Obama In The Mob

Like the old story of the boy who cried wolf, I’ve heard again the criticism that the attention given to the Jeremiah Wright and Senator Obama story is somehow equated with a lynching of some sort. Like myself, I’m sure that nobody reading this has ever seen a real lynching, but like me, you may have seen a photo of one. Two things that shocked me about seeing one of these photos is, of course, the person who has been hung, but also the sight of the crowd who seem to be enjoying the spectacle. I think that most people would agree that anyone in such a group that didn’t try and stop the lynching or who didn’t leave the mob was guilty of murder of some sort. As a Democrat, I see this as a real problem if Senator Obama is picked as our person to go up against Senator McCain. If Senator Obama is picked, then we can be sure that the Republicans are going to try and attack his weakness by pointing out his relationship to not only Jeremiah Wright, but also the former Weatherman Bill Ayers. I’m sure they will use the clips of his old pastor yelling, “God damn America,” while the crowd comes to there feet and applauds as a way of painting a picture of the Senator as being unpatriotic. Like the lynch mob photo, they will say, how could you listen to this kind of rhetoric for twenty years and not try and stop it or just leave. Even if the Senator wasn’t there while this kind of rhetoric was being said, as he claimed, it won’t make any difference. Just look what they did to John Kerry, if you don’t believe me. Even while Senator McCain was battling his fellow Republicans, I heard his own party try and paint him as someone who gave up secrets to the Viet Cong while being held as a prisoner there. When it comes to hardball politics, anything done in the past will be twisted and shaped to whatever reality they wish it to be. Just listen to the endless attacks on Hillary, even though they tell us that she has almost no chance of winning. This can only be because they would love to have Obama as there person to go up against McCain. Who could blame them? Not too long ago, it seemed as if they had no chance of winning. And if all of that wasn’t bad enough, we have the problem of Obama’s camp playing the race card too many times on the Hillary supporters. Like when Bill Clinton talked about the fact that Obama voted almost exactly the same as Hillary, when it came to the war, by saying that his rewrite of history was a fairy tail. As soon as Bill said this, the Obama people when out and told everyone that Bill had said that he was telling people that having a black man as president was a fairy tail. Can you imagine how upset this out and out lie enraged many Hillary supporters, like myself? Or when the Obama spokesperson was quoted as saying that Hillary was a monster? Or when they turned on Geraldine Ferraro, and tried to paint her as a racist, just for saying what Obama himself had said? I can’t remember how many times I’ve heard an Obama supporter state that they would never vote for Hillary and could even riot if she was picked. And after all of this, and much more, they expect us to just forget about all of there back stabbing and go vote for him? With all of this hate directed toward members of his own party, I have to wonder how sincere Obama is when he says that he will bring the country together. Perhaps when he says, “Bring the country together,” he talking about hand to hand combat in another civil war. The way I see it, the only chance the Democrats have for winning the White House is if we elect Hillary to run against McCain. Does anybody really think that Obama would be doing as well as he had if we had known about his long history with his anti American and racist church? Of course not. Does anybody really think that someone who attended a church like this could defeat a true patriot and war hero like McCain in an election for the presidency? Even with all of the anger after eight years of Bush and all of the Republicans who dislike McCain, this is going to be a very hard sale to make to the American people.

