Testimonials
This is a first in a series of articles that I hope you will come to understand just why it is that you need and deserve God in your life.
I have a very good friend also a proud member once who like me long long ago fought in another world far far away where "boys" had to grow up to become "Men" way before they were ready. It was a matter of pure survival.
This friend thinks the world is "coming apart at the seams" and I agree with him. America has lost its "moral compass", we have lost a set of principles that were once "God Centered" at created by our founding Fathers.
We have forgotten those values and principles and abandoned them for the love of not a "God", but the almighty Dollar
He most recently sent this letter which he has given me permission or anyone to copy and to send to our leader in Washington, especially our President.
I hope you find the letter as impressive and moving as I did and will take time out of your day, to see if your life is not also almost out of control for you no longer trust the values and principles passed on to us by our parents
And Grandparents.
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The
White House
1600
Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington,
DC 20500
Mr. Obama:
I have had it with you and your administration, sir. Your
conduct on your recent trip overseas has convinced me that you are not an adequate representative
of the United States of America collectively or of me personally. You are
so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world that you have
abdicated the responsibilities of the President of the United States of
America. You are responsible to the citizens of the
United States. You are not responsible to the peoples of any other
country on earth. I personally resent that you go around the world apologizing
for the United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care
about their status in the world. Sir, what do you think the First
World War and the Second World War were all about if not the consideration of
the peoples of Europe? Are you brain dead? What do you think the Marshall Plan was
all about?
Do you not understand or know the history of the 20
century?
Where do you get off telling a Muslim country that the United
States does not consider itself a Christian country? Have you not read
the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States?
This country was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and the principles governing
this country, at least until you came along, come directly from this
heritage. Do you not understand this?
Your bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia is an affront to all
Americans. Our President does not bow down to anyone, let alone the king
of Saudi Arabia. You don’t show Great Britain, our best and one of our
oldest allies, the respect they deserve yet you bow down to the king of Saudi
Arabia.
How dare you, sir! How dare you!
You can’t find the time to visit the graves of our greatest
generation because you don’t want to offend the Germans but make time to visit a mosque in
Turkey.
You offended our dead and every veteran when you give the Germans
more respect than the people who saved the German people from themselves. What’s
the matter with you? I am convinced that you and the members of your administration
have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle and should be
ashamed of yourselves, all of you.
You are so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the
American automobile manufacturers yet do nothing about the real thieves in this
situation, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Frank, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelic, the Fannie Mae
bonuses, and the Freddie Mac bonuses. What do you intend to do about
them? Anything? I seriously doubt it.
What about the U.S. House members passing out $9.1 million in
bonuses to their staff members – on top of the $2.5 million in automatic pay
raises that lawmakers gave themselves? I understand the average House
aide got a 17% bonus. I've taken a 20% cut in my pay due to the poor
economy. You haven’t said anything about that. Who authorized
that? I surely didn’t!
Executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be receiving $210
million in bonuses over an eighteen-month period, that's $45 million more than
the AIG bonuses. In fact, Fannie and Freddie executives have already been
awarded $51 million – not a bad take. Who authorized that and why
haven’t you expressed your outrage at this group who are largely responsible
for the economic mess we have right now.
I resent that you take me and my fellow citizens as brain-dead and
not caring about what you idiots do. We are watching what you are doing
and we are getting increasingly fed up with all of you. I also want you
to know that I personally find just about everything you do and say to be
offensive to every one of my sensibilities. I promise you that I will
work tirelessly to see that you do not get a chance to spend two terms destroying
my beautiful country.
Sincerely,
Jack Bishop
167 N. Ewing Ave
Louisville, KY 40206-2458
502-897-0458
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Name
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Comments
Hi
Murf and Mrs. Murf ;-). I did write not long ago, wondering where YOU had
been. Thanks for contacting me. Please note the new phone number. I couldn't
afford to keep the cell phone, so I got a number with Skype. If you call and
miss me, simply leave a message. I love your site. I've decided to go for it
and relo to the R.P. by March, 2010. Can't find anyone willing to pay an old
American enough to even live on, so I'll live with asawa ko in the land of
Paradise! God bless you both.
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A Rookie President
Thomas
Sowell
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Someone once said that, for every rookie you have on your starting team in the
National Football League, you will lose a game. Somewhere, at some time during
the season, a rookie will make a mistake that will cost you a game.
We now have a rookie President of the United States and, in the dangerous
world we live in, with terrorist nations going nuclear, just one rookie mistake
can bring disaster down on this generation and generations yet to come.
Barack Obama is a rookie in a sense that few other Presidents in American
history have ever been. It is not just that he has never been President before.
He has never had any position of major executive responsibility in any kind of
organization where he was personally responsible for the outcome.
Other first-term Presidents have been governors, generals, cabinet members or others
in positions of personal responsibility. A few have been senators, like Barack
Obama, but usually for longer than Obama, and had not spent half their few
years in the senate running for President.
What is even worse than making mistakes is having sycophants telling you that
you are doing fine when you are not. In addition to all the usual hangers-on
and supplicants for government favors that every President has, Barack Obama
has a media that will see no evil, hear no evil and certainly speak no evil.
They will cheer him on, no matter what he does, short of first-degree murder--
and they would make excuses for that. Even former Reagan speech writer Peggy
Noonan has gushed over President Obama and even crusty Bill O'Reilly has been
impressed by Obama's demeanor.
There is no sign that President Obama has impressed the Russians, the Iranians
or the North Koreans, except by his rookie mistakes-- and that is a dangerous
way to impress dangerous people.
What did his televised overture to the Iranians accomplish, except to reassure
them that he was not going to do a damn thing to stop them from getting a
nuclear bomb? It is a mistake that can go ringing down the corridors of
history.
Future generations who live in the shadow of that nuclear threat may wonder
what we were thinking about, putting our lives-- and theirs-- in the hands of a
rookie because we liked his style and symbolism?
In the name of "change," Barack Obama is following policies so
old that this generation has never heard of them-- certainly not in most of our
educational institutions, where history has been replaced by "social
studies" or other politically correct courses.
Seeking deals with our adversaries, behind the backs of our allies? France did
that at Munich back in 1938. They threw Czechoslovakia to the wolves and, less
than two years later, Hitler gobbled up France anyway.
This year, President Obama's attempt to make a backdoor deal with the Russians,
behind the backs of the NATO countries, was not only rejected but made public
by the Russians-- a sign of contempt and a warning to our allies not to put too
much trust in the United States.
Barack Obama is following a long practice among those on the left of being hard
on our allies and soft on our enemies. One of our few allies in the Middle
East, the Shah of Iran, was a whipping boy for many in the American media, who
vented their indignation at his regime-- which now, in retrospect, seems almost
benign compared to the hate-filled fanatics and international terrorism
sponsors who now rule that country.
However much Barack Obama has proclaimed his support for Israel, his first
phone call as President of the United States was to Hamas, to whom he has given
hundreds of millions of dollars, which can buy a lot of rockets to fire into Israel.
Our oldest and staunchest ally, Britain, has been downgraded by President
Obama's visibly less impressive reception of British Prime Minister Gordon
Brown, compared to the way that previous Presidents over the past two
generations have received British Prime Ministers. President Obama's sending
the bust of Winston Churchill in the White House back to the British embassy at
about the same time was either a rookie mistake or another snub.
We can lose some very big games with this rookie.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of Basic
Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy.
copied with permission from:
Sincerely,
Jack Bishop
167 N. Ewing Ave
Louisville, KY 40206-2458
502-897-0458
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