U.S. Commander of Afghanistan only talked to Obama once (Are you kidding me??!!)

Will Malven
9/28/2009

The key to understanding and competent leadership is knowledge of the basic issues and good communications with those upon whom one depends to execute his directives and carry out his orders.

Any good leader knows this, whether he be the CEO of a corporation, or the commander of troops in combat; good communications can be the difference between victory and defeat. Unfortunately President Obama, being totally inexperienced and completely unprepared for his role as President and Commander in Chief, lacks this basic understanding. Well, he was a community organizer with absolutely no experience in directing a large enterprise, so this should come as no surprise.

So here we have a situation where there are American troops fighting against an implacable enemy and the commander on the ground has spoken to the Commander in Chief (who specifically placed him in command of those troops) exactly once in over two months.

Here is the Washington Times report (with the link in the title):

U.S. Commander of Afghanistan only talked to Obama once

By Amanda Carpenter
Sept. 28, 2009

The military general credited for capturing Saddam Hussein and killing the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq says he has only spoken to President Obama once since taking command of Afghanistan.

“I’ve talked to the president, since I’ve been here, once on a VTC [video teleconferece],” General Stanley McChrystal told CBS reporter David Martin in a television interview that aired Sunday.

“You’ve talked to him once in 70 days?” Mr. Martin followed up.

“That is correct,” the general replied.

How do you respond to this? How can you make any claim to competency when you are so far out of the loop that you haven't even made the effort to communicate with your military commanders? Common sense alone would dictate that, as Commander-in-Chief, you need to talk to your subordinates on a regular and frequent basis, if only to remain informed of the status of combat operations.

I am not surprised by this revelation...at least I shouldn't be...because this is typical of how Democrats view the military and foreign policy.

When your whole understanding of international relations begins with "America has been wrong in the past and is wrong now," then it is no small leap to the concept of relegating military action to the back burner of your priorities.

When the entire focus of your presidency is to "completely restructure American society" along the lines of a Utopian socialist paradise, then all foreign policy becomes of secondary importance.

Obama has no time for the military because he is too busy destroying the lives of the American people with his "Cap and Trade" environmental boondoggle and his "health care initiative." He is too busy attacking citizens who oppose his destructive domestic agenda to worry about the lives of our troops and the conduct of a war that will directly influence our national security.

He is too busy pandering to the Latino voters by perusing amnesty to the 20-30 million illegal aliens in America and fighting against securing our borders by removing agents.

Lastly, he is too busy travelling around the nation and the world apologizing for America's past behavior and attempting to make friends with those leaders who hate America.

The man hs spent more time in Air Force One than he has behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. Apparently he believes that being the President is akin to going on a four year worldwide holiday paid for by the American taxpayer.

Looks like President Obama has perceived the threat, from Jimmy Carter, to his apparent aspirations to becoming the most incompetent president in history and is firing another salvo in an attempt to recapture the lead.

The question to ask now is not, "Is President Obama incompetent?" It is, "Just how incompetent is President Obama?"

So far the answer to that question is, "Breathtakingly."

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

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US might have been involved in 2002 Chavez coup: Carter (Will Someone Shut This Idiot Up?)

Will Malven
8/20/2009

Apparently Jimmy Carter at being relegated to the number two position as our National Idiot in Chief. Seems his gross incompetence as President "Malaise" isn't sufficient to guarantee him first place given the stellar performance of our current occupant of the White House.

First he made a blanket indictment of every white person in the United States that disagrees with President Obama as a "racist." Now he has sided with our enemies in Venezuela in declaring that not only did our government (meaning of course that nasty, evil, George Bush) know about the attempted 2002 coups against President Hugo Chavez, but that we probably took part in it. I hear next week he is planning to open up his very own psychic hotline (call 1-900 Malaise).

Well here is the Breitbart article with the title linked:

US might have been involved in 2002 Chavez coup: Carter

Sep 20 05:07 PM US/Eastern

The United States knew about an abortive coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2002, and may even have taken part, former US president Jimmy Carter has told a Colombian newspaper.

"I think there is no doubt that in 2002, the United States had at the very least full knowledge about the coup, and could even have been directly involved," Carter said in an interview with El Tiempo published Sunday.

The former US leader said it is understandable that Chavez continues to blame the United States for the failed overthrow attempt.

The Venezuelan president, considered a bulwark of leftism in Latin America, was overthrown by a civilian-military junta for about 48 hours in April 2002, before returning to power.

Then-president George W. Bush denied any US involvement in the abortive coup and called on Chavez, a fierce US critic, to "learn a lesson" from the attempted overthrow.

What an embarrassment he is...although, I understand that among liberals he is considered a genius, not that that is saying much about him, but it says a lot about them.

Not content with his constant verbal attacks against the only democratically elected government in the Middle East (up until the still fledgling Republic of Iraq) and unsatisfied with assuring that North Korea was able to obtain a nuclear arsenal, he continues to demonstrate his abiding hatred of his own nation and any who believe in the principles for which she stands.

Obama is working hard to become the most unsuccessful and destructive President in our nation's 230+ year history, but former President "Jimmah Cahtah" has not been resting on his own considerable incompetence laurels.

Obama is going to have to work twice as hard if he still intends to capture that elusive title of "Worst President In History."

Come On President Obama! I'm pulling for you. I know you can do it. I know you can be the worst...with ACORN and Media Matters and George Soros helping you, you have the full potential to defeat President Malaise and capture that treasured Democrat title (although you still have a ways to go in topping Carter's "Killer Bunny" adventure).

