It has only been about two weeks since Obama officially took the office of president, but already the sheen and paint on our newest president seems to be rapidly peeling away, and the American citizen is beginning to grow uneasy about what they are glimpsing underneath. This certainly shouldn’t be a surprise as the majority of Americans voted for Obama, the most secretive presidential candidate to ever run for this office, without a concern. A man who had been reported as the most liberal politician then in office, and even now, almost nothing is known about the man who is our new president, and the most powerful politician in the land; except what he has chosen to tell us. Neither the way he ran his presidential race, nor his many questionable ties and relationships with individuals or organizations, nor his utter lack of substantive political experience, prevented his being handed the keys to the white house.

   Many are only now beginning to blame the media and Oprah Winfrey, but the truth is far uglier. The American voters refused to even ask basic questions of a candidate who would be king, and the responsibility lies squarely with them. The time for questions should have been before we elected this man to his current position, not after the fact. Having said that, it is not to late to at least minimize the damage that he and his looney-toon co-conspirators, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reed, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Ted Kennedy, Frank Rangel, and all the rest, are preparing to unleash on an unsuspecting populace.

   In just his first two weeks in office President Obama has reinstated the abortions of others fetuses’ at the expense of the American taxpayer. He has ordered that the top CEO’s of companies which accept taxpayer funded bailouts must accept a salary cap of $500,000, an amount less than their vice-presidents and other corporate officers will be making. His first interview was to al-Arabia, in which he said that he intended to restore the “same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago.” At his first prayer service he seemed to reemphasize that America will be “good” under his watch and stop offending the poor misunderstood Muslims, which by the way have happily been butchering and terrorizing Americans (and the rest of the world for that matter) for at least the past 30 years.

   What has Obama received for all his love-fest overtures to the Muslim community? Pakistan has released the infamous Dr. Khan from his years of “house arrest.” Apparently Obama’s words have convinced them that they have nothing to fear from him. You may recall this is the same idiot that was happily selling the secrets on how to build your own nukes to any Muslim nation with an interest in such things. It should also be remembered that Dr. Khan was kept from any American investigators who desperately wanted to know what he had sold and to whom, not that that will prevent our government from sending tens of millions of our taxpayer dollars to the corrupt Pakistani government.

   Even Iran’s leadership has been quick to sense their new advantage in Obama as they wasted no time in demanding a formal apology for the atrocities committed against the Iranian people, as just one of the “pre-conditions” they would establish before any direct talks with the new American government.   

   Apparently he doesn’t remember or know that it was America that has unselfishly provided aid in money, food, medicine, and the blood of brave American men and women, in places like Somalia, Lebanon, Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, Afghanistan, Iraq, the many Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, and the millions of poor Muslims fortunate enough to have survived the great Christmas Tsunami. Of course for the sake of brevity this is just the short list. This, despite the 9/12 speech of former President Bush, who took great pains to assure the world that our war was with the terrorists, and not with Muslim, their religion of Islam, or any specific Muslim nation. It is certainly true that we have made mistakes along the way but I defy you to provide another nation in the world that has provided the level of aid sent by America.

   In his first two weeks President Obama has also promised to veto any bill that contained a “protectionist” clause that would insist that only American made steel, labor, etc, be used in any “stimulus” proposal. This also happens to be the exact opposite of what presidential candidate Obama had promised. He has also over ruled Gen. David Petraeus (formerly known as Gen. Betray Us within certain liberal circles), and who also just happens to be the only man, who almost single-handedly turned the violence in Iraq around; to insist on pulling our troops out within 16 months, no matter what.

   President Obama and his many minions, such as Rahm Emanuel, have already indicated that they plan to seriously cut our military defense spending, despite the fact that we are in a war on two fronts. Obama’s team has already demanded that the DOD trim its budget by at least 10%. They have made it pretty clear that they have no need for the Strategic Missile Defense program, despite Iran’s very recent launch of its first ICBM capable missile, and have even dropped the term, “war on terror” so as not to offend the sensibilities of those poor Muslims, both near and far. Of course Obama also recently stated that finding and killing Osama bin Laden is no longer “essential.” Yet another complete reversal of what he stressed as candidate Obama.  

   Emanuel stated in a recent interview that, “We have about $300 billion in cost overruns from the DOD,” that’s $300 billion out of this years proposed $527 billion dollar budget! This, in spite of the fact, that much of our military hardware is seriously debilitated from years of combat operations. The Obama team has already indicated that they plan to scrap the F35 Joint Strike Fighter, the F/A22 Raptor fighter, a destroyer, and of course the Ballistic Missile Defense program.

