Unfit for Executive Command!

The verdict is in... Obama is unfit for command, or maybe it is that his judgment is unfit to command? I'm sure the DNC would want to separate his mind from his body in order to win in November. Obama's performance in front of Rick Warren's audience at Saddleback left most people who watched convinced he is inexperienced, and does not have what it takes to be president at this time and place in our history.

Obama was asked the same tough issue oriented questions as McCain, and did not give a straight answer. Obama postured himself as a typical lawyer would do, not allowing himself to take a solid stance on anything insofar to reposition himself later as the situation sees fit.

One notable outtake from the Saddleback event, Obama's leftist viewpoint really shines. Obama was asked which Supreme Court Justice would have not nominated, his answer: "the black one!" His reasoning is that Clarence Thomas was too inexperienced for the job! So, if you follow that judgmental reasoning, Obama believes that experience matters, so why is he running for President? He has practically no government experience, especially in the Federal Government realm.

At the DNC, the Vice Presidential Nominee, Joe Biden, tried in vain to explain Obama's legislative experience and stretched the truth or lack thereof nicely, but to most Americans it simply wasn't enough. Bill Clinton spoke of foreign policy, now that's surely a winner. From a man who had the terrorist Arafat at the White House, and lobbed a few missiles at Bin Laden and didn't get him. Oh, and what about the deal to hand over Bin Laden, oops missed that one. It was also Bill Clinton's Justice Department and Jamie Gorelick who put up "the wall" between the FBI and the CIA for information sharing that had a direct impact on possibly catching the 9/11 plotters before 9/11 materialized. If it wasn't for NATO, the Balkin’s War would have been a mess as well, so much for Bill's foreign policy experience. At a time of heightened Islamic terrorism, we cannot afford a Democratic President who would treat terrorism as a law enforcement act as the Clinton administration did in the 1990s.

Now back to Obama.... HE HAS NO FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE! It's not even a blip on the radar. He statements on foreign policy leave American's wondering if they need to move away from the big cities, and head for hills clinging to their guns and religion for protection. This has become a dangerous world since the disintegration of the Soviet Union who we knew was our enemy and most important where they were. Our new enemy, is hard to find, and fractured into so many fundamentalist Islamic groups that only a clear and concise Homeland Security, FBI, CIA, and NSA effort can prevent attacks on our homeland.

Some of you may dislike or hate President Bush, and this hatred repeated over and over again has been spewing out of his rivals’ mouths for almost 8 long years, but Iraq is not his legacy. It will be delegated to a footnote of history. President Bush's biggest accomplishment has been that he kept this country safe from terrorism. It was his reorganization of the Federal departments to combat terrorism and the numerous policy initiatives and changes that have thwarted many attempts to attack our great nation. Bush’s legacy of keeping us safer after 9/11 is for certain, but taking a chance for CHANGE may lead us not into temptation but deliver us to evil.

And, that's all I have to say about that!

McCain's Millions vs. Obama's Pocket Change?

It is no news that a politician is rich. Let's face it, almost all of them are, and the ones that are not are just new to the political game we all call democracy. Let's not fool ourselves in thinking that McCain is not a rich man, and Obama is the poor black man from the south side of Chicago making it in the big world of politics. It's simply not true. Obama has painted himself as this black stereotypical male, rising from the ghetto and becoming a presidential candidate. Hogwash!

Doesn't Obama have foreign policy experience because he has lived abroad? He said so. How many of you have lived abroad? How many Americans have lived abroad? Wouldn't you like the opportunity to do so? Obama is not the poor black kid from Jenny's block. Him and his wife are rich, and have used the political system to grow that wealth. That's how they received a piece of land from a developer, Tony Resco, now a convict! They also received a better than average loan for their house, and later Resco received tax payer incentives totaling 16 million! Now that's how politicians get rich. They use tax payers money to assist them in saving money, and have no problems doing it. Obama has also received millions from his two book deal. which is honest money, although he wouldn't be able to write them if he wasn't a politician who was part of the Chicago, Mayor Daley political machine. The same machine that has been operating since Capone's time. Remember it was Daley's father who helped JFK get elected in 1960 and beat Nixon by the slimest of margins. Obama has built his fortune much like Capone did, on the political paybacks associated with Chicago politics.

