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Boston Tea Party April 14, 2010

I attended the Boston Tea Party yesterday.  It was a beautiful, warm, sunny day, and the large crowds (10,000 people? more?) were friendly and in high spirits.  I missed Sarah Palin's speech, got there a little late.  Who knew knew that the keynote speaker would be one of the first speakers?? However, from what I saw on the internet, I don't think I missed much there.  As one prominent local tea partier wrote this this morning:

"I have to admit that I was underwhelmed by Sarah Palin.  She was strident and loud and had nothing new to say.  I'm disappointed that I felt that way, but there it is.  Too much is at stake to be anything less than honest."

I totally agree.  Sarah was a big draw and was probably largely responsible for the great turnout, but the speech itself sounded screechy. She strung together a lot of one-liners and platitudes, and that was about it. Not an inspiring speech.

Not to be too crabby, but the music was pretty hokey and out-of-place.  What, the Tea Party Express couldn't find any local musicians?  Where were the Dropkick Murphies??

End of complaints!  I went there to be part of that crowd, to show the politicans and media that there are a great many people - people who weren't politically active until the Tea Party movement - who want the following things:

• Less government intrusion in our lives
• lower taxes
• fiscal responsibility
• freedom and liberty
• personal responsibility

We are just getting started, my friends! We want out country back.

Solomonias has some excellent photos from the event.  Sisu was there, working the crowd and taking good pics too.  Any yes, I'd agree with Sisu, it's time to set our sights on Barney Frank. After the exhilaration of helping to elect Senator Hottie McAwesome, I'm ready to sign up for another great upset. Former Marine Sean Bielat might be just the man, need to do more research on that.  Which I will, at this weekend's Republican state convention in Worcester!

Senator Scott Brown, I still love the sound of that! Who'd of thought it could happen in Massachusetts?!

My Husband's Hockey Playing Friends Are All Voting for Scott Brown

Anecdotal evidence 1: my husband came back last night from playing in his over-40 ice hockey league, and he said everybody was talking about Scott Brown, and all of them were voting for Scott Brown.  This is not a bunch of guys who normally pay much attention to politics, but they're paying attention now. They've had it with the Democrat Machine on Beacon Hill and Washington, and they're sick of the ever growing "redistribution" of their hard-earned money. 

Anecdotal evidence 2: I just got back from phone-banking at the Scott Brown campiagn office in Littleton, MA, and the place was buzzin' like a beehive.  There were over 20 volunteers there, mostly manning the slick automated phone banks and getting out the vote.  Yee haw!

The Lowell Sun came out and endorsed Scott Brown as US Senator today, this is the fourth major endoresement in two days.  Excerpt:

"Massachusetts doesn't need to elect yet another person who will toe the Democratic Party line and kowtow to leadership. Massachusetts needs a senator who will challenge the status quo, is strong enough to take a stand on controversial issues, and will put Bay State residents first when making decisions."

"In the race to fill the seat held by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy in the U.S. Senate, Republican Scott Brown is the candidate who promises to best represent the state's 6.3 million residents."

I love this comment in the Lowell Sun from Floyd:

"I am a union member with a so-called Cadillac health insurance plan that I fought 30 years for. Me and all the rank & file are voting for Brown."

 

Yeahh buddy!

Don't You Want to Be Part of a Historic Upset?

That's what I ask everyone I'm talking to these days about voting for Scott Brown in the Special Election to be held Tuesday, January 19th.  And I'm talking to a lotta people: family, friends, co-workers, mail man, manicurist, hairdresser, supermarket cashier, neighbors, the UPS guy.  Enough already of another liberal Democrat going to the Senate from Massachusetts, let's end that era, shall we?

Enough with the Damn Kennedys Already - Give Me Scott Brown!

OK, I'm late to jump on this bandwagon, but I'm on it!  It's not even that I'm crazy about Scott Brown, although he has many solid conservative values, something dearly needed in Massachusetts.  It's that I'm beyond sick and tired of The Kennedys running everything around this state.  This Senate seat isn't Ted Kennedy's seat.  It is one of two Senate seats that belong to the Commonwealth of Massachusestts.  It belongs to us. The MA Senator is supposed to represent us, not The Kennedys.

History: Ted "inherited" the senate seat after his brother Jack was elected president in 1960. 

