Surprise surprise; big government has weedled us (or is at least successfully trying) out of yet another one of our everyday freedoms.
The Los Angeles city council recently announced a proposal to ban fast food from a certain south L.A. district, in the hopes of reducing the growing problem of obesity in that particular area.
Sounds decent, right? After all, obesity is a silent killer, right? Obesity can cause many a life-threatening condition, right? Of COURSE obesity is BAD.....and trying to prevent it is a noble cause....the PROBLEM here is the fact that the government is taking this into their own hands and essentially taking the responsibility and the choice away from the individual. "From cradle to grave"...this notion savors strongely of socialism. It's ridiculous that in the name of the higher or common good, the government has the right to tell us where we can and can't eat. Shouldn't a person be able to choose whether or not they want to clog their arteries with an order of McDonalds a day? Honestly, I personally think that habit is disgusting, but it is not up to me, or anyone else, to make someone give it up simply because the government has deemed it "bad for you." The same idea goes with smoking in public. I agree 100% that smoking is gross, disgusting, and terrible for your health. However, it's been proven that second-hand smoke can't cause cancer itself, so why is it that smokers can't exercise the freedom to blacken their lungs?
Now by battling this point, there might be the individual or two that would say "Well, if we should have the freedom to do what we want with our bodies, why is abortion so wrong?" It's WRONG because you don't let the other individual have a choice! Does that baby (fetus...whatever you want to call it...) get to enter the world and have a go at it? No, because another individual took that opportunity away from them. My point is (going back to my original subject)....if an individual wants to ruin their health by eating everyday at McDonalds, so what? That's their choice. They are harming no one but themselves, and it is their responsibility to make changes ON THEIR OWN if they want to improve their health. We don't need the government to do that for us.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
In the arms of God
I thought I'd take a break for a bit from my usual rantings, and share with everyone this email that I received today. In the email, the late Tony Snow's parting words are shared....and it is amazing. See for yourself:
Commentator and broadcaster Tony Snow announced that he had colon cancer in 2005. Following surgery and chemotherapy, Snow joined the Bush Administration in April 2006 as press secretary. Unfortunately, on March 23, 2007, Snow, 51, a husband and father of three, announced the cancer had recurred, with tumors found in his abdomen,- leading to surgery in April, followed by more chemotherapy. Snow went back to work in the White House Briefing Room on May 30, but has resigned since, 'for economic reasons,' and to pursue 'other interests.' He died last week.
Here’s Tony’s wonderful testimony:
'Blessings arrive in unexpected packages, - in my case, cancer. Those of us with potentially fatal diseases - and there are millions in America today - find ourselves in the odd position of coping with our mortality while trying to fathom God's will. Although it would be the height of presumption to declare with confidence 'What It All Means,' Scripture provides powerful hints and consolations. The first is that we shouldn't spend too much time trying to answer the 'why' questions: Why me? Why must people suffer? Why can't someone else get sick? We can't answer such things, and the questions themselves often are designed more to express our anguish than to solicit an answer. I don't know why I have cancer, and I don't much care. It is what it is, a plain and indisputable fact. Yet even while staring into a mirror darkly, great and stunning truths begin to take shape. Our maladies define a central feature of our existence: We are fallen. We are imperfect. Our bodies give out. But despite this, - or because of it, - God offers the possibility of salvation and grace. We don't know how the narrative of our lives will end, but we get to choose how to use the interval between now and the moment we meet our Creator face-to-face. Second, we need to get past the anxiety. The mere thought of dying can send adrenaline flooding through your system. A dizzy, unfocused panic seizes you. Your heart thumps; your head swims. You think of nothingness and swoon. You fear partings; you worry about the impact on family and friends. You fidget and get nowhere. To regain footing, remember that we were born not into death, but into life,- and that the journey continues after we have finished our days on this earth. We accept this on faith, but that faith is nourished by a conviction that stirs even within many non-believing hearts... an intuition that the gift of life, once given, cannot be taken away. Those who have been stricken enjoy the special privilege of being able to fight with their might, main, and faith to live fully, richly, exuberantly - no matter how their days may be numbered. Third, we can open our eyes and hearts. God relishes surprise. We want lives of simple, predictable ease,- smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see.... but God likes to go off-road. He provokes us with twists and turns. He places us in predicaments that seem to defy our endurance; and comprehension - and yet don't. By His love and grace, we persevere. The challenges that make our hearts leap and stomachs churn invariably strengthen our faith and grant measures of wisdom and joy we would not experience otherwise. 