Seriously folks, someone needs to put a cork in Carter's vile cake hole.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

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Newspaper journalism gets words of praise Print media's role vital, Obama says (Making "The State Run Media" Official)

Will Malven
9/20/2009

To quote The Great One, "There you go again."

Obama said in an interview with the Toledo Blade, that he "would be happy to look at" the bills now being introduced into Congress to bail out or otherwise assist the dying print media.

President Obama Marxes On:

Let's see:

• First he nationalized the banks and financial institutions,
• then he takes over ownership of the automotive industry,
• then he begins the attempt to control and restructure the energy industry,
• then he begins his attempt to socialize the health care industry, and
• now he and the Democrats want to make the already badly tainted "independent" press beholden to the national government

All of that in his first nine months. Man this socialist hasn't wasted any time with implementing the "change" part of his "Hope and Change" promise. Well here is a part of the Toledo Blade article/interview with the usual link in the title:

Newspaper journalism gets words of praise Print media's role vital, Obama says

September 20, 2009
By DAVE MURRAY
BLADE SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS EDITOR

Saying he is a "big newspaper junkie," President Obama expressed hope on Friday that newspapers can find their way through the financial crisis most are now mired in.

In an Oval Office interview with editors from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Blade, the President talked about the vital role journalism and newspapers play in American society.

"Journalistic integrity, you know, fact-based reporting, serious investigative reporting, how to retain those ethics in all these different new media and how to make sure that it's paid for, is really a challenge," Mr. Obama said. "But it's something that I think is absolutely critical to the health of our democracy."

Really? Obama should hire out as a comedian. I mean, "Journalistic integrity...fact-based reporting, serious investigative reporting?" Since when has the mainstream media been doing any of that where Obama and his administration have been concerned?

What a joke! Okay, I guess he means like the diligent and relentless way in which the New York Times reported on the Van Jones scandal...oh yeah, they didn't.

Well then maybe he was talking about the intense and detailed coverage of the Tea Party movement and their march on Washington D.C. was covered by all of the mainstream media...oh yeah, it wasn't.

The President didn't even know that there was going to be a huge rally in D.C. according to him. Now since we know that President Obama would never lie about something like that, I submit it as further proof that the mainstream media failed to cover the roughly one million citizens who met in Washington to protest government spending and the Obama march towards socialism.

My favorite comment by him in this interview was:

"I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding,"

Hah-hah! What a card. You are "concerned" that you are getting your sorry behind kicked in the debate on the issues and you would like to stifle all dissent. What a jokester he is...and prevaricator.

Sorry Mr. President, it would appear that all of the "fact checking" and all of the putting of "stories in context" has been done by the blogosphere you so blithely condemn. It sure as hell hasn't been done by the people you are now considering funding with tax-payer money; they have been at your beck and call since you first announced your candidacy.

This is a seriously concerning proposal coming out of Democrats in Congress and the White House. Our press is supposed to be independent of the government, not dependant on the government. Hence the first amendment to our Constitution:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Turning the print media into dependants of the federal government renders them subject to pressure from that government and thus negates any possibility of "...freedom of speech, or of the press..."

Such a press would instantly become suspect as the paid propaganda wing of the federal government and any editor would be brave indeed to "bite the hand" that fed him.

Like most ideas (well, pretty much all that I can think of) which come from the Democrat Party this one is seriously flawed and probably unconstitutional, and most certainly contrary to the intent and design of our forefathers in writing our Constitution.

This President and this Democrat Party controlled Congress just continue to get worse and worse.

One more thing Mr. President. We live in a REPUBLIC, not a "democracy."
Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

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Car showrooms quiet after clunkers clamor ends (DUH!)

Will Malven
9/20/2009

Gee! Who'd a thunk it? Car dealerships are back building inventories as buyers stay away in droves.

Essentially, what this means is that the billions of tax-payer dollars Obama and the Democrat Congress spent on the "Cash for Clunkers" program were wasted...wow, no one predicted this. [Roll eyes]

This is simply the latest example of the idiocy that now poses as leadership in the White House and in Congress. The longer these Democrats remain in power the greater my contempt for them grows...beginning with our Tyro in Chief. The man had no business running for President. Unqualified is the precise word.

Well here's a part of the Boston.com article and the usual link:

Car showrooms quiet after clunkers clamor ends

Dealers add other incentives in bid to entice buyers

By Megan Woolhouse
Globe Staff / September 19, 2009

It has been nearly a month since the car-buying frenzy of the Cash for Clunkers program ended, and many area auto dealers are longing for the good old days of July and August.

Like consumers nationwide, Massachusetts residents rushed to take advantage of the federal voucher program, which offered them up to $4,500 on old gas-guzzlers to be put toward the purchase of new, more fuel-efficient vehicles. About $65 million worth of vouchers were handed out statewide during the monthlong program that ended Aug. 24.

But once the federal money dried up, so did the sales rally. Now, customers at dealerships like Silko Honda in Raynham are few and far between, and inventory is once again accumulating.

This just proves the old adage, "If the government gives it away, they will come."

Seriously folks, you would have to be pretty darn stupid to have believed that a temporary boost in auto sales would result in anything but a following lull when the free money dried up. Of course deep thought is not what this administration is known for...or for that matter what liberalism in general is known for.

Quick, simplistic, superficial, ill-conceived, poorly understood, and ineffectual seems to be a more accurate description of what passes for thinking in the Obama White House and in the Democrat leadership.

The first thought I had about the "Cash for Clunkers" program...after I criticized it as a crass attempt at the redistribution of wealth from the taxpayers to anyone having a car they needed or wanted to dump...was that the aftermath of the huge boost in sales would be a return to the doldrums the industry was experiencing prior to that boondoggle.