Minority Opinion on AIG Bonuses, Mixing Politics and Business

The outrage against the AIG bonuses brings to mind Kabuki theatre.  More make-up and masks, please!  Power Line has the minority view, based on the testimony of Edward Liddy, which seems reasonable to me:

* All of these payments, as to AIG's troubled financial products division, are retention bonuses, not performance bonuses.
* The money is not going to anyone responsible for the implosion of AIG--those people, who were in the credit default swap area, are gone.
* These retention bonuses were promised to AIG employees who are responsible for winding down the company's financial products division. At the beginning, this division had a potential exposure of $2.7 trillion. Winding down AIG's book of business in this area was a dead-end job, and there was a great likelihood that the people responsible for the work, who knew the most about the products involved, would take jobs elsewhere.
* In late 2007 or early 2008, AIG made a deal with these employees: if they would stay at AIG until specified conditions were met, i.e., either certain business was wound down or a given period of time had elapsed, they would receive a specified retention bonus.
* As to all of the employees involved, they satisfied the terms of the bonus by wrapping up a portfolio for which they were responsible and/or staying on the job until now. As a result of the efforts of this group, AIG's financial products exposure is down from $2.7 trillion to $1.6 trillion.

I hope AIG takes legal action against Congress to stop the ridiculous 90% taxation of these bonuses.  Talk about scapegoats.  Washington Post has a good article about the situation, and Jonathan Goldberg wrote a good column about mixing politics and business too.

"We should have learned from the government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac what dangers lie ahead: The rule of law and political manipulation of the economy don’t mix well...What signal does it send when the president and Congress make it clear that they will revisit legal contracts that run afoul of populist outrage?"

If the AIG staff are forced to return their contractual bonuses, then shouldn't President Obama return the $130,000 he received from AIG in 2008?  From ABC News:

"AIG employees kept doling out donations to politicians, including presidential candidate Barack Obama, after getting bailed out with federal funds last year, raising the question of whether those politicians will now return the money. AIG executives gave more than $630,000 during the 2008 political cycle even as the company was falling apart ."

More than $120,000 was donated after AIG received $85 billion in federal bailout funds in September 2008.  Give it back, President Obama, Senator Dodd and Senator McCain!

Tea Parties Catching on Around Massachusetts Too

It's about time! They've been taking place all around the country, attracting crowds ranging from hundreds of people to over 5,000!  I've heard of a number of Taxpayer Revolt Tea Parties scheduled for Massachusetts, including the following:

Saturday March 28, 2009 - Essex County Tea Party, from: 12-2pm, 60 Pleasant St. (City Hall), Newburyport, MA.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - Worcester Tea Party! 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Lincoln Square, Worcester. For more info, e-mail [email protected]. 

Also on Tax Day, the Boston Tea Party, Boston 10:00am - 8:00pm at City Hall Plaza (Government Center T-stop).  I think a lot of WTKK radio talk show hosts will be at this one.

There's a Lowell Tea Party in the works, also be on April 15th. It's planned for JFK Plaza in front of Lowell City Hall, from 3-7 PM.  Will post additional info as I get it.

National clearinghouse info here.  The tea bag image came from those folks. More tea parties listed here.

Newt Gingrich has caught the tea party fever too.  

Don't just stand there while Mr. Obama tries to turn the U.S.A. into a socialist country!  Tell Congress to stop right now with their reckless "stimulus" bills, and remind them that they work for us.   Join a Tea Party rally!

Top Ten Reasons Obama Health Care is Wrong

Excellent post over at Maggie's Farm: The Top Ten Reasons for ObamaCare are Based on False Information."

"The major overhaul of American health care pursued by President Obama and his supporters is based on many false premises and is excessive and likely to do more harm than good.  Tuning up and improvements already always dynamically occurs.  Instead, ObamaCare is aimed at dramatically changing one-sixth of the US economy in ways that are untested or tested and found wanting, primarily involving huge increases in government direction of health care."

The top ten false arguments:

What Will Happen to Your 401K?

"Redistribution of Wealth"

I find that many young-ish people in their 20's are unfamiliar with what the term "redistribution of wealth" means.  They don't know that those words are a basic concept of Marxist ideology, and that "redistribution of wealth" is exactly what socialist and communist governments attempted to do in the 20th century.  These rigid, totalitarian societies failed to provide functioning economies, they lacked basic freedoms, they killed more people (more than 60 million) than all the wars of the 20th century put together. Kids these days don't seem to know much about that.  But "spread the wealth" and "redistribution of wealth" are red flags for older folks, who know what Senator Obama is talking about here:

"To redistribute wealth, you first have to confiscate it from those who earned it with hard work, and the way to do that is with confiscatory taxes. Then you give it to those who didn't earn it."

