America's Choice

America has a choice to make this upcoming election day in 2012.  The following are my thoughts, and mine alone.

I thought that President Obama was the first "post-racial" President and we could all come together where race isn't an issue any more, even when making jokes about the taco bell dog.  I have family members who have black spouses and cousins who are bi-racial just the same as President Obama, so racism isn't an issue with me, though I sometimes use the phrase "and they call me racist" to make a point...like I did with the buttons at the DNC because of the fact that most liberals accuse conservative people of being racist and the fact that if a white guy put a slogan like that on a button, he WOULD have immediately been called a racist. This week I was asked by a friend if I was “racist.”  I am not.  I was also asked if I thought President Obama was the anti-christ.  I don’t, and have never thought so.  Both of those questions came from a friend of mine who just happens to be black, just so you know.  Yes, I have black friends!  I also have Bulgarian, German, Korean, Japanese, and Mexican friends!  For some reason conservatives and Christian conservatives in particular are always labeled "racist" when, if you read ANY of the civil rights history, it's exactly the opposite. I mean, Abraham Lincoln AND Martin Luther King, Jr. were BOTH Republicans!!!  So, how’d that happen???

I've heard that there were even "SLUTS VOTE" buttons at the DNC.  When I heard that, I was like, "What self-respecting woman would wear that?" and then it hit me why that was even on a button in the first place and it was because of that Sandra Fluke woman who wants gov't and everybody to stay out of her womb, yet wants everyone else to pay for her condoms and contraceptives FOR her womb....and that radio guy, Rush Limbaugh, called her a slut and it was a terrible thing to call anyone, the same as Bill Maher calling Sarah Palin the "c" word. Both wrong in my opinion, but yet they had Sluts Vote buttons at the DNC. Which made me wonder if they were affirming what the radio show host called her in the first place???  BTW, I want the gov’t to stay out of my womb and fallopian tubes too!!!  I don’t want the gov’t to tell me how many children I can/can’t have or make me have forced abortions like they do in China.  The difference between me and Fluke is that I don’t expect other people to pay for the CHOICES that I make.

Here's a little known fact: Obama's father didn't march for the civil rights movement; Mitt Romney's father did. Mitt Romney's dad, although Mormon, was not a polygamist; Obama's father was, having 3 wives at the same time. Obama's father was a communist; as was his mentor, Frank Marshall Davis.  Communists don't believe in "civil" rights. Obama didn't grow up with the Pledge of Allegiance, 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Veteran's Day, Memorial Day, Apple Pie, or any other American tradition that makes him like us. You can read about his exotic life in Indonesia in his book. Based on his own words and policies, he is a Marxist socialist communist. 

Many of my heroes are black people: George Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglas, Samuel Morris, just to name a few!  Condoleeza Rice is an amazingly strong woman that I admire greatly!  I am proud that such an intelligent and accomplished woman from Alabama is on the political stage!  George Washington Carver will ALWAYS be top dog because he invented PeanutButter!  And I absolutely love Allen West, Thomas Sowell, (Sowell's Writings) and C.L. Bryant! In my opinion, I think Sowell or West would have been better choices for the first African-American president....which, if you know the truth, Barack Obama isn't. His mom was white, his dad Kenyan. The "label" African-American is used for black people whose ancestors were brought over here as slaves by the British, French, and Spanish; not Americans! Barack's father was never a slave so his lineage does not hold true to the standard. 

Me? My ancestry is Irish/Scots-American whose great-great-great-grandfather was the first white man on Sand Mountain who married a Cherokee woman. I have Cherokee and Irish from both sides of my family and Scots from my dad's side.  The Tinkers are called “wanderers” in Ireland, because that’s what they did, kind of like gypsies, wandering from place to place, repairing (tinkering) with things, hence the surname “Tinker.” But I've never been to Ireland a day in my life. I'm AMERICAN!  Have you ever been to Africa? If not, then you are just an American, like me! Teddy Roosevelt said that hyphenated Americans weren't American (paraphrase) so......I read a lot and I know that as horrible as slavery was to black people, my Native American ancestors were the targets of genocide to steal their land. Yet America is the only nation that fought a bloody war to end the practice of slavery, something our Founders found so abhorrent and reprehensible reprehensible they changed the wording in the Declaration of Independence from "life, liberty, and property to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" because they knew that many would consider slaves property. Slaves were brought here by the British, French, and Spanish, not Americans.  Most of our founders "inherited" their slaves and sought to free them, either upon their death or during their lives and many, like Thomas Jefferson, tried to do it while he was alive but the laws were such that they had to pay high sums of money to do so, and Jefferson was basically a pauper (poor) at the time of his death. It was Christians who began the Underground Railroad and opposed slavery.

