What follows are the details of a dream that I had today, July 15th, 2012.

There were people everywhere throughout the facilities and grounds that surrounded it. Nobody was standing still unless it was to participate in what from any spectator’s view was a definedly serious, sober, and secretive discussion with a few other individuals. People were planning and pointing, some were giving directions, some were receiving and executing them. But there was no visible order to the movement taking place...at first. Within a half an hour, the people had managed to coalesce into what was becoming distinct teams. The small groups of huddled people had now combined into larger groups, and the hurriedness of the people who were carrying out directives was intensified and more purposeful. Having been a part of the chaos from the beginning, I can tell you exactly what was happening and why.

The philosophical divide between the people which had existed to some degree now for the past several years had widened and solidified into an impassable and uncompromisable chasm. The foundations of the beliefs and the clear vision for the future that each side embraced were not just different, they were contrary, contradictory, and the one unequivocally nullified the other. All of us having been successfully conditioned over the past several years to refrain from openly exercising our First Amendment right to express our true opinions openly, we sought out those of like mind via the small huddled masses that served as a quiet information exchange, one not easily discernible to the ears of the government that ironically had been the catalyst for all that was about to take place. By the very workings of nature itself, we sought out and found one another and in a very short time, had formed what amounted to two highly disorganized, leaderless armies. But though for a time it was indeed only our cause that was our pillar of cloud and fire which lead us onward toward the destiny we could not and wished not to escape, leaders did soon begin to rise up among us. Not of their own accord or by force, but again by our very nature taking its course as the dominant characteristics and knowledge of some was elevated to that position by those whose disposition was better suited to obey than to order. The leaders were chosen, instated, and approved by the collective subconscious of the group as a whole. I was one of those leaders. Not by my own choice nor my own ambitions, but out of necessity and love of country I silently accepted the role I was asked to fulfill and began to serve my fellow citizenry with a mind toward self-sacrifice for the good of the whole.

And so as we all moved about, checking our own individual caches of weapons and ammunition, choosing out positions we felt would best serve us tactically when the fighting began, we still were quite mingled with those our fellow citizens who held to beliefs quite opposite of our own. They were our neighbors, our fellow Americans, and though we all knew that in but a short while we would each be viewing one another through the crosshairs of scopes and the iron sights of our rifles and pistols, for the moment we were civil and courteous. We held the door open for one another out of habit, we exchanged brief and generic greetings as we passed each other, and we flashed a smile whenever it was that our glances chanced to meet. And every time we did so, and quite out of necessity, we also engaged in the exercise of dehumanizing and demonizing our fellow citizens within our mind and heart. We had to, for in a short while we would be engaged in the horrific work of destroying them! And how can a man destroy his brother whom he loves? He cannot. And so without ever having spoken of this necessity a single time among ourselves, we all on both sides began the process of exorcising the humanity of our brothers and sisters from within ourselves. I recall vividly one such moment when I first realized this was taking place. I was inspecting my rifle, a fine lever action 45/70 large bore rifle largely responsible for the near annihilation of the American Bison in the 1800s. I went through the motions several times of ejecting a round and chambering the next one, my gun being unloaded at the time. As was my way, once a round was chambered I had the rifle quickly shouldered and held pointing down range, the sights instantly lined up with my eye and placed on my target. It was during one such exercise when I was aiming at imaginary targets somewhere in the distance that my rifle accidentally became trained upon a small group of my adversaries who were standing nearby. Upon seeing me aiming menacingly towards them, they became agitated, frightened, and then angry. Instinctively I lowered my gun and assured them apologetically that the gun was not loaded and I was merely testing it out. As I heard myself apologizing to them despite their rejecting glares, I also heard my inner voice reassuring me that looking at these individuals through the sights of my rifle was exactly what I needed to be doing.

As the day moved slowly ahead and the polarization had put some significant physical distance between the two sides, we began to quietly taunt one another. Though I was probably among the first to begin the practice of using my weapon to perform mock targeting of our brothers and sisters across the way, the practice emerged spontaneously on its own soon after. Everyone on both sides was engaged in it, and at one point I and an opponent one hundred yards away had both sighted in one another at the same time. He had a scope while I had iron sights, but I recall at that moment feeling very confident in my abilities and in his supposed lack of skill, resting quite assured that had the moment been not just an exercise, my opponent would be dead.

Confident that my own personal cache was sufficient for the skirmishes to come, I now turned my attention toward the overall organization and plan of our side. I sought out those that I recognized from earlier as having contributed to the logistical planning, and solicited status reports from them. I learned that though overall we felt quite confident in the positions we had taken up, we had very little intel and no organized reconnaissance to know what the other side was up to. It was then that I realized I had watched several from the other side moving far off to my right into an area I was unfamiliar with, and it occurred to me that we could very well be flanked from the outset if we didn’t correct this before the actual fight began. The tensions were very, very high now, and I knew that it would not be long before someone would be unable to take the anticipation any longer and would fire the first shot. We were not prepared, not yet! The only solace was in the fact that we knew the other side was at least as disorganized as we were, and that among their ranks they were greatly lacking in people who had sufficient firearm and military skills. Still, this supposition was not sufficient to completely alleviate my concerns, and served to erode the confidence I had in the belief in the favorable outcome I both preached and clung to myself. I sat down and took a drink from my camel pack, and for a moment realized the absolute absurdity of it all. What had we come to? It had all come down to people who were so entrenched in their beliefs and who had allowed themselves to be divided along every societal line possible that we had concluded it was a better choice to simply kill those who disagreed with us rather than do what was necessary to just work it out. There was no looming evil among the other side; there was no true physical threat from them toward us or our posterity; the source of this entire budding war, the motivation for the call to arms all of us had responded to, was over nothing more or less than rhetoric and ideology. The true enemy, the true source of what had moved the passions within us all against one another, was NOT one another; no, for we had all managed to get along, find common ground, and reach acceptable compromises for a hundred years. We were all beyond the point of no return now, and there would be no standing down. But the true instigator of what was about to take place was the very government we had elected to represent our best interests, which had willfully engaged in the premeditated practice of pitting brother against brother for the past four years. The government had utilized its resources to carve the general populace up into demographic segments and then pit them against one another. It had then flexed its fiscal abilities to create and promote such an atmosphere of destitution, poverty, and dependence as to deflate the morale of the people as a whole and cause the bulk of the masses who were now dependent on government for their sustenance to despise those who remained self-sufficient. Leveraging the media outlets who were loyal to its causes, the government managed to continuously fuel and fan the embers of divisiveness until one day they had simply spontaneously burst into a flame that fueled itself. The government we trusted, run by corrupt men of power and wealth via the puppet-like proxies they had managed to set up over the decades, turned and fed on us. Not being able to wholly beat us into any kind of submission itself, it followed wisely in the footsteps of one Jack the Giant Slayer, and simply turned us against ourselves. Once we conclude the bloody business of destroying ourselves from within, they will simply descend upon the aftermath and do with us as they will. We are fools.