   Those programs alone will save about $25 billion dollars but at what cost to our nations future security? $25 billion seems a pittance compared to the more than $100 billion dollars that the American taxpayer was forced to hand over to insurance giant AIG alone. It also seems to fly in the face of common sense when we know our vastly overstretched military needs billions just to replenish the equipment depleted during the past several years, but which would have the added benefit of almost instantly increasing good paying jobs to American’s desperately looking for one. Yet neither of the so called stimulus packages seems to have spent a dime in this vital sector.

   What of Obama’s highly touted “transparency” by his new “rules” for any senior government officials within his cabinet? Do the names, Governor Richardson (forced to withdraw over allegations of his involvement in a “pay to play” scheme), Tom Daschle (owed more than $140,000 in delinquent taxes), Hillary Clinton (who, along with her husband Bill, had refused for years, to release a list of Bills donors, until of course she wanted to be Secretary of State), Eric Holder (who had served under Janet Reno of Waco Texas, Elian Gonzales, and Marc Rich fame), Tim Geithner (oops, another delinquent taxpayer to the tune of $43,000), and Governor Blagojevich (another Illinois politician, need I say more) ring any bells? So apparently Obama’s strict new “rules” and complete “transparency” only applies when He says they apply.

   Let’s not forget the presidents signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which Phyllis Schlafly accurately wrote in her January 13, 2009 article, “would remove existing statutory caps and allow for unlimited money damages to be awarded, even without proof of discriminatory intent.” Or President Obama’s new fear mongering language over the importance of Republican members of Congress getting on board with his party’s bloated liberal spending frenzy currently known as his “stimulus” package. Has anyone else noted Obama’s proclivity to seem totally unaware of any contrary views from those of his own? When speaking about the alleged Global Warming issue, he insists that every credible scientist agrees in this being a well documented fact. When speaking of the Republican obstinacies to his so called stimulus package, Obama continues to insist that "every" expert and economist “agrees” with his view of the stimulus package. Does anyone other than me have a serious doubt about those statements? I think there are lots of doubters out there.

   Well America, this man currently has the power that “we” the people handed to him. We the people can take it back, unless of course this is the “Change we can believe in” that you not only expected but wanted. Either way it is time for Americans to take responsibility and actually put forth some effort in the governance of our nation.

    I have recently read several articles where our main stream media (MSM) has been referred to as the “fourth house” referring to the White House, the two houses of Congress and now the power of the fourth “house,” the MSM. As if it wasn’t bad enough that our government has become so obviously dysfunctional that the unethical behavior of our elected politicians today would have led to their impeachment and/or criminal charges less than a decade ago, today they don’t even bother to try to hide their “me first” power plays.

   In an all too bitter presidential election year where the approval rating of our current President is at an historical low and the approval rating of Congress is even lower still, we now have an unchecked liberal media that shuns truth and impartiality in favor of “spin,” innuendo, and out right fabrication. In a nation that is identified as being only about 20% liberal (from the more respectable polling companies left) it should be alarming enough for the remaining 80% percent of the nations citizens that this extremely important bastion of freedom (the MSM) has fallen so totally to the fanatical fringes of our society.

   It shouldn’t be a great surprise to any of us that after more than three decades of relatively unmolested liberal hypocrisy and fanaticism bolstered by the “religion” of Multiculturalism and Political Correctness, and is directly due to the primary bastion of the ultra-leftist ideology; America’s colleges and universities. Where did people think our fresh faced journalists and reporters spent a critical formative portion of their young lives and education?

   Hillary Clinton came from a staunch Republican family until that is, she attended college. Even John McCain’s daughter proudly claims that she is a Democrat. A shift in her political thinking that seems to have occurred after she began college.  

   This is clear from the latest unending vitriolic attacks on Sarah Palin by our (you guessed it) Democratic MSM liberal ideology. When attacking her “lack of experience” and her 17 year old daughter’s unwed pregnancy had been reported ad nauseam, now the MSM is reporting on the two Alaskan churches she has attended and horror of horrors the MSM has reported almost ashen faced in their obvious disgust, as they have announced that Palin is a Christian! It turns out, the MSM reports, that Palin was raised in a Pentecostal church where they believe in speaking in “tongues,” that Jesus Christ died on the cross for all man kinds sins, the sanctity of life (i.e., abortion), and loving our neighbors! The MSM would have us believe that this could constitute a serious threat to national security if a devout Christian should become the President of the United States, or even the Vice President, who is only a “heartbeat” away from the presidency.

