Dana Perino politely calls the Obama a Liar. I am not sure I could have been that kind.

On several occasions as I watched the president give a speech I began to wonder if he knows what he is there in that great office to represent. I wondered if he understands the true history and legacy of this great land. Not a head knowledge but a heart knowledge. I wondered if he felt the true weight and responsibility to maintain the status of the United States in the world. Does he understand the importance of individual freedom and liberty both to be and to do? After all, does not the Creator of the universe himself believe in free choice ? Does not our unalienable rights emanate from the Creator? Or perhaps the framers greatly erred and we should strike that out so no one will be “offended”? No! he made me to be free.

I watch him and it is like an actor on a stage, playing a role, moving as the director directs and saying what the script says to say. If all we needed was a good looking actor who can give a good sounding speech, we could have elected Denzel Washington. Talking is not doing. And this: what has he done for anybody, anywhere that we may see that he even knows what he is doing? Tell me please!

Does he know who he is supposed to be? Well the apology tour was one indication that he has misunderstood what America’s role in the world should be. Yes we can be arrogant, yes we can be boastful,yes some of us are greedy, yes we have made mistakes, but should he stand before people who want to kill us and say these things.Is it the president’s role to humble us before the world ? And yet he speaks not so despairingly of himself. The president cannot even accept criticism without whining. You better believe that the world needs America to be America. Why? Who comes in disasters to help with humanitarian aid the most. What country offers the promise of rags to riches to immigrants from far flung parts of the world ? Where are you allowed, to worship any deity, stick or stone without threat of death? Or you may believe in no god at all. America that’s where. At least for now.

He will not praise this country without condemning it. He will not extol our virtues over our vices, he will not raise his voice and proclaim that America is the land of the free and the home of the brave before the world. Why? because that is not what he seems to believe we are or maybe should be. His vision of America is not what we have been known to be. Governmental control, extravagant giveaways, speech police, food police, media police and “social justice” is where he is leading us.

We no longer have public servants but royalty in congress. Little kings and queens who will tell us what to and how to do it with the promise of something “free” to lure us in. We must obey them because after all they know better how to run our lives than we do.I almost feel like we will soon be asked to bow when they come into the room.

Hate speech laws are being enacted to keep any one from saying anything, to offend any group, anywhere, doing any hideous thing they can think of. Although Christians and conservatives will not be a protected group. I promise you. Gags will be placed on the mouths of religious people who believe that there is such a thing as sin and wrong and right.All judeo- christian symbols will be removed from the public square. The history book writers for school children are already wiping the country’s religious heritage from the pages. No longer should it be told why the pilgrims came here or that our laws are based on the bible. Hatred of America and everything it stands for is festering in the halls of academia and a new revisionist story is told of how we are the constant perpetrators of evil in the world. This will not be an America fit to live in if it continues this way.

I do not want to be here when the destroyers of liberty, religious freedom and self determination are done with this country. Our leaders are becoming a counsel of idiots and deceivers and it is distressing to see. Those who rise up and stand for truth, for right and for liberty will have to pay a price, yes they will and some are already paying it. But the price is not too great nor the sacrifice too large to keep this a free republic.

What about the children ? What about the future? What about our standard of living? What about the survival of freedom in the world. What about it friend ? Are you standing up or sitting down with your hands over your eyes just hoping the storm passes you by?

Please let’s not get weary now. Let’s Fight on and let’s fight hard.

Q. Is the United States, in your opinion, becoming a socialist country?

A. Not quite. The U.S. has been pretty center-left since the days of FDR, and definitely in terms of entitlement spending (Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, SSI, Welfare, Section 8, Food Stamps, Lord know what else). Since nearly half of the country doesn’t even pay any taxes to fund it we’ve got the whole nanny state thing covered.

