My first attempt to write an editorial in graduate school focused on health care.  I remember making the statement, “I feel like I’ve been branded, like I‘m a part of a herd of cattle.”  I was making reference to the doctor-patient relationship. Since then, it seems, that relationship has become even more difficult to sustain.

Not so long ago, a lawyer made a comment to me.  She said, “There are two things you need in life.  One is a good doctor. The other is a good attorney.”  It’s true, too.
Trying to find a good doctor is not so easy and trying to find a way to cover the expenses that your medical insurance does not cover is even more difficult. I could make a list of issues facing healthcare, but I won’t. Other people are doing it for us.

At the eye doctor the other day, I met a man who sells individual health insurance policies. We debated the costs of such plans.  I stated, “I like the idea of an individualized health care plan, but I have never been able to afford one. And, if I am able to, the limits and deductibles are of little value to me.”
A few minutes into our conversation, he stumbled over answering a direct question of how much one policy costs. “There are different variables to consider,” he said.

I explained that my homeowner’s insurance costs much less than medical insurance and a house is usually the most expensive thing you purchase.  His response to me, “If your roof goes out, it only cost a few thousand to repair. If something serious happens medically, one visit could cost up to $50,000 or more.”

There is much going on in Washington regarding health care reform. Representative Jan Schakowsky, from the 9th district of Illinois, reports “there are some encouraging signs, that key members of the House and Senate have voiced their support for a public health insurance option–crucial to lowering costs and covering everyone.  And just last week, President Obama strongly backed the plan.”
She states this progress creates a new risk and that opponents of reform know that a public health insurance option is likely to be part of the final bill.

She believes opponents will try to weaken it as much as possible.

“We’ll only get one shot at health care reform, and we need it to be the best possible plan. So members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus like me are fighting back by drawing a clear line in the sand: We will only support a bill if it includes a strong public health insurance option,” Schakowsky said. “Strong means that it is run by the federal government, helps cover all of us, and comes into effect as soon as possible.”

Schakowsky’s most recent press release states a strong public option is key to achieving health care and lowering costs. Benefits she proposes include:
1.)Relief to small businesses and families. The public health insurance plan will drive costs down across the board, helping everyone who is struggling in this economy. 
2.)Give Americans a choice. So many Americans don’t like their private insurance—or don’t have it at all. With this plan, they’d be able to choose a plan that’s not run by insurance companies. But if they’re happy with their current coverage, they can keep it.

3.)Make universal health care a reality. The public health insurance option will be available to everyone, regardless of job status or pre-existing conditions.

On June 9, U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, of Maryland, presented a speech on health care reform to the members of the Senate. During that speech, he stated, “The parameters under which this Senate is addressing health care is a prescription for disaster.”

It’s a poignant statement considering the quotes that John Hart, Communications Director for Senator Coburn, reported from the floor during Senator Coburn’s speech:

“Health care is about people. It’s not about an insurance company, and it’s not about your employer. And it’s certainly not about the government. It’s about you. And if it’s about you, you ought to be in control.”“We’re not a bunch of cattle lining up in the chute. Everybody’s different. Everybody needs to be able to make their own decision. And on top of that, the number-one thing we have to do is protect the doctor-patient relationship.”

“We have before us in the HELP committee a draft of a bill that has three big blanks on it … We have no knowledge about what it costs. And we’re going to be marking that up. And we’re supposed to get health care done in six weeks … and we’re going to do it without knowing what we’re doing.”

To top it off, the American Medical Association, the largest physician organization in America, has voiced opposition to the ObamaCare health plan. There’s fear that without private insurance the quality of healthcare will demise.

Or, is it that the quality of some patient’s healthcare will demise?

I believe some people already have what would be considered “a lower standard of care” that is feared in the proposed “socialized” system.  I have never heard anyone on state insurance talk about how great it was.  I have heard how grateful they were to have it and to not have to pay for it.  I have, at times, even envied it as it cost me so much more for a similar visit. How fair is that?

There are those who do not go to the doctor for fear of the costs. There are others without a dime or care, who go immediately to the state funded hospital without worry about any of it. With the challenges these issues bring to the forefront, one clear cut resolution is not so simple.

Highlighting health care reform issues coming up for debate is The New York Times, who published an article, which can be found at this link:  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/us/politics/11health.html

As I consider the struggle that has been consuming the House and Senate for the last few months, I think of a suggestion James Lansberry, president of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, recently emailed. It’s something called Shared Care.

In this system, we would go to church and rely on each other for health services rather than health institutions. We would commit to living a healthy life and avoiding unnecessary risks, such as sex before marriage.

As he states, “Essentially the way Shared Care works is that people of Faith and embracing traditional values, agree to live their lives in ‘low risk’ fashion, meaning not engaging in dangerous lifestyles of sexual promiscuity, etc., and to attend church at least twice a month.  Remarkably when the criterion is met, the vector of healthcare expense plummets, allowing each member to help meet the needs of others, thus the phrase: Shared Care.”

Well, it’s something to consider.

For more information on ShareCare: please visit online by clicking here for Health Care Sharing or here for Samaritan Ministries.

In the last century, the impassioned words and actions of patriots like Winston Churchill – along with America’s heroic help and sacrifice – saved Europe. The eloquence and actions of “I’ve been to the mountaintop” Martin Luther King Jr. brought America to an unprecedented level of social justice. The peerless oratory and tireless diplomacy of the man who would become Israel’s Foreign Minister, Abba Eban convinced the entire world that after the wanton murder of six-million Jews in the Holocaust its straggling survivors deserved their own state of Israel. 

The inspiring words and decisive actions of President Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War, tore down the Berlin Wall, and restored economic prosperity to America. The efforts of these towering figures resulted in a more highly-evolved world.

We have also seen the opposite in totalitarian leaders like Hitler, Mussolini, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Mao, and Saddam Hussein, among others, who exploited their masses, destroyed their economies, brought havoc, turbulence, grief and massive death within and outside of their countries, and made the world a more dangerous and threatening place.

The one thing all of these virtuous and evil men had in common was love for their respective countries, in fact a burning passion that superseded all else. The virtuous believed in freedom and democracy. The evil believed in subjugation of their peoples and lifetime tenures for themselves in order to actualize their goals of conquering their eternal enemies – Americans and Jews.

Today, we have a new crop of inveterate America-and-Jew-haters, among them the Marxist leader of Venezuela Hugo Chavez, Nicaragua’s president Daniel Ortega, Iran’s “death-to-America-and-Israel” study-in-abnormal-psychology Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the ever-sabotage-America and anti-Semitic “leaders” of the 22-Arab states that surround Israel.

I have either read about or observed firsthand all of these people. Yet in my decades of commenting on the political scene, I cannot recall a single leader of any country or regime who has ever spoken negatively of his country or tolerated others speaking ill of the land or the people he represented.

UNTIL NOW 
Bizarre and, yes, repugnant as it is to our essentially centrist country, America now has a president who has broken that time-honored tradition.  Barack Obama, on the campaign trail and as the leader of the free world is the first U.S. president to proclaim to anyone within earshot that he, like his wife, is not proud of his country, and is all-too-willing to offer serial apologies – for America! – to Americans and foreigners alike.

As Ed Lasky writes: “We know that during the campaign [Obama] warned that criticism of his wife was `off-limits’. But criticism of America – well, that is fine.”

