I’m going to make a leap of optimism, but with a warning.

For perspective, we have the following to look back to:

1. The little known Woodrow Wilson Depression of 1920-21.
2. The Great Depression that FDR’s New Deal did nothing to abate, and in fact maintained an average 17% unemployment rate from 1933 through 1940.
3. There was the stag-flation of the 1970’s under Jimmy Carter, with double digit inflation, double digit interest rates and prolonged high unemployment.
4. Now after nearly three years of Obamanomics and “Fundamental Transformation”, we have still a 9% unemployment rate, unprecedented deficits and mountains of new debt, and no light at the end of the spending, deficits or unemployment tunnel.

Each of these has one thing in common that I have made fairly obvious—the “stewardship”, if you will, of a Democrat and very liberal if not self-admittedly Progressive/Redistributionist and arguably Socialist/Marxist/Big Government and Anti-Capitalist President.

Democrats are quick to blame these recessions and depressions NOT on liberal Democrat, big government and anti-business policies, but on the reforms of Republicans who preceded them. FDR to this day is not held responsible for perpetuating the misery of millions for eight long years of Depression, but I heard complaints and calls to impeach George Bush in mid 2001 for supposedly causing a recession that actually started in April of 2000. I also don’t quite know how they get there from a Progressive Taft, or a “moderate” if not downright liberal Richard Nixon (who today would be called “RINO”), but facts and details mean less to Democrats than the letter someone chooses to put after their name. Taft and Nixon were Republicans, and therefore anything THEY did was wrong-headed and actually EVIL—even if these Democrats would have cheered a Democrat who did the exact same thing—and actually DO cheer, when championed by their messiah, Barack Obama.

Right here is where the shoe will pinch, and where I may alienate some of my fellow conservatives if they stop reading here. This is the warning I mentioned earlier. The unfortunate fact is that to an extent, Democrats are RIGHT when they blame periods of recession on Republican policies. Even worse, this is the inherent flaw in Capitalism that Karl Marx correctly diagnosed, and then INCORRECTLY treated. Democrats always blame Republicans when deregulation and tax cuts lead to periods of excess such as the “Roaring 20’s”, and then the S&L debacle in 1987, and the Internet and tech bubble of the late 1990’s, which Alan Greenspan called “Irrational Exuberance”.

Undeterred, liberals and Marxists alike, perpetually seek an unattainable Marxist or Socialist utopia, and they believe that achieving that utopian “Perfect” system justifies ANY means. Communist Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong refused to change course from his disastrous Great Leap Forward, in spite of resulting economic disruption and famine that killed tens of millions of Chinese. Today Barack Obama is indifferent to the failures of his own policies as he seeks to enact his American Jobs Act (yet another budget busting “Stimulus” by any other name, is just another failed “Stimulus”).

The point is that if we pretend Capitalism is perfect, then we play right into the hands of those who will be always seeking to establish utopia, and who plot to do so by painting Capitalism as a failed system.

When our new crop of conservatives comes into power and establishes a legal and regulatory and taxation and litigatory environment that fosters business growth and economic growth, and a new glut of federal, state, county and city revenues, we must be alert for those who would expand and initiate dramatic new spending programs rather than repairing aging, failing infrastructure and paying down debt. We must be equally vigilant of that time when people begin to say that the market will keep going up forever. When that happens, we need to become fearful and stand up to those who WILL call us naysayers of doom (and who HAVE!), and act accordingly. We must be vigilant for and act to stop the abuses of gamblers and speculators. We must be aware of where the houses of cards will be built on margin debt and multiple layers of leveraging and borrowing piled on more debt, as those with short memories will have forgotten the last time this happened. I’m willing to be convinced otherwise, but I personally would not protest just outlawing the practice of margin debt. We must keep an eye out for the next "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap (Sunbeam), and the next Enron accounting scandals, and the S&Ls and the speculative bubbles to come. And they will. We only deny history to deny that they will come, and we only deny it at our own peril, because waiting on the other side of the collapse and the recession that will inevitably follow, will be the next messiah of the left, blaming “failed” Republican policies of deregulation and tax cuts, professing to have and to be the cure to all that ails us, if we would just give them more power and more control, and if we would just let them raise our taxes yet again, and just pass this next, new “Stimulus”.

I think Barack Obama and his leftist cronies are incompetent enough, and the American people are determined enough that he will fail in his grand design to “Fundamentally Transform” the United States of America. But the next time they just might succeed.

I've been working on a storage project at home to store tubs for my wife's teacher stuff when it's not in her classroom.

I always like to have the radio on when I'm working like that, and my mind tends to wander at times.

