Dear President Obama,

It’s been a week and everything is still the same. Where is all the change that you promised? Perhaps it was a campaign slogan or perhaps you just can’t deliver. Whatever it is, I think that perhaps there is a better solution.

As a conservative, otherwise known as a patriot, I had high hopes that perhaps you weren’t the Marxist that some claimed.   As an American, I prayed that perhaps you could bring our nation’s political divide to an end. To the contrary, we are now more polarized than ever.  

I know that we thought we could work it out, but it just hasn’t happened that way.   Our two ideological sides of America cannot, and will not ever agree on what is right, so let’s just end it on friendly terms. We can smile, chalk it up to irreconcilable differences, and go our separate ways.

We begin by equitably dividing up the country.   Certainly we can sit down and come to an agreement on what is fair. Obviously we start by giving you Michigan and Illinois because your fellow liberals have been the model of efficiency in each of those states.  Don't worry about the cold, I'm sure your global warming will take care of that. We will take the south since you never really liked us anyway. 

After we divvy up the land, the rest should be simple since liberals and conservatives have such distinct and disparate tastes. We don’t like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. Since you hate guns and war, we’ll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore, and Rosie O’Donnell (You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them) …

We’ll keep the capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street. You can have your beloved homeless, gangbangers, homeboys, hippies, welfare moms, single moms, transvestites and illegal aliens. We’ll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO’s, and rednecks. We’ll keep the bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.  We’ve got dibs on family values, since you never really cared for them anyway. You can have gay marriage and the pedophiles at NAMBLA. 

You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we’ll retain the right to invade and destroy any place that threatens our way of life. You can have the peaceniks, and war protesters.  Since you don't like Guantanamo Bay, we'll take the property and turn it into a resort.  You can have the occupants and maybe give them free room and board in the Lincoln Bedroom.  But remember, when they start blowing things up, don't come crying to us because all we'll say is "I told you so".   Well also go ahead and keep Israel as an ally and you can start a dialogue with your pals in North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba.

We’ll keep our Judeo-Christian values and In God We Trust on our currency. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, Jane Fonda and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U.N. but we will no longer be paying the bill.

We’ll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find.  You can give everyone healthcare, if you can find any practicing doctors. We’ll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right. We’ll keep The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the National Anthem. I’m sure you’ll be happy to substitute Imagine, I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing, Kum Ba Ya, or We Are the World.

We’ll keep English as our official language and you can have Ebonics or whatever it is you’re teaching the younger generation these days.   We’ll practice trickle down economics, and you can give trickle up poverty your best shot.  Since it often so offends you we’ll keep our history, our name, our Constitution and our flag.

In the spirit of friendly parting, I’ll bet you ANWR and 100 offshore oil rigs which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.

 

As snow falls from Malibu to Houston one would think that the cries from the global warming alarmists would be silenced with the fact based reality that their silly notions rivaled only by the claims of the flat earth society. 

But as is usually the case with liberals, they will make excuses and use the courts to get their way, even when their way defies all semblance of common sense.   Similar to the Franken Coleman election in Minnesota where actual Election Day results don’t matter when fabricated ballots and activist judges can be used to set those aside in the name of advancing liberalism.  Just as liberals are using every means possible, legal or illegal, to certify Franken the winner, they will do the same to brainwash the American sheep of the plight of the planet. 

While evidence continues to mount that global warming is nothing more than a hoax brought about by anti-capitalist environazis, there are those on the left who still fail to see the forest through the trees. One of the factually challenged zealots would be none other than the messiah himself, who won election on the promise that he would bring about falling sea levels and global harmony.

In showing his true colors of economic and environmental illiteracy, B. Hussein Obama has named John Holdren as his Science Advisor.  Aside from the fact that this guy is a radical left wing zealot let me pose a simple question; why should the American taxpayers be paying for yet another unaccountable, incompetent bureaucrat?

Even the extreme left wing BBC announced this year that 2008 is the coldest year of the 21^st century and validated the fact that average mean temperatures have steadily declined since 1998.   Since these facts seemingly contradict Al Gore’s science fiction film, the liberal enviro wackos decided that they would rename the cyclical nature of weather as climate change. That’s great, now they have all their bases covered.   Snow in San Diego, climate change.   An 80 degree January day in Minneapolis, climate change.   This is perfect for liberals who are measured solely on intent as opposed to results.   What better way to achieve their redistributionist wealth agenda than to create a myth that nobody can debunk.

Unfortunately for hard working Americans with common sense, this will hit us in the pocket book.   The entire global warming/climate change ponzi scheme was created to simply give the government unfettered access to seize more of our earnings. 

