May 25, 2008
A BLACK COLUMNIST WRITES ABOUT OBAMA
A REALISTIC OVERVIEW
Ken Blackwell
Columnist for the New York Sun
It's an amazing time to be alive in America. We're in a year of firsts in this presidential election: the first viable woman candidate; the first viableAfrican-American candidate; and, a candidate who is the first front running freedom fighter over 70. The next president of America will be a first.We won't truly be in an election of firsts, however, until we judge every candidate by where they stand. We won't arrive where we should be until we no longer talk about skin color or gender.
Now that Barack Obama steps to the front of the Democratic field, we need to stop talking about his race, and start talking about his policies and his politics. The realty is this: Though the Democrats will not have a nominee until August, unless Hillary Clinton drops out, Mr. Obama is now the frontrunner, and its timeAmerica takes a closer and deeper look at him.
Some pundits are calling him the next John F. Kennedy. He's not. He's the next George McGovern. And it's time people learned the facts. Because the truth is that Mr. Obama is the single most liberal senator in the entire U.S. Senate. He is more liberal than Ted Kennedy, Bernie Sanders, or Mrs. Clinton. Never in my life have I seen a presidential front runner whose rhetoric is so far removed from his record. Walter Mondale promised to raise ourtaxes, and he lost. George McGovern promised military weakness, and he lost. Michael Dukakis promised a liberal domestic agenda, and he lost. Yet Mr. Obama is promising all those things, and he's not behind in the polls.Why? Because the press has dealt with him as if he were in a beauty pageant.
Mr. Obama talks about getting past party, getting past red and blue, to lead the United States of America. But let's look at the more defined strokes of who he is underneath this superficial 'beauty.'
Start with national security, since the president's most important duties are as commander-in-chief. Over the summer, Mr. Obama talked about invading Pakistan, a nation armed with nuclear weapons; meeting without preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who vows to destroy Israel and create another Holocaust; and Kim Jong II, who is murdering and starving his people, but emphasized that the nuclear option was off the table against terrorists - something no president has ever taken off the table since we created nuclear weapons in the 1940s. Even Democrats who have worked in national security condemned all of those remarks. Mr. Obama is a foreign-policy novice who would put our national security at risk.
Next, consider economic policy. For all its faults, our health care system is the strongest in the world. And free trade agreements, created by Bill Clinton as well as President Bush, have made more goods more affordable so that even people of modest means can live a life that no one imagined a generation ago.Yet Mr. Obama promises to raise taxes on 'the rich.'
How to fix Social Security?Raise taxes.
How to fix Medicare? Raise taxes.
Prescription drugs? Raise taxes.
Free college? Raise taxes.
Socialize medicine? Raise taxes.
His solution to everything is to have government take it over. Big Brother on steroids, funded by your paycheck.
Finally, look at the social issues.
Mr. Obama had the audacity to open a stadium rally by saying, 'All praise and glory to God!' but says that Christian leaders speaking for life and marriage have 'hijacked' - hijacked - Christianity. He is pro-partial birth abortion, and promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who will rule any restriction on it unconstitutional. He espouses the abortion views of Margaret Sanger, one of the early advocates of racial cleansing. His spiritual leaders endorse homosexual marriage, and he is moving in that direction. In Illinois, he refused to vote against a statewide ban on all handguns in the state. These are radical left, Hollywood, and San Francisco values, not Middle America values.
The real Mr. Obama is an easy target for the general election. Mrs. Clinton is a far tougher opponent. But Mr Obama could win if people don't start looking behind his veneer and flowery speeches.
His vision of 'bringing America together' means saying that those who disagree with his agenda for America are hijackers or war mongers.
Uniting the country means adopting his liberal agenda and abandoning any conflicting beliefs. But right now everyone is talking about how eloquent of a speaker he is and -yes - they're talking about his race. Those should never be the factors on which we base our choice for president.
Mr. Obama's radical agenda sets him far outside the American mainstream, to the left of Mrs. Clinton. It's time to talk about the real Barack Obama.
IN AN ELECTION OF FIRSTS, LET'S FIRST MAKE SURE WE ELECT THE PERSON WHO IS QUALIFIED TO BE OUR PRESIDENT IN A NUCLEAR AGE DURING A GLOBAL CIVILIZATIONAL WAR.
