The answer to Obama's hand of friendship

porkbelly

Iran, the Taleban, North Korea, Russia - they've all pegged Obama as an amateur with an inflated ego and no clue whatsoever about power politics. They know that the more they reject his overtures the more he'll abase himself and the United States. It's America's unfortunate friends and allies who will be blamed for the failure of his naive overtures: watch Netanyahu become the whipping boy when Iran detonates its first nuclear weapon.

Bob from Virginia

Obama has been in office less than 3 months and he has shown himself to be, at the very least, the second worst president in US history. I wonder what is keeping the media from stating this out loud and often.
(BTW, the worst was James Buchanan 1856-1860, whose Obama like weakness brought about southern succession.)

An American

Well, it looks as if 'The One', our worshipped leader has conquered all of Europe this week.

We hear glowing media reports of PM Brown laughing without end at one of Obama's quips. Americans don't find Obama particularly funny, especially since he laughs at his own mediocre jokes. And besides, it's hard to find a Messiah funny in all seriousness.

We hear how Michelle hugged Queen Elizabeth, who gave her a big hug back, unlike the way the Queen usually responds to everyone else on Mother Earth. We hear how Michelle has the same effect as Princese Diana while sitting at the bedside of the British ill. We hear that Michelle has the same beauty, social graces and fashion sense as Jacqueline Kennedy...how about that tacky sweater she wore to the Opera, heard it was too small and buttoned wrong...but no matter...the gushing just goes on and on...

We hear that all the European leaders hated Bush but love Obama...why shouldn't they, he is another socialist joining their fold.

What's wrong with Ahmadinejad and the Taliban anyway? Don't they realize they are in the presence of true greatness and should be bowing before 'The Messiah' as has the rest of the world this week.

In the meantime, at home the stock market has picked up since Obama left for Europe and his popularity has gone down another five points.

Can't all of you convince Obama to become an European and keep him there? Please...

Rathtyen

This article reminded me of two things:

One:
a story I read years ago about Dion, the Dictator of Syracuse (then a very powerful city state), and Plato. Dion was a fan of Plato, and invited him to Syracuse to help establish a liberal society based on Plato’s book “Republick” (I think the title had a “k”).
I didn’t take long before things went sour, and Dion the Enlightened Ruler became Dion the dictator who retook absolute power for himself.
Like Dion, Obama has been raised on an ideology which sounds very good. But as he will find, once you call the shots, it can be a different ball game, especially if you want to get re-elected.
America today is nothing like Russia in 1917 or china in 1949. The socialist revolution isn’t going to happen accept in relatively mild increments. Obama will find that being too radical will lose him his job, and he doesn’t want that to happen (and neither did Dion). In the end, it’s the job and the prestige that comes with it that Obama wants. My thinking is the ideology will be largely ditched as a means to an end, and that includes issues with being friendly to “enemies”.

Two:
The outstretched hand of peace won’t work because it’s the last thing many of these people want. Chavez, Kim Ill-Jong, Ahmadinejad, etc cannot afford to be peaceful and friendly. Without having an enemy, be it the US, the West in general, the Christian world (basically all the same thing) and/or Israel, these so-called leaders have nothing.

They need the threat of an enemy to justify just how badly they run their countries. If it were all peace, the focus in Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Russia, Syria etc would be the economy, and it would be seen to be sadly lacking. China falls into a different category, but has many of the same risks of losing out in comparison to the US and West if it opens up too much.

The “leaders” of these countries know they would not survive long in power in a peaceful world, and like old Mugabe in Zimbabwe, they’ll do whatever it takes to stay in power regardless of the cost

stanley Jerusalem

Well now he can say he tried and failed and go on to some other impossible target while keeping his'promises.'

Conservative Cabbie

Bob from Virginia

My pick is Andrew Johnson, Abe's successor and a Democrat, whose partisanship tried to block the Republican congress from enacting the needed legislation to liberate and franchise the slaves following the civil war. His obstruction and intransigence put the cause of the African-American back 100 years. He survived impeachment by only one vote.

Conservative Cabbie

My only thought on the supposed rejection of Obama's overtures by Iran and the Taliban is that they would say that wouldn't they. It's the first step on the diplomatic trail. Whilst I'm not convinced that Obama will bring peace, love and unicorns to the world, to point out the Taliban and Iran's rejection is a bit premature. Obama has made it clear that he's prepared to play the long game, let's see how things develop.