What has kept us center left, ironically, is capitalism itself. It’s cyclical in nature, so we’re assured boom and bust periods every few years. You may notice that during the bust periods, businesses and people have no problem running to the government to be succored and taken care of. That’s usually when we end up with some massive new entitlement, and once we have them, they’re politically untouchable despite the calamitous economic consequences of maintaining them.

What has kept us from drifting further left, fortunately, is the independence of our states. So while one can move to California and conceivably live off the dole for a lifetime, they wouldn’t be able to pull off the same feat in say, Texas, where the culture is different, government is small and there are virtually no taxes, services, or handouts.

Americans also love innovation, choice, and speed, so likely wouldn’t tolerate a government responsible for running all of our industries, and deciding the output and delivery of our goods and services. Most of us panic when we don’t have enough options available on our iPhones for Pete’s sake, so I doubt we’d ever want to rely on Uncle Sam for our clothes, TVs, remotes, video games, cars, laptops, etc. It would be way too inconvenient. Women may be divided on an issue such as abortion, for example, but they’ll unite if you mess with their department stores. Inhibit their ability to customize their kitchens and there may be be rioting in the streets. 

Q. What do you think was the turning point with The President’s poll numbers?

A. I might be reaching here, but I’d have to say “Gates-gate”. That event will live on in infamy as the day when Obama spoiled the vision of himself as a transformative, post racial, unifying President. Keep in mind many white moderates and independents made the good faith assumption that he would be the cure for what ills this country racially, and he’d be what we needed to assuage white guilt. Not so fast.

In rushing to judgment against the Cambridge police, without having the facts of the matter at hand, and siding with Gates while inserting race into the narrative, he exposed himself as just another huckster…the “angry elitist black man” who sees racism even where it isn’t, and opts to pretentiously ram his sermonizing on the subject down our throats.

He got off easy with the Reverend Wright situation, as well as the “Guns and Religion” comment. He even managed to escape scot-free after calling his own grandmother a “typical white person”. But now that he IS the United States, there are no more free passes for remarks like that, and I don’t think he’ll ever be able to regain the trust of those independents again. When discussing the event with a disappointed white liberal friend of mine, he uttered the words that sum up how much Obama tarnished his image: “I never thought I’d see a U.S. President ever pull the race card.” Ouch. 

Q. What has gone wrong for the Democrats in the health care debate?

A. There’s an old saying in the legal profession: When you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. When you have the law on your side, pound the law. When you have neither, pound the table.

Give you one guess what our friends on the Left have been pounding?

Here are some of their biggest blunders:

• They’ve tried to demonize concerned Americans practicing their right to protest as Nazis, racists, KKK members, astroturfers, corporate stooges, and terrorists. Considering that many of the people at those town halls look like they have 4 pm bedtimes and probably spent WWII fighting fascism, the left’s claims are a little hard to believe. That they represent the majority of this country (the 75% who aren’t liberals) will prove fatal to the Democrat party.
• Obama has been exposed numerous times for not knowing what’s in either of the bills he has floating around Congress. That doesn’t do much for his credibility when he’s out there guaranteeing everyone everything.
• There are numerous Youtube videos of the President floating around where he describes his wish for single payer, and outlines his plans to gradually sneak insert it into our system. That he is all of a sudden against it when the entire left wing of his party is pushing for it, is suspicious and lends credence to the public option being a Trojan horse.
• Congress (and the President) have exempted themselves from this supposedly “wonderful” plan.
• Spamgate. Not so much the incident itself but the White House’s attempts at covering it up.
• Obama has been caught telling some whoppers. Claiming an AARP endorsement? Doctors are reimbursed $50,000 for amputations? They push tonsillectomies on people for fees? Guaranteeing we’ll keep our plans? No rationing? All are foolish declarations.
• The CBO has blown apart all of Obama’s assertions about “bending the cost curve” and bringing costs down. Some say even their estimates are still too low. Yet he won’t let go of savings as a talking point.
• Obama cut a deal with Big Pharma on the side, one of the same “special interests” he purports to be fighting on our behalf.
• He used the Post office as the standard for Government run health care.
• The left wing Democrats (Pelosi and co.) have written all of the legislation and are responsible for some of the more bizarre proposals within the overhaul, placing the moderates and conservatives in their party, many hailing from red states, in a tenuous position. That this Administration failed to realize the effect of such a strategy is either indicative of their supreme incompetence or their willingness to send the lambs to slaughter in order to accomplish their goal. It may very well be both. The lambs, however, are not so keen on being unemployed, certainly not in this economy, and are hitting the brakes right at the edge of the cliff before they fall into the vast pit known as the American center. Left wingers don’t usually make it out of there alive, disappearing into the depths of nefarious political history alongside Jimmy Carter, George McGovern, Mondale, John Kerry, and soon, Dodd/Reid/Frank/Pelosi. But you know who it’s REALLY waiting for, though…

