On Inauguration Day 1977, Carter’s Popularity Was Higher Than Obama’s

For those of you who are rightfully worried about America's future under President Obama I recommend that you read a letter from Newt Gingrich that was posted on the Human Event's website today. An excerpt appears below but you can read the entire article here.

On Inauguration Day 1977, Carter’s Popularity Was Higher Than Obama’s

1964 was followed by 1965, in which Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California. Two years later we began a 40-year period in which no overt liberal won the presidency.

In 1977, Jimmy Carter’s popularity on inauguration day was higher than Barack Obama’s. But in 1980, Ronald Reagan won a decisive victory and changed the course of America.

In 1993, they said Bill Clinton was creating a new, stronger Democratic Party.

In 1994, the Democratic Party suffered its worst defeat in 40 years.

So don’t tell me it can’t be done.

A Message from my Brother-inLaw Warren

This ia a compelling message from the Patriotic Resistance and it was forwarded to me by my brother-in-law.

This was passed along to me by a friend of many years, a trusted colleague and man of many talents.  I wish I had said these things as an original writing but my friend did it for me.   I shall not give up my free speech, my belief in a Supreme Being, the modest wealth I have accumulated over these many years or my guns.  Aside from the very hot weather, my move to Texas has located me within one of the few remaining geographic areas where much of what is stated below is part of the everyday conversation.   I am proud of the country my family has help build over the past 150 plus years and of the principles by which they led their lives and raised their children.  I am unwilling to see it destroyed in favor of the Marxist or Socialist or Collectist or one world concept and ruled by a group of elitist whether they be elected and refer to themselves as Congressment or Czarist appointed by the sitting political party.   If my position disturbs you half as much as the current state of our government and the “change” that is promised …. Please let me know.  I will do my best to avoid sending anything to you that could be considered “political” in nature.

John          This  is my  my long  lost friend  from our high school times------Warren. THIS IS HOW I FEEL,  IT MAY NOT AGREE WITH YOUR OPINIONS,  BUT READ THE POINTS MADE HERE ANYWAY. . .......  IF YOU DISAGREE ,  I AM BIG ENOUGH TO OVER LOOK IT AND FORGIVE  AND STILL BE FRIENDS.   From the Patriotic Resistance:   I have noted that many elected officials, both Democrats and Republicans, called upon America to unite behind Obama.   Well, I want to make it clear to all who will listen that I AM NOT uniting behind Obama!   I will respect the Office which he holds, legitimately questioned, and I will acknowledge his abilities as an orator and wordsmith and pray for him, BUT that is it.   I have begun today to see what I can do to make sure that he is a one-term President!   Why am I doing this?   It is because I do not share Obama's vision for America ;    I do not share his radical Marxist's concept of re-distributing wealth;   I do not share his stated views on raising taxes on those who make $150,000+ (the ceiling has been changed three times since August);   I do not share his view that the military should be reduced by 25%;   I do not share his views on homosexuality and his definition of marriage;   I do not share his spiritual beliefs (at least the ones he has made public)   I do not share his beliefs on how to re-work the healthcare system in America    I do not share his Strategic views of the Middle East, and certainly do not share his plan to sit down with terrorist regimes such as Iran .   Bottom line, my America is vastly different from Obama's, and I have a higher obligation to my Country and my God to do what is Right!   For eight (8) years, the Liberals in our Society, led by numerous entertainers who would have no platform and no real credibility but for their celebrity status, have attacked President Bush, his family, and his spiritual beliefs!   They have not moved toward the center in their beliefs and their philosophies, and they never came together nor compromised their personal beliefs for the betterment of our Country!   They have portrayed my America as a land where everything is tolerated except being intolerant!   They have been a vocal and irreverent minority for years; they have mocked and attacked the very core values so important to the founding and growth of our Country!   They have made every effort to remove the name of God from our Society!   They have challenged capital punishment, the right to bear firearms, and the most basic principles of our criminal code; they have attacked one of the most fundamental of all Freedoms, the right of free speech!   Unite behind Obama?  Never!   I am sure many of you who read this think that I am going overboard, but I refuse to retreat one more inch in favor of those whom I believe are the embodiment of Evil!   PRESIDENT BUSH made many mistakes during his Presidency, and I am not sure how history will judge him.  However, I believe that he weighed his decisions in light of the long established Judeo-Christian principles of our Founding Fathers!!!   Majority rules in America , and I will honor the concept; however, I will fight with all of my power to be a voice in opposition to Obama and "his goals for America ."   I am going to be a thorn in the side of those who, if left unchecked, will destroy our Country!!  Any more compromise is more defeat!   I pray that the results of this election will wake up many who have sat on the sidelines and allowed the Socialist-Marxist anti-God crowd to slowly change so much of what has been good in America !   "Error of Opinion may be tolerated where Reason is left free to combat it."  ~ Thomas Jefferson "When the People fear the government, we have tyranny, when the government fears the people, we have liberty"  ~ Thomas Jefferson   God bless you and God bless our Country!!!

