out billions of dollars in
corporate subsidies; we have to somehow trim our massive
entitlement programs; we can no longer be the world's
policeman and dole out billions in aid to countries whose
citizens seek to harm us.

Literally millions of Americans have had enough. They're
organizing, they're studying the Constitution and the Federalist
Papers, they're reading history and case law, they're showing up
at rallies and meetings, and a slew of conservative
candidates are throwing their hats into the ring. Is there
a revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that there is a
keen awareness that our priorities and sensibilities must
be radically re-structured. Will it be a violent
revolution? No. It will be done through the interpretation
of the original document that has guided us for 220 years — the
Constitution. Just as the pendulum swung to embrace political
correctness and liberalism, there will be a backlash, a complete
repudiation of a hundred years of nonsense. A hundred years
from now, history will perceive the year 2010 as the time
when America got back on the right track. And for that, we
can thank Barack Hussein Obama.

Gary Hubbell is a hunter, rancher, and former hunting and
fly-fishing guide. Gary works as a Colorado ranch real
estate broker. He can be reached through his
website,aspenranchrealestate.com.