Betrayed for Political Agenda

If this doesn't make you angry you aren't a true American. As more and more information becomes available about the events in Libya on September 11, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the White House and the entire administration is engaging in a coverup of apocryphal proportions. Benghazi Gate is so much bigger than Watergate that it demands not only an accounting, not only an impeachment, but a trial for treason.

Four Americans, including an ambassador, are dead, sacrificed for a political agenda designed to protect Obama and his image as a foreign policy giant. Obama's actions during the seven hour attack and the tale he's been weaving ever since are nothing short of treasonous. What is just as appalling is the sold out left-wing news media doing everything it can to divert attention from the facts.

On 9/11 2012, Muslim terrorists attacked the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. By early the next day the news was out that the ambassador, Chris Stevens, had been killed. That morning Obama made a press announcement in which he stated that acts of terror would not go unpunished, then left for a campaign stop in Las Vegas, Nevada. He never referred to Benghazi as an act of terror.

Four days later on the Sunday talk show circuit, the UN ambassador, Susan Rice, on five different network interviews said the attack was a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Muslim video that nobody had yet heard of. White House spokesman Jay Carney continued the ruse day after day.

This had everybody scratching their heads. What video? But the Secretary of State continued to promote this wag, and when Obama and Clinton met the bodies being returned home at Andrews Air Force Base, they couldn't keep the video out of their remarks for one minute. Then a week later in a speech at the UN, Obama declared six times that the cause was the video.

While in New York, Obama sent Hilary out to meet with world leaders while he visited the celebrity talk show circuit and said over and over that not all the facts were known and that they were letting the public know as soon as they knew anything. Two weeks passed before Obama finally conceded that it was a terrorist attack.

Then when Paul Ryan confronted Biden at the Vice Presidential debate, Biden, waving his arms all over the place, said that on the day after the attacks they didn't know what had happened. Six days later at the next presidential debate, Obama said he knew and called it a terrorist attack on the day after. Then he feigned offense that Romney could even suggest a coverup was going on.

One has to wonder if even the White House takes Biden seriously. Obama knew, but Biden didn't? Were they keeping it a secret from him?

Lies beget lies beget lies. They must be panicked in the White House because more and more is getting exposed, and over the last week Obama has dodged every question that's come up about Benghazi. Not that there are that many, but some media people are starting to wake up. The Des Moines Register, an ultra liberal newspaper, just came out endorsing Romney.

And more information is leaking out. State Department e-mails are showing that the White House was informed that terrorists were behind the attack within two hours of the attack happening. But wait, there were drones in the air watching events take place, and apparently some people were in the Situation Room at the White House watching. Where was the leader of the free world when that was going on? Where was the messiah who could bring peace to the Middle East when his ambassador was being murdered?

Now we know the attack went on at the consulate, which was a mile away from an annex where an inadequate security team was based because two other units had been withdrawn, even though the embassy had requested increased security. Both places were attacked in a battle that went on for seven hours. Repeated requests for assistance at the consulate were denied until finally Ty Woods and maybe another disobeyed orders and went to the consulate to try and rescue seven people that were trapped there. Several were rescued, but the ambassador and one other were killed.

Running a gauntlet of machine gun fire the Americans raced through the streets in a vehicle with blown tires and made it to the annex. Mortar fire then dropped on the annex until Ty Woods, apparently on a rooftop, located the mortar and targeted it with a laser. There is only one reason a Forward Observer, SEAL team member, or whoever, would beam a laser light at a target like that. He was expecting a smart bomb or cruise missile to be launched at the target. He could only have expected that if he thought assets were in the air to launched the weapons. No weapon was launched. Apparently an order to stand down or canceling the attack had been given.

Right now the entire administration is in denial mode. CIA Director General Petraus announced he gave no such order. But somebody did, and there aren't too many people in the chain of command below the Commander-in-Chief who could give such an order.

Ty Woods was exposed and then fired upon and killed because he was betrayed by the inept, self-serving traitor in the White House. This entire administration is guilty of at the very least gross negligence and incompetence, but at the worst a very vast coverup of Obama's failed leadership and betrayal of Americans who trusted him.

Obama said again yesterday that they were going to find those responsible and make them pay. Why should we believe him? A New York Times reporter found the man claiming to have led the attack sipping a strawberry frappe in a sidewalk cafe in Tripoli. If a liberal journalist from an Obama supporting newspaper can find the mastermind, why can't the Obama administration find him and do something?

It is unfathomable to think that there is anybody left, who would still vote for this lilly-livered scoundrel. He's a spineless coward, the poorest excuse ever to occupy the White House. He's an embarrassment to America and all that is decent and godly. And there are worse descriptions that would fit. Many people think America is about to face God's judgment, but if Obama is re-elected, God won't even have to do anything. Obama will do it for him, and we will have brought it on ourselves. If America doesn't turn him out next week then we deserve him.

What the Betrayer-in-Chief Obama deserves is jail.

The Right to Vote

I am fed up with the pessimistic, fatalistic, burn the bridges, let America go to hell attitude of some Christians who are choosing not to vote for the "lesser of two evils." I received a couple more of these e-mails from I don't know where from far right extremist Christians who have no more common sense than to think that giving up and letting evil triumph is somehow going to please God and give them a clear conscience. How clear are their consciences going to be when the Obama Nazis start forcing them to pay for abortion on demand? How are they going to feel when they find their churches closed and know that they could have done something to stop it but stayed home and did nothing?

I'm reading another loser article called The Christian Nonvoter. Jim Fedako, a Ron Paul supporter, argues that his vote won't "bind Satan in chains," and if you think yours will you are suffering from pride. He declares that there is no Christian duty to vote for president, and turns to Nazi Germany to prove his point. Christians, he claims, voted for Hitler because they thought he was the lesser of two evils and look what they got.