It occurred to me that those who support Obamacare have a great deal of misplaced trust in the federal government, whether they are lifelong "Good Democrats" (whatever that is), or anyone who voted for Obama for racial reasons, or anyone who just bought into the Hopey-Changey con job, or the con job that Obama is trying to provide coverage for 47 million "uninsured" and/or to cut costs. Some of them are even full-on communists who probably actually do have Soviet hammer and sickle flags hanging in their garage as in the dude with green teeth who was probably an undercover agent for the FBI (I wonder if he was related to Michael Moore...).

They need only look at Canada, England, or any other of the countries that have tried government controlled healthcare, and see what a dismal failure healthcare systems become when run by a government.

If these people think things always work better when Americans do it, then why are Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid bankrupt?

If they think Democrats ideas are so much better than those of Republicans, then why are several Democrat states in this country nearly bankrupt?

Why is every city that has been historically run by Democrats, the poorest in the nation?

Why have both Republicans and Democrats chronically and historically underfunded our VA, and the Indian healthcare systems that are mandated by treaty?

Why are the government run healthcare systems in Massachusetts and Oregon such dismal failures? They both ration care, they have both far exceeded their estimated costs, and in Oregon they blatantly endorse euthanasia for seniors. They both do everything that Obama denies his plan will do.

Here's my real point, and let’s put all partisanship aside for just a moment, if that’s possible.

Even if those supporters of Obamacare believe that Obama and the Democrat controlled Congress can somehow create, implement and run this massive unprecedented in the world in scale and scope program better than they have run Cash for Clunkers or the Iraq or Afghanistan wars, what about when the pendulum inevitably swings back to where the Republicans are in control again? (Unless these folks believe that Obama is trying to use ACORN to cook the next census and to fix the 2010 and 2012 elections, and that the Democrats will now be permanently in control—and if they support that, then they are an enemy of our Constitution and an enemy of this Republic).

Do these people trust their very lives and the lives of their children and loved ones to the Republicans as much as they do the Democrats?

#2 BLAME

The Democrats in DC and the mainstream news media have convinced tens of millions that Bush failed policies and Republican deregulation were the cause of the economic meltdown that occurred during the 2008 campaign.

Here’s what I don’t get—if that were true, then why after six months has this Administration and this Congress done NOTHING to reverse “failed policies of the last eight years”?

Why after six months have they done NOTHING to re-regulate those supposed excessively de-regulated financial institutions?

Anyone who believes that they have done so, please name the legislation and provide the date that Obama signed it.

Instead it seems they are hell-bent on passing massive and sweeping carbon taxes that will literally choke the life out of the businesses and companies and taxpayers in this country in the middle of a deep recession when someone who really wanted re-election should be doing everything possible to stimulate the economy.

Instead it seems they are hell-bent on first spending our grandkids into bankruptcy on Democrat favorite pork projects in the name of “Stimulus”, and then destroying the best healthcare system in the world on the false promises that they are trying to cover those “uninsured”, and to cut costs.

I really would like someone to answer these for me. But any answer that contains “But Bush did…” I will shred, delete or otherwise ignore and dispose of. Obama was supposed to be Mr. Hope and Change, a new kind of politician, new transparency, new ethics, and Bush is no more.

Regardless of political affiliation, it seems to me that anyone has a learning problem who first elects a guy who promises to be different, and then defends his failures and broken promises and not really being any different—just MUCH more of the same, by pointing at what the last guy did.

I want a divorce from this President, this Congress, this Governor, this legislature, and this city council…

I was out for a walk last night after working on my house until it was too late to make loud noises outside.

My cellphone can play MP3 music files with headphones, and I have a 2 Gigabyte memory card in my phone loaded with MP3s that I just grabbed at random one night to put some music on my phone.

As I walked, a song started that I haven’t heard in quite some time. It’s the Georgia Satellites, All Over But the Cryin’.

A little background, but where this leads is that this song now speaks to me about those things many of us know about our President that many millions still either like about him, or don’t know about, or willfully deny…

I think every man must have at least one woman in his past who has done him wrong. Mine was 20 years ago, and I now am grateful to her for the lessons I learned both about women, and about myself.

When I first sensed that something was going on, I confronted her and she denied it, but my instincts told me different. I think many women think they have a monopoly on intuition, but they are wrong. Men have it too, but we call it instincts or “gut”, as in “What does your gut tell you?” Most men who don’t think they have it simply don’t know how to listen to it. We’re told almost from birth “Big boys don’t cry!” so we learn to shut off our feelings, which are the fountain from which intuition flows.

In the end I caught her with him and found that she had been lying to both of us, vindicating me and what my “gut” had been telling me in some ways that had even surprised me. He was an abusive alcoholic who believed he had won some kind of prize in her, and so I knew they deserved each other (please don’t make me qualify everything—I would never wish abuse, even on her).

