Be vewy, vewy quiet. Michelle thinks I'm working!

From Mark Knoller’s twitter feed comes the fun fact that in 9 months Obama has played golf 24 times; it took Booooooosh! more than 2 years to reach that same total.  Some might be tempted to remark about him enjoying fun times while others enjoy funemployment, or that he putted while Afghanistan burned.  But the facts are that the President is faster in all things than his predecessor I.  I mean, consider that in a little less than 4 years he’ll double the amount that Boooooosh! added to the national debt.  Can’t we get a mulligan on that, or the last presidential election for that matter..?

I don’t personally begrudge the President a little relaxation, you know, the golf outings, date nights to NYC and Chicago, junkets to Europe etc; but there are those that do.  Can you believe that there are people who are so petty as to complain about the President playing a little golf?  Keith Olbermann could not be reached for comment…

“WHEN IN THE GENERATIONS  SUCCEEDING the one that pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to usher in the birth of the world’s only truly free nation, Liberty’s Progeny incrementally ceded their birthright to the government conceived and designed to serve a free people, and not be its servant, this generation is awakening to the terrible mistake that we, and our ancestors allowed to happen.  Charged with the terrible knowledge that comes with opened eyes, we now take up the long abdicated duty to rouse our fellow citizens and actively wrest the power and the liberties that have been progressively talked, cajoled, threatened, wheedled, and extorted from us, not only by those who ostensibly served us, but by their supporters and enablers who, by accident or design, saw fit to usurp and disdain such freedoms, that they might be withheld, and where impossible to withhold, might be condemned, until a corrosive contempt for these liberties, wrapped in velvet gloves, might so suffocate the circulation of them that this nation, conceived in liberty and the providence of a wise and benevolent creator, might indeed perish from the earth, plunging the rightful heirs of a proud and noble heritage in the the darkened waters of chaos, despair, and evil that surround them, a dank deluge that even today, other human beings actively seek to escape from in the inspiring embrace of this blessed and free country.

We, the awakened and aware, freely accept the charge that the architects of this republic passed on to us over two centuries before, in the hope that all who partook in the blessings made possible by nation they created would somberly undertake the duties of citizens, and so appropriately train themselves in virtue, and educate themselves in the workings of the precepts and ideals set forth in their foundational documents that they would possess enough wisdom to recognize that not all threats to our freedom would come from without our ranks, the knowledge to recognize that not every chain and shackle menacing us will immediately appear to be what it actually is, and the humilitynot to assume that the ingenuity and innovation that has been the hallmark of American success has been the product of man alone.

To this end, we hereby identify and reclaim our independence from the tools used to slowly enslave a free people and usurp the freedoms that we could not be persuaded to freely give up, or voluntarily suppress the free exercise of on our own…”

This is just the preamble of an amazing document I read over the weekend called, “The Reclamation of Independence”.  I saw linked to at a blog on POWIP’s blogroll, “The H2”.  I assure you that the entire document is just as inspiring, and puts forth, collected and  in neat order, many of the points that American conservatives and libertarians have been speaking about for many years.  Please take a moment to read the whole thing, and feel free to send it on in letter form to everyone you know, or post it on any blogs you may have access to; it is the authors intent that it go viral.  Just like many of the original liberty pamphlets published in the days leading up to the American revolution, this document needs to be distributed, read, and talked about far and wide…

What do you think?