I can go on, but I think I’ve made a pretty good case.

Americans DO want reform, of course, but only the kind that aids the 5% of us who fall through the cracks when it comes to coverage and offers us protection during periods of unemployment, at a lower overall cost. That’s it. Until our President gets that a government takeover is out of the question he can look forward to more declining poll numbers.

Not that it matters anymore. The revised deficit numbers released this past weekend should be the final nail in Obamacare’s coffin, or at least what places it on life support. Call them a death panel. We’re now (officially) looking at a trillion dollar deficit each year through the next DECADE, folks.

I hope the Bammer gets plenty of rest on his vacation.

Q. What do you think of the Democrats using reconciliation to push Obamacare through?

A. They should probably start updating their resumes.

Q. What can Republicans do to get a larger share of the black vote?

A. Stop assuming that it isn’t theirs for the taking right out of the gate. Mike Huckabee, who managed to pull 45% of the black vote in Arkansas, said all he needed to do was ask for it.

Case in point: I was invited to speak at a conference on party identification and voting at a University earlier this year to a group of minority underclassmen. My liberal counterpart made the mistake of doing the thinking for them, and assumed there was nothing to discuss beyond the same usual talking points. I had other plans, and made mincemeat out of her (in a polite way, of course).

Once I was done, I was approached by about 7 or 8 of the students, and each one told me they’d either be registering Republican, voting Republican, or were leaning Republican and wanted to talk to me some more and ask questions. A few others wanted me to recommend the reading materials that shaped my own ideas.

8 students out of 30 or so, at a liberal institution, in New York, with a black Democrat President in office. That’s 25%. I didn’t need any cheap slogans, PR people, teleprompters, or a multimillion dollar campaign to sway them either.

Here’s a secret: Black people, and by extension all minorities, want the same thing everyone else wants- freedom of opportunity, safety, an education, better lives for their children, etc…. Don’t treat us like aliens that need to be studied and dissected. We’re not a group incapable of independent thought. We are reasonable human beings! Sure we’ve got our liberals, but we also have many moderates and conservatives who simply vote Democrat because it’s all they know. The same probably goes for Latinos and every other group out there. Go after everybody without using condescending tactics, let them examine your ideas and principles, and you’ll get results.

 Q. The Republicans still haven’t been able to distinguish themselves or make any gains amidst all of the turmoil. They’re the party of “No”. Shouldn’t they be out there making alternative proposals to the people in order to be taken seriously?

A. When has a minority party ever been able to take the lead on agenda setting? Nothing Republicans propose will ever make it out of Committee in this Congress. I’m actually happy they’re sitting the sideline, because it’s galvanizing Americans, regardless of party, to take up the fight. Partisan politics are good for sport, but this is real life, and those labels mean nothing here.

Sorry, but the Dems own the stimulus, they own the porkulus, they own the quadrupling of the Bush deficits, they own the doubling of the national debt, they own the auto bailouts, they own the unemployment rate, they own any pending tax increases, they own cap and trade, and they will own Obamacare.

