{"id":1490,"date":"2010-06-10T18:24:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T01:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2010-06-10T18:24:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T01:24:29","slug":"thank-you-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1490","title":{"rendered":"Thank You, President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the ink has dried on Tuesdays returns, and while there is still much to be reviewed, analyzed, and debated, there is apparently one overarching theme that is emerging &#8211; here in Montana as well as around the country:  Americans, in general, and Republicans, more specifically, owe this president a huge debt of gratitude.<\/p>\n<p>Yep.  You read that right.  Thank you very much, Barack Obama &#8211; we couldn&#8217;t have done it without you!<\/p>\n<p>I received this message today and it pretty well spells out the silver lining:<\/p>\n<p>1.  It was just two years ago he destroyed the Clinton Political Machine &#8211; driving a stake thru the heart of Hillary&#8217;s presidential aspirations &#8211; something that no Republican was ever able to do. (Remember when a Hillary presidency scared the daylights out of you?)<\/p>\n<p>2.  He killed off the Kennedy Dynasty \u00e2\u20ac\u201c no more Kennedy&#8217;s trolling Washington looking for booze and women wanting rides home. American women and Freedom are safer than they&#8217;ve been in years!<\/p>\n<p>3.  He is destroying the Democratic Party before our eyes:<br \/>\nDennis Moore had never lost a race &#8211; quit<br \/>\nEvan Bayh had never lost a race &#8211; quit<br \/>\nByron Dorgan had never lost a race &#8211; quit<br \/>\nHarry Reid &#8211; soon to be GONE<br \/>\nThese are just a handful of the Democrats whose political careers Obama has destroyed! By the end of 2010 dozens more will be gone.<\/p>\n<p>In December of 2008 the Democrats were on the rise. In the last two election cycles they had picked up 14 senate seats and 52 house seats. The press was touting the death of the Conservative Movement and the Republican Party.  In just one year, Obama put a stop to all of this and will probably give the house and possibly the senate back to the Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>He has completely exposed liberals and progressives for what they are.<\/p>\n<p>He has brought more Americans back to conservatism than anyone since Reagan.  In one year he has rejuvenated the Conservative movement and brought out to the streets millions of Freedom Loving Americans.  Name me one other time in your life that you saw your friends and neighbors this interested in taking back America!<\/p>\n<p>His amazing leadership has sparked the greatest period of sales of firearms and ammunition this country has seen. Law abiding citizens have rallied and have provided a &#8220;stimulus&#8221; to the sporting goods field while other industries have failed, faded, or moved off-shore.<\/p>\n<p>In all honesty one year ago I was more afraid than I have been in my life.  Not of the economy but of the direction our country was going. I thought Americans had forgotten what this country was all about. My neighbors, friends and strangers proved to me that my lack of confidence of the Greatness and Wisdom of the American people was flat wrong.<\/p>\n<p>When the American People wake up no smooth talking teleprompter reader can fool them! Barack Obama woke up these Great Americans!<\/p>\n<p>Here in Montana, almost twice as many Republicans voted in the primary as Democrats.  We haven&#8217;t seen that in about a month of Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>Again I want to say Thank You Barack Obama!  This is exactly the kind of hope and change we desperately needed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bg0125j20100125055824.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bg0125j20100125055824.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bg0125j20100125055824\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1491\" srcset=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bg0125j20100125055824.jpg 462w, http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bg0125j20100125055824-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>H\/T to my buddy BH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the ink has dried on Tuesdays returns, and while there is still much to be reviewed, analyzed, and debated, there is apparently one overarching theme that is emerging &#8211; here in Montana as well as around the country: Americans, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1490\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xq4i-o2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1493,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}