By Semperpapa
I can still remember the accusations leveled at me over a decade ago when I would state that political correctness was a cancer that was eating at American cultural fiber. I was called every name in the book, as I contended that any attempt at changing one's rhetoric for the sole purpose of sparing one's "feelings", any attempt to promote self esteem as opposed to self responsibility was going to spell doom for our society.
And I was right!
From the classrooms of our public elementary schools to the work place, the concept of personal responsibility has completely lost its meaning.
We can no longer tell our children that they made a mistake, because pointing that out is "detrimental to their self esteem" and may cause the child to stop trying.
I hear the stories from my wife, a substitute teacher for three districts in Southern California, and the stories are not pretty. See, she is one of those subs who walks into a classroom not merely to spend the day making sure that the kids don't kill each other. She is the type of sub who will not put up with disrespect from the students because she is there maybe for just one day. She is the type that wants a lesson plan from the teacher so that the kids will not miss out on their education just because their teacher is not there.
But her hands are frequently tied as the system is designed to promote and praise mediocrity for the sake of the children's self esteem.
This is a trend the kids carry into the real world, the world of adulthood, where they believe that society owes them, instead of them having to strive to become a constructive part of said society. And it only gets worst when they get to any of the corrupted institutions of higher learning.
There, they are taught by a myriad of anti-American professors who have only one goal in life: to brainwash the new generations into a malleable mob of malcontents and dependents.
The same can be said for the masses of illegal aliens that have invaded the country. Beside the fact that the term "illegal alien" is a legal term, the forces of progressivism have successfully labeled its use as detrimental to the self esteem of the illegal alien.
Who are we kidding? The presence of these folks within our borders is against the laws of our country, which, by definition, makes them illegal (look up the definition if you doubt me).
Progressivism has devised cunning methods to silence the average American.
If you disagree with Obama, you are a racist.
If you believe Susan Rice should be held responsible for lying to the American people, you are a racist AND a sexist.
If you believe marriage should be a term describing the religious and legal union of a man and a woman, you are an homophobe.
If you disagree with Islamic Radicalism, you are an islamophobe.
The worst part of political correctness is that progressives have manipulated the American consciousness to the point that the average American is almost afraid of thinking with their own brains for fear of being labeled in a negative way. And the total hypocrisy of the Left knows no bounds.
I never heard the Congressional Black Caucus puppets once stating their opposition to the smear campaigns perpetrated against Mia Love or Allen West. I guess they are the 'wrong' kind of Blacks, those who have strayed from the liberal plantation.
I never heard women organizations coming out in defense of Michelle Backmann as she was smeared by her opponent, or in protest against the disgusting character assassination the media and politicians perpetrated, and still do, against Sarah Palin. I guess they are also the 'wrong' kind of women.
Yesterday, I once again heard some liberal radio talk show clown state that the opposition to Susan Rice is based on the white man's attack against a young, black woman possibly being elevated to a high prestige post in government. I guess we all forget the treatment that the media reserved for Dr. Condolezza Rice when she was Secretary of State.
The damage political correctness has brought upon our nation is palpable. Thanks to the principle of the "slippery slope" Christianity is under fierce attack from the forces of atheism. May it be a war memorial cross in the wilderness of the Mojave Desert or a Nativity scene in Santa Monica or a Christmas tree in Providence, RI, allowing the perversion of the First Amendment is now affecting an entire population.
The cross found by the Twin Towers workers following the 9-11-01 attacks, basically two steel beams from the destroyed structure still intact in the shape of a cross, became a symbol of unity and hope for those who labored to recover the thousands of bodies in the rubbles. This cross, which transcends any religious meaning, is in the 9-11 Museum and under attack by atheist who stated that the sight of the cross and its presence at the museum, was offensive and made them physically sick.
In the first place, there is no law that safeguards one from being offended.
Secondly, I am sure their ailments are covered under Obamacare.
So political correctness is a one-way-street for liberals. How convenient is that!
But the fault does not rest only on liberals, but on all of us Americans for allowing such disgrace to occur.
We, true conservatives, those of us who believe and live our lives adhering to that forgotten sense of personal responsibility and still teach it to our children, have allowed the forces of progressive evil to cower us into this horrible and debilitating corner. We have been pushed into a position from where the only way out is to come out swinging.
And come out swinging we shall.
