I was fortunate enough to live in a city that was on the list of stops for Governor Palin’s book tour.  Of all the cities and areas in upstate NY, I didn’t expect it to be mine!  However as an organizer for 2012 Draft Sarah Committee, I was happy that I could potentially get my book signed and meet the governor.  I ended up walking out with a signed copy of 'Going Rogue,' a signed t-shirt (that my awesome girlfriend made for me) and an awesome experience under my belt! 

There were people from all walks of life.  Some were your average blue-collar working class Americans.  Some looked like they came from a little bit of money.  Some had been there waiting since the previous evening.  They were white, black, Asian, Latino, eastern Indian.  All ages.  

 Despite MSNBC’s Chris Matthew's claim that Palin’s supports were only rich, white and elderly, I saw a true cross section of America.  Considering that I live in a liberal city in a liberal state, I was really happy to see well over a thousand people lined up by the time the store opened.  I arrived a few minutes before 7:30, and the line went halfway across the plaza. (Quite a large plaza I might add)  The number of people nearly doubled by the time the doors opened an hour and a half later at 9:00.  The biggest surprise for me was the large group of people who were under twenty-five years old.  It was so exciting to see.  Another wonderful thing to see - there were only a handful of protestors, all of which looked like they were transplanted from 1968.

There were other organizers and political peeps there as well.  It was great to stand and just talk with people casually who were like-minded.  Some of them were fans of her policies.  Some of them were women who had never seen a fellow woman in public office who shared their views.  Most people were there because they believe that they may have found their champion.

 The last two Republican presidents (Bush, and W. Bush) did some things that were really great, and made some pretty big mistakes.  Since the day that Ronald Reagan left office, conservatives have been searching for a true champion.  There is now a generation of young Americans that have grown up without a truly inspiring leader on the right side of the aisle. 

There are other leaders in the GOP that are decent speakers with some conservative cred.  Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is now a member of the talk show crew, and his time as a Baptist minister certainly helps with the public speaking.  A lot of people are unhappy with how often Huckabee would try to get along with the democrats a-la John McCain. 

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (Who I must disclose I am a huge fan of) is a very sharp speaker and looked tailor-made to be a president.  He has excellent economic credentials, ran the 2002 Olympics and was a successful governor, elected in a very liberal state.  However some people still have questions about the health care plan he tried to enact during his time in office.  He will no doubt have to answer those questions if he decides to run again.

Sarah Palin is a triple-threat.  She can rally a crowd while appearing personable.  She has conservative credentials, and she can tout a successful string of jobs.  She was elected to City Council, then Mayor, then was the Chairperson of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, and then finally Governor.  While she did resign her term as governor prematurely, she did so only because the frivolous lawsuits kept her from doing her job.  It was not often reported in the main-steam media that during her term as governor she enjoyed approval ratings in the high eighties.

She comes off like your neighbor.  She is hitting two cities a day, signing over a thousand books per stop.   When she entered the store and waved to the crowd outside, you would have sworn that Michael Jackson was in to sign copies of the Thriller album in 1984.  The cheers were deafening. 

She is a personable and genuine person, who is on what many people believe to be the ‘right’ side of the issues. (ba dum bum) For the first time in forty years, more people in the country are pro-life than pro-choice.  The tea party movement has not only shown disgust with the current administration, but with mistakes made from the Bush years as well.  They despise the rapid growth in government that has taken place since the year 2001.  Palin is a small-government reformer who could if elected to the presidency, reduce the size of bureaucracy and government the way Ronald Reagan did in the eighties.

That’s something we could all use.  Imagine a world with government half the size it is now.  Imagine a government not so politically correct that we have a ‘civil court’ trial for the 9/11 mastermind planners so that we can curry favor with the rest of the world.  Imagine a bureaucracy not so clogged with useless pencil-pushing jobs that soak up taxpayer money.  Imagine a government not hell-bent on pushing economic crippling bills like Cap-and-Trade and Health Care reform.  I imagine it every day. 

Run Sarah Run.

Before I really get rolling, I want to take a minute and talk about the horrific events at Ft. Hood that took place yesterday. 

