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I'm Jumping off The Glenn Beck Train

Posted by Dave The White House Slave on Sunday, February 14, 2010 3:00:00 PM
I am a guy who's stood in line for 3 hours to meet Glenn Beck. I was out in the rain waiting to have my $22 copy of Arguing With Idiots signed by my radio idol. Beck had hit a nerve with me. He had been like a college professor for me. Each ride to work gave me an hour of real education about our founders, the progressive movement, current events, and Glenn's take on what the real focus should be. But the bloom has been coming of the rose as of late. First, Beck did an awkward interview with Sarah Palin in their first face to face sit down. His insistence on idiological purity and historical orthodoxy went to an extreme when he cornered Palin with the question, "who's your favorite founder!" Palin answered that she like all of them, which had Glenn's eyes rolling to the back of his head as he blurted out "bullcrap".  He did Katie Couric better than Couric. He insisted on knowing and got a more likeable answer, George Washington. But the damage had been done. Nobody is expecting Palin to be an ad hoc history professor or a Rhodes Scholar. She is a pure populist who has captivated the nation with her no-nonsense style.
Recent Glenn Beck programs have attacked newly elected senator Scott Brown. Beck continues to argue that we don't even know this guy, who is Scott Brown? Well, I met Scott Brown on the campaign trail and volunteered hours of my time to get him elected. I know Scott Brown. The Best Beck could do is tell us that atleast Scott Brown gives us more time. For me, that was lame. Brown's election in MA was nothing short of a miracle. And the coup-de-grace was the ambush interview of Texas candidate for Governor Debra Medina. The whole matter of Medina being a 9-11 truther was later debunked on her website. But the question Beck asked (based on a tip he received that she was a truther) was too general. Do you think the government had anything to do with planes driving into buildings?? I would answer, maybe. Not that there were American pilots chartering government issued planes, but that the government failed us enormously. Constitutionally, this is the greatest responsibility of government. Period. So Medina's so-called duck of the question (which according to Beck sends her back to 4% in the polls) was a rational reply to something she hadn't been thinking about up until that point. Should she have equivocally said no to Beck? Perhaps. But Beck's fly-off-the-handle attitude seems to coincide with recent dust ups with Brown and Palin. Glenn Beck should not be anybody's candidate screener. He thinks the parties have gone off the rails.And thus when a decent GOP candidate comes along, they get the anal exam. Brown is not the perfect candidate. Palin has obvious shortcomings. But Debra Medina seems to be the real deal. A pro-life libertarian, home schooling mom with plenty of real world experience and the passion to back it up.
 
Remember, question with boldness? So the one place we can't question is our government's inability to prevent airplanes (4 of them) from being hijacked by Muslim extemists. It was a failure of Bush-Clinton-Bush who were all caught flat footed on the war on terror. Questions should be answered. The 911 commission reached similar conclusions. Medina was well within her right to question with boldness. Plus, what's up with the gotcha? Why not ask, what seperates you from the other candidates in this race?? So, I am forsaking Mr. Beck for the time being. I am libertarian in my thinking, but I am not a member of the Libertarian Party (as of yet). If we eat our own looking for idealogical purity, we will elect democrats forever. Or limp-wristed republicans. Glenn Beck may have been the Paul Revere of 2009, but it's clear that the rest of us have to carry the message forward with boldness, and without the kind of litmus tests that make the Beck approach unsustainable.
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What Can Brown Do For You?

Posted by Dave The White House Slave on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 5:00:00 PM
It's the most improbable thing. A United States Senator from Massachusetts who is a Republican. But it happened. Amidst my own personal involvement in the campaign, I had real doubts that we could overcome the machine here. Martha Coakley was dubbed the queen of the senate several months ago when she won her primary against three men who were likely more qualified than her to be the nominee. This was a David versus Goliath moment in American politics. But it was the most amazing example of grass roots politics this country has ever seen. Homemade signs. People calling from home doing there own "call center" for Scott. People blogging and facebooking to friends and fence sitters. These were folks, many of whom have full time jobs, who carved out moments in their schedules to make history.

This was the perfect storm here in the Bay State. A lousy, and I mean lousy candidate in Martha Coakley. Like John Kerry, her aloof attitude and lack of knowledge of simple things like the Boston sports scene, made her an easy target for local talk show hosts who hammered her 24-7. Next, things like Obamacare, Cap and Tax, entitled politicians, and a 12 Trillion dollar deficit are all things ignored by 99% of the democrat party. But what made this election successful was the candidate. Scott Brown is a humble, decent, thoughtful, hard-working family man who did everything right on this campaign. He is the real deal. This is Mr. Brown goes to Washington.