Well, let's take a look at that. First, Fedako has no supporting evidence to make his claim that Christians elected Hitler. He didn't research it. He didn't research German politics in the 1930's either. Hitler was never elected to a public office. He was head of the Nazi party, but he was so undesirable that he couldn't win enough votes to get elected. Unfortunately his party ran people who did win, and by 1932, when they won a majority of seats in the Reichstag, the president, Von Hindenburg, had no choice but to appoint Hitler to be the Chancellor.

Secondly, Mitt Romney is not an evil Adolf Hitler waiting to break out of his nice guy shell and become the most vile person on earth. Barack Obama is. And there's the difference. Not voting for Romney because he's a Mormon is a lazy man's way of saying he doesn't have enough guts to stand up for righteousness. An Obama victory means he'll have "more flexibility," and there will be no stopping his overthrow of the United States from within short of a civil war.

Another one of these self-righteous non-voters is a Florida football coach named Dave Daubenmire. He thinks Christians are ignorant if they think their vote will make any difference. I'd say Christians are ignorant if they fall for this line of thinking. We are commanded to be salt and light. Jesus told us to occupy until He comes. Romans 13 tells us to be in subjection to the government and be loyal citizens. Loyal American citizens vote!

Listen, our government is not Barack Obama! It is the United States Constitution which Obama is treading all over and will destroy if we don't stop him. The Constitution guarantees our right to vote, a right most of the world has never had, and much of the world still doesn't have. You can bet on it that this election is going to be full of fraud. There are already two cases of voting machines in early voting automatically putting in Obama's name no matter who the voter selected. There are already cases of Democrats registering people more than once, just as they did in the 2008 election. You can be sure there will be more.

The atheist Democrat machine, led by its false messiah from Kenya, is out, as it always is, to steal another election. And the stakes this time have never been greater. This is for our independence, it's for our nation, it's for our freedom, it's for America. If it turns out that it is God's will that this election will bring His judgment down on America, then so be it, but I'm not going to be one of the cowards sitting on the sideline watching it happen when we could be throwing the most vile man ever to occupy the White House out on his ear.

What if Christians had stayed home in 2000 because George Bush got arrested for drunk driving once? We'd have had Al Gore. What if they'd stayed home in 1980 because Ronald Reagan was non-denominational? We'd have had four more years of Carter. What if they'd stayed home in 1968 because Nixon was a Quaker? We'd have had Hubert Humphrey. None of those, with the exception of Gore, would ever have been as bad as Barack Obama, but if Christians stay home this time and he is reelected, we've lost America.

Whether we win the election or not, I'm not giving up until the last shot is fired, or in this case, the last vote is cast. This country has too rich a Christian heritage to just give it up to anti-Christian communists. If we don't participate in the basic responsibilities of the God given freedom we've been blessed with, we are undeserving of the freedom we enjoy. Over a million Americans have given their lives for our freedom in our 400 year history. Considering the sacrifice so many have made, it's a pathetic, ungrateful, scoundrel who won't take advantage of the most basic freedom we have to keep that freedom alive.

The argument is made that there is no scriptural mandate to vote. Look at it this way. Remember the slothful servant who hid his talent in the ground when his master went away? When the master returned he punished the servant, took his talent away from him and gave it to someone more worthy. I can just hear Fedako and Daubenmire saying that's about serving the Lord, not voting. You want a Christian perspective? How are you as a Christian going to serve the Lord when you lose your religious liberty? Eighty percent of the world's missionaries are sent from the United States. If we lose our First Amendment freedoms world-wide missions will die. Surrendering is not an option for the Christian. Disengagement is not godly, it's cowardly.

We absolutely must stay engaged. The Democrats may manage to steal this election and we may lose our country, but I'm not going to be sitting on the sidelines watching it fall apart, and neither should any Christian.

And by the way, this is not an election about the lesser of two evils. Neither may be exactly what we want, but how many candidates ever are? There's only been one Ronald Reagan in my lifetime. This election is about a decent, family man, who knows how to run a business and a government, but happens to be a member of a cult that calls itself Christian and is not; and it's about evil personified in the closet communist, muslim, community organizer who knows nothing about running a business, much less a government, and has been an absolute embarrassment on foreign policy. For the Bible believing Christian it ought to be a no brainer.

Prove your patriotism and your Christianity and VOTE!

If you don't, don't complain about what you get.

I'm In

You've heard of "Throwing your Hat in the Ring," an expression usually indicating that someone has decided to campaign for an office. A couple weeks ago I heard Roseanne Barr, the leftist, National Anthem mocking comedienne, announce that she is running for president on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket. Her agenda is flatly stated; socialism.

Now several people have suggested I run for office and I haven't taken them seriously because I am occupied in what I think is a more important profession. But then I saw Barr's announcement and I thought, Why not? I'm in! I don't mean for a local or state office, not even Congress. I'm going for the whole enchilada. I'm running for president of these United States of America. And why not? I've got at least as much experience and a whole lot more common sense than the current White House Occupant (WHO).

Let me explain to you my qualifications and why I'm a better choice than the WHO.

Citizenship: I'm a Birther. There won't be any controversy over my birth certificate or my college transcripts. It's all there for everybody to see and I won't be wasting any money trying to hide it. Transparency will be the real thing in my administration, not the bull we get from the WHO, because I have nothing to hide.

Experience: I haven't been the president of Princeton like Woodrow Wilson was, nor did I build a university like Thomas Jefferson did, but I was the administrator of a Bible college in Kenya for 11 years, and I did oversee building projects, as well as curriculum development. Our college wasn't large, but I ran it while building and pastoring churches at the same time, and it gave me a whole lot more executive experience than the WHO got from being a community organizer.

