Have the voters of America ever wondered why we elect young, pretty, glib men to the Presidency.  Starting with JFK, the list includes Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.  Obama is somewhat different than his sexy, physically attractive predecessors.  Not only is he a great orator,  he has a great toothy smile that can light up Times Square on New Years Eve.  The only problem he has is that he fervently believes NO ONE can resist his”gift,”  his great powers of persuasion.  Both Kennedy and Clinton,  at least when they screwed up,  they admitted their screwups and changed the course of their ships of state.  Obama is so convinced of his great powers of persuasion,  he feels he can stand naked in front of the American people and they will not see his nakedness.  He reminds me of another pretty boy who ventured into national politics,  to wit: John Edwards.   Obama, as of todays headlines,  does not have a sexual faux pas to his credit.  Notwithstanding his “spread the wealth”  State of the Union address, he still thinks that dollars spent will fertilize the growth of our capitalistic economy.  Ben Stein had a great simple solution in bringing us back to the real world.  Instead of all of Obama’s  little b.s tax incentives that won’t erase our jobless rate one iota,  just promise the small businessman the government will not raise ANY taxes for two years.  I guarantee the jobless rate will sink faster than the Titanic. (without hitting an iceberg).  Let him cloth himself with real clothes,  address the economy with workable ideas,  and forget about trying to cater to his socialistic left wing.    (who will not get him elected in 2012) and follow Bill Clinton to victory.  Besides if Obama doesn’t start putting on some clothes soon, he might freeze off the very body parts that catapulted  him into the White House.

One would think that after the bloody defeat Obama and his cronies suffered in the Brown victory in Massachusetts,  he would see the light and pull a Clinton ala 1994.  But no, instead the Chicago mafia is going back into campaign mode.  The Great One has called back his campaign army,  not to offer the programs the American electorate is screaming for, but to convince those same independents who regurgitated his programs in Massachusetts to accept a revamped but basically the same economically rejected policies that have driven the jobless rate to climb over 10%  and put us into national bankrupcy mode.  His confidence in his own powers of persuasion amaze me.  His “chutzpa”  rivals the Wall Street geniuses who thought the 1929 depression would be over in a month.  Unfortunately,  he is destined to follow an  “eminent”   Democratic  predecessor, Jimmy Carter, who also fumbled his way through his presidency.

Even after the disaster of  the Massachusetts senate race where a conservative demolished the Obama candidate,  Obama and his Chicago backroom posse continue to push their ill-fated health and economic program that most Americans despise. Why are they continuing with their backroom shenanigans?  They (the Obama gang) are convinced that their leader can sell anything to anybody.  He has convinced himself that he has a gift.  The gift of persuasion.  All his life he has sold himself to the world around him.  using every weapon at his disposal.  Being black would hamper most politicians running for President of the United States.  Not handsome, articulate Obama.  Being black was a fantastic ASSET FOR HIM AND HIS CHICAGO CRONIES.  If you opposed him,  his boys would play the race card.  After he won the presidency, he had to pay back  his money lenders (SIEU, ACORN, the LIBERAL LEFT) and that is why the backroom deals are kept out of the public eye.  You can fool some of us some of the time, but not all of us all of the time.  The Brown senatorial victory SHOULD be a wakeup call for ALL democrats.  But it won’t be.  They, his backroom cronies, figure that they still have 9 months to try to hoodwink the American voting public.  But HEAR ME,  you Chicago naysayers,  as George H.W. Bush will tell you (after losing the 1992 election) if you promise nirvana to the American electorate you better deliver nirvana.  Your health care, your monstrous “emergency” spending will not get us out of our economic recession.  Unfortunately most,  if not all, of our elected reps have never had to meet a payroll every week  in a small business that depends on the economy being alive and well. The trillions of dollars being thrown out of the White House windows will not help the little guy who is the cornerstone of our complex and wondrous economic and political systems.  Health Care as you envision it,  is DEAD.  LISTEN to the other side’s ideas. Who knows, you might buy into some of them.  Mr Obama,you are going to lose your shirt come November.  Massachusetts is merely the opening shot across your gang’s bow.      Well, sir, 2012 will put you on the unemployment line with the rest of the millions of unemployed. Except you’ll write a book that will make millions and you will earn corporate director fees from the very corporations you threw your citizens hard earned money at.  (The small business men who you betrayed). Too bad. When I heard you speak at the Democratic National Convention in 1994,  I was persuaded that you could become the President of the United States. You certainly have talent. And you’re smart.  But you got into the wrong crowd. I just pity you when you get into your later years and you look back at your Presidency.  Will you say to yourself, “I could have changed the world,  but I took the easy way out.”  Maybe your rejected  mentor (Reverend Wright)  is right.  “Obama is just like every other politician.”  Too bad!

If the political fraud and misrepresentations that now prevail in the dungeons of our capital were to occur in the cities and towns of America, all of our so-called government representatives would be indicted, convicted, and join Bernie Madoff in federal prison.  Do you, the citizen, the taxpayer know how you will be affected by this horrendous health care monstrosity now being bandied about in the hallowed halls of Congress?  Will your present Medicare health coverage be substantially reduced?  How much is it going to cost taxpayers today, tomorrow and 10 years down the pike?  Obama’s campaign promise that he will not raise taxes on the middle class can only have an affect on the 40% of the population that don’t pay taxes under any circumstance.  Obama and his corrupt and malicious Chicago henchmen have and will wreak economic and personal havoc on all freedom loving Americans for years to come.  Once his atrocious economic and health-care agendas are passed, it will be virtually impossible to overturn those devastating programs. Who in heavens name will be able to pay off trillions of dollars of debt without putting this nation into suicidal bankruptcy?  All of us must raise our collective voices to our so-called representatives and tell them in no uncertain terms that if they participate in this egregious conspiracy, they better register for unemployment insurance come November.  In my many years on this great earth called America, I have never seen or experienced such political arrogance as witnessed in today’s political scene. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE NOW.  Raise your collective voices to those overpaid malefactors called congressmen.  Tell them we will not take their criminal behavior anymore.