We also know that during his run for the presidency, Obama expressed sneering condescension towards all those bible-clasping, gun-owning yahoos who “cling” to those silly things, and that in Europe he consistently gave voice to America’s supposed “sins.” But all that pales in comparison to the clear contempt – looks more like hatred to me – that Obama feels for the United States of America and for its most revered founding document, the U.S. Constitution.
In just the first 100-days of his tenure, Obama’s words and actions have demonstrated that he is no friend of the country he leads. This is only a smattering of what happened on his recent three-continent trip abroad and to Mexico:
·   In France, Obama told his audience that America "has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive" toward Europe.
·   In Prague, Obama – in true utopian-kindergarten fashion – pledged “with conviction” that America will “seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.” In other words, destroy big bad America’s ability to defend itself!
·   In London, Obama made clear that the world’s financial wealth was no longer made by those inferior leaders Roosevelt and Churchill, effectively ceding America’s leading role in creating and sharing wealth to nations that have never measured up to our country’s bountiful generosity or spirit of free-market entrepreneurship.
·   In Venezuela, Obama sat passively while the Marxist Chavez handed him an American-bashing book and delivered another revile-America speech, while never once rising to defend our country.
·   In Nicaragua, Obama again sat passively while the Marxist Ortega blamed the United States for a century of what he called terroristic U.S. aggression in Central America, again emitting not a whisper of defense on our country’s behalf.
·   In Turkey, Obama said – incredibly and inaccurately – that America was not a Christian nation.
·   And in his recent trip to Mexico, Obama said that the escalating border violence was essentially America’s fault.
Scan you memory. Can you think of any other leader in world history who so consistently badmouths his own country, or fails to defend it? I can’t.
Wall St. Journal writer Dorothy Rabinowitz notes that Obama “had gone to Europe not as the voice of his nation, but as a missionary with a message of atonement for its errors. No sitting American president had ever delivered indictments of this kind while abroad, or for that matter at home. When [our allies] see Obama’s moral equivalence, they realize they are on their own and must cut their own deals to survive – understanding that multicultural trendiness is now a cynical cover for moral laxity and ‘can’t we all get along?’

Historian Victor Davis Hanson also noticed something odd about Obama’s apology tour. “Despite this fresh climate of atonement, there was a complete absence of a single apology from any other foreign leader…not a word came from Britain about colonialism…nothing from Germany on the Holocaust…not a peep from France about Algeria or Vietnam. Turkey was mum on the Armenian killings…Russia said nothing about the 30 million murdered by Stalin…Nothing came from China about the 70 million who perished under Mao…Mr. Medvedev said nothing about Putin’s brutish rule…We saw no concrete evidence of any help — or hope and change — from any foreign leader. Zilch.”

In addition, Hanson continues, “We hear nothing about our Gettysburg, or our entry into World War I. Iwo Jima and the Bulge are never alluded to. Drawing the line in Korea and forcing the end of the Soviet monstrosity are taboo subjects. That we pledged the life of New York for Berlin in the Cold War is unknown. Liberating Afghanistan and Iraq from the diabolical Taliban and Saddam Hussein is left unsaid. The Civil Rights movement, the Great Society, affirmative action, and present billion-dollar foreign-aid programs apparently never existed. Millions of Africans have been saved by George Bush’s efforts at extending life-saving medicines to AIDS patients — but again, this is never referenced.”

Blogger James Lewis says that Obama’s “obsessive need to put down his own country shows a stunningly ignorant man who has evidently never spoken to a concentration camp survivor, a Cuban refugee, a boat person from Vietnam, a Soviet dissident, or a survivor of Mao’s purges.”
And Media Research Center’s Brent Bozell adds, "Obama `gets’ the America-haters.”

ABANDONING ALLIES, EMBRACING ENEMIES

“If you are a longtime enemy of the United States, count on a grand reception from the Obama administration. All is forgiven and, worse, forgotten,” write Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. “But if you have a track record as an ally or friend, you won’t get the right time of day.”

“If you are a longtime enemy of the United States, count on a grand reception from the Obama administration. All is forgiven and, worse, forgotten,” write Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. “But if you have a track record as an ally or friend, you won’t get the right time of day.”

Of course apologists for Obama & Co. point to “progress” in our foreign policy, ignoring, as Caroline Glick points out, that “America’s betrayal of its democratic allies makes each of them more vulnerable to aggression at the hands of their enemies – enemies the Obama administration is now actively attempting to appease.” Glick lays out the cold hard facts:
·   Obama abrogated America’s strategic commitment to the defense of our ally Japan when his administration reacted to North Korea’s ballistic missile test by saying the U.S. would only shoot the missile down if it targeted U.S. territory.
·   Obama slapped our ally India when he refused to make ending Pakistan’s support for jihadist terror groups attacking India a central component of its strategy for contending with Pakistan and Afghanistan.
·    Obama failed to assure our ally Iraq that democracy and freedom will be secured before U.S. forces are withdrawn next year.
·   Obama de facto abandoned our allies in Eastern Europe when he announced his intention to forge a new alliance with Russia. “The Czech, Polish, Georgian and Ukrainian governments,” Glick says, “were quick to recognize that Obama’s strong desire to curry favor with the Kremlin and weaken his own country will imperil their ability to withstand Russian aggression.”
·   Obama “is sacrificing the U.S.’s alliance with our ally Israel “in a bid to appease the Arabs and Iran by supporting the immediate establishment of a Palestinian state,” which, Glick warns, “requires Israel to commit national suicide in exchange for `peace.’” Obama also made clear “that from the administration’s perspective, an Israeli strike that prevents Iran from becoming a nuclear power is less acceptable than a nuclear-armed Iran.” In addition, Obama sent Hamas $900 million of foreign aid, “channeled through the UNRWA, a United Nations front filled with Hamas operatives”
·   Obama slapped our ally England when he returned the bust of Winston Churchill to Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
·   Obama slapped our ally Colombia and its president Alvaro Uribe when he refused to submit the free trade deal with Bogota to the Senate.

“What a great time to be our enemy!” Glick exclaims. “What a terrible time to be our friend!”

And speaking about appeasing Iran, the Obama administration recently asked a federal judge to throw out a $6.6-billion class-action lawsuit against Iran filed by 52 American diplomats and military officials held hostage for more than a year at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran 30 years ago. Nothing like selling out Americans to make brownie points with a bloodthirsty dictator!

{mosimage}Barry Rubin explains: “Friends,  especially in Europe, are pleased, applaud, but then add that they don’t have to give this guy anything because he is all apologies and no toughness. They like the fact that he is all carrots and no sticks. If, however, they are states more at risk…they worry that they cannot rely on the United States to help and defend them. Enemies or potential rivals…say that this guy is weak and defeated. He apologizes, offers unconditional engagements, and promises concessions…they’ll eat the carrots and, if possible, their neighbors as well.”

NY Post writer Ralph Peters, a former military intelligence officer, sums up the hate-America core tenets of the “Obama Doctrine” as follows: (1) We’re to blame, (2) Problems can be negotiated away, (3) Problems that can’t be talked out can be bought off, (4) Islamist terrorism doesn’t exist, (5) It’s all our fault, (6) Israel’s the obstacle to Middle East peace, (7) Our nukes threaten world peace and we need to get rid of them, (8) Our military is dangerous, (9) Our intelligence services are even more dangerous than our military, (10) It’s only torture if we do it, and (11) Blame President George W. Bush.

Obama is clearly not satisfied with threatening the safety of our tried-and-true allies abroad. He is also determined to undermine the bedrock foundation of America’s security – our military and intelligence agencies. By disclosing interrogation memos – and planning to release photographs associated with military probes into prisoner abuse – he has betrayed every heroic person who risks his or her life for our country, and unforgivably given aid-and-comfort to enemies who seethe with virulent anti-Americanism and lust for our demise. And in the Department of Homeland Security’s infamous memo, he has called members of our military, among others, potential domestic terrorists!

“After September 1th, the general outcry was, ‘Why don’t we have better overseas capabilities?’” said Porter Goss, director of the CIA from September 2004 to May 2006. “I fear that in the years to come, this refrain will be heard again. It is certainly not trust that is fostered when intelligence officers are told one day ‘I have your back,’ only to learn a day later that a knife is being held to it.”

How horrifying to contemplate that it is the President of the United States himself who is wielding that back-stabbing knife!