According to the WHO's wife, he has lived the American dream. Considering that he lived in one of the wealthiest subdivisions in Jakarta for several years and has been spoon-fed everything he's ever gotten in life, including his college education, I would question whether he even knows what the American dream is. For that matter, I wonder why the First Spouse was never proud of America before the WHO became a candidate for president if he had lived the American dream. She should have been proud all along that he could do it.

I have lived the real American dream. Got my first job when I was 11 years old, built a dune buggy in high school, paid my own way through college and played the Great American Pastime, baseball, became a Marine and then a pilot. I'm not one of those greedy rich with millions in the bank like the WHO, but I own two houses, and I am one of those evil landlords that make money off a rental property.

I have, by the way, spent millions of dollars. When I went through flight school it was estimated that the cost of training one military pilot was 1.5 million. The average cost of flying the A-4 during my tenure in the Corps and the Navy was about 45,000 per flight hour. I logged over 2300 hours in the air, which means I spent or used $103,500,000 during my military career, and all in the line of duty. I used tax payer dollars in service to the country unlike the WHO, who costs the US taxpayer 1.4 billion dollars a year to haul him and his entourage all over the country and the world, half the time for vacations, golf, or campaign fundraisers. I'm a bargain in comparison.

Economics: I believe in laissez-faire free enterprise trickle down Reagonomics. Much to the consternation of the WHO and in direct contradiction to what he and his lackeys have been spewing since the Democrat convention, IT DOES WORK!!! IT HAS ALWAYS WORKED. IT WILL ALWAYS WORK. Every economic recovery or period of growth since the Federal Income Tax was instituted 99 years ago has come about because of tax cuts. It worked with Eisenhower, with Kennedy, with Reagan, with Clinton, in spite of his gargantuan lie at the convention, and with Bush II. The strongest of these, the one that produced four straight budget surpluses under Clinton, also cut spending (forced upon him by the Republican controlled Congress led by Newt Gingrich). It's the only way we will ever tackle the 16 trillion dollar deficit, half of which has been accumulated since the Democrats took over Congress in 2006, and more than a third of which has been added since the WHO took office less than four years ago.

The WHO believes in redistributing the wealth, which in everybody else's terms is socialism, no matter how much the WHO or the Democrats deny it. Let's get something straight. IT DOESN'T WORK. IT NEVER HAS WORKED, AND IT NEVER WILL WORK.

Foreign Policy: I am still amazed at the gall of the Obama campaign in 2008 and its lapdog media agents who excoriated Sarah Palin for not having the knowledge or personality to deal with foreign policy issues. She had been the mayor of a town and was the governor of Alaska, she had executive experience, was firm in her positions, solid in her determination, yet they castigated her for lack of experience, all the while ignoring the fact that the WHO had never even run a lemonade stand, and knew nothing on foreign policy.

The Obama Doctrine is to weaken our military and bow before Muslim leaders. He told us that by his very election he would show the world the US has changed and they would talk to him and that would bring about peace. In fact, three years after the WHO's groveling apology tour, he still hasn't dialogued with any significant Middle Eastern leader, and now anti-American protesters have attacked our embassies all across the region and murdered four Americans including an ambassador. That is not a "bump in the road," it is an abject failure.

I've lived 15 years of my life overseas, stayed in the homes of dirt poor people, ate meals in some of the most out of the way places with no sanitation, survived a revolution, a volcanic eruption, and dengue fever, dealt with corrupt government officials including immigration agents, attorneys, judges, and policemen. I won't make the mistake of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood or any government that hates us. By the way, one of the first places we can save money is by cutting foreign aid all across the board, with the exception of Israel.

Military: Peace Through Strength. Recapture Reagan's vision and build our forces back to the number one status in the world. Power projection will do more for peace and keeping our embassies protected than bowing to Muslim leaders and dialoguing. Bring our troops home and give them some R and R. Let the rest of the world take care of its own problems, but have our military ready to pounce anywhere at anytime when Americans are threatened or in danger.

Immigration: Legal immigration for qualified people who want to come to America to become Americans. No more immigration lottery. No amnesty for illegal aliens. Require E-verify for employers, jail and/or deport every illegal caught in a crime, and allow "law-abiding" illegals to self deport as they lose their jobs due to E-verify. Secure the border with Mexico and use the military to support the Border Patrol. End all government suits against States that have tightened their own immigration laws.

Healthcare: Repeal Obamacare. Let the States run their own programs. The only reform I would make is to allow insurance companies to sell over State lines to make the entire insurance industry more competitive. That in itself will bring the cost of medical care down. And ban pharmaceutical companies from advertising publicly. Cutting out the millions they spend for thirty second commercials followed by sixty seconds of disclaimers to prevent lawsuits in case someone gets sick from their medicine will save millions for the cost of medicine.

Pro First Amendment; the government keeps its hands off the churches, off the internet, off the radio, off of free speech. Separation of Church and State is not in the Constitution and will no longer determine religious involvement in the public square. We are a free people, Christian or non-christian, and there will be no restrictions on the use of the Bible or the Ten Commandments in schools, on military bases or in government. After all, the Ten Commandments are written in stone in the US Supreme Court.

Pro Second Amendment; the government will take my guns from my cold, dead hands.

Morality: Pro-life; pro biblical marriage; no special rights or status for gays; the Defense of Marriage Act will be upheld. Repeal Roe v. Wade.

Unification: The WHO famously told us in 2007 that there is no black-America, Latino-America, Asian-America, there is just the United States of America. He promised to unify the country. Then he proceeded to play the race card the day he announced his candidacy, and today racism and class warfare in America is the worst it has ever been. Anyone who opposes the WHO is immediately decried as a racist.

He can't pull the race card on me. I've spent most of the last 13 years in Africa working with black people, and of course, I am inter-racially married. You want unity, I'm your man. You want to end racism, I'm your man.