Just Make Stuff Up: President Obama’s war on the truth.

By Victor Davis Hanson

In the first six months of the Obama administration, we have witnessed an assault on the truth of a magnitude not seen since the Nixon Watergate years. The prevarication is ironic given the Obama campaign’s accusations that the Bush years were not transparent and that Hillary Clinton, like her husband, was a chronic fabricator. Remember Obama’s own assertions that he was a “student of history” and that “words mean something. You can’t just make stuff up.”

Yet Obama’s war against veracity is multifaceted.

Trotskyization. Sometimes the past is simply airbrushed away. Barack Obama has a disturbing habit of contradicting his past declarations as if spoken words did not mean much at all. The problem is not just that once-memorable statements about everything from NAFTA to public campaign financing were contradicted by his subsequent actions. Rather, these pronouncements simply were ignored to the point of making it seem they were never really uttered at all.

What is stunning about Obama’s hostile demagoguery about Bush’s War on Terror is not that he has now contradicted himself on one or two particulars. Instead, he has reversed himself on every major issue — renditions, military tribunals, intercepts, wiretaps, Predator drone attacks, the release of interrogation photos, Iraq (and, I think, soon Guantanamo Bay) — and yet never acknowledged these reversals.

Are we supposed to think that Obama was never against these protocols at all? Or that he still remains opposed to them even as he keeps them in place? Meanwhile, his attorney general, Eric Holder, is as voluble on the excesses of the Bush War on Terror as he is silent about his own earlier declarations that detainees in this war were not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Convention.

Politicians often go back on earlier promises, and they often exaggerate (remember Obama’s “10,000” who died in a Kansas tornado [12 perished], or his belief that properly inflating tires saves as much energy as offshore drilling can produce?). But the extent of Obama’s distortions suggests that he has complete confidence that observers in the media do not care — or at least do not care enough to inform the public.

The “Big Lie.” Team Obama says that Judge Sotomayor misspoke when she asserted that Latinas were inherently better judges than white males. Yet the people around Obama knew before Sotomayor was nominated that she has reiterated such racialist sentiments repeatedly over many years.

Obama complained that his deficits were largely inherited — even though his newly projected annual deficit and aggregate increase in the national debt may well, if they are not circumvented, equal all the deficit spending compiled by all previous administrations combined.

The president lectures Congress on its financial excesses. He advocates “pay as you go” budgeting. But he remains silent about the unfunded liabilities involved in his own proposals for cap-and-trade, universal health care, and education reform, which will in aggregate require well over a trillion dollars in new spending on top of existing deficits — but without any “pay as you go” proposals to fund them.

By the same token, his promise that 95 percent of Americans will receive an Obama “tax cut” is impossible. Remember, almost 40 percent of households currently pay no income taxes at all — and the $1.7-trillion annual deficit will necessitate a broad array of taxes well beyond those assessed on incomes above $250,000.

Obama talks about cutting federal outlays by eliminating $17 billion in expenditures — one-half of one percent of a $3.4-trillion budget. Here the gap between rhetoric and reality is already so wide that it simply makes no difference whether one goes completely beyond the limits of belief. Why would a liberal “budget hawk” go through the trouble of trying to cut 10 or 20 percent of the budget when he might as well celebrate a 0.5 percent cut and receive the same amount of credit or disdain? If one is going to distort, one might as well distort whole-hog.

Outright historical dissimulation. On matters of history, we now know that much of what President Obama says is either not factual or at least misleading. He predictably errs on the side of political correctness. During the campaign, there was his inaccurate account of his great-uncle’s role in liberating Auschwitz. In Berlin, he asserted that the world — rather than the American and British air forces — came together to pull off the Berlin Airlift.

In the Cairo speech, nearly every historical allusion was nonfactual or inexact: the fraudulent claims that Muslims were responsible for European, Chinese, and Hindu discoveries; the notion that a Christian Córdoba was an example of Islamic tolerance during the Inquisition; the politically correct canard that the Renaissance and Enlightenment were fueled by Arab learning; the idea that abolition and civil rights in the United States were accomplished without violence — as if 600,000 did not die in the Civil War, or entire swaths of Detroit, Gary, Newark, and Los Angeles did not go up in flames in the 1960s.