It was finally over and as I was getting on with my life and beginning to heal, one day on the radio I heard this song that had just been released. At the time it was almost as if it had been written for me and where I was in my life.

When I heard it last night, it spoke to me this time about Obama and his lies, and what he’s trying to do to our beloved country.

It just doesn’t take intuition to figure it out, though many tens of millions seem to be completely blind to what he’s trying to do. The more I look at the words, the more parallels I see. So I decided to share this here.

Here it is, Georgia Satellites, All Over But the Cryin’:

(Sample it here.)

There's a fool born every minute babe

but this time it isn't me

it doesn't take 20/20

to see what I can see

don't wanna hear nothin bout nothin

don't wanna hear how you are sincere

cause your actions speak louder

than the words you whisper in my ear

don't tell me nothins going on

I can feel it down in my bones

you can say that everything's alright

but its me going for that walk alone

I don't want to hear your promises

I know the truth and you're lying

it's all over, all over, over but the crying

Go on and talk all you want baby

just gonna sit right over here and listen

just go ahead little girl

you've got my undivided attention

oh, but I've been listening

to what you tell me with your eyes

those blue, blue windows

just can't disguise

don't tell me nothins going on

I can feel it down in my bones

You can say that everything's alright

but it's me going for that walk alone

I don't want to hear your promises

I know the truth and you're lying

It's all over, all over but the cryin

You can laugh about it later

You can tell yourself it served me right

You've painted a picture I can't forget

You've laid it out in black and white

Don't tell me nothins going on

I can feel it down in my bones

You can say that everything's alright

but it's me going for that walk alone

I don't want to hear your cheap promises

I know the truth and you're lying

It's all over, all over

Over but the cryin

Over but the cryin

Over but the cryin

Over but the cryin

See the update posted here:

http://dolfinwriter.blogtownhall.com/2007/06/22/rebuttal_to_be_all_you_can_be_without_the_army.thtml

When I got home from work Friday night (July 17), and turned on the news, I saw that yet another “celebrity” had died and was being covered wall-to-wall with interview after interview of people who knew him.

Walter Cronkite

My sympathies are with his family, and I pray that God sustain them during this time of loss.

That said, I think Walter Cronkite was a traitor to the country. His lies about Vietnam, and particularly the Tet Offensive are possibly singularly responsible for the destruction of American will to win the fight, and therefore for our “losing” the war. I maintain that we didn’t lose, but after being made to fight for years with one hand tied behind our back, we were forced by a cowardly Congress to withdraw from the battlefield just as the enemy was on the ropes.

But I’ve had this feeling for a while now with all of these “celebrities” who have passed away this year, that I’m waiting for someone to dub this “The year that America died” or something similar.

We’re a sick culture. We’re losing our WWII veterans at a rate of 1,000 a day or so, and I’ve seen at least two stories now of veterans who made it to the D-Day anniversary at Normandy and were gone within a day or two, and you never hear any of THEIR names in the news.

Anyone see where this is going?

There are things much bigger at stake than these Hollywood and TV nitwits who do not deserve the 27 hour a day coverage they are getting. The day Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died, I could not find mention anywhere in TV news coverage of the Cap and Trade American jobs for Chinese jobs bill that was being voted on in the House the next day. Not even Fox News took a break from its nonstop, and disgustingly looping coverage of Michael Jackson.

Sorry! I’m not one bit disturbed about one less pedophile in this world. Sadly, the self absorbing and shameless Joe Jackson is probably busily making more pedophiles with the help of Viagra. I’m not a bit sad that one of them has died, but I am disgusted that coverage of MJ's death pre-empted ANY TV coverage of one of two most significant pieces of legislation the House of Representatives has ever voted on, and especially the Democrat and Obama Administration shenanigans to get it passed.

It makes me wonder when the House does finally go to vote on the Obama-destroy-America’s-Healthcare bill, what celebrity will mysteriously die the day before to suck out all the oxygen of any substantive news coverage!

Those of us with our eyes open who saw Obama for what and who he is… those of us who LISTENED to his own words as he told us who he is time and time again are now watching as he takes over the auto industry that helped win WWII, and he takes over the financial sector that has been the envy of the world and the world’s monetary standard since the end of WWII, and is trying to tax any use of energy in the country ostensibly to fight phantom global warming, and now pushing arrogantly to take over and nationalize the healthcare industry on an empty promise that he will reduce costs and make it AFFORDABLE for all Americans (and for illegals).

Where have I heard that word AFFORDABLE before?

