WILL THE 2012 ELECTION TURN US INTO A SOCIALISTIC DICTATORSHIP?

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The 2012 election is not just about electing a new President or turning over all of the seats in Congress.  The 2012 election is about whether or not we are going to entirely change our system of government from its current Democracy into European-style Socialism or even a Socialistic Dictatorship.  That’s right; if you think Obama has ruined this country with his change during his first term, just imagine what we will have if he gets reelected. 

You and I both know that, in Obama’s eyes, he will have a “mandate” to continue changing the country into socialism, to totally trash the Constitution and to form a new system of government.  If you think for one minute that this President has treated us badly with his cram-downs and cavalier attitude, just reelect him and see what happens. 

“Ah!” you scowl, “Obama would never do that!”  Just look back over the past three years and ask yourself if you are happier now with what is going on in Washington than you were before.  And ask yourself how he has already raised more than $86 million toward his 2012 campaign, more than all Republican candidates combined. 

Where does all of that money come from?  Do you think it comes from Tom, Dick and Harry next door?  Do you think 172 major companies have kicked in $500,000 each already?  How much of it comes from Solyndra kickbacks and other such sources?  How much of it comes from unions?  Here’s the real question: if he is going to raise $1 billion as he says he is, how much of that money is going to come from “unidentified foreign sources” such as what happened in the last election?  I am not kidding here. 

If you have serious foreign money coming into this country to affect our election, just what do you think they want to happen to our country and its government? 

Ponder what I have suggested here and start giving some serious consideration as to how you are going to vote in 2012. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

WHO FOR PRESIDENT IN 2012?

I have been asked repeatedly who I like for President in 2012.  Of course, people want me to make my own insignificant endorsement.  I do get a lot of crazy reactions when I say “Obama,” probably because people who follow my writings know full well how much I despise the weenie.   

There is a school of thought out there that the emphasis should be on who can beat Obama.  The theory is that Obama must go and that the Republican selection for an opponent should be based solely on who has the best chance to beat him.  My answer to that is, “How about Genghis Khan?  Would you prefer him over Obama?  Or, how about Pee Wee Herman?” 

Indeed, we all know what we want in a President.  We want someone who can bring the opposite sides of Congress together in the common purpose of working with the President to resolve the serious issues that are facing our nation today, and in the most expeditious manner possible.  You can add a few lines to that, but I’m sure I have basically summed it up and it doesn’t involve getting rid of Obama.  The plain simple fact is that, if you find someone who fits this job description, Obama cannot and will not ever get rehired. 

Who among the candidates best fits that description? 

Frankly, I think the only candidate who can work both parties in Congress is Newt Gingrich.  His experience and track record as Speaker of the House working with both Clinton and the Republicans produced the “Contract for America.”  No other candidate, in my opinion, has that ability. 

We also need someone with business understanding and expertise.  I would say that Mitt Romney and Herman Cain both fit that trait quite well.  But, we both know that Mitt is elusive and, I think, a closet liberal; after all, haven’t you heard of Romney Care?  Regardless of Romney’s pledge to trash ObamaCare, Romney was the true author of the concept.  That speaks to his liberalism and warped thought processes.  Herman, on the other hand, also has a great business track record and he’s very obviously much more conservative than Romney. 

Finally, we want someone who is patriotic to the bone, someone who will make decisions for the country that are based on what is best for the country in light of our rich democratic heritage.  I think Romney is a tad selfish in that respect, but Gingrich, Cain and Bachmann are definitely not.  Bachmann has become a victim of the far-left liberal attacks on the Tea Parties, but she has demonstrated a keen interest in the financial affairs of the country and endless patriotism. 

So, at the moment I like Gingrich, Cain and Bachmann.  I don’t know that either Cain or Bachmann can being Congress together so that we can accomplish what needs to be accomplished.  Frankly, I am inclined to suggest that Bachmann can do far more to help us in this direction as a Member of Congress; we need all of the help there we can get. 