Obama's true colors are becoming clearer and clearer every day.  Great column in the Washington Post today by Wesley Pruden.  Some excerpts:

"The tape recording of an interview that Barack Obama gave to Radio Station WBEZ in Chicago in 2001 surfaced, and in that interview Mr. Obama, then a law professor and a state senator, lays out how he would redistribute the wealth. He sounds like a man with a plan."

"....Mr. Obama doesn't think much of the Constitution, or even of the Supreme Court justices who have rewritten it over the years to accommodate notions of 'social justice.' The Warren Court, which wrote finis to public-school segregation with its unanimous Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, has been decried since as radical, but it wasn't radical enough. Earl Warren only pretended to be a soldier of the revolution"

" 'One of the 'tragedies of the civil-rights movement,' Mr. Obama says, is that the Supreme Court did not address redistribution of wealth, probably because of the inherent difficulty of achieving such goals through the courts. The Supreme Court did not break from the restraints of the Constitution and 'we still suffer from that.' Mr. Obama is not 'optimistic' that the Supreme Court can achieve redistribution of wealth - of taking from the workers to give to the deadbeats - but he obviously thinks he knows how to do it. A president with a compliant Congress, which he expects to be in January, can do it through legislation and 'administration.'"

"The Barack Obama of this interview clearly does not think much of what the Founding Fathers bequeathed to us: 'The Constitution reflected the enormous blind spot in this culture that carries on to this day. The framers had that same blind spot ... the fundamental flaw of this country. ' "

Obama does not deserve to be president of our country.

"There's nothing ambiguous about Mr. Obama's radical views, as revealed in this interview. He clearly thinks the Constitution was a 'tragedy,' that the men who wrote it were not the revolutionary heroes plain Americans regard them to be, and their work must be corrected by the surviving radicals of the '60s and their progeny. Anyone who listens to this interview, available on YouTube.com, understands why Michelle Obama was never proud of her country until she thought the opportunity was at hand to destroy the country to save it, and why Barack Obama could spend 20 years comfortably listening to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright exhort God to damn America."  

Please vote for people who love this country and will make it stronger and better, John McCain and Sarah Palin.

McCain Will Be Elected the Next President

I firmly believe this is true.  McCain is far more representative of who Americans are, what we believe and value. From the first time I heard Mr. Obama, he struck me as a person of considerable style but precious  little substance.  And the more I know of him, especially his many anti-American, socialist/Marxist associates, the more frightening a figure I find him to be.  As Thomas Sowell wrote, Obama is a phony and he is dangerous. 

We all know McCain's many faults and shortcomings.  He's a known quantity with a considerable record, and we know what we're getting.  WYSIWYG.  Obama, on the other hand, has left few tracks. He has virtually no accomplishments to point to. In his scant two years as a senator, he's mostly voted "present" rather than "yes" or "no."   What kind of record is that?  An intentionally vague one. He hasn't done anything except promote himself.  A man is known by the company he keeps, and Mr. Obama has way too many sketchy, radical friends (Jeremiah Wright, Fr. Michael Pfleger, Rashid Kalidi, Bill Ayers, Antoin Rezko, etc.).  More from Thomas Sowell:

"Of the four people running for President and Vice President on the Republican and Democratic tickets, the one we know the least about is the one leading in the polls-- Barack Obama."

"...Obama could have allied himself with all sorts of other people. But, time and again, he allied himself with people who openly expressed their hatred of America."

Mr. Obama has raised and spent some $700 million dollars on his campaign, well over half a billion dollars.  Yikes!  If McCain had done that, he would be criticized as a fat cat Republican, accused of buying the election.  Bush is mocked by the goofy "Billionaires for Bush" folks.  Will they start a "Billionaires for Barak" chapter for Obama's many "ultra-rich Democratic donors"?  How is it that being wealthy is bad if you're a Republican but OK if you're a Democrat?

Colin Powell endorses Obama, and we hear about it all over the media.  Norman Schwarzkopf endorsed McCain, and only Fox News covered it.   The media's coverage of McCain is overwhelmingly negative, a Pew Poll finds.  Surprised?