So now we see the fruits of the Obama/Pelosi/Reid Administration. Automobile dealerships are once more desperate for customers who will not show up because of economic uncertainty resulting from Obama's pathetic performance since he was sworn into office.

All of you Obama voters enjoy that "Hope and Change" you were promised.

As P.T. Barnum said, "There's a sucker born every minute." Obama cornered the market.

Perhaps Forrest Gump was closer, to paraphrase: "Stupid is as stupid votes."

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

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The Coward of the Country: Obama Abandons Missile Defense in Poland/Czech Republic

Will Malven
9/17/2009

President Obama has decided to abandon one of our staunchest allies and strongest supporters in the war against terrorism. He has chosen to scrap the plan to deploy a missile defense shield in the Czech Republic and Poland in an attempt to appease Russia.

Such cowardice in the face of Russian opposition and such gullibility in a president as to believe that appeasement will gain America anything in our negotiations with Vladimir Putin and his puppet President Medvedev is unacceptable in a President.

I believe it, because I know who and what President Obama is, but it remains breathtaking in its political implications both here and abroad. It also conclusively demonstrates how totally unqualified and unprepared this puppet president is.

Poland has been one of the strongest members of the “Coalition of the Willing” President Bush assembled to aid us in fighting the war against terrorism both in Iraq and Afghanistan, but primarily in Iraq.

When American needed support on the international scene for our efforts to carry the war to the enemy, Poland was first among our allies to sign up. [I guess that alone is sufficient reason for Democrats to hate them and undermine them]

Democrats have never forgiven our nation for defeating the former Soviet Union and in the process proving once and for all that their beloved socialism, in whatever form it takes, is predestined to fail. So it is only natural that they work against those nations that played an important part in the destruction of the old Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Eastern Bloc.

There is a natural affinity in the Democrat Party for dictators…provided they adhere to Marxism…and for their repressive anti-liberty form of government. Virtually every major policy the Democrat Party has advocated since the 1920s has been aimed at increasing the power and scope of the federal government at the expense of individual liberty and freedom and to withdraw power from states.

So it is only natural that Obama, being one of the most extreme left members of this extreme left-wing Democrat Party, should abandon the people of Poland and the Czech Republic in the face of Soviet Russian pressure.

The real problem however, is not the abandonment of the Poles-as bad as that is-it is the persistent refusal of Obama and his party to recognized the genuine threat rogue nations in possession of nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles represent to our allies and to us.

That threat is real, whether directly from missiles aimed at the United States or its bases around the world, or indirectly in the form of diplomatic pressure from those other nations, nominally our allies, who might feel that threat and thus be unduly influenced in how they conduct their foreign policy.

The dissolution of our strategic missile defense system has been the aim of Russia (or in its earlier incarnation, the Soviet Union) and their American allies, the Democrat Party, since it was first proposed by former President Ronald Reagan.

Democrats have fought against any kind of missile defense and done everything they could to defund or otherwise eliminate the program, in spite of repeated demonstrations of its value both in strategic negotiations and as a deterrent to attack.

With the clown we now have occupying the White House and a solid majority in both houses of Congress, Democrats are at last in a position to make their dreams come true. This truly inane action by the White House is the first step in stripping our nation of the necessary defense mechanisms to preserve our national security and our freedom from oppression.

Whether it be the massive accumulation of debt, unprecedented in our nation’s history, his attempts to avoid congressional oversight by appointing “czars” to do the work normally preserved for cabinet secretaries, or his numerous successful efforts to usurp to the federal government massive sectors of our formerly free market economy, or his attempts to intervene and control our lives directly through “health care reform” and the monitoring and recording of our internet postings, Obama has been systematically dismantling or otherwise undermining the most precious and essential underpinnings of our nation and our society.

By any definition or objective standard, Obama has violated his oath of office and sought to undermine our Constitution and usurp powers not granted to him. It is time now for serious discussions of impeachment…if for no other reason than to preserve what remains of our nation and to stop this “change” before America becomes unrecognizable.

“Impeach Obama Now” is no longer a slogan in the province of the fringe of conservatism, it has become the only viable recipe for stopping his rapid move towards the destruction of our private economy and the institution of a state run, state controlled socialist system.

Time for this experiment in amateurism to end. Obama was unqualified and unprepared for office when he was elected and time has demonstrated conclusively that on-the-job training will not work when the fate of a nation is at issue.

No amount of cheerleading and covering up by the mainstream media will compensate for the malevolence and pure incompetence we are now witnessing in our federal government. Any doubt as to the suitability of electing a “community organizer” with no operational experience or history of accomplishment should now be laid to rest.

Barack Obama has no business doing the nation’s business. He remains nothing more than a moderately competent community organizer in a position so far “above his pay grade” and level of competence as to lend credence to those who would argue, counter intuitively, that Jimmy Carter was a good President.

The fact that Carter, who was a miserable president and possibly the worst in our nation’s history, compares favorably to Barack Obama is truly frightening to any who care about this nation and its people.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

By the way, to add insult to injury, Drudge notes that Obama makes this announcement on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union's invasion of Poland in 1939...nice.

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Cries of "Racism" are the Last Refuge of Scoundrels: Democrats are Scoundrels

Will Malven
8/16/2009

Now the Democrats are accusing Representative Wilson (R-SC) of being a racist for calling the President a liar. Unbelievable! Have Democrats no shame at all?

Clearly not...not for a long, long time.

The cry of "Racist!" has become reflexive in this society. Anytime anyone dares to differ with a black cause or dares to point out a disturbing fact (such as the disproportionately high crime rate) directly reflective of the African American community, out come the cries of "Racist!" [I state this knowing full well that by their standards, I am now a "Racist!"]