I have been called racist and sexist and all the other insults out there. It was hard initially, as I know who I am, but I then realized that if I felt guilty about my principles, if I let the lunatics on the left define who I am and silence me, I also let them win. And if they win, my whole country loses.
That's a prospect I just cannot let happen.
Just my thoughts!
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Laziness Spells Doom For A Society
By Semperpapa
Laziness is the doom of any civilized society. It has been for centuries and it is becoming increasingly apparent that the United States are on the same road.
Included in my definition of laziness is apathy and the desire to offload our responsibilities upon others.
There was a time, not too far back, when the American people were the epitome of hard work. We were the people who worked and toiled in order to build a better life for ourselves and our families, and in turn for a stronger nation.
The results of such national behavior were the ascension of our country to world power status, not merely because our Military was the largest and most powerful, but because behind those who served in uniform was a whole country working toward a common good.
We achieved predominance in the world not by occupying others, but by liberating them.
In the past, one of the most significant factor in our national success has been the fierce independence of the American citizen in the pursuit and achievement of our goals. Surely, the road to personal success is paved by failures, but it was more probable that for each failure there would be a success, fueled by our perseverance and desire for hard work.
Today the reality has changed in the United States. The forces of evil we Americans fought and overcame in other countries, successfully freeing them from tyranny, have impregnated the national discourse and taken over our national consciousness.
The same forces of evil could have never defeated us in the last century as perpetrated by foreign actors, so the forces of evil infiltrated our social infrastructures and eroded our national identity from the inside.
In the years following the end of WWII, the Soviet Union engaged in a campaign of global take over. The ideological infiltration in the national fabric of many countries brought the Communist ideology, and tyranny, in many of those countries. Slow, unrelenting social warfare pinned the citizens of those nations against each other.
Divide and conquer was the strategy, conducted to perfection by ideological operatives who were successful in spreading the lie that social equality was achieved not by empowering the individual to strive for a better condition, not by allowing the individual to seek a betterment of their situation, but by inculcating the minds of lazy citizens with the notion that government intervention was aimed at reducing the success of certain citizens instead of fostering the upward social movement of all others.
In the days when Cuba fell to the Communist agenda, the days when an Iron Curtain caged millions in Eastern Europe, in the days when 're-education' took place in Vietnam and the Killing Fields were fully operational in Cambodia, in the days when countless countries in Africa and South America were overrun by ideologies of 'equality', the truth was that equality preached by the holders of power stopped at the entrance of their palaces.
Tyrants led millions of people into an abyss of mediocrity and dictatorship by convincing them that the road to 'equality' run through a small number of politicians who knew what was best for the people. And they were still successful in obfuscating the collective minds while engaging in lavish living themselves.
But while the rest of the world succumbed to these ideologies, while the rest of the world embraced tyranny, both hard and soft, as described by author Mark Levin, there was still one country in the world where the individual was still somewhat in control of its own destiny, where the individual was able to pursuit happiness as he or she deemed fit for their existence, in short where the individual had freedoms: the United States of America.
It is not a coincidence that immigration to the USA was a goal of millions last century, and still is for millions more these days. It was not the hope for a free ride.
People who immigrated into the United States, me being one of them, had dreams of achieving the American Dream. And I mean achieving it, not being given it.
But the forces of evil have also infiltrated our social fabric in the United States. The Communist ideology has impregnated the collective consciousness of the American people, who, as demonstrated in the re-election of Barack Obama, have decided that it was more advantageous to have the government take a major role in the lives of the individual. In short, over 50% of the American voters have decided that it is preferable to lose one's freedom in exchange for free government subsidy.
I am positive Nikita Kruschev is right now laughing himself silly in the corner of Hell he has been relegated to, as he is witnessing the crumbling of a society that once was the beacon of freedom for millions, a society he worked so hard to defeat, but was never able to.
Today we have a government that sees the Constitution as an obstacle to the power grabbing actions of a corrupted, tyrannical leadership. Obama said so himself, and yet the American people re-elected him to a second term that promises much of the same failing policies of the first. And who would be surprised if the current regime would work assiduously to possibly reverse the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution in order to keep Obama indefinitely, or just abolish the Constitution all together.
Today we have a large percentage of the population who has become so encrusted in their laziness that they are more than willing to see a tyrannical regime eroding the liberties of individuals and businesses at a neck breaking rate, all in the name of some ideological misfit called 'equality'.