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Saturday, October 11, 2008
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CAROLE'S POLITICAL VIEWS
Obama 'Lying' About Muslim Past, Expert Says
Thursday, October 9, 2008 12:19 PMBy: David A. Patten
Sen. Barack Obama “is lying” when he insists that he has never prayed in a mosque and was never a Muslim, a prominent Middle East expert and journalist says. Daniel Pipes, founder of the Middle East Forum think tank, says he fully accepts that Obama is a Christian now. But there is strong evidence that Obama received a Muslim upbringing during his years in Indonesia, Pipes said. “It’s fine with me that he was a Muslim and a convert to Christianity,” Pipes told Newsmax. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal “is a convert from Hinduism. I have no problem with his conversion. What I have a problem with is that he’s lying” when he says he was never a Muslim.
Newsmax asked whether Pipes is alleging outright that Obama has lied about having a Muslim upbringing. Pipes’ response: “The evidence suggests to me that he is lying, yes.”
Pipes told Newsmax, “It would start with the fact that his father was a Muslim — granted, not a practicing Muslim, but in the Muslim world, if your father is a Muslim, you’re a Muslim. His father named him Hussein, which is a name only given to Muslim babies. He went with his stepfather to a mosque. They celebrated certain Muslim holidays at the mosque together. He had knowledge of the Koran. He had knowledge of Muslim prayers. You put all this together, he was a Muslim.”
Pipes contends that a Nov. 12 post on Obama’s Web site headlined, "Barack Obama Is Not and Has Never Been a Muslim," stated: "Obama never prayed in a mosque. He has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian."
Today, that post bears the same headline, but does not include an assertion that Obama “never prayed in a mosque” and “has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim.” The page now bears a quote Obama made during the Jan. 15 debate on MSNBC: “In the Internet age, there are going to be lies that are spread all over the place. I have been victimized by these lies. Fortunately, the American people are, I think, smarter than folks give them credit for.”
The current post, which includes links intended to debunk any Muslim connection, is headlined “Obama Has Never Been A Muslim, And Is a Committed Christian”. Several media outlets, including the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, have reported on Obama’s schooling in Indonesia, where he lived from 1967 to 1971, which included Muslim religious studies.
It is known, for example, that Obama’s designation as a Muslim while attending a Catholic school may have simply reflected the fact that his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, was Muslim. Still, Obama was grouped with Muslim students at the school and engaged in weekly religious studies, including studying the Koran and learning Muslim prayers.
In 1970, Obama’s family moved and he was enrolled in a public school where children such as Obama who were identified as Muslim spent two hours a week studying Islam. A March 2007 Chicago Tribune article by Kim Barker, which stated several accounts had “distorted the reality” of Obama’s years in Indonesia, reported that he did irregularly attend Muslim prayer services at the local mosque.
Obama’s third-grade teacher at the Catholic school, Fermina Katarina Sinaga, told Barker that Obama accompanied his stepfather to pray at the mosque, doing so “rarely.” Pipes said Barker’s story bolsters his position that Obama was raised as a Muslim while he lived in Indonesia. His accounts of Obama’s upbringing have received a “very severe reaction from the left” and threats from some Muslims, he said. “The Islamists murmur and threaten,” Pipes said, declining to specify the threats he has received.
Pipes sees a whopping double standard in how the mainstream media has reported on Obama’s past. “It’s been quite fascinating to watch the careful picking over of Sarah Palin’s record, down to her library policies as mayor of Wasilla, and her possible false pregnancies, and so forth, an analysis that involved excruciating details in her case.”
He contrasts that to the “the general pass” the media has given Obama, whether over his career in the Illinois Senate, the Annenberg library papers, or his upbringing in Jakarta. Pipes said his reports have “simply been dismissed as untrue without any facts to counter it.”
The McCain campaign “has been very cautious about looking into Barack Obama at all,” said Pipes, adding that the GOP has demonstrated a general reluctance to raise questions about Obama’s past.
Pipes has posted four articles on his Web site, “DanielPipes.org”, defending his view that Obama was a Muslim. The articles include the assertion that “for some years (Obama) had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of his Indonesian stepfather.” As a measure of the interest in Obama’s background, Pipes’ articles have attracted close to half a million hits.
One point of contention they raise: When someone is born of a Muslim father, do Muslims automatically consider him a Muslim? A group of more than 50 scholars recently posted a statement on tabsir.net, a Web site dedicated to fostering an understanding of Islam, that seeks to refute that assertion. The statement maintains that distortions about Obama’s past are “part of an Islamophobic hate campaign that fuels prejudice against Americans who practice their Islamic faith and Muslims worldwide.”