I’ve always been a staunch supporter of the United States Military, and its personnel. I was coming home from work and saw it on the news when I walked in the house. It was one of the most disgusting displays of humanity that I had seen since September 11^th. This man, Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan, did something deplorable. He was known to be politically against the war, and had spoken about how Muslims should not be made to fight other Muslims. He had had a recent past of poor performance reviews, and decided to take the coward’s way out.

Chanting “Allahu Akbar” (god is great) he turned his guns on his fellow soldiers. He killed 13 and wounded over thirty others. This country and it’s military gave him a chance, a life, and an education. Nearly half a million dollars I hear in that education too. It’s disgusting that this is how he chose to show himself. He ended up being a terrorist, a scumbag, and a disgrace to the uniform.

I want to say that my thoughts and prayers are with the men and women of Ft. Hood. I also want to say that I wish they had killed him when he was taken down.

Okay, now onto what I was originally had written, which deals with the election victories for the GOP this week.

I’ll admit I did a little bit of partying on behalf of the GOP victories.   After losing two straight elections, it was a pleasant surprise to see some life breathed back into the Republican brand. These were not RINO’s taking home the gold either. These people were running as Tax-cutting, small-government, traditional-valued conservatives.  

The State of Virginia was painted red across the board, as Republican Bob McDonnell beat out Democrat Creigh Deeds, 58% to 41%. To have a Republican win with a 17-point margin of victory in a state Obama won soundly last year is fantastic for the GOP brand. McDonnell is not the only one celebrating in Virginia today.   The Republican candidates for Lt. Governor and state Attorney General also won decisive victories. Three-for-three in ‘The Old Dominion State.’

Virginia showed quite a turnaround in exit polling from last year’s results. In polls conducted by Edison Research, we saw a dramatic change from last year. In 2008 the number of people who identified themselves as members of the GOP hug at about 33%. This year it topped 37%. During last year’s election, the number of self-described Democrats was at 39%. This year it is down to 33%. 

Creigh Deeds spent a decent amount of time trying to show that McDonnell’s conservative cred meant that he was oppressive towards women, but according to those polled, McDonnell took women 54% to 46%, and ‘working’ women even preferred him over Deeds 51% to 48%. 

The top issues in Virginia were the economy by 47%, health care by 24% and taxes by 15%. Conservatives and Republicans both showed up in greater numbers than in 2008, and it paid off. 

In New Jersey, it was nothing short of divine intervention. This is the bluest of blue states, and an incumbent Democrat governor should have sailed right through to victory. Christie in fact led the race for most of the past few months. Even with Obama coming multiple times to campaign for him, Corzine still lost, 48% to 44%. (Independent candidate Jim Daggett took the remainder of the vote) 

Independents made up twenty-five percent of the vote, and they favored Christie over Corzine, 60% to 30%. Members of the GOP voted solidly for Christie, 91% and 6% for Corzine. Registered Democrats were less loyal, going 88% for Corzine and 8% for Christie. Moderates for the most part were split, but still favored Christie, 48% to 45%. Conservatives, who were out in huge numbers in New Jersey, favored Christie by 88%.

The most important issues in New Jersey were the economy with 32%, Property Taxes (Highest in the nation) with 26%, corruption with 20@ and health care, 17%.  

In a brief note about the special election of New York’s 23^rd district, all conservatives and Republicans can learn an important message here:

1)      1)  Pick conservative candidates, and not traitorous RINO’s who will either NOT champion liberal causes’ or betray their party by endorsing the Democratic candidate.

2)       2)  Learn whom in the party to trust more. Sorry Newt, but Palin’s endorsement won that round. Not only did her endorsement put Hoffman in the lead for a while, she proved to be a true force to be reckoned with. Hoffman nearly won as a third party conservative candidate in a blue state. People do like Sarah, and her endorsements. 

The elections also brought other surprises. The state of Maine became the 31^st in a row to vote down Gay Marriage. Maine is no red state, and I was sure this was going to pass with popular vote. Barack Obama may have won in what was called an electoral landslide, but he did not win in an ideological one. Many people voted on their anger towards president Bush, which is just moronic. Ya know, because he wasn’t on the ticket! 

The United States is still a center-right nation. People may have voted in change last year, but it wasn’t what they thought it was going to be. This is only the beginning. They woke up the sleeping giant, and the conservatives are being led to the polls once again.  

