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   Perhaps no decision to date more clearly defines an award for words over substance than the remarkable decision to award President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize.  The question that begs to be asked is “For What?”  He was sworn in for President two months before the selection process began, so he did more for peace in two months than anyone else in the world?  I am not saying that with time his efforts might warrant such recognition, not at all.  I am just saying not yet.  Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt are the only two other sitting Presidents to be awarded the prize.  Does anyone really put Obama in the same category yet?  I certainly hope not.   Can’t it at least be fairly said that the jury is still out?

   Conflicts with North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, Israel and the Palestinians are all issues on the verge of explosion, despite the President’s efforts.  None are anywhere near being resolved.  If they were, the award would have been given on merit.  Given the current status of things, as a local talk show host observed, “Shouldn’t his teleprompter gotten recognised too?”

A reader interprets my comments as saying there is no racism in the U.S.  That is so far from what I said, it’s not even in this galaxy.  I said that someone can disagree with the President without being racist, unless it is racist when a black man disagrees with a white President.  However, the media and others can’t seem to get past the fact that Obama is black.  He’s a man to me, noting more, nothing less, but he is a misguided man and obviously misinformed if one is to believe his interview with Stephanopolis yesterday.  He knows about “Skippy” Gibbs and Kanye West but doesn’t know that Acorn is getting millions of dollars of tax money because he doesn’t have time to pay attention…to fraud.  But he will root out fraud in Medicare just not in his pet organization which he is suddenly distanced from since becoming President.  The Democratic Congress is calling for an immediate investigation but he is unwilling to state that funding will be cut off to this group?  Oh, and by the way Mr. President, if you would read your own stimulus bill which has funding in it for Acorn, you would know that they are receiving Federal dollars.   In the words of Harry Truman, Mr President, “The buck stops here!”  Apparently you conveniently don’t have the time for the less important things like fraudulent activity, even when it is caught on tape.

President Jimmy Carter, the man most responsible for me not supporting the Democratic Party, after I voted for him and saw what I had done, continues to affirm that I was right.  To infer that attacks on President Obama’s healthcare and other agendas are because he’s black is rediculous unless blacks booing President Bush were also recially motivated.  I don’t believe they were not do they have to be in either case.  If anything, President Obama is green, not black, because he has spent more green than any President in history and can’t seem to stop.  I don’t care what color he is, nonfactor, I do care what he thinks and is trying to ram down America’s throat and that is all bad except his comments about Kanye West.  Bythe way, were his comments racist?

Yesterday in Green Bay, WI., President Obama restated what has been the theme of his brief Presidency.  If we don’t act now, in this case on health care, the world is coming to an end.  Do you remember he said the same thing to get the stimulus bill passed?  Our economy is going to collapse if we don’t act now.  Months later, with virtually no stimulus money in circulation, the economy is slowly beginning to recover on its own.  Get the money out the door, says the President, so I can credit for the recovery, even though the train has already left the station.  Government can not force a sustained recovery.  Too late Mr. President but of course the press won’t cover the truth when it comes to the One.  Our economy will recover without him because that’s the way a capitalist economy works, for those who know something about such things which he obviously doesn’t, reward people for ingenuity and effort and they are willing to risk to achieve it.  His socialistic approach to give things away to those who haven’t worked for it, has the reverse effect particularly when the giveaways always have the price of being beholden to the government and giving up just a little bit of freedom in the process.  A little bit at a time and the boiling frog of freedom will die a slow and painless death and the socialists can ruin yet another country.

    We have the best healthcare system in the world, which is why people from all over the world come here for care, even from countries where they can get it for “free” under their nationalized health care.  If it’s ours is not the best, why else do you suppose they do that?  If you reward people for their efforts, they tend ot work harder and better if the risk is worth it.  Is our system perfect, none is or can be.  We’re dealing with humans here.  Only one was perfect and we killed Him.  It’s not perfect and some adjustments need to be made but a nationalized healthcare system is not it and never will be.  But his plan will let us chose our own carrier if we want.  For how long?  Put it in writing and we can talk about it but that’s not going to happen because that is not the long term plan.  Government for the government, by the government is the long term plan.  You want that, keep voting for such junk.  That was not the intent of our constitution and for good reason.

   No freedom believing person could embrace government’s increasing penetration into private life and business but to some degree we have ourselves to blame.  Irresponsibility and greed have created a vacuum.  Once created, a vacuum has to be filled, if not by responsible, honest citizens seeking to run business fairly, then by something else.  In this case, unfortunately government.  The methods employed by the banking industry, car companies and the like have all contributed to the their own demise justifying government intrusion.  Is either right, no, but until society is willing to do it on its own, government is always an easy alternative to the tough battles to maintain morals and responsibility.  Parental apathy has created a vacuum allowing schools to assume parental responsibility and frankly, the list goes on and on.  “To whom much is given, much is required” but society and most individuals are less and less likely to do what is required, placing us all at risk.

President Obama’s decision to not release photos of interrogation techniques, even though correct, is none the less remarkable but most glaringly hypocritical.  Prior to January 20th, his cries for such were consistent.  I applaud him for the realization that the release of such information does not fall under the auspices of the “right to know”, as well as the fact that any publication of such would create the very real possibility of putting our troops in greater harms way.   The fact still remains that a majority of folks will accept his decision now, even though it was the same decision of the previous administration, only now because it is Obama it’s O.K.   Every administration makes mistakes.  Bush made many but this was not one of them.  To suggest that terrorists should have the same rights as non-terrorists is ludicrous.  To suggest that we should not do everything possible to gather information to protect ourselves should be only common sense but unfortunately it is not.  The very nature of terrorism should trump any rights short of execution, which by the way, is the interrogation limit of our enemies clearly displayed by video.   The left has NEVER demonstrated the same indignation to those executions as it does now to Gitmo or any other practices we use, all of which are far more humane than our enemies.  Other than with the Moveon.org crowd,  President Obama’s decision will hardly cause a ripple.  If any conservative had made the same, it would be editorial fodder for weeks.  No bias in the press though.

