Yesterday I posted a bulletin with an article written by Kevin McCullogh in Townhall about the last 48 hours of our current resident in chief. it's a good read with links to many other articles. Obama bungles meeting with British PM...have you heard anything about it on the news??? if it were Bush you would have. How about <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />....Russia...., ....Iran...., ....Israel...., how about the stocks tanking and who's really to blame...how about the tax cheats being chosen for high level positions? the earmarks?  how about DC children losing funding for school vouchers??...everyone in the press is oddly silent while this guy flubs around like a Freshman with a "kick me" sign stuck to his back.

those of us who didn't vote for him knew he was not qualified...I hope those of you who voted for him finally pay attention. 
http://kevinmccullough.townhall.com/blog/g/01983894-5dd4-4cbc-b191-c3dcffe46f46

So I am still struggling with all that has happened with this past election.  I have always felt that America is a great country.  I mean my dad came here when he was 15.  A young Cuban looking for a home, which he found here and became American.  We still had our roots.  Cuban Son and Salsa music, pork, rice and beans and the language but we were American and I am and will always be.   So when I hear that American can be great again...I think what was wrong with it before?   All the ingenuity, the great companies, individuals and inventions that were started here...such a young country in respect to ..Europe.. and the great empires in the middle east and of course on the Asian continent.   So, am I wrong or are we being sold a bill of goods?  It’s all so confusing.  I see people so engrossed in what is happening and so charged with energy that I think it's a good thing but what are they following?   Do they know the dangers of idolatry and has the education system failed our youth that they don't know the greatness that has come from this country in the past that they believe we can only be great now that a black man is in office?....

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I hear that ..MLK..'s legacy has been fulfilled but I don't know if that is true....have we looked past color and really selected a man with content?  I don't really know and actually I don't think we have but hope that he is and can stand up to our enemies and honor the constitution.  I watched the inauguration and wasn't thrilled with the speech or inspired and then the benediction with the statement ..."will white do what's right?"   I thought we did.  We elected a black man and most white's feel guilty for things in the past which we weren’t even involved.  I can honestly say that I was never prejudiced in my life.  I have worked with all kinds of American's and have led them on the training fields in the military and have been led by them, played football with them, drank beer with them, ate at their homes.  I don't feel hatred for people that disagree with me like the liberals do.  I mean when Obama leaves office either by getting voted out in 4 years or by term limits in 8 I will not be there singing hey nana nana goodbye...like a bunch of immature college kids at a basketball game when the opponent loses.  I sure wanted my team to win but we didn't.  But this is the American presidency not some ball game.  This is real life and it means more.   Why should the country come together now?  where were those sentiments from Obama and the left the last 8 years that Bush has been in office where was the leading by example... where was the putting differences aside?  Bush had to handle shoes getting thrown at him, name calling and a brutal press, and a democratic congress that hated him...I mean it started before he was inaugurated and his inauguration was called too expensive at a time of war....did you hear any of that yesterday for an event that will probably dwarf the 2005 Inauguration by 4 times.  The perspective has changed and no one seems to care and that worries me.   ....

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So I come to you today with a heavy heart because I want this country to rise above the economic woes and I want our military personnel to be home with their family instead of taking care of problems abroad.   I want ....America.... to shine but I want conservative libertarian ideals instilled in all of us not some entitlement mentality...and I don't want the government to be the answer.  One man can make a difference and that one man is me...or you... not the President of the ....US.....   He can certainly inspire us and I agree with the energy that has been created and think it's a good thing but I think there is something still missing... that ....America.... is a great country and has always been great.  We are not a dictatorship, we are not an empire nor do we want to take over countries...we want freedom and democracy to spread.  In my book that is not evil.   So...now to my poem....which I wrote this morning and sometimes I just write and let it be...then go back and edit if needed but this I think is good the way it is and inspired me to write this blog.   So here it is...let me know what you think about it....let me know what you think about my blog.  Let me know what you think about ....America.... and about our new president.   ....

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Take a page from a book....

Play the part....

You have the look....

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You say the words ....

We all want to hear....

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You make us feel ....

You give us a thrill....

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In the end we’ll see....

We’ll see if it was real....

Or just ....

Cult of personality....

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Any way you cut it....

If there is no substance....

No foundation....

The house will all fall down....

So let’s hope that we can ride ....

Out this storm....

Let’s hope for hope’s sake that we ....

Can overcome the division....

Of ideals....

And the sense of entitlement....

So many feel....

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You have the look....

You say the right words....

But at the end of the day....

Do you agree with all you say?....

And why should we ....

Why should we?....

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And we're supposed to care about Obama's feelings when al-Zwahiri said the following...he warned Obama that he was "facing a Jihadi (holy war) awakening and renaissance which is shaking the pillars of the entire Islamic world; and this is the fact which you and your government and country refuse to recognize and pretend not to see."  so what do the AP reporters do...yep they choose to focus on how this guy called Obama a bad name.  Bad jihadist....bad jihadist! 