'You Have Been Called'. Picture yourself in a hospital bed. The fog of anesthesia has begun to wear away. A doctor stands at your feet, a loved one holds your hand at the side. 'It's cancer,' the healer announces. The natural reaction is to turn to God and ask him to serve as a cosmic Santa. 'Dear God, make it all go away. Make everything simpler.' But another voice whispers: 'You have been called.' Your quandary has drawn you closer to God, closer to those you love, closer to the issues that matter... and has dragged into insignificance the banal concerns that occupy our 'normal time.' There's another kind of response, although usually short-lived an inexplicable shudder of excitement, as if a clarifying moment of calamity has swept away everything trivial and tiny, and placed before us the challenge of important questions. The moment you enter the Valley of the Shadow of Death, things change. You discover that Christianity is not something doughy, passive, pious, and soft. Faith may be the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. But it also draws you into a world shorn of fearful caution. The life of belief teems with thrills, boldness, danger, shocks, reversals, triumphs, and epiphanies. Think of Paul, traipsing through the known world and contemplating trips to what must have seemed the antipodes ( Spain ), shaking the dust from his sandals, worrying not about the morrow, but only about the moment. There's nothing wilder than a life of humble virtue, - for it is through selflessness and service that God wrings from our bodies and spirits the most we ever could give, the most we ever could offer, and the most we ever could do. Finally, we can let love change everything. When Jesus was faced with the prospect of crucifixion, he grieved not for himself, but for us. He cried for Jerusalem before entering the holy city. From the Cross, he took on the cumulative burden of human sin and weakness, and begged for forgiveness on our behalf. We get repeated chances to learn that life is not about us, that we acquire purpose and satisfaction by sharing in God's love for others. Sickness gets us part way there. It reminds us of our limitations and dependence. But it also gives us a chance to serve the healthy. A minister friend of mine observes that people suffering grave afflictions often acquire the faith of two people, while loved ones accept the burden of two peoples' worries and fears. 'Learning How to Live'. Most of us have watched friends as they drifted toward God's arms, not with resignation, but with peace and hope. In so doing, they have taught us not how to die, but how to live. They have emulated Christ by transmitting the power and authority of love. I sat by my best friend's bedside a few years ago as a wasting cancer took him away. He kept at his table a worn Bible and a 1928 edition of the Book of Common Prayer. A shattering grief disabled his family, many of his old friends, and at least one priest. Here was an humble and very good guy, someone who apologized when he winced with pain because he thought it made his guest uncomfortable. He retained his equanimity and good humor literally until his last conscious moment. 'I'm going to try to beat [this cancer],' he told me several months before he died 'But if I don't, I'll see you on the other side.' His gift was to remind everyone around him that even though God doesn't promise us tomorrow, he does promise us eternity, - filled with life and love we cannot comprehend, - and that one can in the throes of sickness point the rest of us toward timeless truths that will help us weather future storms. Through such trials, God bids us to choose: Do we believe, or do we not? Will we be bold enough to love, daring enough to serve, humble enough to submit, and strong enough to acknowledge our limitations? Can we surrender our concern in things that don't matter so that we might devote our remaining days to things that do? When our faith flags, he throws reminders in our way. Think of the prayer warriors in our midst. They change things, and those of us who have been on the receiving end of their petitions and intercessions know it. It is hard to describe, but there are times when suddenly the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, and you feel a surge of the Spirit. Somehow you just know: Others have chosen, when talking to the Author of all creation, to lift us up, - to speak of us! This is love of a very special order. But so is the ability to sit back and appreciate the wonder of every created thing. The mere thought of death somehow makes every blessing vivid, every happiness more luminous and intense. We may not know how our contest with sickness will end, but we have felt the ineluctable touch of God. What is man that Thou art mindful of him? We don't know much, but we know this: No matter where we are, no matter what we do, no matter how bleak or frightening our prospects, each and every one of us who believe, each and every day, lies in the same safe and impregnable place, in the hollow of God's hand.' Tony Snow
Commentator and broadcaster Tony Snow announced that he had colon cancer in 2005. Following surgery and chemotherapy, Snow joined the Bush Administration in April 2006 as press secretary. Unfortunately, on March 23, 2007, Snow, 51, a husband and father of three, announced the cancer had recurred, with tumors found in his abdomen,- leading to surgery in April, followed by more chemotherapy. Snow went back to work in the White House Briefing Room on May 30, but has resigned since, 'for economic reasons,' and to pursue 'other interests.' He died last week.