Oh yes, I remember now:

http://www.pbs.org/nbr/site/onair/transcripts/061130b/

I was talking to a coworker yesterday about the current sad state of the nation. I didn’t see it at the time, but in my thinking out loud answer to him, and my quiet time thoughts since then, I’m starting to think there is something big here…

The Republican party was nowhere to be found during the campaign when the allegations of Sarah Palin’s spending sprees started. If the party leadership had a shred of integrity, someone would have stood tall and told the press that the PARTY bought those clothes for Palin because she’s the only one on either ticket who’s not a multi-millionaire (more on this later), and she needed appropriate clothes for the campaign! DC and Congress has become a swimming pool for sharks—MILLIONAIRE sharks. Palin is not a wealthy person, and never has been. That has become a rarity in modern American politics.

Perhaps...

Later I heard some kind of interview where the Maverick gave what I consider to be an unbelievably lame answer regarding the possibility of Palin running for President in 2012. This is the man who thought Palin would be just fine in a McCain Presidency to be “just a heartbeat away from the Presidency” (to quote the left who has no problem with dunderhead Joe Biden being “just a heartbeat away from the Presidency”).

Even Dennis Prager whom I admire greatly, said sometime in March that he didn’t think that answer was “problematic”.

What?!?!?!?

Therefore the elite GOP establishment seems to have chosen to destroy what it is certain would be a huge pain in its neck, or at least to stand by gazing around and whistling as if unaware while the left continues its assault on her, exploiting the naïveté of Meghan McCain and the knucklehead Levi Johnston, and just sort of passively allow the left to destroy Palin.

And yet it is that very quality—among others—that have endeared Sarah Palin to the hearts of millions of voters.

So that’s the bad news; what’s the good news?

Tea Parties… Millions and millions of fed up, disgusted, Conservative Americans getting mad as hell who aren’t going to take it anymore… Rising numbers of Independents who now outnumber both the GOP and the DNC, due to folks defecting from both parties…

http://themoderatevoice.com/32764/pew-poll-independent-voter-identification-and-centrism-are-surging/

Could it be that a viable third party could rise from this growing group of Independents, the Tea Parties, and those remaining in both parties who are plain sick and tired and fed up?

The Democrats would rename themselves the Socialist Party.

The Republicans would rename themselves the Democratic Party.

The true Conservatives left over from any party would form a new Republican Party.

Even one of Obama’s Kool-Aid cheering section at the DailyKOS seems to be starting to get the inevitable hangover, and is reporting that Obama has apparently reserved the right to use enhanced interrogation techniques if he deems it necessary for national security!

The story at DailyKOS points to this passage from the Obama executive order on interrogation:

(i) to study and evaluate whether the interrogation practices and techniques in Army Field Manual 2 22.3, when employed by departments or agencies outside the military, provide an appropriate means of acquiring the intelligence necessary to protect the Nation, and, if warranted, to recommend any additional or different guidance for other departments or agencies...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/5/22/14027/8479

Isn’t this is the guy who STILL claims that he has banned “torture”? He continues to rail against his predecessor as recently as May 21st, and his Administration at last check was still talking of pursuing prosecution of the Bush Justice Department for violation of whatever law they can get some activist liberal judge to interpret has been broken.

Tidbits I found really interesting:

“I've been struggling desperately lately not to jump to the worst conclusions about where Obama is headed on interrogation and detention policies…”

(Like they never jumped to conclusions about what Bush was doing, right?)

“As difficult as it's becoming, I really want to give Obama the benefit of the doubt.”

(When did they ever give Bush the benefit of the doubt on anything?)

There are two most intolerant religions in the world, not just Islam.

I’m fascinated by how the left equates Christians and Conservatives, and by the caricatured view they have of Christians. They keep saying the things they do, based on this stereotype of Christians, and they really have no idea how silly they sound.

And ignorant.

And offensive.

Even people of my parents’ generation seem to have forgotten TV shows like Little House on the Prairie, and The Waltons. These shows portrayed people whose CHRISTIAN FAITH was the cornerstone of their lives. Were they wackos? But these shows were wildly popular in their day. What has changed in 30 years? We know the answer, but the left will never admit it.

What’s really disturbing is how they are able to justify rewriting history, falsifying Thomas Jefferson quotes, and just continue to perpetuate the out and out LIES about both him and Palin.

Sarah Palin said this in her church, and ignited a firestorm of controversy against her on the left.

"I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that,"

Palin told a church group that god wanted a pipeline in Alaska, and that’s absurd.

They call THAT extremism!

She said God wants people and companies to come together to build a pipeline, and that’s ridiculous.

This is no less so for left wing journalists than for transplanted curmudgeons who try to read what they want into Christian prayers, speeches, doctrine, etc.