QUESTIONING OBAMA’S PATRIOTISM

Before the November election, legal scholar Henry Mark Holzer wrote – and scrupulously documented – a stunning indictment of Obama in which he stated that Obama’s repeatedly professed claim to be a patriot is “a fraud on the American people – and an insult to the countless true patriots who, for over two hundred years, have loved and loyally and zealously supported the United States of America.”

“Patriots,” Holzer concluded, “don’t associate with and derive sustenance from terrorists, America-haters and anti-Semites; they don’t countenance fixed elections; they don’t keep secrets from voters; they don’t intimidate their enemies; they don’t denigrate and degrade our military; they don’t gratuitously interfere with their government’s efforts to protect our country; and they don’t disdain the symbol of this great nation, which for over two centuries men and women have fought and died: the American flag. Whatever Barack Obama is, we can be certain that he is no patriot!”

The events that have followed Obama’s election, Holzer says, “have compounded the proof of the president’s lack of patriotism,” which he has recently spelled out in a follow-up article. A few of the many examples he provides of what “a patriotic American president does not do include:
·   Bankrupt this country and court massive inflation in order to implement his vision of a fascist/socialist nation.
·   Sit on his hands with a straight face while a South American thug insults his country.
·   Appoint America-haters to his cabinet.
·   Cozy up to a soon-to-be-nuclear-armed Iranian madman.
·   Impotently watch the probably-already-nuclear-armed North Korean Stalinists lob a ballistic missile across the Pacific.
·   Fail to stanch the flow of illegal aliens across the Mexican-United States border.
·   Cut the defense budget.
·   Strangle innovation during a serious recession by raising taxes.
·   Close Guantanamo Bay without a clue of how to handle the enemy combatants incarcerated there.
·   Publicly announce what measures military and CIA interrogators can use to extract information from terrorists.
·   Apologize to the world for what has made America great and grovel to persons, nations. and institutions unfit to shine our shoes!
·   Cede American sovereignty to the American-hating United Nations.
·   Defy the Second Amendment and a Supreme Court decision by making an end run that substantially reduces the supply of certain ammunition.
·   Repudiate the policy and practice of missile shield installation.”

SOME DARE CALL IT TREASON

It is one thing to question a president’s patriotism, but even more serious to accuse him of treason. In an open letter to Obama on Treason, Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (U.S. Naval Academy, Class of 1975) minces no words in accusing the president of sending Army forces to Samson, Alabama, and Boston in violation of the Constitution. Here are excerpts of his letter:

“I have observed and extensively recorded invidious attacks by military-political aristocrats against the Constitution for twenty years. Now you have broken in and entered the White House by force of contrivance, concealment, conceit, and deceit. Posing as an imposter president and commander in chief, you have stripped civilian command and control over the military establishment…

“We come now to the reckoning. I accuse you and your military-political criminal assistants of TREASON. I name you and your military criminal associates as traitors. Your criminal ascension manifests a clear and present danger. You fundamentally changed our form of government. The Constitution no longer works….

“I identify you as a foreign-born domestic enemy. You are not my president. You are not my commander in chief.

Fitzpatrick is not alone. John Smith – http://johnsmith.blogtownhall.com/2009/04/25/obama_is_a_traitor.thtml – a blogger on www.Townhall.com, titled a recent article “Obama Is a Traitor.” Commenting on the president’s release of the “torture” memos, Smith says:

“Given the actions of Barack Obama in recent days, one has to wonder how many soon-to-be released State secrets have been gathered by radical left-wing traitors and hidden in the dark recesses of Washington, awaiting the Manchurian Candidate’s command to publish them…  

“The motivation for Obama’s recent intentional disclosure of Top Secret CIA memoranda…was an act committed solely to increase his own political power through appeasement of the radical left…or was it …guided by the twisted moral imperative uniquely embraced by the Left, which dictates that only those actions that serve to limit individual liberty, punish patriotism, and destroy the traditions and culture of the United States of America are good?…

“Were Obama’s actions motivated by a deeply rooted desire to harm this Nation?…

“Article III of the Constitution defines Treason against the United States as “… levying War against them or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort…”

“Top Secret information is the highest level of classification that we have on a national level. By definition, such material, if made public, will cause "exceptionally grave damage" to national security…

“The willful disclosure of Top Secret information is an act of Treason against the United States….A sitting President of The United States of America has committed Treason.”

Fitzpatrick and Smith are among a rising tide of voices – in and outside of the military – who have observed with growing horror Obama’s proclivity to destroy our capitalist economic system, subvert the U.S. Constitution, endanger our military and intelligence services, and obsequiously embrace America’s sworn enemies.

Dr. Jack Wheeler, a consummate Washington insider, goes one step further. “The evidence that the President of the United States is a traitor is mounting. The evidence that the President of the United states is a mortal danger to America’s national security is mounting. The evidence that the President of the United States will not defend America from threats and insults from every two-bit fascist dictator in the world …is not only mounting, it is overwhelming.”

Writer Amy L. Geiger-Hammer states: “I do wonder if Obama should be called a traitor or just incompetent…does he ever talk about what a great country America is?”

And UK journalist Gerald Warner echoes that rising tide: “If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself.  Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests of his own people – not even Jimmy Carter.  Obama’s problem is that he does not know who the enemy is.  To him, the enemy does not squat in caves in Waziristan, clutching automatic weapons and reciting the more militant verses from the Koran: instead, it sits around at tea parties in Kentucky quoting from the US Constitution. “

IS AMERICA LOST?

Multiple lawsuits to find proof that Obama is Constitutionally ineligible to be president are ongoing and will ultimately determine if he is an American or Kenyan or Indonesian or UK “natural-born” citizen. To this date, he has spent over a million dollars blocking the suits about his still-missing birth certificate, and there is increasing evidence that the birth certificate attested to by FactCheck.org, FightTheSmears.org, and DailyKos.com are forgeries.. And of course we still have not seen Obama’s Selective Service record, medical records, multiple visas, college transcripts, et al.

If Obama is proven to be the fraud and interloper many suspect, every one of his edicts, bills, laws, dictates, Supreme Court selections, et al, will be overturned, leaving America to cope with serious problems – under the leadership of the incomprehensible Joe Biden – but nothing approaching this hate-America president’s far-left socialist domestic programs and appease-our-enemies foreign policy.

The huge national turnouts at the Tea Parties of April 15 were only the beginning of a movement that was spurred by ordinary Americans waking up to Obama’s destruction of our economy, his attempts to reshape America into a banana republic, the grave damage he’s inflicted on our military and intelligence services, and his unsavory predilection for embracing our enemies and apologizing non-stop for the most magnificent nation on earth.

In short, they are waking up to the president who hates his country.

Editor Charlotte Baker predicts that “the Tea Parties and other, more aggressive, protests will grow exponentially, and that the Obama juggernaut can and will be stopped.” It’s crucial, she says, “for all Americans to recall the history they learned in school – at least before the Left hijacked what used to be known as `education.’ The Europeans, Japanese and Russians were all taken over by one form or another of totalitarianism because their combined history was one of absolute rulers – kings, czars and `divine’ emperors. They were totally conditioned to tyranny.  

“But the monstrous anti-American gang that rigged the voting system  on November 4, 2008– as they do routinely in Obama’s Chicago Machine politics – to push Obama into We-the-People’s White House, have shown – even before his inauguration – the kind of overreaching that arrogant tyrants always demonstrate. Hitler, Mao, Tojo and Stalin all got away with overreaching, but they weren’t brutalizing Americans.

“Tolerating totalitarianism is simply not in the genetic code – the DNA – of Americans! Baker adds. “Freedom and Liberty run in our blood!”

Indeed!

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About the author:Joan Swirsky (www.joanswirsky.com) is a New York-based journalist and author.

Editorial:  We live by trust.  We drive the roads, labor, raise children, pay taxes all in trust that others are operating by the same rules.  Rules of the road and laws of the land apply to rich, poor, powerful or powerless equally according to the Constitution. 

