Apologizing To The World For Obama

The NEXT President of the United States is going to have a daunting task facing him/her. He/She is going to have to apologize to the world – possibly in a world tour – for President Obama, his failures and the vulnerable position he has left us all in. His short-sightedness and selfish focus on his agenda has shown a lack of compassion for the people he was elected to serve. At the same time he has endangered the United States and our allies.

In the first two years alone of President Obama we have cringed as he delivered apology after apology from HIM for the United States, our ideals, our Constitution, our history, our military, our position in the world, our economy and any other image that has made America great over the first two-hundred thirty-four years of our existence as a nation. He has bent the meaning of the Founding of this nation, he has misrepresented the articles of the constitution, he blatantly opposed the Supreme Court and ridiculed them for their decision in front of Congress and he has tarnished the image of the Office of the President of the United States of America with his insistence on associations with those who wish to undermine the country. Yet, the reality has been that as bad a Obama thinks the United States is, the American people and the rest of the world realizes we are still the greatest nation the world has ever seen.

Just apologizing for American greatness was not enough. After apologizing President Obama set about destroying the American Brand while the world and the country watched in shock. In the face of war, terror threats, oil spills and economic disaster Obama ignored the plight of his countrymen so he could carry out his grand social experiment dabbling in Western European Socialism – the same Socialism that Western Europe is trying to save itself from after it failed miserably – even as Obama is actively forcing that same socialism on the American people.

After apologizing for the arrogant mistakes Obama and his Congress made the NEXT President will then have to set about erasing them. Congress will have to impose economic balance to the out of control spending the Obama Administration inflicted on our future generations. That is going to require MASSIVE spending cuts to the entitlement programs Obama erroneously thought were a good idea and eliminating many programs that never should have been inflicted on us in the first place.

It will also require a ‘downsizing’ or ‘rightsizing’ of the American bureaucracy. Just as many businesses had to reduce their manpower to meet fiscal retractions and management realities in the 1990’s the government will have go through the same kind of reductions and streamlining to become effective in the future. There are literally millions of jobs in the American government that have either been eliminated by the implementation of computers or are redundancies that can be eliminated entirely. At the same time government management people are going to have to be trained in accountability tools. They will have to know how to hold their people accountable while being held accountable to produce production level numbers. That is going to be a challenge since it has never before happened in the public sector.

At the same time, the military will have to be rebuilt. In a time when the country is under constant threat of attack from terrorists, has combat troops in the field and our adversaries are nuking up and building up their militaries Obama CUT spending to the U.S. military as Presidents Clinton and Carter did before him in typical Democrat ostrich fashion. Somewhere in the thinking of the Left is the notion that if you show weakness to your enemies they will understand you mean them no harm and leave you alone. I can only assume that strategy worked well when they were kids on the playground to protect their lunch money because in the Real World where most of us live it’s a plan for disaster. The bullies of the world recognize weakness and exploit it. It’s no more complicated than that.

Rebuilding the image of the United States while controlling the domestic challenges will be difficult, but the onslaught from the haughty, affronted media snobs and their co-conspirators of the whining Democrat Party will be at top decibel from before the first day. They will be wailing they were wronged and be adversarial at every turn. Those in that group mistakenly think it was the collective groan from the Right that brought about the undermining of Barak Obama. They fail to grasp that it was the recognition by Conservatives and the like-minded that Obama was a hard Leftist who had lied to them and had a plan to work contrary to American values to get elected. THAT is what brought about the groundswell against the Left. It was not attacking for the sake of attacking, it was Obama opening the closet so everyone could see who he and his Congress were that brought about the revulsion with Washington and the Democrats. The Democrats actually gave the life force to the Conservative movement and Tea Parties by who the Democrats are and what they did to America.

America deserves better.

Democrat Accountability

It’s that time of year again. We are being inundated with standard political “elect me” commercials – or “don’t elect my opponent because they have some piece of dirt in their background I hope you’ll hate, just don’t ask me about issues because I don’t have any ground to stand on” ads. They are on every channel all the time. The one that always gives me a good belly laugh is the one about Democrats trying to tell us they want to bring “accountability” to government. What? Surely they jest.