Stand Up For Your Rights

One reason America is such a great country is because of our right to free speech. I have been practicing this right for most of my life going back as far as the anti war movement of the late sixties. When it comes to free speech one should follow the golden rule. You should be able to say whatever you like as should I. Here in Austin Texas things have been getting pretty heated up with the election coming here and this being an important state for our Democratic candidates. What I have witnessed here lately has made me proud as well as disappointed. I work at the University of Texas campus and have been very proud to see so many young people getting involved with the political process. What has disappointed me are the few that seem to believe that only they have the right to free speech. Before the Hillary and Obama debate here we had a large group of supporters from different camps showing there support by holding up signs and making noise. Mostly they were from the Hillary and Obama camps. At first the police put up a long yellow tape and told all of the Hillary supporters to get on one side and the Obama people to get on the other. It appeared to me that the Hillary supporters out numbered the Obama people two to one. After a while the Obama people moved to one side of the campus street while Hillary’s people moved to the other. At one point one of the Hillary leaders asked for fifteen people to move up the hill to the main street. At this location there was a large group of Obama supporter holding up two very large banners and many more holding smaller signs. I think they wanted people driving by to see this larger group of Obama supporters near the busy road and believe that the main large group down the hill was also mostly Obama supporters. I volunteered and headed up the hill into this large group of Obama supporters. Most of the people were on the west side of the road nearer to the main groups while on the other side were a lesser number of Obama people holding their two large banners and smaller signs. The traffic had become very busy because it was around quitting time so it was almost imposible for our guys to cross this four lane road. We did have one person there and near where our person was standing and on top of a short hill was one of our Hillary signs placed into the ground and leaning against an oak tree. This sign had six posters on it so you could see three on one side and three on the other. When the Obama people saw our sign, their large group moved up to the top of the hill and appeared to be trying to block the view from passers by. I thought that this was a little uncool but didn’t think much about it. Not long after that I and a few of our supporters witnessed one of their people pull our sign out of the ground and threw it into the dirt. They seem to believe that because there were so few of us Hillary supporters at this location that they didn’t think we would see them or just didn’t care. Right away one woman from our side ran across the busy street and recovered the sign and held it next to there group. She must have been braver than I because I had to wait a minute before I could get across. Seeing them do this made me very upset. I held up my sign to them and said why don’t you come knock my sign down, after all isn’t that what you Obama people are all about? They look rather frightened and refused. I began to march near them shouting, “Hillary believes in free speech and Obama people are uncool.” I went up to the group again and told them,” you don’t knock down my flag and you don’t knock down my sign.” A little later I asked them how they would like it if I took down there banner that I was standing next to. Another lady from our group made it across the street about this time and began untying there banner after seeing me point to it while asking them. At about this point the person that vandalized our sign said that she was sorry. I then said right away that that was all I wanted to hear and headed down the hill to the woman taking down there banner and told her that they apologized. She then stopped. After awhile they gave up and crossed the street and headed for the main groups. We then put our sign back were it was and stayed near making sure nobody did this again. This was just one of many incidences that happened that day. Later we discovered that we weren’t the only ones having to deal with this kind of behavior coming from the Obama camp. Mostly their people would run through groups of our people shouting and shoving people out of there way. When one of these people came up to me, he found that I wasn’t going to move out of his way like most people did. This made him very upset and he cursed at me while sticking his finger in my face. He then told me that I was using my sign as a weapon. I almost couldn’t believe my ears after hearing this. What a cowardly bald face lie, I thought to myself. By now I like most people there began to see that there was a huge difference between our two groups. Many people would write later to the school paper in the forum section and discussed about how childish the Obama people had act at this rally. You might think that it was because they were young and didn’t know any better if it wasn’t for the fact that we had two times the number of young people there who behaved better than any group that I have ever demonstrated with. I just wanted to tell people about what I had witnessed because I had heard many times Obama speak about how he wanted to bring the country together and thought that perhaps people should know the truth before it’s too late. If Senator Obama were to tell his people to show a little respect then I wouldn’t feel the need to point out the difference between his rhetoric and reality. How could anyone bring the country together when they can’t even show a little respect to there own party?