For those of you who actually think that global warming exists, I have a bridge to sell you.   For those who think that climate change is some type of manmade phenomenon, look at the facts which are that history provided five distinctly warmer periods than we are witnessing today, including the 12^th century when much of Greenland was arable.   For those who like to blame SUV’s, fireplaces and charcoal grilles what’s your excuse for Pluto and Mars, where climate change is also occurring.   Once again, facts trump fiction which is precisely why liberals are going to use their new found power to enact the unFairness Doctrine which is designed to silence those of us who dare to tell the truth.

Throughout the pages of history, censorship and intimidation have been used to silence those who fought freedom.   Be it Stalin, Hitler or Mao, understand that what liberals are doing today is no different.   Sure, they may not want to kill you but that doesn’t mean they don’t seek to take away your economic and individual liberties.  Ask yourself, is it better to live on your knees or die on your feet?   I think our founding fathers provided that answer, which sadly is no longer discussed in our government schools where the concepts of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness have taken a back seat to nanny state entitlementalism and political correctness. 

Christopher Van

www.christophervan.com

 

Bennett based his comments on this years ACT scores in which half of the cities 64 schools placed in the bottom 1% nationwide.   Of course the Democrat controlled school board claimed that it was because of the districts large minority enrollment, most of whom come from low income families and have a limited proficiency of the English language.  

Perhaps if the schools were teaching instead of making excuses their results would be a little better.  Both Cleveland and Milwaukee schools face the same challenges of poverty, broken homes and limited language proficiency, yet their students perform infinitely better because they have instituted school voucher programs where parents, not unaccountable government bureaucrats, select the schools that best meet the needs of their children.   

It appears that as we dig deeper into the Obama cabinet, we are starting to see his true colors show.   Even the messiah himself recognizes not only the failure of government schools, but the institutional racism that is so prevent, as he is sending his children to the elitist Sidwell Friends private school.   This type of liberal hypocrisy never ceases to amaze me. Imagine what would happen if our elected officials were required to send their children to government schools. Do you think we’d see condoms in the lunch line? Hell no, we’d see Bibles in the classroom and teachers spanking kids who misbehave.  

Once again we are seeing proof that liberalism always fails.   The reason for this failure is because liberals are measured only on intentions, not on productivity or results. Liberals have an inherent aversion to producing anything, other than rules, regulations and bureaucracy that inhibits results. 

The good news is that liberalism has always failed and will always fail; the bad news is that things will get worse before they get better as the general public, brainwashed by the mainstream media, continues to wallow in their nanny state stupor.  One day soon they will wake up and realize that their headaches are nothing more than a Democrat induced economic hangover brought about by the Community Reinvestment Act that busted the financial industry and corrupt unions that have brought the Big 3 to their knees.    

There is no question we can get through this, but to do so we must get back to our conservative roots of hard work, family values, rugged individualism and self discipline that made our country great.   We must all spread the word, be it the word of the Lord or the word of the Constitution, as both are equally important in the salvation of our nation. 

The media is spending an inordinate amount of time telling America that the Republican party is dead, but what they overlook is the fact that conservatism is alive and well and moving away from that message is what has hurt the GOP.   For anyone who doubts me, catch the Sarah Palin tour next time she is in town. She and other true conservatives such as Bobby Jindal, Mike Pence and Tom Coburn are the future of America.   

Truly great leaders bring people to them; they don’t waver on their own positions.   As the Republican Party has moved to the center, they have allowed the Democrats to move further left, which is precisely why the GOP has failed. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, two of the greatest leaders of the conservative movement, didn’t waffle at the behest of the media. Rather, they conveyed their message in a way that we all understood and, Democrat or Republican, couldn’t get behind fast enough.  

Gay schools and tasty condoms aren’t the direction that America needs or wants.   Coddling illegal aliens and outlawing Christmas doesn’t go over well in small town U.S.A. Undermining our Constitution, banning free speech and the right to defend our loved ones will not be tolerated, yet it is the goal of liberals.  Since the mainstream media won’t convey the message, it is up to you and I and our failure to execute in this mission would be tantamount to our forefather’s laying down their arms and surrendering to the British more than two hundred years ago. 

Christopher Van

www.christophervan.com

The following is an article from the Wall Street Journal, an organization with just a wee bit more credibility than the Treason Times or the Clinton News Network. It's long, but worth the read.

Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists.

The CAC was the brainchild of Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground in the 1960s. Among other feats, Mr. Ayers and his cohorts bombed the Pentagon, and he has never expressed regret for his actions. Barack Obama's first run for the Illinois State Senate was launched at a 1995 gathering at Mr. Ayers's home.

