Obama: All this darned media is putting “pressure” on our democracy

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I wrote on why Obama would be saying this now — well, at least one possible reason.

Is Obama’s Possible Affair Driving This Attack on Alternative Media?

This would explain him ending this part with “some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction.” What are your suggestions. I think birthirism is dead? Why not “Bakerism.”?

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papa_giorgio on May 9, 2010 at 9:17 PM

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(Sources: A Letter To My Son’s [then] 5th-Grade Teacher; An Important Distinction: Democracy versus Republic)

Our Founders had an opportunity to establish a democracy in America but chose not to. In fact, they made very clear that we were not – and never to become – a democracy:

* James Madison (fourth President, co-author of the Federalist Papers and the “father” of the Constitution) — “Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general; been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
* John Adams (American political philosopher, first vice President and second President) – “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
* Benjamin Rush (signer of the Declaration) — “A simple democracy… is one of the greatest of evils.”
* Fisher Ames (American political thinker and leader of the federalists [he entered Harvard at twelve and graduated by sixteen], author of the House language for the First Amendment) –“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will provide an eruption and carry desolation in their way.´ / “The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness [excessive license] which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.”
* Governor Morris (signer and penman of the Constitution) — “We have seen the tumult of democracy terminate… as [it has] everywhere terminated, in despotism…. Democracy! Savage and wild. Thou who wouldst bring down the virtuous and wise to thy level of folly and guilt.”
* John Quincy Adams (sixth President, son of John Adams [see above]) — “The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.”
* Noah Webster (American educator and journalist as well as publishing the first dictionary) — “In democracy… there are commonly tumults and disorders….. therefore a pure democracy is generally a very bad government. It is often the most tyrannical government on earth.”
* John Witherspoon (signer of the Declaration of Independence) — “Pure democracy cannot subsist long nor be carried far into the departments of state — it is very subject to caprice and the madness of popular rage.”
* Zephaniah Swift (author of America’s first legal text) — “It may generally be remarked that the more a government [or state] resembles a pure democracy the more they abound with disorder and confusion.”

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papa_giorgio on May 9, 2010 at 11:26 PM