The winds are poised to shift next week in a few major elections.  While it is an unusual thing, watching for election results on an odd year, these certainly are unusual times.  Two of these races are for the gubernatorial positions of Virginia and New Jersey.  A Republican victory in either state could start the swinging of a pendulum.    Today Virginia is one of the most ‘purple’ states in the union.  Neither red nor blue, it is a true swing state.  This is also a race with no incumbent.  The GOP has put up state Attorney General Bob McDonnell, who as of this week is running with 55% support according to a Washington Post poll.  On the Democrat side of the isle we have state senator Creigh Deeds, who is running with 44% support. 

            If this were New York or Texas, this would not be such a fun race to watch.  We typically know who is going to win if the state is solidly Democrat or Republican.  But this is Virginia, a state with an outgoing Liberal Democrat Governor, and a republican majority in the 100-seat Virginia House of Delegates.  (The Republicans currently hold 53 of those hundred seats.)  This race could go either way, but the fact that McDonnell is 11 points ahead in a state that went for Barack Obama in last year’s election.

            Last year when Barack Obama won with 365 electoral votes to John McCains 173, the media and the entire Democrat party wrote off conservatives and Republicans as a dead breed.  It was the first time a Democratic presidential candidate had won with more than 50% of the vote since Jimmy Carter. (With that landslide 50.1%)

            Just nine months into his presidency we are witnessing the results.  Massive spending increases.  I never thought anyone could outspent President Bush, but Obama proved me wrong in a matter of weeks.  He has continued to push a massive health care bill that the public does not want in any poll.  He has delayed sending troops to Afghanistan, however he has mulled sending them to Fox News.  The Tea Party movement is the beginning of what could be a huge backlash towards the arrogant presumption that the Whitehouse and entire democrat party have exuded since November of last year.

            In New Jersey you have a different entity altogether.  This is one of the most liberal, one of the most ‘blue’ states in the union.  Liberal Democrat incumbent governor Jim Corzine is in a race too close to call in any poll taken.  GOP challenger Chris Christie has been outspent 24 million to 9 million.  The fact that he is a stones throw away from winning this race with that kind of money being thrown to derail him is amazing.  Some would say a miracle, but then Richard Dawkins would have to step in and write a book about it.

            It would be an upset and a gift to the state of New Jersey if Christie pulled out the win here.  It would be a bigger message to Democrats in conservative states or districts if either of these two GOP challengers won.  It would signal that President Obama’s policies are not the current trend they were broadly proclaimed to be.  Politicians are scared of never getting re-elected, and they have a gift for seeing which way the wind is blowing, and switching sides.  Worrying about re-election would make some of them in conservative areas less likely to want to help Nancy Pelosi push her socialist agenda further.  It would be a potential gift for those of us who oppose that monstrosity of a health care bill she put forth Thursday, all 1,990 pages of it!

            Finally, there is a race in my home state of New York in the 23^rd congressional district.  Here we have a very conservative district in New York (One of the two some would say) where you have a three-way race.   Republican John M. McHugh was tapped to be Secretary of the Army on September 21^st, so Governor Paterson of New York called a special election.  Under New York law, there are no primaries for special elections.  If there had been, Doug Hoffman would have probably cleaned the clock of Deirdre Scozzafava.  She is a liberal Republican member of the NY state assembly, but secured the party’s nomination.  On the democrat side, attorney Bill Owens was nominated.  Doug Hoffman was nominated on behalf of the conservative party, who felt that Scozzafava was far too liberal to represent them in their district. 

            This race truly caught fire when Sarah Palin threw her support behind Doug Hoffman.  She still carries a lot of clout with conservatives in this country, and now Doug Hoffman is showing in the polls enough to possibly pull off an upset.  Palin has said she does not support a third-party movement in this country, but rather wants to show the Republican Party that they could pick better candidates.

            I wish Hoffman, Christie and McDonnell luck.  Any of these three winning would be a blessing, and it would be nice for a change to see the looks on the Democrats faces when they realize that their policy’s are truly not a well-received as they believe.  They still all need our support though, so keep it up!!

I will take any opportunity to start off things with a delicious pun, so lets get started!

President Obama and the democrats health care reform seems to be in, ‘critical condition.’ 

Ba dum bum.