The Obama campaign has struggled to downplay that association. Last April, Sen. Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood," and "not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis." Yet documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama were partners in the CAC. Those archives are housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago and I've recently spent days looking through them.

The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was created ostensibly to improve Chicago's public schools. The funding came from a national education initiative by Ambassador Walter Annenberg. In early 1995, Mr. Obama was appointed the first chairman of the board, which handled fiscal matters. Mr. Ayers co-chaired the foundation's other key body, the "Collaborative," which shaped education policy.

The CAC's basic functioning has long been known, because its annual reports, evaluations and some board minutes were public. But the Daley archive contains additional board minutes, the Collaborative minutes, and documentation on the groups that CAC funded and rejected. The Daley archives show that Mr. Obama and Mr. Ayers worked as a team to advance the CAC agenda.

One unsettled question is how Mr. Obama, a former community organizer fresh out of law school, could vault to the top of a new foundation? In response to my questions, the Obama campaign issued a statement saying that Mr. Ayers had nothing to do with Obama's "recruitment" to the board. The statement says Deborah Leff and Patricia Albjerg Graham (presidents of other foundations) recruited him. Yet the archives show that, along with Ms. Leff and Ms. Graham, Mr. Ayers was one of a working group of five who assembled the initial board in 1994. Mr. Ayers founded CAC and was its guiding spirit. No one would have been appointed the CAC chairman without his approval.

The CAC's agenda flowed from Mr. Ayers's educational philosophy, which called for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism. In the mid-1960s, Mr. Ayers taught at a radical alternative school, and served as a community organizer in Cleveland's ghetto.

In works like "City Kids, City Teachers" and "Teaching the Personal and the Political," Mr. Ayers wrote that teachers should be community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to American racism and oppression. His preferred alternative? "I'm a radical, Leftist, small 'c' communist," Mr. Ayers said in an interview in Ron Chepesiuk's, "Sixties Radicals," at about the same time Mr. Ayers was forming CAC.

CAC translated Mr. Ayers's radicalism into practice. Instead of funding schools directly, it required schools to affiliate with "external partners," which actually got the money. Proposals from groups focused on math/science achievement were turned down. Instead CAC disbursed money through various far-left community organizers, such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (or Acorn).

Mr. Obama once conducted "leadership training" seminars with Acorn, and Acorn members also served as volunteers in Mr. Obama's early campaigns. External partners like the South Shore African Village Collaborative and the Dual Language Exchange focused more on political consciousness, Afrocentricity and bilingualism than traditional education. CAC's in-house evaluators comprehensively studied the effects of its grants on the test scores of Chicago public-school students. They found no evidence of educational improvement.

CAC also funded programs designed to promote "leadership" among parents. Ostensibly this was to enable parents to advocate on behalf of their children's education. In practice, it meant funding Mr. Obama's alma mater, the Developing Communities Project, to recruit parents to its overall political agenda. CAC records show that board member Arnold Weber was concerned that parents "organized" by community groups might be viewed by school principals "as a political threat." Mr. Obama arranged meetings with the Collaborative to smooth out Mr. Weber's objections.

The Daley documents show that Mr. Ayers sat as an ex-officio member of the board Mr. Obama chaired through CAC's first year. He also served on the board's governance committee with Mr. Obama, and worked with him to craft CAC bylaws. Mr. Ayers made presentations to board meetings chaired by Mr. Obama. Mr. Ayers spoke for the Collaborative before the board. Likewise, Mr. Obama periodically spoke for the board at meetings of the Collaborative.
The Obama campaign notes that Mr. Ayers attended only six board meetings, and stresses that the Collaborative lost its "operational role" at CAC after the first year. Yet the Collaborative was demoted to a strictly advisory role largely because of ethical concerns, since the projects of Collaborative members were receiving grants. CAC's own evaluators noted that project accountability was hampered by the board's reluctance to break away from grant decisions made in 1995. So even after Mr. Ayers's formal sway declined, the board largely adhered to the grant program he had put in place.

Mr. Ayers's defenders claim that he has redeemed himself with public-spirited education work. That claim is hard to swallow if you understand that he views his education work as an effort to stoke resistance to an oppressive American system. He likes to stress that he learned of his first teaching job while in jail for a draft-board sit-in. For Mr. Ayers, teaching and his 1960s radicalism are two sides of the same coin.

Mr. Ayers is the founder of the "small schools" movement (heavily funded by CAC), in which individual schools built around specific political themes push students to "confront issues of inequity, war, and violence." He believes teacher education programs should serve as "sites of resistance" to an oppressive system. (His teacher-training programs were also CAC funded.) The point, says Mr. Ayers in his "Teaching Toward Freedom," is to "teach against oppression," against America's history of evil and racism, thereby forcing social transformation.
The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming "guilt by association." Yet the issue here isn't guilt by association; it's guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago.