I love America. I love our Constitution. I love our Declaration of Independence. I love our military. I love the God of our Fathers, that is, the Christian God that most all of them worshipped. I love our history, and I'm not afraid of it, neither am I afraid to say that there were no Muslims who helped build our great nation ever. America is the greatest nation on earth because America began as a Christian enterprise, became a Christian nation, grew into the world's number one power, became the greatest, if not the only true, benefactor nation in history, all because of Christianity. It is time we go back to our roots and have a rebirth of faith in what made us great.

That's as concise as I can make my platform, but it is enough to tell you how I will govern in all other areas as well. So I'm in. Now we need to spread the word and get 65 million write-in votes for me in the next thirty days....

Come to think of it, since that's probably unlikely, I'll give my vote to Mitt Romney. If I've got more experience than the WHO, then Romney has tons more, and Romney/Ryan are a whole lot closer to the principles in my platform than the WHO and the GAFFE.

It's time the WHO became the GONE.

A Serious Discussion

At another campaign stop in Las Vegas, Obama, with loosened tie and rolled up sleeves, bounced up to the podium with a grin and a chuckle, and in jocular fashion, tried to pass himself off as a cool guy, just one of the gang. Waving to his supporters he downplayed the upcoming debate condescendingly calling Romney a great debater while, with an air of false humility, lowering the expectations of his own ability. Then, following the liberal trend of ignoring what the Romney/Ryan ticket is offering, he made his own subtle attack against the Republicans implying that they have no plan, and saying this:

What I'm most concerned about is having a serious discussion about what we need to do to keep the country growing and restore security of hard-working Americans.

Actually, I think most Americans are more than willing to have a serious discussion with Obama about what he plans to do, but he's so busy campaigning and schmoozing with celebrities that he has no time to run the country or deal with foreign policy issues, much less discuss them with the common people. How serious can he be taken when leaders from all over the Middle East are at the United Nations, but Obama has no time to meet with any of them because he's being "eye-candy" on the View?

How serious can he be taken when he claims to be Israel's best friend, but can't find time to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while they are both in New York even though he had several free hours on his schedule between being on the View and his next meeting?

How serious can he be taken when two weeks after the Libyan ambassador and three other Americans were murdered he goes before the United Nations General Assembly and continues to spew the misinformation he sent his Secretary of State and UN ambassador out to disseminate that it was a spontaneous reaction to an unknown Youtube video, even after evidence has been uncovered showing that he new it was a coordinated terrorist attack within 24 hours of the events taking place?

How serious can he be taken when he leaves US diplomats unprotected after the Libyan president claims to have warned the US of the threat of an attack three days before it happened?

How serious can he be taken when he declares there is a new respect for America around the world, while Iranian president Ahmadinejad accuses America of being allied to the devil, and US embassies are being attacked, our flags being burned, and Al-Qaeda flags being raised on our embassy soil all over the Middle East and North Africa?

How serious can he be taken when his foreign policy of apology and appeasement designed to get Iran to the negotiating table and end their quest for a nuclear bomb has totally failed?

How serious can he be taken when he says the US economy is recovering after 43 straight months of unemployment above eight percent? When he says he's done more to increase our energy production than any other president, but canceled the XL pipeline and has forced scores of coal mines to close? When he's given us over 6 trillion dollars in new debt in less than four years?

How serious can he be taken when he goes on Letterman and can't answer a straight question about the national debt saying he didn't know exactly what it was when he took office? Or when he tells Letterman it is a long term problem but not a short term problem when if he doesn't address it in the short term it will grow beyond the ability to be fixed in the long term?

How serious can he be taken about medical care for seniors when he's taken 716 billion dollars out of Medicare to pay for Obamacare, which we now find out will fine any hospital that admits a Medicare patient more than one time?

How serious can he be taken when he says Obamacare will not cover abortions when we now know it will force everybody's tax dollars or insurance covereage to pay for abortion on demand, regardless of religious beliefs that are against it?

How serious can he be taken when he says the border with Mexico is secure while another border agent has been murdered and he's claiming executive privilege to protect his derelict Attorney General from the Fast and Furious investigation, or maybe his own connection to it?

How serious can he be about immigration reform when his Agricultural Department is providing training for Mexican citizens to get US food stamps?

How serious can he be taken when he's missed almost half of his national security briefings but played 104 rounds of golf?

How serious can he be taken when he claims to support the military but has taken every step possible to prevent the military from voting absentee while serving the country overseas, and has plans to decrease military spending down to almost nothing?

How serious can he be taken when he claims to be a Christian but turns his back on Christian holidays and prayer days, and refuses to speak at Christian venues unless Christian symbols are covered up, all the while quoting the Koran from memory and honoring Muslim holidays with Muslim guests including leaders of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood at the White House?

How serious can he be taken when he says he knows American history and praises the Muslim influence on our founding while denying our true Christian heritage?

How serious can he be taken when he talks about bi-partisanship and blames the Republicans for blocking progress when he refuses to meet with Republican leaders, when he can't even submit a budget that his own party will vote for, and when he bypasses the Congress, the Courts, and the Constitution by issuing unconstitutional executive orders?

The only thing we can take serious about Obama is that he is a pathological liar, that he doesn't care what we the people think, and that his Hope and Change plan for America is no hope for freedom and all change to a socialist dictatorship, which he will accomplish if he is re-elected.

Yes, let's have a serious discussion, and let's pray that Romney starts it at the first debate tomorrow night.

Tested Leadership

You may remember the prophet Joe Biden, on October 20, 2008, predicting that if Obama were elected he "would be tested in the first six months by a foreign power." Considering that Obama had less executive experience than Sarah Palin, who by then had been the governor of Alaska for two years but was being trashed in the media for not having the necessary experience, Biden's gaffe prediction was a major argument against Obama's election. Many of us made that argument, but to no avail.