McCain on the other hand has made an honest living, and rose up through the ranks of the military and politics. His father became an admiral but that certainly didn't give McCain any special treatment as a POW, in fact, it probably made it worse. His political career has been from the bottom up, as a Representative and then a Senator from Arizona. McCain's second marriage to his current wife, Cynthia has certainly boosted his economic fortune since she is the heir to the Coors Beer fortune. Now that's how you do it, marry into it. At least it's not crooked. So what if they own multiple homes worth millions, that's what rich people do. No one ever said JFK wasn't rich and didn't own property. Wasn't it the media who crowned JFK and Jacqueline America's first royalty?

What we should take away from all of this money talk is that McCain is using the Federal system for campaigns and Obama is not! This really shows you who is rich and where his donations are coming from. The final thing to remember in a campaign is not who has the most money wins, and certainly it is usually the one with the biggest mouth who has something to hide.

And, that's all I have to say about that!

Someone Let the Air Out of Barak's Tires

August is generally a slow month for Presidential campaigns, but it is where the winner in the fall makes their move in the polls. This year is no exception, even though the Olympics has taken so much air time from the race. The crisis in Georgia (the country, not the state), has given McCain the boost he needs. Voters already skeptical of Obama's foreign policy experience are now leaning towards McCain in a huge way. If Obama's demeanor is any indicator, he is pissed!

After McCain spoke at the VFW convention in Florida, Obama had some choice words to say about McCain attacking his character. Isn't that what candidates oposing you are supposed to do? As well as voters? Aren't t voters supposed to size a candidate up and determine whether they have what it takes to be President? Obama seems to think that a person's charachter has nothing to do with being President. Remember, he wants voters far away from that issue since Rev. Wright, and Ayeres.

The one thing Obama wants to point out that this Presidential election was supposed to be about the Iraq War, and the economy. With the surge working that Obama never thought would, and gas prices falling on the discussion of drilling in America, the race is now a referendum on Obama! While he continues to promote his radical left wing agenda, America has waken up, even during the Olympics, but it has been a long time coming.

No candidate can play the "I'm the winner" mantra all day long. Obama's egotistical portrait of himself was too much for the voters to handle. The media made Obama, and it is the media who has diminished his chances. This has happened in campaigns before, "Dewey Defeats Truman", anyone?

McCain needs to keep focusing on his issues, and continually bring up Obama's character, and inexperience. With the polls about dead even, McCain has Obama right where he wants him, and Obama never saw it coming. By the way, does anyone know where Michelle Obama has been hiding the past month? Maybe she is trying to fill Obama's tires so he could get better mileage.

And, that's all I have to say about that!

Baby Come Back! - The Crisis in Georgia

The recent European crisis in the Republic of Georgia reminds us of an old bully on the block. That bully, the former Soviet Union! Russia recently invaded Georgia – no, not the one in the U.S. for all of you non-geography readers—the former Soviet territory. Russia is crying, “Baby Come Back” to its formerly controlled territory. Russia claims this is a response to the Georgia President ordering troops into two breakaway regions of Georgia.

The most ominous sign that can be ascertained from this incursion into a sovereign country is that the Russian Prime Minister (former President), Vladmir Putin is running the Russian government from his new position and using old school Soviet style tactics. They launched their offensive on the eve of the Olympic opening ceremonies while the world’s attention was focused on Beijing. Did they think we wouldn’t notice? Their reasoning echoes and resonates with purveyors of history. They believe that they are protecting Russian citizens who live in the breakaway Georgian region of Southern Ossetia. Incidentally, one of the towns Russia sent troops into was Gori, only 30 miles from the Georgian capital. Gori was the the birthplace of Stalin.

If one looks just 70 years earlier to 1938, it was Hitler who invaded a region in Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland to protect German citizens. As students of history, we all know Hitler's real plan for Eastern and Western Europe, and we are reminded over-and-over again that history can repeat itself. Putin is taking a lesson from Hitler and history’s play book. The problem arises from the break-up of the Soviet Union. Most of its former territories are now democracies and have experienced a sense of nationalism, which is key component to a new democracy’s success.

Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, at a press conference, explained that “this is not 1968, and Czechoslovakia.” This was a reference to the Prague-Spring event in which Soviet tanks crushed a pro-democracy demonstration and rebellion against the Soviet Union. Rice’s point is that Georgia is a sovereign nation, and that its borders and boundaries have been agreed upon by the United Nations, as well as other governments and agencies.

As the Russians bomb, kill, and loot Georgian towns and cities, the most frightening result is that no European country wants to get involved, with the exception of French President Sarkozy who has brokered a cease fire agreement. The results of this effort are to be seen. President George W. Bush has sent American military troops for humanitarian supplies but nothing more. Condoleezza Rice is definitely the most qualified person in our government on the political and historic aspects of this region. Rice’s doctorate was based upon the Soviet Union. Rice speaks fluent Russian, and has been the lead on promoting democracy in the Middle-East and in the Balkins. So, the U.S. has the best person in the best possible position to advise the President.