Here we see the omnipotent influence of Obama’s multicultural creed: Western civilization is unexceptional in comparison with other cultures, and history must be the story of an ecumenical, global shared brotherhood.

The half-, and less-than-half, truth. At other times, Obama throws out historical references that are deliberately incomplete. To placate critical hosts, he evokes the American dropping of the bomb. But he is silent about the impossible choices for the Allies — after Japanese atrocities in Manchuria, Korea, the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa — facing the necessity of stopping a Japanese imperial killing machine, determined to fight to the death.

He lectures about equivalent culpability between Muslims and Americans without mentioning American largess to Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinians. He mostly ignores American military efforts to save Muslims in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, and Somalia — and American criticism of Russia’s and China’s treatment of their own persecuted Muslim minorities.

When Obama contextualizes the United States’ treatment of Muslims, does he do so in comparison to the Chinese treatment of the Uighurs, the Russians in Chechnya and Afghanistan, or the European colonial experience in North Africa?

When he cites European colonialism’s pernicious role in the Middle East, does he mention nearly 400 years of Ottoman Muslim colonial rule in the Arab-speaking world? Or the Muslim world’s own role in sending several million sub-Saharan Africans to the Middle East as slaves? By no stretch of the imagination is purported Western bias against Islam commensurate with the Islamic threats that have been issued to Danish cartoonists, British novelists, the pope, or German opera producers.

Obama surely knows that a mosque is acceptable in America and Europe in a way that a church is not in most of the Gulf States, or that Muslims freely voice their beliefs in Rotterdam and Dearborn in a way Westerners dare not in Tehran, Damascus, or Riyadh.

Here we see the classic notion of the “noble lie,” or the assumption that facts are to be cited or ignored in accordance with the intended aim: Interfaith reconciliation means downplaying Muslim excesses, or treating Islamic felonies as equivalent with Western misdemeanors.

Why has President Obama developed a general disregard for the truth, in a manner far beyond typical politicians who run one way and govern another, or hide failures and broadcast successes?

First, he has confidence that the media will not be censorious and will simply accept his fiction as fact. A satirist, after all, could not make up anything to match the obsequious journalists who bow to their president, proclaim him a god, and receive sexual-like tingles up their appendages.

Second, Obama is a postmodernist. He believes that all truth is relative, and that assertions gain or lose credibility depending on the race, class, and gender of the speaker. In Obama’s case, his misleading narrative is intended for higher purposes. Thus it is truthful in a way that accurate facts offered by someone of a different, more privileged class and race might not be.

Third, Obama talks more than almost any prior president, weighing in on issues from Stephen Colbert’s haircut, to Sean Hannity’s hostility, to the need to wash our hands. In Obama’s way of thinking, his receptive youthful audiences are proof of his righteousness and wisdom — and empower him to pontificate on matters he knows nothing about.

Finally, our president is a product of a multicultural education: Facts either cannot be ascertained or do not matter, given that the overriding concern is to promote an equality of result among various contending groups. That is best done by inflating the aspirations of those without power, and deflating the “dominant narratives” of those with it.

The problem in the next four years will be not just that the president of the United States serially does not tell the truth. Instead, the real crisis in our brave new relativist world will be that those who demonstrate that he is untruthful will themselves be accused of lying.

— NRO contributor Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Create new S.C.Constitution -Jim Wetzel letter

 The following letter from Jim Wetzel appears in the Aiken Standard today. I agree with his call for a Constitutional Convention. We should also consider establishing term limits for elected officials.

Create new S.C. constitution

Your Sunday editorial "Legislature rules S.C." is a sad commentary on South Carolina's dysfunctional governmental system. Governor Sanford's principled stand against the Legislature created and stimulus-fueled, unbalanced budget was ill-fated because, as you noted, South Carolina is an inbred legislative state with all of the budget powers in the Legislature, a Supreme Court appointed by the Legislature and a governor with hardly any powers. He couldn't win because, as you observed, the deck was stacked against him by the state's Constitution.

The state's Constitution is an 1890 post-Reconstruction document from a time when the drafters feared that the emancipated blacks might possibly be voter empowered to elect a black governor. The drafters couldn't block that possibility but they could deny power being placed in the hands of any elected governor, whether white or black. Now in the 21st century we maintain and continue to be governmentally crippled by that 19th century, culturally biased curse. With thinking like that no wonder South Carolina has continually maintained its rank near the bottom of the states in lists of achievement.