And that is ALSO NOT extremism.

What an upside-down, inside-out, up-is-down, right-is-wrong, right-is-left-and-left-is-just-plain-crazy, mixed-up world we live in.

The Left HATES Sarah Palin. They hated her within ten minutes of hearing her name. Even as they said they knew nothing about her, they hated her. They don’t just think she’s wrong. They don’t think she’s just misguided. They HATE her.

This is extremism:

“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right, also for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending them out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan.”

—Gov. Sarah Palin at the Wasilla Assembly of God, 8 June 2008

But this is not:

“No, no, no. Not "God Bless America"; God Damn America!”

—Rev. Jeremiah Wright at the Trinity United Church of Christ, 13 April 2003

This is extremism:

“…but I can do my job there, in developing our natural resources, and doing things like getting the roads paved, and making sure our troopers have their cop cars and their uniforms, their guns, and making sure our public schools are funded. But really, all that stuff doesn't do any good if the people of Alaska's heart isn't right with God.”

—Gov. Sarah Palin

But this is not:

“He is one of the most important voices in the 20th and 21st Century, that’s what I think about him. ... When Louis Farrakhan speaks, it’s like E.F. Hutton speaks: All black America listens.”

—Rev. Jeremiah Wright

This is extremism:

         Sarah Palin With Flag Behind Her

But this is not:

Terrorist Bill Ayres Stomping on Flag

I said I wasn’t going to waste my time looking up the Sarah Palin quotes, but I did. The more I looked into it the angrier I became.

If Sarah Palin’s words are extremism, then it follows that these words are extremism, right?

“for I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.”

—Abraham Lincoln

Are these the “idiotic reasonings of a religious conservative”?

How about this one:

“No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

 It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people; I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer to our beneficent Father, who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that, while offering up the ascriptions justly due to him that, for such singular deliverances and blessings; they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union.

 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.” 10-03-1863

—Abraham Lincoln

Was Lincoln a “Bible thumping crazy”? A “religious zombie”? A “Religious wingnut”? A “cyanide laced Kool-Aid drinker”?

How odd that Bill Clinton’s illicit sexual adventures in OUR Oval Office of OUR White House are his own private business, but a Sarah Palin statement made in a house of worship is everybody’s business.

Why is this not a pathetic and disgusting double standard?

But we should be used to the double standards by now, right?

What I found is that the lies about Sarah Palin are more subtle. When Sarah said she didn’t think that was her exact quote, and Charlie Gibson said “Exact words”, if he had an ounce of integrity or honesty, he would have had to say “Well, SOME of them, anyway”.

The quotes were not blatantly altered by inserting words as were the Thomas Jefferson quotes (though leaving out words can have the same effect as adding words). But after taking artistic license with them, the Left wing sources then feed their own interpretations. They can always claim that some of the speech was edited out “for brevity”. Or maybe it’s because Sarah Palin is living and therefore more likely to sue for some form of defamation than long dead Thomas Jefferson.

They twisted Sarah’s statement, which she made IN A CHURCH (no small distinction by the way), into this:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a “task that is from God.”…

The Left wing interpretation is that the Christian wacko Sarah Palin is asserting that the US government sent troops into harm’s way because somebody thought God directed them to.

There is another version that ALSO distorts what she actually said by omitting key words, as follows:

“Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God,” she said. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God’s plan.”

Different approach, but has the same effect.

Now read again what she ACTUALLY said—especially note the underlined words that somehow don’t find their way into the versions published in the Left wing news media which were then repeated on the Left wing blogs:

“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right, also for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending them out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan.”

These dishonest news hacks and Leftist bloggers are the same people who every day all day long call Conservatives and Republicans liars.

How weak is your argument when you must lie, and distort facts, and put words in people’s mouths, and omit clarifying words they actually said, and rewrite history to make your point?

Of course those eager to dislike (HATE!) Sarah Palin purely for her politics, those who have an anti-Christian agenda, and those who have an anti-Conservative agenda will hear something completely different and will be quick to attach themselves to anything negative about her, including any of these false interpretations.

And they call Christians religious lemmings?

Since I don’t have an agenda to find reasons to hate Sarah Palin, I hear something completely different even in the falsified versions. I hear nothing in her words that I didn’t hear in a number of churches thirty years ago, and really all my life.

Here just for clarity are the key words along with those that the news media and the Leftist bloggers are leaving out. The bracketed words I have repeated for emphasis as any good grammarian would do to analyze sentence structure.

I Repeat:

Bold = Words the Left wing news media edited out (Yeah, for brevity. Yeah, right.)

[Bracketed] = Words that I repeated for emphasis/clarity as a good grammarian would.

