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The Un-American Mr Obama.

Submitted by Skip MacLure on Sat, 09/11/2010 - 04:52
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There has never been an American President less in touch with the people of the United States of America. As the day of the mid-term election draws ever closer, Democrats are bracing for the worst. The economy and jobs are the anchor around the neck of Barack Hussein Obama.

But that’s not all there is to the story. I heard Rush refer to Obama as ‘the man-child’, and in truth he does seem to have a childlike air about him that becomes more apparent as the utter mismanagement of his government is being revealed on a daily basis. His erstwhile supporters (other than the extreme left of the left) are bailing as fast as they can find someplace to bail to, which appears to be any place Obama isn’t.

On Thursday night we had a terrible fire up in the hills above San Bruno, California. I watched it from my living room window, the same window I wrote about watching fireworks from, just across the valley from me on the Fourth of July. The same neighborhood the explosion and fire took place in. My son was busy shooting video of the fire, some of which looks as good, or better, than a lot of the network stuff I’ve seen.

As I watched this whole sad drama unfold, I couldn’t help but equate that fire with Obama’s communist schemes for taking our Republic down and our freedoms with it. His scorched earth economics have backfired on him. I’m sure by now you must have seen pictures of the aftermath of the San Bruno fire. I’m no stranger to these things. I was involved in the intensive mitigation and remediation that went on after the Oakland fire, and I’ll be involved in this one too as soon as the Coroner’s people and the fire command releases the area to residents and restoration contractors.

The most striking pictures are the ones of the rows of chimneys amongst the char and foundations, because for fifty or more of these homes that’s all that’s left. Once again, I was struck by the thought that that’s exactly what our economy looks like… the aftermath of a firestorm. Fourteen million jobs lost, with true unemployment figures reaching eighteen percent.

With Obama actively working on destroying our energy sector, and its one million workers plus nationwide, it’s apparent to an overwhelming number of Americans that the anti-American Mr Obama definitely does not have our best interests at heart. Every time this loose cannon opens his mouth, he shows America just how little he understands the people he’s supposed to be serving.

I don’t want to call him a coward and a traitor, so I’ll just say that Obama doesn’t act like an American. He doesn’t get even the most basic premise of what Americans are about. He certainly hasn’t got a clue when it comes to American exceptionalism.

Obama was raised and educated in an anti-American Marxist ideology which he continues to espouse to this day. His ill-concealed predilection for anything Muslim is also very bothersome. This country is in a world-wide war with militant Islam, a war not of our choosing. The war will not end unless, or until, Islam is forced into a reformation or is utterly defeated.

November is our only chance to pull Barack Obama’s fangs. I can say without equivocation that the upcoming election is the most important of our lifetimes… perhaps in the history of our Republic.

Other thoughts that went through my mind as I watched those flames shooting a thousand feet into the air was that it was the eve of 9-11. I kept seeing those planes strike the twin towers in my mind’s eye. I’m infuriated every time I see pictures or video of that cowardly act. It wasn’t wayward Swedes or Italians who did this… it was Muslims.

While we’re planning Mr Obama’s early retirement we’d better plan on battling the foe amongst us, for that’s where this thing will eventually end up. All of the Islamist sleepers that have been pouring over our borders all these years are a butcher’s bill that is yet to be paid.

Make sure you are registered to vote and then go out and register family and friends, and encourage them to show up and vote! It’s the most important job you will ever have.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

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The illogical Skip MacLure

Submitted by dean2 on Sat, 09/11/2010 - 19:38.

Let me first say that the events of September 11 horrified me.  I began listening to the reports from the moment the first airplane hit, when it was still speculation that a smaller airplane had flown into the tower.  I was watching updates on television, and while the station was doing an audio interview with a Pentagon correspondent, the Pentagon itself was hit.  I went to my job in the skyscraper in downtown Minneapolis where I still work.  On the ride in I looked up at a beautiful but suddenly cold blue sky and a shock of panic went through me - what if there was more to come?  Could they come here, too?  And I watched on the TV in the office.  Usually the company runs CNN or Bloomberg Financial news programming, but of course on that morning there was only one "program".  And then I saw the first tower fall, then the second.  I'll never be able to forget those images, nor would I care to.  It was a life changing event, requiring a new way for me and for everyone else to think about what was happening in our world, and how we needed to start interacting with one another.

It meant there was a new reality in our world.  I'd been paying attention to Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden for 4 or 5 years at that point.  I was actively concerned about his accumulation of power, his organizational skill, his wealth and access to further wealth, his family ties to the United States.  His operational capacity was still murky, as far as the public was aware (our government and national security apparatus very clearly knew more, as we'd come to find out).

I began to pay attention to extremist groups with the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.  Like most others, I saw a greater threat here at home than I did from abroad.  Operational scope was (and remains) an important issue in weighing these risks, so I was much more concerned about the capacities of extremists here than elsewhere.  So was our government., because they knew enough about organizational capacity and maturity to understand that the more capable extremist organizations knew better than to extend beyond their reach, as sticking your neck out, quite literally, is a deadly proposition, to your entire cause.

But one thing was obvious to me from the get-go, and it should be obvious altogether.  It was obvious to President George W. Bush on the morning of September 11, 2001, and honorably so.  While most extremists shared a religious fervor as a key piece of their base motivation, it was their choices and actions as individuals that were to blame for their intention to commit horrific, cowardly acts.  It wasn't their religion.

And if it were their religion we'd be doomed.  If Christians were capable of Oklahoma City because they were Christians, what chance did we have?  It's likewise with Muslims (or Hindus), and in fact more aggravated due to sheer numbers.  There are far more of both Muslims and Hindus in the world than there are Christians (it's not even close).  If religion were the motivation, we'd be quickly overrun, and that logic requires that the majority of our own people were even against us.

It's obviously not the case.  There are many factors that go into the makeup of a violent extremist.  Religion is oftentimes one of them, but there is no logical stepping stone to equate violent extremists 1:1 with any one or more religions, including Islam.  Yet people still make that link.  Many on our side conflate Muslims with terrorists.  Many on other sides conflate Christians with terrorists.  And indeed there are terrorists who are Christians, terrorists that are Muslims, terrorists of every major and most minor religions.  But worse, those persons who conflate religion with terror have sunk to each others' level, and we can see the havoc it wreaks and the violent cycle it justifies amongst those who make that basic, foolish mistake.

Skip has made it in this post (and others).  He dishonors those who have died or been injured in the course of this cowardly struggle.  So I'd like to turn Skip's illogic back on him, and in so doing, hopefully someone who may have been inclined to believe his hateful logic may reconsider.

Now take a look at the horrific photo below of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma after the cowards Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols blew it up, killing 168 of their fellow citizens, including 19 children in a day care center, on April 19, 1995.  Remember that these men were Christians (and Terry Nichols may still be - who knows what's contained in his flawed, rotting soul). 

Next, look at the text I've worked up beneath it.  It's a direct quote of what Skip said here, except it replaces the facts of 9/11 with the facts of 4/19/95, and it replaces the word Muslim with the word Christian.  Then ask yourself if some on the Right, Left and Center should continue with this erroneous and dangerous line of thought.  Ask yourself if such foolish thinking honors those killed in Oklahoma City, New York City, the Pentagon and a lonely field in Pennsylvania.

"I kept seeing those planes strike the twin towers that fertilizer bomb strike the Murrah Building in my mind’s eye. I’m infuriated every time I see pictures or video of that cowardly act. It wasn’t wayward Swedes or Italians who did this… it was Christians Muslims."