It's funny to me that the only people who are genuinely racist in America...outside of the extreme lunatic fringe element...are those on the left who are so race conscious.

The true definition of racism is not what you think about someone of a different ethnicity or race; it is how often you think about race and how much it influences your world view. Liberals view the entire world through the window of race (when it suits their political needs), thus they claim that anyone who objects to their political agenda-especially if that agenda is being espoused by someone of color-is a racist.

"Race consciousness" is racism. Thus now we have the real racists in America coming out to smear a very good man.

The second compelling fact about this attack on Representative Joe Wilson as a "racist" is that those who are using the tactic are doing so not because they actually believe that Congressman Wilson is a racist, but to advance their narrow political agenda of "Health Care Reform." Again we see that Democrats are fully willing to destroy anyone who gets in the way of their political agenda and will do so gleefully. The person, in this case Congressman Wilson, means nothing to them as a human being. It is their political agenda that is important and if you dare to stand in their way, they will attempt to destroy you.

Democrats are fully aware that all of the objections to Obama's aggressive leftist agenda are based solely on ideological grounds, not because he is "the first black president."

[Hmmm...I thought that honor belonged to Bill Clinton...wasn't he declared the first black president when he was in office?...Ah yes he was declared so by African American journalist Toni Morrison in the October '98 issue of the New Yorker.]

Conservatives object to the President's agenda on health care reform, as well as his "Cap and Trade" green agenda and his "stimulus package," because they are huge, budget busting, socialist power grabs aimed at the free market engine that built American into the greatest economy in the world, not because this particular socialist happens to be black.

Democrats make their charges of "racism" with the utmost cynicism.

In our society today the first person to point to another person's race, the first person to have their opinion of another person informed by that person's race, is invariably a liberal.

The first person to inject race into a political discussion is invariably a liberal and the first person to inject racial stereo-types into any political discussion is, again, invariably a liberal.

[Just listen to the names liberals call any African American who dares to take issue with their socialist agenda. That individual is immediately the target of such epithets as "Uncle Tom," "Step 'n' Fetchit," or "House Nigger," by the very people who claim to be fighting against such behavior.]

Though there may be a small minority who voted against Barack Obama because he was a black man, most who voted against him did so because of his political beliefs. He was the most liberal member of the Senate...based on his voting record, not on his race. His presidential platform was the most politically liberal agenda to emerge from the Democrat Party since Carter.

It amazes me that anyone could, with a straight face, assert that America remains a racist nation...yet we hear it from those on the left all of the time; usually when they are not getting their way.

The President of the United States, the most powerful man in the entire world, is a black man. He was not appointed; he was elected by the very people in this nation liberals are now attempting to portray as a "racist" nation.

No, I am not attempting to assert that Joe Wilson voted for or supported Barack Obama's candidacy, Joe Wilson is a conservative and therefore would never support a socialist liberal in a bid for office...regardless of his race. I am asserting that we who oppose Barack Obama and his agenda do so because it is bad for all Americans of whatever color.

Former President Jimmy Carter, the single most incompetent man ever to hold that office in the history of the United States, the man who during the 2008 Democrat Primary described then Candidate Obama as "this black boy:"



This Jimmy Carter has now injected himself into the discussion by calling not just Joe Wilson, but all white Americans, especially those of us in the South, racists.



I am pointing out the cynical use of the claim of racism by those on the left. The cover of Newsweek Magazine this week features a white baby with the question, "Is Your Baby Racist?" Democrat political hack and MSNBC contributor Lawrence O'Donnell has declared that all opposition to Obama's plan is based in racism (he also implied that Congressman Joe Wilson was drunk).

Those who assert that those who are protesting Obama Care or Congress Care are racists who oppose his agenda because he is black are, in fact, the true racists. It is they whose opinions are informed not by the ideology of the individual targeted by those protests, but by his race...opponents oppose Obama not because he is a left-wing extremist, but because he is black...their collective focus on President Obama's race is racism.

The assertion by these people is reflective of their own deeply held racist beliefs. These people who are declaring Obama's opponents "racist" are the same people who assert that black and Latino students are incapable of competing in school unless they are given extra help in the way of quotas and bonus points on exams. These are the same people who believe that no African American is capable of competing without the assistance of some government bureaucrat instituting an affirmative action program.

They don't ever see minorities as equal to the task, they see them as weak and handicapped, ever in need of some liberal's condescension and help to get anywhere in life.

President Bush had it pegged exactly right when he described what ails our education system as "The soft bigotry of low expectations." The people who have those low expectations of minorities are these same liberal Democrats.

They are the people who see all working class people, not just minorities, as their "White man's burden."

Let me tell you something, when I want to hear from Jimmy "Malaise" Carter, I'll give him a call. He is undoubtedly the least intelligent, most superficial and incompetent man ever to achieve rank above his capability.

Remember what he gave us, double digit inflation, double digit unemployment, and double digit interest rates. That is a man to whom Democrats turn to inform them on the plight of Americans?

You've got to be kidding me.

Barack Obama is a bad president not because of his race, but because of his Marxist political philosophy and his hatred of all of the things which make and have made America the great nation it is.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

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Remembering 9/11

Will Malven
9/11/2009

September 9/11/2001.

You remember it.

That gut-wrenching, head-turning, unbelievable news that made you stop what you were doing.

The news that made you laugh that little laugh we all have when we hear something that is so outrageous that we think it has to be a really bad joke.

The news that made you give that disbelieving slightly hopeful look we all get when someone tells us something we just can't get our heads around.

