Heath Shuler: Another Blue Dog Pretending to be a Conservative.

Heath Shuler Shows Why He Doesn't Belong in Congress
John Armor for Congress Press Release | March 28, 2008 | Armor for Congress

NEWS RELEASE

BlueRidgeNow, the website of the Hendersonville Times-News, reported on March 26 on an appearance by Rep. Heath Shuler at a Rotary Club meeting in that city, but missed the deeper story that was present.
 

According to the story, Heath Shuler blamed Senator John McCain, a Republican who is not serving in the House, as "blocking" Shuler's SAVE Act which would impose tighter controls on illegal immigration from getting a vote in the House. The Times-News had noted in an editorial on 20 March that "48 Democrats had co-sponsored the bill." So, if all those Democrats had signed the Discharge Petition, Shuler's SAVE Act would have reached the floor, and would have gotten a vote.
 

A Discharge Petition means that 218 Members of the House sign a document requiring a bill to come to the floor, regardless of the actions of any Committee, and regardless of the position of House leadership, especially the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. The article does note that Speaker Pelosi does not want this bill voted on. However, it does not note that Speaker Pelosi, a liberal, San Francisco Democrat, only became Speaker with the votes of Heath Shuler and about 20 other freshman Democrats who advertised themselves as conservative" when they ran for office in 2006.

Those reluctant House Democrats who co-sponsored the bill but haven't signed the Discharge Petition have no reason to listen to any requests from Senator John McCain a Republican. They have every incentive to listen to demands from Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat.

In short, the facts of this matter lead to the conclusion that it was Heath Shuler, and no one else, who blocked Shuler's bill from the floor. He did so with the first vote he ever cast in Congress, to choose Pelosi as Speaker.

John Armor, constitutional lawyer from Macon County, and a candidate for Congress in the 11th District, said, "All the facts would have allowed readers to conclude that Shuler never expected his SAVE Act to get a vote in Congress. He knew it would fail. He just wanted to pretend, one more time, that he was a 'conservative' with 'mountain values.'" Mr. Armor pointed out that Shuler admitted at the Christmas party for the Macon County Sheriff that because of Speaker Pelosi, "my bill will never get out of committee."

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John Armor
Highlands, NC
www.ArmorforCongress.com

Condi for VP ??

Condi for VP ??

Condoleezza Rice earned her reputation as an analyst of Soviet and Eastern Bloc foreign and defense policies. She's the one who formulated George H. W. Bush's Russian policy.

 

She's the one who, as Provost, managed to rein in Stanford's budget from running a deficit (eating endowment) to running a surplus.

 

She's served on the board of Transamerica Corporation.

 

She's been a Trustee on the board of the RAND Corporation, America's premier think tank.

 

Finally, she served on the board at Chevron Corporation, and was personally responsible for negotiating Chevron's access to the Kazak oil fields, which resulted in Chevron naming a supertanker the SS Condoleezza Rice.

As Secretary of State, she's the lead person on Bush's foreign policy team, and her largest success is centralizing the United State's foreign aid program, to prevent waste and working at cross-purposes in the aid programs the State Department oversees.

She's proven herself as a corporate officer who is able to design and implement a budget, a seasoned negotiator with a winning record, a person knowledgeable about foreign policy goals of the United States.

And, last but not least, she's a Republican.

Were either Obama or Hillary to be compared to Condi Rice, both together could not begin to compare against her experience and her intelligence.

I don't think she's going to run (she's got a lot of other irons in the fire, including a wish to be a concert pianist), but she's the kind of person I'd want answering that 3AM phone.

Finally, with respect to her being black and a woman, the thought of Ginger Rogers comes to mind — she had to do everything Fred Astaire did, but she had to do it backwards and in high heels.

'Nuf said.

Saddam's Salesmen

Saddam's Salesmen

By Ben Johnson
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, March 27, 2008

"If being used means that we're highlighting the suffering of Iraqi children, or any children, then yes, we don't mind being used." – Rep. James McDermott, D-WA, on his 2002 trip to Iraq, financed by Saddam Hussein.

We've long contended the terrorists could not buy better representation than the Democratic Left gives them for free. We never knew how right we were.