Their statement says, “The vast majority of Muslims accept the Qur’anic message that there is no compulsion in Islam. Since Senator Obama was not raised as a Muslim, he cannot be held accountable for the religious status of his father.”
That assertion sounds logical to Western ears, but Pipes’ rejects it flatly. "There is no doubt: It is a fact in Islam that the religion passes on through the father,” he told Newsmax. “And yet it’s denied as a falsehood by people who know better. They know better. It’s Islam 101.”
Supporting Pipes on that point is Shireen K. Burki, an adjunct professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington. Burki, who spent her childhood studying Islam at a school in Islamabad, Pakistan, has first-hand experience as the daughter of a Muslim father and a Christian mother.
“According to Islamic jurisprudence,” she wrote in a May article in the Christian Science Monitor, “children of a Muslim father — even an apparently nonpracticing one, such as Obama’s father, and irrespective of the mother’s faith — are automatically Muslims. Most Muslims around the world agree: A child of a Muslim father is a Muslim. Period.”
Given that Obama’s profession of Christianity is essentially uncontested, one might wonder whether it really matters whether Obama once was Muslim. To many of the world’s approximately 1.4 billion Muslims, it apparently would matter a great deal. Experts on Islam generally agree that someone who is born a Muslim (in effect, someone who had a Muslim father), who later renounces Islam, is considered an apostate.
Burki writes, “Should Obama become U.S. commander in chief, there is a strong likelihood that al-Qaida’s media arm, As-Sahab, will exploit his background to argue that an apostate is leading the global war on terror (read: attacks against fellow Muslims). This perception would be leveraged to galvanize sympathizers into action.”
She suggests the apostate tag would be a powerful propaganda weapon that al-Qaida could wield to marginalize America’s Middle East allies, causing “enormous difficulties” in the war against terror.
© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
Thursday, October 9, 2008 12:19 PMBy: David A. Patten
Sen. Barack Obama “is lying” when he insists that he has never prayed in a mosque and was never a Muslim, a prominent Middle East expert and journalist says. Daniel Pipes, founder of the Middle East Forum think tank, says he fully accepts that Obama is a Christian now. But there is strong evidence that Obama received a Muslim upbringing during his years in Indonesia, Pipes said. “It’s fine with me that he was a Muslim and a convert to Christianity,” Pipes told Newsmax. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal “is a convert from Hinduism. I have no problem with his conversion. What I have a problem with is that he’s lying” when he says he was never a Muslim.
Newsmax asked whether Pipes is alleging outright that Obama has lied about having a Muslim upbringing. Pipes’ response: “The evidence suggests to me that he is lying, yes.”
Pipes told Newsmax, “It would start with the fact that his father was a Muslim — granted, not a practicing Muslim, but in the Muslim world, if your father is a Muslim, you’re a Muslim. His father named him Hussein, which is a name only given to Muslim babies. He went with his stepfather to a mosque. They celebrated certain Muslim holidays at the mosque together. He had knowledge of the Koran. He had knowledge of Muslim prayers. You put all this together, he was a Muslim.”
Pipes contends that a Nov. 12 post on Obama’s Web site headlined, "Barack Obama Is Not and Has Never Been a Muslim," stated: "Obama never prayed in a mosque. He has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian."
Today, that post bears the same headline, but does not include an assertion that Obama “never prayed in a mosque” and “has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim.” The page now bears a quote Obama made during the Jan. 15 debate on MSNBC: “In the Internet age, there are going to be lies that are spread all over the place. I have been victimized by these lies. Fortunately, the American people are, I think, smarter than folks give them credit for.”
The current post, which includes links intended to debunk any Muslim connection, is headlined “Obama Has Never Been A Muslim, And Is a Committed Christian”. Several media outlets, including the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, have reported on Obama’s schooling in Indonesia, where he lived from 1967 to 1971, which included Muslim religious studies.
It is known, for example, that Obama’s designation as a Muslim while attending a Catholic school may have simply reflected the fact that his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, was Muslim. Still, Obama was grouped with Muslim students at the school and engaged in weekly religious studies, including studying the Koran and learning Muslim prayers.
In 1970, Obama’s family moved and he was enrolled in a public school where children such as Obama who were identified as Muslim spent two hours a week studying Islam. A March 2007 Chicago Tribune article by Kim Barker, which stated several accounts had “distorted the reality” of Obama’s years in Indonesia, reported that he did irregularly attend Muslim prayer services at the local mosque.