“Pray for our military men and women…”

 “[Pray] that our leaders… are sending them [our military men and women] out on a task that is from God.”

 “That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for…”

 “[pray] that there is a plan…”

 “and [pray] that that plan is God's plan.”

Any student of good grammar must agree this is what Palin really meant, and that it is quite different from the liberal hack hatchet job interpretation that Charlie Gibson, the rest of the Left wing news media, and all the Leftie bloggers continue to repeat.

Here are the problems with the Left wing distortions of this quote:

1. She said it in a CHURCH, not in some official government capacity, in City Hall, or even in the Governor’s Mansion.

And in the big picture of our historical heritage, so what if she did?

At what point between Abraham Lincoln and Sarah Palin did people—even elected officials—lose their free speech right to mention God, prayer, or faith, especially in a house of worship (unless that official happens to Barack Hussein Obama)?

At what point between Abraham Lincoln and Sarah Palin did a leader become a fanatic to pray that our nation is doing the right thing in line with God’s will (unless that official happens to Barack Hussein Obama)?

I’d love to hear what Abraham Lincoln would have to say to this current crop of yahoo’s in DC and in the Left wing news media about their anti-Christian extremism.

I submit that anyone who has an issue with Sarah Palin speaking about God and prayer in her hometown church should just start lobbying Congress to remove our right of free speech, and our freedom to worship as we please. Just be honest about what it is you REALLY want.

2. This creative revision changes Palin’s request for prayer that our leaders are sending our troops on a just mission into an assertion that they are on a mission from God and that she knows so because she knows God’s will.

No sane Christian would claim to know God’s will, and I don’t care what any twisted Left-winger or atheist says to the contrary.

THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT.

You might find some wacko who professes to know God’s will, but you can’t swing a dead cat anymore without hitting a couple of wackos…

Cindy Sheehan, Jack Murtha and Code Pink

3. It changes her request for prayer that our troops have been sent on a just mission (“that that plan is God’s plan”), again into an assertion that she knows that the Iraq War is God’s plan.

Sarah Palin simply asked that the congregation pray that our national leaders are sending our military on a just mission.

She asked that the congregation pray that there is a plan. To me, and I believe many of us who actually have a bit of religious training, this simply means pray that it will work out in the end to be a net positive, not only for us, but for the Iraqis, and possibly for the entire world.

She asked that the congregation pray that the plan they are praying for is God’s plan/God’s will.

Period. See the Abraham Lincoln quote again.

4. Every election season the Democrats hold a POLITICAL CAMPAIGN EVENT in some Christian church or another and stand around blathering about their Christian faith.

If the Republicans did that, the Left wing news media would give that church a proctological examination. There would surely be cries about separation of church and state, and there would be cries that the church was violating its tax exempt status.

But when the Democrats do it we get Can o’ Crickets

5. Barack Obama gave pastor Rick Warren an interview in which he said:

“As a starting point, it means I believe in -- that Jesus Christ died for my sins, and that I am redeemed through him. That is a source of strength and sustenance on a daily basis. Yes, I know that I don't walk alone. And I know that if I can get myself out of the way, that I can maybe carry out in some small way what he intends. And it means that those sins that I have on a fairly regular basis, hopefully will be washed away.

But what it also means, I think, is a sense of obligation to embrace not just words, but through deeds, the expectations, I think, that god has for us. And that means thinking about the least of these. It means acting -- well, acting justly, and loving mercy, and walking humbly with our god. And that -- I think trying to apply those lessons on a daily basis, knowing that you're going to fall a little bit short each day, and then being able to kind of take note and saying, well, that didn't quite work out the way I think it should have, but maybe I can get a little bit better. It gives me the confidence to try things, including things like running for president, where you're going to screw up once in a while.”

For the record, this is every word of his answer from the transcript. Any response from the MSM and the Leftie bloggers to an Obama statement that he knows Jesus Christ died for his sins?

How about this?

“And I know that if I can get myself out of the way, that I can maybe carry out in some small way what he intends.”

Or this?

“But what it also means, I think, is a sense of obligation to embrace not just words, but through deeds, the expectations, I think, that god has for us.”

No? Can o’ Crickets

I’m sure our Founding Fathers would be Oh So Proud of what we have become.

Anyone who has read all of my posts must admit I have been very critical of George Bush, but there comes a point… The Left just cannot get over Bush! Any alien who might be watching our 2008 election coverage broadcasts some number of light years hence will surely be convinced that Obama/Biden were running against Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter, and George Bush!

If you discussed some of the worst tyrants in recent history, the typical Leftist will say something like “Well, no one is ALL bad! There’s a little good in everybody!” But I guarantee if you asked “What about George Bush?” their answer would be “Ok, everybody except Bush!”

