I took my wife today to see American Carol. It was very funny, and for a retired Navy guy, there were parts that had me in tears--at times from laughing, and at other times with pride to be an American.

I would describe it as part Charles Dickens, part Charlie Daniels, part Leslie Nielsen (of the Naked Gun series), and part 24 TV Series with Keifer Southerland).

I'm not happy that they chose to make little kids say some pretty nasty words and make some gestures they probably don't understand. That really takes away from the Conservative message, and it would have been just as funny without that.

It also seemed a bit disjointed. They could have done a better job of tying the various scenes together.

There were other things that many people just may not get (those who can tell you who won the last American Idol or Survivor, but don't know who is the Vice-President or the Secretary of State). Dennis Prager calls it the age of stupidity. What's wrong is right and what's right is wrong, up is down, and inside is out...

Like Some 5^th Grade Punk Kid

I never cease to be amazed at the audacity of liberals.

Barack Obama tells his cheering crowd “They must think you’re stupid”, as he stands before the American people, claiming to be an innocent victim of a John McCain smear. As they say in the south, I would love to tell the Illinois Senator about himself.

Tuesday September 9th, 2008, Barack Obama was talking about the McCain/Palin campaign in front of a cheering crowd and said that you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. The crowd erupted into applause and cheering at this, and the man would have to be deaf or a moron to not know they were reacting to what he was saying about Sarah Palin. They heard the same thing that I and many other very angry Americans heard.

I don’t care what anyone says; he called Sarah Palin a pig with lipstick.

The man chooses his words much too carefully to have said this by some innocent mistake. In his whiny “Daddy, they’re questioning my patriotism!” denial, Obama claims this is just a McCain campaign smear, and that he, the messiah, is actually the victim and has done nothing wrong.

There is no way on Earth that Obama could not have known what that crowd was reacting to. He calculated it, and he said it on purpose, knowing full well that he would be called on it, but that he could plausibly deny it because there is no way to prove his motive.

He must think we’re all stupid.

And he gets double mileage out of it, because now he can stand there and pretend to be indignant and accuse McCain of slimy “Karl Rove” politics. He stands there and accuses Sarah Palin of playing the "Gender Card" as if he has never played the "Race Card"! Does he think we have forgotten that "Oh, and did I mention he's black?" comment? Very shrewd Senator, but just as transparent, and even more juvenile.

This isn’t the first time Obama has done something juvenile like this. He thinks we didn’t notice when he called Sarah’s hometown “Wasilly”, and then there was the time he slyly (he thought) gave Hillary the finger.

He reminds me of nothing so much as a 5th grade hoodlum who has done something he shouldn’t and then looks straight in your eyes and lies through his teeth that what he did was somehow an accident.[2]

I’m hearing other people compare him to a 5th grader also. I was watching the news, and I heard some women at a rally say that calling girls names is what you do in 5th grade, and they don’t want a 5th grader running the country. Amen!

Yeah, I know all the responsible people (Dennis Prager, Bill O’Reilly, etc.), said publicly that they don’t think Obama meant it that way. That’s what they have to say publicly, because sadly we can’t prove his motive. I would bet money that behind the scenes, off the record, and off camera they would agree with me.

And in the interest of full disclosure, I have every respect for a US Senator, but I have NO respect for Barack Obama. None. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Not because he’s a liberal and a Marxist, but first because he’s just another slimy, dishonest, scumbag, elitist, US military hating, Ivy League educated politician, playing very dirty politics while pretending to be something shiny and new.

My real heartache with this man who wants so much to be the Commander in Chief of the greatest force of fighting heroes in the world, is that he now claims that he loves this country, but he cannot deny that has a problem with our flag, and that he’s very comfortable hanging out with an unrepentant terrorist and other people who openly spew the venom of their HATRED of this country! (And because he’s a liberal and a Marxist who wants to gut our military, surrender to the terrorists, and raise my taxes so he can give tons of money to people who haven’t worked, and sacrificed and saved as my wife and I have!)

I would love the opportunity to vote for a black man for President, and I so wish that race were not an issue, but if we were all honest, we would have to admit that Obama would not be where he is today if he were a white man. He represents the ultimate Affirmative Action. I don’t hold that against him, but against his empty-headed, sycophantic, sobbing, slobbering, adoring and sometimes fainting fans from the DC Beltway to the celebrity mansions in Malibu.

Now, those who know me know that I will set straight a falsehood, regardless who it’s about. I believe we’re nothing if we don’t have our honor and our integrity. I could not live with myself if I cheated to win something, and I could not live with myself if I had to lie or even repeat something I did not personally verify true, to paint even someone I don’t like in a bad light.

To be fair, Sarah Palin came out swinging. No one gets where she is and does what she has without making some powerful enemies. She had to know they were going to come after her. But the kind of attacks I’ve been seeing on her family are reaching a new low of disgusting, dishonest, and just beneath the least bit of human decency. I think Caribou Barbie is kinda cute, but I’ve heard her called White Trash; I’ve heard her called Trailer Trash; I’ve heard her called W-H-O-R-E! You’d think she had a Nazi flag hanging on the outside of her snow machine garage! I don’t know that we would ever have seen this kind of attacks on a WWII vintage Nazi! Was it Diane Sawyer who asked Ahmedinijad what he listens to on his iPod? Good grief!

