9/11/2008
Folks, this is a little long today, but only a fraction of my thing on this subject. I am not going to talk about pig lips, lipstick, and other trivial things. This is a very serious time and election for our country.
Well, another year has went by without another terrorist attack on our homeland. If anybody but George Bush has been President of our country this would seem like a miracle. As it is, it's an example of Mr. Bush's very strong desire and able ability to keep his / our country safe from terrorism. At the same time, it's too bad that his veto pen has not been working most of the time the past almost eight years. He has let this country slip down a road of monetary despair by his apparent inability to halt runaway government spending. Now he has approved appropriation of two banks (Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae) and added this vast amount to the National Debt our Children and Grandchildren will have to pay. Also, Mr. Bush apparently has an inability to prosecute those who cheat the government also - remember the fellow who cheated the government of at least $10,000 in the FBI sting and had it stashed in his freezer? What has happened in that case? The last I've heard nothing has happened and I wonder, is it because the fellow is black or because he's a liberal Democrat, or both? Apparently the government cannot punish a congressman or Senator in this country...but they can punish an innocent citizen for perjury when he was innocent and our own border agents who try to do their assigned jobs, and our own solders who try to do their jobs in difficult situations in Iraq. What's with Mr. Bush's inability to punish the guilty and his equal inability to pardon the innocent in this country? Not a pretty picture Mr. Bush. You think history will equit you, but I'm thinking that history will remember not only your efforts to save us from terrorism but also your inability to veto, punish, and pardon during your watch!
Now, it's beginning to look like Mr. McCain may have a chance in this election. I've never liked his politics. His so-called reaching across the isle to the Democrats for various bills usually turned out not good for Conservative ideals or our country. He seems proud of his so-called "maverick" status but I warn him that being alone can be very lonesome and dangerous for our country! Someone (I don't give him the credit) on his team had enough power to get him to nominate Mrs. Palin for his Vice President and that's helping his popularity (including me) and his poll ratings right now, but he needs more. He needs to actually start becoming involved in a Conservative Coalition to get backing he'll need if he does win the presidency. Mrs. Palin has the support of the Conservatives but John McCain still doesn't have it, they don't trust him. How do you really trust someone if you don't know how they will jump in different situations? If he becomes President and he doesn't change his ways there really will be no Republican Partly by the time he gets out of office. It will really be broken and then we'll be facing extreme Socialism for our future - as we will, by-the-way if Mr. Obama is elected to the presidency this term.
I listened to Mr. McCains's speech at the RNC and it was a very good speech. It did have a couple of alarming things in it. He's so proud of that "maverick" status that he's bragging about reaching across to Democrats and even having cabinet members from other parties on it. Will he have one from the Communist Party on it? That's extreme but I think he's losing his marbles.... It's hard enough to have members of your own party who don't want to throw you to the wolves and make money by writing biased "I know better than the President does" or "The President should have did it this way" or "The President said this" type of books. How does Mr. McCain think his crossing the isle will work? Those people never have any loyalty to the who ever is President, doesn't he understand this? He must be insane!
Well Mr. McCain gave a very interesting and insightful recount of his prisoner of war days. It was very sad and almost graphic. I certainly respect his feelings for our country and his concerns about keeping it safe. I also have that concern if Mr. Obama is elected as President. I don't think he [Obama] has any ability to keep this country safe or any intention to do so. I believe that Mr. Obama wants to tear our country down, as we know it, and make it socialist and a subsidiary of the United Nations. I believe that he wishes us to lose/change our sovereignty and our current culture for something different. I'm against that. It's obvious to me that when he talks about taxing the wealthy more that they will lay off workers and / or in a business sense, use the overseas cheap workforce more than they do now. Who does Mr. Obama think pays most of the taxes in this country? Me and you? No, it companies and businesses and wealthy individuals who hire people and pay their income taxes out of the wages the employee gets. Is anybody dumb enough to believe the things Mr. Obama is saying? Do you think that he's that dumb? Well, I'm not! By driving the big corporations to do more overseas to make a profit, he will create more government here in this country and we will become even closer to complete socialism......add to that his "universal health care". As I recall, Mr. Obama said that he wants that healthcare for all of Africa also. Who pays for that. Who do you think should pay for it? Our government? Where does our government get money? The government gets money by printing it out of thin air (which creates inflation and devalues our dollar) or by taxes on the working citizens, which the companies, corps., small businesses they are working for pay as part of a paycheck. They also get it from those companies who pay taxes themselves. So raising taxes on the wealthy hurts by people losing their jobs and Mr. Obama does know it. It's simply another way to force us toward socialism and bring our country toward a third-world destination. Personally, I feel no need to apologize for our country being the greatest in the world and the most powerful. I kind of like it that way!