These lazy Americans understand equality in a perverse way. They believe that hard work, inventiveness and success are to be discouraged and fought, while entitlement are a legitimate way to get what allegedly one deserves.
Liberals call this new American mind set progress. I call it regress to ideologies of dictatorship that have been proved lethal to nations by a slur of international examples.
Laziness, as we are witnessing these days, spells doom for a whole society.
When a society grants an individual who has been working hard to destroy the very foundations of our nation a second term to just continue the assault on our liberties, it demonstrated that said society has gotten so lazy and dependent on the government that it would reject any contrary ideology of self reliance.
If our nation persists on the path taken in the last four years, if our nation becomes complacent about the overbearing role of a soft tyranny, eventually that soft tyranny will be replaced by pure, hard core tyranny, leaving the people with the clear choice of submission or revolt.
Just my thoughts!
Laziness is the doom of any civilized society. It has been for centuries and it is becoming increasingly apparent that the United States are on the same road.
Included in my definition of laziness is apathy and the desire to offload our responsibilities upon others.
There was a time, not too far back, when the American people were the epitome of hard work. We were the people who worked and toiled in order to build a better life for ourselves and our families, and in turn for a stronger nation.
The results of such national behavior were the ascension of our country to world power status, not merely because our Military was the largest and most powerful, but because behind those who served in uniform was a whole country working toward a common good.
We achieved predominance in the world not by occupying others, but by liberating them.
In the past, one of the most significant factor in our national success has been the fierce independence of the American citizen in the pursuit and achievement of our goals. Surely, the road to personal success is paved by failures, but it was more probable that for each failure there would be a success, fueled by our perseverance and desire for hard work.
Today the reality has changed in the United States. The forces of evil we Americans fought and overcame in other countries, successfully freeing them from tyranny, have impregnated the national discourse and taken over our national consciousness.
The same forces of evil could have never defeated us in the last century as perpetrated by foreign actors, so the forces of evil infiltrated our social infrastructures and eroded our national identity from the inside.
In the years following the end of WWII, the Soviet Union engaged in a campaign of global take over. The ideological infiltration in the national fabric of many countries brought the Communist ideology, and tyranny, in many of those countries. Slow, unrelenting social warfare pinned the citizens of those nations against each other.
Divide and conquer was the strategy, conducted to perfection by ideological operatives who were successful in spreading the lie that social equality was achieved not by empowering the individual to strive for a better condition, not by allowing the individual to seek a betterment of their situation, but by inculcating the minds of lazy citizens with the notion that government intervention was aimed at reducing the success of certain citizens instead of fostering the upward social movement of all others.
In the days when Cuba fell to the Communist agenda, the days when an Iron Curtain caged millions in Eastern Europe, in the days when 're-education' took place in Vietnam and the Killing Fields were fully operational in Cambodia, in the days when countless countries in Africa and South America were overrun by ideologies of 'equality', the truth was that equality preached by the holders of power stopped at the entrance of their palaces.
Tyrants led millions of people into an abyss of mediocrity and dictatorship by convincing them that the road to 'equality' run through a small number of politicians who knew what was best for the people. And they were still successful in obfuscating the collective minds while engaging in lavish living themselves.
But while the rest of the world succumbed to these ideologies, while the rest of the world embraced tyranny, both hard and soft, as described by author Mark Levin, there was still one country in the world where the individual was still somewhat in control of its own destiny, where the individual was able to pursuit happiness as he or she deemed fit for their existence, in short where the individual had freedoms: the United States of America.
It is not a coincidence that immigration to the USA was a goal of millions last century, and still is for millions more these days. It was not the hope for a free ride.
People who immigrated into the United States, me being one of them, had dreams of achieving the American Dream. And I mean achieving it, not being given it.
But the forces of evil have also infiltrated our social fabric in the United States. The Communist ideology has impregnated the collective consciousness of the American people, who, as demonstrated in the re-election of Barack Obama, have decided that it was more advantageous to have the government take a major role in the lives of the individual. In short, over 50% of the American voters have decided that it is preferable to lose one's freedom in exchange for free government subsidy.
I am positive Nikita Kruschev is right now laughing himself silly in the corner of Hell he has been relegated to, as he is witnessing the crumbling of a society that once was the beacon of freedom for millions, a society he worked so hard to defeat, but was never able to.