The media revealed last night that Saddam Hussein personally funded the trip of three Democratic Congressmen to Iraq on the eve of the war that led to his ouster. Saddam's Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) reportedly bribed an American Muslim activist with two million barrels of oil to arrange the fall 2002 trip for left-wing Congressmen Jim McDermott, D-WA; David Bonior, D-MI; and Mike Thompson, D-CA.

David Horowitz and I thoroughly chronicled the event in our new book, Party of Defeat. On September 29, 2002, the ignominious trio appeared on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, via satellite hookup from foreign soil, to extol the truthfulness of Saddam Hussein, decry the already weakened sanctions imposed by the United Nations, and call President Bush a liar bent on war. David Bonior – who long served as House Democratic Whip, the second-highest ranking post in the House of Representatives – laid the blame squarely on the United States of America. Bonior denounced the regimen of multilateral sanctions, already weakened by the Oil for Food program, as "barbaric" and "horrific." He backed this up with anecdotal evidence gleaned from the group's well-supervised tour of Iraqi hospitals. Worse, the U.S. had been "trying to push and dictate" Iraq, namely by requiring its dictator verify his compliance with the cease-fire that ended the first Gulf War and the 17 UN resolutions he was currently defying. Although Saddam Hussein had frustrated all previous weapons inspections, Bonior blithely announced that he would now allow inspectors the "unrestricted" autonomy "to look anywhere." (Of course, the inspectors' job was not to play hide-and-seek with Iraq's prewar WMD cache; it was to verify that he had destroyed all WMDs, as he had agreed to do as a precondition of peace in 1991.) Rep. James McDermott echoed that none of the arms imbroglio was the Iraqi regime's fault, anyway, as "Iraq did not drive the inspectors out; we took them out." Again, the United States was blaming the victim and punishing innocent children for her own misdeeds. When pressed about believing the promises of a murderous international pariah, McDermott said, "I think you have to take the Iraqis at their face value," but he offered no such quarter to the commander-in-chief of the U.S. military. "I think the president would mislead the American people," he declared.

On the eve of the war, three sitting U.S. Congressmen treated Saddam Hussein as President Bush's moral superior.

Read the rest of this story at

 

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=E7FBC302-128F-466E-A8AB-760B725660C9

 

 

Rev. Pinion's Toll Road Lobbyist Girlfriend is Tickled PINK

Reverend Pinion's Toll Road Lobbyist Girlfriend is tickled PINK 

 

By the way Rev. Pinion, where are the hundreds of millions of dollars Sundquist and Bredesen took from the Highway Fund?

The state House has voted to remove limits on how many toll roads or bridges could be built in Tennessee.

House Transportation Chairman Phillip Pinion, a Union City Democrat, says the measure is necessary to jump-start infrastructure projects amid dwindling federal road money.

Tennessee transportation officials were notified last week that they will need to subtract another $66 million from promised federal money for road work.

Nancy Pellosi's Democrat controlled congress has cut nearly a quarter-billion dollars from Tennessee's expected road money since 2005.

The companion bill is scheduled to be considered in the Senate Transportation Committee on Wednesday.

The Legislature last year created a pilot program that allowed for one toll road and one toll bridge project.

Read the full text of HB2868 when you click here.

Watch Hillary Lie Like A Dog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It6JN7ALF7Y

B. H. Obama and his Marxist Pastor-Mentor

For the past two decades, democratic presidential candidate Obama has tethered himself to a fire-breathing pastor peddling bitter Marxist "black liberation theology" in the name of God.

 

Behind the "audacity of hope" was a grievance-mongering preacher animated by the voracity of hate. And understand this: The Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama were not merely passing "associates." They were mentor and mentee, guru and student, with fates and fortunes intertwined.

 

For two decades Obama turned a deaf ear to Wright's AIDS conspiracy theories, anti-Semite, anti-white raves, and "God damn America" diatribes. These were not occasional outbursts but the bread and butter of that church.

 

First, Obama said "None of these statements were ones that I had heard myself personally in the pews," he told Fox News.

 

Then Obama chahged his tune: "Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes."

Watch the following video to hear it in their own words.

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=56L7LE8B0PE

The Govs "brilliant businessman" image is tarnishing.