With Hillary, I Know We Can

Have any of you had to hire someone to do a job for you like working on your home or repairing a car? If you have, then you may know that there services are not always as reliable and within the costs as they promised. That’s the problem I have with giving my support to someone like Barack Obama. Too many times I’ve heard someone state with confidence, “yes I can,” only to be extremely disappointed shortly after the job begins. That’s not to say that Senator Obama wouldn’t do a great job. Perhaps he could be a great president. What I’m saying is that perhaps people should be wary of politicians that make such promises while having so little to show as proof of there expertise. With Hillary, you know what to expect because she’s been fighting for the same things for so many years. Maybe you dislike her, but still you know what she stands for. With Senator Obama, you have to have a load of hope. With such an important job as the president, it’s like hoping that the baby sitter you just hired can be trusted with your children. I myself would prefer to hire the sitter that has been doing the job for many years and has even has written a book on the importance of raising children. Maybe if I was young and naive and didn’t have all of the hard lessons that I’ve learned about all the people who seemed to promise anything just to get the job, I would be as eager to believe. When John McCain told a crowd in Michigan that there auto manufacturing jobs were not coming back, many people in his own party used his statement against him. You see, that’s the difference between someone who will tell you what they believe to be the truth as opposed to someone who will tell you whatever it takes to get elected. When someone buys a lottery ticket, they don’t want to hear that you have a better chance of getting hit by lighting than having the winning ticket. It’s much more fun to believe that the ticket in your pocket is worth millions and your ticket out of the endless work that they face everyday. For a short time, that worthless ticket gives them a short high until, like always, they find out that it’s not worth the paper it’s printed on. They will always say that you can’t win unless you play. That would be fine if you only played a few games and gave up. The problem is, is that so many keep telling themselves the, “yes I can win,” and keep playing until they find that they have spent hundreds and nothing to show for it. Of course if you were to point this out to them then they would tell you about the time they won five dollars as proof that your wrong. I’m sure most of you know people like this or even may be one of them. It reminds me of the other day while at our favorite restaurant; my wife read her fortune cookie which told her that she had to visualize what see wanted in order to make her dream come true. As I pointed out to her, that’s what a dream is when it comes to having a wish come true. You picture in your mind what is you what, like money or love, and then you have your wish or goal. Life would be a very dull experience if no one had a dream or goal in there life. So first we get out dream and then we find the hope that drives us toward out dream coming true. That’s just human nature and politicians understand this. I’m sure most people in Michigan would love to believe that there auto manufacturing jobs will come back, but I just can’t see how that’s going to happen when they can be made so much cheaper somewhere else. Like the new car made in India for less than the cost of a sound system in some American cars. The only way there dream could come true is if we were to put up a wall around America and asked Americas to pay way more for there automobiles, as many here would love to do. What they may not understand is that many more people here also have dreams of just being able to feed there family while still being able to afford the medicine that they need so desperately. How can we just ignore all the people that are fighting to keep there head above water everyday just because some group has a powerful lobby working for them? To me, it’s important to be able to understand the true reality of the problems we face instead of wishing things could be like they were in the past. To me it’s more important to be able to look ahead than keep looking behind and wishing for some miracle to make things like they were. To me, Hillary can see just what our main problems are that we need to tackle before we will be able to move ahead. Universal health care, for instance. People on the right, will or have called her a socialist and wish for the days before social security and all the social programs put forth by F.D.R. As with today’s auto manufacturing people wishing for the old days. They never had to choose between medicine or food for there family. They just can’t understand why the rest of us wouldn’t want to pay more in order to bail them out. As much as we would love to see our country being number one in automobiles or iron works and all the rest, we just need to see the truth if we are to ever be able to be number one again. Today the truth is, is that our jobs are going over sea while our dollars are pouring out of this country and not coming back. The drug dealers are getting richer because this country refuses to deal with the fact the Americans love to do drugs and nothing can change that no matter how many prisons they fill up. Credit card depth is a huge problem as well as our depth to other nations. The middle class is shrinking at an alarming rate. In other words, or country is sinking fast and needs the leaders that can make the unpopular decisions in order to save us before it’s too late. If I had not seen with my own eyes how Bill Clinton saved us before from this fate, then perhaps I wouldn’t believe anything could be done. I saw with my own eyes that, “yes we can,” could be more than just some cheap words from a politician willing to say anything to get elected. With Hillary in charge and with Bills help, I can honestly say, I know we can.