Today we have a government that sees the Constitution as an obstacle to the power grabbing actions of a corrupted, tyrannical leadership. Obama said so himself, and yet the American people re-elected him to a second term that promises much of the same failing policies of the first. And who would be surprised if the current regime would work assiduously to possibly reverse the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution in order to keep Obama indefinitely, or just abolish the Constitution all together.
Today we have a large percentage of the population who has become so encrusted in their laziness that they are more than willing to see a tyrannical regime eroding the liberties of individuals and businesses at a neck breaking rate, all in the name of some ideological misfit called 'equality'.
These lazy Americans understand equality in a perverse way. They believe that hard work, inventiveness and success are to be discouraged and fought, while entitlement are a legitimate way to get what allegedly one deserves.
Liberals call this new American mind set progress. I call it regress to ideologies of dictatorship that have been proved lethal to nations by a slur of international examples.
Laziness, as we are witnessing these days, spells doom for a whole society.
When a society grants an individual who has been working hard to destroy the very foundations of our nation a second term to just continue the assault on our liberties, it demonstrated that said society has gotten so lazy and dependent on the government that it would reject any contrary ideology of self reliance.
If our nation persists on the path taken in the last four years, if our nation becomes complacent about the overbearing role of a soft tyranny, eventually that soft tyranny will be replaced by pure, hard core tyranny, leaving the people with the clear choice of submission or revolt.
Just my thoughts!
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Americans Tired Of Race Baiting?
By Semperpapa
Well, count one American for a ‘yes’.
The race baiters are once again sharpening their teeth on
their favorite activity with the Susan Rice issue.
The US
ambassador to the United Nations has made herself a huge target for Republicans
after visiting five separate Sunday morning shows five days after the Benghazi massacre, to
spew the lies of the administration that the attack against the US Consulate in
the Libyan city was a spontaneous reaction to some obscure video on the
Internet.
The investigation on the tragedy has so far shown that it
was known immediately that the attack was premeditated and organized, clearly
work of al Qaeda. It is also more than obvious that the cover-up in Benghazi on the part of the
Obama administration was aimed at delaying any possible discovery of facts
before the presidential elections.
Clearly, all efforts were made to hide the truth from the
American people so to not tarnish the fake image of success of Obama’s policies
against the terror group and specifically in the North
Africa country.
The cover-up was successful in keeping the Libya disaster
out of the election campaign and the people somewhat in the dark, although I
mostly blame the American people who had the information available but just
chose to ignore it in their decision.
Today, in the wake of Obama re-election, rumors are going
around that Obama is considering promoting Susan Rice to the position of
Secretary of State once Hillary steps down.
The rumor, obviously leaked by the administration to test
the political waters, has been met by also obvious protest on the part of some
on the Republican side.
Senators John McCain, Lindsay Graham and Kelly Ayotte
expressed their rejection of any ‘promotion’ for any actor who was involved in
the Libya
cover up.
Interestingly, though, the usual suspects on the left launched
a crusade against McCain and Graham, purposely leaving out Ayotte, accusing the
senators to be angry white men on a smear campaign against a young black woman.
Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Oh), who will be the head of the
Congressional Black Caucus, has accused the senators, just the two white men, of
racism and sexism. Basically, same crap just different day.
The incompetence of Susan Rice has been documented, from her
clear inability to handling the genocide in Darfur
to her lackluster tenure at the UN. Elevating her to Sec. of State would usher
in another four years of absolutely no consequence just like the last four.
Fudge made the following accusations during some unhinged
press conference:
“There is a clear, a clear in my opinion, sexism and racism that goes
with these comments that are being made by, unfortunately, Senator McCain and
others,”
So, as we can see, the race card is up and showing its ugly
face via the so-called Democrat leadership.
Just to be clear, I am not at all convinced that McCain and
Graham are merely following their conscience regarding the elevation of Rice to
the Secretary position as much as trying to aid their friend John Kerry, who
really wants the job. Regardless, it is more than obvious that Susan Rice is
not Secretary material.
And, unless my memory fails me, I do not recall Rep. Fudge
or Clyburn or anyone from the Congressional Black Caucus making any statements
of support for Rep. Allen West during his unsuccessful fight to correct voter
fraud or making any statement about Mia Love congressional race in Utah. Obviously, West and Love are the 'wrong' kind of blacks for the CBC losers.