Such trust for hundreds of thousands of Americans has been destroyed by Barack H. Obama within his first 100 days in office.  Beyond any specific policy, lack of trust could damn to failure the Obama Administration so why are they not more forthcoming?
Never have so many individual Americans publicly protested as they did in the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Parties April 15 … so early into a new presidential administration.  Never have so many Americans rushed to buy guns despite Obama’s repeated promises not to seize or restrict gun sales.  Apparently, huge numbers of Americans don’t believe Obama is a man of his word.

Howard Fineman of Newsweek wrote of Obama, "Swimming in the middle, he’s denounced as a socialist by conservatives, criticized as a polite accommodationist by government-is-the-answer liberals, and increasingly, dismissed as being in over his head by technocrats." To read the entire story, click here.

Obama did not campaign on policy specifics, but glittering generalities.  He criticized the administration before him on purely emotional grounds campaigning on Liberal rage, race and celebrity.  It could be said that he won national votes in the same fashion as Hitler and Mussolini.  Using “crisis” for convenience, he is growing Federal power beyond Constitutional authority and expanding Federal spending beyond sanity. One might question by his recent actions if he is anti-Constitutional rather than a Constitution driven Attorney/Professor.

Obama is, by understated word and recent deeds, a dedicated socialist apparently ignorant of American history who shows great disdain for individual freedom.  He praises and panders to Fascists, Communists, and, in a first for an American President, bowed to a foreign King.  He is the “Appeaser and Chief.”  Beyond Obama’s lack of love for liberty worldwide, Michelle Obama stated twice during the campaign she had no pride in America before her husband’s rise to power.

Obama betrayed his promise to bring the first “post-partisan post-racial” administration.  According to The Wall Street Journal, “Tuesday April 21, 2009 is the moment that any chance of a new era of bipartisan respect in Washington ended.  By inviting the prosecution of Bush officials for their anti-terror legal advice, President Obama has injected a poison into our politics that he and the country will live to regret.

“Policy disputes, often bitter, are the stuff of democratic politics,” the Wall Street Journal wrote.  “… until now, the U.S. political system has avoided the spectacle of a new Administration prosecuting its predecessor for policy disagreements.  This is what happens in Argentina, Malaysia or Peru, countries where the law is treated merely as an extension of political power.” To read the full article, click here.

For average Americans, it is the almost inconceivably huge amounts of spending and increasing government limitation of freedom that most offends.  The TEA Parties were proof that Americans “get” checkbook issues – no individual or nation can buy their way to prosperity.  Writing checks or printing money without a base of value crashes all civilized life – individually or nationwide.

U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) an avowed friend of Obama, in a released statement April 23 said, “Taxpayers are fed up with Washington’s bail outs and boondoggles that are bankrupting our nation.  It is shameful that not a single member of Congress read the $1.2 trillion stimulus bill before it was hastily approved by Congress and signed by the President.  Before we ask the American people to pay another cent for an inefficient program or we borrow another dollar from future generations, we have an obligation to ensure that we are not wasting precious resources that could be better spent by families across our nation.

“Congress is about to pass a $3.5 trillion budget for 2010 and estimates show less than half of that in total revenue for the same year.  Without removing the over $300 billion that is lost to waste, fraud or abuse every year, Congress is jeopardizing our nation’s future.  Congress must start setting the priorities the same way families across the country must.  We can help President Obama keep his pledge to rid the government of its excessive waste,” said Dr. Coburn.

Liberalism’s economic policy foundation is to control capital (all money) and the means of production (all business).  Although this type of approach has repeatedly been proven as a failure worldwide, it is oh so appealing to embittered uneducated welfare beneficiaries reproducing like rabbits at taxpayer expense.  Class warfare is working for Democrats.

Liberals praise Franklin D. Roosevelt’s economic policies, but on May 9, 1939 Henry Morgenthau, Jr., the secretary of the treasury, close friend, confidant of Roosevelt and one of the most powerful men in America at the time, spoke before his fellow Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee saying, “We have tried spending money.  We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work … We have never made good on our promises … I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started … and an enormous debt to boot.” (Chapter 1 Page 2, “New Deal or Raw Deal?” by Burton Folsom, Jr.)

Folsom writes further, “In these words, Morgenthau summarized a decade of disaster, especially during the years Roosevelt was in power.  Indeed average unemployment for the whole year in 1939 was higher than that in 1931, the year before Roosevelt captured the presidency from Herbert Hoover.”

According to a March 2009 Congressional Budget Office estimate, Obama’s budget will produce a staggering $9.3 trillion in total deficits over the next decade, much more than the White House has promised the American people.

President Obama’s budget director, Peter R. Orszag, conceded in a news briefing that annual deficits of four to five percent of gross domestic product, as envisioned in the office’s report, are "ultimately not sustainable." 

"Not sustainable" means the economy ends and you had better be good at growing your own food and protecting your own family. 

Thus economic trust dissolves and the result can be seen in the markets.  When times are good, people invest in stocks.  When stocks get risky, people invest in corporate bonds.  When corporate bonds get risky, people invest in municipal bonds.  Now for the first time in history the investor’s standard, Moody’s, has rated the entire US local government system “at risk.”  Again, that is the entire $2.6 trillion US municipal bond sector rated in danger of collapse.  After municipal bonds, the next safest investment is US Treasury bonds, but how safe is the US Treasury with this administration bailing out all their friends?  Are you buying gold yet?  Many are and again that fact speaks to trust or the lack of it in Obama.

Why has Obama not operated his presidency with the transparency he promised?  He failed to provide PDF versions of bills before Congress rushed to vote on them.  In fact, American distrust of Obama is in part a hang-over from President Bush, but most specifically from Congress. 

Congress is responsible for the failure to regulate as required and authorized by existing law.  It has long been the job of Congress to regulate the mortgage, banking, and insurance industries.  That is the core of the current economic crisis.  When will there be an independent prosecutor assigned and funded by government to investigate this Congressional failure?  Don’t hold your breath.

Is Obama two faced, secretive by nature, or the “Manchurian Candidate” average Americans have worried about for years?  He seems to have come from nowhere overnight to become President of the United States of America.  How did it happen?  Who paid for his campaign – really.

Americans know nothing of Obama’s college records: admission, grades, writings, or teaching.  All of those documents have been sealed at his request.  Obama has spent millions to hide the full and complete record of his birth and early childhood.  In fact, there is no proof that Barack H. Obama is not a bastard child born to an underage woman as a result of statutory rape.  His self-authored account of his heritage and childhood is not confirmed and could well be pure fantasy.

Ms. Orly Taitz, a California attorney working through Defend Our Freedoms Foundation on several cases challenging Obama, said she was presented with an opportunity to ask a status question of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia March 9, 2009. 

Taitz said, "I prepared myself to a lot of booing, however there was no boo-ing, no negative remarks," she said. "I actually could see a lot of approving nods, smiles, many gasped and listened intensely.  I could tell that even Obama’s strongest supporters wanted to know the answer.”

"Scalia stated that [Obama’s eligibility case] would be heard if I can get four people to hear it.  He repeated, you need four for the argument.  I got a feeling that he was saying that one of these four that call themselves constitutionalists went to the other side," Taitz said.  "He did not say that it is a political question, he did not say that it is for the legislature to decide.  He did not say that Quo Warranto is antiquated or not appropriate.  No, just get four," she said.

She then bought Scalia’s book and waited in line to get it autographed.  "I gave him the books to sign and asked, ‘Tell me what to do, what can I do, those soldiers [her plaintiffs] can be court-martialed for asking a legitimate question, who is the president, is he legitimate.’ He said, ‘Bring the case, I’ll hear it, I don’t know about others.’"