The news that caused that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach as you realized it was no joke; America has just been attacked and 3,000 of our fellow American citizens had just been murdered.

Most Americans remember exactly where we were and what we were doing the moment that reality came home to us.

A jet airliner had flown into one of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City was such a shock to me that I smiled, patiently waiting for the punch line. After what seemed an eternity the coworker who told me realized what I was feeling and added,

"No, really. A plane has just hit the World Trade Center."

I hope you remember it.

I remember that it came in a series of body blows.

• Wham! 8:46 AM - A plane (American Airlines Flight 11) flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
  
• Wham! 9:03 AM - A second plane (United Airlines Flight 175) just flew into the North Tower.
  
• Wham! 9:37 AM - A plane (American Airlines Flight 77) just smashed into to Pentagon. More deaths and fire.
  
• Wham! Videos of massive fires engulfing the middle floors of both towers; people jumping to their deaths from 400, 500 feet in the air to avoid being burned to death.
  
• Wham! 9:59 AM - The South Tower collapses after burning for a little less than an hour.
  
• Wham! 10:03 AM - Another plane (United Airlines Flight 93) crashes into the ground at Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
  
• Wham! 10:28 AM - The North Tower Collapses after burning a little over an hour and a half.

Wham! Wham! Wham!

Body blow after body blow, we Americans were reeling from the shock and horror...and the growing anger...as suspicions mounted as to the source of these attacks. In less than two hours for most American, partisan divisions dissolved, at least of a while.

We all became Americans.

United in our grief...and our anger; we were filled with the righteous outrage of those who have been attacked without provocation by an enemy bent on the destruction of our society and our way of life.We gradually came to understand that America had been attacked by terrorists and three thousand (3,000) of our fellow citizens had been murdered...as a political statement…by Islamic radicals, animals who rejected even the most basic of tenets humans possess, war is conducted against military targets, not against the innocent civilians.

We remember our sorrow and our outrage as we learned more and more about what happened, who was involved, and who the victims were.

We were proud of the passengers who were aboard United Airlines Flight 93 as we learned that they refused to allow themselves to be used to further the aims of the terrorists and chose to drive the plane into the ground rather than let these monsters lay claim to further terrorist successes.

We remember the tales of heroism as firefighters risked and all too often lost their lives in their efforts to rescue those trapped in the burning buildings.

Stark in my memory were the images of hundreds of people running down the streets; fleeing for their lives with panicked, horrified looks on their faces as clouds of dust and rubble flowed in their wake; caked in dust and gasping for breath as they clutched handkerchiefs, scarves, or sleeves to their faces to escape the ever present dust.

I remember the images of the buildings as they began to collapse, starting out almost as if in slow motion then accelerating as gravity began to assert itself; and I remember the inconceivable mass of debris which began to billow outwards as those storied buildings, icons of a city and a nation, collapsed.

I remember the heartbreak as the numbers began to be trickle out estimates of the casualties varying wildly as rescue workers attempted to understand the scope of the disaster.

Mostly I remember the anger. I remember my desire to strike back at the monsters who planned and executed the attack; simultaneously my desire to lash out at all Muslims and my comprehension that it was not all Muslims, but only a small minority who executed this act of infamy.

I also remember my growing anger that, as most of the world’s civilized nations joined us in reacting with horror and sympathy at this heinous act, crowds of Muslims in Islamic nations around the world danced and celebrated our losses…I also recall how slow “moderate Muslims” were to condemn the attack even though such an attack was a violation of all Western-Christian and Muslim norms of behavior.

I remember my admiration for those brave firefighters and policemen who continued to risk their lives in their struggle to find survivors and their compassion as they worked to assist those who were injured, choked, or just plain lost after the dust began to settle.

Mostly I remember that I vowed, “Never Again!”

I remember that I vowed that, if I could prevent it in any way, America would never again allow this kind of action to happen on our soil; that never again would we allow ourselves to be lulled into a false sense of security like that which preceded those attacks…and which I see beginning to grow around me now, again…in America and throughout the world.

This was a military strike by a brand of religious zealotry which has as its goal the destruction of Western civilization. Its proponents hate America because we celebrate individual freedom and liberty. They hate us because we tolerate dissent and religious freedom.

Mostly they hate us because we hold different beliefs than do they.

Their goal is the subjugation, of America and of the world under an Islamic caliphate. They wish to return the world to a near medieval level of technology in which they can control and dominate the people, forcing them into their primitive, restrictive religious world…or kill them if they refuse to submit.

We must never allow ourselves to forget the pain, the horror, the noble sacrifices, the heroism, or the trust bestowed upon us by our predecessors to preserve our republic.

For some reason our new President and his Party wish to diminish the importance of this day, from one of remembrance to one of “national service.” They wish to minimize the attack and treat what was clearly a military assault as a criminal act.

Following the memorial service on September 12th, the day after, I recall my shock that some of my Democrat coworkers were so obsessed with their hatred of President Bush that even as we all mourned they were unable to lay aside their narrow petty political agenda.

That should never have been. In times of crisis, we should all be Americans, not partisan affiliates. This is not a time for partisan bickering, it is a time to remember those we lost and who we are as a nation.

9/11 must be preserved as a day of remembrance and reflection. It was on 9/12/2001 that our President called on us to pray for our nation and those we lost and then called us to action and service.

We must never demean or dismiss the sacrifices and losses of this day. We must never forget the lives America lost. We must never forget the heroism of those passengers on Flight 93 and the sacrifice they made. We must never forget the sacrifices made by our police and firemen. We must never forget that on 9/11/2oo1 America was attacked, without provocation, simply because we stand for freedom and individual liberty.