But, those three are my picks to go forward.  Of the three, I think Gingrich could best debate Obama, but that is not MY sole criterion.  At some point in the near future I will come forth with an endorsement and a recommendation on how to go forward.  What will happen in the not too distant future is that those who do not stand a chance will drop out and endorse somebody.  Percentages will change.  But the fact is that Romney hangs in at 20-25% consistently which means that 75-80% of Republicans would prefer someone else.  Just because the liberal media insists that he has the best chance of beating Obama is not a valid reason to back him. 

For once, I think all of us would like to be in the position of voting for the guy we like as opposed to having to vote for the lesser of two evils.  Let’s work together to make it shape up that way. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.   

"SUPER" COMMITTEE IS A SHAM

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The so-called “Super” Committee of twelve Members of Congress is an outright sham and needs to be regarded as such. 

In the first place, let’s set the record straight: They are talking about reducing proposed spending by $1.2 trillion, but the remaining spending levels will still be far higher than they are today.  This is not a cut, it’s a sham.   If I raise expenditures by $4 trillion and then back it off to a $2.8 trillion increase in spending, how can I turn around and tell you I just cut spending by $1.2 trillion?  That’s the game they are playing and both parties are being complicit. 

Before Barry and Harry came up with this great Super Committee idea, we were looking to cut $4 trillion off the budget.  The plan now is to pass this $1.2 trillion “deal” and placate the American public.  If you think there is even the remotest of intent to cut further after this is done, you have not been studying what Washington does and how they manipulate us. 

If they should not pass this sham, don’t think for one minute that they will pull the “trigger” and cut military spending and raise taxes.  That stipulation will be recalled and sidetracked before you know what has happened.  Then, we’ll be back to square one, facing Christmas vacation and we’ll have another punt to February or March.  In the meanwhile, Moody’s is already raising the possibility that they will join Standard & Poor’s and downgrade U.S. debt. 

So, you see, the whole scheme is a sham and we are the goats.  Let’s see what happens next week. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

LET IRAN HAVE NUKES

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I was listening to the news yesterday  and suppositions abound that if Iran gets nuclear weapons, the other countries in the region will also start nuclear weapons programs.  Of course, the theories continue, war is always inevitable in the Middle East and this all adds up to nuclear wars in the Middle East. 

This provokes the question: Would that be bad? 

Think about it: If they all go to war against each other using nukes, the end result will certainly be extinction.  I submit to you that having all of those weirdo Islamics extinct is not such a bad idea.  That's one definite way to get rid of the continuous threat of international terrorism  and it would therefore be entirely possible that the world could know peace at last.  

Yeah, I know.  I should run for President.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

WAS THE BLOOD SHED BY VETERANS FOR NAUGHT?

VETERANS DAY WEEKEND

Every year on Veteran’s Day, we pause to salute and to thank our American military veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice for God and Country.  Throughout 2-1/2 centuries, our military has stood ready to risk limb and life to preserve the freedoms and liberties that our forefathers crafted so carefully for us.  Cemeteries throughout America and overseas contain the bodies of those whose souls were given in the defense our nation and what we stand for. 

Those of us whose ancestors came across the ocean in the 1600’s to escape tyranny, those of us whose ancestors fought in the Revolution, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East… we know what sacrifices have been made in the name of God and Country and it saddens us to see the state of the nation as it exists today.  Our government is encroaching upon virtually every aspect of our lives.  Our freedoms are being eroded and we are being pushed into economic slavery. 

We so desperately need a leader who can unite us in the common interest of healing this nation and restoring the values upon which it was founded.  Surely, there is not one person in Washington, not in Congress and not in the White House, who is or can be that leader.  They are all… each and every one of them… tainted by the scourge of graft, greed, corruption, debauchery and selfishness. 

Once again, the Grand Lady… the Spirit of America… calls upon us to stand together, united in purpose and bound together in the common bond that built this nation.  We must, we simply must, take our country back. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.   

IRAN REDUX

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The Iran hostage crisis, where 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981 after a group of Islamist students and militants took over the American Embassy in support of the Iranian Revolution, bears some eerie resemblance to the modern day Iranian nuclear threat.   