John Birch

Conservative Cabbie: You're right. It's still early days. There were some positive developments with Iran's participation in talks about Afghanistan. As for the Taliban, the U.S. is trying to apply a divide and conquer strategy that seems to have worked well in Iraq.

elixelx

Give them a hand and get back a bloody stump!

Original Tony

An American and elixelx...both comments well stated and true...time will be the decider on Obama, but the hour galss is emptying rapidly

logdon

Whilst trying to figure out Obama's hand of the POTUS gesture without my usual instinctive bias against liberal appeasing idiocy I came to one conclusion of maybe this is an offer Obama knew would be refused, thus being able to state at some future point that it was Iranian intrangency which caused the huge conflagration due any minute.

Another was cutting Israel loose to do the neccessary, not if but when Iran's nuclear threat reaches critical. That's the credit side. The debit is that this man is a grandstanding fool whose historical, cultural and world knowledge could be contained in a thimble.

Projected as an internationalist with social leanings he was spun by an outrageously biased MSM as the anti ethical and wordily worldly opposite to Bush. Something is now telling me that the emperor's new clothes maybe different but the emperor is still the same American who just does not understand that big world out there and is just as blinkered as his reviled forebear.

Can anyone imagine if, say Mexico had made the same doomsday threats against the US as Ahmadinejad has to Israel whilst simultaneously developing nuclear capability, then being offered bland negotiation? The only similar scenario was the Cuban Missile Crisis. Did Kennedy roll over as the soviet ships steamed westwards? We all know the answer.

So if the US could bring the globe to the brink of war by denying Kruschev his Cuban armoury and be hailed as a saviour of the free world why is Israel denied the same right?

No doubt the answer lies with Jeremy Bowen.

Augustus

I'm afraid thhe Obamas ignorance of international etiquette shows them up, despite their pretensions to be this generation's Kennedys. How about somebody starting a count down clock in Times Square when America can stand tall once again?

tommy

I believe this is the best/worst yet---Obama bowing to Saudi King
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025498.php

tommy

Even worse
The story of two bows one for Her Majesty and one for the Saudi King
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/03/obamateurism-of-the-day-12/

An American

Rathtyen,

Thanks for an interesting read. Some very good points. I agree with you on the world's dictators needing an enemy to keep them in power. But, I'm not sure I agree with you on Obama giving up his allegiance to Socialism for his popularity...He believes he can have both. That's why he's in the process of creating a large internal army of followers with some five billion dollars of US taxpayer's money.

Obama's already showing some dictatorial traits. He recently bullied conservative Democrats about their votes...with 'Don't think we're not keeping count, Brothers' threats. His 'Move-On' backers are harassing some prominent Democratic Senators on the stimulus bill to get in step or else.

Obama certainly has the arrogance of an dictator along with a very thin skin. While Pres. Bush took all media questions, no matter how rude, and answered them like a gentleman...Obama takes only questions that he's previously approved and that fit his agenda while he blows off the rest. Although it shouldn't, this gladdens my heart, for the slobbering, worshiping media so deserves the treatment he is giving them. He treats them like they are his own private brand of toilet paper, to be used and discarded.

If Obama can pull it off, he will become America's first dictator.

tommy,

Thanks for the reminder of Obama's bow to the Saudi King. I missed it in my previous comment. Do you think it has anything to do with Obama being a Muslim? I wonder how long it will be before he takes his own private Hajj to worship at the Kaaba. I'm sure the Saudis will be happy to give him a private viewing.

He was very critical of Bush's good relationship with the Saudis...at least Bush didn't bow down like 'The One'.

An American

C. Cabbie and Bob from Virginia,

Can we add President Carter to that list? Without him, the world wouldn't be facing nuclear threat from Iran.

Under him, we had a massive gasoline shortage and rationing along with a whopping 22% interest rate and suffered one of the worse economies since our Great Depression.

Carter mucked up everything he touched both here and internationally. The arrogant old fool is a pariah to all remaining living US Presidents because of his constant negative criticisms. He does however, adore Obama...that should tell all of us something.