The Supreme Court today is considered to have mainly a 4-4 conservative-liberal split, with one swing vote on most issues. On the conservative side generally are Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, Scalia and Justice Clarence Thomas. Justice Anthony Kennedy often is the swing vote.  The liberal side frequently includes Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter and John Paul Stevens. 

The American Constitution provides for “check and balance” by establishing three different branches of government.  Obama now controls two – the executive and the legislative.  He can only control the court system if the court system allows him to do so, but at that moment America will no longer be a nation of free people living equally under the law.  At that moment, America would be the fascist State of Obama.  This is the fear that again challenges individual trust in our government.

Maybe the most kind explanation of this supreme delay is that one of the so-called conservatives fears a “game changing” situation just like the New York TimesACORN) which is tied to voter fraud in fifteen states during this most recent presidential election.

feared when they killed a story directly linking Obama’s presidential campaign to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (
That story was later covered by Michael P. Tremoglie and published by The Philadelphia Bulletin March 30, but if the New York Times had done their job as honest journalists they would have published the piece prior to the election.  Unfortunately, they appear to be full-blown socialists propaganda pigs whining (or is that swine-ing) for the destruction of America.

Granted, it is much easier to write a compelling story on compelling need than it is to write about individual responsibility or the lack thereof.  However, the only way government can care for us all is if they control all and that ends America’s grand experiment in representative democracy.  That ends freedom.  That ends all chance for great success, innovation and creativity, but it does create jobs for government workers and increases the need for domestic police state functionaries.

The last resort for our free people lies with individual states – at least in the best case until the next election.  States can resist Federal authority and, in the last case, call for a Constitutional Convention to specifically limit the power of the federal government.  Many hope that such a call is not necessary, but with Congress, the Presidency, the Courts, and media all failing … the American people rally in thousands of cities in numbers greater than has ever been seen so quickly in protest of what they believe is a pathetically incompetent disingenuous if not fraudulent president who within 100 short days has failed to become the leader of the free world.

Time tells all truth and it’s a shame our politicians spend so much of it to hide truth.  Eventually, real “journalists” in the true meaning of the word will find publication and public attention as they write the “rough draft” of history. 

Regardless, the truth will be known and only liars and the truly evil fight to prevent that exposure.  Trust that.

Editorial:  An amazing thing happened on Wednesday, April 15^th, Tax Day, when nearly a million people took hours off from their workdays – many sacrificing pay cuts and even the threat of being fired – to attend thousands of Tea Parties across America. What motivated this huge number of Republicans, Conservatives, Democrats, Independents, Libertarians, and even apolitical people to come out in mid-week with placards aplenty and passion unprecedented? It was to tell President Obama that they rejected and resented just about everything he and his radical-left Congress have foisted on our nation during his 90-plus days in office. These include:

·   A frontal assault on free-market capitalism
·   Zero transparency and accountability for the billions already doled out – where has it gone?
·   Rising unemployment
·   Trillions of dollars of debt for us and our children and grandchildren
·   Infringement of freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, including free speech, gun ownership, freedom of religion, et al.
·   Obsequious overtures to the world’s biggest despots, all of them America’s sworn enemies.
·   Passage of H.R. 1388, or the “domestic security force” that eerily mimics Hitler’s brown shirts, or, as Obama stated: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
·   Aggressive moves to nationalize the press, resurrect the “Fairness Doctrine,” and give the president the legal authority to shut down the Internet in the “interest of national security.”
·   A cap-and-trade tax that will effectively kill commerce
·   Full-speed-ahead on destroying the coal industry
·   Ceding the resolution of legal issues to the cesspool-of-corruption known as the United Nations and transnational courts
·   Steps to obliterate the “conscience clause” that allows doctors, nurses and pharmacists the right not to participate in the infanticide procedure known as abortion
·   Unforgiveable insults to our military by calling them potential “domestic terrorists.” Other “terrorists” listed in the Department of Homeland Security report were anyone opposed to abortion, anyone in favor of immigration enforcement, pro-Second-Amendment lobbies, and anyone protesting big government.
·   A vile insult to Catholics when the White House insisted on having Christ’s name covered by black plywood when the president spoke at Georgetown U. – why was he invited?
·   A despicable insult to Jews when career anti-Semite Charles Freeman – President of the MEPC Arab lobby and a board member of the American Iranian Council – was appointed head of the National Intelligence Council, but ultimately stepped down, confirming in his own words his animus toward Israel.
·   Declaring carbon dioxide an environmental pollutant… another scheme to impose draconian and business-murdering taxes on Americans, while at the same time refusing to drill for oil and build nuclear facilities, all in the name of the colossal hoax known as man-made global warming. Let’s hear it for windmills!
·   The coming manipulation of the U.S. census by community-organizers from ACORN – under investigation in more than 12 states for voter-registration fraud – which received $5-billion of tax-payer’s money in Obama’s “stimulus” package
·   An utter failure to intercede in in a timely fashion to save Captain Richard Phillips from the Muslim Somali terrorists in the Maersk Alabama incident.

As I’ve often said about what appears to be President Obama’s Marxist agenda… this is the short list! The longer list includes cabinet members and advisors who would have been instantly rejected by your friendly deli owner or housewife, so steeped have they been in tax cheating, conflicts-of-interest, and criminal investigations.

MR. KNOW NUTHIN’

In spite of the fact that the President of the United States is supposed to be the most informed person on the face of the earth, when the most dramatic opposition to his policies took place on Tax Day, April 15^th, his press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said that the president was “unaware” of the Tea Party tsunami.

In Internet lingo, this was a huge LOLOL! Of course President Obama knew. That is why the day before the Tea Parties, on April 14^th he went into full campaign mode to tell students at Georgetown U. how peachy keen things were; why he sent his Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to echo the message to students at Morehouse U., and why the White House blast e-mailed and blast-faxed its leftwing media lackeys the Talking Points they hoped would kill the damned Tea Party movement in its infancy.

But the Obama and Bernanke speeches failed, as did all those media Talking Points. That is not to say that the so-called journalists of the so-called mainstream media – the same media that are dying on the vine every day – were silent. So terrified are they of Democracy in Action that they tripped over themselves, and each other, in a failed effort to diminish the impact of this national movement and to vilify its participants. Fox News, however, gave the Tea Parties 24-7 coverage and garnered the kind of sky-high ratings that every news organization dreams about.

I understand why the president was clueless. After all, a United States president is a busy man. He can’t possibly know of everything going on in our country, especially when he is hard at work:
·   Bowing fawningly to the terrorist-funding King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
·   Sharing a strangely intimate finger-entangled greeting with the American-loathing Marxist president of Venezuela Hugo Chavez
·   Sitting mutely through a 90-minute American-bashing screed by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega
·   Sending love notes (uh, “outreach” messages) to the America-reviling president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
·   Sending his sell-out-Israel emissaries to the America-hating president of Syria Bashar Assad
·   Making sweet overtures to Cuba’s tyrant Raul Castro
And generally apologizing to our enemies for what he believes is America’s “arrogance” and “divisiveness.”
OBAMA’S MISSION – NOT ACCOMPLISHED

But something unexpected happened to our neophyte president on the way to shoving his Socialist swill down the throats of the American public. They rejected it. In a recent article, “Obama’s Incurable Nausea,” I described why leftists routinely throw up. It is because anything that suggests American exceptionalism., respect for our military, adherence to our Constitution, small government, low taxes, and free-market capitalism makes them sick, and the only thing that relieves their chronic nausea is, well, vomiting on America.

But “unlike the Left, who own the protest movement” says writer and publisher Judi McLeod, “Tea Party patriots did not scream obscenities or insult the very men and women who make it possible for [protests] to happen every day in America – the courageous U.S. troops and their allies in Afghanistan and Iraq.” Instead, they “sported tea bags on their lapels [and] waved the Stars and Stripes…something that Barack Obama cannot or will not do for America: show pride in being part of what is the greatest nation on earth! Even as the Obama regime cripples the country’s economy; even though Obama bagman George Soros gloated at the human suffering in the current recession, calling it `the culmination of my lifetime‘, patriots were taking their country back!"

