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Entry: Thinking About Obama Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/thinking_about_obama#29441 Post contents: Paul, I understand what you are saying and deeply sympathize with you. Americans do "deserve" the horrors of an Obama presidency, I agree. The problem is this: what will be left of the nation after an eight year Obama presidency? Will there even be a "traditional Right" that has not been impresioned for"thought crimes" capable or mounting a counter-offensive? You, above most, know full well what has been transpiring in Europe. Our own Henry Hotspur just authored a piece on Takimag about the horrors going on...and the institutional incapacity of folks like us to do very much about it. I guess that is what worries me about an eight year Obama "interlude." Let me quickly add, I am NOT a McCain supporter, and I do not intend to vote for him, either. Persons like us really have no place to go, unless it be Constitution Party (not on the ballot in state). We have a choice, to quote someone I dislike much, Woody Allen, "between utter defeat and utter destruction. I pray we choose wisely." In the 1830s and '40s, after the Revolution of 1830 and the ascent of Louis Philippe as the "roi citoyen," the French Legitimists retired to their country estates and took no part in the new "liberal monarchy," awaiting the "catastrophe" that would indeed come in 1870 (and the almost restoration of 1873). Looks to me that we must: (1) refuse both Obama and McCain, (2) work politically and practically, on local, maybe regional levels where possible, with very specific candidates (e.g., a Walter Jones), (3) continue full force the intellectual batles and the battles, more importantly, culturally and religiously, with the Hope that the situation will be altered or that opportunities for recovery will avail themselves. We still do havee the Virtue of Hope.... Sent at: 2008 12 02