Nor I recall any of these women who came out with
accusations of ‘sexism’ being vocal about the abhorrent treatment the media
reserved, and still engages in, for Sarah Palin.
Ultimately, the fact is that the race baiters are all too
emboldened by their ultimate supreme leader, president Obama. He was successful
in 2008 to divide America
on racial lines and on all other basis and continued to do so for the last four
years. All indications are that the next four years will bring not less, but
more divisiveness among Americans, championed by the White House.
Personally, I never did and never will fall in the trap of
the race baiters. I have been called every name in the book and it really is
not that big of a deal for me. I rather adhere to my principles and to the
principles of the Constitution. Everything else is just a disgusting attempt to
distract from the real issues and cover the ever growing governmental
corruption.
I am not going to fall for the lie that Rep. Clyburn spews
around with the ‘code words’ that underline racism. The man, which I call an
idiot (and that is not a code word because he IS an idiot) has made a career on
keeping his race down so to benefit as a ‘champion’ for the struggle. He is the
real racist in this equation, flanked by other racists like Fudge and company.
Pure and simple!
Just my thoughts!
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
The Pain Of A Gold Star Father
By Semperpapa
Earlier this evening, as I listen to a radio talk show while at work, the host of the program, the Great Mark Levin, conducted a phone interview with a Gold Star Father.
The name of the man is irrelevant in this context, but he lost his son in Iraq. The reason I am saying that his name is irrelevant is because I heard a man that spoke for all Gold Star families.
Even after years have gone by, one can still hear the enormous pain in the man's voice, pain a father must feel when the natural course of events is reversed and a child needs to be buried before a parent.
The interview, which really amounted to a monologue, was as emotional as it could get, mostly because of the subject matter.
Mr. Levin asked the man about his thoughts on the Benghazi massacre.
The answer was pungent. The man said that what the families of those murdered in Benghazi got was the famous knock at the door that all who have family members deployed dreads most of all: the representative of the Military branch of the loved one and a chaplain notifying the family of the worst.
As the father of a Marine who spent 7 months in Afghanistan, I can relate to the anxiety felt every second of those seven months for the possible 'knock at the door'. It was an anxiety that my daughter-in-law felt, my wife and I felt and my daughter and son-in-law felt.
My son came home safe and sound, but in so many instances, too many really, the dreaded home visit has occurred and that was the pain of the Gold Star Father.
He compared the knock the families of the murdered in Benghazi received with the one he received when they came to tell him his son had fallen, but he added that in his case what followed made all the difference.
In his case, they got to meet president George W. Bush who showed genuine sorrow for their loss and who took the time to explain to them why he had had to make the awful decision to send young men and women in harms way. He showed compassion.
But in the case of Benghazi, the man expressed his sorrow for the families of the victims because, to make things worse, they received no compassion from the Commander-in-Chief, a promise from the sec. of State of punishment for a film maker that everyone knew had nothing to do with the murders and a vice president who made vulgar and highly inappropriate statements.
The families of those who were murdered in Benghazi demand answers regarding what happened on September 11, 2012. The are entitled to honest and straight forward answers.
So here was one man with a forever pain that, as a father, I can only begin to understand. He spoke for all who have lost a child in the service of the country and who anguish in search of reasons and closure.
It was a very emotional interview and it was my fortune that by the time it came on most of my co-workers had already left, as it would have been embarrassing to have anyone see my tears.
From the pain of a Gold Star Father we should all learn something: that so many have sacrificed greatly for this Nation, that so many still are sacrificing and that our debt of gratitude for those who have passed, their families and all those who have served is one we should honor by conducting ourselves in a respectful and honorable way.
Just my thoughts!
Earlier this evening, as I listen to a radio talk show while at work, the host of the program, the Great Mark Levin, conducted a phone interview with a Gold Star Father.
The name of the man is irrelevant in this context, but he lost his son in Iraq. The reason I am saying that his name is irrelevant is because I heard a man that spoke for all Gold Star families.
Even after years have gone by, one can still hear the enormous pain in the man's voice, pain a father must feel when the natural course of events is reversed and a child needs to be buried before a parent.
The interview, which really amounted to a monologue, was as emotional as it could get, mostly because of the subject matter.
Mr. Levin asked the man about his thoughts on the Benghazi massacre.