So what can Brown do for you? He can block this health care insanity. He can give small businesses hope by voting to lower their taxes. He can block debate on the ridiculous cap and tax energy bill. A bill that will kill jobs, hurt families and make getting to work cost a whole lot more. Brown can deliver new ideas. He can help craft health care reform that doesn't bankrupt the country. He can bring sanity to the floor of the house with real opposition to the rubber stamp mentality that many in his own party seem eager to emulate.  All this squishy moderation is not working. Scott Brown is his own man. He understands the danger of Al Quieda and even the internal threat we face by those already here. Brown can bring honor, decency and decorum back to the senate floor. Scott Brown can also end the Obama presidency as we've known it thus far. This wasn't just an election, it was the beginning of the revolution.  That is what Brown can do for you.
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The Shine Is Coming Off Glenn Beck

Posted by Dave The White House Slave on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 7:00:00 PM
Before anyone judges me, I've stood in line to meet Glenn Beck twice at book signings. Once for over an hour outside in the pouring rain. Tonight I was able to watch the much anticipated Sarah Palin interview. This sit-down had a strange vibe to it. Beck looks like he's putting on weight and looked like his suit was a size too small. He either had nasal congestion, or was recently in a shouting match with someone on his staff. Sarah Palin, was, well, Sarah. She was straight forward, common sense oriented, and very Alaskan. No real new revelations came out during the interview. Beck's line of questioning was all over the place. They spent time talking about the Statue of Liberty, which was in the background of where the episode was being taped. Beck bounced around in a way that was even hard for me to follow. The founders soon became the main focus. I wondered to myself, do I know enough about the founding fathers? Who is my favorite, Washington, Jefferson, Franklin? Honestly, I'm not a constitutional scholar. I know enough to believe we are off track.

But Beck actually did a Katie Couric on Sarah. "Who's your favorite founder..?" he quipped with all the aggression of a Charlie Gibson trolling for stupidity. The Governor's first response was simplistic and somewhat vacuous. "Well, all of them". Beck was glib and made a comment under his breath like, "come on". Palin steadied herself with a complete and thoughtful answer, describing George Washington's reluctance to serve. Beck chimed in that it was his favorite as well. The odd love fest carried on for another 15 minutes, but the damage had been done to both parties. First, Palin was guilty of a Couric-like response to Beck, who wasn't a foe. Beck, going way to far in his obsession with history, made me feel uncomfortable with his insistence that we all pass his private history lesson. I haven't had time to read the 5,000 Year Leap or all the other obscure and likely very boring books about the early 20th century progressive movement that Beck has managed to catalogue. Everyday working Americans know something is wrong without the deep religious-like pursuit of information from a bygone era. I can't live Beck's life, nor do I want to. I have my own simplistic battles to wage. Food, (over-eating), housing, utility bills, the state of Massachusetts, and so much more.

The interview had some decent moments. God-talk is always invigorating in a PC world that is scrubbing God from all aspects of public life. The NBC challenge they both made to the bookers on SNL was funny and interesting. But as a whole, the interview came off awkward and did neither party much good. Maybe it's the fact that I'm reading a book called Common Ground authored by the evil Bob Beckel and the much less evil Cal Thomas. They write vigorously, and I might add persuasively that the left-right paradigm has put a lock down on our ability to get anything done. Don't get me wrong, I am still a common sense conservative. But, if Beck were up here in Massachusetts, he'd be questioning the ideological purity of Scott Brown, who is the best candidate we've had for United States Senate in decades. Brown is okay with gay marriage. He supports a woman's right to choose, yet he's against partial-birth abortion. I'm totally against abortion and I'd prefer it to be called civil unions and not marriage. But I'm still incredibly excited about Brown. He's pro-military, he's against trying terrorists as criminals and wants the military to handle it. But if I look at Scott's record in the state senate, he could be characterized (by Beck and some libertarians) as a big government republican. Is Scott Brown better than Martha Coakley? Without a doubt. Is John McCain better than Barack Obama? Infinitely. McCain would have vetoed all the big spending bills, he would have supported our military, and I doubt he would have called police officers "stupid". The bottom line is that if we take back our government, we'll have to trust those doing the taking.

Beck kept harping on all the people we can't trust. Ronald Reagan had a belief in the American people. He charmed his enemies with good cheer and persistence. Brown's campaign is out of the Reagan handbook. He is espousing a positive vision for America. Beck may be a great whistle blower, but he is not the solutions guy. Because we'll never reach the level of ideological purity he demands. Beck seemed to be surfing for that kind of purity with Palin for most of the hour with her. If we did this with all our politicians, we would not have had Rudy Guilliani, one of the greatest leaders of this century thus far. And not everyone can be an ad hoc constitutional lawyer with the words of Samuel Adams on their tongue on demand. I still like Glenn Beck, but his shtick of doom and gloom is wearing thin. We can come back. The GOP is likely the answer. Sarah Palin said that much in the interview. In the end, people who embody most of what we all are looking for will be enough to turn this country around providing we all hold their feet to the fire.
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Happy Profanity Laced New Year!!!