We must never lose the fire in our bellies for defending that freedom from enemies, both foreign and domestic, and we must never allow our national day of remembrance to by hijacked by those who would diminish its importance and attempt to distract us from our just cause.

We have a solemn responsibility, bequeathed to us by our forefathers, to preserve this greatest of nations and to defend our flag and our nation, for which it stands.

And as citizens we have an obligation to remember our pledge:

I pledge allegiance to the flag
Of the United States of America
And to the Republic for which it stands,
One nation under God,
Indivisible,
With liberty and justice for all.

Let those words grab your heart and resound in your soul. Never forget them and as this day progresses contemplate their meaning and what this nation means to you.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

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Congressman Joe Wilson Speaks Truth to Power

Will Malven
9/10/2009

"Oh, The humanity!"

During President Obama's speech last night, Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) shouted out "You lie!" when the President asserted that no illegal aliens would be covered by Obama's health care reform proposal.

Although Representative Wilson immediately apologized for his outburst...even calling the White House to apologize directly to the President (I mean a genuine apology, not one of those non-apology apologies that Democrats make after they misbehave)...Democrats and liberals have taken great pains to demonstrate the humbrage at such an assault on the decorum of Congress and such a show of disrespect towards the President.

Here is a portion of CNN's report (the full article is linked to in the title):

Joe Wilson shouts to Obama during speech: 'You lie'

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Republican House member shouted "You lie" during President Obama's health care speech to Congress on Wednesday, and members of both parties condemned the heckling.

After the speech, South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson issued a statement apologizing for his outburst.

"This evening, I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the president's remarks regarding the coverage of illegal immigrants in the health care bill," the statement said. "While I disagree with the president's statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the president for this lack of civility."

Wilson also called the White House to apologize and spoke with Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who accepted the apology on the president's behalf, according to a senior administration official.

Wow, it's good to see what a real apology looks like after all of the dissembling by Democrats like Van Jones.

Now old "Uncle Joe" Biden and Nancy "Bela" Pelosi were so upset at Representative Wilson's outburst that for a moment I thought Pelosi's head was going to explode ("Uncle Joe" just looked confused, as though he feared he might have said it) and they scrambled to get the seating roster so that they could identify who it was that "spoke truth to power."

[Funny, I seem to remember that Democrats once were in favor of "speaking truth to power," in fact I am certain that I got that phrase from Nancy Pelosi's own mouth.]

And...yes it is offensive when a Congressman breeches the decorum of the House chambers, but it is far more offensive to have a President stand up before the American people and assume that the American people are too stupid to know that he is lying to them.

For my part, I applaud the good Congressman, both for his outburst of genuine indignation at the President's blatant lies and for his courtesy and integrity in making a real apology to the President.

Joe, you are my latest hero.

The criticism being leveled at Representative Wilson rings hollow when it was actually the President, lying repeatedly, who was offending the decorum of the House.

How dare he get up in front of the American people and Congress and claim that over two thirds of the cost of his proposed health care plan would be paid for by curbing "waste and abuse?" How dare he claim that his health care plan would not cover illegal aliens, when this government cannot even determine who the illegal aliens are? How dare he claim to have the backing of "doctors" when he knows that the AMA (which has come out in support of his agenda) only represents 20% of doctors? How dare he, of all people, come out and accuse others of using the health care reform debate "as an opportunity to score short-term political points" when the whole exercise of health care reform is a politically motivated power grab by Democrats and the President?

...And even worst of all...how dare he claim that those who rely on Medicare when, as Karl Rove pointed out last night, the president’s own White House Web site says there will be $622 billion in Medicare cuts?

Oh yeah one more thing lest we forget it was the Democrats who first breeched House decorum during a Presidential address. It was the Democrat...these same "outraged" Democrats who have gotten so "wee-weed up"...who booed and shouted out "No!" during President Bush's 2005 State of the Union Speech, a speech which carries with it a far greater burden of decorum than this ad hoc address by our current President, as he discussed the approaching bankruptcy of Social Security.

Apparently Democrats weren't quite so concerned with observing propriety and House decorum when the former President was speaking.

Wow! Democrats are hypocrites...who knew? There were no apologies coming from Democrats following their outbursts.

This isn't to say that I believe that one wrong act justifies another, only that Democrats are always far too ready to jump on the actions of others while their own actions are generally worse...or another way of saying it..."What's good for the goose is good for the gander."

I am celebrating Representative Wilson's actions because I am tired of President Obama's serial lying. I am tired of having a President that lies every time he opens his mouth...not even President Clinton was as pathological a liar as is Obama...and that is saying a lot.

I'm certain that Representative Wilson will suffer some form of House discipline for his actions...most probably he will have to take to the floor and formally apologize to the House...but my heart is with him.

Would that more Congressional Republicans demonstrate such heart and outrage at being lied to.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

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President Obama Speaks to Congress Tonight

High [Melo]drama on Capitol Hill

Will Malven
8/09/2009

Tonight President Obama will again address the nation and a joint session of Congress (as though he has something new to say). It is another in a series of speeches he has given in a futile effort to revive the flagging support for his health care plan…and his legacy. To date this strategy has been a net negative for him.

Expect him to once more talk about “myths and lies” being used to fight against his health care reform. He will again promise us that he has no intention of taking away our private health care and replacing it with a public system…although that is precisely what he wishes and the inevitable result of his agenda should it be adopted.

He will speak about the “death panels” dismissively, asking those who mention them to point out where those words appear in any of the proposed bills, knowing that though the specific words do not appear, the need for rationing will dictate their existence.