we have about 24 weeks left until election day, and in order that I may justly be able to say "I told you so", I am taking the time right now to tell you exactly how things are going to come to pass between now and November 6th 2012. The fact is, I already prognosticated this outcome back previous to the November 2010 midterm elections, but as time passes and events continue to unfold, my forecast is only being substantiated and reaffirmed.

On November 7th, 2012, Barack Hussein Obama will be available for employment. This is and has been an unavoidable fact since just prior to the 2010 midterms when the last hope of the independent voter that Barack Obama truly had this nation's best interest in mind was unceremoniously and quite thoroughly dashed. Using only empirical evidence, namely the RESULTS of the 2010 midterms, that is precisely what occurred. Between then and now, the man has only continued to expend his efforts doing what he has done all along: ignoring the overwhelming majority of this country's citizenry and feeding into his narcissistic fantasy of recreating America in his own image. He continues to openly defy and violate the core precepts that are the framework for this nation and the reason for its greatness; he continues to allow his lust for power to dictate his every move; and he continues to make it more than obvious that the will of the people matters not one iota. Unfortunately for him, and fortunately for us, no amount of greed and tantruming on his part will nullify the processes that our founding fathers so wisely and providentially put into place and set in stone on parchment over 200 years ago. To his utter chagrine, he is bound and confined to the space clearly defined for the executive branch, and though he has exerted enormous efforts to extend his dominion beyond those bounds, never the less it has kept his grand and dangerous delusions in check. As I fondly like to analogize, the midterm elections of 2010 wherein we the people made our voices heard and our wills known and took away the dictator in chief's influence in the House of Representatives, were the neutering of Obama, handicapping him and minimizing the amount of additional damage he would be able to do until we fired him two years later.

And so now we are in the home stretch, the finish line is clearly in sight. The miniscule, yet extremely vocal, minority that is the fringe left who are addicted to Obama and the socialist kool-aid they all partake of, are horrified at the reality they see yet do not allow themselves to comprehend nor accept. As November 6th approaches, and as they see the failure of their radical, desperate attempts at inciting turmoil, division, and fear in the general population of good, hard-working Americans who are grounded in reality, equity, and the good foundations their ancestry so faithfully laid for them, they become yet more desperate. Somehow believing that we the people are nothing but mindless sheep who are able to be swayed and convinced that truth is something other than it is by merely saying so, they are in one last desperate attempt to realize their grand yet mortally flawed vision for this nation, amassing heaps of devalued currency together and waging a media campaign the likes of which has not nor will probably ever be seen again. The president himself is displaying obvious signs of his own elevated levels of anguish and anxiety,  as he too is painfully aware that his days are indeed numbered. He dares not attempt to run on his abysmal record of accomplishment over the past three years, for he has none; he dares not try to leverage his vast wisdom and experience as a reason why he should be given more time in office, for he has none. His tactic, then, and his ONLY option at this juncture, is to open his tired old playbook, which ironically enough he himself openly and publicly condemned in his own election in 2008, and focus all of his and his minions' efforts on attempting to distract, scare, and disorient the American people. The unions, who only continue to exist due to the fact that some states still mandate membership, will squeeze every last penny from their members and use them as pawns in blatantly staged and fluffed protests. The Soros types will continue to fund and fuel the hordes of poorly written sign-bearing, disoriented, misinformed, unemployed, lost homeless, hippies, and youth to occupy and befoul public areas in select cities. The mainstream media will continue with its transparently false attempt to paint, analyze, and comprehend a political landscape that is as far from factual representation as possible. And the desperate, liberal peons who chant and cheer in the dim light of their laptops from their tiny overpriced apartments will continue to abuse Twitter's abuse reporting feature to try and temporarily silence the conservative purveyors of truth.

It's laughable. It's a bit sad. It's shameful. It's desperate. But the fact is, if the Obama campaign purchased all of the air time on every television and radio station twenty four hours a day seven days a week from now until November 6th, and if every socialist-minded cheerleader in the entire nation donated all of their life savings toward the cause of trying to convince me and millions and millions of people like me that I should WANT Obama to continue to lead the nation I love, those efforts would STILL fail miserably. No amount of propaganda, sweet words, and lies would change the price at the pump. None of it would  give families back their homes. It would not change Obama's own history of having the audacity to dismiss the will of the people and supplant it with his own condescending judgments. Mr. President, extreme democratic politicians, and every individual out there reading this who believes that Obama's vision, policies, track record, and point of view is what this great nation needs in order for it to continue being great: this year will not be one you'll be able to count as a success. Quite the opposite, this is the year when you will find yourself and your personal politics ostrecized, castigated, and banished while we replace our nation's governmental bodies with representation who will do exactly that: represent the conservative, moral, capitalistic, and historically sound principles that constitute the foundation and are the catalyst that have made and will keep America great.