What was your take on the photos of Obama and the world leaders yukking it up, hugging, laughing, thumbs up, behaving like school boys....while they continue to spend trillions of dollars they don't have but apparently not having a care in the world.

Conservative Cabbie

An American

"while they continue to spend trillions of dollars they don't have"

This is what we should be attacking Obama for - the fact that that he is a conventional tax and spend liberal who has no idea about how to turn the deficit spending faucet off.

And yes, Carter was a waste of space as a President.

Augustus

@ An American: "world leaders...
behaving like school boys...
while they continue to spend trillions of dollars they don't have..."

Precisely! Instead of'stability,
growth, jobs,' the summit's real slogan should have been
'debt, unemployment, inflation'.
This could indeed be a historical turning point - but a turning point downwards. The international community is in fact laying the foundation for the next crisis, which will be larger.

The bank managers were the dealers, but the poppy farmers sat in government offices expanding their acreages under cultivation. The chief crop was the cheap dollar, which
eventually flooded the entire world, artificially bloating the banks' balance sheets, creating sham growth and causing a speculative bubble in the US real estate market. The lack of transparency in the financial markets then ensured that the poison could spread all around the world.

An American

Augustus and C. Cabbie,

I always appreciate your insightful comments.

How can Obama and the European leaders be so completely wrong about everything? Their actions defy all common sense.

I'm no economist but if I maxed out my current credit card, would I solve the problem by maxing out ten more credit cards. This seems to be the basis of Obama's financial recovery.

I believe he is doing one of three things. He is either a complete novice that has no understanding of economics and really believes he can save the economy by spending trillions that will tax our grandchildren into their graves or he wants to get his socialist agenda off the ground as quickly as possible and doesn't care how it affects the economy or he has a more sinister intent and wants to destroy the US for reasons known only to him and his followers.

What do you think?

Many Americans believe the situation will soon be so dire that they are now turning into survivalists...buying gold, buying guns(a recent visit to the gun store for ammunition had people lined up outside the store and being turned away for lack of it) hoarding food and necessities to see them through what they believe will be very hard times or worse, catastrophic events.

My feelings at this time range between rage, sorrow and fear. Yet, I talk to fairly normal intelligent people who say they are happy with the way things are going...are they blind to what is happening around them or am I an alarmist?

I would rather be wrong in my assessment for all of our sakes.

beloved

An American: In the meantime, at home the stock market has picked up since Obama left for Europe and his popularity has gone down another five points.

beloved: Congress finally repealed mark to market business regulations on April 2nd, and, naturally, investors responded positively. The regulations were imposed in 2007 when the Dems took back Congress. Curiously, that is when the banks started losing assets on paper. The same regulations led to the Great Depression.

The repeal is a win for the economy and human rights, but the repeal happened on the same day O sold our souls to the devil. He spent one more cool trillion. O pledged that you and I will pay more of our children's food money to the world in a spirit of "fairness and justice" (and punishment for success.) However, if the US were merely one of twenty, twenty percent is all we would be forced to sacrifice to wealthy World Bank tyrants, who expect Americans to just work a fourth, fifth, and sixth job at a grocery store. In reality, America owes ZERO to the world, and world leaders have no clue what they are up against in the US. O's teleprompter has a clue, and tried to tell them.

Those Europeans, who have always been envious of average people's success, finally got their way. America has returned to her roots and become what they wanted: an oppressed colony over-paying taxes.

The answer is keep 'clinging to [your] guns and God,' and attend a tea party! There are four-thousand scheduled tea parties on April 15th across the US. Be there or send someone in your place.

Today Washington, tomorrow Brussels!...yeeeeeeeeeeehahahhaaahhaa!

PS We are going to win. Our enemies won't know what hit them until they wake up in hell.

Augustus

An American - Just as in Melanie's topic: The Obama hand of friendship extended to rogue regimes in the hope that someday
things will turn around, will lead to much more prolonged problems, so it is with the current policymakers hands of friendship and attempts to keep insolvent institutions alive artificially, which will also lead to a deeper financial mess down the line. Part of what a capitalist system does is to constantly reshuffle assets and capital from people who have demonstrated that they cannot manage those assets well to new hands - some of whom will be able to manage it better, some of whom will manage it worse. But that process of dynamic reshuffling is central to a well-functioning capitalist economy.