Why should Republicans get involved? I’d stay as far away as possible. When your opponents are busy burning down their house, it’s better to save some water for your own.

Their main focus now should be developing candidates, leaders, and a message to help navigate us through the rough years ahead and better defend the interests of their constituents.

Better to be the party of “no” then the party of “can’t”.

Q. Was Cash for Clunkers a good idea?

A. Not for car dealers, who’ve yet to be paid. Certainly not for the government’s reputation for managing programs. Or poor Americans who typically can only afford clunkers. Or even for consumer spending, which declined in July.

So I’d say no.

Auto union workers might probably disagree, but they also thought auto bailouts were a good idea, so who cares?

Obama got us out of Iraq, except we’re still there. He closed GitMo, except it’s still open. He declared the war on terror over, except it isn’t. He brought transparency and ended the Cheney era of secrecy, except he didn’t. He returned accountability to government except he did the opposite and appointed more unaccountable czars than ever before. He returned us to fiscal sanity, except he has already run up more debt than every past President COMBINED. He brought the world together and used a multilateral inclusive strategy to get Europe and the global community to support our foreign policy. Except he didn’t and got less from our allies at the NATO and G-8 summits than Bush did. He ended the left-right battle and forged a centrist/ moderate path. Except he has divided the country more than ever and asked citizens to spy on each other and then e-mail him with what they find. Barack Obama lied, hope and change died.

FAIL. EPIC FAIL.

All that blaming Bush, and “failed Republican policies,” yet now that it’s his “baby” he’s seeing things for what they really are. He’s maintaining the “status quo” (a phrase he is so fond of using against the opposition) in some cases and LOSING GROUND in others.

I wonder how his efforts to quit smoking are going?

“For Ghana, Obama’s visit will be a celebration of another milestone in African history as it hosts the first-ever African-American President on this presidential visit to the continent of his birth.”

I applaud Ms. Reed & Mr. Turner for their diligence in questioning and pursuing the answers they in particular and we in general deserve as far as where monies (including taxpayer $) are being spent by this organization and/or it’s officers.  As local Washington, D.C. board members, they have asked for accounting and transparency from what I would call the “clearing house” or “umbrella” company CCI. CCI (Citizens Consulting, Inc.) is the central point for collection of member dues, as well as Federal grants and foundation funding.

What I find remarkable is that CCI is essentially a microcosm of the Federal govenrment and the direction in which Left-wing organizations such as ACORN wish to take it. I think the irony of Mr. Turner’s statements beginning at 4:48 may not be apparent to this well-meaning man. 

Beginning at 4:48, here is what he said:

“…it’s hard to keep up with where the money’s gone, what purpose it was used for, but when we as a local want to get some of the money back from the dues that our members have paid, we have problems.”

He goes on to say:

 ”…like for instance we started up a (local) newsletter. We have problems getting back money from national or from CCI to even mail out these newsletters to our members.”

After a comment from Glenn Beck, Mr. Turner says:

“…over the last couple of years, D.C. local has been in the top three locals submitting membership dues to ACORN national or to CCI. But whenever it comes to getting some money back, to support different campaigns or projects we want to support, there was no money, there was no accountability of where the money went, even some of the money was taken out of our account unbeknownst to our Board or without our say-so or even knowing that it’s gone.”

Hmmm…I don’t mean this viciously, but this sounds an awful lot like the management/governing philosophy of the man this “non-partisan” organization helped elect.  Here is a “high performing, high earning,” I’ll call it “individual unit” of the organization that is not reaping the benefit of their hard work. It kinda sounds like CCI is “spreading the wealth” as it sees fit. 

Watch it here:

Torture? I’m so glad you brought up the subject. Mr. President and Attorney General Holder, Conservative African Americans have been waiting a lifetime to have this conversation. But before you and the sensitive members of the Democratic Party start with the Bush Administration, why don’t we review the torture tactic of the Democratic Party.

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