Pimping Out The Press

As most of you may know, right wing talk radio started because the people on the right felt that the major news outlets were too far to the left in most cases. I’ve always believed this to be true but never really understood for myself just what it feels like to be in there situation, being that I am a Democrat. Not until now, anyway. The reason I’ve come to a new understanding is because I support Senator Hillary Clinton and have seen first hand just how unfair the press can be, as many have talked about already. I have a great deal of respect for all of the candidates and will support whoever wins the race 100% no matter which party may win. When W. Bush was elected, I like most Democrats had a hard time dealing with the fact that more people voted for our guy but still lost. Around that time I had been visiting my in-laws in China. I remember very well while on the train I had been talking to a couple who were very nice but like many of the people there became upset when talking about there problems with our government. I found myself in the strange position of having to defend our president because I understood that as an American I should try and stand up for my country rather than do the easy thing and just agree with there complaints. That’s just the way I am. Being that W. Bush was our leader, I felt that it would be wrong to criticize him even though deep down inside I felt upset about the whole election mess. Even while I was on the plain ride back I was glad to find an American to talk to, but he had a real problem with Governor W. Bush and his reputation for killing criminals on death row. As I recall he said that all Texans, like myself, liked to kill these criminals to which I replied something like, “kill them all.” Again I found myself defending W. Bush, which surprised me somewhat. I guess that I learned that I should get behind our leader when my country or state came under attack. Today it would seem that there is a very good chance that our next leader will be a Democrat which both sides seem to agree on. If that were to happen, then as a Democrat, I would surely love it if most Americans could support our leaders in this way, no matter which party they follow. Too much time has been wasted on Americans attacking each other, in my opinion. The problem I find with the unfair treatment with which Hillary seems to be having isn’t so much a hatred towards her but the love fest for Barack Obama that seems to be going on with the media. He seems to be getting a free ride from what I see. Of course it’s more difficult to criticize someone with such a short history than someone who has been under attack for so long. It seems that the media find it so easy to say something like, the Clintons are pimping out there daughter, while at the same time would never say anything like that about Obama. So because of this, I find myself coming to understand how the Republicans must feel when they see the unfair treatment that they receive. I can see very clearly that it isn’t the Clintons but is the major news medias that are pimping out there reputation as being fair to everyone, as they pretend to be.

Be Careful What You Wish For, Iran

As I was reading the headlines of the day I happen to read about Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announce new sanctions against Iran. As Rice stated the reason being that the “Iranian government continues to spurn our offer of open negotiations, instead threatening peace and security by pursuing nuclear technologies that can lead to a nuclear weapon, building dangerous ballistic missiles, supporting Shia militants in Iraq and terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, and denying the existence of a fellow member of the United Nations, threatening to wipe Israeli off the map.” The Islamic regime announced in advance that approval of these measures would be deemed tantamount to an American declaration of war on Iran and call forth retaliation. As many of you may know, the Iranians favorite chat is, “death to America” which began after the taking over of the U.S. embassy there in 1979. They chant this on a daily basis in their schools and Mosques. All signs would indicate that we are heading for war once again. I would just like to say that as an American, I have nothing against the people of Iran. I have worked with a family from Iran and have found them to be a very good people. When they told me that they had to flee Iran or be killed for being with a certain sect, I couldn’t help but see how barbaric this country still is. I understand that they may have good reason to dislike us because of our policies in the past regarding our support of the Shaw of Iran. Before the overthrow of the Shaw, most Americans probably had never even heard of the Shaw of Iran. After the takeover of our embassy there, is when many of us first became aware of him and the problems that he caused. I believe that perhaps our biggest problem with Iran is our support of Israel. Iran’s next favorite chat is, “death to Israel.” Personally I don’t believe they think there is any difference. I believe that Iran see’s now as the time to make there move because they believe that America is tired of fighting in Iraq. It seems a bit like a deadly poker game where both sides believe the other is bluffing. I’ve read many Iranians comment that they don’t believe that America will attack. It seems almost like a replay of the invasion of Iraq. Saddam was so sure America would never attack, as he was to have said later. Even though we chased him out of Kuwait, he saw us as being too weak because we didn’t kill his retreating army and didn’t go into Bagdad. Perhaps they are incapable of understanding mercy and instead saw it as weakness. Because we are not the kind of people that go to our place of worship and yell, “death to whomever,” as they do, they may believe we are weak. They see our people going to church and saying, “love thy enemy,” instead. Perhaps they can’t understand that our people find yelling for the death of anyone in a place of worship as something barbaric and unthinkable. They seem to have a bloodlust for many different groups that seem unnatural to us. Of course we have people here that seem to believe that the answer to any problem is to bomb them into the Stone Age, but even these people would never yell that in church. They say that there religion is a religion of peace, and with there next breath shout for the death of whomever. For so many years they have been asking God for the death of Americans or Israelis and now seem surprised to finally be getting there chance. So who else should be the ones to kill all the Americans or Israelis? If they truly believed in what they are asking for then they should be happy that we are now heading for this war that they have asked for so many years. When they chant, “death to America,” are we just suppose to wait to be attacked while they are already killing our brothers and sister over in Iraq? Should Israel just sit and wait to be wiped off the map? If someone is pointing a gun at you and they are telling you that they are going to shoot you, should you wait to see if they are telling the truth? We are not the ones asking for the death of Iran. It is they who ask for the death of so many people. Should we believe that they are all liars? Time is running out. This isn’t a threat, just a fact. If the people of Iran don’t find some new leaders with more civilized views on how to settle there disputes, then it will soon be out of our hands, and then may God help us all. '