Recently,  my wife and I traveled to South Africa and Zimbabwe.  During that twelve day trip, we witnessed the animals that inhabited the African veldt.  From the innocence of the herds of impala to the carnivorous terror of the leopard and the wild hyena, we observed how each of the animals that roamed in the lawless animal kingdom survived-temporarily, anyway.

Our very experienced South African guide related her observations of the life and death of these co-habitants of the brown, uninhabited world.

The only law that each of the animal inhabitants of this placid jungle world observed and respected was one which could devour the other.  Nothing was in writing like we have in our human code of law and justice.  Speed and endurance were the only unwritten restrictions in surviving.

The beautiful but lowly impala, a vegetarian by nature, occupied the special meal of the day for all the stronger carnivores that roamed unrestricted through the undulating plains of the African jungles.

On one sunny, cloudless day, we watched from our uncovered jeep a lightning fast leopard stalk a wary herd of impalas.  Bounding fearfully through the treeless summer landscape, the impalas searched for their salvation from the jaws of the lightning quick leopard.

As we witnessed this tragic opera of life and death, I wondered how similar America’s own opera of life and death mimicked the scene enfolding before me. The leopard eventually caught up with one of the laggards of the impala herd.

Hypnotically,  I watched the leopard mercilessly tear at the body of the struggling animal.  None of the impala’s herd companions turned to help its hapless member.

Before long what seemed to be minutes, the leopard was carrying off slabs of impala meat to a more favorable dining spot in the sparsely tree jungle

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a group of hyenas emerged from a small patch of trees.   They first circled the now still carcass of the impala and then suddenly they all started to tear into whatever was left of the formerly beautiful innocence once housed in the animated life-filled impala.

When my wife and I returned to our luxurious jungle retreat, we sat on the grass filled patio, just staring silently out into the empty,  near dark African veldt.

“Just like America,” I said, voicing my thoughts of the day’s happening.

“How so?” she queried.

“Eating the weak,” I replied.  “Just like our food chain,” I added.

“It’s not so obvious,” she said.  “In our country, I mean.”

“The hyenas and leopards are out there, waiting for the right moment to attack and devour.  Especially in an economic recession like the one we are going through right now.”

My mind thought of the jobs that were lost to the thousands of human impalas now breakfast meat for the carnivores who had the speed and ferocity to take advantage of the economically weak and innocents of our faltering economic system.  Bottom feeders they were so poetically called.  Is it so much different than the burned out African veldt, I questioned.  Do you, the recent unemployed, the recent bankrupt, the recent loser of your foreclosed homes, have the necessary resiliency to withstand the attacking leopard, the tenacious hyenas of our economic society and yet, survive to fight another day?  Many of those fallen will never rise from the depths of their weakened existence.  They will be eaten by the leopard and their carcasses devoured by the hyenas of our economy.  But, like in the African veldt, our society will survive to see another day.  Another economic recovery, wounded, perhaps, but still strong enough to survive.

Should our economic world depend upon its central government to rescue it from lassez-faire, the unrestrained leopards and hyenas of our America society?  Or should our central government step in to insulate our impalas from the much stronger economic leopards and hyenas?  And if so, what happens to the unrestricted harmony of the economic world we enjoy and inhabit?  Should it be filled with economic policemen to ward off any attackers of our survival?  Do we, the human impalas, then lose our individuality, our inner struggle in ourselves, not only to survive but to prosper because of our own tenacity and fighting instincts?  Will we be satisfied just to be cared for as economic robots controlled wholly by a government operated by super humans that will protect you, the lightning quick impala, but take away the ability for you to protect you and yours from the dangerous leopards and hyenas that lurk on the fringe of your human jungle?

As the week went on, my wife and I observed the survival chain repeated time and time again as we watched the beautiful impala, the graceful zebra, the elegant giraffe, and the cumbersome elephant.  Were they all surviving to become the food for the masters occupying the many headed top of the food chain?

We, the ever resilient Americans, who have been faced in our turbulent history with death defying attacks by the human leopards and hyenas, give up our tenacity, our prideful will to survive, not as lunch meat at the bottom of the food chain, but as human equals to the carnivores that inhabit our very jungle.

Today’s American government strives to persuade us to accept the very needs of our basic existence in exchange for our surrender of the very survival talents that have made America one of the greatest societies to survive intact and independently over these two hundred and fifty years from our country’s birth.

The African veldt’s inhabitants have shown my wife and me how we must remain strong using our own tenacity, our own independence, our own survival instincts to live the life all Americans hope and deserve.

Would the impala and the other member animals who occupy the bottom of the food chain want to be fenced in and have the security of a zoo?  Would they, if they had a choice, give up their natural freedom of the African veldt, for the life-long security of a man-made captivity?  We’ll never know.

But I think my fellow countrymen, if they had their choice, would refuse to accept a life-long no-risk captivity offered by their government.  And that is the world the present U.S. Government is tendering to us.  Give up your right to govern yourself for the right to survive under Big Brother.  Orwell’s 1984 novel comes alive in the 21^st century.  The welfare state versus the risk taking adventure of a truly capital based society is what we lovers of the true adventure of American life are facing.

I have no doubt that the freedom of the African veldt will win over the security of the fenced in prison life under Big Brother for all freedom loving Americans.

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