A Time for Choosing, 2008

Here's Ronald Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" speech, from October 27, 1964:

Thing are serious, folks.

See also, "A Sobering Look Ahead to Barack Obama’s America":

By 2012 or 2016, the alteration of America’s fabric will be severe and profound as we will have socialism in our time. Even though political leftists abhor the word, socialism is entirely in keeping with their cherished preferences and initiatives. They salivate over the notion of omnipotent government and wish to regulate the citizenry in innumerable ways.