Here’s Tony’s wonderful testimony:
'Blessings arrive in unexpected packages, - in my case, cancer. Those of us with potentially fatal diseases - and there are millions in America today - find ourselves in the odd position of coping with our mortality while trying to fathom God's will. Although it would be the height of presumption to declare with confidence 'What It All Means,' Scripture provides powerful hints and consolations. The first is that we shouldn't spend too much time trying to answer the 'why' questions: Why me? Why must people suffer? Why can't someone else get sick? We can't answer such things, and the questions themselves often are designed more to express our anguish than to solicit an answer. I don't know why I have cancer, and I don't much care. It is what it is, a plain and indisputable fact. Yet even while staring into a mirror darkly, great and stunning truths begin to take shape. Our maladies define a central feature of our existence: We are fallen. We are imperfect. Our bodies give out. But despite this, - or because of it, - God offers the possibility of salvation and grace. We don't know how the narrative of our lives will end, but we get to choose how to use the interval between now and the moment we meet our Creator face-to-face. Second, we need to get past the anxiety. The mere thought of dying can send adrenaline flooding through your system. A dizzy, unfocused panic seizes you. Your heart thumps; your head swims. You think of nothingness and swoon. You fear partings; you worry about the impact on family and friends. You fidget and get nowhere. To regain footing, remember that we were born not into death, but into life,- and that the journey continues after we have finished our days on this earth. We accept this on faith, but that faith is nourished by a conviction that stirs even within many non-believing hearts... an intuition that the gift of life, once given, cannot be taken away. Those who have been stricken enjoy the special privilege of being able to fight with their might, main, and faith to live fully, richly, exuberantly - no matter how their days may be numbered. Third, we can open our eyes and hearts. God relishes surprise. We want lives of simple, predictable ease,- smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see.... but God likes to go off-road. He provokes us with twists and turns. He places us in predicaments that seem to defy our endurance; and comprehension - and yet don't. By His love and grace, we persevere. The challenges that make our hearts leap and stomachs churn invariably strengthen our faith and grant measures of wisdom and joy we would not experience otherwise. 'You Have Been Called'. Picture yourself in a hospital bed. The fog of anesthesia has begun to wear away. A doctor stands at your feet, a loved one holds your hand at the side. 'It's cancer,' the healer announces. The natural reaction is to turn to God and ask him to serve as a cosmic Santa. 'Dear God, make it all go away. Make everything simpler.' But another voice whispers: 'You have been called.' Your quandary has drawn you closer to God, closer to those you love, closer to the issues that matter... and has dragged into insignificance the banal concerns that occupy our 'normal time.' There's another kind of response, although usually short-lived an inexplicable shudder of excitement, as if a clarifying moment of calamity has swept away everything trivial and tiny, and placed before us the challenge of important questions. The moment you enter the Valley of the Shadow of Death, things change. You discover that Christianity is not something doughy, passive, pious, and soft. Faith may be the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. But it also draws you into a world shorn of fearful caution. The life of belief teems with thrills, boldness, danger, shocks, reversals, triumphs, and epiphanies. Think of Paul, traipsing through the known world and contemplating trips to what must have seemed the antipodes ( Spain ), shaking the dust from his sandals, worrying not about the morrow, but only about the moment. There's nothing wilder than a life of humble virtue, - for it is through selflessness and service that God wrings from our bodies and spirits the most we ever could give, the most we ever could offer, and the most we ever could do. Finally, we can let love change everything. When Jesus was faced with the prospect of crucifixion, he grieved not for himself, but for us. He cried for Jerusalem before entering the holy city. From the Cross, he took on the cumulative burden of human sin and weakness, and begged for forgiveness on our behalf. We get repeated chances to learn that life is not about us, that we acquire purpose and satisfaction by sharing in God's love for others. Sickness gets us part way there. It reminds us of our limitations and dependence. But it also gives us a chance to serve the healthy. A minister friend of mine observes that people suffering grave afflictions often acquire the faith of two people, while loved ones accept the burden of two peoples' worries and fears. 'Learning How to Live'. Most of us have watched friends as they drifted toward God's arms, not with resignation, but with peace and hope. In so doing, they have taught us not how to die, but how to live. They have emulated Christ by transmitting the power and authority of love. I sat by my best friend's bedside a few years ago as a wasting cancer took him away. He kept at his table a worn Bible and a 1928 edition of the Book of Common Prayer. A shattering grief disabled his family, many of his old friends, and at least one priest. Here was an humble and very good guy, someone who apologized when he winced with pain because he thought it made his guest uncomfortable. He retained his equanimity and good humor literally until his last conscious moment. 