Despite Mr. Obama's record-breaking spending and despite the many polls showing that an Obama win is all but inevitable, I think that Mr. McCain will in fact be elected president.  There's a big poker bluff going on right now in the Obama camp.  Americans know authenticity, which McCain has in spades and which Obama is utterly lacking.  Despite Obama's fervently religious followers, there are more people who can see through the B.S.   Two recent polls reveal the heartening trend:

From Sunday, October 19: "Obama's Lead Slips to Three Percent."  Sinking, sinking, and surely within the margin of error. 
From today, October 22: "AP presidential poll: All Even in the Homestretch." And Investor's Business Daily finds that Obama's lead has shrunk from 6.0 to 3.7, with 12.3 percent of the population undecided.  And young people between 18 and 24 are McCain's staunchest supporters! This election is definitely still in play!

Yippee!  Vote for McCain!

McCain Does Good! Obama's Authenticity Problem

I thought John McCain did pretty good at tonight's debate.  He landed quite a few  punches, and it looked like he got under Obama's skin a couple of times.  McCain appeared to be having more fun tonight than at the previous deadly boring debates. 

Also for what it's worth, my husband - a staunch Democrat who hails from the Midwest - announced last week that he had made up his mind on who he would vote for president. It was driving me crazy that he took so long (how could anyone in good conscience vote for a Socialist/Communist to be president of the United States of America?!?).  In the end, Husband said there were three reasons he didn't like Obama and would vote for McCain:

• Obama hasn't done anything in his short career in the Senate, he's too green to be president;
• Obama is vague and talks in meaningless platitudes; and
• Husband doesn't believe that Obama is telling the truth, he finds Obama to be inauthentic.

I'm hoping that this is indicative of what many Americans (including lots of Democrats) really think too. My husband's decision reminded me of a quote I read somewhere today:

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”

Charles Mackay

I hope tonight's debate brings more people back to their senses. 

Simple Way to End Voter Fraud - Purple Fingers

From the Campaign Stop, National Review Online, a simple solution to the problem of voter fraud, such as ACORN's widely reported fraud across twelve states:

"Picking up from a thought by Mark Steyn, why do Iraq and Afghanistan have better protections against voter fraud and multiple voting than the United States? Why does the simple, visible, tough-to-evade purple finger ink get put into effect in new democracies in those countries, but we can't get something so simple and effective on the books here in this democracy?"

"What would it take to get 'purple finge'" rules here in the United States?"

Rampant Voter Fraud by ACORN

Rampant voter fraud, courtesy of ACORN.  This is an old story, they've been doing this for years.  Assisted by a man seeking the office of President of the United States.  Obama cut his teeth as a "community organizer" with ACORN. 

I fear that, in some respects, we're becoming a third world nation.

Obama's Associates Getting Well-Deserved Attention

Finally, more folks are paying attention to Mr. Obama's ickky associates. Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, the list goes on and on. Commentary called it out as did the Volokh Conspiracy.   Even the NY Times noticed (flawed though that article is), will wonders never cease?

And some of Obama's major donors go by unusual names:

"Mr. Good Will - who lists his employer as 'Loving' and his profession as 'You' - has contributed 1,000 times to the Barack Obama campaign. All the contributions have been in amounts of $25 or less. But they add up to $17,375 - far more than the legal limit of $4,600.
....Mr. Doodad Pro made 786 contributions for a total of $19,500. Like Mr. Good Will, Mr. Pro lists his employer as 'Loving' and his profession as'"You.' Mr. Pro said he is from Nunda, N.Y. Directory assistance found no listing for him either."

More funny names who gave Obama beacoup $$$: Dahsudhu Hdusahfd of Df, Hawaii and Uadhshgu Hduadh listed as living in Dhff, Florida.  And there's the donations from foreigners. Change somebody can believe in, I suppose.

Naomi Wolfe Calls Palin "FrankenBarbie"

The Bush Derangement Syndrome has been well and fully replaced by the Palin Derangement Syndrome (PDS), this from feminista Naomi Wolfe:

"McCain doesn't matter. Reputable dermatologists are discussing the fact that in simply actuarial terms, John McCain has a virulent and life-threatening form of skin cancer....doctors put survival rates for someone his age at two to four years. I believe the Rove-Cheney cabal is using Sarah Palin as a stalking horse, an Evita figure, to put a popular, populist face on the coming police state and be the talk show hostess for the end of elections as we know them. If McCain-Palin get in, this will be the last true American election."

There's so much more too:

"My childrens' report cards are returned again and again though perfectly addressed; their invitations are turned back; and my daughter's many letters from camp? Vanished. All of them. Not one arrived."

The Police State is here already, intercepting letters from camp!  It's amusing to see feministas so hysterical.  From Wikipedia, the origins of that word.

