When did American exceptionalism become so offensive?

Sen. John McCain

Poor John McCain: he must really be feeling irrelevant in his advanced age, what with real conservatives and Tea Party folks commanding more respect from more Americans than the senior Senator from Arizona.

Not to disrespect Mr. McCain’s service to the United States as a Naval officer, nor to diminish his time as a prisoner of war, but isn’t it a bit ironic that a man who suffered physical harm at a time when traitors such as Hanoi Jane were openly and actively criticizing his service to America now seems to be slinging the same kind of propaganda just two years after he failed miserably to promote American exceptionalism and conservatism when America needed him the most?

Of course McCain’s criticism of Republicans fits well with the template created by the propaganda arm of the American government, otherwise known as the American media. That’s why they chose him to be the Republican nominee in 2008, and that’s why they still love him.

So McCain is worried that America not repeat the lessons of the 1930′s, where the United States stood by while the National Socialist Party in Germany rose to power and exterminated millions of people based solely on their religion. Does that mean we need to be concerned about the ascension to power of Islamic extremists in the Middle East, or should we wait until after they build the ovens and force Sharia Law upon the rest of the world?

Maybe Senator McCain forgot that little part of history that records which political party was in power in the United States and stood idly by during that period of time.

I had to laugh at the article by the “American Pravda” where the authors (no longer are our media workers “reporters”) suggested that of all the GOP candidates currently announced, only former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney agrees with the Obama regime that we need to “bring our troops home as soon as we possibly can.” Then again nobody every accused Mr. Romney of being a conservative. I wonder if when Romney speaks McCain’s mouth moves, or vice versa?

It’s comforting to know that Sen. McCain is so concerned that America not become an isolationist nation or that the GOP become an isolationist party that helping Obama out politically has become his stated purpose in life. Thanks Mr. McCain, but we already knew that you preferred Obama to yourself as President!

When did American victory and success become so offensive to our elected leaders that they have to actively seek the political destruction of those trying to fix America’s problems? I’ll bet that’s a question Ronald Reagan would more likely be apt to ponder.

Related articles

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My letter to Speaker Boehner

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The following is a copy of the e-mail I was encouraged to send to House Speaker John Boehner.

I am completely disgusted with the GOP and its policy of giving into the Democrats every time they whimper, whine or threaten.

While the enemy does always get a vote in war, the objective is to always work to veto that vote by utterly annihilating the enemy! To be perfectly clear, the Democrats and anyone else who stands in the way of freedom, liberty and doing what’s best for the United States of America is an enemy, even if they call themselves Republican!

I then provided a link to my blog post “Democrats, the media and their terrorist agenda.“

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Democrats, the media and their terrorist agenda

America has an avowed policy against negotiating with terrorists, particularly when those terrorists are holding hostages. Or at least that’s what we’re told.

It certainly makes sense politically and militarily. If your enemy knows that all he needs to do is take something of value that you possess, then wait until you give in to his demands, the enemy has won without firing a shot; He owns you.

Why then do the Republicans continue to “reach across the aisle” and negotiate with Democrats while the American public is being held hostage to high unemployment, high gas prices and high taxes? What is it about the mainstream media that makes the Republicans like Charlie Brown agreeing to let Lucy hold the football?

For the last several days Rush Limbaugh has been talking about how the GOP gave into the Democrats on a new continuing resolution, rather than live up to their promise to the American voters to cut $100 billion from the federal budget and further control government spending. Limbaugh, however, has been arguing that the mess America is in hasn’t happened overnight and won’t be cured by a single victory by the Republicans.

Whatever! That’s not the point.

The point, and I’ve been waiting for Rush to articulate this, is that the American taxpayer is being held hostage by Democrats, the media and their shared policies. These terrorists learned back in 1995 that their most successful weapon isn’t one that blows things up or tears flesh, but a boogeyman called “government shutdown.” You could hear it in House Speaker John Boehner’s voice when he promised that he would not shut down the government because the GOP and Democrats could not agree on a new continuing resolution to fund the government for another week or so.