After his election Obama apparently tried to preempt any such testing by making an apology tour across Europe and the Middle East to placate Muslims world-wide. By bowing to foreign leaders and showing his good faith he was going to bring Iran to the negotiating table and end their nuclear ambitions. Two years ago when a popular uprising had a chance to bring Democratic reforms to Iran, Obama sat silent while the government brutally put down the protests.

In March of last year when the Arab Spring erupted across North Africa, Obama dumped a long time ally in Egypt, Hosni Mubarrak, for an unruly mob led by the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood. Then when the mobs rose up against Moammar Khaddafi, Obama stood by while several NATO nations began helping the rebels with a bombing campaign. Only when it became obvious that Khaddafi was losing did Obama enter the fray. Leading from behind, he praised the Arab Spring for bringing democracy to the Muslim nations.

Obama's foreign policy has been an abject failure. The Muslim world has not responded positively to his open armed apologies. Just the opposite. His apologies and rewriting of American history to suggest that Muslims helped build the United States, project an image of weakness, and has emboldened our terrorist enemies. America is still hated by Islamic governments, who take billions of foreign aid from the United States and curse us at the same time. Nicholas Sarkozi, France's former Prime Minister, publicly stated that Obama was not very influential, an observation that is becoming increasingly obvious.

Now Obama's leadership ability is being tested at a level he has not yet seen, and doesn't seem to yet understand. US embassies in Cairo, Egypt, in Sana'a, Yemen, and the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, have been overrun by mobs, and four Americans in Libya, including the US ambassador, have been killed. These are acts of war. These are acts that require a strong response if America is to be taken seriously anywhere in the world.

How did Obama react? He sat in silence saying nothing for hours. Then somebody in the US diplomatic mission in Egypt put out a statement apologizing for the Youtube video criticizing Mohammed, which supposedly sparked this uprising, even though hardly anybody has seen it. The statement stood for nine hours until criticism became so harsh that the administration had to "walk it back."

This is not administration policy, we are told. Some low level employee at the embassy in Cairo made the unauthorized statement, but just like the removal of God and Jerusalem from the Democrat platform, who made the statement or where it originated is unknown. The president himself, not realizing the urgency of the situation, finally made a comment at a Las Vegas, Nevada campaign stop. Taking a page from Clinton before him, he promised that those who had killed the Americans would be held accountable. Then after about ninety seconds of toothless threats, he went back to campaigning.

If there was ever an example of ineptitude and incompetence, this is it. American sovereignty is invaded, Americans are killed, and Obama apologizes and continues campaigning. Does anybody see what's wrong with this picture?

This is weakness ala Jimmy Carter and the Iranian takeover of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979. Could it be that this will translate into another Reaganesque defeat of liberal incompetence in November? Let us hope so.

An Exceptional Mother

I am proud to post on American Flyer the following from my cousin's daughter, Marisha. Simple and concise, in a nutshell this is one of the finest things I've ever read on parenting. It should be a mandatory lesson for every child starting the first grade. Consider also that Marisha suffers from Multiple Sclerosis and you'll understand why her accomplishment is not only admirable, it is exceptional. My hat's off. Thank you, Marisha.


"I always had many chores growing up. One of my summer chores was to help my mother grow vegetables. She would wake me up early and we'd put in many hours preparing the soil, making rows, planting seeds, weeding the beds and then harvesting of course. It never really bothered me until I became a teenager. I can still hear myself mouthing off to my mother, "why do I have to waste my time with this, it's not like I'm going to grow up and be a farmer!" I was partially right, I didn't become a "farmer". However this spring Justin and I set out to grow our own veggies. As we prepared the soil I dug my hands deep into the earth and with great confidence made rows and showed my son how to plant the seeds. Our crops were impressive, especially since we were limited in space. We didn't have to buy produce all summer and we had salad every night. I realize now that my mother had not just taught me how to grow vegetables, she had shown me the value of self-sufficiency which has endless possibilities. It was one of the most valuable lessons I've ever learned."

Go Ahead ...

At the beginning of the Republican convention last week Glenn Beck had taken some days off from his radio program at about the same time it was announced there would be a mystery guest speaker on Thursday night. The guest hosts were speculating about whether or not the mystery speaker would be Glenn Beck, and were taking calls to hear what their listeners thought. One woman guessed Clint Eastwood. I thought that would be an interesting twist, but didn't really think it would happen.

Lo, and behold!

I was never a real big fan of Clint Eastwood. We watched Rawhide when I was growing up, but for me, the name Clint meant the big guy on another western, Cheyenne. Clint Walker was my first TV cowboy hero, and today he is still my favorite.

My brother, Randall, met Clint Walker in Branson, Missouri a few years ago, and got me an autographed poster and a set of the first year of Cheyenne on dvd. Randall works in the entertainment business and had a chance to talk with Walker for awhile. He encouraged Randall to keep his performances clean and family oriented, which certainly struck a chord with me. Walker is very conservative with deep religious beliefs, and it shows in his work. He often encouraged people to read the Bible in his Cheyenne series, and there are no better family oriented films than Night of the Grizzly and Baker's Hawk.

Unfortunately, by the end of the 1960's Clint Walker's star was already fading, but the other Clint in Hollywood was on the rise. Rawhide had brought Eastwood to the viewing public's attention, but he had second billing on the program, and when the show's lead actor, Eric Fleming, drowned, Eastwood was unable to carry the program on his own and it went off the air. Then he went to Europe.

Spaghetti westerns made Eastwood a star. The no-name-silent-tough-guy image resonated with audiences and by the time he took on the Dirty Harry roles he was a superstar and one of the top Hollywood draws. He's made some great western movies, Pale Rider, a mysterious remake of Shane, immediately comes to mind. The Dirty Harry movies gave us some terrific one-liners like, "Well do ya, punk?" and of course, "Go ahead, make my day." But his films are so full of bad language, and "gratuitous sex" in the later movies, that I can't let my children watch them (I don't either, by the way), which is really a sad commentary on what the movie industry deems is needed to make a hit film.