Posted by Dave The White House Slave on Friday, January 01, 2010 8:00:00 PM
Before you flag this post as inappropriate, hear me out. I am writing from this side of 2010 with a migraine headache and a nagging cough. I live on the third floor of a 3 story in beautiful Webster Massachusetts. For two years now, I've had the distinct pleasure of living above the most inconsiderate, vile "couple" in rental history. The chic has a live-in boyfriend who in appearance resembles the Fort Hood terrorist. His demeanor is almost as nasty. She has children from "other" fathers and mooches off the state for child support, housing and other benefits. She works a full time job that has her home by 3pm. He does some part time bakery driver thing and is home by 11am. Meanwhile my 10-7 takes most of my day with an hour commute both ways. I wish I could be home drinking Bud Light at 11 in the morning. The dude likes to swear. We live in an era where we should air-drop thesauruses to the needy among us who've decided to air-drop f-bombs in front of children and through the thin walls to adults upstairs.

Last night was one of misery. Around 10:20 pm, the stereo from the floor below began to blare so loudly I could make out the lyrics to the songs. And our Fort Hood buddy began drunk-syncing lyrics to Metallica songs and other classic rock tunes that are too good to be sung by this particular individual. The music got louder and louder as midnight approached. Around 10:47, the dude yells out, happy f-bomb New Year!!! He was a tad early. More drunken karaoke followed. Finally, a slurring former TV icon counts it down, skipping a few digits, and another bleepity bleep bleepin' New Year is declared. I hadn't planned on watching this pop culture marvel unfold. I wanted to be in bed before the mayhem. I had no choice but to be awake and alert.

The people around us are more and more becoming societal dregs. There's no way around this definition. This is the legacy of shacking up. This is the outcome when people no longer make an effort to find a spouse and settle down. This starts in college and now has made it at least one generation forward. It's reinforced by a celebrity culture that is splitting so frequently you could device a celebrity break up bingo game and fill the whole board in just a few short months. So people in their early 20's up to their mid 50's are now shackin' it. The dude from downstairs apparently has some anger management issues and has stormed off the stage for two weeks at a time only to come back and "renew" his commitment to his female roomie. The little girl who lives down there with them is treated to a barrage of loud obscenities that are often aimed right at her. The chic can also vocabulate with the sailors. There was a time when even hookers knew how to speak English without inserting an f-bomb every few syllables. Yet this proud mother posts her child's work out in the hallway for us stair climbers to admire. As if to say, what goes on behind this door is normal. We're as American as apple pie. Our child is a well adjusted prodigy. The contradiction between normalcy and adolescent idiocy cannot be resolved with lame attempts at child rearing. But the show is more important than the substance. Behind those doors we can hear the Jerry Springer style arguments and the aroma of fresh cannabis as it seeps through the old building's walls. So what if they can't socialize with fully functioning adults?

And of course there's a medical diagnosis for this. It could be adult ADD or ADHD or some other made up alphabet illness that qualifies its victims for more government assistance. Which leads to more Bud Light, more weed and a newer SUV. In the meantime I lose sleep, and have my privacy and my family time compromised. I look at the dregs and wonder if it would be easier to join rather than fight. But the problem with that is I know too much. After messing up my own marriage I committed to making it work. I decided I was going to be a father and a dad and a husband. I knew a lousy me was better than no me. I understood that I wouldn't always say or do the right thing. But it was worth it.

As Americans we are all paying a dear price for the sexual revolution, for the education crisis, for the moral deficit, for the idolization of pop culture, and for the utter lack of tact and maturity in our young adult population. My 2010 started on a sour note. But I've come to realize that I need to get used to the lack of civility around me. We are living in a time where darkness is closing in. I hope you all had a better start to the new year than I did.
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The American Destruction Project or ADP

Posted by Dave The White House Slave on Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:00:00 AM
We are finished as a constitutional republic. Because there is nothing in the constitution that supports mandatory health care for individuals. The founding fathers could never have envisioned the monstrosity that has become the federal government. Ben Nelson is a fool. Mary Landrieu is a fool. Harry Reid is a communist. And President Obama is not my president. There, I said it. I have great respect for the office. But I am no longer able to admit in public or in private that this man represents me.He does not. He doesn't listen to a word we say. He makes no sense to me. His words are all choreographed and teleprompted with a surreal meaninglessness.

The ideas of the modern democrat party are destroying this country. No longer do democrats fight against corporate welfare. Instead, they send money to corporations. They no longer protect senior citizens. They now look at the aged as disposable in the same manner they look at the unborn. Democrats are the most partisan party to ever occupy the congress. They shout down any kind of legitimate protest. They have mocked Tea Partiers and others who would calmly protest the vomit they spew. 2009 goes gown as one of the worst years of my 44. I am embarrassed by our foreign policy, our lack of resolve in the war on terror, our inability to use the free market to revive the free market. Our borders continue to be open to drugs, disease and terrorists. We are planning on declaring amnesty on all the so-called undocumented. More democrat voters, more cultural pollution and less assimilation.