   It must be remembered that this is the same MSM who has simply refused to report the rest of the worlds news ever since the DNC convention and apparently plans to continue it’s self imposed black out until the end of this presidential race. The Russia – Georgia conflict, the utter failure of the recent gun bans in Canada and more recently Australia, Obama’s well documented (though unreported) ties to a wide variety of “radical” anti-American types, and of course the Iraqi and Afghanistan war fronts.

   The same was true of John Edwards “unfortunate” affair with a woman he met in a bar and paid handsomely to be a sort of publicist, while his doting wife was battling terminal cancer. It wasn’t our MSM that broke this story. It was the National Enquirer and hundreds of serious “bloggers’ around the country. The MSM only paid this story lip service when it could no longer be kept out of the headlines.

   Now we have Obama himself telling a crowd of his faithful that “you shouldn’t be able to make this stuff up. To reinvent yourself” while referring to the policies of McCain. This should be akin to waving a red flag to a real journalist but we can rest assured that in the ensuing silence you can hear the crickets chirp and the soft breeze playing with the tree tops. Obama can make such a bold statement with the complete confidence of a man who has nothing to fear from what passes today as our nation’s current pack of “journalists.” The Obama camp has been pummeling McCain on his 90% voting record while failing to point out that Obama has a nearly 100% voting record for the Democratic party. The Obama camp has made no bones about the fact that they are expecting the MSM to dig up enough dirt, or baring that, at least more half-truths and innuendo on Palin. Does anyone really believe that Obama came from no where and is now the presidential candidate for the DNC over the hugely powerful, though obviously not powerful enough, Clinton machine?

    As disturbing as all this is, there is something that should be even more disturbing to America. That is the quiet acquisitions being made by rich Arab countries like Saudi Arabia. They are using the enormous wealth that they never had to work for with the sweat of their own brows, but which flows from the sheer happenstance that their desert sands contain so much of the world’s oil. Now as a capitalist I don’t necessarily blame them for their incredible good luck but I can certainly take offense at the way they have chosen to use that enormous wealth. You might think that they would have spent that vast fortune on their own lands and people. Instead they have chosen to spread the world wide terrorism that is the Arabic religion of Wahhabi Islam along with it’s militant arm the Muslim Brotherhood.

   This is their legacy to the world; incredibly violent acts around the world on top of the most virulent form of racial supremacist ideology known to mankind. A political manifesto wrapped in a religion. A nation that supposedly espouses “religious cooperation and tolerance,” while refusing to allow leaders of non-Islamic religions into the “sacred kingdom.”

   They have bought up huge portions of the world’s financial centers, banking industries and yes, our own MSM. There is a famous account of one of the so called Saudi “royals” sitting in his New York penthouse suite watching the news coverage of the 2005 French Muslim riots occurring in hundreds of cities around that unfortunate country. It is reported that he picked up his phone and made a call to the head of one of the nations largest MSM CEO’s and complained at the continuing use of the term “rioting Muslim youths.” It was also reported that within 20 minutes of that phone call the term “Muslim” was dropped from all further reporting on those MSM stations.    

   Not that I am excusing the ultra-liberal MSM who haven’t the brains to understand that the majority of Americans easily identify with Palin, not McCain, and certainly not the radical Obama or Biden , because Palin is much more representative of mainstream Americans. This only becomes more obvious with each MSM “special” on the fact that Palin is a Christian, that her family enjoys the beautiful abundance of the Alaskan wilderness (as opposed to the ridiculous view of most of our nations “conservation” groups which would have us all believe that the only way to enjoy nature is to enshrine it and stay the hell out of it) and that ultimately she is some sort of zealot who shouldn’t be trusted anywhere near the most powerful position in all the world.

   Yet they generally fail to mention that Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton were all Governors before they became president. Ronald Reagan was treated to a similar tirade of liberal media pundits during his campaign and early presidency and yet it turns out he made a pretty darn good president, despite his religious affiliations to Christianity. One particularly pushy journalist asked President Reagan if he had a plan for dealing with the cold war threat of the U.S.S.R. to which his response was both immediate and telling. “We win. They lose.” That certainly seemed to sum up his feelings quite nicely don’t you think?

