Yes, President Clinton, It IS The Same Old Debate!

Check out this article:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/01/8088894-bill-clinton-obama-faces-same-old-debate-about-governments-role

Yes President Clinton, Obama is facing the same old debate you did. When government grows a lot, resistance from conservative citizens increases and we get more vocal. But, contained in your sentiment, is a lament for some made-up 'good old days' that never existed. There has never been a time when government had more control/freedom to do whatever it wanted and had so little trouble doing it. If Clinton really wants to go back to some nostalgic 'good old days' we'd be going back to a time when the government had FAR less control, not more. This fake nostalgia for a time that never existed is nonsense and savvy citizens aren't falling for it. Most of us know in our hearts this is true but too many of us have a difficult time putting it to words. We just have a sense that it's nonsense.

This debate is as old as the constitution. In fact, this conservative resistance is as old as the Declaration of Independence so maybe the more liberal folks among us should read it again. In those days most of those who'd pass for liberals among the founders would be called conservative today. Even the most liberal of our founders feared the federal government becoming too controlling. That's the primary reason they decided to add the Bill of Rights to the constitution's protections for the country's citizens.

What Clinton and Obama won't tell you (perhaps they don't even understand the history of it!) is that the founders agreed much more with today's conservatives than with the likes of Clinton and Obama. So we conservatives think we're in pretty good company politically. President Clinton's fake nostalgia for a time that never existed and darn sure was never intended by the founders is a lame exercise in trying to get Americans to likewise yearn for a more liberal environment.

Such progressives as Clinton and Obama are NOT your friends, my fellow citizens. They want to be your nanny. To do that, they need you to turn over control of your life and livelihood to them. And if you won't give it to them willingly (via your elected representatives), they'll TAKE IT FROM YOU via the EPA, Education Department, Health and Human 'Services', and others that report ONLY to the president. Our FOUNDERS WOULD BE HORRIFIED at this power-grab by progressives! They would certainly recognize that we're trading the freedom for which they were willing to give their lives for this progressive nanny state.

Question 1: Who's really trying to run your lives, conservatives (bent on restoring freedom) or liberals, progressives in particular (bent on getting as much control over your lives as possible so they can take care of you)?

Question 2: Why is it that you, my fellow citizens, never, ever hear a progressive say he/she is fighting for your freedom?

PRESIDENT CLINTON, WE'RE NOT BUYING YOUR NONSENSE, SIR!!!

P.S. (to Clinton and Obama): you'd do well to re-read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and then bone up on our country's political history. Your beliefs aren't the ones being repeatedly assaulted since our founding. It's ours!