You have only three options at this point. You can choose to open your mind to this reality and attempt to find your place in this grand restoration of which you are on the verge; you can retain a good therapist who can assist you in opening your mind to this reality and attempt to find your place in this grand restoration of which you are on the verge; or, you may choose to simply wallow in perpetual disdain and complaint for what truly is the greatness of America. Like it or not, sacrifice or not, your socialistic, self-destructive vision for America shall not come to pass. This is the fact, and this is the reality of November 6th, 2012. So say I.

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Last night was the completion of debate number six for the current host of Republican nominee contenders. These events are always preceded by myself with hope and anticipation of being able to single out one of them as my favorite. But last night's event proved only to reaffirm for me what the previous five did as well: There are no top contenders, only bottom ones.

Every single one of those individuals are hundreds of magnitudes brighter as potential presidents than the current leader of the free world. Due to that reason, it tends to cause me to be enamored by ALL of them. That being said, however, there are ones of them who I prefer less than the others, and here's the breakdown as to who and why.

My least two favorites, tied for bottom, are Rick Perry and Mitt Romney. Contrary to my assessment, these two are also touted in the news media and among many political analysts as being the TOP two contenders. The news media, and these analysts, have been immersed for so long in what has become a virtual cesspool of politics that their analytical skills are biased towards the status quo, and anything that falls outside of their perceived boundaries of "electable", "politically correct", and appealing to their definition of independents are simply not worthy of more than a passing commentary. I'm here to tell you, though, that those who are writing off the other contenders so quickly are nearly as blind as the liberal left, and did not properly lay to heart the true meaning of the midterms in November 2010. We The People are demanding true change. The absolute MOST we could hope for from Rick Perry or Mitt Romney is to return us to the state of affairs before Obama took office; this is grossly insufficient and will NOT satisfy the needs of liberty-loving Americans who hunger for a return to our Constitutional roots and a reboot of American politics.

As I mentioned in opening, the rest of the contenders would all invest themselves in bringing forth true and lasting changes that would cause our nation to thrive as it has not in a very long time. That said, my third least favorite candidate is Newt Gingrich. The man does have some artifacts of his political history that are admirable and would greatly benefit us all now if brought forth again; but no matter what he says or how he delivers it, Newt is a career politician who has been part of the atrophied, "good ol' boy" Republican establishment for a long, long time. Nobody can be immersed in what has passed for conservativism in this country for so long and not be ruined by it. For that reason, I do not trust the man nor believe in his integrity.

My fourth least favorite candidate is Rick Santorum. His strong and open support of remaining in Iraq and Afghanistan trouble me. Admittedly, I am biased on this subject due to the fact that I have a son in the Army and I hate the constant sense of worry for his safety, as I know so many other parents have to endure as well. I understand that there is a time for peace and a time for war, but the manner in which we have conducted our wars for the past decade have been akin to the manner in which this country has been governed: without clear leadership, without clear goals, and without clear plans to execute in order to achieve them. That, in my opinion, is not a cause worthy for anybody's son or daughter to sacrifice their lives. Santorum also danced around a question in last night's debate regarding compulsory unions and 'right to work' states, leading me to only be able to conclude that he would do nothing regarding that issue in the 28 states that currently support compulsory union membership as a condition of employment.

The remaining contenders I consider to all be top shelf. Michele Bachmann has been a tireless proponent of conservative values for a long time, as well as a tireless critic of Obama and his toxic ways. Her dedication, her perseverance, her morals, and her consistent stance on issues based on conservative values despite the rest of the herd all make her a strong potential leader in my mind.

Herman Cain is a man of integrity, experience, love of country, conservativism, and bless his heart, the man doesn't dance around questions or try to deliver pre-formed watered down, neutral answers like so many of the status quo politicians tend to do. He speaks his mind, and his sincerity and genuineness shine through in everything he says. His proposals for economic recovery are simple yet elegant, and have been given due diligence by experts in the field. He has something wonderful to offer this country and he knows it. I believe it too.

Ron Paul. A true Libertarian through and through who is as wise, intelligent, patriotic, experienced, and persevering as any of the original founding fathers, in my opinion. Having just celebrated his 76th birthday, Ron Paul has had a full lifetime to distill his experiences and knowledge and has come to the obvious and simple conclusion that the answer to all of America's woes and failings lie in her foundation: her Constitution. A return to the precepts and ideology that this nation's founders established for themselves and their posterity is the only thing that can return us to prosperity and greatness. My own beliefs in limited government and personal freedoms align well with Ron Paul's, and I would gladly call him President.

There are a couple of other contenders as well. Gary Johnson, ex governor of New Mexico, and John Huntsman, former governor of Utah and ambassador to China. John Huntsman is very well spoken, very elgant and articulate, and as the man says and cannot be denied, has a proven track record in his state of Utah for reforms and changes that have benefited that state greatly. He would make a great president, and He'll have my vote if nominated. Gary Johnson isn't as personable as Gary Johnson, but he is without a doubt a man who WILL do what he says. His integrity and sincerity are unshakable, and his dedication to a return to constitutionality and conservative values is undeniable based on his political history as New Mexico's governor.