Now I know that no one really objected to H.R. 3200 of course until they read it.  I have been working through it, and I must say I am terrified.  After only 50 pages into the 1000 plus page bill I found myself breaking out in a cold sweat and wishing I still consumed alcohol.  It’s all in there.  This will be part of a three part blog series where I will go over parts of the bill, using direct quotes and translation to the best of my ability.  I have two dictionaries and a thesaurus to understand the bill, but I’m working on it!

I wanted today to start off with a simple comparison.  It starts off with the now famous ‘death panels’ remark by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin made on her Facebook page.  She spoke that there would be bureaucratic panels and advisory boards that might eventually come to decide which people could live and which could die.  Of course, she was not saying that someone with a Donkey pin on his shoulder and a set of horns could sneak in during the dark of night and literally pull the plug on grandma. 

What she was saying was that eventually it could come to the point where a panel would have to choose whether to save one life or another.  What is worrisome to her and many other people across the country is how we would gauge which life to save.  Would it be over whom was a more productive member of society, the younger and stronger being saved so that they might contribute more?  Could it be simply a matter of money?  Your surgery might cost less than mine, so you get to live, and I get the pain pills.  It doesn’t matter how it is decided.  It simply should not be allowed to ever happen.

There are many people who work in the Obama administration who are well known.  Rahm Emanuel is the president’s chief of staff, but someone who may not be so well know would be his brother, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel.  Dr. Emanuel is a top advisor to the president for medical policy.  The quote that is coming up again and again from Dr. Emanuel is from his advocating medical decisions being made on a system, which “produces a priority curve on which individuals aged roughly between fifteen and forty years get the most chance, whereas the youngest and older people get chances that are attenuated.” 

‘Angels and ministers of grace, defend us.’

Of course, Dr. Emanuel has said that his method of thinking has evolved.  It’s amazing this happened so quickly, since many of his views were written in January of this year!  It must also be a huge coincidence that he did not retract his views until he was called out on it. 

This kind of plan would of course favor the strong and leave behind the weak.  It comes eerily close to falling in line with the earlier ideals of perfecting society, perfecting people.  The early twentieth-century progressives believed in saving the ‘really fittest’ so that society could move forward without those who were considered undesirable by society polluting the gene pool.  They also believe that those who soak up the most health care, the elderly and the chronically ill, would be free up much needed money if they were allowed to die at a younger age. 

Lets go back to the progressive movement of the early twentieth century.  This is not just a progressive ideology but a mindset as well.  It is a bridge between socialism and secularism.  Authoritarians and statists, joining hands with a common view.  It is a viewpoint often seen in stark opposition from most conservative viewpoints.  We’ll go to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary for a definition on the Progressives:

Progressive: one believing in moderate political change and especially social improvement by governmental action

Progressive leaning ideologues come loaded with hubris.  They have a belief that people can be helped, or rather ‘helped along.’  Some other well-known progressives in history were Adolf Hitler, and Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.  At the time it was called The American Birth Control League.  Sanger had written books pamphlets and papers about how the lesser fortunate denominations of humans, such as the Aboriginal population of Australia (which she believed to be the lowest species of human, just above the ape) should not be allowed to reproduce or contribute further to the human race.  She was also opposed to American blacks, and the waves of Asian and catholic immigrants.

There were many other undesirable people that were brushed aside during this time period.  People with physical handicaps were ignored or institutionalized.  Those with forms of mental retardation were forcibly sterilized and hoped to no longer have an impact on society.  Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were two very well known progressives, despite being on opposite political parties!  Wilson, a democrat, held the belief that the human race was something that could be improved upon.

I do not believe that there is a large shadowy conspiracy and there is no looming new world order.  There are however, people who hold common ideals.  People have held these kinds of ideals before, and others that were equally harmful.  When people who hold them come into power they can do a variety of damage.  There are still many people in office who consider themselves to be progressives.  Democratic house speaker Nancy Pelosi comes to mind first and foremost.     

Ironically, and I do say this not to try to stab anyone’s scientific beliefs, those who seem to believe in darwinism and evolution the most seem to be rather selective on where it applies.  If it is with animals on the Galapagos Islands it’s fine, but if it’s in your own backyard, then that’s something else.   It had better make sure it stays with the animals it seems!

Again I must stress once more that I do not believe in a huge conspiracy, no fifth column that needs to be toppled.  But, just like a group of fundamentalist Muslims might wish to impose Sharia law on those who do not share their beliefs, people who have money, power and influence might wish to organize things the way they see fit.