    With this evenings conclusion of the RNC convention this countries political parties candidates are truly off to the races. The DNC convention was a hugely lavish affair and attended by nearly 100,000 DNC supporter’s with a few hundred “demonstrators” who conducted such wildly subversive activities such as attempting to levitate the Denver Mint building while dressed as Harry Potter characters. The closing celebration was both beautiful and spectacular with the streamers and fireworks. No doubt about it but that Obama, when placed in front of a prepared speech presented by Teleprompters, is a very effective speaker.

   By contrast the RNC was lucky if it attracted 20,000 people (while perhaps as many as 8,000 truly hard core demonstrators showed up), and it did lack the careful choreography of the DNC’s convention, but what the DNC lacked in substance and grassroots appeal the RNC convention more than made up for in simple American values. Still it was like being invited to supper at a billionaire’s palatial mansion one week and to your parents modest but comfortable home the next. I certainly felt much more comfortable with the much more modest but comfortable home of the RNC convention.  McCain is certainly no great orator but it is the substance of his words coupled with the undeniable character of his past that I believe more than makes up for his oratory failings.

   On the other hand Obama doesn’t come across nearly so eloquently when he isn’t reading from a prepared script and this is where McCain excels as evidenced by his speaking at the Saddle Back Church a few weeks ago, as well as his many hundreds of “town hall” meetings where he welcomes any and all questions and has to speak from his knowledge and his heart. Obama appears to be sadly lacking in both. I remember a recent interview where Obama couldn’t seem to complete a sentence with out at least half a dozen “hum’s” and “unh’s.” And who could forget his answer at Saddle Back about his personal belief of when a fetus is considered human? Obama’s incredible answer certainly didn’t express either his knowledge or the feeling of his heart when he stated that was “above my pay grade.” To Obama’s credit he himself obviously knows the truth, hence his decision not to have an unscripted debate with McCain.

   At least I can look forward to a potentially unscripted Vice Presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. Like McCain you can be certain that Palin will speak from her heart and I believe she will also speak with knowledge. Hopefully her parties advisers will have prepared her for Biden’s favorite style of attack which has generally been very successful in making his opponents appear even dumber than he is. He has used this tactic for better than twenty years but forewarned is truly forearmed and I believe Palin will be a much tougher nut to crack than he has been used to devouring in the past.

   Ultimately this presidential race will be decided by the voters of our great nation and I refuse to believe that there are truly enough anti-American, anti-good people in this fair country to buy the pure manure that Obama and the MSM have been spreading. It is disturbing enough that because of the MSM’s concerted propaganda machines often repeated mantra of how our current president “mislead” the American people into a totally unilateral decision on his part to “settle an old score” that he “fabricated” the facts that led to the invasion of Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, the former ruthless dictator of Iraq. This lie, despite the nearly unanimous support of all members of our Congress both Democrat and Republican, along with more than 40 other nations around the world. Joe Biden was even so emboldened that he claimed, as reported by NewsMax.com today, that if elected he and Obama would seek to bring criminal charges against President Bush!

   I certainly don’t agree with a great deal of our current president’s decisions but I shudder to think what his predecessor would have done had 9/11 occurred during his watch.  I believe after the current intensely emotional and completely irrational furor of today has abated and settled into the more rational perspective of a rational evaluation of a historic period in our nations history, it will be determined that President Bush actually accomplished a great deal, despite the opposition. Yes he has certainly had his share of wrong headed policies but no one is perfect.

   I don’t consider myself a Republican or a Democrat but first, last, and always a proud American and I will throw my full support behind the candidate that I believe has the best interests of America first, last, and always. My wife’s uncle is a very nice gentleman who couldn’t hurt a fly except by accident, but he has been a life long Democrat and so he will only vote for a Democrat. During a recent conversation he admitted that he didn’t know much about Obama as he hadn’t really been following the candidates bid for the highest office in our nation. It shows the sort of lazy politics of many Americans, Democrat and Republican alike who don’t fully understand the importance of working to maintain our strong national identity.

   I have to admit that as a young man I wasn’t any different so I don’t mean any disrespect to him or the many other American’s like him. They tend to be good and decent people. They are also very lazy to believe that any democratic society can simply be placed on auto pilot without the potential of a serious disaster if left unattended to long.  I just wish more Americans would have learned from the tragic events such as the Oklahoma City bombing and the even larger tragedy of 9/11, and realized what our founding fathers knew only to well. That evil can only exist where good men do nothing. I believe that is a quote from Burke but I wouldn’t swear to it.