2012 is going to be THE most exciting election in modern history, with the final contenders being extreme polar opposites of one another and this nation having to decide, as a whole, which fork in this road we are going to take. I of course believe with all my heart that we will return to the document that made us who we are today and that, beginning in 2013, we will find ourselves joyfully on the road to economic, moral, and patriotic recovery. I imagine the day after the election there will be a lot of liberals lamenting the loss of their opportunity to "progress" us all onto a European fast track. But to all of those individuals I say now, don't worry, don't fret; you too will benefit from the freedoms, the prosperity, and the motivation to be self-reliant. That spirit and prevailing mindset is what brought us all to this fork in the road in the first place, and it will ensure our survival as the greatest nation on earth far into the future as well.

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The premise is all wrong. The idea upon which Obama's "job creation ideas" is based is erroneous. Setting aside the fact that this man wouldn't even have BOTHERED attempting to address this issue if it weren't for the fact that he was politically castrated in November of 2010 and this subject (and many others) was forced upon him, his "nanny state" approach to addressing national challenges is wrong.

Not everyone believes as I, though. I recently watched news coverage of a town hall meeting between a representative and his constituents where I saw and heard people in the audience screaming out "where are the jobs!?!?". It saddened me to see that there are people...lots of people...who would even think to ask that question of our government, on the same token reaffirming to themselves and those who hear them that they believe it is the government's DUTY to provide jobs for people. Fact of the matter is, it is not and never has been the government's duty to create and/or provide jobs. The correct question for them to have shouted out would have been along the lines of "when will the government get out of the way of free enterprise!?!?". Government itself is not good at very many things, nor was it ever intended to be; history has borne this out. A whole slough of jokes and stereotypes exist centered around government, government jobs, and government workers for good reason. When applied beyond its constitutional boundaries, government tends to be bloated, inefficient, wasteful, poor at self-monitoring, and over-compensating. These things promote apathy and corruption among its labyrinthal hierarchy of agencies and departments, the results of which all roll downhill and onto the plates of We the People. It was never designed to be Big Brother, and when it attempts to behave as such fails miserably and heavily burdens the dynamics of our Republic. So for Barack Hussein Obama to approach the currently dismal jobs situation in this nation with the idea that more government is the answer to our prayers is simply the absolute opposite to what the true solution is. I don't question his motives (though I do believe the conservative House majority and his upcoming ousting ARE two of his primary motivating factors), but I do condemn his tried-and-failed philosophies and the fact that despite the clear evidence of their failure, the man continues to mindlessly cling to them. My hope, as it always is before the man speaks, is that he will show a true heart to want to help and not simply use his audience as an opportunity to posture, lecture, cast blame, and ask us all to buy in to his idea of yet BIGGER government. Historically, though, he has utilized his speeches to do the latter and in so doing has conditioned the majority of us to subconsciously (and consciously) prejudge him. I fall into this category, and harbor zero hope that tonight's speech will be anything more than a mosaic of recycled presidential rhetoric.

Mr. President, if all you offer tonight as a solution is more of what has proven to be a detriment and hindrance to true prosperity in this nation, then please save your breath for your 2012 concession speech. We spoke loudly in town hall meetings before you rammed Obamacare down our throats, we spoke even MORE loudly in November 2010 when we flattened your political tires and disabled you from causing further harm to our nation, and still you would not listen. As the very existence of the loud, violent, hateful rhetoric from the minority left so clearly prognosticates, we will most assuredly dethrone you in the presidential election of 2012 and end one of the most dismal, leaderless presidencies this country has ever known in our lifetime. Your opportunity to listen has long since passed and you are doing nothing more at this point than biding your time and reinjecting wasted cash into the various ad agencies and marketing firms as you futilely flounder about on your campaign tours doing the only thing you know how to do: talk. You, sir, are politically doomed, and you have knowingly and consistently brought it all upon yourself.

Let's watch some football!!!

So, Obama got Osama, did he? Beyond the disgust I felt at the fact that so many people were rejoicing in the bloody execution of Osama, I find myself as equally disgusted at the idea that anybody would give Obama the credit for bringing the man to justice. It wasn't Obama who initiated the manhunt, gathered intel, analyzed data, or performed reconnaissance and interrogations in order to pinpoint Osama's location and keep tabs on the movements of Al Quaeda. The only thing Obama can be given credit for is to have been the individual that by happenstance occupied the White House when all of the hard work of thousands of others finally came to fruition. For all intents and purposes, Obama was just lucky. His only role in all of this was to play eeny meeny minee mo between two options: sit and wait, or swoop in and execute the man. "Hmmm, which would be politically expedient right now? Hmmm...." My point: Obama deserves very, very little credit for Osama's apprehension.

As with every word the man utters, every movement he makes, and every photo opp he stages, nothing about this man's life is done without high regard given to the resulting political implications, and the Osama assassination is no different. Obama has had knowledge of his whereabouts for probably a year prior to this week, yet only now, when his approval ratings hover at all time lows, does he choose to give the green light to have the man executed. Coincidence? Or a politically strategic move to help boost his approval ratings and cast him in a more stately light? Based on the documented two year history already written about this administration, I would bet money on the latter. If his approval ratings are bolstered between now and the next poll results, I think I'll have my suspicions confirmed.

Your eternal readiness to give yourself credit and to put on a show of stateliness isn't fooling us, Obama, nor will your good fortune to have been the president at the time that the planet's most wanted man was brought to justice cause us to forget, turn a deaf ear to, or be blind to your corrosive policies that continue to undermine this great nation. Just letting you know, we're not the sheeple you hope we are. 628 more days, and then we can close this horrific chapter in American history.

And that's all I have to say about that.