And even now, more than 60 days after the inauguration, it’s as if Bush is right there on the stage with Obama everywhere he speaks! That’s a pretty pathetic platform only defined by being the Anti-Bush! Get over it already! Gore lost in 2000. Kerry lost in 2004. Even the news media that was in Gore’s corner through the entire campaign concluded in their own recount that Bush had more votes!

The classic sore losers, the Left has never been satisfied with that. Conveniently ignoring the fact that Gore tried to have military absentee ballots thrown out to steal the election, the left has non-stop accused Bush instead of stealing the election.

Then the personal attacks began. Bush is an idiot. Bush is a moron. Bush can’t speak properly. Bush can’t THINK properly (define “think properly”!)

Bush is a drunk. Bush is a DRY drunk (which is it?)

Bill Maher even retouched a photo of Laura Bush to make her look black and blue from a savage beating, and his cackling sycophants cheered. That’s a moral high road!

Then there was Cheney is Darth Vader. There was Halliburton blah, blah, blah… Yeah, Cheney quit a $44 Million a year job to “get rich” in a $400,000 a year government job as second fiddle to a moron, a liar, and a drunk while being called a liar and Darth Vader. It all just shows how shallow is the thinking on the Left.

After March 2003, they minted “Bush lied and people died”, which is itself a bald-faced lie.

The left has gone so far as to develop quotes some atheist “embellished”, and then attributed to Thomas Jefferson, making it appear as if Jefferson were really an atheist. They ignore history, and when they can’t ignore it, they rewrite it. They falsify 1970’s National Guard documents pertaining to a sitting President in order to influence an election. And they universally call Conservatives and Republicans liars.

Which brings me to an observation. The vast majority of churches in this country have always been some flavor of Christianity. It used to be a sign to a community that you were a decent human being and a pillar of the community to be active in a church, or especially to be a church deacon.

Still, every election season the Democrats hold some kind of campaign event in some Christian church (tax exempt status notwithstanding!) Bill Clinton also took pains to be seen carrying a huge Bible when it was expedient, and Hilary Clinton famously faked a southern accent in one such church:

I have family members who were once Christ believing, God-believing people. Maybe they weren’t the most devout and didn’t go to church every time the doors were open, but they talked regularly to their kids about God and Jesus and the Bible and prayer.

There has been a dramatic change in just the last few years. Now I hear these same family members and friends say things like “Bible thumping crazies”, “idiotic reasonings of religious conservatives”, “Religious wingnuts are the real cyanide laced Kool-Aid drinkers”. I can see this shift, but they cannot.

And then there were some alleged Sarah Palin quotes that have been similarly “embellished” to distort the truth and to paint Sarah as a wacko.

These liberals often claim that conservatives just don’t “Understand both sides of an issue”, and that conservatives should “give well-researched, reasoned arguments to back up their claims.”

Understand both sides?

Riddle me this…

The left OWNS Hollywood, all of the public schools, almost all of the universities (and now apparently even Notre Dame!), most of the newspapers, the textbook industry, all but one cable news channel, both taxpayer funded public radio and TV—NPR and PBS, and now all the branches of government except for the judiciary whose days are numbered under this Administration.

We read and listen to Liberal stuff all day long and every day of the week (Often we have no choice).

And the conservatives whom THEY watch, listen to and read for THEIR understanding of OUR side…?

If I could insert an image Can O' Crickets: 

The Left refuses to listen to "Faux News". To the Left, truly smart, educated, informed Conservatives WHO ARE ALSO DECENT HUMAN BEINGS, like Laura Ingraham, Hugh Hewitt, Glenn Beck and Dennis Prager are the devil spawn. And from the comments of some Dem family members, the left has even succeeded in demonizing the Heritage Foundation. Wow.

The answer is they don’t watch or listen to or read any real conservatives. They get their understanding of OUR side from Leftist bomb thrower bloggers who rewrite history, and from Leftist talking head “journalists” who get tingles up their leg from the thought of an Obama Presidency. They get their understanding of OUR side from Rush Limbaugh quotes GENUINELY TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT for the sole purpose of creating a diversion from the real crime being perpetrated by Congress and the White House. Those on the Left usually never actually HEAR Jeremiah Wright’s “No-No-No! GD America!” rants. They typically only hear Obama describe him as the crazy uncle that nobody pays any attention at the family gathering, with a still photo of the racist, hate filled, America hating reverend in the background.

And in the end, here is one key difference between the Left and the Right. The Right doesn’t consider most of those on the Left to be “Bad”, but just wrong—often ignorant and sometimes foolish and naïve about history, the real world and the nature of evil, economics, and finance, misinformed by the various ministries of propaganda (MSNBC, CNN, NPR, PBS, New York Times, TIME Magazine, etc.), and blinded by their ideology.