Never mind the fact that when the Democrats controlled all three branches of the government that they never put forth an annual budget for the country; never mind the fact that Americans in large numbers told the Democrats last November to pound sand, never mind the fact that Obama promised to halve the national deficit within his first term, but has instead increased it more in two years than the total deficit amassed in the previous 200-plus years of American history!

This government shutdown boogeyman really has two faces. The other face is the one the GOP wants to believe will smile favorably upon them if they just say the right things. It’s sort of like Charlie Brown agreeing for the umpteenth time to let Lucy hold the football while he tries to kick it. Lucy will never let Charlie Brown kick the football and the media will never truthfully report that Democrat policies are the very reason why America’s actually unemployment is well over 10% and that Obama’s policies are why gasoline prices have surpassed $4 and are likely on their way to $6 by the end of the year.

Like the foreign terrorists who hold American citizens hostage, the media and the Democrats hold the American taxpayer hostage via our elected representatives, who we believed when they said prior to the November 2010 election would seriously cut federal government spending and the overall size of government. When the GOP leadership agreed the other day to avoid a government shutdown by cutting a paltry $38 billion from government spending, some of which had already been agreed to in previous negotiations, it was sort of like the American family deciding that while their expenses are way out of line with their income and the credit cards are all maxed out, to skip Starbucks once a week when the real solution to their overspending will require much more drastic cuts and a serious attitude adjustment.

 

Calling Democrats on their admitted lies

There is a God and He has a sense of humor. How else do you describe gifts like this?

According to a story on the website examiner.com, Mary Francis Berry, the Clinton-appointed chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, admitted that Democrats regularly lie about Republicans and conservative causes by falsely claiming that they are racists, bigots, and homophobes in an attempt to discredit their causes. The saddest and most telling part of this is the implied admission that liberal Democrats (but I repeat myself) cannot articulate why their causes are good. They can only resort to name-calling.

Here’s what she told the Politico: “Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidate’s distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.”

A response to the statement by Berry, runs on Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment website.

This just points to what many of us have known for a long time. Democrats lie because they have no other recourse. Unfortunately, they have willing accomplices masquerading as journalists who will gladly parrot these lies. What’s sad is that in an age where we’re supposed to be intelligent and informed, they cannot articulate their viewpoint with words and cogent arguments. They’re like the schoolyard bully called on his attacks by a larger group. Rather than fight back, he can only respond by name-calling and using infantile words at best.

It’s time to call these bullies on their attacks and show them just how irrelevant and insignificant to our success they truly are.

Purging the GOP of the liberal-lite

Articles like this seem to be growing in popularity as the partisan political operatives masquerading as journalists try to convince us that the days of the Tea Party are over. This might be true for those who tried to co-opt the Tea Party for their Republican election gain, but not for those of us who still hold the core conservative beliefs that started this movement in the first place.

But, like a gift from God, other reports point to a concerted effort by opponents of liberty and freedom to paint Tea Party participants in a negative light. Words like “racist” are peppered in a recipe that attempts to color every-day people as bitter clingers holding fast to their fringe conspiracy theories. The only thing they don’t regularly talk about is how many people are wearing tinfoil hats.

An opinion piece on the website examiner.com uses the case-in-point example of California’s gubernatorial race between Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman where the differences between the two are arguably only visible in their gender. In the process of trying to defend their thesis that millions of hard-working Americans are stupid, the opinion piece suggests that Tea Party folks and those supporting a third candidate for California governor are not only wasting their time, but are not being good Americans by supporting the GOP, which has become nothing more than the new Liberal-Lite party. It tastes great and is less filling, but it’s just as deadly to our Constitutional Republic.