Obama’s third-grade teacher at the Catholic school, Fermina Katarina Sinaga, told Barker that Obama accompanied his stepfather to pray at the mosque, doing so “rarely.” Pipes said Barker’s story bolsters his position that Obama was raised as a Muslim while he lived in Indonesia. His accounts of Obama’s upbringing have received a “very severe reaction from the left” and threats from some Muslims, he said. “The Islamists murmur and threaten,” Pipes said, declining to specify the threats he has received.
Pipes sees a whopping double standard in how the mainstream media has reported on Obama’s past. “It’s been quite fascinating to watch the careful picking over of Sarah Palin’s record, down to her library policies as mayor of Wasilla, and her possible false pregnancies, and so forth, an analysis that involved excruciating details in her case.”
He contrasts that to the “the general pass” the media has given Obama, whether over his career in the Illinois Senate, the Annenberg library papers, or his upbringing in Jakarta. Pipes said his reports have “simply been dismissed as untrue without any facts to counter it.”
The McCain campaign “has been very cautious about looking into Barack Obama at all,” said Pipes, adding that the GOP has demonstrated a general reluctance to raise questions about Obama’s past.
Pipes has posted four articles on his Web site, “DanielPipes.org”, defending his view that Obama was a Muslim. The articles include the assertion that “for some years (Obama) had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of his Indonesian stepfather.” As a measure of the interest in Obama’s background, Pipes’ articles have attracted close to half a million hits.
One point of contention they raise: When someone is born of a Muslim father, do Muslims automatically consider him a Muslim? A group of more than 50 scholars recently posted a statement on tabsir.net, a Web site dedicated to fostering an understanding of Islam, that seeks to refute that assertion. The statement maintains that distortions about Obama’s past are “part of an Islamophobic hate campaign that fuels prejudice against Americans who practice their Islamic faith and Muslims worldwide.”
Their statement says, “The vast majority of Muslims accept the Qur’anic message that there is no compulsion in Islam. Since Senator Obama was not raised as a Muslim, he cannot be held accountable for the religious status of his father.”
That assertion sounds logical to Western ears, but Pipes’ rejects it flatly. "There is no doubt: It is a fact in Islam that the religion passes on through the father,” he told Newsmax. “And yet it’s denied as a falsehood by people who know better. They know better. It’s Islam 101.”
Supporting Pipes on that point is Shireen K. Burki, an adjunct professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington. Burki, who spent her childhood studying Islam at a school in Islamabad, Pakistan, has first-hand experience as the daughter of a Muslim father and a Christian mother.
“According to Islamic jurisprudence,” she wrote in a May article in the Christian Science Monitor, “children of a Muslim father — even an apparently nonpracticing one, such as Obama’s father, and irrespective of the mother’s faith — are automatically Muslims. Most Muslims around the world agree: A child of a Muslim father is a Muslim. Period.”
Given that Obama’s profession of Christianity is essentially uncontested, one might wonder whether it really matters whether Obama once was Muslim. To many of the world’s approximately 1.4 billion Muslims, it apparently would matter a great deal. Experts on Islam generally agree that someone who is born a Muslim (in effect, someone who had a Muslim father), who later renounces Islam, is considered an apostate.
Burki writes, “Should Obama become U.S. commander in chief, there is a strong likelihood that al-Qaida’s media arm, As-Sahab, will exploit his background to argue that an apostate is leading the global war on terror (read: attacks against fellow Muslims). This perception would be leveraged to galvanize sympathizers into action.”
She suggests the apostate tag would be a powerful propaganda weapon that al-Qaida could wield to marginalize America’s Middle East allies, causing “enormous difficulties” in the war against terror.
© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
CAROLE'S POLITICS
Lieberman Calls Obama 'Naïve,' May Bolt Party
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 3:23 PMBy: Tim Collie and David Patten
“I believe he’s naïve to think that people like [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad and Tehran will somehow become America’s friends by talking to them — a warm embrace and a cup of tea. It’s not going to work that way,” said Lieberman.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 3:23 PMBy: Tim Collie and David Patten
Sen. Barack Obama’s “naïve” world view could embolden America’s enemies during one of the most dangerous periods for America since the 1930s, U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman told Newsmax in an exclusive television sit-down interview Tuesday.
Lieberman, visiting Fort Lauderdale, Fla., also told Newsmax that he is so disappointed with the Democratic Party, he will consider whether to bolt the Democratic Senate caucus next session.