'I'm going to try to beat [this cancer],' he told me several months before he died 'But if I don't, I'll see you on the other side.' His gift was to remind everyone around him that even though God doesn't promise us tomorrow, he does promise us eternity, - filled with life and love we cannot comprehend, - and that one can in the throes of sickness point the rest of us toward timeless truths that will help us weather future storms. Through such trials, God bids us to choose: Do we believe, or do we not? Will we be bold enough to love, daring enough to serve, humble enough to submit, and strong enough to acknowledge our limitations? Can we surrender our concern in things that don't matter so that we might devote our remaining days to things that do? When our faith flags, he throws reminders in our way. Think of the prayer warriors in our midst. They change things, and those of us who have been on the receiving end of their petitions and intercessions know it. It is hard to describe, but there are times when suddenly the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, and you feel a surge of the Spirit. Somehow you just know: Others have chosen, when talking to the Author of all creation, to lift us up, - to speak of us! This is love of a very special order. But so is the ability to sit back and appreciate the wonder of every created thing. The mere thought of death somehow makes every blessing vivid, every happiness more luminous and intense. We may not know how our contest with sickness will end, but we have felt the ineluctable touch of God. What is man that Thou art mindful of him? We don't know much, but we know this: No matter where we are, no matter what we do, no matter how bleak or frightening our prospects, each and every one of us who believe, each and every day, lies in the same safe and impregnable place, in the hollow of God's hand.' Tony Snow
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Iran is not a threat...er...wait..it is...no, it's not...I mean, yes...uh....
"He [Obama] said a nuclear-armed Iran would pose a threat to both Israel and the United States." (Obama Defends Proposal for Iran- AOL World News)
Wait wait wait just a second....is this not the very same man who not but a few months ago made it quite public that he did not think of Iran is a serious threat, and would in fact sit down unconditionally at the table with the terrorist state and negotiate "diplomatically" with this unthreatening nation? Yet off he goes, sucking up to Israeli leaders in the hopes they'll believe his sincerity in defending their nation against attacks from Iran.
"I think that what I said in response was that I would at my time and choosing be willing to meet with any leader if I thought it would promote the national security interests of the United States of America."
I would really like to know how being "willing to meet" with a leader who has not only posed a threat to that surrounding area and the world in general, but who has continuously made it perfectly clear that regardless of any measures taken in regards to his nuclear program has no intention of backing down, could result in anything productive? I personally think that this would not only show the world that America has lost all concept of reality, but it would also show IRAN that all it has to do in order to continue straight on with any and every program that it wishes is to entice such a candidate as Barack Obama into thinking that talking diplomatically is a viable option. No one LIKES military action. No one gets up in the morning and says "Gee, I hope we get to bomb the heck out a country today!" No one hopes that one day their son or daughter will grow up to be shot down over a Middle Eastern desert! Of course not! Everyone, in a utopian world, should be able to solve anything and everything by bringing both sides to the same table. However, logically one must realize that in a world in which that would work, we wouldn't have a need for it anyway. Diplomacy is a good idea, when one is talking about the regular goings on between two civil countries, and not when one is not dealing with an unstable state run by a terrorist regime.
ANYWAY, I really got away from the point; which is, ladies and gentlemen- Obama's consistant love affair with the flip-flop! Amazingly this man has about 16 different positions on virtually everything out there, easily allowing him to take whichever one fits his current situation, be it geographically or politically; morally or, ...not. (whichever fits his mood) At the moment he is using this side of his rubber beach-going shoe :) to convince the state of Israel that her peaceful people will no longer be bullied by the constant Iranian threats aimed (literally!) in their general direction, while back home he maintains that "Iran doesn't necessarily pose a serious threat" to appease the anti-war crowd of Hollywood, Inc. and Associates. So which is it?
My favorite flip-flop thusfar from Obama's joke-of-a-tour has been Iraq. This guy is amazing! Kaiey Couric, of all people, backs him into a corner, trying FOUR DIFFERENT TIMES to get him to take a stand on his position on the surge, to no avail. This was the conversation in a paraphrased nutshell:
"So did the surge work?"