P.S. If your first impression upon reading my statement "...the disgust I felt at the fact that so many people were rejoicing in the bloody execution of Osama...." caused you to think that I am somehow an Osama sympathizer, think again. My disappointment and chagrin stem solely from the idea that people are deriving great pleasure from the act of murder. Osama...he was a murderer and needed to be brought to justice (whatever justice that may be), and I in no way condone or sympathize with the man or the causes he promoted. I do like to believe, however, that humanity has evolved at least a small bit beyond the blood thirstiness of the citizens of Rome and we are able to implement justice without taking pleasure in the more heinous aspects of it. I could be wrong, but let me have my delusions! 

Via HeritageAction.com, I composed and sent an email to President Barack Hussein Obama II today. If you would like to send the White House an email of your own, you may do so at http://capwiz.com/heritage/issues/alert/?alertid=43827501

My Email, 04/28/2011:

Thank you for receiving my message.

Every single responsible household in America right now lives within a budget. We list our needs, we list our wants, we prioritize those items, and then we apply our income to that list until we run out of cash...AND THEN WE STOP SPENDING. These are the actions that responsible adults take on a regular basis in order to ensure that tomorrow they still have the ability to care for themselves and their families.

In 2008, We The People opted for "hope and change" versus McCain's promise of "more of the same". Unfortunately for us, we didn't take the time to ask you to explain your definition of "hope and change". Mr. President, you have sorely disappointed the majority of us with your lack of leadership, your purposeful destruction of the American economy and reputation, and your blatant apathy towards all of us when we called out to you to hear what we had to say. We gave you a good shellacking in November 2010, alright, and I guarantee you that in 2012 you will be respectfully ushered out of the most important position on this planet and will go down in history as "the man who attempted to bring America to her knees". You had an opportunity in 2010 to wake up and smell the overpriced coffee, and purposefully chose not to do so. For that, your consequences are that you will be a one term president with a less than favorable history.

I sincerely wish it could have been different, because I, as a conservative independent, voted for you Mr. President. I believed in you, as millions of us did, and you have purposefully let us down. That's the part that hurts the most: you are doing this on purpose, for your own selfish reasons. You're hurting all of us and our posterity, and you do not care. If you did, plain and simply, you would listen to us and you would do your best to serve us rather than dictate to us.

If you have any shred of humanity in you, reach down deep and grab on to it. Stop the insanity of spending us into oblivion. Stop. You may choose not to do so, in which case We The People will rise up as our constitution has authorized us to do and we will remove you and your policies swiftly and permanently. But wouldn't it be a better ending to the story if you simply did the right things yourself?

Anyway, I just felt the need to share these thoughts with you. As challenging as you make it, I do still harbor a respect for you, if for no other reason than I know it is what our Founding Fathers would have done in this situation.

And if you're open to recommendations, I recommend that you NOT waste a billion dollars campaigning for another term if you're not going to actually do anything different from here on out. Your hard left stance dooms you to nothing but exhausting road tours and speeches, an eventual empty campaign coffer, and a final, humiliating concession speech. Your beloved leftist unions are bailing on you, and even if they didn't, they don't represent We The People sufficiently to carry you through. The Independents, such as myself, lost faith in you by mid 2010 and it hasn't returned. Only those you might be able to successfully scare with your false horror stories are going to cling to you as their savior. But the thing is, the American public is far, far more intelligent and informed than you give us credit for, and our common sense works very, very well. In a nutshell, your campaign is doomed to be an exercise in futility if you don't change your stance with meaningful actions visible to prove that you have done so.

Anyway, just my two cents as a guy out here walking among the real America. Take it or leave it.

Happy Campaigning!

Doug Boude (rhymes with 'loud')

Watching the events of the political scene unfold for the past two years has been a horrific experience, with the only sense of hope coming from the 2010 midterm election results when a majority of rational thinkers replaced many members of the House and the Senate. But although I can physically see the things that have been taking place, I have been unable to fathom WHY a few individuals would commit such acts knowing full well what the consequences are and will be. It has been beyond my ability to comprehend...until two nights ago.

The events to which I referred above can be summarized in this short list:

- purposeful, continued, gluttonous spending of borrowed money;
- purposeful, continued turning of a deaf ear to the will of the American people by the president and congressional leaders;
- justification of dire situations rather than solutions to the same;
- purposeful, continued neglect of America's southern border and the plight of the states suffering the brunt of illegal immigration;
- purposeful, exaggerated apathy and slowness to react to situations requiring immediate leadership;
- purposeful contradiction of domestic policy versus foreign policy (eg; no domestic drilling, but let Brazil);
- purposeful lending/gifting of huge amounts of money to foreign interests while neglecting domestic interests;
- purposeful, immoderate engaging in leisure activities, especially during times when leadership is most needed.

I'm pretty sure if I thought about it more than the 30 seconds it took me to come up with the list above, I could probably add fifty more items, all of which are utterly perplexing when viewed with a mindset of common sense and preservation of country and self. So the burning question: WHY does our president behave and act this way?

My first conclusion, which I came to a few months before November 2010, was that Barack Obama was either insanely stupid and could not see the results of his choices, or the man flat out hated America and was trying to destroy it. The more time passes, the more I listen to the man speak, and the more I listen to others analyze, criticize, and defend this man, the more I conclude that he's definitely not stupid. No, in fact he harbors the political prowess of a Chicago-style politician, planning his every move years ahead and being very adept at tying up loose ends. Yet still, even being utterly convinced that the man is purposefully attempting to run America over a very tall cliff, I was still plagued with the looming question of why he had made this his mission in life.

The answer came to me in a conversation I was having with my wife about our military days. Even while still in boot camp, with the daily barrage of belittlement, humiliation, and physical abuse, I realized why it was that the path of basic training was necessary: The military has to bring everybody down to a low, common denominator in order to be able to successfully build its people back up in the way they want them to behave. You have to format your hard drive in order to start with a clean, fresh installation of Windows; you must erase the chalkboard in order to write the next day's lessons on it; and when you're president and you want to re-mold a nation to conform to the ideals, philosophies, and beliefs that you hold as your own, you first have to bring it down to the brink of ruin and collapse.