The episode reached a climax when, after failed attempts to negotiate a release, the United States military attempted a rescue operation on April 24, 1980 which resulted in a failed mission, the destruction of two aircraft and the deaths of eight American servicemen and one Iranian civilian. Jimmy Carter was President at the time and seemed to be impotent in dealing with the Iranians.  The hostage situation drug on and on and Carter’s popularity plummeted.  

The crisis ultimately ended on January 20, 1981, when the hostages were formally released into United States custody, just minutes after the new American president Ronald Reagan was sworn in.  Reagan, of course, always dealt from a position of strength.  

Now we have the Iranians in the very verge of being able to launch a nuke at Israel or at U.S. forces in Afghanistan.  Our current President, Barack Obama, seems to be impotent in dealing with the situation and it appears to me that only the Israeli government is prepared to deal with the threat.  Obama has made big news by letting it slip in public that he has a great disrespect and dislike of Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.  

It’s a different kind of hostage situation, to be sure.  But, it appears to me that Iran once again has the upper hand and we once again have a weak and incompetent President.  

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

CAIN MAKES ELOQUENT DEFENSE

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Herman Cain went public yesterday and defended his integrity and his background.  His lawyer spoke first, laying out the fact that trial by innuendo does not afford the accused a fair trial under rules of the Court.  Rules are made by the press and subject to the whims of politics.  

Herman himself supports the microscopic investigation of Presidential candidates, but only as long as they consist of searches for facts and do not consist of baseless accusations.  He said he did not know this new woman and that her allegations were totally false.  And he addressed allegations from one employee by saying he knew her, she had filed sexual harassment charges and those charges were found to be baseless. 

Now, to the disenchanted Romney crowd, to the biased press and media, and to the Democratic party I say:  "Stop this horseshit and grow up.  You're making asses out of yourselves." 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

OUR MODERN AMERICAN MEDICINE

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I couldn’t help but think, after the surgery, how lucky we have been in this country to have things the way they are as opposed to how they could be. 

In August, I was diagnosed with cataracts by my optometrist.  Three weeks later, I saw an ophthalmologist of my choice, who confirmed the diagnosis and scheduled me for surgery.  In the old days, just a few decades ago, they handed you a really thick pair of glasses and sent you home to eventually go totally blind. 

I was in the out-patient surgical chair about 45 minutes and I was conscious the whole time.  The biggest discomfort during the procedure was the multitude of eye drops they used.  Six hours later, I removed the eye patch and knew immediately that a modern-day miracle had occurred and that I was the beneficiary.   

Of course, it was the way our system worked back when I was young and all of the way through modern times that provided for the medical research and the ultimate technology that made this procedure possible.  It was the capitalist system that provided the profit motive for the necessary research and technological advancements to occur.  If that profit motive was not there, one has to ask himself, could they have done the surgery last week?  Would they even know what had to be done, let alone how to do it? 

ObamaCare provides that every medical professional, regardless of specialty or expertise, will get paid the same.  My surgeon has a reputation for being the best in this part of the state at what he does.  Would I want someone with lesser credentials to slice on my eye?  Of course not, but if this doctor got paid the same as the first-year grad general practitioner down the street, what would be his motive to be as good as he is? 

What’s worse is that the surgery could have been denied.  I’m 69; that’s elderly.  Some obscure medical panel in some obscure office back in Washington could have decided whether or not I was a worthy candidate for the surgery; if not, tough luck, old man. 

Yes, the cost of prescription drugs is out of sight.  A long-standing practice of greed and corruption within the industry such as the Glaxo-Smith-Kline scandal now emerging, has largely been responsible for this raping of the American wallet.  ObamaCare does not address these problems; in fact, it doesn’t effectively address the price of prescriptions at all. 

Even so, we have a great medical system in this country.  Yes, some things need to be addressed, but the full-scale conversion of our system into a socialistic medicine model is not the answer.  What has been enacted and what is now in the process of being implemented simply must be stopped; that doesn’t mean that we can’t sit down and address the problems that we do have and fix them.  We can do that right after we get rid of the lousy Congress and President that we have. 