 

Bill Hobbs reports:

Budget Bloat at Blasted Governor's Mansion

The nonpartisan Tennessee Center for Policy Research has looked into the budgetary bloat in the renovation of the Tennessee governor's mansion and issued the following statement today:

Taxpayers Charged Millions for Extravagant Embellishments to Governor's Mansion
Renovations including $321,000 kitchen, $14,000 dimmer switches revealed as state faces shortfall
NASHVILLE - The renovations at the governor's mansion have gone over budget because of extravagant embellishments and poor planning, according to documents obtained by the Tennessee Center for Policy Research through public records requests.

A wet bar, fancy accent lighting and a major kitchen overhaul were added to the project's bottom line after construction was well underway, records show.

Some of the many examples of increased costs, in the form of "change orders" to the original project include:

Renovating the kitchen - $321,393

Hanging accent lighting - $53,850

Replacing dimmer switches with brass cover plates - $14,436

Installing a wet bar - $10,930

Refurbishing wash stand legs - $7,511

Change orders are agreements between contractors and the state allowing contractors to add to or delete from the work originally agreed upon when unexpected work is needed. Unfortunately, it appears that Governor Phil Bredesen and First Lady Andrea Conte used change orders as a way to quietly slip in lavish and costly embellishments to the mansion renovation project without taxpayers' knowledge.

"The Governor has expressed concern over a looming state shortfall. But the shortfall was caused by wasteful spending such as $14,000 dimmer switches and $7,500 sink legs," Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson said. "If the Governor is serious about reducing spending, he needs to look no further than his own back yard to start the cost-cutting."

Initially, renovating the Governor's Mansion and bringing the house into compliance with provisions of the Americans With Disabilities Act was to cost less than $10 million. As of today, the price tag has ballooned to $19.2 million - over 20 times the $900,100 appraised value of the house - at a cost to taxpayers of $12.8 million, according to state records.
Construction recently began on a new phase of the mansion, an underground entertainment facility, that will likely produce dozens more change orders boosting the cost to taxpayers.

"Please Governor," Johnson pleaded, "stop pouring money into the governor's mansion that could be used to educate children or heal TennCare recipients."

An extra $10 million on a mansion renovation is nothing to uber-wealthy folks like Gov. Bredesen. But across Tennessee thousands of mentally disabled persons are reeling from Bredesen's budget axe...

The state House may vote tonight on an amendment to routine bonding legislation that could halt the ballroom project, though Democrat leaders are working furiously to save the ballroom.

The Lawyers' Party

By Bruce Walker

The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers' Party.  Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are lawyers.  Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama are lawyers.  John Edwards, the other former Democrat candidate for president, is a lawyer and so is his wife Elizabeth.  Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate.)  Every  Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Benson, went to law school.  Look at the Democrat Party in Congress:  the Majority Leader in each house is a lawyer.  

The Republican Party is different.  President Bush and Vice President Cheney were not lawyers, but businessmen.  The leaders of the Republican Revolution were not lawyers.  Newt Gingrich was a history professor;  Tom Delay was an exterminator; and  Dick Armey was an economist.   House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer, not a lawyer.  The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.

Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer?  Gerald Ford, who left office thirty-one years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976.  The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work.  The Democratic Party is made up of lawyers.  Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history like Gingrich.

 The Lawyers' Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America.  And so we have seen the procession of official enemies in the eyes of the Lawyers' Party grow.  Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail?  Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers and anyone producing anything of value in our nation. 

This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers.  Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people.  Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.

Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine.  But it is an awful way to govern a great nation.  When politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all consuming.   Some Americans become "adverse parties" of our very government.  We are not all litigants in some vast social class action suit.  We are citizens of a republic which promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers. 

Today, we are drowning in laws, we are contorted by judicial decisions, we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives.  America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked.  When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big.  When lawyers use criminal prosecution as a continuation of politics by other means, as happened in the lynching of Scooter Libby and Tom Delay, then the power of lawyers in America is too great.  When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to use, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.

We cannot expect the  Lawyers' Party to provide real change, real reform  or real hope in America.  Most Americans know that a republic in which every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is not what Washington intended in 1789.  Most Americans grasp that we cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our defenders.  Most Americans intuit that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral values or spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy.

Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business.  Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work.  Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/the_lawyers_party.html 

HillaryCare - "Going After People's Wages"

Do we really want this kind of change in our lives?