They will always believe they know what is good and what is right.  They believe they have the appropriate view for all.  Detractors try to say that the conservatives and religious among us will try to force our beliefs on others.  In reality, most conservative Christians and Jews want to be left to their own devices, and would respectfully do the same.  If they truly believe the books they have read, they would lead by example and hope that others follow.  They would not want anyone to come along whose arm they had to twist.  I wish I could say the same for the secularists and progressives…

They use money and power to influence the politicians and people.  When that fails, they will use the law.  They will truck in busloads of people in SEIU and Acorn shirts to intimidate the opposition.  They will camp out on your front lawn or spam you with e-mails. 

They have the hubris to believe that people need to be tended over like sheep.  People like President Obamas science czar John Holdren, who wrote in his textbook “Ecoscience” in the 1970s, about forced abortions, sterilants in drinking water and reducing the overall population of the planet for it’s own good.  The have the gaul to know not only what is best for themselves, but for everyone else too.  The little people simply do not have the status or brains to choose for themselves they will say…

When questions come up about individual liberty and freedom, or a persons right to choose for themselves, they will stare blankly at you.  How could you possibly not see it from their point of view?  They will see humans not as their fellow beings but as Lego’s and tinker toys from which they can create a new image.  If they are defeated, there will come a time for them to try again.  They will constantly hold up to the ideal that they can make people, ‘better.’

In the next two blogs that come, I will show how some of these ideas are not entirely gone…

Well, it's been a while since Governor Sarah Palin dropped a tactical nuclear bomb on the country.  I of course am referring to her resignation from the office of Governor of Alaska.  She came swooping into this office and followed it up with some of the highest approval ratings in recent gubernatorial history.  She is also one of the most successful, working with people to get things done as she promised. 

I believe she is far more of a threat to the liberals and Democratic party than they would ever let on, both because of the way she reaches people, and for the values she proudly wears on her sleeve.  She is far more qualified than anyone of them would say, and she is far smarter as well.

In a short amount of time she has rooted out corruption in both major parties. Her state is one of the only ones in this deep recession showing a surplus of cash and energy.  She has cut billions from their spending budget for this fiscal year while still being able to meet all major priorities.  Her state did not need the stimulus bill, and she turned down the money when it was thrust upon her.   Why should she?  If you don't need it, don't spend it!  She fought the oil companies and fought to have her states vast resources of oil pumped down to the lower 48.  She knows that ANWR is full of oil and has none of the endangered species to protect we're told it does by the EPA and other agencies.  It's frozen tundra on top of buried treasure.  C'mon people!!!  People argue her state has a surplus because of the oil reserves.  I ask them to keep in mind that much of it, they have not been able to tap, pump, drill or sell, so therefore it does not help them with their budget or energy supply.  

Last week there was a USA Today / Gallup Poll that showed that a over two-thirds of republicans want Palin as the nominee in 2012, or at least as 'a major national political figure.'  I like to go deeper sometimes, beyond the poll numbers..

Today in America if you drop GOP or DEM from the polling questions, more people identify themselves as conservatives, a full 40%.  I know conservatives who are libertarian.  Some of them are members of the Constitution or American Independence parties.  There are more still who have no party at all, but are conservative at heart.

I was at a tea party on July 3^rd, the day the governor announced her resignation.  There were over a thousand people from all races and parties, men and women, old and young who began to chant ‘PALIN! PALIN!’ 

Sarah Palin connects with regular Americans.  Some call them Reagan-Democrats, some call them ‘average joe’s.’  Their detractors call them hicks, farmers, rednecks and a whole slew of other people that they assume cling to their guns and religion.  (Ba dum bum)  She drew thousands upon thousands of people to her campaign rallies, and in fact she drew much more than the head of the ticket, Senator McCain.  No other conservative candidate has had that kind of draw with the American public since Ronald Reagan.  She is also equally polarizing.  It is a fundamental law of Newtonian physics that for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction.  If there was ever proof that physics applied to politics, then that proof is Sarah Palin.

For every person who is a fan, there is another who hates her.  For each person who came out to see her at a rally, one sat at home and called her stupid on Myspace.  People did not know why they hated her, but they did.  They wrote her off as a dunce, a fool, and a ditz.  The medias portrayal of her did not help at all.  For three months they beat the hell out of her, giving her questions about Bush’s policy that Bush and Cheney could not have answered, and offending her at other times with questions that were a waste of time.  When it comes to the mainstream media, our friend Sir Isaac Newton departs.