-"No."
"But violence is down, right?"
-"Well, yes. And Sunni leaders have started working with us instead of the enemy"
"So you agree that the surge had something to do with that?"
-"No."
"But you said violence in Iraq is down"
-"Yes but all the money we spent on the surge could have been used to boost the economy at home" (waaaay to go, Joe Politician)
"But the troop surge brought visible results, didn't it?"
-"Now Katie, you've asked me that four different ways and I've given you the same answer four different times."
GOOD LORD! The man must either believe that its better to save face than to admit his mistake, or he must literally be sitting next to General Petraeus in Iraq daydreaming about how to unscrew that ridiculous smile he had to paste on for the media roadies.
"But what I also said was that there is a difference between meeting without preconditions and meeting without preparation."
So, are ya gonna read Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's blog for a couple minutes prior?
"Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama defended his proposal to negotiate with Iran Wednesday and said he would use "big sticks and big carrots" to persuade the country's leaders not to develop nuclear weapons."
Apparently Obama thinks we live in a cartoon. And might I mention, (bless our ol' government's heart).......since the "big carrots" approach has worked soooooooo well with North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, AS WELL AS Iran, and other such totalitarian terrorist states, let's keep on knocking our heads against that same wall! Again I return to my "logic" post a few days back, where I said that you'd think if a person kept on trying the same method and saw that it wasn't working, that person would move on to plan B. Well, Mr. Obama (God help us if the Presidential title ever graces that surname), just try and talk to Iran, just for kicks...and let's see how far we get. It's amazing that I am even having this conversation just 7 short years after the most terrible attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, GENERATED by terrorists nations exactly (if not in part by) like Iran! Keep it up, Obama, as well as the rest of you lefties out there, and see how far we get.
Wait wait wait just a second....is this not the very same man who not but a few months ago made it quite public that he did not think of Iran is a serious threat, and would in fact sit down unconditionally at the table with the terrorist state and negotiate "diplomatically" with this unthreatening nation? Yet off he goes, sucking up to Israeli leaders in the hopes they'll believe his sincerity in defending their nation against attacks from Iran.
"I think that what I said in response was that I would at my time and choosing be willing to meet with any leader if I thought it would promote the national security interests of the United States of America."
I would really like to know how being "willing to meet" with a leader who has not only posed a threat to that surrounding area and the world in general, but who has continuously made it perfectly clear that regardless of any measures taken in regards to his nuclear program has no intention of backing down, could result in anything productive? I personally think that this would not only show the world that America has lost all concept of reality, but it would also show IRAN that all it has to do in order to continue straight on with any and every program that it wishes is to entice such a candidate as Barack Obama into thinking that talking diplomatically is a viable option. No one LIKES military action. No one gets up in the morning and says "Gee, I hope we get to bomb the heck out a country today!" No one hopes that one day their son or daughter will grow up to be shot down over a Middle Eastern desert! Of course not! Everyone, in a utopian world, should be able to solve anything and everything by bringing both sides to the same table. However, logically one must realize that in a world in which that would work, we wouldn't have a need for it anyway. Diplomacy is a good idea, when one is talking about the regular goings on between two civil countries, and not when one is not dealing with an unstable state run by a terrorist regime.
ANYWAY, I really got away from the point; which is, ladies and gentlemen- Obama's consistant love affair with the flip-flop! Amazingly this man has about 16 different positions on virtually everything out there, easily allowing him to take whichever one fits his current situation, be it geographically or politically; morally or, ...not. (whichever fits his mood) At the moment he is using this side of his rubber beach-going shoe :) to convince the state of Israel that her peaceful people will no longer be bullied by the constant Iranian threats aimed (literally!) in their general direction, while back home he maintains that "Iran doesn't necessarily pose a serious threat" to appease the anti-war crowd of Hollywood, Inc. and Associates. So which is it?
My favorite flip-flop thusfar from Obama's joke-of-a-tour has been Iraq. This guy is amazing! Kaiey Couric, of all people, backs him into a corner, trying FOUR DIFFERENT TIMES to get him to take a stand on his position on the surge, to no avail. This was the conversation in a paraphrased nutshell:
"So did the surge work?"
-"No."
"But violence is down, right?"
-"Well, yes. And Sunni leaders have started working with us instead of the enemy"
"So you agree that the surge had something to do with that?"
-"No."