We can, and we must. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

OBAMA REFUSING SOLYNDRA SUBPOENA?

President Barack Hussein Obama, having heretofore refused to cooperate with a House investigation into the Solyndra scandal, yesterday rebuffed the resulting subpoena while insisting that the request was too broad and would put an "unreasonable burden on the president's ability to meet his constitutional duties."  The move sets up a Constitutional challenge that could stall the investigation until after the November 2012 election.  The House is determined to find out who knew what and whether or not Obama accepted political contributions in return for his authorization of the loan guarantees which Solyndra has now filed bankruptcy on. 

If you have nothing to hide, why hide it?  Furthermore, we now have the situation where the target of the investigation is telling the investigators what they can and cannot do.  This transcends the doctrine of “executive privilege” and enters the realm of obstruction of justice, similar to the Nixon stance over Watergate.  

While the White House has turned over “thousands of documents” to the Committee, documents directly relating to the specific issue have not yet been provided.   "Unfortunately, we had to take this step after the White House has continued to slow walk the production of documents necessary for this investigation by only releasing selected documents and records," said Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., chairman of the House panel investigating the matter, in a prepared statement. 

My guess is that the House will get the documents after they have been gone thoroughly through and sanitized, sometime shortly after Obama provides the country with a legitimate U.S. birth certificate. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

WE AMERICANS HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR

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Our world today is full of adversity and challenge, and what is going on in our political realm is no exception.  We can’t help wondering when the country is going to run out of money, be taken over by illegal Mexican drug cartels, or change into a Marxist Socialist state.  We shake our heads everyday at the waste and corruption going on in Washington and we get sick to our stomachs when we think about the end result of ObamaCare. 

We have every right to be afraid.  Our government has breeding it into us for years. 

I was recently asked if the elections were dividing our country.  I submit that our President has been dividing the country against each other for the last three years.  He has fragmented our society in every imaginable way.  As you know, united we stand and divided we fall. 

The plain simple fact is that we can overcome our fears and we can take our country back.  Surely, no one of us can accomplish that, but united we can.  There is strength in numbers and the stronger you are, the less you have to fear.  No one wants to be the lone wolf even when he is standing up for what is right.  But, the Tea Parties have shown that, when people stand together, they gain strength and they CAN make a positive difference in our country. 

We need to stand united and step up to the plate now. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.

HOW AMERICANS CAN OVERCOME OUR GOVERNMENT

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How often do we ask ourselves, “What can we possibly do to straighten out this country, considering the mess they have made of it?”  It is frustrating to see the basic structure of our government being torn apart, to see our President flaunting the Constitution and our Congress so mired down in corruption and unethical conduct that they can’t function.  And the trickle-down effect is devastating, with our educational system in shambles, the economy fractured, people out of work, illegals taking over our lives….  What do we do? 

Well, I’m guilty of making a wrong suggestion.  I have said over and over again: we have to throw the bums out and bring in fresh blood.  But, I’m now convinced that such a move is simply addressing the symptom.  We have to identify the real, underlying problem and attack it. 

The real underlying problem, you will have to agree, is that we have lost our compass. We lost it as a nation, as a people and individually as human beings.  Let’s face it; we just don’t know what direction we are going in, let alone what direction we should be going in.   

I was brought up, as most of us were, with a solid sense of family, a quest for knowledge, a search for the truth, solid ethics and morals, and a rock-solid foundation for my life.  Our government was the same way, because the whole country was the same way.  Finally, the single thing that makes all of these attributes work is… religion.  A firm and unwavering belief in God and His teachings gave us a solid sense of family, knowledge, truth, ethics and morals, and a rock-solid foundation for our lives. 

We need to get back there, my friends.  We need to really get back to our roots, to get back in touch with our religious upbringings and to reestablish the fundamentals in our lives.  That’s a very simple answer; all we have to do is put God back into our lives and all of these problems that our government and our politicians have created will go away.  Understand: there is no way that our government or politicians can continue to screw up in the face of a nation full of people who believe in God and who practice His teachings. 

Let’s stop addressing the symptoms and stark attacking the problem and let’s get started today. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.