The answer was pungent. The man said that what the families of those murdered in Benghazi got was the famous knock at the door that all who have family members deployed dreads most of all: the representative of the Military branch of the loved one and a chaplain notifying the family of the worst.
As the father of a Marine who spent 7 months in Afghanistan, I can relate to the anxiety felt every second of those seven months for the possible 'knock at the door'. It was an anxiety that my daughter-in-law felt, my wife and I felt and my daughter and son-in-law felt.
My son came home safe and sound, but in so many instances, too many really, the dreaded home visit has occurred and that was the pain of the Gold Star Father.
He compared the knock the families of the murdered in Benghazi received with the one he received when they came to tell him his son had fallen, but he added that in his case what followed made all the difference.
In his case, they got to meet president George W. Bush who showed genuine sorrow for their loss and who took the time to explain to them why he had had to make the awful decision to send young men and women in harms way. He showed compassion.
But in the case of Benghazi, the man expressed his sorrow for the families of the victims because, to make things worse, they received no compassion from the Commander-in-Chief, a promise from the sec. of State of punishment for a film maker that everyone knew had nothing to do with the murders and a vice president who made vulgar and highly inappropriate statements.
The families of those who were murdered in Benghazi demand answers regarding what happened on September 11, 2012. The are entitled to honest and straight forward answers.
So here was one man with a forever pain that, as a father, I can only begin to understand. He spoke for all who have lost a child in the service of the country and who anguish in search of reasons and closure.
It was a very emotional interview and it was my fortune that by the time it came on most of my co-workers had already left, as it would have been embarrassing to have anyone see my tears.
From the pain of a Gold Star Father we should all learn something: that so many have sacrificed greatly for this Nation, that so many still are sacrificing and that our debt of gratitude for those who have passed, their families and all those who have served is one we should honor by conducting ourselves in a respectful and honorable way.
Just my thoughts!
Saturday, November 10, 2012
The Patreaus Debacle
By Semperpapa
And it is a debacle.
Highly regarded and decorated four star Army retired general David Patreaus, currently head of the Central Intelligence Agency, has given his resignation to president Obama on Friday.
It was a shock for many. Gen. Patreaus has long been regarded as an outstanding leader and the news of his extramarital affair came as a shocking surprise to all.
The affair, according to reports, occurred with the author of his biography, Paula Broadwell.
According to reports, again, the FBI has been conducting an investigation on the issue for some time, alleging that the Ms. Broadwell had had access to Patreaus personal e-mail which could be a breech of security.
Regardless of the details of the investigation of the affair, which are not interesting to me in the least, I find it remarkable that this is the second 'issue' that has surfaced in less than a week since the re-election of Obama last Tuesday.
The first was the attack against a US drone by the Iranians, which had been kept under wrap by the administration before the elections, and now this story of sordid doings on the part of the CIA director.
Some people have advanced the notion that the timing of the 'revelation' and resignation of Patreaus could be tied to the fact that the officer was slated to testify in front of a congressional committee, over the Libya affair, next week. So the opinion is that now he will not have to any longer.
The problem is that, as declared by South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy to Fox News Greta Van Susteren, the committee will have Gen. Patreaus testify, either voluntarily or by subpoena.
So what is going on here? Well, this is my gut feeling.
Gen. Patreaus has previously testified in front of Congress, that the attack against the Libya consulate was a mob action, in an attempt to back the cover up story initially given by the administration.
That's already a strike against Patreaus.
Secondly, if there are proofs that Broadwell had access to sensitive material without just approval, that would be a great violation of security and a real black eye for a former Army officer and director of the CIA.
Strike two.
Finally, the idea of a high ranking official with such tremendous responsibility for the safety and security of our Nation, having been involved in an adulterous relationship, further casts a very negative light on the reputation of the man.
Strike three...you're out!
My feeling is that although the administration will not be able to prevent Patreaus from testifying, unless the general shows up dead somewhere before the congressional hearings, the system (the Obama machine and the main stream media) will succeed in tarnishing the image of the decorated soldier enough that anything he will say in his testimony will be regarded as coming from a less that reputable source.
And just a short time ago, the news broke that Hillary Clinton has decline the invitation to testify in front of the same committee, meaning that if the committee wants her to answer questions they will have to subpoena her to appear.