Eastwood himself is a good, believable actor. The bold, confident resolve in his roles exudes a type of character most men would probably like to emulate. But the last night of the Republican convention may have been Eastwood's finest performance. The enthusiasm of the crowd was electrifying when he stepped out on the stage. Then his stuttering delivery and mocking of Obama with the empty chair brought the house down.

Commentators kept referring to his ad lib performance, but at first I didn't think it was. It was too well done to have not been thought through ahead of time. But in an interview with his home town newspaper, The Carmel Pine Cone, he said he had roughed out an outline of what to say, but the chair came to him as he was backstage just 15 minutes before he was to go on. My guess would have been that he had practiced that performance to perfection, but his improvisation was still the perfect performance and proves that he is a very talented star and a consummate actor.

And yes, he made my day. Now if he would just clean up his movies a little bit.

The DNC: Same ol' same ol

Anybody who is paying attention could have scripted the first night of the Democratic National Convention. We heard nothing new, just the same old broken record about women's health rights, gay rights, the brilliance of obamacare, and how much Barack cares for everybody, with the added twist of Michelle Obama's speech about what a great American her husband is.

It started with the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Deborah Wasserman-Shultz opening the convention talking about bringing change to America. Change was the promise, along with hope, four years ago, but all the change we've seen has been bad. Gasoline prices are two dollars higher than when Obama took over, the unemployment rate has been as high as 10.2%, and has hung at 8.1% or higher for 42 months, and the deficit just topped 16 trillion dollars. And Shultz is still talking about change. What we need is to change what Obama is doing!

There were some very interesting speakers on the agenda. One Democrat Representative from Colorado, Polis, boasted that Obama had taken no money from special interest groups. Let's see; Obama promised not to have any former lobbyists in his administration, but since many of those lobbies had actually contributed to his campaign, he filled his administration with former lobbyists. So what we got from Polis was a distortion, if not a flat out lie.

Kathleen Sibelius, head of the Department of Health and Human Services, and former failed governor of Kansas, got up to talk of her father's efforts to pass Medicare for Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and boasted that she was following his lead in standing up for women's health rights, a theme we would continue to hear the whole night. Evil Republicans are against contraception, but Democrats believe a woman has the right to make her own health care choices. In other words, abortion on demand paid for by all taxpayers no matter what their religious beliefs are.

By the way, Republicans are not at war with women, and we are not against contraception, we just don't think we need to pay for everybody else's condoms. We are against abortion on demand, and against anyone that forces us to pay for it.

She accused Republicans and Ryan's budget plan of destroying Medicare while Obama saved it. She forgot to mention that obamacare took 716 billion dollars out of Medicare to pay for itself, leaving those on Medicare with three-quarters of a billion dollars less funds available for their needs. Obamacare is already a success, she said, because millions of people received $500 back from insurance companies that weren't complying with some regulation. Put that in perspective. Those $500 were not savings generated by obamacare. They were fines issued by an administration bordering on dictatorship.

They paraded a woman army captain across the stage who had lost both legs when her helicopter was shot down in Iraq. She has my respect for her service and bravery and the sacrifice she has made. But she got my ire up when she claimed to have proven that women can do anything as well as any man. Male-female class warfare? This is supposed to be unifying?

I don't know about the army, but when I was in Naval Aviation, about 50% of all who started flight school washed out. Of those who got into the jet pipeline about 20% would wash out. Of the women who got into the jet pipeline, none ever washed out. I was in a squadron in the Philippines that was non-combat arms, so we had a lot of women pilots. I can tell you from personal experience as a NATOPS check flight pilot, that most of those women wouldn't have been there if they were men. There were some good female pilots, but their 100% success rate in flight school was a politically correct creation, not an example of their ability.

Having said that, I'll honor this woman for her patriotism, but not for her politics. She praised Obama for listening to military leaders who have long said homosexuals ought to be allowed to serve openly. They weren't saying that when I was in, they were mostly opposed to Clinton enacting "Don't ask don't tell" because the system of not allowing gays had always worked well before that. Military leadership was not in favor of this change either, and reports four years ago showed most of them against it. Unfortunately we have a Joint Chiefs of Staff filled with political yes men who don't have the guts to stand up to the foolish destructive policies of the president.

The left is quick to compare conservatives with Nazis. I'll give you a real Nazi comparison. In the 1930's Wilhelm Keitel, the head of the Wehrmacht, as well as most of the German military leadership, didn't have the courage to stand up to Hitler's megalomania and they followed him to their own destruction. That's where our military leadership in Washington is today.

The woman captain finished her speech saying Obama "will never ignore our soldiers." The speech drew throngs of cheers and applause from people who mostly have never served and have no idea what's going on with the military. Obama is gutting the military in personnel and funding, and has publicly stated he thinks the military should pay for its own medical care! And now his Justice Department has sued Ohio to prevent military personnel from that State from having extra time to vote when they are overseas.

Yeah, he really cares about the military. Fortunately the soldiers at Ft. Bliss weren't fooled Monday when Obama spoke to them. They sat in cold silence as Obama spoke once again taking credit for killing bin Laden.

They watched two videos at the convention last night. One, supposedly a tribute to Ted Kennedy, spent more time attacking Romney than praising Kennedy. The other was a greeting from the biggest losing incumbent president in history, Jimmy Carter.

Carter spoke of integrity and trust. He said after watching Obama that he believes he has integrity, that he knows why and who he serves. He talked about America's reputation being restored and dialogue with trust possible around the world. He said Obama had accomplished all of this in spite of unprecedented opposition, and that he stood for the right policies for the right reasons.

I could go on all night on this one, but briefly: Obama is a more consummate liar than Bill Clinton. Example? He told us obamacare would not cover abortion. It does. If that were the only lie he has told it would be enough, but it's so bad you can't trust a single word out of his mouth. So much for integrity.