For as long as I can remember politicians have used that same tired line of holding government accountable – and they never have. It’s especially hilarious after two years of the Obama Administration and the Democrat Congress running wild in Washington like drunk frat kids taking over their parent’s house for a sex party with strippers. Where was the accountability through all those bailouts and stimuli? Was it the ‘keep our boot on their neck’ moment when Obama was playing golf while BP and the people of the Gulf were trying to save themselves? Is that the kind of accountability we’re talking about? Or maybe it was the stellar job they did holding themselves accountable to the American voters when polls showed 70 percent of us disagreed with Congress when they pushed healthcare down our throats. Or maybe it was that bank bailout that was rushed through on a ‘crisis’ we have since found out did not exist. I suppose it could be how their leader ran around the world selling out Americans to the rest of the world – that certainly made us all a lot safer when we travel the world. Or was it the ‘beer conference’ when the president showed himself to be biased against our law enforcement people. We KNOW it’s not about the ‘transparency’ we were guaranteed by Obama and Pelosi to keep Americans informed. Neither have delivered on their promises. Or maybe it was rushing legislation after legislation through Congress before anyone had a chance to read it. Yeah, THAT was Democrat accountability in action.

I think Americans would have been a lot happier if they had seen a little accountability on spending. Find ANY action the Congress or White House took to control spending by anyone in Washington – outside the military. President Obama has whored out the American taxpayer to every union, bank, and piece of Congressional pork he could find to try to shore up votes for his re-election run in 2012 by creating a 14 TRILLION dollar debt for the taxpayers.

There is NO accountability in Washington. Everyone knows it, so for Democrats to run on an ‘accountability’ plank is outright ludicrous. It’s actually insulting to think Americans would believe it AGAIN.

We have seen NO accountability from the Democrats at any point over the last two years, so don’t insult us with these election time platitudes. They want the money of taxpayers so they can throw it at their contributors by the billion-dollar basketful. Washington is an all out brothel at the moment and they’re using our money to screw US. There’s no believing they’ll reform themselves, or they’ve heard the American people or that they can be trusted with our money ever again. In business we have a phrase for what we need to say to these people: “You’re fired.” THAT is the kind of accountability we need for Washington.

Americans deserve better.

Weak Leaders In Washington Leave The US In Peril

Certain axioms of leaders and leadership have been true throughout history. Numerous philosophers have stated them in various ways; and some axioms are simply understood. Great leaders inherently know the axioms and exemplify them every time you see them.

“For a country to be great it needs great people choosing great leaders, and great leaders are only as great as the people they lead.”

“Building a strong, educated citizenry is the obligation and duty of the current leaders.”

“The leaders of tomorrow will come from the citizens of today. The quality of tomorrow’s leaders is incumbent on current leaders to insure.”

“Great leaders lead by example.”

“Poor leaders cannot lead. Poor leaders are reduced to insulting, lying and force to influence their citizens.”

By all indications Washington has been seized by poor leaders.

Our leaders are weak-kneed, limp-wristed, hand-wringing whiners not worthy of the people they were elected to serve. None of the attributes of great leaders are characteristics of the power people currently inhabiting Washington. The people going to Washington – from the White House all the way down through Congress and the functionaries who populate the various bureaucracies – are as far from true leaders as we can get. They are as bland as wallpaper paste and have about the same backbone.

Through most of the Twentieth Century and now into the Twenty-First Century Americans were told we needed to elect or appoint people with a pedigree/resume that included graduation from a specific group of colleges that we now have come to recognize as the repositories of the most intense socialist thought on the planet. Not only have those colleges been taken over by professors that represent the thoughts of the Hard Left, they also are a bunch of blowhards incapable of working in the private sector. They are showing themselves repeatedly to be wrong in their theories and when those theories are applied to the Real World where most of us live those theories are destructive.

Maybe that was the plan from the outset.