Remember, during the campaign, how we were told that a more compatible approach to our enemies was what was missing in our reputation world wide and that a change would elevate our status around the world?  In one fell swoop, one lost week end, North Korea detonates a nuclear weapon the size of the Hiroshima bomb, Iran rejects the nuclear plan of the west and sends warships into neutral waters, and it is speculated that Hugo Chavez is sending Uranium to Iran, I’m sure for peaceful purposes.  Do you feel better about ourselves now?  Safer?  The kinder, gentler President’s joking with Chavez seems to have certainly moved him towards our side.  But of course we can depend on the toothless UN to bail the west out.  NOT!!

   There is no policy or approach that will get any of theses governments to have any respect for the U.S., none, they HATE us period.  The only approach to protect ourselves is to aggressively prevent these things from happening.  Do I want to see lives lost.  Absolutely not but the reality is, lives will be lost either way, so at least let us die fighting to save ourselves.  The announcement that a real, not imagined, missile terrorist plot was prevented, reported by Iran’s president no less, had better wake us up or 911 will seem like small potatoes in the loss of life of innocent non-combatants.  This is not a drill.  We are under legitimate attack and will likely be for the rest of time.  This President is not ready, is delusional about the non-threat and thinks if we don’t acknowledge that there are terrorists they will stop being such, forgetting that enemies don’t buy into rhetoric like people who will do anything to feel hope, even ignoring facts to feel better, like those who voted for him in the last election.  Our enemies believe they are honored by their God dying for their “just” cause.  If they are honored for killing us, what makes anyone believe that they are going to stop trying?  Wake up or die.  There is no grey area in between.

   Too many have forgotten the high pressure pitch that we were given to pass the stimulus package within the first three weeks of Obama’s administration or who knows what was going to happen.  Three and a half months later, over ninety-five percent of the money is still not being distributed, yet somehow the economy is showing some signs of recovery without the money!  This was the cry of every true conservative that spoke on the issue, the economy will recover with the passage of time because we have the greatest economy ever devised.  The needless money will be distributed, strapping the next ten generations with debt that they will never repay but of course, the Obama administration will take the credit, the news media will give him the credit and the One will have saved the world from destruction.  Absolute garbage. 

   The Republican bank plan is just as bad.  Banks that received TARP money are not lending it or they are spending it on bonuses for their wonderful administrators.  Money continues to be straight jacket tight and not accessible to most who need it, never mind want it.  As predicted by conservatives, it won’t do anything in a timely fashion to exhibit the change sold to Congress and the public.  But the housing market is still improving, financed mostly by banks who didn’t receive any TARP funds.  Who’d have thunk it!

   But now, let’s allow government to run healthcare because its track record past and present is so good.  I easily join the chorus that says it’s not going to work.  I have a successful Canadian business friend who says he is enjoying watching the once powerful U.S. attempt to implement the socialistic systems that their government did and now are trying desperately to get rid of.  Getting rid of something the government starts is like believing that a tax will disappear once the need it was created to meet is completed.  It’s not going to happen.  Add to the list, the Democratic claims of the past fifteen years that all conservatives are doing is whining to the wind when we warned that Social Security and Medicare will  be bankrupt.  Never happen they said.  We’ll borrow the money from Social Security.  It’s O.K.  We’ll be able to pay it back.  Now their own Democratic Reporting Bureaus say in four years they will both be out of money.  Wow!  Didn’t see that coming.  Four years is when the greatest number of baby boomers will be entitled, their term not mine, to receive these benefits.  Keep in mind, President Obama said emphatically, under my plan no one who makes less than $250,000 will experience one dollar of tax increase during my administration (paraphrase).  So, no one in that income bracket will pay the necessary tax increases to provide the aforementioned benefits, or none of them smoke so they won’t have to pay the taxes proposed on smokers, or none of them use electricity whose rates will go up dramatically with his Cap proposals?

  Who can you believe?  Likely no one whose been in government long enough to be initiated into the way things are done around here and if they don’t buy in, they are blackballed to obscurity.  Maybe term limits have some value after all.

About a month ago, ABC News committed a flagrant act of journalism, something you won’t hear me say very often, when they reported on the remarkable pork spending at the John Mertha Airport in Pennsylvania.  Literally millions of dollars of tax money have been spent on an airport that serves twenty passengers a day, no lie, an average of twenty passengers a day.  Despite this fact, this airport has a reinforced runway that is long enough and strong enough to handle any of the largest jets that fly in the continental U.S.  Of course, they never fly there but they could.  Don”t ask the obvious why, that would be requiring a common sense check.  It’s named after the Democratic Congressman, John M. Mertha, from Pennsylvania, who is arguably the greatest pork vendor in Congress.  Three flights a day to Washington D.C., with every ticket on every flight being subsidised by our tax money. 

   Despite this expose, yesterday the FAA approved $800,000 of stimulus money for this airport, to resurface an alternate runway at the sight.   Why do they even need an alternate runway?  Common sense again.  Stimulating the economy or buying more votes for Mertha?  About $50 million total during Mertha’s tenure and still counting.  I’m glad the Obama administration is monitoring stimulus dollars so closely that none of it is being wasted.  You and I will never know how much has just been flushed down the toilet in the time it took me to write this.  Transparency and responsibility promised but not being delivered.  What a surprise.