The question to ask now is... Does Barak Obama have be international and foreign relations experience to be President in a time that may take us back to the cold war of old? An extensive look into Obama’s background doesn’t appear to validate any credentials on this matter, but John McCain already has those credentials. His military, foreign relations, and years of service in the government during the Soviet Era and beyond allow for Americans to make a clear choice for security issues. Choosing a candidate that can effectively protect the United States is paramount, since without that protection, there would be nothing left to protect!

And, that’s all I have to say about that.

Olympic Size Cheats?

After an astonishing Opening Ceremony in Beijing, the media has found out that some of what was shown on television was computer enhanced. The fireworks for instance, was computer enhanced for the estimated 1 billion television audience, and the little girl who sang the Chinese National Anthem, lip-synced.

Controversy has swelled about the girl who actually sang the song, and the one chosen to lip-sync. Yang Peiyi, a 7-year-old with bright eyes and a smile made crooked by the stubs of her first grown-up teeth, was the actual singer, while 9-year-old Lin Miaoke actually appeared in front of the 91,000 people watching in the "Bird's Nest" stadium. The officials thought that the 9-year-old's face was more pleasing to the eye than the 7-year-old, but the 7-year-old sang much better. So, as we say, "the show must go on", and they had the 9-year-old sing and turned off her microphone, and used the 7-year-old's recording. In fairness, most singers in live performaces such as this, do lip-sync. Remember, Ashlee Simpson on Saturday Night Live, it wasn't so "Live", was it?

These instances should be overlooked for theatrical purposes. No one was penalized for the choices made for entertainment value, but breaking the rules goes against everything that the Olympics is about.

The latest controversy, flips around the women's gymnastic team event. The women's Chinese team profoundly defeated the American women, who received the silver medal. Bela Karolyi and his wife, Marta formerly have coached; Mary Lou Retton, Betty Okino, Kerri Strug, Teodora Ungureanu, Nadia Comaneci, Kim Zmeskal, Kristie Phillips and Dominique Moceanu, among others, are acusing the Chinese of entering women into the contest as young as 8-years-old. His wife is the American headcoach. Can this be true? Are the Chinese cheating?

The contest rules say the gymnasts need to be at least 16 years of age! The advantage a younger girl would have, is enormous. A woman's body goes through puberty and changes dramatically, that is why the rules use the age of 16 as a competition standard for the Olympics. Bela Karolyi, in an interview with Bob Costas, mentioned that one of the Chinese gymnast even lost her baby tooth! Looking at the Chinese team you say to yourself, "awe, how cute", and then when you step back and look at them once this is mentioned and compare them to the American women or any other team in the contest, you say "they can't be 16, it's impossible!" The Chinese defense to the accusation is that the girls are 16 by showing their passports. Well any country can make up passports, isn't that what countries do? They make the rules for the passports and also provide them!

If the Chinese are found to have cheated in this event, people should ask themselves, was it all worth it? The Chinese have impressed the world, but is this how they want the games of 2008 to be remembered, just as Munich in 1972 was remembered for the slaughter of the Israeli team by Islamic terrorists. The Summer Olympics is only in its first week, and more controversies are bound to creep up, let's hope for the world's sake that it is kept to a minimum and Beijing 2008 is written into the record books as one of the most revered Olympic Games in history, and does not go down as just another example of how the Chinese steal other people's glory, along with patents, copyrights, and technology!

And, that's all I have to say about that!

The Sleeping Dragon Awakes

As the world gathers in Beijing, America watches the opening ceremonies on television wondering if the 21st century will be known as the Chinese century as the 20th was America's century. There are no words more appropriate to describe the Opening Ceremonies than:

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This is China's coming out party onto the world stage. The spectacular was the most elaborate and unprecedented show in the history of the Olympic saga.

