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Back in 2008, some of our conservative friends made dire predictions regarding what would become of our fair land should Barack Obama be elected President, some of which can be found in the ever-reliable Lit archives.
Among those doing the predicting was Focus on the Family, which produced a very long, and in retrospect very hilarious, dystopian "letter from the future" (October 2012, as it turns out), in which the U.S. has been rendered unrecognizable by the Obama administration. The wingnuts who are predicting more doom and gloom should Obama win again might want to keep this in mind, as an example of how silly you might look in the future.
This is way too long to c&p, but here are a few of the highlights. The letter mentions 34 specific terrible outcomes from having elected Obama, none of which have come to pass, needless to say.
October 22, 2012
Dear friends,
I can hardly sing “The Star Spangled Banner” any more. When I hear the words,
O say, does that star spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
I get tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat. Now in October of 2012, after seeing what has happened in the last four years, I don’t think I can still answer, “Yes,” to that question. We are not “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” Many of our freedoms have been taken away by a liberal Supreme Court and a Democratic majority in both the House and the Senate, and hardly any brave citizen dares to resist the new government policies any more.
The 2008 election was closer than anybody expected, but Barack Obama still won. Many Christians voted for Obama – younger evangelicals actually provided him with the needed margin to defeat John McCain – but they didn’t think he would really follow through on the far Left policies that had marked his career. They were wrong.
.
.
.
“The land of the free”? The Boy Scouts no longer exist as an organization.
There are no more Roman Catholic or evangelical Protestant adoption agencies in the United States.
Church buildings are now considered a “public accommodation” by the Supreme Court, and churches have no freedom to refuse to allow their buildings to be used for wedding ceremonies for homosexual couples.
...homosexuals are now given special bonuses for enlisting in military service...
Public school teachers are no longer free to lead students in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States.
... pornographic magazines are openly displayed in gas stations, grocery stores and on newsstands...
It is illegal for private citizens to own guns for self defense in eight states...
A Taliban-like oppression has taken over in Iraq, and hundreds of thousands of “American sympathizers” have been labeled as traitors, imprisoned, tortured, and killed. The number put to death may soon reach the millions.
The first test came from Russia. In early 2009, they followed the pattern they had begun in Georgia in 2008 and sent troops to occupy and re-take several Eastern European countries, starting with the Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
In mid-2010, Iran launched a nuclear bomb that exploded in the middle of Tel Aviv, destroying much of that city.
Since 2009, terrorist bombs have exploded in two large and two small U.S. cities, killing hundreds, and the entire country is fearful, for no place seems safe.
The new Congress under President Obama passed a nationalized “single provider” health care system, in which the U.S. government is the provider of all health care in the United States, following the pattern of nationalized medicine in the United Kingdom and Canada.
Tax rates have gone up on personal income, dividends, capital gains,
corporations, and inheritance transfers. The amount of income subject to Social Security tax has nearly doubled.
...President Obama for four years has refused to allow additional drilling for oil in the United States or offshore. Gas costs more than $7 per gallon...
By the summer of 2009, the five-member FCC was controlled by Democratic appointees – including a chairman appointed by President Obama. The “Fairness Doctrine” became a topic of FCC consideration following pressure from
Democratic congressional leaders who initially did not have sufficient votes to pass the measure. The FCC quickly implemented the “Fairness Doctrine,” which requires that radio stations provide “equal time” for alternative views on political or policy issues. (Some of you will remember the Fairness Doctrine was a particularly confident prediction of several of our leading wingnuts, but they haven't really mentioned it in a while for some reason.)
The Justice Department soon began to file criminal and civil charges against nearly every Bush administration official who had any involvement with the Iraq war.
(Don't I wish.)
Here's the whole thing: http://www.wnd.com/files/Focusletter.pdf
Among those doing the predicting was Focus on the Family, which produced a very long, and in retrospect very hilarious, dystopian "letter from the future" (October 2012, as it turns out), in which the U.S. has been rendered unrecognizable by the Obama administration. The wingnuts who are predicting more doom and gloom should Obama win again might want to keep this in mind, as an example of how silly you might look in the future.
This is way too long to c&p, but here are a few of the highlights. The letter mentions 34 specific terrible outcomes from having elected Obama, none of which have come to pass, needless to say.
October 22, 2012
Dear friends,
I can hardly sing “The Star Spangled Banner” any more. When I hear the words,
O say, does that star spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
I get tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat. Now in October of 2012, after seeing what has happened in the last four years, I don’t think I can still answer, “Yes,” to that question. We are not “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” Many of our freedoms have been taken away by a liberal Supreme Court and a Democratic majority in both the House and the Senate, and hardly any brave citizen dares to resist the new government policies any more.
The 2008 election was closer than anybody expected, but Barack Obama still won. Many Christians voted for Obama – younger evangelicals actually provided him with the needed margin to defeat John McCain – but they didn’t think he would really follow through on the far Left policies that had marked his career. They were wrong.
.
.
.
“The land of the free”? The Boy Scouts no longer exist as an organization.
There are no more Roman Catholic or evangelical Protestant adoption agencies in the United States.
Church buildings are now considered a “public accommodation” by the Supreme Court, and churches have no freedom to refuse to allow their buildings to be used for wedding ceremonies for homosexual couples.
...homosexuals are now given special bonuses for enlisting in military service...
Public school teachers are no longer free to lead students in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States.
... pornographic magazines are openly displayed in gas stations, grocery stores and on newsstands...
It is illegal for private citizens to own guns for self defense in eight states...
A Taliban-like oppression has taken over in Iraq, and hundreds of thousands of “American sympathizers” have been labeled as traitors, imprisoned, tortured, and killed. The number put to death may soon reach the millions.
The first test came from Russia. In early 2009, they followed the pattern they had begun in Georgia in 2008 and sent troops to occupy and re-take several Eastern European countries, starting with the Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
In mid-2010, Iran launched a nuclear bomb that exploded in the middle of Tel Aviv, destroying much of that city.
Since 2009, terrorist bombs have exploded in two large and two small U.S. cities, killing hundreds, and the entire country is fearful, for no place seems safe.
The new Congress under President Obama passed a nationalized “single provider” health care system, in which the U.S. government is the provider of all health care in the United States, following the pattern of nationalized medicine in the United Kingdom and Canada.
Tax rates have gone up on personal income, dividends, capital gains,
corporations, and inheritance transfers. The amount of income subject to Social Security tax has nearly doubled.
...President Obama for four years has refused to allow additional drilling for oil in the United States or offshore. Gas costs more than $7 per gallon...
By the summer of 2009, the five-member FCC was controlled by Democratic appointees – including a chairman appointed by President Obama. The “Fairness Doctrine” became a topic of FCC consideration following pressure from
Democratic congressional leaders who initially did not have sufficient votes to pass the measure. The FCC quickly implemented the “Fairness Doctrine,” which requires that radio stations provide “equal time” for alternative views on political or policy issues. (Some of you will remember the Fairness Doctrine was a particularly confident prediction of several of our leading wingnuts, but they haven't really mentioned it in a while for some reason.)
The Justice Department soon began to file criminal and civil charges against nearly every Bush administration official who had any involvement with the Iraq war.
(Don't I wish.)
Here's the whole thing: http://www.wnd.com/files/Focusletter.pdf