The American destruction project (or ADP) has taken firm hold of a once great republic. We are finished unless we take back the house and the senate with conservative, rational, truly progressive thinkers. We also need to draft articles of impeachment against Barack Hussien Obama for treason, and the intentional destruction of our way of life. To purposely destroy our economy, our standing in the world and our traditions, this man has single handedly dismantled what people have died protecting for centuries. His vision of America is no America. We have 11 months to reverse this curse. We must care enough to sacrifice our lives and our sacred honor. If the democrats hold on to power we lose forever. We have already become divided and fractured by race, religion, sexual orientation and anything else the politicians can create. The media is also on notice. No longer are the mainstream networks relevant to the discussion. People who are smart don't watch them. It's either Fox News or the internet. As 2009 comes to a close, I am shocked, angry and in a stage of denial. 2010 has to be better or we're through. I wish all a feisty New Year and a Christ-centered Christmas.
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What November 3rd Proves

Posted by Dave The White House Slave on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:00:00 AM
Like many of us on this site, I'm encouraged by what happened on Tuesday night. No real news pundit can think that ousting the governor of New Jersey didn't represent true political upheaval. This was more like an earthquake. Obama had made 5 separate trips to New Jersey and I'm sure all of ACORN and SEIU were doing their dirty deeds. Yet, a fat guy who was targeted as that in political ads, was able to beat all the media, all the crazy endorsements of Corzine and all of what The White House could dish out. And then there was Virginia. A rout. The new governor has a genuine mandate. And finally New York's 23rd district. A close race where a candidate who ran in the Conservative Party, was edged out only slightly by the democrat who by the way, did not run on an Obama platform as the media has stated. He won because the liberal republican endorsed him and I'm sure more than 6% of the people who voted blindly chose the "R" instead of actually reading the names of the three candidates.

But it does tell us one thing about third parties: they still can't win. And even though I have pondered aloud that we need a third party. I have thought long and hard about trading in my "I" for an "L". After last night I've had a bit of an epiphany. I do think the republicans are better; and the only vehicle to drive when asking for conservative pilots should have an "R" on the door. The republican party can be reformed. A third party cannot gain momentum without a national, all out once ascension with a huge infusion of money, time and capital all at once. The only exception would be a Ross Perot type who hit on one or two issues so effectively that he or she could rally the country as a whole and at the same time begin a new party. But for immediate success, it's way more prudent to be a Republican and reform the party from within. Run the correct candidates. Make conservatism the hallmark of the party again. The way forward has to include a more unified front. Libertarians, conservatives, independents and even some moderates need to come together to agree on a few core issues. If we can get a consensus on some basic tenets of the American dream, we can restore it again. The Republicans are the answer. The party is not dead, nor does it have to go liberal or moderate to be successful. Michelle Bachmann, John Boehner and Sara Palin are the real deal. We need to support candidates who have these values. Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, and Bobby Jindal are all on the radar screen and are all viable forces to be reckoned with. Hope has and "R" in front of it right now.
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The Noble Appease Prize

Posted by Dave The White House Slave on Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:00:00 AM
Meriam-Webster defines the word appease in three ways: to bring to a state of peace or quiet calm. second: to cause to subside : allay  and third: pacify, conciliate; especially: to buy off (an aggressor) by concessions usually at the sacrifice of principles. Can you hear the right answer bell going "ding-ding-ding" on the third definition? This is the definition of president Obama thus far. No principles, no direction and no policy foreign or domestic. Wait, I'm sorry, Mr. Appeasement does have a foreign policy. It consists of going abroad and bashing his possible country of origin - Kenya. Sorry, I slipped up there, I meant to say the good ol' USA. And in definition three comes even more meaning. The part about buying off our enemies. Mr. A has gone one step further. He's sending our tax money to foreign countries to promote "safe sex",  and "family planning". Or for those of us who speak english, abortion. So he's actually killing off those he's trying to appease which makes the job of appeasement far less tedious.
But to quote the guy who held the office prior to our appeaser-in-chief, all this "pacification" ain't worth squat. Who cares if we're loved by the French? And isn't a peace prize for somehow securing the peace? If this award actually meant something, both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher would have been shoe-ins. So this "prize" really amounts to what euro-weenies think of our new, gutless foreign policy.
 
Meanwhile Al Quieda must be thinking to themselves that their next attack will be too easy. They may have to pick a real country that stands for liberty like New Zealand. But this appeasement crap is the liberal way. Be nice to evil people and somehow their genetic makeup will be altered automatically. Ahmadinejad seems unimpressed with his new found legitimacy. Iran has more than just a few power plants up and running. Soon they'll be competing with North Korea for who can fire the most rockets following a major Obama foreign policy speech. Appeasement was the calling card of that loon named Carter. Who could forget the moment Ronald Reagan stepped onto the stage. Our hostages were free because their militant captors knew that Reagan would not pay them back with appeasement. Carter was such an utter disaster in so many ways.
 