Obama obviously does not know why he serves since he's played 104 rounds of golf in three and a half years, nor does he know he's there to serve us. He has issued scores of executive orders cramming his agenda down our throats, unconstitutionally by-passing Congress. He has sued several states to prevent them from arresting illegal aliens. It seems he's more concerned with illegals than American citizens. Our reputation around the world is a paper tiger. We can't even get Iran to talk, much less join a dialogue and they're about to get a nuclear weapon. Unprecedented opposition? Ronald Reagan and both Bushes had more opposition than Obama ever had, including the left wing press which is in Obama's pocket. No, Carter's speech when examined was not a rousing endorsement, it was an indictment.

Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, shouting at the top of his lungs, said if a person is healthy and willing to work and to play by the rules, he should be able to get a job. Exactly! That's the whole point. There are 23 million Americans who can't find a job. That's Obama's fault and that's why he needs to go!

The Democrats' token hispanic speaker, Julian Castro, got up to demonize what he called "trickle down, supply side, Romney-Ryan, or Ryan-Romney" economics. They have never worked, he said. His speech was nothing more than Obama blather warmed over. We've been hearing this ad nauseum for the last four years.

This is a common Democrat strategy. Don't examine the facts, just lie about them loud enough and long enough until every non-thinking person believes you. Say, that was Hitler's strategy too!

The fact is, tax and spend bigger government is what Jimmy Carter gave us. It didn't work. Trickle down, supply-side, smaller government is what Ronald Reagan gave us. It led to the longest peacetime expansion of the US economy in history. It ended when George H.W. Bush broke his promise and raised taxes. Clinton was already headed for defeat in 1996 for his tax raising and big government spending ideas, when the Republican Revolution of 1994 turned the economy around with tax cuts and reduced spending. Clinton changed his ways, became a supply-sider, claimed credit for the economic turnaround, and coasted into reelection.

After four years of surpluses, Clinton left office with the economy falling into a recession. I'm not an economic expert, but I think the reason was that Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, refused to restrict the money flow by raising interest rates and created an economic bubble that burst just as Bush was elected.

W. Bush then was faced with 9/11 and the War on Terror, but his tax cuts in 2002 led to a recovery of the economy. Bush, however, using the war as an excuse, really betrayed conservative Republican fiscal principles and failed to cut spending. When the Democrats won control of Congress in 2006 he refused to do anything to control the spending and the two largest deficits of his administration took place in his last two years. Then, as the country headed into another recession, he implemented the TARP bailout, a socialist government takeover of the economy, not much different than Obama's stimulus package less than a year later.

The economic truth is, every time the government has cut taxes across the board and reduced spending, which is trickle-down, supply-side, the economy has soared. Every time taxes have been raised and spending unchecked and government expanded, the economy has tanked. The record is there for anybody to see, but Democrats turn the Reagan years around by calling them the Decade of Greed, and greedy people who want a bigger slice of the government pie (which always leads to less freedom!) fall for the lie every time.

If the Republicans were smart, they wouldn't run from the accusations that it's Bush's fault. They'd acknowledge his betrayal and say, Yes, Bush betrayed the Republican ideal of fiscal responsibility and joined the Democrats in control of Congress in overspending and causing the recession. To that extent it's Bush's fault, but Bush isn't here anymore and continuing those Democrat policies that Bush joined has only made our economic situation worse.

It will be interesting to see what Bill Clinton has to say tonight. His administration had an unemployment rate of under five percent and four straight years of budget surpluses, all thanks to trickle-down Reaganomics. He's got a tricky task ahead to convince the country to continue the policies that have led to the economic disaster we are in, policies that he rejected when he was president.

The night ended with Michelle Obama praising her husband. It was a great delivery, much better than her husband has ever done. She said, "Barack knows about the American dream because he's lived it."

If that's true, why is he trying to take away from everybody else the opportunity to live the same dream? Or is it that he hasn't really lived the dream? He grew up in Indonesia dirt poor and somehow went to Harvard Law School. He didn't work for anything, somebody else gave it to him, just like they gave him his Nobel Prize for doing nothing. He never worked for anything in his life. Radical socialists, including Saul Alinksy, got him where he is today, and now he wants to force their socialism on the rest of us. Why? So we can all be dirt poor like he was. I got news for you, Michelle. Ronald Reagan, the one your husband likes to compare himself with, had a different idea about the American dream.

"The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become." - Ronald Reagan

Is it significant that the Democrats have removed all mention of God from their platform? What we've seen so far is not much different than what the Democrats gave us under Walter Mondale in 1984. The difference is that in 1984 the country wasn't ungodly enough to accept it. The question now is, have we become ungodly enough?

I hope not.

Two Extraordinary Men

Yesterday two extraordinary men passed from this life. One you've probably heard of. He was world renowned and will be remembered for all time for one singular event, although his achievements were many. The other was also known world wide, although in smaller circles, but his accomplishments were every bit as important, and in an eternal perspective, they were much greater.

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind," and became the first person to walk on the moon. That step was more than just another page in the long story of exploration. It was the culmination of every journey, every step into the unknown, every quest for knowledge and advancement in the history of the world up to that time, and remains man's greatest achievement.

Armstrong was born to fly. At age 16 he had a pilot's license before he could drive. At the young age of 20 he flew 78 combat missions over Korea. Then he was one of the first to skirt the edge of space in the X-15 rocket. Quiet and unassuming, he was a the ideal of cool and collected. When test piloting the lunar lander, the craft went out of control and he ejected less than a hundred feet from the ground. A short time later he was briefing to go on another flight as if nothing had happened. He was commander of the Gemini 8 mission that performed the first space docking of two aircraft. When a stuck thruster on his capsule sent the craft spinning out of control, he calmly handled the emergency, regained control of the aircraft and brought it safely to a Pacific Ocean landing east of Okinawa.