To the Left however, if you’re a Conservative or a Republican, you’re not just WRONG in their view, you’re a BAD PERSON, AND if you’re a woman or a minority and a conservative, you are the dimmest kind of moron!

The left also advises “give well-researched, reasoned arguments”. Really? Is that what the Left does?

Rarely do they fact check the sources for material such as the alleged quotes from the great Thomas Jefferson, because they are forgeries created with an atheist agenda. Check here:

This is by far not the first time I’ve seen this kind of chicanery, hence my skepticism regarding the supposed Sarah Palin quotes, which proved to be spot on.

I find it interesting that they find comfort in what they believe to be Jefferson’s words, but they ignore or are unaware of Jefferson’s actual warnings about the dangers of a central bank as Obama grabs and consolidates and demands more and more power.

But I’ll be charitable. Assuming just for a sec that these quotes were authentic, remember that he was a founder and then President of an infant nation based on Christian principles while he TOOK THAT YOUNG NATION TO WAR against the ISLAMIC nation of Tripoli. Which did he fear most?

I wonder if Jefferson was after their oil too! Or maybe he was just trying to enrich some Revolutionary ancestor of Halliburton’s founders?

I find it interesting that the left first equates conservatives and the Christian right, but also believes that conservatives (who are therefore automatically Christians), want to force their personal religious beliefs on the country through public office.

For one thing, I don’t know ANYONE like that! Real Conservatives will always hold that our Founding Fathers understood that there should be a secular government whose power derives from the people who live in a society then based overwhelmingly on Judeo-Christian principles. To claim that anything else happened is revisionist history, just like these “quotes” attributed to the great Thomas Jefferson.

For another, it’s not the Christians trying to force their views on anyone. Christians aren’t trying to go around and mandate that crosses be put up and Ten Commandments plaques be put up in places they never existed before. It is the LEFT who is going around forcing REMOVAL of crosses that have always been in place, or that have been in place for many, many years.

We can argue all day long whether overturning Roe V. Wade and giving the decision back to the states to pass their own laws at the state level WRT abortion is forcing personal religious beliefs on this country through public office, but reasonable people would have to admit they have a terribly weak hand. Again, Roe V. Wade is REALLY what this entire debacle is all about, and the REAL reason the Left seeks to demonize and discredit Christians as wackos.

When in the last 1,000 years have Christians been responsible for anything like “Millions of innocent men, women and children… burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned…” Ok, hardly millions, but I’ll give you Scarlet letters and the Salem witch trials. How about something in the last 400 years?

During that time we have seen many millions murdered by people who had nothing to do with Christianity, and in the 20th Century alone we had Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Hirohito, Lenin, Polpot, Castro, and Che, just to name a few! Again, how many hundred millions have been murdered by these NON-Christian tyrants? Can you say Darfur? South Africa? Somalia? Ethiopia? What CHRISTIAN is responsible for the tens of millions dead and dying in these places in just the last ten years?

To say nothing of the millions of babies slaughtered every year in THIS country, definitely NOT by Christians!

Furthermore, the CHRISTIAN George Bush gets NO CREDIT from the left for having done more to HELP the people of those nations than any President in US history.

For the record, I opposed his $15 Billion AIDS aid package, but far be it from the Left to give Bush credit for ANYTHING! And, where’s the oil in THOSE places?

In the most recent, D K points to a “humorous” video.

As I have noted, some conservatives seem to have been caught off guard by how far left Obama really is, but those of us who know history and have been paying attention have much darker fears than even this attempt at humor portrays.

It's apparent to me that a Democrat must have put this together, and proves once again that the Right understands the Left far better than the Left understands the Right.

I’m stunned. I think the only thing I find more shocking than that Obama won, is the surprise of many, just two months into his administration, how radical and how far left he really is.

Michael Medved said that Obama is turning out to be “shockingly radical”.

What?

Even Mary Katherine Hamm said that she is surprised that he just seems really inexperienced and in over his head.

What?

Where have you people been for the last two years?

I take great pleasure in listening to Chris Mathews begin to lament the decline of his own portfolio. When does it end? He asked!

But I really did not expect this kind of surprise from conservatives who we would think went in with their eyes more open than Chris Mathews or even the average Democrat.

I'm hearing about all these ANGRY people emailing folks like Hannity, and I can't help but ask, WHERE WERE ALL YOU ANGRY PEOPLE DURING THE ELECTION?!?!?!?

What really scares me is the thought that if these folks had known, might they have done more to see that Obama was defeated. Now we’re all paying the price, Republican AND Democrat.