What these policymakers, in their wisdom, have done is to start down the same path that Japan did. Which is, hope like crazy that just by pushing this off for six months or so markets will recover and everything will be fine. But over the medium term it only makes problems worse. These guys think that if we can just get by today with an appropriate bailout package, then everything will be all right. And any critics are dismissed by saying; you are not really close to the markets, you don't understand the panic. You don't understand the chaos that would result if we didn't intervene. But severe disruptions over a few weeks or a month are things the economy can take. What it cannot take is assets in the hands of people who have demonstrated their inability to manage those assets. So this moral hazard, this too important to fail problem, sets the stage for recurring financial crises, quite apart from the distributional issues of why some poor taxpayer out in Kansas City has to bail out some rich fat cat on Wall Street. So you end up in a really nasty vicious circle where financial crises become more likely, regulators regulate more strictly, financial innovation declines, and assets don't move from the hands of the people who aren't equipped to handle them to the hands of those who are.

Nick

beloved - a win: win situation all around then. The world owes nothing to America either. It is a juvenile nation. It is about time it grew up.

An American

beloved,

I was mystified why the stock market was going up in these horrendous times and was unaware that the Congress repealed part of the Sarbane Oxley bill in regard to the mark to market. That's really good news for our economy. My better half said when the Democratic Congress passed this onerous part of the bill in 2007, that it would hurt the economy big time and it has.

My only concern is that if the economy does improve...Obama will take credit for it and continue to spend trillions more. This from a guy that doesn't know what a real job is. Michelle was awarded her $300,000 hospital job after her state Senator husband passed a bill giving that hospital big bucks...it galls me to see these opportunistic, immoral creeps represent the US.

Isn't it great to have an American President who puts the US down every chance he gets while he and 'I'm finally proud of my country' Michelle are treated like some kind of royalty. The socialist European leaders are in 'hog heaven'. These petty little men finally have the US right where they want it...socialized and weak.

If the Congress passes the Cap and Trade, I hear our electric bills could be raised to several thousands of dollars per household per year and would continue to go up as Obama shuts down any new coal mines and restricts the ones we have and not allow any new oil drilling...it will be forced suicide...Obama is reminding me more and more of Jim Jones.

I've emailed friends inviting them out to our Tea Party, we'll be there with hard-hitting signs in hands. In my conservation work, I've gotten to know a lot of reporters and will give them all a call too. It will be interesting to see if/how this is reported.

An American

Nick,

Yeah...that's right, let's not bring up WWII when our US soldiers died by the hundreds of thousands fighting the Nazis and the Fascists to protect European's freedoms along with the many noble, good and generous things we've done the world over. Just keep on demonizing us if it makes you feel any better about yourself and your country. Pitiful.

An American

Agustus,

Thank you for your reply.

I agree with your comments. If the politicans would just leave well enough alone, the market would sort itself out.

But, with Obama, we have something all together different here...I believe he has a socialist agenda that he's pursuing, no matter what transpires, he seems intent on destroying most of what's good about our economy to 'Change' this country to his vision.

Too bad we can't just send all the politicans home and start over. Our problems originated with these lawyer-politicans and in their ignorance and arrogance, they continue to make things worse. They will be enslaving future generations by forcing more and more taxes on them. Sweden, here we come. No wonder they have such a high suicide rate there, they are forced to work to provide for the government's welfare instead of their own. They have become slaves to the state and are now so brain-washed, they don't even realize it.

Obama's media isn't reporting the brewing hatred that many Americans now have for 'The One' and the liberal Congress and state governments. It is the working upper and middle class and small businesses that these socialists are going to feed on and eventually destroy. Although it's portrayed differently, the US's very wealthy are mostly liberal Democrats, not Republicans.

So that puts the bulk of the far left liberals on the very top and at the very bottom of the economic ladder. With the people who work and pay most of the taxes in the middle. When you destroy those middle rungs, where do think the wealthy and poor will be...

beloved

An American,

sigh

I was being kind to not demand anything in return from Nick for all the Americans have done for him. A thank you would be nice, but we do not require thanks and recognition for our extensive charity and volunteerism. However, we could easily cause all the world's ingrates' taxes go up when we refuse to pay our own taxes, because we disagree with one trillion to the World Bank. Our Constitution recognizes the God given right to not pay taxes until we are satisfied with the response to a petition. This is the key for the restoration of our human rights. I imagine that 'carpets for government control' would not know how to refuse. They consider government officials to be gods, and trust and fear them accordingly. We should probably pity the Nicks of the world, except they are spineless, willfully ignorant, and wish to impose totalitarianism on everybody.