Everyone Knows It's Hillary

As I was listening to the Sunday talk shows yesterday, I heard an interesting point that was made by someone. I wish I could remember his name, but I believe he worked for a news magazine. He was talking about Senator Hillary Clinton, who just happens to be the person that I’m backing for the presidential race in 2008. He said that most people believed that the biggest problem that a first woman running for this office was thought to have been is having been seen as too soft on national defense. As he pointed out, Hillary doesn’t seem to have this problem at all. I believe that after the debates it has become clear to most people that she seems to have a clearer understanding of what we Americans expect from our leader when it comes to national defense. While serving on the Committee on Armed Services, she has proved herself to be a very capable leader by both parties. When her challenger Barack Oboma talked about invading Pakistan,
during one of the debates, is when people began to see that a vote for Barack may not be the wisest choice. When the question came up about talking to leaders of countries like Iran, she also showed her superior leadership in her answer. Before the debates, Barack seemed to be more of a serious challenger to Hillary. I think people began to notice that Barack seemed to give better speeches while Hillary gave better answers during the debates. On one of my earlier post I was talking about how the republicans were beginning to attack Hillary. Today we now have both republicans and democrats attacking her as if there was no doubt she will be the front runner. It seems that the only thing that can stop her is if she were to make some kind of serious mistake in the future. One of the reasons I gave for supporting her in my early post was that I believed that she has shown that she can take a beating and keep on fighting. This should be very clear to everyone by now. I guess we can thank the republicans and the far left for making her so tough. She is truly a battle harden politician like few we have ever seen. She has had everything, including the kitchen sink thrown at her and she keeps on smiling. I believe that with today’s nasty political atmosphere, being tough should be something we should consider when choosing a candidate. I remember back when I worked with a bunch of republicans, while her husband was in office, that they would attack me almost daily for supporting her husband. Just to piss them off I would tell them I believed President Clinton was perhaps one of the best presidents that we have ever had. I would also tell them that there would come a day when they would be begging for him to be president again. If you can remember how good things were back then compared to now, then it’s not hard to imagine these right wingers on there knees crying to the heavens for Bill to come back and save them before all there money was lost. Perhaps praying may have worked because today we have the next best thing, his wife Hillary. I understand that many of today’s problems were caused by 9-11, but still that shouldn’t excuse the republicans for spending like drunken sailors, as John Mc Cain was to have said. When Bill was in office, he made it clear that he and his wife worked as a team, which made many hate Hillary. Later when Bill got caught with his pants down, many people, like me saw how much pain this caused her and showed everyone her true loving and forgiving side. Seeing this very human side of her, may have helped her for today’s battles because many of us can relate with her pain. What a horrible thing it is to be cheated on by someone you love so deeply. I guess that it’s impossible to understand unless it’s happened to you. Unfortunately, too many of us have had to deal with this situation and understand only too well the permanent scars left by a love one. Hillary hasn’t only had to deal with all of the pain caused by the right and left but also from the one she loved the most. I know it’s none of my business, but I can’t help but feel a great deal of sympathy for her for having to deal with something so private in such a public arena. I have to give her credit for staying with her man through all of this. She has a forgiving heart which is truly a Christian trait which many only speak of. Wanting to bring health care to everyone is also a very Christian trait for anyone truly interested in helping the poor, as Christ himself would undoubtedly have done. Almost no one doubts Hillary would be very tough on defense. Almost no one doubts that she would also be the best friend to the millions of the uninsured who so desperately need a voice in a cold heartless world. In my opinion, she is truly an Extreme Centrist and deserving of the highest office in the land.