There is little to cheer about in this scene from a Hollywood flick that likely earned great reviews but was watched by like 4 people. Americans are hurting for real right now. Our economy remains in the crapper unless you watch the glimmer of hope channel, MSNBC. Or, Mindless-Stupid-Nothingbut-Barack-Channel.It kinda works. In one year, I've seen my real wages cut in half. I've seen the dollar sinking faster than David Letterman's ratings. And yet like granite stepping stones, this president continues to walk right over the real problems that face us all. Instead of focusing on Professor Gates, The Olympics, the Final Four or which dog breed is best, maybe the president could focus on stengthening our economy and restoring America's confidence in herself! This appease-prize is a worthless acknowledgement by people who hate America, hated George W. Bush and love the fact that we are no longer a super power as long as the undecider retains power. Congratulations Mr. Prez on your noble appease prize.
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Jesus Has Been Co-Opted

Posted by Dave The White House Slave on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:00:00 AM
In many recent debates, especially when it comes to health care and immigration, God is now playing for the liberal team. Catholic Charities are now officially a sponsor of illegal immigration. Catholic policy on social justice calls on the government to "help" those in need. That's interesting. Why doesn't the rich and powerful Church have their own free health care program for illegals? The same with the rest of the uninsured. The Church should set up their own program to help all the uninsured rather than calling on those, many of whom already have health insurance to fund a government option with more of their tax dollars.

Barack Obama made the rounds to these left leaning religious institutions in '08 on the campaign trail. People like Jim Wallis and Bill Moyers became allies in Obama's plans to co-opt the faith community into thinking his way was the right way. Wallis began writing books on this topic about two years prior to Obama's ascendancy. You can view all the liberal hand wringing  at www.sojo.net. And of course, the poor are mentioned countless times in the Bible. We are to take care of them, offer them shelter, food and a new life in Christ. The problem for people like Moyers is that nowhere in Scripture does it say we as the collective are to lobby our governing bodies to forcibly take money from one group in order to care for another. We are to act individually and within the Church to create a more heavenly earth in the here and now.

And I have to say that both the liberal mainline church and the conservative evangelical church have both dropped the ball. Mainlines preach a social gospel around the notion of lobbying the government to spend more on illegals and free health care. Evangelicals preach a way more inward gospel that rarely challenges the congregants to worry about more than their own salvation. Some evangelicals do take their calling seriously and make a point of setting up a homeless shelter or collecting food for the poor. And that is what the church should be doing in relation to it's calling. This new emphasis on health care and immigration is through government coercion and is a new phenomenon that the Obama people have used to co-opt religion and make it more mainstream for those of us with traditional views.

Many in the faith community have gone soft. Either they don't want to get political, or they want to follow the Obama model. Those who resist are branded as racists and religious fanatics. While those who follow are serving God honorably. The church needs it's own poor people health care model. They could sign on with Wal-Mart to cover the estimated 11 or so million who need insurance but can't afford it. There is a compassionate way to fix this without the government taking it over. And without the Church lobbying the government to do their job. The Good Samaritan was a person who did the right thing on his own as an independent problem solver. We should all be Good Samaritans in our approach to those in need, so there's no need for a government option.
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9-12 Worcester MA

Posted by Dave The White House Slave on Sunday, September 13, 2009 12:00:00 AM
I was not able to attend the DC protests, mostly due to my own financial situation. I now work for about 60% of what I earned last year and will soon take on a 2nd job. Atleast I'm able to find work! But the prospect of 7 day work weeks does not make me feel all warm and fuzzy. Yesterday I attended a gathering in Worcester Massachusetts at the very busy intersection at Lincoln Square. At the peak of the event there were about 100 of us holding homemade signs and waving at drivers, many of whom honked in support of our cause. We got the bird from two drivers and the "your crazy" sign from a couple more. But it was largely a positive 90 minutes of waving and chatting with people who I deem as normal Americans.

The highlight for me was a woman who was taking oxygen and sitting in a wheelchair with a sign that read, "leave my health care alone!" Several of us went over to meet this true patriot. I made the comment several times how this was not an angry "mob" or "astroturf", but a peaceful group of very concerned citizens. When I got back home I was able to catch the last hour or so of Glenn Beck and the DC Tea Parties. There were estimates of well over a million people, and this could be the largest gathering ever on the mall. This is about freedom, lower taxes, less government, and a restored sense of who's in charge. We are. We're in charge. And this wave won't crest until 2010.
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Obama Lied and People Died

Posted by Dave The White House Slave on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:00:00 AM
I have mixed feelings on the wars in Iraq and Afganistan. Neither war has required real sacrifice from the American public. I recently heard one pundit say that soldiers have fought and died while Americans went to the mall. And this is true. We have an all volunteer force that takes the burden away from people like me just trying to make ends meet. And thinking about the troops, or supporting the troops or wearing colors that represent the troops, doesn't really help the troops. It helps those who want to sooth their conscience. Excuse me while I get libertarian for a moment: but why are we in 150 countries propping up economies, "protecting" areas that were former hot spots and in some cases waiting to be run over by an evil regime (see North Korea)?
President Barack Hussien Obama campaigned on bringing our troops home. Remember he was the only one with the street cred to get the job done. He had "voted" against every war even way back when he was a community organizer. And even though he didn't actually cast an ant-war vote in the senate, he would have if he were there. Besides, he campaigned against Hillary Rodham, beating her relentlessly with her support of George Bush's "failed" policies in Iraq. He would bring the troops home in a couple of months after being sworn in. He had time tables. He had a plan. None of it made any sense. But the liberal loons lapped it up like grease on a spoon. It was enough to sort of get Obama the nomination. Well, acutally it was a bunch of union thugs in Vegas who strong armed Hillary supporters to see the light.
 