All this, including the timing of the resignation, fits oh so perfectly with the way this corrupted, criminal administration has conducted business for the last four years. Also an indication of what the next four will be like, only worst.
The writing on the wall is clear. Just as the truth behind the scandal of Fast and Furious will not be known for some time, if ever, the truth about the way Obama and his ilks abandoned over thirty American citizens to die in Benghazi for political gain will take a very long time to be exposed, if ever
Yes, folks, this is our current leadership.
Just my thoughts!
And it is a debacle.
Highly regarded and decorated four star Army retired general David Patreaus, currently head of the Central Intelligence Agency, has given his resignation to president Obama on Friday.
It was a shock for many. Gen. Patreaus has long been regarded as an outstanding leader and the news of his extramarital affair came as a shocking surprise to all.
The affair, according to reports, occurred with the author of his biography, Paula Broadwell.
According to reports, again, the FBI has been conducting an investigation on the issue for some time, alleging that the Ms. Broadwell had had access to Patreaus personal e-mail which could be a breech of security.
Regardless of the details of the investigation of the affair, which are not interesting to me in the least, I find it remarkable that this is the second 'issue' that has surfaced in less than a week since the re-election of Obama last Tuesday.
The first was the attack against a US drone by the Iranians, which had been kept under wrap by the administration before the elections, and now this story of sordid doings on the part of the CIA director.
Some people have advanced the notion that the timing of the 'revelation' and resignation of Patreaus could be tied to the fact that the officer was slated to testify in front of a congressional committee, over the Libya affair, next week. So the opinion is that now he will not have to any longer.
The problem is that, as declared by South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy to Fox News Greta Van Susteren, the committee will have Gen. Patreaus testify, either voluntarily or by subpoena.
So what is going on here? Well, this is my gut feeling.
Gen. Patreaus has previously testified in front of Congress, that the attack against the Libya consulate was a mob action, in an attempt to back the cover up story initially given by the administration.
That's already a strike against Patreaus.
Secondly, if there are proofs that Broadwell had access to sensitive material without just approval, that would be a great violation of security and a real black eye for a former Army officer and director of the CIA.
Strike two.
Finally, the idea of a high ranking official with such tremendous responsibility for the safety and security of our Nation, having been involved in an adulterous relationship, further casts a very negative light on the reputation of the man.
Strike three...you're out!
My feeling is that although the administration will not be able to prevent Patreaus from testifying, unless the general shows up dead somewhere before the congressional hearings, the system (the Obama machine and the main stream media) will succeed in tarnishing the image of the decorated soldier enough that anything he will say in his testimony will be regarded as coming from a less that reputable source.
And just a short time ago, the news broke that Hillary Clinton has decline the invitation to testify in front of the same committee, meaning that if the committee wants her to answer questions they will have to subpoena her to appear.
All this, including the timing of the resignation, fits oh so perfectly with the way this corrupted, criminal administration has conducted business for the last four years. Also an indication of what the next four will be like, only worst.
The writing on the wall is clear. Just as the truth behind the scandal of Fast and Furious will not be known for some time, if ever, the truth about the way Obama and his ilks abandoned over thirty American citizens to die in Benghazi for political gain will take a very long time to be exposed, if ever
Yes, folks, this is our current leadership.
Just my thoughts!
It’s Time To Clean The House
By Semperpapa
Well, now is the time for Republicans to clean house, and I
mean the House of Representatives.
The first head to roll should be that of House Speaker John
Bohener. He needs to go and relinquish his position as leader of the
legislative body.
John Bohener is no leader!
In an interview with Diane Sawyer of ABC news, Bohener
stated that Obamacare is the law of the land and that the efforts of republicans
in the House to repeal the law will not be going forward after Obama’s
re-election.
The problem with the Republicans in Congress, and
specifically in the House, is that they are more interested in keeping their
lucrative jobs than to do what is right for the country and its people.
Obamacare is a disaster of biblical proportions for our
Nation, and regardless of the Supreme Court decision, every mean available for
its repeal should be explored by the representatives of the people.
The re-election of Obama to a second term should have
nothing to do with doing what is right for the people. The most used word by
those who are allegedly supposed to represent the American people is compromise
and compromise they will, because in their corrupted minds, it is more
important to suck up to the president and continue the status quo.
In the mid-term elections of 2010, the victory at the polls
was for those conservatives who listened to the people and campaigned to reject
the socialist policies that are taking our country to the level of a third
world nation.