Many of the models these theorists used to expand their own theories were radicals, terrorists, crackpots, narcissists, blowhards and liars. The people these pseudo-leaders idolize are reprehensible to the American people. The current crop of leaders have done their best to hide who they are for so many years, but now that they are in power they felt it was okay to come out of the closet. When they came out Americans were NOT happy with what had been hidden.

We have learned that our centers of higher learning are not centers of higher learning – they have reduced themselves to centers of propaganda and indoctrination for Leftist thought. The ideas coming out of these schools are nothing more than a rehash of old Marxist ideas that were tried repeatedly and failed time and time again. We found that living in a vacuum where these professors live, work and pontificate has created nothing new that will make these theories any better or advance society, they have only wallowed in the failures and regaled students with fantasies of how it should have been done if THEY were in power. Now they have had their chance to apply their theories to American society and we found out one thing – the theories didn’t fail because they had never been tried in the United States as Leftists claimed for years, they failed because they were bad theories from the outset. Bad theories are bad theories no matter who tries them.

Now all the theorists are fleeing the sinking ship of the Obama Administration confused about why nothing worked to return to their classrooms where they can propagate and agitate for years to come. From their classrooms they will try to rewrite history using their opposition as an excuse for their failures – when it was their theories that were wrong from the outset. It was their own arrogance that kept them from seeing what was clear to the rest of us from the outset.

Americans deserve better.

Turning The United States Into Israel

Last week when President Obama spoke at the annual Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s Awards Gala he ran off a list of peoples who came to this country to form its fabric. The Dutch, French, Brits, Mexicans (to a cheer) and Native Americans. Then he explained that they all worked pretty well together with minor frictions here and there until the formation of the United States as a country. It was THEN that everything went to hell. Maybe the president never studied History, or maybe he likes to make things up as he goes.

In the president’s La-La version of American History here sat a pristine continent populated by loving Natives who were walking through life in some kind of peyote funk communing with nature and having a love-fest with each other. When Europeans came along, they all met the indigenous people and joined them in this peyote smoking bliss strolling through this wilderness paradise like kids in a romper room until the Ugly Americans showed up and destroyed it all. This is not the first time he has plundered history for just enough facts to interlace with his personal hatred of the United States to spin his conciliatory tale. Obama’s not quite clear about where these Ugly Americans came from, but why harsh the mellow?

Pardon my incredulity, but what the HELL is he talking about??

I know he gets a lot of his history from Reverend Wright who loves to bend all Evil in the world back to white America, but a little reality might help break them away from a bad kids’ movie approach to the history of this continent.

In the real world the native tribes of the Americas hated each other and were at constant war. They were famous for slaughtering their enemies, cannibalism, enslaving those who were not killed, pillaging villages, burning huge portions of the country, raping the women and being as base as their European, Asian and African counterparts. When Columbus and his boys came to the New World they got syphilis from the indigenous population and carried it back to Europe creating an epidemic that wiped out millions almost as tragic as The Plague – not the other way around. I have no idea who started all this idealistic history that is based in anger toward the United States, but they are living in another world – probably helped along by that peyote cloud I referenced earlier – and making this stuff up to fit their vision of the world.

The Europeans that came to the New World were at war with each other through most of their history here. They fought whenever they saw each other. If you go to any islands in the Caribbean or travel along the east coast there are old forts from the empires that came here. Those forts were built to fight against other empires who were trying to kill off those who built the forts. I wonder if Obama ever heard of the French and Indian War? Apparently not, or it didn’t fit into his fantasy tale.

I don’t know why I waste my breath, Obama does not care about reality – only his version of it.

The part of the speech that had me rolling my eyes was when he said the Mexicans came here and interacted with the Europeans. Mexicans?? Really? The Spaniards came here, not the Mexicans. In colonial times what is Mexico today was a colony of Spain. For those of you who are a product of our public school system, the United States declared independence from England in 1776. Mexico became a country in 1823. That means the United States had thrown out the empires before Mexico was ever created, so Obama’s version of history is incorrect (charitably speaking). There was no Mexico to come here and interact with the French, Dutch or English like Obama tells the story! Those people were from Spain. In spite of Obama’s fantasyland telling of the story, the Spanish came and destroyed the cultures they encountered in what is now Mexico and Central America. They did not come here and live in harmony with the natives or the other empires.