So the media is still in the can for the president-elect and they title the article  "Al-Qaida's no. 2 insults Obama with racial epithet"  awww he hurt Obama's feelings and we must not allow such a thing…poor baby.  It's ok Obama the mean muslim man won't hurt you anymore…gag me!  So I clicked on it anyhow out of curiosity and found a whole lot of substance that should have been the title...like Al Qaida still wants to kill Americans!

In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect — along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — "house negroes."..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which literally translates as "house slaves." But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as "house negroes."

yep...he used the same comments that were used in 2003 about Colin Powell and Condaleeza Rice.  or as the left say Conda-sleeza.  They are so kind...kind of like...terrorists.

http://www.keithboykin.com/arch/2003/02/05/colin_powell_wh

…didn't hear anyone on the left screaming racial injustice back then. 

But the most important issue and why I chose to blog about it is that there were more damaging statements made by this man against our country and fellow americans.  So since the press won't focus on it here goes. Who cares that al-Zawahri called the "messiah" a house slave and insulted our new dictator.  He wants to murder AMERICANS!   He wants Islamic world domination "..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />America has put on a new face, but its heart full of hate, mind drowning in greed, and spirit which spreads evil, murder, repression and despotism continue to be the same as always," the deputy of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden said.

He said Obama's plan to shift troops to Afghanistan is doomed to failure, because Afghans will resist.

"Be aware that the dogs of Afghanistan have found the flesh of your soldiers to be delicious, so send thousands after thousands to them," he said.

He said Obama's victory showed Americans acknowledged that President George W. Bush's policies were a failure and that the result was an "admission of defeat in Iraq."

But Obama's professions of support for Israel during the election campaign "confirmed to the Ummah (Islamic world) that you have chosen a stance of hostility to Islam and Muslims," al-Zawahri said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081119/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_al_qaida_obama

"But come November the Bill Ayers issue rushing up in Barack Obama's rear view mirror could be a real political problem."

"I genuinely hope Obama's got as much distance as humanly possible between himself and Ayers, and that Ayers is just, as Obama said in the debate, "a guy who lives in my neighborhood."

I do not in any way, shape or form want Obama's Willie Horton to be a former terrorist/current elitist who feels compelled to once again even the score for a black man."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-ridley/obamas-ayers-issue_b_97477.html

these words written by John Ridley April 18, 2008 in the Huffington Post are now what's being talked about less than 30 days before voting day.   And to get it straight there is no comparison to McCain's knowing Keating.  McCain was exhonerated of any wrong doing and as far as I know is no longer hanging out with Keating.  That event almost cost McCain his career and he learned his lesson.  Obama has too many character judgements about people...either that or he truly believes what others like Ayers, Wright, Pflager and Farrakhan believe...That America is the root of evil in this world and sympathizes with third world terrorists that belive in the Islamic faith.  It will be interesting tonight during the debate as McCain has the opportunity to swing things back in his direction if he calls out Obama.   There is too much baggage there that has been swept aside and now we need straight answers from Obama.  Do you really believe that this intelligent, compassionate, charismatic politician is dumb enough to not know what Wright was preaching for 20 years or that Ayers is unrepentent about his activities and he and his wife have said that they didn't do enough?  either Obama's dumb and not fit to lead or the people that want him elected are too blinded to see the truth.  Either way this country is possibly about to get swindled or bamboozled should Obama get elected.

so while listening to the news today  a morning radio personality made this comparison  which I thought was very interesting.  I did a cursory search to find the data he mentioned so I could lay it and get your thoughts on this.

We take Sarah Palin and the state of Alaska...you know the Sarah Palin some people are saying doesn't have experience and well she's only the governor of Alaska so she's out of touch and it's such a small population.  And then let's compare her to another Governor...say Howard Dean former Governor of Vermont.  Yes the same Howard Dean that was the early favorite for Democratic Presidential nomination in 2004.  The same Howard Dean that is the incumbent charmain of the Democratic National Committee. 

The numbers were pulled from Wikipedia for comparison.  However I did look at the Commerce Dept. Bureau of Economic Analysis and found that AK is still ranked 6th for 2007 with a slight increase in per capita GSP.  Vermonts current info wasn't easily attainable but I think you'll get the picture. 

So Dean governed a state that is smaller in every way to Alaska yet was still qualified to be President. The argument that Palin has no experience to be VP is mute.  She is dealing with a state that earns alot of money and has a large budget to manage.  Her approval rating is currently at 68%.  Earlier this year Standard & Poors upgraded Alaska's rating from AA to AA+ .   This rating increase may lower capital costs saving the state tens of millions on proposed bonds.

 ALASKA

ranked 1st out of all the states in landmass

population 683,478 ranked 47th
The 2005 gross state product was $39.9 billion. Its per-capita GSP for 2006 was $43,748, 6th in the nation.

national avg in 2006 was $37,714
only Delaware, CT, MA, NY & NJ ranked higher than AK.

VERMONT

The state ranks 45th by total land mass

population 608,827, ranking 49th
Vermont's 2005 gross state product (GSP) was $23 billion.
This places the state 50th among the 50 states.
It stood 38th in per capita GSP. The per capita personal
income was $32,770 in 2004.