Barack Obama holds a personal and political philosophy that greatly contradicts those of the majority of Americans and especially those of the founding fathers. Unfortunately for us, he has a host of like-minded sycophantic allies whose pooled resources of power, influence, and money enable him to pursue his agenda with fervor. The results of these alliances and his tireless efforts to bring our economy (and thus this country's people) to its knees are readily apparent every single day. Unemployment rates, the housing market, the stock market, our world reputation politically and economically, and the steady loss of faith in the US Dollar are all absolute indicators that this individual and his circle of powerful power-hungry mongrels are currently succeeding in tearing this nation down to the point where they can then begin to rebuild it "in their own image". We as a people and society are being put through the meat grinder, tested. Tested with the purposeful allowance of inflation to raise the prices of everyday necessities to near unaffordable levels; tested as the executive branch maneuvers to create, persist, and agitate the divisions and polarizations that exist among the Senate and the House, the states and the White House, and between ordinary, hard working citizens; in essence, creating and maintaining a divided government and citizenry. Barack Obama wears the mask of a person who wants unity, wants cohesion, wants economic recovery; but his actions speak loud and clear that the existing and escalating chaos and uncertainty is precisely what his goals are. On that wave he intends to ride into another term as president, completing his goals of taking America to the edge of collapse, "enslaving" her masses to the teat of entitlement and welfare programs that most will absolutely need in order to simply survive on a daily basis, granting amnesty to the hordes of illegal (entitlement-minded) masses, placing his political worshipers into positions of power and influence, and then putting his efforts into the dismantlement and re-creation of the very heart of all that we as a people are: the Constitution of the United States of America.

It is frightening to consider, but all of his actions and lack thereof clearly point to such an end game. Thank the Lord, though, we still have an opportunity to avert this disaster of historical proportions! The wisdom of our founding fathers intentionally created our political processes to be fairly slow moving so that no sudden shifts like those Barack Hussein Obama are chomping at the bit to enact can take place in that manner. We have an election coming in less than two years in which we can decidedly reverse this horrific trend of self-destruction and begin to repair the damage this man has almost single-handedly accomplished thus far. But, it's going to take a lot of effort on our part as a society. Barack is on the trail right now amassing what will probably be the largest campaign fund in the history of our nation. He'll be strategically spending it to ensure that we remain dazed and confused, turning on one another, unsure of the truth, and in our hour of weakness then convince us that he is indeed the answer to our prayers. His plan is already well in motion, as he strategically places himself in a position to be able to point fingers and cast blame to divert our attention away from the man himself. He attempts to molest our innate sense of fairness by proclaiming the unfairness of some possessing more than others and the righteousness there is in redistributing that wealth. His tactful and colorful use of phrasing will color our perspective; his ensuring that our lives are burdened with the additional stresses of a failing economy will distract us from the truth of the matter; and his polarizing attacks on those whose common sense dictates self-discipline and moderation will divide us as a nation. The evil intent of this individual knows no bounds, and the resources at his disposal to pursue those intents are equally infinite. The one thing beyond his reach is our own individual ability to reason, judge, and discern fact from fiction. Though he may wear the bonnet and gown, he will not be able to adequately respond to us at the polls in 2012 when we say "Obama, what big TEETH you have!", and fool us again into believing in his brand of "hope and change".

In 2008 our common sense told us that McCain would simply bring more of the same, and so hope and change sounded like exactly what we needed to reform Washington and re-establish our country more in keeping with the intent of our founding fathers. The one mistake the majority of us made, though, was in our assumption of what Barack Hussein Obama actually meant by 'hope and change'. The lesson then ought to be: next time someone offers you Nirvana, go ahead and make them explain exactly what they mean by that.

In the meantime then, my brethren, my recommendation is that you look outside your blinders at least a little, and consider the distinct possibility that all that you see going on around you is real and is a precursor to what is absolutely headed our way. Consider the distinct reality that, although we have been used to a quality and way of life that is unparalleled in the world, it can and very likely will take a turn for the worse in the very near future. Don't go crazy with it, but spend some effort and resources preparing yourself and your family to be more self-sufficient than you already are. Learn to garden, exercise your second amendment right (while you can!), spend a little extra at Sam's Club or Costco and stack some non-perishables and bottled water away in your pantry. At this point in the game, it's only craziness and lunacy to IGNORE what's happening. Don't wait until the winter comes (and come it will) before you allow yourself the responsible realization of the state you find yourself in. Anticipate, be proactive, and prepare. In Aesop's famous fable, the ant was the only one who had no regrets when the circumstances of the world around him turned negative. As for me and my house, we shall exercise our God-given ability for reason and discernment, and prepare. We will also do our part to oust this evil, anti-American individual in the 2012 election and will hopefully succeed so that we have a hope of restoring ourselves to what we once were.

And that's all I have to say about that.

Doug out.

Early in 2010, the Tea Party movement began. People from all walks of life and different political positions felt the overwhelming need to do something to save their country from the destructive course that their elected majority and president had set it upon. They got off of their couches and rallied at their state capitols, and even amassed themselves  in their nation's capitol in order to make their extreme dissatisfaction with the democratic majority known.

But with regards to the liberals and liberal democrats, their protests fell upon deaf ears. Rather than have their voices be considered, they were conveniently labeled as "extremists" and categorized as a fringe minority who were too ignorant to realize that Obama was indeed the savior of the economy and society.