The truth is that John McCain has caught EVERYONE off guard with Sarah Palin, and the left wing of the DNC (is that redundant?), is in full meltdown. They are panicked, and they don’t know what to do. So they are defaulting to their natural state. They’ve become mean and nasty, and we all know that for all their talk about compassion, liberals as a general rule are meaner and nastier than anyone else on the block.

Is Obama acting Presidential? You have to be kidding me! And not even those on the right are calling him on his just immature behavior!

Someone acting truly Presidential would have recognized that the term “lipstick” has a new context, and would have avoided that word altogether. But he’s desperate and willing to gamble that he will get away with it. He knows the sycophants and the Kool-Aid drinkers will only cheer him, and the responsible people will say they don't think he meant it that way. The rest of us don't have a voice, hence the root of Sarah's appeal in the first place.

The empty suit who would be President is acting like a 5th grader, and in more ways than one. Freaking grow up already, Senator.

It really only struck me this morning--I'd cut off my arm before I'd vote for Hillary for President or for VP, and that has nothing to do with her being a woman. She's just not the right woman for the job.

I'd vote for Sarah Palin in a heartbeat, and in part because she's a woman. The now desperate Democrats are trying to say McCain waited until the last minute to decide instead of being "proactive" (?), and that he only picked her because she's a woman, and that he would not have chosen her if Obama had chosen Hillary or another woman.

I don't think that's true, and in any event, I say of course that was a factor, but so what? That's not the only reason, because I'd vote for any man or woman of any color with her credentials. People always operate on multiple levels of motive. McCain was just fortunate to find such a well qualified woman. I suspect he decided a long time ago, but has just kept it very close.

Just as Hillary is not the right woman, Obama is also just not the right man for the job.

Obama has to be kicking himself now, and I'm sure Hillary is fit to be tied. She spent basically her entire political life trying to get into the White House and then BACK into the White House, and she lost out. Then this little upstart Palin comes along and without even suggesting interest in the executive ticket, she is now the Republican candidate for VP! There's always 2012, but who knows what the world will look like by then... Today's Democrats should study what happened to the Federalists for their opposition of James Madison in the War of 1812.

I think although an Obama/Clinton ticket could win, he would have been foolish to pick Hillary. There's too much Clinton Administration baggage (read “uninvestigated, and likely-to-never-be-investigated, corruption), and Bill himself would upstage Obama anywhere they appeared together. That would defeat the purpose in a lot of people's minds, of having the first black President--especially after they used to call Bill the first black President (don't ask me to defend that--I just know they did it!)

Obama could have picked any number of women other than Hillary, but he didn't. He picked Joe Biden, and the only member of Congress with a more liberal, far left voting record than Joe Biden IS Barack Obama! Bill Clinton said Obama "hit it out of the park", but Biden didn't bring any votes. Everybody who was far left and everybody who hates Bush and all the rest of the "evil Republicans" was already voting for Obama.

To be sure, there are those racist crackers who would never vote for any black man, but bringing Biden on isn't going to change those people's bigotry, nor their votes. I suspect any of them who are Bush haters will vote for whatever 3rd party candidates or Independents are running, or just stay home with a six pack and their bug-zapper.

At the same time, McCain has hopefully sealed the deal with those who call themselves conservatives but who were planning not to vote for McCain because they were not willing to “compromise their principles”. They would gleefully vote in or allow to be voted in, Marxist leadership in the White House and in Congress, but they wouldn’t compromise their principles. Wow!

I’ve been asked if I watched the DNC Convention. I tried to watch some of it, but life and family took priority, and when I did manage to tune in, I had to change the channel after a few minutes. All the speeches are transcripted on the Internet, and I heard all the choice sound bytes later, on the radio. I have to ask, what country are these people living in? They obviously don’t live in the United States I was born and raised in, and which I would give my life to defend.

First, be sure that anywhere that appears the word “invest”, substitute “spend your tax dollars” (I found seven instances, between Hillary, Obama and Joe Biden).

I did see parts of it and saw Ward Churchill and his thugs shove around a Fox News Reporter, and then as I’ve heard the words come from the different speakers, I was struck by a clear (to me) parallel that I may not successfully explain. One of Stephen King’s early works was a novel called The Stand, first published in 1978, and finally made into a movie in 1994 starring conservative Gary “Lieutenant Dan” Sinise as Stu Redman.

It’s a pre and post-apocryphal novel where a biological warfare flu bug gets out of the research lab and wipes out most of mankind. There are scant thousands left who are inexplicably immune to the flu. These folks divide up into two camps, based on dreams of two characters. One is an evil character, not the devil himself, but perhaps a demon, named Randall Flagg, “the devil’s imp”. The other is a 100+ year-old black woman in Nebraska, named “Mother Abigail”.