America elected her first black president just 40 years after the Civil Rights movement. That is America's accomplishment! All of the American descendants of slaves have far better lives than those who still live in Africa, where slavery is still practiced and civil war is an every day thing. I recently watched the movie, Machine-gun Preacher, a true story about Sam Childers, who took on that Joseph Kony dude who kidnapped and enslaved children in Uganda and Sudan.  He forces the girls to be sex slaves and the boys to kill their parents and be in his army.  Oh and btw, Sam Childers is a Christian white guy!  It was estimated that in the early 60's Saudi Arabia had 300,000 slaves. Slavery wasn't abolished until later at the cost to the government of $2,000 each.  And do you know what happened to the guy who freed the slaves???  He was assassinated by his nephew!  And the murdering  nephew was beheaded in public in Riyadh in 1975!  Many Muslim countries still practice slavery. I just hate to see our people, black and white, red and yellow, enslaved to an out of control big government that seems bent on keeping us on the Plantation, providing the masses with food stamps, health care, and on the government teat, but not really free. There isn't freedom if you don't have a choice. We are all created with the same opportunity, but some are more talented than others and some just knock on the door of opportunity more often.

Everyone should vote. It's a right that many black men and white men, died to give you. Don't take it for granted. Black men were allowed to vote in 1870, following the end of the War Between the States and the ratification of the 17th Amendment. Native Americans weren't given citizenship or allowed to vote until 1924 (and not until 1954 in Maine, 1956 in Utah, and 1962 in New Mexico!) and women weren't allowed to vote until 1920 upon ratification of the 19th Amendment. I've voted in every election ever since I was 18, never forgetting the price others paid that gave me the freedom and privilege of doing so. Go register to vote! Exercise your right as an American! Do you realize that America has THE longest, consecutive form of government BY the people? Our founders blessed us with a constitutional bi-cameral Republic! US Constitution  We are not a democracy! A democracy is 3 wolves and 1 sheep sitting down to ask, “What’s for dinner?" Democracy is what you see in Egypt now, where after getting rid of the dictator, Islamic radicals are literally crucifying the Christians in that country and the last Jewish synagogue has been closed. There are many countries much older than ours but our government has out lasted theirs and has never been a monarchy where people were "subjects" or serfs. Our gov't is OF the people, BY the People, FOR the People (Lincoln's Gettysburg Address). Unique. Never been done, before or since, though some have tried. Monrovia, Liberia in West Africa was founded when freed slaves returned to Africa. Named after President Monroe and Liberty, but has been in the throes of civil war for decades. Read about it!

Anyway, it wasn't after until I read Obama's book that I began questioning his policies and the inconsistency of what he promised in 2008. I want to be more informed this go-round and so I'm seeking the answers to the concerns that I have about our deficit and the government getting bigger and bigger.  Our economy is a mess. Our debt is unsustainable. The fact of all that wasted stimulus money on Solyndra and green energy is painful no matter what side you're on. The billions sent to Brazil  Obama's Brazilian Oil Company to invest in THEIR off-shore drilling while closing ours and saying NO to the keystone pipeline just doesn't make sense to me, especially when coal is cheap and we already HAVE it! Sending $6 Billion to Muslim Brotherhood controlled Egypt Obama's Billions to Muslim Brotherhood Egypt doesn't make sense to me either. They are not our friends. Fast & Furious cover-up,  Beheadings in our own country and along our border, amnesty for illegal immigrants....they are ALREADY ILLEGAL! Failure to enforce immigration laws already on the books is pathetic. For the record, we NEVER occupied Mexico OR took their land!  After the Mexican-American War, in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago, we gave them back the land as far south as Mexico City, and paid them a $15 million lump sum payment, and the assumption by the U.S. Government of up to $3.25 million worth of debts owed BY Mexico to U.S. citizens for the territory that became the states of Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, California, Washington, and Oregon, as well as portions of what would later become Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Wyoming, and Montana. It's almost like they pick and choose which laws they want to enforce while disregarding others. I don't get it!  That was all of our money that was wasted, that could have been spent to pay on the deficit. We get so used to hearing a trillion dollars....but have a hard time conceptualizing it, much less applying it in our REAL lives! I've never had a trillion dollars to just piss away on solar panels and when the company went belly-up those glass tubes were used as art in some liberal college in California! This is what HALF A BILLION WASTED DOLLARS LOOKS LIKE: Solyndra's Modern Art Stuff like that drives me nuts!!! And it was the same with George W.! His policies were no better, and it just seems that we've had 4 more years of Bush and then some. I just haven't seen any real change...not like what was promised in 2008.  Obama promised to take on big business, but big businesses like GM and GE didn't have to pay taxes...they were waived!  How about the other 1200+ BIG businesses that were exempt and got waivers for Obamacare?  How is that fair to small business owners or self-employed people?  List of Obamacare Exemptions