As evolution will have it, the Tea Party groups began to grow and coalesce into a unified, nation-wide movement that soon had propelled candidates of its choosing on to the front lines of primary elections everywhere. Many of the rank and file old-school GOP incumbents who were certain they had a job for life found themselves suddenly unemployed. If the Leftists had uncategorically dismissed the Tea Party mentality before the primaries, surely they would sit up and ascribe legitimacy to this anomoly now! But alas, they clung stubbornly to their belief that this movement was nothing more than a manifestation of ignorance, unbridled rage, and even racism, and would soon run its course and dissolve back in to the generally apathetic fabric of society.

The Liberals, however, could not have been more wrong. As Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 came to an end and those in the nation who cared sat in front of their televisions watching the poll results tally up, it became clear to the country that this Tea Party movement was no niche, fringe group, but was a representation of the clear majority of Americans. Election after election after election saw state and national posts shift decisively to the Republican red, until Wednesday morning arrived to find that the United States of America had overwhelmingly made a return to its conservative, common sense roots. The democrats, who for the prior two years had chosen to utterly ignore its constituency and condescendingly dictate the policies under which the country would abide, were categorically dismissed and replaced by individuals whose sincere mission it was to act as a true voice for the people. One would think, that after such a radical and literal overnight displacement of the government establishment, that those Leftists who had mocked the Tea Party movement before would surely now comprehend the reality of this country's true core desires. With such blatant evidence, who could possibly be able to describe the disposition of the nation as anything other than what it was?

And yet, the liberals still denied it, choosing rather to skirt around the obvious truths and search for some obscure, complex meaning to and motivation for the tsunami of red that had arrived the day prior. Even the President himself in his post midterm election speech, did not see it for what it was and chose rather to conclude that he had simply failed to properly communicate the benefits of his agenda and policies.

I was watching MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show on television last night and couldn't help but wag my head as I watched her and her subject matter expert guest attempt to analyze the motives and reasons behind the election results that swept the country on Tuesday. They, like the President and most others on the liberal left, were absolutely perplexed and at a loss as to be able to explain why so many republicans and Tea Party backed candidates had won office. It was as if their vision and comprehension had been obscured, and this sudden but obvious shift to the right had no rationale whatsoever. They could see the results of it all, but could not fathom how on earth it had come to pass.

The Liberals' confusion and confoundment is in itself confusing and confounding to the rest of America. I and I'm sure many, many others have no explanation as to how it is they are able to remain in the dark and not comprehend the simple, clear message that We The People sent to ruling governmental elites this past Tuesday. It's been repeated on numerous talk shows by numerous panels; it's been reiterated in acceptance speech after acceptance speech by winning candidates; it's been blogged about, talked about, and rephrased in such a way that, literally, my three year old can understand it. Yet the liberals can't comprehend it? My only conclusion is then that they didn't and do not hear the message because they purposefully wish not to. Their fingers are in their ears, their hands are over their eyes, and they utter an incessant and annoying chorus of "la la la la la"s so that they don't have to hear.

For those of you out there who fall into this category, I have no doubt that the previous words have mostly also fallen onto eyes that cannot see and ears that will not hear. But if you can, I encourage you to stop ignoring the blatant truth and lend your intelligence and your empathy to simply try and comprehend the message the Tea Party sent on Tuesday. We want Washington to shrink government down to a consitutionally-bound size, stop spending money it doesn't have, stop mandating policies onto us, cut current spending, and stop waging cold civil war on its own brothers and sisters in Arizona. That was, is, and always has been, the message. Don't shrink away from your fellow Americans in fear and loathing, but rather open your hearts and minds to understand this overwhelmingly prevailing point of view that has taken back this country and is charting a more conservative, sound course for ourselves and our posterity. I know you're from Venus, and I know that's a far different world than Mars; but I'm certain that with a little effort and good will, we can bridge this gap and come to an understanding that works out well for all of us. There's room for everyone and you have an open invitation. Don't ostrecize yourselves any longer: join us.

Making sense out of the chaos that has been the past two years is nearly impossible. Each analysis of the facts and trends will reveal yet another facet that composes this rather large gaudy gemstone we call politics. Yet some analytical results seem to be consistent, from my point of view, and I felt it necessary to pen them down as my own personal prognostication and explanation of how these things will come to be.

Obama swept in to office in 2008 because, frankly, he was the only one of the two choices who promised (literally and figuratively) change. I, as I know hundreds of thousands of others did, decided that if we had to choose between more of the same Bush era policies (which McCain fully represented to us all) and a liberal who sported a middle eastern name and rode on the bandwagon of "hope and change", we'd rather roll the dice and take our chances with Obama. The economy was on a steady downhill slope at the time, the boat was taking on some water, and things were getting kind of worrisome. Obama wasn't afraid, and gladly accepted control of the helm. We put our faith and trust in him, we supported him, and we were very, very patient with him while we let him give his ideas a try.

After a year, it became apparent that his ideas just weren't working. So, we the people spoke up and told Mr. Obama that we'd really like to limit the damages of these experiments and take another route. We spoke softly, we used reason and logic, and we were friendly about it. Mr. Obama smiled and nodded, and then completely disregarded everything we had said. Throughout a long series of repeated offenses against us and our desires for our nation, Obama showed himself to be quite the opposite of what he had portrayed himself to be in 2008. When the Republicans in office began to stand up for us and represent the voice of the people in more public forums, Barack removed any final room for doubt that he had his own and not our best interests at heart. He ignored cries for help from the state of Arizona to do his constitutionally bound duty and preserve them from foreign invasion. And when they finally conceded that the cavalry was definitely not on its way from D.C. and took it upon themselves to do what they could to protect their state, Obama made himself their sworn enemy and spent our tax dollars to start a Cold Civil War against our brothers and sisters in Arizona.