The problem with the Obama history of America is that it’s convoluted, indulgent and made up to fit the particular group he was speaking to, just as much of his material is ‘spun’ to fit his audience. His whole strategy is to make the United States look like the Israel of the New World. Here we are, plunked down in the New World “imposing” the country in the middle of a paradise that would be great without us. No one wanted us here and we should be removed. Nothing could be further from the truth – but we are talking about Obama who has no room for the truth when it doesn’t fit into his view of the world. It’s not just our history of Manifest Destiny that grew our country, had we allowed ourselves to remain part of the British Empire little would be different, just where we send our exorbitant taxes and where we get our leaders changes.

In Obama’s view the United States is imposed here in the New World and we should be punished for our presence. His view is narrow and racist. The history of the whole world is about conquest and the establishment of countries. That’s the way it is. All this hand-wringing namby-pambiness is nothing more than fantasy imposed over reality to make the country he leads into the bad-guy thus creating more victims. And THAT is what Obama is really about – creating victims and imposing divisions between people so he can carve them up into voting blocks for pandering. Mr. President, quit giving our enemies reasons to hate us and those who want to overrun our borders incorrect history lessons to fan their flames of hatred.

America deserves better.

Seat Belt Laws Gone Amok

Back in the early 1970’s we watched the slow march toward soft tyranny get started with a bunch of good Samaritan-sounding people telling us they wanted to make the world safer with a “Buckle Up” campaign. It seemed innocent enough at the time. Who doesn’t want to save lives? Who thinks it’s a good idea to exit the car through the windshield? Who wants to end up the bloody corpse in a “Buckle Up” commercial? The American people were slowly convinced through graphic highway fatality commercials and ads put together by slick marketing people that wearing our seatbelts would save our lives. So laws were passed to make us do it in spite of having spent all that time and money to convince us. For those who missed the commercials, endless ads and needed to be prodded to get in line here they came with the sledge hammers to make sure we got it whether we wanted it or not.

And that was just the beginning.

At the time I grumbled that I should have the right to decide whether or not I wear a seatbelt, but I was a lone voice. No one listened and the laws were put in place.

I should have grumbled louder. I should have drawn the proverbial line in the sand. I should have fought for our lives. I should have made it into the freedom and liberty issue it is.

We all should have.

I have worn a seatbelt since they were available in cars. Back when I started driving there were bench seats across the front of the car or truck that would allow you to slide from one side of the car to the other in a sharp turn if you were not locked in. There’s nothing like trying to hold onto a steering wheel to stay in the driver’s seat while the car is sliding on a road – it’s not a position you want to find yourself in. Professional drivers wear seatbelts to stay in their seat and in control of their vehicles when they are in motion – that’s good enough for me. It’s just good common sense to wear a seatbelt – and it’s that common sense that all this over-nannification of society is taking out of us.

What was NOT good common sense was a law that forced us all to wear them.

The American people are big-hearted generous people who truly care, so it’s easy for us to be played by these charlatans who come with an agenda they want to shove down our throats. Those “feel good” laws were the beginning of a move away from freedom toward laws that now limit what we eat, where we smoke – if we can afford to smoke from all the taxes heaped on tobacco products – the cars we drive and a long list of regulations on our lives that are nothing less than oppressive and dictatorial. All of it was done from the same perspective of protecting lives, saving the planet, making sure we were safe, taking care of each other and being good citizens. In their push to make us better citizens they made us all into weaker citizens incapable of making decisions without direction from the government.

Slowly a tide of laws and supplemental taxes to control behaviors crept into our lives gradually boxing us in at every turn in our lives. Now there are numbers to call for the Green Police or the Doggie Poop Patrol. Really? What happened to the world? What happened to citizenship? What happened to responsibility? What happened to people who believed we should stand on our own two feet and we should not have a lawyer on speed dial?