Apparently, the Aiken Standard likes the legislative state and doesn't seek change in that culturally biased curse because it says things are going to stay that way until the Constitution is changed and advises us not to hold our breath for that to happen. Why is that? Why not move into the 21st century and promote a change in the Constitution that would make the state a manageable citizens' business rather than the legislative fiefdom that it now is?

How about our political clubs and organizations sponsoring a call for a corrective constitutional convention! And the NAACP could do us all, black and white, a big favor by recognizing that the state has a racially inspired Constitution and joining in a call for a reparative constitutional convention. Sponsoring and joining in would be credible post-racial acts good for all and could eliminate any concern about us having to hold our breath.

Jim Wetzel

Aiken

Shane Massey for Congress

For more information, please visit shane2010.com

Dear Friends,

This past weekend President Obama revealed an early draft of his government-operated healthcare plan, and today I announce my firm opposition to this unfair government takeover of America’s healthcare system.

I’ve been traveling the district over the last few months, telling people that President Obama's policies are pushing us toward a European form of socialism. If you weren’t convinced by his recent spending spree, bank bailouts, or government takeover of General Motors, I urge you to take a look at his plans to socialize medicine.

For decades Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy have worked to pass their liberal universal healthcare plans, but conservatives have stood firm against them on the foundation of free market principles. We know the answers don’t come with more government and an explosive growth in Medicare and Medicaid. In fact, excess government is at the heart of the problem. Overregulation, bad tax policy, and a special interest dominated Washington have driven healthcare costs through the roof, and now many American families suffer with no health insurance at all. Too much government stopped the market from working.

History has proven that the market drives innovation. Just look at the computer and cell phone industries. Faster, smaller, higher quality, and lower cost gadgets are released everyday to do things we never thought possible. It’s happening because private demand and competition are forcing new innovations. The same can happen in the medical field if we just get government out of the way and let true competition flourish.

Our goal should be to ensure that every family has access to affordable, quality healthcare, but we won't get there by forcing medical professionals to adhere to a one size fits all, price-fixed model. We will get there by letting competition drive new, lower cost innovations that will allow Americans to live healthier and longer.

  Thank you,

Shane Massey

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Is History Repeating Itself? Chicago Tribune 1934

The above 1934 cartoon appears on the Chicago Tribune Blog and it appears as though we are repeating

history. To see it better just follow the link.

No Winners or Losers

The following letter appeared in the Aiken Standard today. Walter Lamb makes some excellent points Unfortunately the politically correct idea of no winners or losers is already well established in some of our school systems. In the end we will all be losers if we don't make a determined stand. As Walter says: (It is only a matter of time - unless.).

When no one wins or loses

Just this simple rule - where no one wins or loses - protecting our children from the anguish of losing, or being rewarded for a fine effort, teaches the basic rules of socialism and communism. Everyone is equal, that exceptional effort is not worth it, that a person will be "paid" the same no matter how one performs. Not only do we instill an attitude of not striving to be competitive, or be the best that we can be, but the seed has been planted to expect "something for nothing." One of the functions of parenthood is to prepare our young to be able to be self-sustaining. Overprotecting our children does not teach the young how to survive in the real world. Thus, with the expansion of this attitude, it comes as no surprise, the young adults have their hand out, asking, "what's in it for me?"

No bright light needs to come on for one to see the present acceptance of the socialistic happenings in our government today by our younger generations as expected. The work ethic that made our forefathers leave the union-dominated European social structure and become the driving force for a better life is in fast decay. The reward to the unions in GM, the disregard to the rule of law and the utter destruction of our economic strength as a world power by the creation of a debt no nation can endure make us a sitting duck for another fall like the Roman empire.

Yes we have "change," but with it comes a change in government and the basic freedoms we soon can no longer assume will be enforced. Watch and read how the Constitution is being violated and not fought for. Do you feel powerless to do anything? That is what the socialists want you to think. Giving voting power to all the illegal immigrants is another step (supported by ACORN and your tax dollars) our young have voted for. Another example of the "something for nothing" principle we are teaching.

Freedom here in America seems no longer worth fighting for, as it was in the near past. And if we are not willing to fight for it, we will assuredly lose it.

Identifying our enemy rallies the American spirit. Do not count on the enemy to create another Sept. 11. We are being defeated from within. Our attitude, our complacency, our lack of involvement, a massive corrupt government, bring just one conclusion. It is only a matter of time - unless.

Walter W. Lamb

Aiken