As LGF points out, Ms. Wolfe was recently extolling the virtues of hijab:   

"I experienced it myself. I put on a shalwar kameez and a headscarf in Morocco for a trip to the bazaar. Yes, some of the warmth I encountered was probably from the novelty of seeing a Westerner so clothed; but, as I moved about the market - the curve of my breasts covered, the shape of my legs obscured, my long hair not flying about me - I felt a novel sense of calm and serenity. I felt, yes, in certain ways, free."

Apparently, Naomi Wolfe has never heard of "Eve Teasing."   The hijab is no guarantee you'll be left alone and feeling so "free."

I'm all for modest dressing, I think it's empowering, more flattering, a sign of self-respect and is more respectful to the people around you.  But Ms. Wolfe's PR photos have her wearing tight sweaters and showing off her cleavage.  And she's wondering if Western clothing is an example of how Western society objectifies women??  Who's forcing her to wear revealing clothes? Evil Western male marketers?  The military/industrial complex?  Bush/Rove/Cheney/Palin? 

Truth vs. Fiction on Sarah Palin

I loved the pick of Sarah Palin as VP for McKain.  Finally, I'm feeling some enthusiasm for the McCain campaign.  Prior to this, I was strictly anti-Obama, but not really pro-McCain. That VP pick changed everything. I love the pre-70's-feminism feminists like Palin, strong women who have achieved success without relying on victimist ideology.  They've always been there.  My 86-year old mother's best friend earned a doctorate in physical chemistry in the 1940's.  She never whined either.  Anyway, for those of you concerned about the many rumors flying around about Palin, please read this article which separates the facts from fiction.

She's said two things in the past two weeks that struck me as profound and telling:

"Politicians should have a servant's heart," which the Anchoress wrote about here. Great sentiment, very Christian and selfless.

About her daughter's out-of-wedlock pregnancy: "Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. We're proud of Bristol's decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support."  Such a compassionate, hopeful response to a painful and less than ideal situation.  That was a tough one, and their response was again very Christian, supportive and realistic.  She's not only smart, accomplished, energetic, a quick study, strong and reliable, she's a compassionate soul.  Sarah is a keeper.

UPDATE: More debunking of myths about Palin here from Factcheck.org, and here ("Putting the Lie in Library.") I'm amused by the number of wild, unsubstantiated claims about Sarah that continue to fly around.  She's such a lightning rod!   

Just this morning on Democracy Now, guest Frederick Clarkson said that it's possible that Sarah Palin might believe in the End Times prophesied in Revelations.  Oooh, that's so spooky, Frederick!!  And maybe monkeys might possibly fly out of your butt.  To the non-religious crowd, any manifestation of Christianity is foreign and frightening and indicates that you're a wacked-out fundamentalist evangelical.   The secular progressives think that any modern person who is religious is an idiot. Religion is fine for poverty-stricken natives in exotic locales, but it's a sign of ignorance and superstition in the Western world.  Keep it up, folks, you're only helping the McKain/Palin ticket.

Friday Miscellania - Church Goes E-Mail, Wacky MA Repubs, Conservatism vs Enviros

Catching up on a few things:

• The Archdiocese of Boston goes electronic! Finally! Cardinal O'Malley is reaching out via e-mail to the Church and to people who are interested in our (holy catholic and apostolic!) Church.  Sign up here for a weekly e-mail from Cardinal Sean and the Pilot.
• Jonah Goldberg over at The National Corner pens a good column on conservationists vs environmentalists.  I appreciate the distinction, being a staunch conservationist who debates almost daily at work with wacky environmentalists who see all plastic as intrinsically evil. 

"...my biggest beef with environmentalism is how comfortably irrational it is. It touts ritual over reality, symbolism over substance, while claiming to be so much more rational and scientific than those silly sky-God worshipers and deranged oil addicts."

• Katie O'Malley has an excellent critique of the MA Republican Party at Human Events. 

"Why is it then, that the MA Republican Party has seemingly encouraged Jim Oganowski to enter the Republican primary race 7 months AFTER Beatty and against the desires of many of Jim’s own supporters?"

Ogonowki's backers include Kerry Healey, Paul Cellucci and Mitt Romney.  But his backers don't include the rank and file Republicans in the state. Ogonowski is apparently having trouble getting enough signatures to be on the ballot.  Good!   

I supported Ogonowski when he ran against Niki Tsongas for Congress.  But Og running for Senator against Kerry is folly.  Sorry, Jim, you're not ready to be a Senator when you've never been elected to any office before.  Read the whole thing, it's harsh but good.