Writing that the DHS document – declaring protesters de facto domestic terrorists – “reads like a declaration of war against decent American citizens,” radio-host Dr. Laurie Roth, who spoke before 3,500 Tea Party attendees in Spokane, predicts that “the nation has started its wake-up call. We are all fed up to our gills and done being just angry while watching our Government violate our Constitution, tax us to death, steal from future generations, and continue to march against our freedoms! This is just the beginning!”

And in a wonderful recounting of the original Boston Tea Party of 1773, writer Lee Cary – in a clear allusion to the Obama administration being “unaware” of the modern-day Tea Parties of April 15^th – sardonically quips that the “Parliament didn’t get the last Tea Party either.”

“Deliberative legislative bodies,” Cary continues, “tend, then and now, to be dismissive when the people express an opinion they, the ruling class, don’t share. When asked to comment on the April 15, 2009 Tea Parties across America, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, said, in essence, `The people just don’t appreciate all the things the Crown has done for them.’"

Referring to the current Tea Parties, Patriot Post proprietor, Mark Alexander said: “The Tea Party of 1773 was a tactical event, but…as more Patriots across the nation take a lesson from our Founders, and make the leap from tactical skirmishes to a unified strategic front, protests will become far more focused and effective.”

And after ToThePointNews.com’s Dr. Jack Wheeler and his wife watched Tea Party demonstrations around the country, he wrote: “We’re going to have our country back again. There is hope for America after all.  We wanted to believe this, but our faith had been profoundly shaken by the act of mass insanity last November 4.  Now we could see with our own eyes – America is coming to its senses. The tea parties will continue.  Wait till you see how many more of them and how bigger they are on July 4.” 

{mosimage}But, Dr. Wheeler warns, ”One thing you can count on, the patriotic rejection of [Obama’s] fascism is not going to fade, it is going to grow…in an endless stream, for the people providing them are compulsively fascist in a religiously fanatical way. Fascism is their religion.”

Tough words until you consider that Obama’s FBI was covertly doing surveillance at each Tea Party throughout the nation, according to Douglas J. Hagmann, director of www.canadafreepress.com, and its founding editor, McLeod. In a chilling commentary, the authors describe the following:
…a single-page confidential directive issued by the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC (FBIHQ) was sent to each of the 56 field offices located across the United States on or about March 23, 2009, instructing the Special Agents in Charge (SACs) of those offices to verify the date, time and location of each Tea Party within their region and supply that information to FBI headquarters in Washington. The source stated this correspondence termed the `Tea parties ’political demonstrations,” and added that the dissemination of the directive was very tightly controlled.

In addition to obtaining or confirming the location and time of each `demonstration,’ each field office was instructed to obtain or confirm the identity of the individual(s) involved in the actual planning and coordination of the event in each specific region, and include the local or regional Internet web site address, if any.  The information collected by region was then reportedly sent to FBI Headquarters.

A second directive was issued on or about  April 6,  2009, that reportedly instructed each SAC to coordinate and conduct, either at the field office level and/or with the appropriate resident agency, covert video surveillance and data collection of the participants of the Tea Parties.  Surveillance was to be performed from “discreet fixed or mobile positions” and was to be performed “independently and outside of the purview of local law enforcement.”

“Listen to what I am saying,” said Hagmann’s source. “The Department of Homeland Security Intelligence Assessment that is receiving so much attention is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, and the true patriotic citizens of this country are on the Titanic.”

WHAT’S NEXT?

The kind of genuine grassroots activism the world witnessed on April 15 springs spontaneously from the passions of an outraged populace and are quite unlike the leftwing demonstrations we’ve seen over the years in which paid operatives round up – and often pay – agitators, unionists, and grievance groups. The beauty of the Tea Parties on April 15^th was that there was no “central authority” organizing them, only individual efforts in all 50 states.

Tim Phillips, president of www.AmericansforProsperity.org, a pro-tax cut advocacy group, is now gearing up for a massive National Taxpayer Tea Party at the Capitol on October 2^nd. For more information, click here.

WorldNetDaily – which hosts its own Tea Party forum – reports that the American Family Association has already started making plans for more tea parties on May 30^th and July 4 on its National Tea Party Day website. The organization has already signed up four organizers for three U.S. cities.

Here is WND’s tally so far:
California
Los Angeles – Saturday, July 4, from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Santa Monica Pier
Florida
Inverness – Saturday, April 18 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m., at the old historical courthouse, One Courthouse Square
Georgia
Atlanta – Saturday, July 4, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the capitol building located at 206 Washington St.
Illinois
Chicago – From Saturday, July 4, at 7 p.m. to Sunday, July 5, at 5 a.m. at Belmont Harbor on Lake Shore Drive
Indiana
Fort Wayne – Saturday, April 18 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. downtown at Courthouse Square on Main Street
Mishawaka – Saturday, April 18, 10:30 a.m., in Beutter Park, call 574-257-1415
Massachusetts
Boston – Saturday, July 4, from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Griffin Harbor on Congress Street Bridge
Mississippi
Jackson – Saturday, May 16, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.on the steps of the capitol building
Montana
– Saturday, July 4, location to be announced
New York
Buffalo – Saturday, April 18, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., 199 Deleware Ave
New York – Saturday, July 4, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. at South Street Seaport and Pier 17
Pennsylvania
Bucks County – Saturday, April 18, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., at General Greene Pavilion
Philadelphia – Saturday, April 18, at 10 a.m. on Market Street across from Independence Mall
Philadelphia – Saturday, July 4, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at Independence Mall
Tennessee
Jackson – Friday, April 24, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., Liberty Garden, people should bring tailgate items such as grills, food, tea
Texas
Austin – Saturday, July 4, time and location to be announced
Dallas – Saturday, July 4, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Victory Park
Fort Worth – Saturday, July 4 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at20the Cowtown Bar & Grill
Kerr County – Friday, April 24, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Guadalupe River at Louise Hays Park pavillion, speakers, barbecue, please feel free to bring children
Midland – Saturday, April 18, 10 a.m., Vietnam memorial at Midland International Airport, local and state politicians will be present with "open mic" time for citizen
Waco – Saturday, July 4, time and location to be announced
Virginia
Annandale – Saturday, April 25, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Mason District20Park, 6621 Columbia Pike
Washington
Vancouver – Saturday, April 18, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Clark County Courthouse lawn
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. – Saturday, July 4, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., at Upper Senate Park adjacent to Capitol building on north side
Wyoming
Cheyenne – July 4, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the state capitol building
Also stay tuned to the following sites and others as they spring up:

www.aftertheteaparty.com

http://taxdayteaparty.com

http://www.teapartypatriots.org

http://newamericanteaparty.com

http://www.americansolutions.com/General/?Page=a6386a2f-6bb2-4ee5-b230-b46b54c887e4

“Not even a cult leader,” says Judi McLeod, “can deny reality forever. Millions of Americans object to the most historical anti-American president ever elected, and they are out to take their country back against impossible odds. Tune in, Mr. Obama, millions of Americans smeared as right-wing extremists in your latest Dept. of Homeland Security Intelligence brief, are about to prove what real change and real hope are all about. “

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About the author:
Joan Swirsky (www.joanswirsky.com) is a New York-based journalist and author who can be reached at joansharon@aol.com.
More photos may be found by clicking here.

Editorial: In the panoply of human ailments, few compare to chronic nausea, the overwhelmingly sickening feeling that you’re going to throw up at any minute.  So revolting is this gagging-in-the-throat feeling that anything associated with it – a hamburger, a chicken dish, or even yogurt that made you sick – is enough for anyone to forswear this-or-that food forever.  Memories of the hot sweats, the bile in the esophagus, the retching into the toilet, and then the clean-up are etched into one’s consciousness forever.  Added to the horror is the impossibility of staving off the inevitable outcome.  Deep breaths, a cold washcloth on the forehead, even anti-nausea medication don’t help.  There is something bad going on inside – something toxic –and it’s got to come out…it’s got to be thrown up.  