"But you said violence in Iraq is down"
-"Yes but all the money we spent on the surge could have been used to boost the economy at home" (waaaay to go, Joe Politician)
"But the troop surge brought visible results, didn't it?"
-"Now Katie, you've asked me that four different ways and I've given you the same answer four different times."
GOOD LORD! The man must either believe that its better to save face than to admit his mistake, or he must literally be sitting next to General Petraeus in Iraq daydreaming about how to unscrew that ridiculous smile he had to paste on for the media roadies.
"But what I also said was that there is a difference between meeting without preconditions and meeting without preparation."
So, are ya gonna read Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's blog for a couple minutes prior?
"Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama defended his proposal to negotiate with Iran Wednesday and said he would use "big sticks and big carrots" to persuade the country's leaders not to develop nuclear weapons."
Apparently Obama thinks we live in a cartoon. And might I mention, (bless our ol' government's heart).......since the "big carrots" approach has worked soooooooo well with North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, AS WELL AS Iran, and other such totalitarian terrorist states, let's keep on knocking our heads against that same wall! Again I return to my "logic" post a few days back, where I said that you'd think if a person kept on trying the same method and saw that it wasn't working, that person would move on to plan B. Well, Mr. Obama (God help us if the Presidential title ever graces that surname), just try and talk to Iran, just for kicks...and let's see how far we get. It's amazing that I am even having this conversation just 7 short years after the most terrible attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, GENERATED by terrorists nations exactly (if not in part by) like Iran! Keep it up, Obama, as well as the rest of you lefties out there, and see how far we get.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=5417331&page=1
Here's the Obama quote, guys. AMAZING. His brilliant response to whether or not the surge worked....uh...um.
Oh, and for more 143 day fun, take a look at the statement in the paragraph 5th from the bottom........and please take note of the "batting average." What?!?!
Here's the Obama quote, guys. AMAZING. His brilliant response to whether or not the surge worked....uh...um.
Oh, and for more 143 day fun, take a look at the statement in the paragraph 5th from the bottom........and please take note of the "batting average." What?!?!
Baby Senator's College Tour
Guys..I've been so lazy about this blog! I talk enough about all this that I seem to forget I've got an internet platform to put this stuff visually out there! My apologies :)
Did anyone catch Obama's response to the media's question today while in Jordan about whether or not he would have voted for the surge now, knowing now how it has worked to bring down violence and casaulties among both Iraqi and American armies? "No. Uh, um, adjective, random big word, bla bla bad Bush administration, etc. etc. uh *pause*...yeah, so that's basically why."
I want anyone who heard it comment and try to EXPLAIN it to me......as I don't believe that anyone, right or left, who heard it could really understand what the heck it was he was trying to say. Oh wait, he wasn't trying to say anything....he was trying to divert! HEAVEN forbid that Mr. 143-days-in-the-Senate who hasn't done anything but impede the success of the military efforts in the Middle East actually come out and admit the same! The VERY THING he and his coherts voted against is working....surprise suprise.
My favorite part of this little Middle Eastern "college tour" as Rush so correctly calls it, is the fact that not only is this guy, by trying to negociate troop withdrawel timetables with Iraqi leaders, ALREADY ACTING as though he were elected president, the man now seems to think that the presidential term lasts 5 years! "Uh, well these are the people with whom I am expecting to be working with for the next 8-10 years." Excuse me?
Did anyone catch Obama's response to the media's question today while in Jordan about whether or not he would have voted for the surge now, knowing now how it has worked to bring down violence and casaulties among both Iraqi and American armies? "No. Uh, um, adjective, random big word, bla bla bad Bush administration, etc. etc. uh *pause*...yeah, so that's basically why."
I want anyone who heard it comment and try to EXPLAIN it to me......as I don't believe that anyone, right or left, who heard it could really understand what the heck it was he was trying to say. Oh wait, he wasn't trying to say anything....he was trying to divert! HEAVEN forbid that Mr. 143-days-in-the-Senate who hasn't done anything but impede the success of the military efforts in the Middle East actually come out and admit the same! The VERY THING he and his coherts voted against is working....surprise suprise.
My favorite part of this little Middle Eastern "college tour" as Rush so correctly calls it, is the fact that not only is this guy, by trying to negociate troop withdrawel timetables with Iraqi leaders, ALREADY ACTING as though he were elected president, the man now seems to think that the presidential term lasts 5 years! "Uh, well these are the people with whom I am expecting to be working with for the next 8-10 years." Excuse me?