He will, once more, lie to us. His lies are most often lies of omission; he won’t tell us the entire truth, only enough to convince to join him in his fight against "injustice," most often in the form of those evil insurance companies who, "Gasp!" dare to make a profit.

Expect him to play the aggrieved soul. He will, no doubt, bring up the right’s reaction in anticipation of his speech to students across the nation, saying something to the effect of:

“See, all I wanted to do was to exhort the youth of America to strive towards success and conservatives reacted with claims of indoctrination and propaganda. There was no propaganda, just a positive message.”

Yet we were justified in our mistrust because we know Obama for who he truly is and we have observed those with whom he has surrounded himself (as he instructed us to do in order that we might judge him better). We know the liberal mind as well as we know our own.

We know that those on the left will be crowing about how unreasonable conservatives were to hold their children out of school while Obama was talking to them about continuing with their educations and persevering through adversity to better themselves…all the while knowing that, had those very same conservatives NOT said anything, their dire predictions which forced the President to change his speech would have been proven true.

Can we prove all of this…no, of course not…the speech, having been altered, cannot then be examined as it was originally, but since we know the minds of these liberals and the shameful way in which they play with the truth, we know our original assumptions were justified.

Thus we see the dangerous game conservatives are forced, by this president, to play.
If we anticipate and intercept his moves, then he and his advisors can alter their plans and then point their hypocritical fingers at us playing the injured, misjudged victim, wrongfully accused.

If we fail to intercede, then he succeeds in propagandizing our young people and further indoctrinating them into this culture of entitlement.

Expect him and his Democrat supporters to play Shakespeare’s Shylock to our Portia,

“…If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?…”

Expect him to play Tolkien’s Saruman to our Theoden,

”...Despite the injuries that have been done to me, in which [you] alas! have had some part, still I would save you, and deliver you from the ruin that draws nigh inevitable, if you ride upon this road which you have taken...”

Expect more of Gibbs with his “silly season” remark.

Expect that, caught with the canary’s feathers on their collective mouths, these Democrat cats, guilt free and unapologetic, will wipe the condemning evidence from their faces and smile gleefully as we are caught in their trap.

They ridicule our “unreasonableness” and our "paranoia;" they laugh at our caution and predictions…all the while knowing that we were correct.

No matter, we cannot relax our vigil. We must let them mock us, knowing we are right. We must persevere, trusting that the American people, who so clearly saw through the lies about the health care bill and showed up in large numbers, will remain as perceptive and see through Obama’s attempts to paint all of his opponents as “out of the mainstream.”

We were lectured when we complained, that President G.H.W. Bush gave a speech to school children during his term in office, so why are we so upset that President B. Hussein Obama is giving one? After all, isn’t it only fair that this "giant among men," this "messiah of the left" should be allowed to share his vision with those same young people? Isn’t it only reasonable?

What they fail to mention is that, unlike when President Bush 41 gave his speech, this time there will be no congressional committees investigating the president for having given his speech; no GAO estimates as to how much tax payer money President Obama spent in giving this speech. Both men had a Democrat Party in control of Congress, but only President Bush was subjected to scrutiny because of his speech.

So tonight expect the same lies and half-truths; expect an appeal to “reasonableness” and expect another lecture on the importance to America “that we solve this dire crisis facing us all.” President Obama will, no doubt, appeal to our humanity and our sense of fairness and charity to press his agenda, but never forget that his sort of charity comes at the point of an IRS auditor’s pen, not from the heart.

Remember also that the real sense of urgency coming from Obama is derived not from a sense of obligation to the American people, but a sense of his own floundering presidency needing a victory…and he will declare any bill a victory, no matter how far it strays from his original agenda.

Expect also that he will exhort his Democrat colleagues to go it alone if need be…much to his regret, I'm sure.

His message will be that the need for action is so dire that if necessary we Democrats must do for America what Republicans are unwilling to do.

Has there ever been a more cynical President in our 233 year history? I doubt it.

The only need in America the is dire right now is the need to stop President Obama in his drive to destroy our health care system in the same way that he and President Bush destroyed our economy and our automotive industry, through more government intrusion and control.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

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"Moderates" Toying With "Back Door" to Socialized Medicine

Will Malven
9/08.2009

Well I told you they wouldn't give up on imposing a single-payer health care plan on us and here is more evidence of their intent.

Obama is giving a speech tomorrow before a joint session of Congress to extol the virtues of healthcare reform and attempt to renew the sense of urgency that has gradually evaporated from the health care reform movement as skeptics have dominated the discourse...or course most of that urgency is about trying to save his administration from being labeled a failure...so once more Obama is going back to the well which served him so well during the 2008 campaign, but seems to have failed him miserably in this health care debate.

Obama Readies (Another) Speech As Health Care Picks Up Steam

By MICHAEL SCHERER AND KAREN TUMULTY - WASHINGTON
TIME
9/08/2009

This is what Barack Obama does. Back him into a corner, get the press in a frenzy, send his polls ratings plummeting, and the aging basketball player responds again and again with the same move: he delivers a major speech. And why not? It keeps working. It's the thing that first introduced him to the nation, at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. It is what extricated him from the Jeremiah Wright mess during the campaign. It has become the central method of his foreign policy push, in Prague, Cairo, Moscow and Accra.

It's also been the method of choice in his push for health-care reform. In just the last two months, he has held six health-care town halls and a prime-time news conference. But public support for his plans has been declining through the summer. So the answer, he believes, is one more speech, Wednesday night in front of a joint session of Congress.