In the afore mentioned poll, three-fourths of republicans, over half of independents, and a full third of democrats say the media coverage of Palin had, and still has been unfairly negative.  When she was announced as Senator McCains running mate last year, the banner on MSNBC said “How Many Houses Does This Add To The Republican Ticket?”

Chris Matthews lambasted her on his show for a full five minutes for writing a book with the aid of a ghostwriter.  I guess he forgot about Hillary Clintons who had helped her with her book. 

Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric asked her questions that not only would they never have asked President Obama, but questions that were not too relevant to well, anything!  (Governor Palin later said that she paused and smiled during the Katie Couric interview because she could not believe what she was being asked half of the time.)  Add this onto the unbelievable bias that the mainstream media showed to Obama during the campaign, and it is a recipe for swaying public opinion.  If you happen to doubt that there was intense bias from the media favoring President Obama, then just ask his secretary of state.

I won’t even dignify the constant comments of people like David Letterman.  To do so would lead people to believe that I watch him.  He of course is free to say whatever he wants, no matter how tacky, tasteless or unfunny.  That’s the price of a free society, and I pay it gladly.

There were even some fellow republicans who were less than helpful.  Governor Palin had poor handlers on a poorly run campaign.  Personally, I think some of the former staffers, like the ones who contributed to the twenty-four page article in Vanity Fair, not only did not give their names out of cowardice, but out of selfish career aspirations as well.  I believe they would cite themselves as having helped written the article at any interview, or any step to them being hired to work on the campaign circuit again.  After how poorly the McCain campaign was run, I doubt many of them will work again.  They made two tactical blunders that sunk them.  The let Senator McCain off the leash, and they kept Governor Palin on one.

No one wants to hire a rat who deserts the ship even before it sinks, let alone one who runs to the press!  We all know people like this!  As soon as your back is turned they are running off to the media with juicy stories about you, and as soon as you turn around again they are giving you the smile and pat on the shoulder.  They go above your head to your boss and blame you for their mistakes.  If someone is going to accuse someone of such things, I’d rather they at least be brave enough to author their libel writings.

If someone does not like Sarah Palin’s policies or positions, that’s a personal call and I can respect that.  However, when I see someone who would instead say that they do not like her because she is stupid, or a dummy, or ‘too pretty,’ (I actually heard that from someone) or the ‘wrong kind of feminist,’ I get angry.  It is the same as someone who

Makes fun of a gay person, then when they are confronted they say ‘well, I guess I’m just more homophobic than I realize.’  They brush it off with a stupid excuse for their ignorance.  When people reside themselves to that all-too-comfortable kind of resignation, without the compulsion to find out why, or even the willingness to express it, it is as sad as it is inexcusable. 

If Governor Palin is so dim and inconsequential, as the elites, the media and Matt Damon would tell us, then why the constant attacks even after the campaign is long gone?  Do we not still ignore that which truly does not matter?  If she is not a threat, why still attack her?

Today as I was getting ready to go to my dentist appointment, I paused and watched a flash on Fox News.   I was appalled to see that a gunman had walked into the Washington DC holocaust museum with a loaded gun in his hand, and opened fire.  He carried a rifle in his hands in plain sight and did not make it very far into the building, as he was yet to pass the entranceway or metal detectors.  (A brilliant man no doubt, as he obviously had some scheme to get an unconcealed rifle past the guards and metal detectors)

The security guards ordered him to drop the weapon, which he did not.  They shot at him then and he soon thereafter returned fire.  The gunman fatally shot one of the guards down, and he himself was wounded. He is currently lying in critical condition in a DC area hospital.  His name is James Von Brunn, and he is a known white supremacist author and website leader.  He has fallen far from his time as a Captain in the Navy.  He has published books on how the blacks and the Jews are out to ‘pollute the white gene pool.’  He also served time in prison, for which he blamed the ‘negro jury’ and the ‘Jew judge.’  Obviously, a model citizen…