England Is Great

As I was driving home from work yesterday and listening to the left wing radio political talk program, I heard a commercial that caught my attention. It was made by a left wing magazine whose name I didn’t catch. On this add they talked about how the British were planning on bring home half of there troops home in the near future. This spokesperson seemed to want the listeners to believe that the British were running away from the fight and that America should see this as a sign that everything was falling apart and we should also start running. First of all I would like to remind all Americans that it was the British that sacrificed more than any other country to help us in or time of need. Not only with there troops, but also with there civilians who have lost there life’s and limbs while being targeted by the Islamo fascist at home. Remember it wasn’t only us but the whole world that believed Iraq had W.M.D.’s before the invasion. How could any rational person believe otherwise after seeing all the photos of the hundreds of gassed civilians and knowing that he used them on the Iranians in that war. Today we have countless Monday morning quarterbacks that claimed they knew what the whole world didn’t know. No surprise there. When the going got tough, they stood with us and we should never forget that. We should also remember that we always said that we would be retuning after a freely elected government was in place and power could be safely exchanged. Of course we are bombarded with people claming that we went there for there oil and to colonize and in effect own there country. We have been there much longer than most who believed in are true purpose because of all of the unforeseen problems that we have encountered in trying to accomplish this mission. After the first Gulf War, many people believed that it wouldn’t be as difficult as it has turned out to be. (i.e. - a slam dunk). My point being that we always planned on leaving at some point and even have made it against the law for us to make permanent bases there. It’s also become clear at this point in time that we cannot afford the cost of keeping our own troops there too much longer. We have gone as far as we can go and that’s clear to pro war and anti war people. Today the only debate is how soon to bring our troops home and if we should leave a small group there to help the government if they ask us to stay for support. I don’t believe anyone thinks we can keep such a large amount of troops there for too much longer. The surge seems to have helped but if the different warring groups don’t use this time to come to some kind of compromise, then we have to believe that this is what there people want and we must allow them to war without us. We have already asked too much from our troops and civilian tax payers and can ask no more. Everyone knows this, so it should be clear that our next problem is getting our people home as soon and as safe as possible. This will take some time and can’t be as quick as most would like. This isn’t cut and run, only a withdraw as planned years ago. What will be tough is leaving so many without the protection that they have become accustom to. Some people here say that all the violence will stop when we leave because we are the reason they want to fight. I hope there right but I understand that there hate for one another goes back centuries. If things get better or worst it’s out of our hands. Perhaps this is there cost for freedom now that they no longer have the iron fist of a ruthless dictator to keep them apart. Freedom almost always has a high price. I believe that most Iraqis would rather pay a high price than go back to the old ways again, now that they have had a taste of freedom. Doesn’t it just make since that our loyal British partners should be pulling there troops out before us? Did anyone think that we would pull out while leaving the British there? Of course not. I see the news of the British leaving as a sign that everything is going as planned and a very good thing. Everyone that wants to see our guys start coming home should see this as a good thing. A first step. Maybe then you can understand why hearing this ad made me upset. We always understood that when we were leaving that there would be some people who would pretend that they themselves were the ones driving us out. What socked me is that this wasn’t some of the Iraqis who were glad to see us leave, but instead was an American here at home. It was like I was listening to our enemies trying to pretend that they had defeated our side and now we were running for our lives. This is something that may not have surprised me so much if it had been Americans leaving, but being that it was our British friends instead, gave me a sick feeling deep down. Is this how we Americans should say thank you to our dearest friends who have sacrificed so much to come to our aid? How would we have felt if after World War Two when we were starting to come home and then have some British person on the radio say that we were running away from the fight? I believe that people should have the right to say whatever they want but that also applies to speaking up against something that someone may say that we disagree with. I strongly disagree with this false distortion of fact presented by this left wing magazine. I truly hope that as an American you would also agree with me. To try and present our greatest friends as people who are running from a fight instead of acknowledging there extreme sacrifice and true bravery, is one of the most shameful things that I can ever remember hearing coming from one of my own fellow Americans. And for what, to sell a few magazines? As for myself, I would like to thank the great British people for standing with us as well as falling with us. It’s time for our people to come home now. Together we have destroyed another tyrant from this earth as I sure we will do in the future. Only the historians will understand of the true importance of the sacrifices we have made in ridding the world of evil. If you can’t understand what I’m talking about then consider yourself one of the lucky ones and thank God for all that have given there life and limb to give you your freedom that you take for granted.