We are still here. Yes, there is a very vocal minority that loves to scream they are offended at the drop of a hat and try to force more regulations down our throats. The pushback has begun. The drive to retake our country is underway. It can be mischaracterized by the media all they want, old warhorses can be trotted out to give bad advice until they turn blue in the face, the people have learned and see the light at the end of the tunnel.

America deserves better.

Progressives Are Not Progressive

Where are Progressives getting the notion they are saying or doing ANYTHING that is progressive? Or that what they are saying has a positive relevance to American society that will advance our nation? There’s no fresh thinking from these people. All these theories they are trying to inflict on the American economy, healthcare system, banks, business and so on are old theories that have been around for CENTURIES, tried repeatedly and failed every time they were tried. These theories have only worked for a limited time when they were tried and only worked at the point of a gun – or a spear. When the population is cowed into submission because they have no way to fight back against an armed central government and forced to do what the government insists they do, anything can work – for a short time. Eventually, all those governments who followed the strong central command and control system collapsed under the weight of the burden they placed on society in spite of holding the citizens hostages.

The growth of the central government to oversee a nation is not a new idea. Maybe the Progressives were absent from school the day they taught about the Roman Empire – or in today’s schools they may not even cover the subject. It has probably been replaced with ‘Why Men Are Bad.’ Maybe Progressives missed the whole history of the world up through the Twentieth Century. Countries have been using central command and control for millennia. The result is always the same as trying to overcorrect a car on an icy street with a heavy hand. Instead of being free to react to the changing conditions under the wheels, heavy-handed corrections tend to put the car- and governments – in the ditch. In the end they all end up on the scrap heap.

Equally alarming is the arrogance of our emerging Ruling Class. They are sure what they are trying to push onto the American people is what is best for us all in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. They sat in their classrooms and think tanks and talked about these theories as if the whole world exists in a vacuum. If that was the case all the plans for all the battles fought in wars would have worked like a charm and the planners never would have lost. The problem all strategists understand – which seems to escape Progressives – is that as soon as the first person steps on the battlefield all the plans go out the window. The same applies to governments. That is why when we get these massive entitlement programs they are an endless list of addendums to handle the contingencies that keep coming up.

Propping up the Ruling Class is their favorite propaganda lap-puppy – the mainstream media. The same mainstream media that in recent days has demonstrated their lack of touch with the American people by their reaction to the primary elections. Over the last couple years they have gone out of their way to show their bias and their lack of touch with the current mood of the people they are supposed to be reporting for in their papers. Instead of being the eyes and ears of the American people, they have become the attack dog of the Ruling Class against anyone who opposes Washington establishment.

Recruiting and training for the Ruling Class are the universities and colleges who are vying for positions closest to the throne by funneling some of the best and brightest minds into what used to be considered ‘dead-end government jobs.’ Those people will then be indoctrinated to work ‘at court’ for the Ruling Class until they are ready to be moved into positions of power. The indoctrination period also serves as a vetting opportunity for the Ruling Class to weed out those who lack ‘proper thinking’ and advance those who show promise.

It all adds up to the Ruling Class setting themselves up like old-time medieval kings, taking the crops and treasure of the serfs as if it’s their own, making decisions for the people as if they have no brains to make their own decisions, spending the treasure on their own agendas and living off the treasure of the people in rock-star lavishness that few of the people supporting them with their taxes could afford. Yet, the Ruling Class feels somehow entitled to this lifestyle on the government dime. In the private sector they never would be allowed to abuse the company expense account to that extent. That’s probably why they went into government – they can abuse their expense accounts and no one is holding them accountable.

Now along come the people movies are made about – those willing to throw it all out there, fight the fights, take the blows, take on the Rulers for the cause of Freedom. This is as good as it gets. The added attraction is they are under attack from the Left and from their own people. Odds have been against these people who are rising from nowhere to challenge ‘The Establishment’ from the start. Two years ago they were living in obscurity – today they are American heroes. This is the kind of action/patriotism inspired story people would be on their feet cheering if they were in movie theaters. All of the elements are here; it’s simply a matter of going up against ‘The Machine’ driving on into November.

This is the stuff of Legends.

Americans deserve better!!