So you would think with all of this anit-war momentum, you'd see us begin to retreat from all our foreign entaglements. But this has not been the case. In fact, Obama began talking up the Afganistan War while in the homestretch of the campaign. And the reality is that both wars have continued on track as they were before. The only difference is the press has focused on Obama's excellent strategy in Afganistan while talking down Iraq and almost never mentioning casualties. But groups like Code Pink and the efforts of Cindy Sheehan continue with nearly zero press coverage. So the truth is Barack Obama lied and people died. The Afgan war is excellerating. The Brits are reporting it http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6798436.ece . While the left in this country demonstrates amazing hypocracy. Why aren't they demanding that the troops come home? Is this still a war for oil? Or is it just George Bush's fault, since there's no way for Obama to just pull the plug. And what about troop levels? Bush made the mistake of fighting a soft war intitially that cost lives and made for some real insurgency. Obama has his liberal buddies likely begging him to maintain troop levels, which will make it hard for us to win. This will cause our soldiers to die unneccessarily. That is a form of treason. Why is this any different from what happened under Bush? Like everything else, Obama has made the situation worse and has shown almost no leadership. He has betrayed his base, but doesn't pay the price since the media think he's some kind of god.
 
I think we do need to wrap these wars up. There's already evidence of sectarian violence in Iraq that has returned after a brief lull. Tribes that have fought for 3000 years are at it again. And yes, Al Queida is in Afganistan for sure, what we need to fight to win or pull out completely. We have so many problems to deal with right now. It might be a good idea to take a break from being the policeman of the world. And think of all the money we'd have to secure our southern border and make the homeland safer at airports and seaports. Obama is not the anti-war president he claimed to be. Add that to his list of failures.
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Ramblin' Man

Posted by Dave The White House Slave on Friday, August 07, 2009 10:00:00 PM
Back in January I was witness to a massive company wide layoff where I work. I survived but had all my overtime eliminated, then I had all of the sales commissions I had built up over the year totally eliminated at the end. I had finished #1 in sales two consecutive years. What I've seen so far is a 26 cent raise. I did reap some great rewards after that first year. But my income has been cut in half in less than a year. My wife now works a 3rd shift job as a swing manager at a 24 hour Mickey D's. We can't afford day care so we work in shifts. My wife earns about 60% of what I lost if she works a full week. My kids are homeschooled. My poor kids have to be quiet til when they wake up until about noon each day, just so my wife can sleep a little. This is tough job when you're an 8 year old boy and an 11 year old girl. Our cars are both constantly in need of maintenance. The small loan I took out on my 2003 Escort is sucking what little extra income we had off to the bank. The electric, cable and especially this high speed internet are all on the verge of being turned off.

I watch Fox and Friends every morning. I used to watch the local Fox affiliate more, but the seriousness of everything has kept me glued to F&F. I listen to about an hour of Glenn Beck on the road each day on my way to my incredibly stressful sales job. Beck is like a Paul Revere. He rings the bell, he blasts the horn, he even sheds a tear. Sometimes I well up listening to the guy. He's totally stressed out as well. You can tell. Recently he's got his friends in there with him. Stu and Pat. They must be there for more than just good production value. Glenn needs moral support. When I get back home, I tune in to O'reilly, sometimes Hannity and even Greta. I have totally given up on sports programming. Keep in mind, I live in New England where sports is king. I look at blogs and facebooks from friends and relatives all lamenting the Red Sox as they fall out of first place. Nodody seems to care that the sport is all steriods and marred by athletes who are more than likely not good role models. You'd think I'd want a good diversion from the youtube video from the AARP meeting where the old folks took it over trying to get to the truth. But no. I click on another link and I'm treated to a black guy getting kicked around by four other black guys because he was selling patriotic stuff at a town hall meeting. These guys had shirts on that said SEIU. Glenn Beck had mentioned that this group was another arm of ACORN. Apparently they are arms, legs and fists.
 
My health seems to be in a state of suspended animation. I'm not sleeping all that well. The fact that my wife is out the door when most people are coming home, and she comes home when most people are out the door might have messed with my snoozing patterns. Plus the kids want their toast smothered with all that chocolate goo. I feel like I'm trapped in a version of the surreal life that has come down from outer space and taken over most of America. I see pockets of hope. If I could only get to Texas or Utah or Mississippi. But we don't have enough money to make it south. Massachusetts has been this way far longer than the rest of the republic. We elected a governor on the "yes we can" platform when we could have had people with experience running stuff. I'm losing my ability to cope. Between work and the world I feel out of control. I want to declare my independence from this insanity, but something I can't control keeps getting bigger. All I want is to raise my children in freedom, love my wife, serve Jesus, and maybe survive my work. If this job goes away, Ill do whatever it takes to find another.