Obama’s Pastor - “Just like the LAPD The US is going to Plant Weapons of Mass Destruction”

You wanted change - You got it.

A little over a year ago:

1. Consumer confidence stood at a 5-year high;
2. Regular gasoline averaged under $2.30 a gallon;
3. The unemployment rate was down to 4.4%.
4. Americans were enjoying historically-high home equity.

Since voting in a Democrat Congress in 2006 we have seen:

1. Consumer confidence plummet;
2. The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.25 a gallon;
3. Unemployment rise to 4.8% (a 9% increase);
4. American home equity hit the lowest point in six decades;

America voted for change in 2006… and change is what we got!

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Marxist Terrorists Say Obama Will Help Them

Marxist Terrorists Say Obama Will Help Them
Thu, 03/06/2008 - 15:40 — Judicial Watch Blog
Already endorsed by two of Latin America’s communist leaders, Barrack Obama is a favorite among the region’s radical Marxist terrorists who believe the Illinois senator will help them if he becomes U.S. president.
Evidence seized during a Colombian military raid on the Marxist terrorist group known as Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (or its Spanish acronym FARC) reveals that the group’s top commandos are receiving aid from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and that they see “more help coming next year if Barack Obama becomes president.”
Renowned for bombings, murder, drug trafficking, kidnapping and extortion, FARC is Latin America’s oldest, most powerful and best-equipped insurgency of Marxist origin. The U.S. government refers to the group as a narco-terrorist organization and several of its members have been tried in American courts on serious drug charges.
Information on the guerilla group’s Obama ties, which the mainstream media is sure to ignore, came from the laptop computers of various high-ranking FARC leaders. The equipment was confiscated by Colombian government forces during a recent raid on a camp in the Ecuadorian jungle that killed 23 rebels and their commander.
A strong U.S. ally, Colombia has made the correspondence between the Marxist group’s most prominent members and leaders public by posting it on a government website. Written in Spanish, the exchanges mention Obama on several occasions.
One of the electronic mails says that “gringo” associates of FARC were scheduling a sit down with Obama to lobby him since the associates believe Obama will be the next president and he rejects the Bush Administration’s free trade agreement with Colombia as well as the current military aid program.
The Illinois senator is quite popular among Latin American communists who view him as a spokesman for millions of Central Americans and Mexicans who migrate to the U.S. Last month Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega, the head of the Marxist Sandinista Liberation Front, said Obama’s presidential bid is a “revolutionary” phenomenon in the United States because he will bring great change that will offer justice and equality toward all.
Last August the world’s longest ruling dictator, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, endorsed an Obama-Hillary Clinton ticket as unbeatable. Now the Democratic frontrunner rounds out his communist support with the backing of South America’s most violent terrorist guerrillas.

Do you know Homer Hickam??

A TCWatcher sends the following:

Homer Hickam made an interesting comment on FOX this morning.

In case you don't know who he is, Homer was a poor West Va. miners son who worked his way up to being an
employee/scientist for NASA.

 

He wrote a book called "Rocket Boy" which was later made into a great movie called  "October Sky"

This morning he was interviewed and said this, about the "one shot" shoot down of the crippled satellite

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" If this Country's head was on straight they would be holding a ticker tape parade for the Crew of the Cruiser, USS Lake Erie"...

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This one rocket firing boosted our National defense 100 fold. N Korea, Iran, China, Russia, all know now that we have a safety net that can accurately stop their incoming missiles even if they are out of the earth's atmosphere.

Of course that was the plan all along, and it was a dandy plan.

I just hope that the next person in the white house don't scrap the system and begin baking cookies for the enemy.

(TCWatch note: Obama has already said he will de-fund the missile defence system that shot the satellite down)

Hilly or Osomabama will do just that and that makes me a little nervous.

At any rate Kudos's to the Officers & Crew of the USS Lake Erie. WELL DONE BLUE JACKETS !!
 

A world of peace - A world without militant Islam

A World of Peace - A World Without Militant Islam-So let's call a spade a spade here, folks

3-9-08 | Dr. David Lazerson
 

Imagine, dear friends, for a moment, the following scenario. Picture a Christian man walking into a Hindu school and opening fire on students as they were learning their holy books. Then imagine that, not only had he murdered eight young students and wounded more than 30, but just try to visualize groups of Christians breaking out in song and dance to celebrate this "brave victory."