His finest moment, however, had to be the landing of the lunar module on the moon. The proposed landing site was strewn with boulders, and Armstrong skillfully maneuvered the lander to a clear spot and touched down with only 15 seconds of fuel remaining. "Houston," he called, "The Eagle has landed." The world, weary from war and unrest, for one moment rejoiced together and watched with great anticipation as Armstrong and his co-pilot, Buzz Aldrin, walked on the lunar surface.

Armstrong, not interested in notoriety, quietly bowed out of the lime light and made another name for himself as an educator. He rarely gave interviews or participated in public celebrations of his moon landing, but he should be remembered as the quintessential gentleman hero, a man every boy should look up to and even aspire to be like.

The second was every bit as much an example for boys, young and old, to admire and look up to. He gave his heart to the Gospel ministry as a teenager and spent his life sharing and sending the Gospel world wide. He was one, of what I like to call, the Great Spiritual Triumvirate, that came out of the First Baptist Church of Englewood, Colorado. Three teenage boys, Clifford Clark, Carl Boonstra, and Al Wells, best friends all, sat under the preaching of a "fire and brimstone" preacher named Harvey Springer, and went out from there to win the world.

Al Wells became an evangelist and preached until the Lord called him home a few years ago. Carl Boonstra served as Springer's associate, then started his own church, and in 1972 became the Missions Director for the Baptist Bible Fellowship, International. At age 87 he is still active, preaching nearly every Sunday.

Clifford Clark built the huge Tulsa Baptist Temple and introduced to the BBFI a method of missions giving known as Faith Promise. Scores of young people from his church, including one of his own sons, went to the mission field, and millions of dollars were raised through Faith Promise to take the Gospel to the farthest reaches of the earth. Tulsa Baptist Temple was the sending church for one of Africa's greatest missionaries, Elmer Deal, and for Rachel Saint, whose brother, Nate, was martyred along with four others by Indians in Ecuador in 1956. Rachel spent the last thirty-six years of her life winning those same people to the Lord.

Clark was also a very humble man, never seeking fame or notoriety, yet he became a giant among the 4,500 churches of the BBFI, as well as hundreds of other churches across the United States and world wide. His influence has inspired tens of thousands and brought many more to faith in Christ. Yesterday his journey came to an end. He fought a good fight, he ran his course well, he kept the faith, and now he has entered the joy of the Lord.

Two great American heroes; both will be missed.

Life

When the US Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that a woman has a right to abortion, it added a disclaimer saying that if it could ever be positively proven that the fetus in the womb is alive, that would overturn the decision.

Medical science and the development of ultra sound imaging in the 1980's have pretty well proven that the fetus is a living being capable of hearing and feeling pain. Any woman who has ever carried a child to term knows when that child is moving around and kicking that it is very much alive, but those in favor of abortion never tire of asking the question about when life begins.

The basic answer is simply this. When a sperm and an egg unite to form a zygote, within moments the cell begins dividing and growing. Only living things divide and grow. Whether it is viable or able to survive outside the womb is not the issue. It is alive from conception.

When my wife was struggling with a very difficult pregnancy with our last son, she was having ultra sounds done every other day during a hospital stay and then every month. At nine weeks we saw the baby, nothing more than a blob with little stubs beginning to form, but with a beating heart that we could see and hear. As the months went by we were able to watch him grow through the various stages of development. We were limited, being in Kenya, to older technology and could see little more than the skeletal structure and fuzzy images, but a more beautiful thing I have never seen.

My wife's cousin is carrying her third child and just had an ultra sound. The image of her little girl is so clear you can make out all of her facial features. Photos show the baby holding her foot, scratching her nose, and yawning.

This little child in the womb is alive and deserves the right to live, yet little babies just like this one are aborted at a rate of 4,000 per day in the United States. One has to wonder how anyone could become so cold, calloused, and uncaring as to murder a living being just because it is in the womb and an inconvenience to the mother or the father or both. I've known people who shed tears over cruelty to animals, but couldn't care less about a baby being ripped apart, or having its skull smashed by a partial birth abortion just moments before it would be ruled murder. Abortion should qualify as the most heinous, hate crime that there is.

Leftists long ago took over the Democrat Party and turned it into a platform for atheism, perversion, and self-indulgence. By packing the courts with radical leftwing ideologues they've turned the meaning of "separation of church and state" on its head in order to remove any Christian or moral influence from our government and public life. They've defied the bi-partisan Defense of Marriage Act in favor of gay marriage. They've made abortion a litmus test for justices and candidates, and they denounce everyone who opposes them as being full of hate.

And now, just when it looks like the Democrats couldn't get any more wicked, they have sunk to a new low. Wednesday they announced they are going to make the Democrat Convention a celebration of abortion. A celebration of the act of ending innocent life! A celebration of the destruction on demand of little faces like the one in this picture. They accuse Republicans of "waging a war on women," which is a slanderous lie, while they are waging a war on helpless babies. There is nothing they could do that is any more despicable, detestable, defiled, or depraved.

We hear from conservative talk radio and elsewhere that the coming election will be the most vital in American history because the Obama machine with its trillion dollar deficits and the obamacare reinvention of medical coverage, if allowed to continue, will drive the country into bankruptcy. But this election is about more than economics. It's about the moral fabric of our culture. It's about the character of the American soul. It's about the sanctity of life. It's about the judgment of God hanging over America like Damocles' sword.

If we don't turn Obama and his godless minions out in November that sword will fall. The blood of fifty-five million aborted babies cries out for justice, and like Jefferson, I "tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever." I also tremble for anyone calling himself a "Christian" who would have so little Christian principle as to vote for Obama. You cannot be right with God and vote for the wanton, reckless, destruction of babies.

This election is a referendum on life and death. Vote PRO-LIFE.