Bohener is the poster child of the behavior that so many
conservatives in those elections voted against.
The loss of Mitt Romney on November 6, 2012 is seen by the
republican ‘leadership’ as an invitation to capitulate to the progressive
policies of a radical leftist. Instead it should be seen as a call to action
for every single conservative to renew the fight against what Mark Levin
rightfully calls ‘statism’.
Does anyone really believe that a liberal speaker of the
House, like Nancy Pelosi for example, would stand up and relinquish their fight
against a republican president policy?
That is the reason why Obama won a second term!
The defeat of republicans on 6-11-12 was not due to a lack
of messaging, but it was ushered in by a lack of principled unity.
Let me give you an example: in Missouri, Todd Akin had a good chance to unseat Claire McCaskill for the US Senate. After his unfortunate statements regarding abortion, for which he profusely apologized for, the RNC abandoned the guy and McCaskill, one of the most corrupted members of the Senate, kept her job.
In the Democrat camp, candidates make horrendous statements, like Biden and his "put you back in chain" one, and the party just rallies around them and spin excuses until the issue is forgotten.
Richard Mourdock in Indiana got the same treatment and conservatives lost that seat too.
By contrast, a complete nutcase like Elisabeth Warren got all the support of the party even after every stupid statement or lie.
That is the difference, and as long as the spineless republicans in the leadership don't understand that the only way to win is to remain united in the ideological cause, our country will slip further into the liberal abyss.
And we may get to the point that there will not be a way back.
The Republican Party is supposed to be the representative
party of American Conservatives and it has failed miserably, because it has
become the party of the wishy-washy morons who are more interested in compromising
than to advance the conservative ideology.
The main difference between the two parties is that when ‘compromise’
is achieved, it always translates into the liberals forcing conservatives to
capitulate on their positions.
That’s not compromise, but surrender. And folks like Bohener
are very good at surrendering.
It is time to replace these unworthy leaders and replace
them with sound ideological conservatives.
Just my thoughts!
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Depressed About The Elections? Think Of Israel
By Semperpapa
Sure we are depressed about the results of the elections last Tuesday, but there is always worst: Israel.
I must admit that thinking of Netanyahu and the future of Israel is a real scary prospect with the re-election of Obama.
What must be going through the Israeli Prime Minister's mind right now?
It is an existential fight Israel is faced with, surrounded by millions of fanatics who are dedicated to the destruction of that country and its people, and after four years of Obama rejecting the backing of the Jewish state and even undermining it, now the re-election of Obama practically leaves Israel alone against the world.
Sure, the Obama administration has pledged support for Israel in the past, but the actions of Washington have been all but reassuring of the actual intentions.
If the support of Obama and his droids for Israel is going to be at the same level of the support given to American citizens in Benghazi, Netanyahu must be planning that the inevitable conflict in the Mideast is going to see Israel practically alone against the forces of evil surrounding them.
Yes, we are all depressed about the prospect of another four years of Obama, but for Israel it is a matter of survival, pure and simple.
How heartbreaking must be for the people of Israel to know that 69% of American Jews voted for the man who appears to be supporting the demise of the Jewish State as much as the terrorists of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Just my thoughts!
Sure we are depressed about the results of the elections last Tuesday, but there is always worst: Israel.
I must admit that thinking of Netanyahu and the future of Israel is a real scary prospect with the re-election of Obama.
What must be going through the Israeli Prime Minister's mind right now?
It is an existential fight Israel is faced with, surrounded by millions of fanatics who are dedicated to the destruction of that country and its people, and after four years of Obama rejecting the backing of the Jewish state and even undermining it, now the re-election of Obama practically leaves Israel alone against the world.
Sure, the Obama administration has pledged support for Israel in the past, but the actions of Washington have been all but reassuring of the actual intentions.
If the support of Obama and his droids for Israel is going to be at the same level of the support given to American citizens in Benghazi, Netanyahu must be planning that the inevitable conflict in the Mideast is going to see Israel practically alone against the forces of evil surrounding them.
Yes, we are all depressed about the prospect of another four years of Obama, but for Israel it is a matter of survival, pure and simple.
How heartbreaking must be for the people of Israel to know that 69% of American Jews voted for the man who appears to be supporting the demise of the Jewish State as much as the terrorists of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Just my thoughts!
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