I marvel at the apparent indifference to the mass of the American people to the Obama administration's continuing subversion of the free market system and rule of law in this country.   I question  if there is any provocation that would lead the people to rise up and declare "No more."   Is our heritage and liberty of so little value to us that we will allow it to be emasculated without a fight?    It's maddening to me that a  majority seem so mesmerized by a talented demigod that they will acquience in policies that ensure there country is bankrupted and laid open to its enemies.   This is not the America I grew up in.  

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Mr. Obama is scheduled to give a speech to the Moslem world from Cairo, Eqypt on June 4th.   Since he has already prostrated himself before the Saudi king, made nice with Iran, and indicated a willingness to betray Israel, I don't know what he has left to say.    Lots of people think he's a closet Muslim, so maybe he will "come out of the closet."   His previous overseas junkets have been apology tours so I suppose he can apologize for all our imagined transgressions against the Arab peoples.   What is certain is that nothing he says will help our position in the Middle East and is more likely to damage it.    Obama oozes weakness when abroad and the Middle East is the last place that a leader or his nation needs to be perceived as weak.   It is an invitation to attack.

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Mr. Obama spoke at Notre Dame university on the subject of abortion.    The thrust of his remarks is that we must learn to disagree, agreeably.    One doubts he would have said the same about  slavery, circa 1860.    Abortion is the murder of an innocent life for the convenience of the living.   No amount of presidential blathering alters this fundamental truth.   The Bible states that a man is known by his fruits.   Mr. Obama has stated that he is a Christian.    Mr. Obama has a record of supporting abortion on demand, free of the mildest restriction.    The reader can draw his own conclusion.

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The homosexual movement has been on a role lately, with victories in favor of homosexual "marriage" in Iowa, Maine and, very soon, New Hampshire.    Once homosexual civil unions were accepted, the horse left the barn on homosexual "marriage."    What was considered a middle ground on the issue in fact constitutes a surrender of the high ground in the argument.    We seem to be moving inexorably to homosexual "marriage" prevailing throughout the nation.   Once that is the case, it follows quite naturally that people and institutions who don't accept the new order of things will suffer condemnation and legal consequences.   The homosexual marriage movement, like all modern leftist movements, is fundamentally totalitarian in nature, and will tolerate no opposing voices.

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Mr. Obama never wastes the opportunity to condemn the Bush administration for tactics it used in defending the country after September 11, 2001.   Obama contends the tactics were inconsistent with our "values."   What values does he refer to?    A nation has interests, not values, and the preeminnet interest of a nation is survival.   The greatest obligation a government owes its citizens it to protect their lives and property from external threats.   In both respects then the Bush administration was successful.   One of my "values" (and one I suspect most share) is to escape murder by barbarians wtih a 7th century mindset.    The highest value is for the United States to emerge victorious in its conflict with radical Islamists; hamstringing our efforts with pseudo moralizing from Mr. Obama can be dispensed with.

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Comparing Dick Cheney to Barack Obama reminds me of what always happens when an experienced baseball pitcher faces a wet-behind-the-ears rookie batter who thinks he a hotshot.   The rookie is going to be schooled everytime. 

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One thing that's obvious about Obama is his inablity to handle criticism - an odd defect in a politician.   It is, however, perfectly consistent with a tyrant.    The tyrant feeds like a parasite on the public's adulation; criticism deny the tyrant sustanence and causes him to lash out at the critics.   Sooner or later Obama will be unable to control  himself and the mask will come off, exposing for all to see the very unattractive core of his personality. 

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One thing that I cannot understand about the Chrsyler and GM situations is why the bondholders of these companies have not sued to protect their interests, or why there clients haven't sued them for breaching their fiduciary duty to protect the investment.   You can't look sideways in this country without being sued but for some reason but, though billions of dollars are at stake, nobody has come forward to litigate what is an clear and obvious violation of the bondholders rights.   Has the Gestapo visited them after dark?   Have they been threatened with the concentration camp?   People don't just walk away from billions.    There has to be something ugly and lawless going on behind the scenes that we'll learn about one day.

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The utltimate issue regarding health care is whether the individual wants to be able to receive all the care he can pay or insure himself for, or let the government decide when he should die.   It really boils down to that.    For the elderly, socialized health care will be a death warrant, since socialized health care means rationed health care, and rationed health care means restricting it to patients of an age and condition to make it cost effective.  Socialized health care reduces the individual's life to strictly running the numbers - eventually yours will be up. 

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Mr. Obama has demonstrated in his foreign policy the tendency to belittle our allies and embrace our enemies.   I'm certain the leaders of Israel have noticed and will act accordingly with respect to the Iranian nuclear program.    It is a matter of when not if that Israel will attack Iran.   It will be the opening salvo of a reckoning in the Middle East that will shake the world.