            A holocaust museum brings to mind an anti-Semitic crime at the heart of its motivation.  For those of you playing the home game, this means a crime against a Jewish person.  What is even more trouble was how many people I thought could have fit this type of crime as the perpetrator: there are far too many groups of people who could have been suspected of committing a crime this disgusting.   Aryan supremacists, Klansmen, and radical Islamofacists all spring to mind readily, and still there are more.  I am reminded of the liberal protestors who during last summer when Israel was pounding away at the militants in Gaza proudly marched through the streets holding up signs that said “More Ovens For Jews.”  I’m also ashamed to think of the so-called Christian fundamentalists who are extremely anti-Semitic from the pulpit (Source: www.godhatesfags.com - these clowns are the more well known of the bunch).  Personally, I think they are a disgrace to the name of Christianity.  At the close of World War II, our soldiers helped to liberate the Nazi concentration/extermination camps such as Buchenwald, and Dachau.  General Eisenhower told his men to take photographic and video records of the atrocities committed there.   The buildings, the survivors, and victims were all documented. 

You can still find photos today of the General touring the Ohrdurf concentration camp in April of 1945.   He listened as the survivors told of the crimes committed by the SS.   He was careful to make a record of everything seen by him and his men, prophetically stating that one day, people would deny that these events had ever taken place.

Today that prediction has become as unfortunate a reality as any.  The president of Iran calls for Israel to be wiped off the map.  There have been ‘international peace conferences’ which have turned into Israel and US bash-fests.  President Obama’s pastor of twenty years, Rev. Jeremiah Wright today came out and said that Obama has not spoken to him in a year, because “those Jews won’t let him.” 

Anti-Semitism draws together the strangest of bedfellows.  White supremacist groups have been said to be in communication with al-qaeda, as their common enemy is the same:  The United States government.  Al-qaeda has declared war on us because of our close relations with Israel, as well as whatever else is bunching their underwear that particular day.  As for the white supremacists, they are probably still on that whole kick on how Israel and the Jewish people control the banks and government, attempting to take over the entire world.  (Someone should tell these geniuses that Israel right now is just trying to survive day-to-day, and doesn’t really have the time for that sort of thing.)              

When the state of Israel was created in May of 1948, there was a space set aside for the Palestinian people as well.  It was in the country of Jordan.  The Jordanians set the precedent later on of using the Palestinians as chess pieces, and excuses to attack the state of Israel.  Don’t believe for one second that the president of Iran is welcoming these people with opened arms.  I doubt he will ever extend the invitation or set out a welcome mat for them.  Many of the oil rich Arab countries today do not wish to help out the Palestinians in any way unless it will let them gain leverage over the people of Israel.  They have done nothing but fuel the anger the Palestinians have, instead of help it.  

After all the wars, attempted invasions and rocket attacks I know I would not ask Israel to give up any more land or make any more concessions.  This has all been tried before.  Presidents Carter and Clinton both held conferences with Arab and Jewish leaders, trying to broker a deal.  Both times Israel was forced to make concessions and we have seen how well that has worked out so far.

There are generations of people who have been raised to believe the Jewish people are their blood enemy.  They are brainwashed to the point where they will strap bombs to their women and children and send them to a crowded marketplace.  To make it worse, there are people of European descent, who still cling to the oldest and stupidest of stereotypes.  During the middle ages of Europe, the Pope decreed that all followers of Christ could not become bankers or handle large sums of money, as the profit would invoke sin.  This led the profession of bankers to be taken up by one of Europe’s minority groups: The Jews.  This ended up being a severe miscalculation, as it only caused jealously from those of the gentile persuasion.  This has lead to centuries of persecution and stereotypes still peddled by comics and presidents from oil rich nations today. 

Call me a skeptic, but I do not believe that a two state solution will change any of this.  President Obama is reportedly trying to get a two-state solution on the table from Israel by July.  As I have written before, I am glad that Benjamin Netanyahu was elected to the office of Prime Minister.  His country cannot afford mediocre or soft leadership at a time like this.

I have two hopes, at a time like this.  I hope that our government does not take advantage of this situation today at the DC museum.  Rahm Emanuel has said that one should never waste a ‘serious crisis’, and I can just see this being used as an excuse to crack down on other ‘right wing extremists.’  (As a right wing extremist, I’m offended to be compared to a scumbag like James Von Brunn)

I also hope that Israel and her people know that even if our president does not appear to stand with her, there are many of us who do.