Obama himself is on a steep downhill slide, as his true heart and nature continue to reveal themselves one issue at a time. His arrogance and haughtiness that cripple him in his ability and duty to love the people he was chosen to lead; his apathy that renders him incapable of empathizing with those whose hearts will forever be at Ground Zero; his irresponsible and juvenile fiscal habits that we the people have to foot the bill for; and the list goes on and on and on. The man is living in a fantasy world that includes none of us who invested so much of ourselves into his presidency, and even this very midterm election has proven to be an event that has thurst him even farther away from reality. This continual movement away from us all has even managed to lend creedence to conspiracy theories regarding his citizenship and religious beliefs. In fact, his actions have even caused us to believe and think out loud that he is purposefully trying to destroy America, one bad, wreckless policy at a time.

Obama and his inner circle of fellow narcissists and sycophants have become a malignant tumor on Capitol Hill that we can no longer stand by and watch grow uncontrollably. The blind eyes, deaf ears, and malevolent spirit with which the ruling elite have dealt with us has, as many negative situations can, become the catalyst that has renewed our patriotism, invigorated our zeal and fervor for the America we believe in and love. The destructive leadership which we now reject has raised our voices and helped us find one another, joining together in one unstoppable wave of passive aggression. Obama did not create the Tea Party movement; oh no, my friends, you and I both know that it has already been in place for generations, put into our hearts and sealed by those who raised us up and taught us in the way we should go. Obama did not create us; he simply made himself the target of our non-affections by believing quite erroneously that we would be as silent lambs at the slaughter. The Tea Party isn't a thing, it's a mode of thinking, a belief system, a patriotic drum that beats in our hearts. And it moves us to do what needs to be done in order to preserve all this precious nation that is mother to us all.

This midterm election, my liberal, socialist brothers and sisters, is a small yet significant manifestation of the prevailing spirit of our country. We will preserve what our founding fathers architected, and we will not allow ourselves to morph into something that does not provide and promote the environment that that will allow ourselves and our posterity to prosper, live, and grow in complete freedom. It should serve as a wake up call to the self-proclaimed elite establishment that, unless you make some drastic personal and moral changes today, the privilege of serving us shall be taken away from you and given to someone who is worthy of it. It should also serve to continue to enliven the patriotism within us all, increase our love of country, and move us to instill the same in our children.

Tomorrow morning our legislative branch will be a different environment, infused and instilled with the Tea Party mentality. Tomorrow morning, states around the country will have the Tea Party mentality fused into their local governments as well. This "movement" is no fad, my friends; it will not pass away. On the contrary, the Tea Party mentality has existed as long as the United States of America has existed, and it will never, ever die. If anybody wants our freedom, if anybody wants to lull us into passivity, if anybody wants to morph us into some socialistic blob of anonymous faces, if anybody wants to take away however passively our blood-bought freedom: let them come and try. What you will see in the governmental face of America tomorrow morning is just a twitch in the muscle of this movement...there's as much as will ever be necessary where that came from.

Alan Colmes, democratic analyst and radio talk show host, appeared on Fox News to discuss the meaning of the midterm election results and what he believes Obama should say in his speech at 1 PM today with regard to the newly elected congress. Colmes' opinion shows that he is as out of touch with true American sentiment as Obama himself, believing that what the people want to hear from the president is that he will continue to be a man of stubborn progress, and that he acknowledges that maybe he wasn't so good at communicating all the wonderful things he has actually done for the people of this country.

Colmes couldn't be more wrong. We don't want to hear more of Obama's condescending rhetoric. We didn't do what we did last night so that we could hear the President say "I heard you! I should have been better at making sure you knew the benefits of the pain I have caused you!". The reason we did what we did at the polls yesterday is because Obama is not fulfilling our basic need to be heard, and outright refuses to do so. The Republicans are being so warmly embraced because they are sincerely listening to us. Obama has not, and no amount of pre-written humility displayed in his post-election speech is going to take the place of being a sincere listener. Obama hasn't forgotten that his office is a privilege and an honor, and that he is a servant of all the nation; the man never knew it to begin with. In 2008 Obama fulfilled the stereotype of politicians, saying what he needed to in order to win the election. Because his message was what we wanted and needed to hear at the time, we put our faith in him and trusted that his words were true representations of his heart and mind. As his own fruits have borne out, his words were nothing more than ear candy for us, and he never had any intention of taking his direction from those who elected him.

And so last night we the people sent Obama a clear, undeniable message. We do not accept his supreme, condescending attitude; we do not accept or approve of his agenda for us; and we do not accept the results of the policies he has thus far enacted. We have neutered him, legislatively, in order to make our displeasure with his servitude clear. The million dollar question now is, will he hear us? Will Obama comprehend the true intent of the blatant house cleaning that took place last night? The Republicans heard us months ago and did an outstanding job of providing the feedback that assured us of this fact. We carefully accepted their humility and tried them daily, testing the sincerity of their words. They passed with flying colors, and so we bestowed upon them the honor of representing our collective voices on Capitol Hill. Will Obama do likewise? Should it really have required such a harsh, public spanking as this before he even had a hope of unstopping his ears?

At 1 pm today, November 3rd, 2010, we shall see if Mr. Obama indeed possesses the moral fortitude to humble himself before those whom he serves. Based on his actions up to this point, my persona belief is that at best he will attempt to fool us into believing that our actions have given him the epiphany he was lacking. The sincerity of his attempt at humility will be revealed over the course of the next few months as we watch carefully to see his willingness to put this nation before partisanship, politics, and his own ambitions for power. I hope that I'm wrong; I hope that at 1 pm I see a man who has truly realized the error of his ways and is on an honest search for repentance. But a hardened heart would rather break than bend, and if Obama has, as I believe, long ago left behind the ability to be humble, then this country is just going to have to sit out the next two years status quo until we can replace Obama with someone who loves us like they say they do.