A bit of King’s background is that he is a Democrat, and a recovering alcoholic. King’s stories are often populated with evil government intelligence, scientific, and research organizations (think black helicopters), and soldiers who are basically mindless thugs who won’t hesitate to brutalize civilians. I have a suspicion that King was sexually abused as a child, but I’ve never seen any overt admission by him. We write what we know, and he writes about a boy being molested by a pedophile posing as a “poleethman”.

A number of things combined at once to inspire King to write The Stand. There was a story about a Chemical/Biological Warfare (CBW) leak that had killed a bunch of sheep. There were SLA photos in which the then still at large Patty Hearst participated, featuring an apparently faceless Donald DeFreeze, and there was something he heard on the radio and had written down:

Once in every generation the plague will fall among them.

Flagg’s people migrated to Las Vegas, and Mother Abigail’s people migrated to Boulder Colorado. Flagg claimed that their society was superior because they had no homosexuals, no drug abusers, no adulterers… His band of goons wearing law officer badges crucified them all.

Well, that’s all very informative, but what’s the point? Just that Ward Churchill, surrounded by his black-shirted goons reminded me very much of Randall Flagg and his goons. Or for that matter, Hitler and his brown shirted goons. There were the repeating words of Dennis Kucinich, “Wake up America”! Surely Dennis Kucinich knows that “Wake up Germany” was a Nazi brown shirt slogan in 1936!

I am awestruck by the single breath contradictions, as I heard story after story of this person or that person who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, and how Obama’s is the great American story—and in the same breath, America is racist, xenophobic, sexist, ageist, specist, controlled by the oil companies and the pharmaceutical companies, we have the worst economy since the great Depression, and no one can get ahead… and of course, it’s all George Bush’s fault! [YAWN!] It has nothing to do with the Democrats in Congress refusing to allow drilling for more oil, or with Bill Clinton having vetoed it when Congress did pass it. It has nothing to do with forcing mortgage lenders to practice “Affirmative Lending” by pointing out that there were more loans made to white people than to black people, and claiming that this directly correlated to racial discrimination by lenders.

When Hillary was talking about the Underground Railroad and said “When you see the torches in the forest, keep going!” can ANYONE tell me what the hell she was talking about, and what relevance it has to today? And they say the Republicans are stuck in the past?!?!?!?

I can never listen to Michelle Obama; she just makes my ears bleed. I cannot STAND her whining about how hard it is to be a mother and a housewife on $4.2 Million a year, or even on her Hospital Administrator salary of $260K a year. $260K isn’t a huge amount somewhere like SoCal, but in Illinois? But what did me in on her was the “For the first time in my adult life I’m proud of my country”, meaning there was never anything about this country to be proud of before Barack ran for President. And then Barack has the gall to say that we cannot criticize her after she bad-mouths this country.

Bill Clinton I expected to talk about the failed policies of the last eight years, blah, blah, blah party line, blah, blah, blah... He didn’t disappoint.

There was Dennis “The menace” Kucinich. What country do you live in Congressman? Up with this, up with that… I pride myself on keeping this “Family friendly”, but basically Congressman, up yours! Good God, get a clue about the country you live in and which you claim to represent!

Joe Biden I expected to take the party line as well, but to take it even further to the left than Bill/Hillary. He also did not disappoint. “When I got knocked down by guys bigger than me, she sent me back out and demanded that I bloody their nose so I could walk down that street the next day.” Apparently Senator Biden, you did not learn the lesson!

“We will hold Russia accountable for its actions, and we’ll help the people of Georgia rebuild.” How will you do that Senator Biden? The same way the UN held Saddam accountable?

The same way Madeline Halfbright and Jimmy Carter held North Korea accountable?

The same way the UN holds Sudan, Rwanda, Somalia, and Zimbabwe accountable?

The same way the vaunted “International Community” held Slobodan Miloševic accountable? (who would still be making a mockery of his years long trial if someone had not finally taken justice into their own hands (I suspect), and helped him to reach room temperature before we all died of old age).

By asking both sides to “show restraint” again?

By going to the UN and ask the Security Council (on which Russia has a veto vote by the way!), to pass 17 resolutions, each asking Russia to leave, each time saying “Pretty please? With sugar on top? Please get of out of Georgia!” and then “Alright Vladimir, we really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, REALLY mean it this time!”

“And I am here for everyone I grew up with in Scranton and Wilmington. I am here for the cops and firefighters, the teachers and assembly line workers—the folks whose lives are the very measure of whether the American dream endures.”

No Senator, you’re there for their union goons, and for those of their members foolish and naïve enough to believe the unions truly care about them!

And finally, Senator Obama, the messiah himself! Many are saying that it’s a great speech. Fine. Precious few are saying “It’s a great speech, but it’s a bunch of crap!” As usual, the Senator is short on specifics, but long on emotion, rhetoric and platitudes, and with some glaring omissions—like that he plans to dramatically raise taxes on higher income families and on corporations.