Maybe this technique is failing to rally people to his cause because the voters are far better informed on the proposed health care changes than they were about what a fraud Obama was and because they remain far better informed on the issue of health care reform that either the Democrats in Congress working on the bill or Obama as to what is in the bill.

By the way, only a dedicated liberal news organization, committed to the Democrat Party and the President's health care agenda could claim that in the current climate "Health Care Picks Up Steam."

Folks health care reform is gasping for breath as it struggles to survive in any recognizable form...leave it to liberals to confuse "picking up steam" with "twitching in its death throes."

So as Obama is pimping his next version of "health care reform," look for browbeating and scapegoating of Republicans...again...in spite of the fact that Democrats have sufficient votes in Congress to pass any legislation they wish-without any Republican support as well as exhortations of dire consequences should Congress fail.

All I know is that we are going to be faced with another command performance of the "Empty Suit in Chief...Liar Extraordinaire."

To add insult to injury, some in Congress are attempting to trick the voters by performing a little legislative legerdemain called "the trigger option."

Time/Yahoo are reporting, among other things, that Senators Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Olympia Snowe (RINO-ME) are ready to sign on to a "deal" that would impose a "public option" only if the insurance companies failed to change their way of doing business; the so called "trigger" option.

Continuing from the above article:

Meanwhile, in the Senate, where a compromise has not yet been reached, there are some signs that agreement time might be upon us. On Sunday, in an interview with CNN, Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson, a longtime opponent of a public-health-insurance option, said he could support a public plan as a "fail-safe" or "backstop" that would be created only if insurance companies did not reform their business practices over the coming years. Republican Senator Olympia Snowe, a key swing vote from Maine, has also spoken favorably about a triggered fail-safe.

This so-called trigger is very dangerous for those who oppose any public option for health care. It is the proverbial stalking horse for the later imposition of a public option by the government bureaucracy.

Who is to say when the insurance companies have failed to "reform their business practices?"

Who is to say when this "trigger" kicks in? Who is to say how the resultant "public heath-insurance option" would kick in and who would determine what provisions would be included?

The "trigger" option is nothing but a cowardly means of letting the gutless "moderates" in Congress vote for the public option without being forced to do so overtly. It is nothing but the "stealth option" for socialized medicine.

There is not person more contemptible in Congress than those who lack the courage of their convictions. What really sad is that these very gutless, indecisive "moderates" are held up as models of restraint and polity when in reality they are simply cowards.

Members of Congress like Snowe, Nelson and Collins, to name a few, lack the intestinal fortitude to face their constituents and say where they stand on the issues. They are indecisive and vacillating because they are dullards and easily swayed by arguments full of emotion and completely lacking of merit.

This "trigger" option is very dangerous exactly because it holds the appeal of doing the unthinkable while providing the cover of plausible deniability. It is the perfect option for those gutless "middle of the road" members of Congress who lack the intellect and integrity to make a real decision.

When Congress says "trigger option" people watch your liberty, because they are preparing to take some of it away...via the back door.

Say what you will about those committed liberals in Congress, at least they are courageous enough to say what they want.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

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AARP's Double Talk Exposed: Memo From Pelosi Reveals "Close Coordination"

Will Malven
9/03/2009

Sorry for the late notification, but this just came to my attention. Human Events reveals a "House Democrat leadership memo sent to their membership" which among other things reveals that the House Democrat Party leadership has been coordinating with AARP in their efforts to get the Health Care bill passed.

Funny, but I seem to remember a couple of AARP representatives denying that they were behind any bill. The memo lists a number of Leftist organizations with whom Pelosi and the rest of the Democrat leadership have been coordinating.

From the memo:

The Leadership is working in close coordination with the White House and outside groups (including but not limited to HCAN, Families USA, AFSCME, SEIU, AARP, etc.) to ensure complementary efforts during August. The President, Secretary Sebelius and other principals in the reform debate will be working throughout the month to hold events, promote the message in the press and move the reform effort forward.

We see here a combination of union thugs (SEIU and AFSCME), leftist "Astroturf" organizations (HCAN-Health Care for America Now and Families USA) and of course AARP (who is not supporting any bill...according to them).

It is amazing to me how often and easily those on the Left lie about what they are doing. The AARP sent out their spokespeople to "correct" what the President and Conservative had been saying about AARP being on board with the Health Care bill.

What I find most amusing is that although AARP representative Cheryl Mathias stated in an interview on CBS Evening News, Monday August 17. NewsBusters has a full transcript of the interview, but here is the cogent part:

AARP representative Cheryl Mathias: "AARP has not endorsed any plan at this point."

CBS reporter Sheryl Attkisson: "Yet the AARP's Cheryl Mathias couldn't find anything to quibble with, including the Medicare cuts, which she says will not affect benefits."

A quick visit to AARP's webpage confirms that they are still fighting for the Democrat plan in whichever form it emerges. They continue to tell the lie that a federal health care option won't lead to socialized medicine even though such a claim defies logic.

After all of this information, there should be little doubt remaining that the AARP is in the pocket of the Democrat Party and this President. They should rename themselves the AADP - The American Association of the Democrat Party.

Fortunately the American Seniors Association is growing in size and influence. They remain the most viable, if not the only Conservative alternative to the AARP.

I am not affiliated with the ASA, I don't receive any money or compensation from them, I am just someone who has gotten tired of the double speak coming out of AARP. I am tired of organizations that claim to be "non-partisan" while spending every penny for and fighting every battle on the side of the Democrat Party.

When was the last time the AARP opposed any Democrat Party agenda item? When was the last time they came out against Democrats in Congress?

I say join the ASA and let the AARP become officially what it is de facto another arm of the Democrat Party.

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