But God has to help me at this point. I've run out of myself. The government is out of control. God must intervene. We are losing the values and ideals that propelled this country since its founding. Those concepts were so potent that even when we veered off course, they acted as a self correcting mechanism. Now, we have a government purposely destroying the constitution as it was intended. We are now on the verge of anarchy. I sit and type and realize what I've just written. My kids sleep soundly dreaming about Miley Cyrus, video games and giant cheeseburgers with extra pickles. I carry this Cross around and so does my wife. And so do many of us. If we don't find a way to put a stop to this, the USA will be another socialist republic with limited freedoms and a soft tyranny. There are things to fight for. Maybe we all needed a new purpose. In the end, God knows what he's doing. He builds up nations and He tears them down. Try reading Ezekiel when the kids and families are all being slaughtered because they were warned a million times and refused to listen. That is us. We are in tha Book. I wish I could rest easy tonight, but I'll likely toss and turn again. My wife will awake at 4 so she can be to work for 5am. God, if you're listening, we need a bailout! Bring us back to You. And keep our prophet Glenn out of harms way.
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More Distractions

Posted by Dave The White House Slave on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 8:00:00 AM
Can we agree that the Obama administration is amazingly adept at the distraction? The lastest look-here-while-I-do this-over-there moment surrounds the Prof. Gibbs episode. This "beer summit" is taking the front page while killing our economy through Cap and Tax or through Universal Health Care is covered somewhere well after the banter about beer. This tactic dates back to Bill and Monica. That's when Prez-Bill decided to bomb an aspirin factory somewhere near a target, that was meant to say "we mean business" against terrorism. Yup. We see how serious that was.

The Chicago machine must have a war room complete with which state run media outlet can distribute the propaganda fast enough. Even Fox News has gotten in on this. Which beer will they drink? What if they choose an import? How about Sam Adams? Blah, blah blah. There are just a few days before July ends and a new round of unemployment numbers come out. The stock market could hit 10000 again. But wasn't the liberal mantra during the Bush years that the economy only benefitted Wall Street and not Main Street? And housing starts. That's great news. Only problem is that many of us can't afford a house. So, are the rich getting richer, while the poor are getting poorer? I think there's more evidence of this happening now than at any time. Yet the propaganda machine spins like a shiny new Maytag.

It also seems that people are waking up. They don't want 1/6 of the American economy taken over by the same people who run the Post Office. And don't forget the crazy "climate change" bill that will add hundreds to everyone's electric bills while killing the coal industry. It's bait and switch at it's finest. And the Obama adminstration continues to feed into the celebrity aspect of it's appeal, rather than actually making good decisions for our country.
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Palin II

Posted by Dave The White House Slave on Sunday, July 12, 2009 12:00:00 AM
There is this hope that I have that a third party will ingnite the passions of millions of Americans. And while I'm still a registered independent, I have strong libertarian and populist tendencies. The democrats are the party that kills jobs, enslaves people, and makes foreign policy based on feelings. Barack Obama has amplified and accelerated these policies to a freightening degree, In fact, his boldness will take years to unravel.

The republicans have a few stars. Michelle Bachmann, John Boehner. But this is not enough to curb the flow of disinformation coming from the state run media. Governor Palin says she'll campaign for both conservative democrats and republicans who believe in the right things. The only problem with that is that we've seen blue dog democrats cave to pressure put on them by Nancy Pelosi. Vote for this now and get some cash for your district later. Chicago style politics is killing the independent lawmaker. Everything is a backroom deal. And while Palin's star power may help some get to congress, the reality is that once they're there, they'll be corrupted by special interests and pork for their district.

I like Governor Palin, but she cannot do this alone. When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, he was often ineffective because the legislature was dominated by whack-job liberals. So at the mid terms, Romney tried to cherry pick his own candidates. It didn't work. In fact, he lost seats. This may just be the collapse of western civilization. Or it may be that the population is so skewed now by "immigration" and "governement workers" that there is no way to overcome the system. Palin and others should be working non-stop to educate people on what this government take over of everything really means. I'm still looking for a fresh movement that can overcome the republican brand.
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Bye Bye Sarah

Posted by Dave The White House Slave on Saturday, July 04, 2009 12:00:00 PM
Sarah Palin, gone. No more late night jokes. No more dust ups with David Letterman and Keith Obamaman. People who are now wildly speculating about her future are missing the point. Sarah Palin is leaving politics because it's filled with people who want her to fail. People who have contempt in their heart for just the mention of her name. People who fill newsrooms across America, who purposely design news reports that look at Palin with angst and ridicule.

And even though I predicted that Maverick McCain needed a jolt last fall, he may have done Palin the worst favor of her lifetime. Her Alaskan speaking style and her common sense rhetoric did not fly south of the Canadian border. Even though it was pretty clear that she held her own against Gaffe Biden in the one debate, it was also clear that Sarah may have used the word "maverick" one too many times. Palin is a doer and not a talker. She knows how to DO government right, rather than glide through some silky monologue. Palin is to nuance what trees are to Times Square. Yet, that is why the base loved her. She spoke plainly. She was easy on the eyes. But how can an attractive woman be smart? We need the likes of Barbara Boxer and Hillary Clinton as role models of intellect.  Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter need not run for the senate. Michelle Bachman is a fluke. She'll eventually be brought down by an episode of "Countdown".