So you’re going to give 95% of all working families a tax cut. How are you going to do that Senator? Many of them don’t PAY taxes! Many of them get a US Treasury check each year between January and April for thousands of dollars above and beyond anything they might have paid in. Either you don’t know that and you’re a fool, or you do know it, and you’re making them an empty promise to get their votes. What are you going to do? Give them a BIGGER check?!?!?!?

He found it wasn’t received well when he said “And did I mention he’s black?” So he has new language "I realize that I am not the likeliest candidate for this office. I don't fit the typical pedigree". This is just code for “And did I mention he’s black?” The sad truth Senator, the only people who care are you, and all the rest of the genuine racists in this country, and they are a very small sliver these days.

“And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman.” But again, it’s the Republicans who are always accused of being stuck in the past.

To claim that McCain would not go after bin Laden if we knew what cave he is in, but that he, the messiah, Obama would magically accomplish everything that Bush has failed to do for eight years. Some words come to mind: hype, hyperbole, dishonest, exploit, uninformed, naïve, hubris…

I’m done with this. I sincerely hope that once Stanley Kurtz completes going through the seventy feet of file cabinets full of documents about Bill Ayers, and Barack Obama and the Weather Underground domestic antiwar and terrorist organization, Obama will be finished as a national politician. These people holler and whine about civil liberties and wiretapping, even as they themselves are trying to silence legitimate questions into Obama’s past and his associations with these confessed criminals and terrorists.

Listening to news tonight, something occurred to me about Jeremiah Wright

I highly doubt I'll get any political analyst job out of my ideas : -), but I have some thoughts really burning tonight...

I was driving around tonight looking for stuff for a little lighting and cable job I've been doing in my house the last few weeks. The radio is wall to wall Obama and "Reverend" Wright.

My first thought after hearing Obama's reaction to the talk his "pastor" gave today was that Obama has to be on the phone with him saying "Man, you gotta just shut up and go away if you want a black man to be President!"

That's when it struck me, that's the antithesis of men like Jeremiah Wright. He doesn't want Obama to get elected, and he doesn't care if he hurts Obama! The LAST thing he wants is for Obama or ANY black man to be elected President. Like Farrakhan, Sharpton, Jackson, Rangle, Julian Bond, Cornel West, (and who's the Banana Boat guy?) et al, he has his own agenda.

The really interesting thing I think is that "Reverend" Wright may not even realize it himself, and if asked, would likely deny it, but would probably be evasive and ask something like "Did you listen to the whole sermon? Well, that nullifies THAT question!" The closest analogy I can give is the way the spouse of an addict (drunk, gambler, whatever), will subconsciously manipulate and sabotage things to actually sabotage the drunk if he/she manages to get some kind of help and start down the path of sobriety (someday I should complete that 3rd BS in Abnormal Psychology...) The spouse is him or herself addicted to chaos, and will try all kinds of things to return the relationship to comfortable and familiar chaos.

"Reverend" Wright has personal, financial, emotional, and political reasons to keep the pot stirred up and to be able to thunder on about "The US of KKK-A"!

The day a black man is elected POTUS, he and all those named above are suddenly out of jobs (and their identity—that’s who they are; that is the very essence of their being, even if it is just a big empty hole right through the middle of ‘em).

So I think Obama's judgment is suffering on this front as well, and no one is talking about it. But hide and watch--we have not seen nor heard the last of "Reverend" Wright. He is now hurting Obama, but he will not be quiet, and he will not go away.

Another possibility is that Obama is thinking ahead more moves than I can in Chess, and this is all part of some scheme he and "Reverend" Wright are both party to. I don't know how this ultimately helps him--I suck at Chess, but it's my skeptical side and just a suspicion I have.

Barack Obama did not feel that he was “authentically black”, and so establishes himself and his family for 20 years in a racist, anti-American, hateful, angry, filth-spewing mockery of a church. He does this for the sole purpose of establishing his black “street cred”.

But apparently Obama slept through every sermon he attended:

“The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation.”

Then when he’s found out (why do they always think they will never get caught?), he comes up with this baloney that this angry, bigoted preacher is just like the crazy uncle you sometimes disagree with.

Hillary, where are you and your campaign on this? Are you asleep or just still dodging snipers’ bullets?!?!?!?

And what is this hollering “First Amendment!” whenever they are called out for saying really dumb things, or endorsing or supporting or at least condoning those who do? First they always say it’s just “snippets” taken out of context, and then they start hollering about the First Amendment! The point isn’t that Jeremiah Wright or even Obama have done something illegal.

For God’s sake, we have given literally millions of American lives over the last 230+ years for Obama and for Reverend Wright to have complete freedom to say and to write any stupid, inflammatory, racist, anti-American thing they wish and not be hauled away in the night to some prison, dungeon or “re-education camp”. This has NOTHING to do with the First Amendment, and no one is saying ANYONE has done anything illegal or that anyone should go to jail!

This is about judgment and therefore fitness to be President of this nation and the Commander in Chief of the most awesome and lethal military in this very dangerous world!

On another level, I can see justification to investigate the legitimacy of Trinity United Church’s tax exempt status. But that is the job of the IRS, not some publicity seeking Congressmen!