Mr. McCain did say one thing in that speech at the Republican Convention that I remember made me clap. He said that he fully intended to halt the flow of around $70 billion dollars overseas yearly to countries who really don't like us very well. It's about time that someone had the courage to talk about that. I really hope that if he gets elected that he follows through on that promise. I will not forget he said it and will attempt to remind him of it. We have so many things falling apart here at home why do we still continue to attempt to buy goodwill in these countries? We all know that it doesn't work. We need to keep that money for our people and our own countries needs. After all, remember, it's our tax money that's being given away to people around the world who wish us evil.
Now though all people don't appreciate my commentaries, they are mine as I see it. I have changed my mind, now and again, as I've grown personally and again politically as I've become more astute on political issues. We all do.....even politicians grow and change. In some ways we wish they wouldn't but in some ways they need to continue to grow, as we all do. Once I thought, as a young man, that a one-world-government under the United Nations would be wonderful. As I attained personal growth and political savvy I started understanding that the many countries who often are in charge of the United Nations didn't like us very much. They often wanted to do us harm so I changed my mind about that "one world government" under the United Nations. Why was this - why would other countries want to do us harm? Aren't we the country that has always given aide to them all when ever they had problems? Haven't we done all we could to help them find freedom and help with human rights, including the rights of women, and etc.? Well, often they have their own agenda which is contrary to ours. They often are countries who have vast human rights violations; meaning that they harm their own people and they wish to continue to do so. Often these are the women and children of their countries, or neighboring countries. Some live under a religious law that allows for no other religion and no technological or social advances in their society. Some simply want to control the world and the peoples of the world as did the Soviet Union. Many are simply poor countries with dictators who are only out for themselves, well, etc., etc. The United Nations has had many scandals including the oil scandal with Iraq before Iraq fell and very many human rights scandals, including rape and theft. Many people of these various countries above got rich, and there seems to always be lots of bribes and espionage around that organization. I think we should invite it (the UN) to go somewhere else to another country for support for a few decades. Anyway, so much for changes people talk about. I wouldn't think much of someone who was so rigid that they had an inability to grow and change, and especially as circumstances change. And change they have with the injection of Mrs. Palin in the Republican Presidential Race. She is the topic of most conversation of people on the Democratic side who fear her and her gender and her experience as Governor of Alaska and are attempting to nullify it by not talking about it, and a revitalizing shot in the arm for the Republican Party who also can't stop talking about her pro life beliefs, and efforts and abilities, as Governor of Alaska.
Now we all have our personal favorite that we think should have been chosen for the vice presidential candidates. Maybe you are disappointed about them. Maybe you liked Mrs. Clinton for the Democratic party and were disappointed when Mr. Bidin was picked, or maybe you liked the governor of Louisiana for the Republican Party? Maybe you liked someone else you know better. Personally, as you'd know if you read my commentaries, I liked Mr. Romney for the vice pick as he is capable of change and a fair conservative. Now I don't mean change with the wind ( I once worked with someone like that once and at every Board Meeting he sensed which way the wind was blowing and changed his opinions and ideas accordingly), but I mean true growth as a person. Now I am completely against abortion, I think it's murder. Then again, I'm not a woman and I know that. So I could probably be persuaded that under this or that circumstance that maybe it could be a choice. I was shocked at first that Mr. Romney, who clearly was by far the favorite of the Conservatives for the Vice Presidency wasn't that pick. He has grown from someone who used to believe that abortion should be a "choice" to where he doesn't believe there should be a choice. Well, as it happens when Mr. McCain picked Mrs. Palin, he picked someone who my relatives in Alaska all agree has been doing a wonderful job there and she is an example of someone who does not believe in killing her babies. I think it's a great pick even though, Well, I've learned that sometimes we must adjust to the circumstances and to someone else's ideas. I had never considered Mr. Palin seriously for the Vice Presidential pick because I knew she wasn't well known. I now know that she will be well known before this presidential election is over! Mrs. Palin, by her own example, has shown us how very great the "choice" to not kill our kids is with her down syndrome child's birth. And who says she can't take care of those kids? Why is the father always left out of the "taking care of the kids" idea? I had three kids and the mother didn't want them, what is wrong that the father shouldn't be recognized for this? It seems like nobody anymore recognizes the father's place in the household. I think that idea of not allowing the father to be a full partner in a marriage is sexist to the extreme, don't you? Well, perhaps they need to research the lady who started Father's Day and read what she says about her father.
Here it is folks. Defeat Obama and the Socialists. Vote for McCain if for nothing else, because he's the best we have to vote for and remember that Mrs. Palin is in the wings for us if necessary and will be all-the-while growing in her national and world savvy. If you have any difficulty with this visualize a US with Obama at the helm and Bidin in the wings.......scary thought isn't it? Try to sleep tonight, please.
Franklin L. Clyburn