“I believe he’s naïve to think that people like [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad and Tehran will somehow become America’s friends by talking to them — a warm embrace and a cup of tea. It’s not going to work that way,” said Lieberman.
McCain’s recent decline in the polls was “unfair” and “not rational,” Lieberman said, referring to the negative economic news that has impacted the McCain campaign.
The Connecticut senator suggested that many Americans don’t realize that the global economic crisis is also a security crisis—one that will require an experienced foreign policy hand like McCain to navigate.
“Frankly, he has to convince the American people that Barack Obama is not ready for prime time, that he’s not ready to be president of the United States,’’ Lieberman said. “Particularly not now, when we’re in two wars abroad and facing the most serious economic crisis we’ve faced since the Great Depression.”
“The very fact that the American people clearly trust John McCain more in a national security crisis is exactly the reason why they should have more confidence in him in an economic security crisis than Senator Obama,” said Lieberman.
In a wide-ranging interview, Lieberman also said:
• It’s important for the political process to question Obama’s ties to former Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers: “I think these are very fair questions and it’s now up to Senator Obama to answer them.”
• Barack Obama is clearly ‘not ready’ yet to be commander in chief, and the country’s adversaries, including Iran “will not fear him” if he were to become president.
• McCain should tout his economic plan that will emphasize tax cuts and job creation. He said it would be foolhardy to raise taxes in a recession, as Obama has promised.
• The Republicans must emphasize that his plan for energy independence will create “hundreds of thousands, I think millions of new jobs.”
Asked if he may leave his party and join with Senate Republicans, Lieberman said he had no immediate plans to make that move, but said he would consider it at a later date.
“The Democratic Party of today is not the Democratic Party that I joined in the '60s under my hero President Kennedy, and it’s not the Democratic Party of my dear friend Bill Clinton,” Lieberman said.
He introduced McCain's vice presidential running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, to a Boca Raton audience at an event that raised more than $1 million.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
CAROLE'S POLITICS
WHAT AUDACITY!
WHO IS THIS MAN WHO WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE USA? QUALIFICATIONS?
Obama is hailed by the USA young people, who are finally old enough to vote, like celeberties. They seem carried away with the privilege ... without knowing or understanding what is really at stake here ... unsure of the seriousness of what we are really voting for. This is dangerous ... as their numbers are many. This is not class officer election ... THIS ELECTION WILL CHOOSE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE UNIVERSE ... THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE WORLD. THIS IS THE PERSON WHO WILL PROTECT US AND KEEP US FREE. Do these young people realize the seriousness of their vote?
It is time the older generation, The Greatest Generation woke up and began to voice their opinions ... loud and clear. It is time for Senator McCain to take off the gloves and start swinging ... hard ... standing tough ... telling it like it really is ... revealing Barack Obama's shady backgroud, lack of experience, little accomplishments. We remember the devastation Hitler brought on Germany and what Castro did to Cuba ... how they both hoodwinked the people, then when in office, enslaved their people, putting them in chains and prisons, taking away their freedom, confiscating their property, murdered thousands, destroyed their homeland and its people.
We really know little about Barack Obama ... few ever heard of him before the election ... and what has he accomplished to be running for President of this great land? He hasn't even been in the Senate long enough to pass any legislation ... has been absent for most of the Senate votes, has spent most of his term raising money and running for office. How can a man with no record of accomplishments consider himself ready to lead our powerful nation? He grew rich in office hoarding illegal money, along with several of his colleagues. The USA carried him along, blessing him with privileges ... like ivy league educations ... it goes on and on. When our children had the grades and could afford finer colleges, they couldn't be admitted as their quota of international students were priority ... our students had to wait while places meant for our children were given to un-Americans. It is not fair. Our campuses are filled with international students. We sacrificed to send 5 children to college, paying our way ... even paying double when out of state. Many foreign students are receiving free educations, paid for by our taxpayers. WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE PEOPLE?
Our country is suffering from apathy. We are spoiled, everything is too convenient. If we do not protect our country, this could all disappear. If we elect the wrong president, one who does not honor our American ways ... our flag ... our National Anthem ... our servicemen who are sacrificing their lives to keep us free, we could wake up one morning and find a very different country than we have today. While we sit blindly and idly by ...everything we know and love could just slip away. It is frightening to say the least.