 For the past several decades, it is clear that the Left has suffered from this malady – this chronic unrelenting nausea – that seems only to be relieved by their periodic explosions of verbal vomit.  What is making them so sick? What exactly can’t they stomach?  In a word, America! Who can forget the noxious regurgitation leveled at our country and our last president – during a time of war and on foreign soil – by former presidents Jimmy (Mr. Misery Index) Carter and Bill Clinton, or Sen. Dick Durbin’s vile comparison of the guards at Gitmo to “Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime – Pol Pot or others…”?

But these pale in comparison to President Obama’s groveling apologies and egregious insults to America on his recent trip abroad, starting with his telling a French audience:

“In America, there is a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world…there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive."

Why do Leftists behave like this?  Why do they condemn and insult and apologize for our great nation to foreigners who have always envied and resented us?

Because they hate us too! These are the ingrates who don’t deserve the privilege of having been being born in America – and I wish they hadn’t been! What I wish is that they’d been born in Communist Russia or Cuba, in Socialist Venezuela or Europe, or in Jihad-Central Saudi Arabia or Syria, where they’d have fit right in to the totalitarian regimes they unfailingly glamorize. 

But the unlucky citizens of our country are stuck with this bash-America crowd and with their jihad against our exquisite Constitution, our envy-of-the world free-market capitalist system, our bountiful generosity, and the foundation of morality and lawfulness – based on Judeo-Christian ethics – that has guided our nation for over 230 years.

Calling Obama’s apologia “unforgiveable,” the publisher of www.conservativetruth.org Tom Barrett notes: “It seems that Obama has devised a strategy to deal with those who continually criticize the United States.  He’s doing it for them…he’s the same anti-American internationalist that he’s always been.  He was just doing what came naturally.  It was frankly embarrassing.  He even made liberals like Clinton and Carter look like patriots.  Obama has always admired everything European, and he praised his fawning audiences lavishly. But when he deigned to mention the country he supposedly represents, it was to criticize her or apologize for her.”
Or as Don Surber writes: “What the devil was he talking about?
·   Is he ashamed at our arrogance in 1917 to side with France and Great Britain in World War I?
·   Is he ashamed at our arrogance in supplying the war materiel needed to save France again in World War II?
·   Is he ashamed at our arrogance in winning back the entire European continent one square inch at a time beginning at Normandy?
·   Is he ashamed at our arrogance in flying, ceaselessly, supplies to Berlin when the Soviets cut off the roads in 1948?
·   Is he ashamed at our arrogance in sparing South Korea from being run over by the Chinese in 1950?
·   Is he ashamed at our arrogance in defending Europe from the Soviet threat, sheltering vanquished Germany from our ally in World War II?

“The only thing that President Obama should be ashamed of,” Surber continues, “is President Franklin Roosevelt’s refusal in May 1939 to extend political asylum to the Jewish refugees aboard the transatlantic ocean liner St. Louis. This administration should not apologize for the strength shown by previous presidents. They shouldered their responsibilities and maintained the capacity to save hundreds of millions of people. It remains to be seen whether the Obama administration can do as well.”

As Obama was lavishing praise on the Europeans and betraying his startling ignorance of American history, best-selling author and radio-host Mark Levin was reminding his listeners that Europe has indeed led the world – in Colonialism, Imperialism, Communism, Fascism and Nazism – movements that were all born in Europe and metastasized from there like the cancers they are.

Columnist Charles Krauthammer also reminds the president that, “Europe has been sucking on America’s teat for 60 years – parasitically.  In order to attain the adoration of the crowds [Obama] denigrated his country in a way that I think is disgraceful.”

And writer Raymond S. Kraft weighs in with the kind of nettling facts that make Leftists like Obama so incurably nauseated: “In little more than two centuries, despite its faults, America has offered more freedom, more opportunity, and more prosperity to more people than any other nation in history.  And America has spent more of its money and blood to liberate other peoples from tyranny and totalitarianism than all other nations in history combined.”

SMILES OF RELIEF

Why did President Obama smile his way through Europe? That’s what people do after their nausea has abated, after they’ve finally thrown up. Think about it, in just eight short days, Obama:
·   Declined President Sarkozy’s invitation to visit the cemetery in Normandy to honor the fallen American heroes who liberated Europe His flimsy excuse: it might offend the Germans!  But that didn’t stop him from accepting an invitation to visit a mosque in Istanbul.  No nausea here, as he threw up on America.
·   Told the G20 members he favored Turkey becoming a member of the European Union. No nausea here as he threw up on the “West’s” years-long resistance to this idea.
·    Began the turnover of U.S. sovereignty in which all U.S. regulatory bodies and companies will be placed under international regulation, which, as writer Sher Zieve has documented, “will of course override the US Constitution.”  No nausea here as the vomiting on America continued.
·   Announced the reduction in U.S. nuclear weaponry so that, as Zieve says, “the U.S. is no longer a threat to anyone – let alone terrorists. Never before…has a leader announced – in no uncertain terms – that it is his plan and duty to dismantle and destroy the country he represents.”  Definitely no nausea here as his purging brought more and more relief.
·   Bowed deeply to Saudi Arabian King Abdullah, alluded to his Muslim ties, and said that America had been “shaped” by Islam. No nausea here as he showed unseemly – and unprecedented – obeisance to a foreign power and threw up on America’s Judeo-Christian heritage, which he trumped by telling an audience in Turkey that America is not a Christian nation. As one blogger said: Submission Accomplished!

“Unless he considers himself an Indonesian,” writes scholar Robert Spencer,
“Obama’s statement was extraordinarily strange.”  Spencer enumerates the multiple ways in which Islam has not “shaped” America:
·   No Muslims along Paul Revere’s ride.
·   No Muslims standing next to Patrick Henry when he proclaimed, “Give me liberty or give me death”?
·   No Muslims among the framers or signers of the Declaration of Independence.
·   No Muslims among those who drafted the Constitution [and ] enumerated the Bill of Rights.
·   No Muslims played a role in the great struggle over slavery that defined so much of our contemporary understandings of the nature of this republic and of the rights of the individual within it.
·   No Muslims shaped the way the U.S. responded to the titanic challenges of the two World Wars, the Great Depression, or the Cold War.
·   No Muslims of the Islamic faith – which institutionalizes discrimination against non-Muslims – who shaped the civil rights movement in the U.S.

“So in what way has the Islamic faith shaped Obama’s country?” Spencer asks. {mosimage}“The most significant event connected to the Islamic faith that has shaped the character of the U.S. was the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001…Of course, it is certain that Obama had none of that in mind.  But what could he possibly have had in mind?  His statement was either careless or ignorant, or both – not qualities we need in a Commander-in-Chief even in the best of times.”

Writer Diana West goes further. 

King Abdullah, after all, is the head of a state that is the very caricature of modern-day evil, a Sharia dictatorship that fosters religious repression, de facto slavery, subjugation of women, and, not least, the international export of jihad and Sharia through "charities," mosques, madrassas, textbooks, university endowments, Sharia finance and, of course, terrorists, some 15 of whom attacked the United States in 2001.

Just last month, Abdullah elevated the delusionally hard-line interior minister Prince Nayef, who long promoted the crackpot theory that Saudis were not involved in 9/11 (it was the Jews, he said), to a direct line of succession to the Saudi throne. Abdullah himself has donated at least $1.35 million to Saudi telethons that raised $174 million for the families of Palestinian suicide bombers from Hamas and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. In 2007, Abdullah explicitly denounced the U.S. presence in Iraq as "illegitimate," thus encouraging attacks on Americans in Iraq, where, not incidentally, Saudis are thought to have carried out more suicide bombings than any other nationality.