In the same article I reference above, Charles Coulter of the Kansas City Star Editorial Board first says:

“Rev. Wright is not the first black minister to condemn this country for its racist practices.”

Then switches to this:

“Sen. Obama has done nothing to indicate he is anti-American. In fact, his whole life is a testament to the American Dream.”

Now just to emphasize a bit, perhaps Mr. Coulter didn’t even realize the magnitude of what he said, but these are his words, Barack Obama’s whole life is a testament to the American Dream.

I would love to ask Mr. Coulter, so what’s the problem? Please detail what current American racist practices you’re talking about! Please include how Barack Obama managed to dodge those obstacles, and become a testament to the American Dream!

Let me emphasize again, CURRENT American racist practices! Don’t tell me about slavery. Don’t tell me about Jim Crow. Don’t tell me about Tuskegee or the 92nd/93rd Infantry Divisions. And don’t tell me about long dead anti-Civil Rights politicians.

Creating HIV to kill black people? As precision weapons go, this one must be worse than the WWII carpet bombing of German cities where 160,000 allied airmen died between 1939 and 1945, and killed between 300,000 and 600,000 Germans.* AIDS infections among whites rank second only to blacks, and among gay men, nearly twice as many whites are infected as blacks! Or is that just “collateral damage”?

[*Note: I’m using only figures for German civilians killed. These figures don’t begin to show the importance of the destruction of targets that were significant to the Nazi war machine. In that light, creating the AIDS virus is wildly inaccurate and ineffective if it was intended only to kill blacks!]

Besides, and I haven’t told many people this, but someone close to me died of AIDS, and I take personal exception to this claim.

But really Reverend, instead of blaming America, how about preaching the virtues of abstinence and monogamy, (or at the very least, condoms!)? How about preaching don’t stick needles in your body that have been in someone else’s body? Those two rules could eradicate AIDS!

Coulter goes back to this:

“Let's get back to the issue of how to make this country a success for all of its people -- black and white, rich and poor, woman and man.”

So America is racist, even though Obama’s life is a testament to the American dream. Is that the racist American dream? Or just regular colorblind America?

In Obama’s apologist speech, he said,

“And I confess that if all that I knew of Reverend Wright were the snippets of those sermons that have run in an endless loop on the television and You Tube, or if Trinity United Church of Christ conformed to the caricatures being peddled by some commentators, there is no doubt that I would react in much the same way.”

Why is it that what’s good for the goose in this country is not always good for the gander?

I remember other “snippets” for which a Republican senator and two talk show hosts (Don Imus and Michael Savage) each paid dearly. Now I’m not crazy about Trent Lott or really any career politician, nor especially Imus. I think for both, their time has come and long gone, as well as many others.

In each case, “snippets” were ultimately used to justify firing someone (and in Lott’s case, to justify calls for censure, finally leading to him stepping down as Senate Majority Leader). Trent Lott and Imus prostrated themselves repeatedly for one, single, solitary “snippet”, and Trent Lott pathetically so. Not good enough.

And here’s one of the things that irks me about the world we live in today—I know if I don’t qualify my own position, someone will say I’m a racist or a bigot for defending idiotic statements from whatever corner has an iron in the fire. It really would not be the first time I’ve been called a bigot for taking a stand against leftist propaganda or politically correct lunacy. I don’t care for Trent Lott, but I think what he said was used inappropriately by people with an agenda to make political hay.

Now we have sound cuts from Obama’s 1994 book coming out, voiced by Obama himself, profanity, racial baggage, and all. Wow.

First of all, this man claims to want to be a “race uniter”, yet I hear an identity confused man still carrying a lot of racial baggage. People who don’t have racial baggage just don’t see in color like he does, and apparently always has!

Please don’t anyone tell me I don’t know what it is to be black. I know that. I also don’t know what it is to be Asian, Native American, or even a “rich white folk”!

I submit that not ONE of these angry, filth-spewing, black men throwing down the race card at every perceived injustice has the first clue what it is to be a white man of ANY social standing.

Do they really think that “rich white folks”, let alone poor white folks never experience trials, tribulations, injustices, struggles, sacrifice, hard work, discrimination…?!?!?!?

Do they really think that as a young white boy who grew up basically “poor white trash”, that I didn’t experience discrimination myself by a small town employer who hired only people like the Fire Chief’s daughter, or the State Wrestling Champion (who was black, by the way)?

Or a better question—how do I KNOW that employer hired only those people? The people who worked there seemed to be all the “pretty people” and the people who had all the right labels on their clothes, and all the people whose parents were “somebody” in town. Did that employer discriminate against me because I was a poor nobody, or was it just my perception that he did?

HOW DO BLACKS KNOW WHAT THEY HAVE FACED AND DEALT WITH IS ALWAYS RACISM, AND NOT JUST THE WAY LIFE IS SOMETIMES?!?!?

Obama’s buddy felt that women always turned him down for dates because they must be racist. Maybe they just didn’t want to date black guys! Maybe they really DIDN’T want to date a fat "greasy-mouthed" guy of ANY color! That makes them racist? But beyond that, does he think the average white guy—let alone poor white trash—has it any easier?