We all know what happened years ago when Conservatives and Libertarians got behind Ross Perot in the national presidential election. We wound up with a liberal named Bill Clinton instead of re-electing George (“read my lips”) Bush. While I’m not supporting going back to that failed example by endorsing the move to get behind Chelene Nightingale as a third party candidate for governor in California, I would like to see the philosophical and practical conservatives supporting her truly infiltrate the GOP and permanently purge the RINO’s from the GOP and give those of us tired of holding our noses every election a true choice when we go to the voting booth.

Obama’s racial double-standard

Where’s the national outrage against the Black Panther Party’s racist tomes and its call to kill white people? Where’s the national leadership from our President, who’s very ascendency to the nation’s top office was supposed to forever close the racial divide in America? Why aren’t more people outraged at this kind of incitement of violence and call for civil war? And what about the action of the federal Department of Justice to drop charges against the Black Panthers for voter intimidation during the election that seated Obama to the White House? That case was apparently open-and-shut until Attorney General Eric Holder apparently ordered his deputies to drop all charges.

Ironic isn’t it… Obama living in a house named for a skin color that the Black Panthers want to obliterate from our streets. But I digress.

Meanwhile, if you listen closely to the Obama Administration you’d think that white folks in Arizona are standing on the street corners of Phoenix and elsewhere in Arizona, dressed in white sheets and burning crosses while calling for the death of all Mexicans. How else can you explain Obama’s lawsuit against the State of Arizona and the idiotic calls by some states and local jurisdictions to boycott Arizona over its passage of a law that merely mirrors federal law? Why are the media playing this up as racist, yet they ignore King Samir Shabazz, the Philadephia Black Panther leader, as he openly calls for the assassination of people simply because of their skin color. Wasn’t the election of Obama supposed to eliminate the racial divide in America? Seems to me that it’s done nothing but create an ever larger chasm with those who share his skin color and political views spurring all of this division. I’d like to hear from the nation’s two biggest race pimps — the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton — on this one.

Why is it racist for law enforcement officers in Arizona to ask people caught in the commission of another crime for proof of their immigration status, but it’s not racist for a black man to yell racial epithets and call for the murder of all white people?

Is this the civil war that Barack Hussein Obama has been planning? Is this the division he seeks while hiding behind a cloak of secret service protection?

Why aren’t the Black Panthers angry at Obama? After all, he picked a “cracker” as his vice president and just nominated another “cracker” to serve on the Supreme Court. If Obama was being true to the “home boys” who helped cinch his election he would not have named a “cracker” to be his chief of staff, or a white woman (gasp!) to be Secretary of State. After all, naming a woman to any position of authority ought to fly against the Muslim traditions that he bows to.

McCain protests like a Liberal

Sen. John McCain does himself a great disservice when he protests accusations that he’s more of a Liberal than a Conservative. While his party affiliation says he’s a Republican it’s no secret that there’s a large chasm between his core beliefs and that of a true Conservative.

It’s offensive when politicians try to convince us of something that they’re not. I once had this experience with a Republican state senator in California when, as a newspaper reporter, I pinned him down on his votes to raise taxes via something called the Vehicle License Fee. His answers to my questions sounded an awful lot like Sen. McCain’s protests covered by the Yuma Sun, or Nancy Pelosi’s “We have to pass the (health care) bill so you can see what’s in it.”

Hey Senator: we’re not as stupid as you think we are. In fact, we’re a lot smarter than you because we haven’t had our minds reprogrammed by the Washington establishment after decades of insulating ourselves from the people you claim to serve.

Do the math

What’s a trillion? How big is it?

Put in the context of time you can almost get your mind around it. Try this on for size: If you spent $1 per second, for every second of the day of every month and every year, how long would it take to spend $1 trillion? Here’s the math:

• One minute = 60 seconds, or $60.
• One hour = 3,600 seconds, or $3,600
• One day = 86,400, or $86,400
• One month = 2,592,000 seconds, or $2,592,000 (now we’re getting somewhere. Think again…)
• One year = 31,104,000 seconds, or $31,104,000 (that’s $31.1 million. Still a ways to go)

The number 1 trillion can be written a couple ways:

• 1,000,000,000,000 … or, for you math types:
• 10¹²

So in the immortal words of my daughter: “Are we there yet?” Nope, not yet.