Yes, it is utterly impossible to do so in the civilized world. But this is exactly what occurred in the recent terrorist attack in Jerusalem. The act itself was not only horrific and cowardly, but what took place afterwards in much of Gaza and in many parts of the Arabic world was downright revolting.

Thousands came out into the streets to rejoice at their "brave Arabic martyr" who had the guts to shoot unarmed students as they were sitting and studying. Adults in Gaza passed out candies to the children and to passers-by who were honking their car horns in mad support. This display of the absolute lowest levels of inhumanity was frightening to some, but it was also enlightening, for it shows their true colors for everyone to see.

So let's call a spade a spade here, folks, before this thing comes to haunt all of us across Mother Earth. Despite the calls from so-called "moderate" Muslims, Islam has proven itself to be anything but a religion of peace. One needs only to look at nearly every hot spot on the planet to see that somehow, in some way, and usually very directly, the Muslims are there making chaos, destroying, killing - all in the name of their "holy" beliefs. Whether it's in Russia or Indonesia or Africa or the Middle East or Europe or the good ol' USA, a militant form of Islam is preparing to take over.

Make no mistake about this. Israel is not the only country that they have their sights on. No way. They are taught that the Koran will rule over everyone and everything, and that if it happens by peaceful means that's all well and good. But what happens if Jews are happy being Jews? And Christians want to practice their faith? And Hindus aren't really interested in embracing Islam? Then, as the Muslims themselves have shown time and time again, it's by any means necessary to rid the world of lower class "infidels."

Let's ask another very valid question here. Just what has Islam contributed to humankind? Many of the Arab countries are loaded to the gills with money - we're talking billions upon billions, folks. One would think that perhaps some of this would go to educating, to training the future generations in ways to save the environment, in computer technology, in medicine, etc.

Gaza and the so-called Palestinians are a good case in point. Despite receiving millions in foreign aid - they are very good at taking - they end up spending a very high percentage of this generous aid on other important matters; like buying weapons, bombs, rockets, missiles, and training their young ones to hate and kill Jews, Israelis and other "infidels." The civilized world is waiting for this great "religion of peace" to prove itself and give something positive back. Seems like we're in for a long, long wait on this one.

Unfortunately, the only language the terrorists understand and can relate to is one of force. I say that it's high time for the entire civilized world to unite and confront the evil of militant Islam that threatens to engulf us all. Enough making excuses for their violent and anti-civilization behaviors. Enough of sending any foreign assistance to those who want to kill us. Enough of the United Nations and all its Arab oil influence. It's time to unite and defeat, by strong military action, Hamas, Hizbullah, Fatah, Iran's nuclear program (Yikes! The list is getting bigger all the time.) and those who behave like they're still in the Dark Ages.

Nearly all the major religions of the world have grown up. No one is out there forcing people to choose between conversion or death anymore. No one except the crazed, militant Muslims who teach their children to celebrate the horrific deaths of others.

Frankly, We No Longer Give a Damn

Stephen J. Kohn

March 06, 2008

We Israelis have been listening too long to sanctimonious words urging us to be proportionate, measured, and cautious.  Whether it was during the intifada when suicide belted homicidal maniacs bombed our restaurants and buses or whether today when the more cowardly homicidal maniacs blindly launch rockets into our cities, the comments of allies and critics alike to "tone it down" have lost their meaning to us.  One small town and now one larger city, and any field and farm near Gaza is under attack—and even one rocket is too many, let alone thousands.

There is always some rationalization about why Israel is at fault or why retaliating is in error or why the necessity to try to defend ourselves is exaggerated.  Rockets launched against the southern part of Israel should not have mandated a call for Israel to exercise self-control but for an immediate cessation of hostilities by our enemies.  We have been gullible imbeciles to have tolerated these totally unprovoked attacks until now.  No nation would have tolerated what we have—particularly since we voluntarily left Gaza.  And, our current (nonexistent) occupation of Gaza is Hamas' supposed justification for firing these unguided missiles.

We have given Gaza to the Palestinians.  But electricity, fuel, and food come from Israel.  While Israel is the source for Gaza's necessities, Egypt tries hard to seal Gaza's only other land border.  But they have been and are incompetent in controlling the flow of weapons to Gaza.  Guns yes and butter no.  Almost all the weapons fired at us since our departure from Gaza have come over (or under) the Egyptian border. 