Does anyone who believes this really think that white guys never get turned down by these same women?

Obama’s commentary states that he himself did not have much success with women at that time because he was shy.

When did the black community get exclusive rights to shyness or difficulties with women?

If only I’d been born black so that I could blame every problem in my life on institutional racism!

I recognize that Obama claims to have attempted to moderate his friend’s claims of coed racism. But I just recently realized the thing that would convince me of his sincerity is a recognition that “Ya know what? White folks have it hard sometimes too!”

In my example, I have tried my best to put myself in that small town employer’s shoes and ask “Would I have hired me?” I won’t go into detail, but I have to honestly say that I would not have hired me at that time. Yet I’m certain that if I’d had a different family name, he would have hired me.

Reparations? I grew up poor, worked my butt off in the Navy, sacrificed a lot of nights and weekends in class and doing homework or research, and writing papers, and managed to complete my BS and about 90% of a Master’s while I was on active duty. My wife (who also grew up poor), and I actually graduated together and both got our Master’s the same day. That wasn’t easy to do. We juggled and staggered class schedules to make sure one of us was home with our boy. We scrimped, saved, and paid a lot of her tuition, but still ended up with some student loans. But I would be expected to pay reparations to black folks for what some of my ancestors did to some of their ancestors 150 years ago, notwithstanding those of my ancestors who fought and died in the Civil War to free the slaves?

This victim culture we have created and allowed people like Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, and Robin Morgan to perpetuate minimizes the struggles, difficulties, and hardships that people have faced who are NOT a member of the same victim group as those making a claim of bigotry, not to mention their hard work and sacrifices that they have made to achieve whatever they consider success.

And I’m truly sick of it.

Most of all I look forward to the day that men like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are exposed for what they really are. At first it occurred to me that what they do amounts to enabling.

They enable the black community to continue to live in ignorance of how they are being manipulated and used by the DNC for political purposes.

They enable the black community to continue to live in poverty and squalor.

But what Sharpton and Jackson and others like them do goes beyond simply enabling. They are pushers. They are dealers in the drug of race victimization, and so is Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. They profit off of it, and they are given credibility by the black community and by the MSM because they are themselves black.

That makes their crime (a crime against humanity, in my book) even more abhorrent to me, that they profit from deceiving and manipulating their own, while proclaiming themselves the righteous representatives of their race.

That would probably not be so bad if what they do ever actually helped anyone. But it doesn’t.

Instead it ensures that the masses of the black community will not look at itself in a mirror, thereby trapping them in poverty, poor inner city schools, single parent households with no fathers in the picture, drugs and gangs and hip-hop culture, and then blame it all on the institutional racism of “rich white folks”. This is identical to the thought process of an addict, in that their life troubles brought on and exacerbated by their own behavior in reality, become in their own mind, anyone’s fault but their own.

Sharpton and Jackson extort money and apologies from whomever is foolish enough and willing to pander to this nonsense and let themselves be victimized by it. And whomever is willing to place their own interests above those of the black community as a whole. I place Trent Lott and Don Imus both firmly in that camp. These two and others like them are the enablers. Desperate to save their own careers, they prostrated themselves before the likes of Sharpton and Jackson, begging, PLEADING for their forgiveness!

“And for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible. … It is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts — that out of many, we are truly one”.

Block 25 ABILITY TO PERFORM MILITARY DUTIES, subsection a. “Are you now or have you ever been a conscientious objector? (That is, do you have, or have you ever had, a firm, fixed, and sincere objection to participation in war in any form or to the bearing of arms because of religious belief or training?)”

Why I don’t say the pledge

 

When the bell for Period 2 rings, I drift to the back of the room, turn down the music and wait for the Pledge of Allegiance to begin. I stand quietly in the back as most students rise and recite. However, I do not join them. I do not cover my heart. I do not say the words. I have not been able to since March of 2003. It is not just the war in Iraq. The war, begun on false premises as most Americans now acknowledge, is a hideous drain on our country. Over two thousand Americans are dead, over seven thousand Americans severely injured, and over 200 billion dollars are committed to this war so far.

 

Watching this unnecessary war develop was disheartening enough and watching what the war is doing to America’s standing in the world community is likewise disillusioning, but my sadness about the state of our country does not end there. My America does not establish secret prisons around the world. My America does not imprison people for years without charges and without evidence. My America does not need to snoop into my library records. My America does not attack a grieving mother who stands up and protests the war. My America does not torture. The America whose flag I have always saluted is the country of Rosa Parks, the country that said no to segregation and discrimination.

[NOTE:  Mr. Teacher seems to be unaware that it was Democrats who opposed Civil Rights legislation.]
 
It is the country that faced the very real threat of Hitler’s desire for world domination with honor and heroism. It is a country which protects the rights of the disabled and, until recently, has been a strong voice for human rights around the world. I am confident that the country will find its way again during my lifetime. Despite the excesses and corruptions of its leaders, America has always found its way back to the rule of law. I look forward to the day when I can once again join with my students to show pride in my country. Until then, I will stand quietly, and respectfully, in the back of the room.