When I saw the movie 2016 Obama's America I realized even more, that he isn't like us; he wasn't raised "American." His life growing up and the influences that molded him are not like those we were raised with. Enlightening! It not only helped me understand his worldview but also understand how he views America. It really brought home to me that he's not like us at all! And he isn't even like most immigrants who want to come here, desiring to avail themselves of the opportunities America offers. It's really mind-boggling. And my one thought was "Who knew? Who knew in 2008?" we all thought he was just like us, but he's radically different in his perception of America. We aren't socialist in nature. We don't celebrate the collective. We celebrate those whose achievements inspire us. We celebrate the Heisman Trophy winners, the BCS National Champions, the World Series Champions, the fastest NASCAR driver (though I don’t like NASCAR...*gasp*  I know! it’s just ain’t in me folks!), the first man on the moon, winning the most Gold Medals at the Olympics, or bagging the biggest buck, or prize-winning fish we catch! We LIKE red, white, and blue and fireworks on the 4^th of July! We grew up saying the Pledge of Allegiance and get teary-eyed singing the Star-Spangled Banner and we tie yellow ribbons around our trees until our troops come home! We are apple pie and baseball!  It's fundamentally WHO we are as Americans!

Sure, he was born in Hawaii, that makes him an American citizen, but he was raised in Indonesia by a communist mom and step-dad with communist ideals and values.  Big difference.  Even the guy he said was his mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was a known communist on the FBI's watch list with over 600 pages of documentation. He grew up worshiping Hanuman, the demon fighting Monkey god with the strength of 100 men who's never been defeated. (Just between you and me, I’d want a god MUCH stronger than 100 puny men!) Ironic that only 5% of ppl say they won't vote for a black man, but 18% say they won't vote for a Mormon. But we did vote for a black man who worshiped Hanuman. So, which is more bigoted? I'm not black or Mormon. I’m not a Democrat OR a Republican.  I’m an Independent with heavy leanings on the Libertarian/Constitutional Party side.  I’d even go so far as to claim kinship with the Tea Party since I could see myself dressing up as a wild injun and dumping His Majesty’s tea in Boston Harbor!  I just want to know which candidate shares my love for America and our Constitution and who wants life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all Americans! I just don't think Obama "thinks like Americans" do.  He seems to think we're supposed to be some kind of remade European socialist country, but we aren't, we never have been. Look at Europe and see if all the socialist polices have been to the benefit of its people.  No.  One country after another is on the verge of collapse.  Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland, the UK.  Only Germany is solvent.  Keep in mind that it was America who rebuilt Germany and Japan after WWII.  If you haven't read his book, then you should...at least you'll know who you're voting for.  I thought he grew up just like I did; but he didn't. I can't think of one single communist that I knew as a child growing up. I can remember the "fall-out" drills and films we had in school that used to terrify me at the very THOUGHT of the communists attacking from Russia or China. Now, we also have Iran to worry about and I wonder why the President seems to have turned a blind eye to Iran becoming a nuclear power? Don't you? I wonder why he said that America would only be concerned with Syria if chemical or biological weapons were used?  Wouldn't it be too late then??? Why would we consider sending OUR sons and daughters AFTER chemical or biological weapons had been deployed???  Not that I want another war in another Middle Eastern country...I don't! I have a son who may be sent to Bahrain as support for the troops in Afghanistan, which to my way of thinking should have ended the moment we got Osama bin Laden. Why keep our guys over there when OBL was the reason we went there in the first place?  Didn’t President Obama promise in 2008 to end the wars and bring our troops home?  Inconsistency.  And now there's the tragedy and subsequent cover-up of the events that happened in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. I'll leave that topic for another day.

Anyway, thank you for taking the time to read and I'll appreciate any thoughts you might wish to share with me. I always like another perspective from people I respect. I've always believed respect was a two way street and a lot of the time we just don't take the time to cross it and see another person's point of view.