THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XIII, Issue # 143, June 1, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
AMERICA AT ITS PINNACLE
By Christopher G. Adamo
AMERICA'S DECLINE OVER THE PAST HALF CENTURY: PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, HIS LIBERAL LEFTIST
ADMINISTRATION, & THE CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRATIC PARTY AS REFLECTIONS OF THE OCHESTRATED DECLINE OF THE
THE U.S.A. -- MODERN AMERICAN SOCIETY AS A LESSER PEOPLE, WITH LOWER EXPECTATIONS FOR THEIR FUTURE -- HOW
ELSE COULD ONE ACCOUNT FOR THE FACT THAT WE AMERICANS HAVE DISGRACED OURSELVES & OUR HERITAGE BY
ELEVATING A MAN LIKE OBAMA TO OUR NATION'S HIGHEST OFFICE, BASED ON HIS EXCESS OF ABSURD PROMISES &
EMPTY PLATITUDES?
FULL STORY:
Last Wednesday marked the fiftieth anniversary of a monumental crossroads in America’s history; a moment in which
the nation, in the face of a seemingly invincible enemy, collected its resolve to remain a world leader that would be
subservient to no one. The “mainstream” media, so saturated in its anti-American mindset, felt little compulsion to even
mention the anniversary of this event. A resolution no less significant to the course of the nation than was the Monroe
Doctrine in the early Nineteenth Century, apparently matters little to the Liberal mouthpieces who would far prefer to
demagogue imagined Republican attacks against Medicare.
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy, addressing a joint session of Congress, issued this stunning challenge:
“I believe that this nation should commit itself, to
achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of
landing a man on the moon and returning him
safely to the earth. No single project in this
period will be more impressive to mankind, or
more important for the long range exploration of
space; and none would be so difficult or
expensive to accomplish.”
Amidst the brief and deceptive calm that ensued between American involvement in Korea and Vietnam, it might have
seemed reasonable to fixate on the nation’s domestic concerns. But Kennedy was well aware of the burgeoning threat of
an aggressive Soviet Union obsessed with world conquest and the forcible conversion of humanity to its Marxist
ideology. In the tumultuous month preceding his address to the Congress, America had been subjected to the double
humiliation of the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the dramatic news that the Soviets had successfully sent a human passenger
into space and recovered him safely after a complete orbit of the earth.
America desperately needed this boost of both its technological capability and its world standing. Believing in the
greatness of the United States of America, Kennedy gambled that public commitment to such an undertaking would
bring the talents and resources of the entire nation into service of his goal, and having done so, could indeed succeed in
making it reality. The effort would ultimately be a defining battle in the Cold War, with no less than the very survival of
America at stake.
Eight years and two months later, standing on the moon’s surface and speaking to then President Richard M. Nixon via
Oval Office telephone, Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong talked of the mission’s significance to “men of peace of all
nations, and with interest and curiosity, and with a vision for the future.” Not mentioned by Armstrong was that this
event spelled the beginning of the end of Soviet technological dominance on the world stage. And, while it took nearly
another two decades, and the combined knock out punch of President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher to bring the Soviets down for the count, that day in July of 1969 proved America had risen to
Kennedy’s challenge and would not accept technological conquest.
But, even then, as the country rejoiced in perhaps its finest moment, ‘60’s radicals were working hard as foot soldiers for
the Soviet propaganda machine, their goal being to undermine the accomplishment in the eyes of the American people
and the world. Citing the $24 billion cost of the moon mission, they incessantly denigrated it as an affront to their
utopian visions of American socialism, knowing full well that their actions would do the utmost to salvage the Soviet
reputation, after its efforts to beat the United States to the lunar surface had ended in catastrophe.
This treachery has since been thoroughly adopted by the modern Democratic Party, into which those Leftists eventually
migrated. That such detestable betrayal of this nation has only become more flagrant was made plain by the manner in
which prominent members of the American Left, both in the media and on Capitol Hill, derided and demeaned the landing
of President George W. Bush on the Aircraft Carrier Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, in the midst of the War on Terror.
Rather than trumpet the event as a bold display of American courage and resolve, which would certainly have boosted
this nation’s morale, while instilling fear into its enemies, those on the Left did their utmost to undermine and trivialize it,
thus minimizing its positive impact on this nation, as well as any damage to the morale of Islamists with whom America
was waging war.
Yet, with the ascension of such people to the highest levels of government, the situation has further deteriorated still. In
pathetic contrast to Kennedy’s historic speech and the national movement it generated a half-century ago, on February
1, 2010, America heard only platitudes and excuses from Barack Hussein Obama, clearly a lesser man, as he announced
his decision to cancel America’s planned return to the moon later in this decade. Claiming that the current program was
“over budget, behind schedule, and lacking in innovation” (as if cost, schedule, or innovation were ever precepts of the
statist or socialist agenda of Liberal Democrats), he suggested that some other celestial target, such as an asteroid, might
represent a more worthwhile venture.
Worse than being merely a bad joke, he merely “kicked the can down the road,” regarding any realistic national
undertaking with quantifiable results, knowing full well that few would ever remember his words and none would expect
any follow through. Thus he was left free to thoroughly pervert and politicize NASA and exploit it as just another
bureaucratic monstrosity of such irrelevance that it could subsequently be redirected towards the absurd and pathetic
end of “Muslim outreach.”
Ultimately however, Obama could never have succeeded in perpetrating this travesty on his own. Sadly, he is but a
reflection of America’s orchestrated decline. It is almost inconceivable that a nation which rose to the occasion and
accomplished the impossible a half-century ago could so rapidly be reduced to what it is today, a lesser people, with
lower expectations for their future. Otherwise, they would never have so disgraced themselves and their heritage by
elevating such a man to the nation’s highest office, based on his excess of absurd promises and empty platitudes.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Outer Space: Space Projects & Space Travel
American Government & the U.S. Presidency:
Presidential Politics & National Leadership
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
Christopher G. Adamo is a resident of southeastern Wyoming. He has been involved in politics at the local and state
level for many years. His contact information and article archives can be found at www.chrisadamo.com
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