Suggested Obama Bumper Sticker

I saw a bumper sticker in Worcester last week that read 

"If You Liked Dukakis, You'll Love Deval."

Which suggests another bumper sticker:

"If You Liked Deval, You'll Love Obama."

Little Green Footballs has a listing of Barak Obama's many "questionable and disturbing associations":

* Rabidly anti-Israel Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi. The Obamas were regular dinner guests at Khalidi’s Hyde Park home for years.

* Terrorist sympathizer Ali Abunimah, who runs the viciously anti-Israel web site Electronic Intifada.

* Unrepentant Weather Underground terrorists William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.

* Reverend Jeremiah Wright. What more needs to be said?

* Anti-Israel foreign policy adviser Samantha Power — fired after calling Hillary Clinton a “monster.”

* Anti-Israel foreign policy adviser Robert Malley — fired when it was revealed he has been holding talks with Hamas.

* Hatem El-Hady, former official of the Hamas-linked charity Kindhearts, closed by the Justice Department. El-Hady’s web page suddenly vanished from the Obama campaign site with no explanation, after being exposed by LGF and others.

* Tony Rezko — a Chicago fixer currently in a whole lot of legal trouble.

So far, the media has paid attention to Jeremiah Wright (finally) and taken scant notice of Tony Rezko and William Ayers.  Boy, McKain's campaign is going to have ample material to use against Mr. Obama. 

Walid Phares Endorses Mitt Romney

This endorsement of Mitt Romney by Dr. Walid Phares, noted anti-jihadist, was apparently sent via e-mail.  Dr. Phares is the author of Future Jihad and The War of Ideas.  I like his "in a nutshell" assessment of the candidates on the War Against Jihadism:

"In short, if elected, Romney will try to destroy the mother ship, McCain will supply the trenches, Clinton will pull the troops back to the barracks and Obama will visit the foes’ bunkers."

Dr. Phares thoughtful analysis - with its endorsement of Mitt Romney - follows.  It's well worth it to read the whole thing:

The Best Person for the Job

Walid Phares, Ph.D.

When it comes to US Presidential elections, the post 9/11 era has changed the rules of engagement for national security experts and for those who can read the Jihadists’ minds. While the counterterrorism community should let the voters chose their chief executive first, then later offer expert advice to the President, unfortunately, the world has changed.

Indeed, since the 9/11 and the engagement of the nation in the war with Jihadism, the selection of the US President can fundamentally affect the very survival of the American people. Whoever occupies the White House in 2009, for the next 4 to 8 years will have to make decisions that will have cataclysmic consequences on the physical security and the freedoms of 300 million citizens in this country, and eventually on the free world as a whole.

The leader of the most powerful democracy in the world has to be able to know who the enemy is so that all resources are put into action against it. Without this, the next US President could cause a major disaster to happen to this nation. American voters cannot afford to install a man or a woman who can’t identify and define the enemy. If you can’t see an enemy, you simply cannot defeat it.

The 2004 Presidential elections took place in quasi-popular ignorance. The sitting -- and fighting -- President was reelected by the basic instincts of Americans, but not by enlightened citizens.  An overwhelming majority of voters was not fully informed as to the real stakes. The country was told that the war in Iraq was wrong, and about half of the country believed it.  They were also told there was no war on terror, but worse, they were never told who the enemy was or what it really wanted.

On the Fence Between Romney and McCain? Read This!

From Omina21, a friend and associate on today's elections:

TO THOSE VOTING ON SUPER TUESDAY IN REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES, PLEASE CONSIDER VOTING FOR MITT ROMNEY

Republicans have the opportunity to nominate an extraordinary person for President of the United States -- Mitt Romney.

He is brilliant, extremely well-educated, has been immensely successful in the private sector and won election in a blue state and governed (with difficulty, to be sure) with a Democratic legislature having more than a two-thirds majority in both houses.  He is a leader who gets things done.  It is remarkable that he authored the first state health care plan in America that seeks to insure almost all uninsured by imaginatively using the dollars the state already gets from the federal government to fund aid programs.  And it's built around competing private insurance.

Romney has the best understanding of the global jihad being waged against the civilized world by Islamic true believers and how to combat it.  This global war is far more than Iraq and Afghanistan that the other leading Republican candidate John McCain only talks about.  Romney knows that our enemy has Israel in its sights first to test the will of the West to resist jihad.   Romney recognizes the magnitude of the threat and will make it a priority to rouse the nation to defeat it.  This will require imagination and creativity of a high order.  Mitt Romney has those qualities.