Good luck with that, Nick.

beloved

An American,

Do I have good news for you.

You wrote that "My only concern is that if the economy does improve...Obama will take credit for it and continue to spend trillions more. This from a guy that doesn't know what a real job is. Michelle was awarded her $300,000 hospital job after her state Senator husband passed a bill giving that hospital big bucks...it galls me to see these opportunistic, immoral creeps represent the US."

It should not matter if O takes credit; the damage to the Dems is complete because of massive spending. Plus, Congress knows better because it is they who dropped the mark to market. They also pulled the cap and trade out of O's budget the same week. YAY!

The dems decided that they want the economy to recover after all because the crisis they created has done the job, and they do not want to lose theirs. That would be counterproductive to One Party rule if, after they establish it, the Republicans win in the next election. Imagine passing billions to the John Birch Society instead of ACORN. Conservatives realize that winning is a huge possibility and, once back in power, plan to turn the monster, that Dems created, on the liberals, and then slay the monster, which is why it is important to rid the Republican ranks of moderates. Moderates would not dismantle Fedzilla; they helped to build it and would simply cash-in on the frauds.

You see? It is possible to over throw the Communist revolution and re-establish the free market and rule of Constitutional law, again. The Dems over-reached, and the smarter Dems are trying to correct their mistakes before they lose power. Dems cannot help themselves because they never learn from history.

God bless.

beloved

PS to An American

So glad you are going to a Tea Party!

More are planned for july 4th.

An American

beloved,

There is some good news...I heard that over two dozen Democrats voted against the cap and trade law. But the far left will continue to bring the cap and trade which should be called 'cap and tax' law back. This tax would cost each family approx. $3,000+ more per year for turning on their lights. Yet, at the same time Obama and his cronies have stopped all future oil exploration, nuclear plants and coal mines. These nitwits could cover every square inch of American soil with solar panels and wind farms and still not produce enough electricity for our needs little alone the needed gasoline. You do notice that Senator Feinstein and the Kennedys have stopped wind farms within their viewing...they are too unsightly for their liberal eyes. What unmitigated
hypocrites.

The libs are also pushing electric cars...but where do these people think the power comes from when they plug them in to recharge the batteries? The electricity is produced by oil and coal...yet they talk as though it just comes from a battery. These cars only saving grace is that they emit less pollution. But the batteries are highly toxic environmentally to produce and discard.

Intelligent Americans are shaking their heads and saying that Washington has lost its collective mind. I do hope and pray that the leftys have done great harm to themselves in their short time in power...and we need to keep reminding people what is in store for them if this Fascist movement goes forward. It is true Fascism that is occurring under Obama. If you read the description of Fascism, it all fits.

I am certainly going to be much more outspoken and support only Conservatives in the Republican Party both monetarily and by working for them.

Just curious, how do you find out which Congressmen/women voted against the cap and trade
law?

Suffolkbor

An American:
Wouldn,t your freedom of information act allow for you to find out which Congressmen/Women voted against the cap and trade law?

Labhras

In a Cnn Poll today, 91% of those asked if Americas image had improved by Obamas trip gave the thumbs up.Just 9% said no.

I bet a few of those sour grapers are hanging around this site.

beloved

That's pretty good, Labhras. 91% of CNN fans cannot name the Vice President.

Original Tony

Nick...you are an idiot...the world owes just about everything to the USA, including democracy. Idiot

Ronnie

I think, Original Tony, that the world can thank the Greeks for democracy. Dummy.

beloved

An American I answered your question twice on how you can find out how your representatives voted, but for some reason my posts are not here. I posted links to Congress and a few watchdog groups, including the American Conservative Union. Sorry.