Logic, anyone?
An interesting though occurred to me this morning. Once again, election time has come. Once again, the country is divided virtually down the middle in regards to the upcoming candidates, with what seems to be a tendency to lean more towards the left than anywhere else. Towards which idealogy, may I ask, is the congress with the worst approval rating in U.S. history (.09%, to be exact) most associated? The socialist liberal left! What a minute, isn't the beloved patron of so-called "change" a member of this school of thought? Isn't the democratic candidate, i.e., the media poster child patron saint of leftist extremism, (subtle though he may be in conveying his ideas), of the SAME IDEALOGY? Despite this set of facts, this country is literally a hop, skip and a jump away from electing one Barack Obama, considered by many, even among the liberal schools of thought, to be a politician of extreme leftist tendencies. This begs the question- do people truly not understand the workings of the U.S. government? People whine and complain about their current lives- they cry out for change (with such high demanding that one would think they live in a third world country in need of a revolution), and yet their candidate of choice hails to the same side of the line as most of the current Congress! Take oil prices for example. Seems to me that I recall that it has been the liberal dominated Congress that has consistantly resisted the exploration and harvesting of oil resources in our northern extremes and in our watery oceanic borders, while their republican and conservative counterparts, including the President himself, have made it clear that we need to stop relying on foreign imports to sustain our country, but rather that we should responsibly use the ones that we already have. Congress maintains, however, that we will continue to import oil, and essentially blow away (no pun intended) billions of dollars on wind energy, and continue to pour money into hybrid, ethonal and battery techniques that continually fall short despite their hype. How is it, then, that this country is so precariously perched on the edge, ready to dive into voting for a candidate with virtually no track record (100+ days in the Senate hardly makes one an expert) and with staunch beliefs that liberalism (which, come folks, is really socialism with a smile and a nice suit...read your history books once in a while) is the one and only way to run this country and get us out of this so called "rut" that we are in with the current administration? Talk about more of the same..if you want to see more of the same or worse---be my guest, vote for the candidate of "change." How is it that Barack Obama's form of liberalism is any different than Nancy Pelosi's, Harry Reed's, or Ted Kennedy's? Have we seen great things from these men and women riding on their liberal beliefs in Congress? Once again, people need to truly study how it is that their country operates--how is it that President Bush (allbeit NOT my favorite president for many reasons) has taken 6 years in Iraq and Afghanistan when so many people whine that we should already be out of there? I can tell you why, and very simply, too. Have you ever tried walking up a sand dune? You take one step upwards towards your goal, and fall three back. It is almost as if someone is pulling you down, isn't it? You and I both know that the United States (if only for the time being, God help us) has the most advanced, powerful, effective military IN THE WORLD, and yet look at how long it has taken them to make things work in Iraq. Might I remind the readers who has frequently, if not CONSTANTLY opposed the President's decisions about the war on Terror? You guessed it- the liberal left incarnate in the U.S. Congress. There's a saying associated with the U.S. Marines: "United States Marines: When it absolutely positively has to be destroyed overnight." We have the capability, people, to literally complete a mission, or an operation, or a war, in any time period needed, if only allowed to do so. A general was once asked about the ability that the U.S. had to have won the Vietnam war. His reply? "In any two week period you want to mention." Amazing, isn't it? We are like a racecar at the starting line, whose one and only function is to rev its engine. Yet the country willingly, WILLINGLY (and that is the sad part) wants to elect a man who will do nothing less than further the regurgetated, reiterated, age old ideas of a utopian society, which really only boils down to one thing- socialism, followed quickly by communsion. Churchill once said "Socialism is the equal distribution of poverty, and communism is socialism with a gun in your back." What would he say about Obamaism? "Obamaism is the single greatest enticement of the American people into an era of complete stupidity that ever was?I digressed greatly, but my point remains--many people seem to think that by electing a president of the same school of thought as the current Congress is going to make things any better! Barack Obama is, if not to a more extreme extent, the most liberal candidate this country has ever seen, and the congress we currently have "working" for us, is by far ALSO the most liberal this country has ever seen. Where is the logic in this? Posteriorly, logic played a grand part in voting patterns. In earlier times, this would have been a simple equationin thought; "Well, if plan A doesn't work, and our candidate is also a plan A, how will electing him make any change in our equation? It wouldn't- it would remain the same, just as 1+0= 1. Today people seem to think 1+0=2. Literally.
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