   No one can really argue the tremendous courage that a young McCain faced during more than five years of brutal treatment at the hands of the North Vietnamese government but I certainly don’t fully support all of his views either. However when faced with the only other choice left I will tighten my belt and do everything I possibly can to support he and Governor Palin in their pursuit of our highest elected office because as former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said during the RNC convention, “There is good change and there is bad change.” That pretty much sums up this race in a nutshell.

   This is just a brief update on my last posting made only a couple of hours after the announcement of Sarah Palin’s pick for the Republican Vice Presidents slot. Just today it was announced that Governor Palin’s oldest daughter is 5 months pregnant and unmarried. This has of course caused a feeding frenzy among the MSM, although Obama at least had the good sense to take a strong position (for once without any general nuanced double speak) that all of the current candidates families and especially their children should be “off limits” to media intrusion. The MSM has already seemed to imply that it is somehow the lack of moral standards of Palin that has resulted in her 17 year old daughters pregnancy, along with the not so subtle hints that perhaps if Palin wasn’t so busy pursuing her political career she would have been a better mother to her children.

   This of course completely overlooks the incredible hormone driven lack of wisdom and perspective for teenagers of any generation. Palin’s daughter has been “in love” with the young father for at least the last couple of years as they have been boyfriend-girlfriend since about the start of High School. To hear our MSM talking heads speak you would think they had never been young once and had never made a mistake if they were. For people in a huge glass house of their own making it seems mighty reckless to me that they are so free with throwing stones.

   Despite Obama’s unequivocal stance on this issue I don’t expect this will have much effect on the current MSM frenzy but it may help slow it up a bit within the next 24 hours or so. In the meantime the Larry King Show devoted at least half his program to whether or not this would have any significant impact on Palin’s candidacy. His guest speakers were fairly split between Republican and Democratic supporters but surprisingly included a “live” phone in with CNN reporter Kyra Phillips, who made her support for the DNC position clear. This is the same Kyra Phillips who would also appear on Anderson Cooper’s 360 program questioning how a mother of five, with her own 4 month old child which was born with Downs and now a 17 year old pregnant and unmarried daughter possibly be able to “juggle” the responsibilities of being the potential VP of the country. Of course no such questions have ever been asked about any male politicians where it is simply assumed that the politicians “little woman” would be tending to the children and daily family issues. Not surprising from our “neutral” media of today.

   It shows yet again the complete double standard of the liberal left which is the bedrock of today’s Democratic Party. When Senator Biden’s wife and children were involved in a truly tragic car accident that left his wife and daughter dead and both his son’s in serious condition in the hospital, where were the accusations that Biden would either have to be a terrible parent for taking the senate position – he was after all sworn in while at his sons hospital bedside – or that he would be a terrible Senator due to the requirements of his personal family issues and grieving? Of course no such questions were asked or even considered as he was not a woman running for the senate seat.

   According to at least one media report I heard earlier today some 8,000 to 10,000 demonstrators have descended on Minneapolis to raise holy hell with the RNC convention being held there. It is a sign of the times that almost as many demonstrators are showing up for an event that is reportedly drawing only a fraction of the numbers of supporters which attended the DNC convention last week. It should also be noted that only a few “demonstrators” showed up and they were very subdued. Despite the RNC convention basically being largely postponed there were still more than 80 protestors arrested or detained and this will no doubt be only the beginning for these elitist persons who believe that they are right and anyone who disagrees with them can go to hell. Groups like Code Pink fail to see the irony of their demands for love, peace and an end to war, even as they demonstrate their irrational hatred for our country and our traditional mores.

   Apparently, since Palin is a woman everything that applied for Senator Biden is verboten for the fairer – and Republican – VP candidate. Either way I would like to make a personal little prediction here and now. If Obama loses his bid for the POTUS position, you will hear the liberal pundits such as the talking head, and CNN political pundit David Gergen, and the MSM in general blaming Obama’s loss on McCain’s “lucky” selection of Palin for his VP ticket which stole the poor misguided and uneducated American voters who were either to racist (but at least not to sexist), or to those bitter “gun toting” Americans who failed to realize what a real miracle they had in the personage of their chosen one, Barrack Hussein Obama. Of course they will also probably point out the numerous flaws in Obama’s campaign but I think you get my point.  