My view is this; how many times can a woman hear about her pregnant teenage daughter? How many things can be written about a crazy woman who actually practices her anti-abortion preaching? Plus, she attends one of those wacky charasmatic churches, where people pray out loud and believe God can protect our troops. Good grief. The intellectual baffoonery. The backward, neanderthal 1956 thinking. How dare this woman take us back to the dark ages? If she were pro-abortion, she'd be seen as an intellectual giant. If she just stopped shooting that silly gun, she'd be looked at as enlightened. If she would just stop saying "oil and natural gas reserves" and spoke in solareeze, she would be as well spoken as Michael Moore.

All this babbling to make one single point; Sarah Palin is not wanted. Her views, her style, her good looks, all have to go! Her family has been through enough. Todd Palin looks like he wants to snowmobile over someone's head. I wouldn't mess with Todd. Oh, and that's another thing. Sarah has the gall to be married to an alpha-male who could dress down a grizzly bear and survive weeks in the frozen wilderness eating tree bark. Notice how none of the liberal female commentators remarked on how attractive the First Dude is, but gush incessantly over Michelle Obama's buff arms. Egad! The double standard has actually morphed into a blackout or a smear campaign. We know about the pregnancy. We are told to be curious about where baby Trigg came from. We're told that there are a mountain of ethics violations coming down against the governor almost on a daily basis. Fiction is now normal. Set up a goofy narrative and stay on it for 9 months after the election is over.

My take is that Sarah wants out. She wants to go back to being a hockey mom. She doesn't want the oval office, nor does she care for the media bubble that has embraced everything Obama. She can author a book or two and then ride into the Alaskan wilderness without ever stepping foot into the spotlight again. For further research on this, see Dan Quayle. A truly great politician has left the scene and my hunch is she's had enough. Bye bye Sarah.
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Beck versus Hannity

Posted by Dave The White House Slave on Thursday, July 02, 2009 10:37:29 PM

This may be some foolish and useless observation on my part. But it's clear there's some kind of odd competition going on between Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. And it's clear that there is a huge difference between these two commentators. One has always been a rank partisan, who used to, until recently, tow the party line on everything and on everyone, maybe minus Arlen Spector. That person of course is Sean Hannity. Hannity's new prime time show is entertaining, but is more like a staged circus with fall guys (the great, great American panel) repleat with the token lib and 3 on 1 bashing that is sometimes self indulgent and silly. With Bob Beckel taking the brunt of this designed excess, it's clear that the show lacks the balance Fox wants. And even though this blogger abhored the likes of Alan Coombs, there seems to be a play it safe, republicans still rule mentality that lacks honesty and makes for a predictable show. Hannity also does these Glenn Beck-lite (pun intended) features like tonight's goofy and often nonsensical 101 ways to waste the stimulous money. Sean also had a cartoon-like tree on his show several weeks ago with apples that represented some form of liberty that we were losing. The apples would fall after Sean made his contitutional 101 presentation about the founding fathers. Beck had been deep into the founders, and especially the modern progressive movement. The only difference is the level of sincerity Beck demonstrates and his voracious study habits. He's a show prep machine. His shows are packed from front to back, both radio and TV with stuff that nobody is following except Beck. His cry-baby nervous on air breakdowns make him all the more palatable to the casual onlooker, looking for something not staged or canned. Hannity is a nice guy with stunning grey locks and a tough guy attitude that comes off as rather 1996. But we've seen this movie before.

Beck takes aim at all the politicians. He understands that the republican party only tacs slightly north of democrat central. He's been predicting this economic stuff for years on his show. Yet he's savvy and contained enough to not run over into Alex Jones territory. Although he's done TV shows that are likely inspired by the book of Revelation. This is a guy (Beck) who went from being an alcoholic to a workaholic with all of the fire of an Old Testament prophet. He's a modern day Ezekiel. He's beating his own drum in a way that is succinct, real and heartfelt. Beck is not about being #1 in the ratings. He's about waking up the masses to the coming wave of socialism that is now ruining what the founders set out to protect against. Hannity seems eager to glom on to these Beck coat tails. He had Mark Levin on his show the other night to tout his "Liberty And Tyranny" book which has spent a number of weeks at #1 on the NYT best seller list. Both Hannity and Levin failed to acknowledge that Glenn's "Common Sense" obliterated every book on the planet for the last week and has taken over the publishing world. Beck's book may end up being the biggest selling non-fiction book of all time. That honor currently belongs to Rush Limbaugh. My apologies to God. It's actually the Bible.

Finally, we need sincerity. We need truth. And we also need teamwork. I want Hannity, Beck, Levin, Limbaugh, Savage and O'Reilly to work together and not get in each other's way. This is about changing the political dynamic and working in concert to inform the masses of the coming doom if they don't run back to conservative principles. Hannity may be the stunning hero who we can put forth as our TV monarch. But that doesn't mean squat when Glenn Beck speaks from the heart and is aiming at all evildoers. It's our job to be discerning politicos who round up our friends and who use the knowledge we receive to actually turn this boat around. Beck seems to have struck a nerve with his Paul Revere approach, while Hannity is still touting the republican revolution as something new and fresh. Beck is the real deal.

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