   

Inevitably all things become racist, at least in the eyes of race baiting politicians and pundits.   Such is the case with James Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat who is now claiming that global warming disproportionately impacts black people.   Perhaps the only things dumber than this statement are the people who actually elected him to office.

As anyone with an ounce of intelligence knows, man made global warming is a hoax being perpetrated by those with an anti-capitalist agenda.   The mere reason that liberals refuse to enter into a dialogue about climate change is because the facts stand in the way of their fiction.  

The truth is that the temperature of the earth has changed for billions of years.   In fact, the hottest year on record in the last century was 1934 which paled in comparison to 1300 when Vikings were able to cultivate land in Greenland.   What liberals don’t want you to know is that the warmest period ever noted was in 1100 B.C. during the Hebrew exodus from Egypt.   Perhaps if the Hebrews had been driving those evil SUV’s they would find reason to acknowledge this little known fact, but they weren’t so they don’t.   

The current temperature of the earth is 58 degrees, which is one degree above average.   Interestingly there has been a corresponding one degree increase in temperature on Mars, Neptune and several of the moons surrounding Saturn.   Perhaps B. Hussein Obama could explain to the millions of morons who view him as their Savior how this could be possible.   Then again, why let the inconvenient facts get in the way of his reading science fictions speeches from the teleprompter. 

There is one common denominator that has governed climate since the beginning of time. It has nothing to do with SUV’s, plastic bags or light bulbs but rather solar activity.   Imagine that, the sun wreaking havoc on our climate. But if it’s the sun, that would mean that there is nothing that our nanny state liberals can do, as sun spots are beyond their control.   Maybe it’s time for them to sit down and do something that matters, like drilling for oil, defeating Islamic fascism or sealing up our border.  

But alas, that wouldn’t be like a liberal to do something to benefit our country, so instead they come up with the biggest hoax in history and rely on the fact that the majority of Americans are stupid enough to fall for it.   Guess what, they were right and they are banking on this complete and utter ignorance of reality to keep them in power this November.

As mounting evidence begins to unravel their science fiction charade, they are now playing the victimization card.   They will do what they do best; create a subculture of people who are the victims of capitalism and success.   Throughout history they have used their full house of race cards, gender cards and class warfare cards to vilify real Americans, so why should today be any different.  

 

Don’t you find the polls to be just fascinating as the media fawns over the Chosen One with claims of 6 to 9 point leads?   Interestingly, when polls include registered voters, the lead is so small that it isn’t even within the margin of error. Add to that those evil pollsters who include only those likely to vote and McCain suddenly has a lead. 

It strikes me that there is an overt conspiracy between pollsters employed by the mainstream media to dupe Americans into thinking that an O?ama victory is imminent. Isn’t this par for the course from the same folks who called Florida for Al Gore an entire hour before the polls closed so as to suppress the votes in extremely conservative panhandle counties, which just so happen to be an hour behind the rest of the state.  

The left wing media has made their mind up as to who will win this year’s election. They could care less that Obama lacks any credentials whatsoever to be president.   They could care less that he will give a blank check to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to destroy our nation. They never mention that the current Democrat Congress has an approval rating of just 9%; making them far more unpopular than the President that they claim is the most unpopular in history.  

Has the mainstream media ever mentioned any position that Obama has ever taken on any issue? Have they told Americans that he voted AGAINST making English the official language but voted FOR giving social security benefits to criminal aliens? Did they ever mention that Obama’s entire tenure in the Senate is 171 days which for the most part has been spent campaigning for a job that he is imminently unqualified for? How many people know that Obama’s work experience prior to the Senate included being a community organizer, whatever the heck that is, and a Civil Rights attorney which is basically a racist with a law degree.  

So why won’t the media share these tidbits with the general public? Perhaps they understand that Obama has fooled a great many young, dumb and generally uninformed Americans into thinking he is something that he is not. How many Obama supporters can name one piece of legislation that he has sponsored? How many know where he stands on issues of national security or economic policy?  

While Obama has stated that he will support socialized medicine, has he ever said how he will pay for this trillion dollar proposition? How can anyone in their right mind support letting the government be the stewards of our well-being after watching them bankrupt social security and Medicare while systematically destroying our public education system? 

After only two years under Democrat control, we have seen the price of food and energy skyrocket as the result of a foolish energy policy coupled with the largest tax increase in history.   We have seen millions lose their jobs as the result of a mandatory wage increase that forced small businesses to cut back employees.