That’s just for starters. In other words, this is not a personage an American president can ever, ever show deference to without besmirching the memories and lives of the American dead and maimed.

And, as James Lewis asks in The American Thinker, “What kind of man has such an obsessive need to put down his own country?”
A PANTYWAIST APPEASING PRESIDENT

While the president, Krauthammer says, was “bearing a basketful of mea culpas” and “indicting his own people for arrogance, for dismissiveness and derisiveness, for genocide, for torture, for Hiroshima, for Guantanamo and for insufficient respect for the Muslim world, what did he get for this obsessive denigration of his own country?
·   He wanted more NATO combat troops in Afghanistan…he was rudely rebuffed.
·   He wanted more stimulus spending from Europe…he got nothing.
·   From Russia, he got no help on Iran.
·   From China, he got the blocking of any action on North Korea.”
He also wanted European countries to take the Gitmo terrorists off his hands, but Austria said no thanks and France said they’d take only one!
And just as North Korea was launching its missile, the president told an audience in Prague that he wanted a nuclear-weapons-free world. “Now is the time for a strong international response," he exhorted them, which he also didn’t get, as the feckless and ineffectual do-nothings at the United Nations did nothing – “no sanctions.  No resolution.  Not even a statement,” Krauthammer reports.
“It is passing strange,” Krauthammer says, “for a world leader to celebrate his own country’s decline.”

UK writer and broadcaster Gerald Warner is not so polite. Calling Obama a President Pantywaist – the new surrender monkey on the block, Warner says the president’s foreign adventure was “the most successful foreign policy tour since Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow.  You name it, he blew it.”

Commenting on Kim Il Jong’s missile launch, Warner says that “President Pantywaist is hopping mad and he has a strategy to cut Kim down to size: he is going to slice $1.4 billion off America’s missile defense program, presumably on the calculation that Kim would feel it unsporting to hit a sitting duck, so that will spoil his fun.  Watch out, France and Co, there is a new surrender monkey on the block and, over the next four years, he will spectacularly sell out the interests of the West with every kind of liberal-delusionist initiative on nuclear disarmament and sitting down to negotiate with any power freak who wants to buy time to get a good ICBM fix on San Francisco, or wherever.”

Weakening our national defense, of course, is among President Obama’s chief goals. As writer Caroline Glick has noted, “somewhere between apologizing for American history – both distant and recent; genuflecting before the unelected, bigoted king of Saudi Arabia; announcing that he will slash the US’s nuclear arsenal, scrap much of America’s missile defense programs and emasculate the US Navy; leaving Japan to face North Korea and China alone; telling the Czechs, Poles and their fellow former Soviet colonies, `Don’t worry, be happy,’ as he leaves them to Moscow’s tender mercies; humiliating Iraq’s leaders while kowtowing to Iran; preparing for an open confrontation with Israel; and thanking Islam for its great contribution to American history, President Obama made clear to the world’s aggressors that America will not be confronting them for the foreseeable future… none of them has any reason to fear Washington.”

But, Glick adds that after Obama’s European trip, “America’s most stable allies worldwide began a desperate search for a reset button that would cause the administration to take back its abandonment of America’s role as the protector of the free world” – including Japan, India, Iraq, Europe, Czechoslovakia, the Ukranian governments, and of course Israel.

“America’s betrayal of its democratic allies,” Glick says, “makes each of them more vulnerable to aggression at the hands of their enemies – enemies the Obama administration is now actively attempting to appease.”  But Glick didn’t include our important ally Canada, which has also criticized American foreign policy, but whose citizens are now gravely concerned about America’s  defensive umbrella under which they’ve lived in security since the end of World War II.

THE SMILING AND EVEN CACKLING CONTINUE

Relieved temporarily from his chronic condition – nausea brought on by antipathy to America – President Obama returned to the U.S. to face yet another of the irritating “distractions” that threaten to sidetrack his single-minded pursuit of destroying our country.  Last Wednesday, a small band of Somali Muslim terrorists attacked an American cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama, for the purpose of kidnapping its sailors and extorting millions of dollars for their return.  The ship’s heroic captain, Richard Phillips, offered himself as hostage and the ship, filled with humanitarian aid, was able to proceed on its way to Kenya.

Captain Phillips was whisked into a small covered boat that ran out of fuel, leaving it to float aimlessly in the Indian Ocean. He dove overboard trying to escape, but was recaptured by the terrorists and to this moment we don’t know if he’s had a glass of water or is being starved or will live to see his family or serve his country again.

The crew of the Maersk Alabama had taken hostage one of the terrorists and agreed to exchange him for Captain Phillips. The Americans met the bargain but the terrorists reneged.  At the time, an American warship, the USS Bainbridge, was close by, and was then joined by three more U.S. warships and six U.S. naval vessels.

At the same time, African Muslim terrorists took three Frenchmen hostage. In short order, the French fought back fiercely and rescued them.

Dan Friedman, a frequent commentator on the political scene, said: “when the French show you up, you’ve sunk very low. When you’re outsmarted and outmaneuvered by a band of illiterate savages, you’ve neared rock bottom.  When four kids with rotting teeth who’ve never seen a flush toilet can stop you in your tracks, you’re foundering.  When your sophisticated Navy and your will to use it is defeated by your own Commander-in-Chief’s naiveté and cringing self-doubt, your country is up a creek without a paddle.”

In perfect keeping with President Obama’s abject pandering to the Muslim world and his by-now-proven “style” of appeasement and capitulation (read North Korea, Iran and Captain Phillips), what have we heard from him?

On day one of the crisis: “We’re talking about housing, guys,” he shot back at a journalist who dared question him about the Somali terrorist attack and Captain Phillips’ plight.

On day two: Silence.

On day three: Deafening silence.

On day four: Thundering silence.

Responding quickly to their new ally in the White House, Somali Muslim terrorists promptly hijacked an American-owned, 16-crew-member tugboat in the Gulf of Aden. President Obama’s response: “Absent.”

As editor Charlotte Baker says; “In less than 90 days, President Obama has pushed America back to the malaise of the Carter days – hostages and all.”

James Lewis writes that, “Jimmy and Zbig (Brezenski) have been trying to explain their disastrous ignorance ever since and because they are mentally stuck in appeasement they have infected the Obamanites with the same bacilli. If Obama fails to take action, watch for Russia to make a move on the Ukraine. China will get more aggressive toward Taiwan. Iran will openly throw sandals at Obama effigies, and the rest of the world will realize —  uh oh, no more cop on the international beat. North Korea will launch another missile over Japan…another satellite launch will somehow go astray, heading toward Hawaii…welcome to the age of American weakness.” 

No problem, our president seems to be saying. Just as he chortled his way through an interview with “60 Minutes’” Steve Kroft about our devolving economic situation – prompting the horrified reporter to ask, “Are your punch drunk?” – his mood remains good.  So good that during this horrific siege – while the life of Captain Richard Phillips hangs in the balance – he decided to fly a St. Louis chef 860 miles to whip up some gourmet pizza in the White House.  And his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, apparently thought Captain Phillips’s imperiled life and the entire hostage scene was hysterically funny, as she weirdly cackled her way through a press conference about it.

Easy to explain. As long as America is in trouble, Obama and his America-loathing co-conspirators are free of their incurable nausea. That intractable condition will only be cured when America is completely and utterly destroyed.

[Update: Captain Richard Phillips freed himself with the help of the U.S. Navy Special Operations Sunday afternoon, by again jumping into the water.  This time, the Navy forces were ready.  At this posting, the Obama Administration has made no public statement.  Rumors that President Obama will soon apologize to the pirates are unsubstantiated at this time.]

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About the author:
Joan Swirsky (www.joanswirsky.com) is a New York-based author and journalist who can be reached at joansharon@aol.com.