I cannot believe what is happening to our country. Where is our pride and courage? As a child, we prayed every morning in school, said The Pledge of Allegiance, and sang patriotic songs ... it was wartime, WWII and all the children saved cans and paper, rubber and took turns standing in our lookout tower at school to search for strange planes. We grew victory gardens, rationed food, gas, sugar, coffee, most everything. Kids had little candy or gum. We shared our rations. We cared about each other, checked the Honor Roll daily to see who was new on the roster or missing ... or, God forbid, killed. The whole town suffered the losses ... we knew most of the boys.
To this day, I thank God for all our brave men who served our country well and fought to keep us free. When the old vets march by, I want to get down on my hands and knees and kiss the ground they walk on. They are the true heroes ... our servicemen and our astronauts. Obama said, in his book, if elected and things were not going well, his loyalties would be with the Muslims. Now what kind of man is that who wants to be President of the United States of America? WAKE UP PEOPLE!
GOD BLESS AMERICA! GOD BLESS OUR PEOPLE TO CHOOSE OUR LEADERS WELL! GOD BLESS OUR TROUPS! GOD BLESS US ALL!
WHO IS THIS MAN WHO WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE USA? QUALIFICATIONS?
Obama is hailed by the USA young people, who are finally old enough to vote, like celeberties. They seem carried away with the privilege ... without knowing or understanding what is really at stake here ... unsure of the seriousness of what we are really voting for. This is dangerous ... as their numbers are many. This is not class officer election ... THIS ELECTION WILL CHOOSE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE UNIVERSE ... THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE WORLD. THIS IS THE PERSON WHO WILL PROTECT US AND KEEP US FREE. Do these young people realize the seriousness of their vote?
It is time the older generation, The Greatest Generation woke up and began to voice their opinions ... loud and clear. It is time for Senator McCain to take off the gloves and start swinging ... hard ... standing tough ... telling it like it really is ... revealing Barack Obama's shady backgroud, lack of experience, little accomplishments. We remember the devastation Hitler brought on Germany and what Castro did to Cuba ... how they both hoodwinked the people, then when in office, enslaved their people, putting them in chains and prisons, taking away their freedom, confiscating their property, murdered thousands, destroyed their homeland and its people.
We really know little about Barack Obama ... few ever heard of him before the election ... and what has he accomplished to be running for President of this great land? He hasn't even been in the Senate long enough to pass any legislation ... has been absent for most of the Senate votes, has spent most of his term raising money and running for office. How can a man with no record of accomplishments consider himself ready to lead our powerful nation? He grew rich in office hoarding illegal money, along with several of his colleagues. The USA carried him along, blessing him with privileges ... like ivy league educations ... it goes on and on. When our children had the grades and could afford finer colleges, they couldn't be admitted as their quota of international students were priority ... our students had to wait while places meant for our children were given to un-Americans. It is not fair. Our campuses are filled with international students. We sacrificed to send 5 children to college, paying our way ... even paying double when out of state. Many foreign students are receiving free educations, paid for by our taxpayers. WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE PEOPLE?
Our country is suffering from apathy. We are spoiled, everything is too convenient. If we do not protect our country, this could all disappear. If we elect the wrong president, one who does not honor our American ways ... our flag ... our National Anthem ... our servicemen who are sacrificing their lives to keep us free, we could wake up one morning and find a very different country than we have today. While we sit blindly and idly by ...everything we know and love could just slip away. It is frightening to say the least.
I cannot believe what is happening to our country. Where is our pride and courage? As a child, we prayed every morning in school, said The Pledge of Allegiance, and sang patriotic songs ... it was wartime, WWII and all the children saved cans and paper, rubber and took turns standing in our lookout tower at school to search for strange planes. We grew victory gardens, rationed food, gas, sugar, coffee, most everything. Kids had little candy or gum. We shared our rations. We cared about each other, checked the Honor Roll daily to see who was new on the roster or missing ... or, God forbid, killed. The whole town suffered the losses ... we knew most of the boys.
To this day, I thank God for all our brave men who served our country well and fought to keep us free. When the old vets march by, I want to get down on my hands and knees and kiss the ground they walk on. They are the true heroes ... our servicemen and our astronauts. Obama said, in his book, if elected and things were not going well, his loyalties would be with the Muslims. Now what kind of man is that who wants to be President of the United States of America? WAKE UP PEOPLE!
GOD BLESS AMERICA! GOD BLESS OUR PEOPLE TO CHOOSE OUR LEADERS WELL! GOD BLESS OUR TROUPS! GOD BLESS US ALL!
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