The Gazans not only randomly target our civilians, but also Israel's closest hospital to the Gaza Strip and the power plant that provides nearly 90% of their electricity.  It requires a special type of Palestinian mendacity and Western moral blindness to complain about Israel's curtailing electric power and not admitting critically ill Palestinians while Hamas targets the power plant and hospital that serves their needs.  (Meanwhile, the power is still supplied and the critically ill still accepted.)

Israelis sit in daily conferences with various echelons of the Palestinian Authority discussing ways to compromise so we can provide more territory to them – perhaps half of Jerusalem and almost all of the West Bank.  Territory for more rocket launches against us?  (I live five miles from the nearest launch point.)

We naively believe that there is enough integrity in our "Partner for Peace" to condemn, with sincerity, the attacks on Israel.  However, on Thursday, February 28, President Abbas, threatened, in the Jordanian press, to return to military action against us.  By Saturday, he threatened to pull out of peace talks.  Will there ever be a Palestinian partner for peace?  A partner smart, strategic and sincere enough to say that bombs and incitement will never bring the Palestinians the state they long for.  We have seen the movie endlessly since 1993 and long before that.  The title "If Only Israel Hadn't…."

But the problem is broader than Palestinian duplicity.  For us, it is the anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli propagandizing that now flows from not only Arabs and Moslems, but also from the "sophisticated and liberal" West.  The mindless phrase—"not proportionate" is directed at one side in this conflict—Israel. 

While our Air Force calculates carefully how each mission can hit only legitimate targets and while our ground forces desperately try to avoid blameless civilians, often used as human shields, Hamas bombards, with intent, innocent Israelis.  If you read today's paper carefully, you will find that the infant killed in Gaza yesterday was from a Kassam gone wild.  The morally dense who stand on the sidelines urging us to be cautious and who are blind to the total disregard of the power of rockets flung our enemies display not an impartial view of this part of the world, but are bigoted and unjust in their outlook.

When we make mistakes, we admit them.  No Israeli, civilian or military, takes pride in the death of innocents.  There are no candies being distributed in Tel Aviv when innocent civilians are killed in Gaza (or even guilty ones) – a quaint folk custom in Gaza when a Kassam does its deadly work in Sderot.  Civilians are their targets and death is their goal.

The blindness of our critics to this dazzling reality is, at best, pathetic and reflects a cynicism and injustice that no other nation in the world would be subjected to.  If thousands of rockets, sniper attacks and kidnappings are not a casus belli, it is only because their target is the Jewish state.

So, when those representatives of the British foreign office, EU, United Nations and even the US State Department add to the calls from the Arab League and 51 Moslem nations for quiet reserve on our part, frankly we no longer give a damn.

The writer currently lives in Israel.

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A message from a fellow TCWatcher

A fellow TCWatcher sent us the following message:

 

OK -- this is important. 

 

I've been a frequent critic of John McCain - - he's taken some dumb positions in my opinion (like on McCain-Feingold ).   And his absolute refusal to be "brought into line" for a necessary vote has infuriated me a few more times. 

 

BUT - - this man is head, neck, shoulders, and (shall I go on?) above any other prospective  viable candidate for President. 

 

I believe that it's not too extreme to state that America will make an existential choice this year.  We can decide that our life is hard and we'd like a lot of additional things for free;  or we can decide that we want this country - - whose political philosophy and economic engine have  fueled freedom and prosperity worldwide for a long time - - to continue to do just that for a while longer.

 

It's one thing to make a nice talk, have great political advisors, and raise plenty of campaign cash  - - -It's another entirely to show - - repeatedly - -  the kind of resolve, courage, and judgment that John McCain has shown on the issues that really matter.   And the one which matters the most is the protection of this nation and our entire culture against Islamic fanaticism. 

 

I don't care about my life much anymore -- I've had a long, wonderful life already.   But I care a lot about my grandkids - -and about the generations to come.

 

I badly want America to be the shining city on a hill that Reagan saw so clearly - - and that the world needs and appreciates much more than it will ever admit.    

 

This clip is long (12 minutes), but it's well worth watching - - even for those who know McCain's  story, but especially for those who may not.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQsckD9trn4

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