 I hate politics. I really do.

There are people who know me, who when reading this would say, "Ah, that's bull! You're a political animal!"

No one who might say that knew me before 9/11, or knew me well. I was politically pretty naïve before then. The truth is I love my country more than I hate politics.

It’s not the idea of participation in Government I find distasteful; it’s the lying, the deceit, the manipulation, the misrepresentation, the special deals, and the corruption that I despise. Make no mistake—there is corruption on both sides. For every Randy “Duke” Cunningham, I'll show you a William "Cold Cash" Jefferson, who by the way is neither a war hero, nor a “Legend of Air Power”. Not only that, Jefferson has so far eluded prosecution. For every Mark Foley, I'll show you a Gerry Studds, who has never been held to account for his crime of sexual relations with a minor. And for every Dick Cheney hunting accident, I’ll show you a Ted Kennedy drunk driving accident in which a young lady lost her life after he delayed reporting the accident for over nine hours, and he has never had to answer charges for that incident.

I’m not justifying bad behavior by pointing at more bad behavior. I’m saying it is hypocritical for anyone from either side to say the other is more corrupt. In particular, Howard Dean is a L-I-A-R when he says “Republican culture of corruption.” Most people simply don’t hear about Democrat crimes and foibles, because we have a news media that is in bed with our enemies and friendly to Democrats. Dan Rather interviewing the late Saddam Hussein and then foisting forged documents on an unsuspecting public to influence a Presidential election? Diane Sawyer talking to Mahmoud Ahmedinijad about what he listens to on his iPod?

When I learned that there are people at work trying to destroy my country through its internal politics, I realized I had to get smarter about what was going on. There are many Americans all too willing to help them, and many millions of others who seem to be oblivious, both to what these people are doing, and to the very real and very deadly threat of Islamo-fascism.

Charlie Daniels had a hit song in 1980 called In America (in response to the Iran hostage crisis). Part of it went like this:

And we may have done a little bit
Of fightin' amongst ourselves
But you outside people best leave us alone
'Cause we'll all stick together
And you can take that to the bank

That’s the America that I love. I don't know where that America has gone, and I'm worried about her.

I had no political loyalty when I predicted in December 2000 that Democrats would blame President Bush for what I knew then was an already deepening recession. I was looking only at the economy and the stock market that was by then already down significantly. It was education that showed me who was lying or just gullible when a relative whom I sent that email to did not recall it six months later when he complained that George Bush had destroyed the economy. Short memories and selective memories…

But when I say such things, some people say things like “Spoken like a true Republican!” Other times I’m just called a “right wing wacko.” Those aren’t my labels—they belong to someone else. I’m actually registered Independent, because the Republicans all too often have their heads in a dark place as well. In my view, that’s a DC condition, not a Republican or Democrat condition.

I really don’t care for the labels:  right, left, liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican… I hate politics! I really just care about doing the right thing. I grew up poor, and by rights, I should be a Democrat, condemning big business, big oil, “tax cuts for the rich,” and looking to Uncle Sam for a handout. In that world, staying in poverty is somehow more honorable than getting an education and working hard to make a good, honest living, (...staying in poverty, even while blaming “the rich” for keeping them down—It’s like a kind of insanity).

Instead I decided that I wanted a better life, and that I wanted more for my kids than I had. The way to prosperity is education, sacrifice, and hard work. There are many roads to education, and there are no obstacles save for those we put in our own way.

Let’s be clear—just because I believe George Bush was a better choice than John Kerry, doesn’t mean I like everything about him. He leaves a great deal to be desired by true Conservatives. By contrast, I’ve never met a Democrat who would criticize a single thing about Bill Clinton, Al Gore, or John Kerry (well, maybe one Democrat—and he was a U.S. Marine). Many Democrats say the same in reverse, but I challenge any of them to tell me one criticism of Bill Clinton’s Presidency, OTHER than the Lewinsky scandal—That’s just too easy of a target.

I remember hearing on the news in April 2000 that stocks were down because people were selling stocks to pay their taxes (and no one asked, “Maybe their taxes are too high?”) It made no sense to me then, but it came back to me later when I began to learn that the major news media had an agenda. Now I believe their purpose for that story was to deny/try to explain the fact that the boom was over, and that it had ended on Bill Clinton’s watch, contrary to many later claims continuing to this day. Those who perpetuate this lie have an agenda, and millions who believe it know little to nothing about how even to do the research to prove or disprove it—they just take it at face value. When confronted with facts to the contrary by someone like me, their response will be something like, “All I know is my 401(k) was doing great under Clinton, and it went to hell under Bush.”

The forces at work trying to destroy this country have successfully dragged both major parties further to the left than most people realize. I think if we were all honest, people like Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan would join the Communist Party.

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.

FDR was truly a Socialist, but I think he would roll over in his grave if he could see Michael Moore next to Jimmy Carter at the Democratic National Convention. Sadly, many out there will either deny that Moore was there, or will claim that he also attended the Republican National Convention. I have heard them say so with my own ears.