To blow through $1 billion it would take 32.15 years of spending $1 a second. Thirty-two years ago the second-worst President these United States ever saw was starting his first and only term in office.

But we’re not talking “billion,” we’re talking “trillion,” the latest number of the day coming out of Washington DC.

Since 1 trillion is 1,000 times 1 billion, that means that in order for someone to blow through $1 trillion at $1 a second, they would have to live more than 32,150 years just to spend $1 trillion at a dollar a second.

President Barrack Hussein Obama and the Democrat Congress has managed to spend or commit at least 12 times that amount, according to the US Debt Clock. In context of our math here, that means it would take more than 385,802 years to spend that kind of money at $1 per second.

Just to give you a little historical perspective Jesus Christ walked the Earth a little more than 2,000 years ago, and depending on who you talk to the Earth is somewhere between 6,000 years and 4.6 billion years old. So that means that someone living a whole bunch of years before Jesus did would have had to start spending money at a rate of $86,400 per day (in today’s dollars) just to get to the point where they would have blown through $1 trillion by the time that Barrack Hussein Obama, America’s worst President ever, took the oath of office. So why aren’t more people completely and inextricably outraged?

The left-wing lunatic fringe

Is it true that Liberals have similar complaints about their Democrat Party as Conservatives do about their Republican Party?

The following statement was attributed to Bill Maher on the David Letterman show: “The bigger problem is that over the last 30 years the Democrat party has moved to the right and the Republican party has moved into a mental hospital.”

Maher’s attempt at humor is as weak as Letterman’s, but aside from that, is there any truth to this statement regarding the Democrat Party, or is he, as is Letterman, simply off his rocker and in need himself of mental health services?

All during the election Obama ran a centrist campaign, though those of us who actually took the time to read and listen to statement’s he’d made over the past decade knew that he was and is anything but a centrist or moderate. Ever since the election Obama has legislated and given speeches from the extreme Liberal side of the aisle, using many of Saul Alinsky’s tenants in his book “Rules for Radicals” for his proposals and ideas.

You’ll remember that it was Tom Brokaw who, during the campaign, admitted that the mainstream media really don’t know much about Barrack Obama, although they knew enough to want to suppress it until after the election, such as his middle name, which was off limits until his speech in Cairo when he played his Muslim middle name up, much to the praise of his Muslim audience.

Ironically, John McCain also ran a centrist campaign up until the end, when he tried to juke right with the naming of Sarah Palin as his VP running mate. And, as much as Palin motivated Conservatives within the GOP, Democrats simply do a better job being Liberals than Republicans.

I think we might be seeing the onset of another GOP revolution, coming mostly from the Conservative side of the party, but joined in part by disaffected independents, who recognize that Obama lied to them and the rest of the nation when he campaigned from the middle.

There’s an interesting blog that discusses, with statistics, the polarization of the two parties. I don’t believe that this polarization is necessarily a bad thing in part because we’ve seen what happens when one party opts to cede its moral authority in exchange for being liked. As Republicans opted to move to the political center they left behind a whole host of Conservative constituents who responded in 1994 by electing a Republican majority to the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years and who were also a large base of support for Ronald Reagan’s two terms in the White House.

In short, it’s ludicrous to say that the Democrats haven’t gone far enough to the left unless you are completely off your rocker and think that political despotism is a good thing. As the defacto leader of the Democrat Party, President Obama is responsible for the party’s slide to the extreme left. His ultra-liberal ideals and radical training and proposals are anathema to what this country was built upon and what we stand for as a nation. It’s also dangerous to world stability as it sends the message to our enemies that it’s okay for them to develop nuclear weapons and propose the utter destruction of entire nations.

A call to arms

Here’s a great video that asks a simple question of Americans today — a question that demands an answer and not mere complacency!