The stunning, beautiful, and technological enhanced, was precisely choreographed and was a future glimpse of possible Chinese world domination. The opening of the ceremony was reminiscent of Berlin in 1936, in which Adolf Hitler showcased Germany to the world, although those games were a prelude to world war, these games will highlight China's economic might in the new fight for economic superiority developing between the U.S. and China in the era of globalization. What the opening ceremonies prove is that the U.S. has no choice but to pursue economic excellence with further globalization or suffer the consequence of becoming another society relegated to the pages of history and a story of a rise and a fall of a once mighty America. The U.S. should lead, and expand global markets and with that expansion will come freedoms. If market openness occurs around the globe, freedom will certainly follow. This is one of the key tenants of Republican economic policy. President Clinton understood globalization and America's role, and is the reason he signed NAFTA. The new extreme liberal Democratic leadership in their Party is based upon narrowing or freezing globalization. The one problem with the Democrats thinking is that once the proverbial cat has been let out of the bag, there is no stopping free trade and global markets and the expansion thereof. The Beijing Opening Ceremonies has proved that. The protectionist policies the Democrats propose in this election year will make it much harder for America to compete in the global economy and will only enhance countries such as China to win the globalization war.

On a lighter note, one positive development was NBC's coverage of the opening ceremonies which was void of political backstabbing at President Bush, and universally pro-American. Perhaps America is not as divided as we are told by the liberal media. America seems united for these Olympic games and feeling a sense of pride once again. Just what the doctor could have ordered in the height of a steamy political campaign.

China should be proud of their ceremony, a job well done. The overall affect of the games hopefully will transcend the Chinese people to become citizens of the world with freedoms enjoyed by Democracies represented at the games. As Japanese Admiral Yamamoto was credited saying about the U.S. After the bombing of Perl Harbor; "All I fear we have done is awaken a sleeping giant" and, all I fear globalization has done is awaken the sleeping dragon. And, it is America's choice in this election to further world economic progress for the U.S. or by electing Obama who is certain to retreat and bring America into economic peril.

Obama's Ego-Typical Energy Crisis Plan

Listening to Obama is like listening to a preacher. He praises no one but himself. Puts himself up on the highest pedestal, and puts down America. What kind of President would do that? Not even, the Democrat hated, George W. Bush would even treat the office of the Presidency in such a manner. Bill Clinton came close to being egotistical, but not like Obama!

His arrogance runs deep within his veins. He has suggested that Americans fill their tires up to the proper level, and get a car tune up, so we can reduce the amount of energy (gas) we use! This sounds a bit like President Carter during the energy crisis in the late 70s who sat in front of a fireplace with his cardigan sweater and asked us all to turn down the thermostat and wear sweaters!

Obama is so quick to ask Americans to suffer, to lay down their arms, to give up everything for HIS and his liberal friends cause. That's not what America stands for, MR OBAMA!

America stands for individualism, and individual achievement. It stands for unity in times of extreme crisis (9/11). It stands for the PURSUIT of happiness, not the handouts and socialist policies the Democrats have created since F.D.R. with the ever increasing welfare state. Listen carefully and you will hear, the socialist policies, of the left ring loud and clear!

All of Obama's policies are geared toward massive socialism, a platform which is being torn down all across Europe because it doesn't work. Obama's energy plan is no different. He asks the public to use less gas, and doesn't mind if gas prices go up. He just didn't want them to go up that much! This all fits into the socialist agenda. Government will fix everything! It's not the idea that rising gas prices will make Americans look for alternative sources of energy, it's that government will tax the energy companies with the proposed "windfall profits tax" and make everything just fine. Nothing the government has ever done in a Federal program has ever worked well! Social Security, Medicare, V.A. Hospital system, Airport Security, Air Traffic Control. and the list goes on and on.

Getting back to energy, has anyone ever looked up the definition of "windfall" ? You can find it here. The whole concept with "Windfall Profits" is that it is UNEXPECTED! Are profits from a business unexpected? Hasn't this oil crisis been expected since the 1970s? Wasn't it expected that oil prices will rise as demand increases and supply decreases, as China and India become more industrialized and part of the global economy?

This is notwithstanding that many companies have more than a 10% profit on their products and services. Look at Microsoft, Walmart, MasterCard Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Prudential Financial Inc. Just to name a few across different sectors. This "windfall profit tax" is just another way for a Democratically controlled Congress to continue to create nationalized oil industry as Congresswoman Maxine Waters suggested back in May of this year. Ooops... was this a slip, or is this one of the secret plans of the Democratic Party for America?

This is just another in a list of Democratic positions for America. National Healthcare (whether you want it or not?), taxing the rich to pay for the poor (redistribution of wealth), and windfall profits tax and more.

This is the most perilous time for America, economically, politically, and for security. We need to fight to keep our national identity and not allow Democrats to destroy the greatest country in the world! Obama has been on the wrong side of many of these issues which could make or break America in the 21st century!

And, that's all I have to say about that!