People from either side of the aisle will say anything to get elected or re-elected. Yet even after being handed their own heads in the November ’06 election, many Republicans seem to be positively deaf to what we the people really want.

There is something about politics that seems to draw the most fervent misplaced loyalties and drives even reasonable, intelligent people to utterly suspend critical thinking and close their minds to dissenting views, even to hard facts. Politics drives smart people to throw facts and logic out the window. Just as the gravity of a black hole warps the fabric of space and time, politics can warp the fabric of man.

Politics creates for those elected to “serve” the public interest (i.e. those who stand to benefit from control of the public purse strings and from special interest perks), the motivation to lie, cheat, steal, connive, and manipulate. It’s like that old saying about the love of money being the root of all evil (well, almost all evil).

Politics causes people to have short memories and selective memories. They count on us forgetting that the Senator John D. Rockefeller (D) said the following during the buildup to the 2003 Iraq invasion:

“As the attacks of September 11 demonstrated, the immense destructiveness of modern technology means we can no longer afford to wait around for a smoking gun.”

Politics drives people to say “Bush lied and took us to war!” and to count on us forgetting that Bill Clinton said the following on December 16, 1998:

“Heavy as they are, the costs of action must be weighed against the price of inaction. If Saddam defies the world and we fail to respond, we will face a far greater threat in the future. Saddam will strike again at his neighbors. He will make war on his own people.

And mark my words, he will develop weapons of mass destruction. He will deploy them, and he will use them.”

They say Bush lied, but that when presenting the same information more than four years earlier, Bill Clinton did not lie. Taking action based on information does not make the information itself either true or false. Nor does taking action make the information a LIE, particularly because we only know now after taking such action, that the information was false.

When confronted with this inconsistency, politics drives people to respond with “But Bill Clinton didn’t take us to war!” and they count on us not knowing that there were 30 civilian deaths on the first day of air attacks that Bill Clinton ordered, in addition to many other inconvenient facts.

Politics drives ordinary Americans to blind loyalty to one party, and blind hatred of the other… I cannot comprehend this, especially at a time when we face an unprecedented threat to our very civilization from Islamic fascists who think there is no greater glory than to blow themselves up to kill us, or even to die in a blaze of American firepower.

Politics drives school teachers to refuse to salute the flag, not to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance, and to state in the school newspaper that they do so because they disagree with the President’s decision to invade Iraq.

Politics drives newspaper publishers to print exclusively one-sided content only from certain “journalists”, and from one particular mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, but not from other mothers of soldiers killed in Iraq, and to ignore facts which run counter to their agenda.

Politics drives politicians to invoke the name of revered ex-Presidents as they twist his words, in lies to their constituents about the intentions of a current President. At the same time, politicians from both sides conspire to over-tax we the people, spend the excess, and sell us a bill of goods that it is being kept in a “trust fund.”

Politics drives many Americans to say George W. Bush is “the worst President ever.” Those who believe so should brush up on their history:

Warren G. Harding
Andrew Johnson
James Buchanan

…and especially Franklin Pierce.

Politics drives people to say “The deficit is out of control!” and to count on us not knowing the truth:

“The federal government probably ran a deficit of about $250 billion in fiscal year 2006, which ended Sept. 30, the Congressional Budget Office estimated Friday. That's about $10 billion less than the CBO forecast earlier this summer and about $68 billion less than the $318 billion deficit recorded in fiscal 2005 Corporate tax receipts have continued to come in ahead of Expectations.”

Politics drives the mother of a son killed in Iraq to write in a comparison of George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler, about traveling back in time to kill the infant Bush.

We have a politician—a prominent Senator and former Presidential candidate openly joking on the Bill Maher show “I could have gone to 1600 Pennsylvania and killed the real bird with one stone.” To this the studio full of sycophants responded with delighted applause and laughter.

To the best of my knowledge, both of these people should have been visited by the Secret Service and arrested for these comments, but they get away with it.

This is not a partisan thing—I would be just as disgusted if someone made a similar joke about murdering Bill Clinton, but to the best of my knowledge, no one has ever done so in such a public manner, on national TV, and in particular not a US Senator and former candidate for the Presidency!

Politics drives Congress to waste the people’s time on senseless and useless endeavors… What is the deal with this non-binding resolution? Doesn’t Congress have some real people’s work to do, like fixing the mess they made with this Pension Protection Act, which is so poorly written because they were in such a hurry to get it through so they could go home last year? Now they’re wasting our time debating just how deeply to bury the knife with which they are stabbing our troops in the back!

What has happened to the America that Charlie Daniels sang about nearly 30 years ago?

I should have started this blog long ago. I spent way too many hours debating in other forums, with people who have simply closed their eyes to anything resembling a fact that runs counter to their beliefs. I also spent too many hours writing letters to editors of “newspapers.” They either never printed such letters, or they didn’t have the courage to print them without a rebuttal next to them full of yet more lies from the “journalist” to which I was responding. They can’t do that here, which is why they are trying their level best to squelch blogs, talk radio, and Fox News.