 In the meantime the MSM desperately continues to try and “pin down” Republican spokespersons and politicians to admit that Palin’s “utter lack of experience” should prohibit her being appointed to the VP slot. This only continues to allow the Republican and conservative base to repeatedly point out that she has at least as much experience as does Obama. I have noticed that most of the interviews are usually terminated at about this point.

   On the plus side this has all been without any real response from either McCain or Palin thus far as Hurricane Gustav has severely impacted the first day of the RNC convention but once they do begin to be seen by the American public, I for one am confident that the good American people are going to make the best vote for our country, and the majority of those votes will not be for the Obama bin-Biden ticket. I look forward to the McCain/Palin duo taking the reigns for at least the next four years and the huge and long overdue dismantling of the ridiculous conservation “Green” lobbyists hold over the best interests of America and our vast natural resources hostage. I believe we will see a very bright future for the first time in a very long time and one that will immensely benefit both Americans and America.

   The fact that it all started with McCain’s choice of not only a woman for VP, but such a strong woman as Palin, will be hailed as both a historical landmark in American politics and a real sign of the brilliance of McCain, which will no doubt be talked about for generations to come.

 

    Despite the hue and cry, calls for impeachment, and even some demanding that President Bush be arrested and charged as a war criminal; the reality is that OUR nation’s leader, whether you voted for him or not, has made incredible in-roads into the so called “war on terror.”

   Since 9/11 President Bush has taken out the terrorist “safe havens” and training camps of Afghanistan, kicking the repressive zealot Taliban enablers out with them, and established an interim government in their place. A government that is working towards a democratic election process for the near future, however fitfully and slowly that process may be.

   He has toppled a major tyrant for instability in the Middle East in the personage of Saddam Hussein, while simultaneously defeating one of the largest standing armies in the world, in a military campaign that will be studied by generations of American military leaders and historians for years to come.

   President Bush may not have eliminated UBL and his terrorist organization, but he has forced them to show their true perfidy and inhumanly callous disregard for all life, Muslim and non-Muslim alike. He has reduced their presence in Iraq to a mere shadow of their former power, and more importantly caused al Qaeda to be shunned by most of the Muslim world. He has also overseen the establishment of another interim government which held the first democratic elections by Iraq’s citizenry, the first such election in Iraq in more than thirty years.

   President Bush has steadfastly refused to treat stateless terrorists as common criminals, insisted on keeping these terrorists detained at Gitmo, and subject to military court tribunals, and has done all this without the draft.

   President Bush has authorized several extremely sensitive and thus secretive anti-terrorist programs, despite the strong opposition of our more Multicultural and Politically Correct politicians who are more concerned about their next election than they are about the security of our country.  Secretive (gasp) programs that tracked terrorist funding through international banks (which was openly published by that great liberal newspaper the New York Times), and a secret cell phone monitoring program (again exposed by the NYT), among other programs which I assume the NYT has thus far failed to learn of.  

   Finally, President Bush has remained in power ever since 9/11 without another serious terrorist attack occurring within America. In fact he has done such a good job in this last point that people are already eager to forget the tragedy and sense of desperation that followed the destruction of those twin symbols of America’s financial might, and the damage done to the symbol of Americas military might.  

   Contrast this presidents achievements with that of his predecessor. During President Clintons eight years in office America was attacked again and again and the net result was we fired a few missiles into the Afghanistan topography.

   People have forgotten that Clinton had only barely begun his first term when the first World Trade Center truck bombing occurred. In fact they forget if they ever knew that at the time of that blast, President Clinton was right across the river in New Jersey giving a speech on a new jobs program he was pushing. Not only did he refuse to drive across the river to make an appearance, he insisted on branding that act as a “criminal act,” not a terrorist act. He would continue to do so throughout his entire presidency. If he had hoped this would dissuade those pesky terrorists we can only now clearly see just how sadly mistaken he was.

   President Bush will step aside early next year and the historians (long after the current strong emotions have subsided) will determine his true legacy. Unfortunately our nation has become so polarized that those who have noticed the impressive achievements of OUR president appear to have no voice, while those who refuse to accept the reality of OUR president’s achievements (you would think we could all take pride in any good that the highest elected official representing us to the world might achieve) simply refuse to see any  good, despite those successes. With ideology so soundly trumping pragmatism now-a-days, its no wonder this is such an unpopular topic.