Ronnie, Americans thank our founders for establishing a democratic-republic. (Only Hillary thinks Americans invented citizen voting.) Americans and the first generations of Americans rightfully disdained a pure democracy as another form of tyranny. I'm certain Original Tony knows this, but you have to use the language of dummies when speaking to dummies, or they won't get the point that the USA has defended freedom for almost seventy years. We have done well. I do not care if anybody is willing to agree. But, I am holding my breath for innocents around the world if we start closing bases, stop defending trade routes, and stop developing defense technology for the benefit of other nations. The only good that would come of that is EU nations would carry the responsibility for defending themselves, cleaning up the messes they left behind because of colonialism, and sometimes saving themselves from themselves. Those Europeans who are anti-peace and prosperity would not have the US to kick around any more. The isolationists in America say the US would be better off in every way, including economically, if we cut off dependent nations from life support. It is tempting after reading posts such as Nick's. His sentiments grant the isolationists policy victories in the US because it does not take much pushing for the American soul to say, 'screw 'em; they would choose to solve their own problems if they really wanted to.' You cannot argue long against that wisdom based in natural law.

An American

beloved

I liked your last post. You tell it like it is...Americans are so tired of being the world's whipping boys while putting our young soldiers in harm's way and spending billions of our taxpayer's money trying to protect other's freedom all over the globe.

I wish we could just close the doors and tell all of these ingrates to fend for themselves. But I fear in the future, Obama and his left leaning cronies will give even more of our taxpayers money to the UN and the EU and any other liberal socialist entity.

What would be your wish list if God granted you the ability to make things right in America?

My wish list would be:

To throw the present Congress out on the street and start over again with a Conservative God loving Congress.

I would go through the nation's budget and cut 75% of it until we balanced the budget and got rid of the deficit.

I would institute a flat tax of 5%, 10%, 15% depending on salary with every American paying taxes.

I would lower industry taxes to 20% while having tougher laws on crooks and gluttons.

I would open oil drilling off the US coast, in Alaska and elsewhere. I would establish Nuclear plants wherever it was feasible. I would push industry to do a better job with coal emmissions and have strict environmental rulings without stopping energy progress.

I would rewrite Social Security to be what it was meant to be...not a retirement fund but for just the very needy elderly.

The same for Medicare. Medicaid takes care of the needy and it's being abused...would stop that abuse.

I would encourage people to save a percentage of the salary and encourage companys to match those savings for their retirement.

I would stop 75% of immigration, allowing only educated, professional people in for the benefit of the US with only their immediate family allowed in.

I would send all Muslim troublemakers and their families back to their countries of birth.

I would send all UN delegates home and implode the UN building with dynamite while having a large nationwide celebration, then sell the land to the highest bidder for a business park 'with view'.

I would encourage worldwide commerce.

I would do away with all unions.

I would show all liberal Governors the door and start over.

I would do away with most welfare while establishing good nurseries for low income working moms and dads.

I would establish many low income health clinics to take the burden off of hospital emergency rooms.

I would rework health insurance and industry to stop the mismanagement and waste.

Everyone within a certain wage limit would have to buy health insurance instead of buying new cars yearly.

I would establish more trade schools and make college entries harder for the real professionals. We have too many chiefs and not enough indians.

I would fire all the liberal profs...it would probably empty most of the colleges, and start over.

I would rewrite our liberal mid-school, high school and college history textbooks to tell the real truth.

I would make students study the Constitution and have Goverment classes from the 4th grade on.

I would reestablish school prayer and elsewhere. God would be welcomed back into our society.

I would fire ignorant, lazy teachers and start over.

I would protect our national parks and have tougher laws on wildlife conservation.

I would let the world fend for itself and not be a nation builder, while protecting the US at all costs.

My main concern would be to protect America from its enemies both from inside and outside.

I'm sure you won't agree with all of my wishes and
these wishes are not listed in importance but thought you might want to add to them.

An American

beloved,

I've thought my wishes over and would change the Unions to read:

I would get rid of corrupt Union leaders and rewrite the law to stop unions from giving their member's dues to buyoff political parties and going into corrupt union bosses' pockets, etc., etc.

I would have a short Presidential and Congressional election of 6 weeks maximum with a small, specific amount of money to be spent by each candidate.

I don't know what to do about the liberal media...because I believe in free speech...but I wouldn't allow the government to susidize PBS, etc...Any more ideas?

I would limit the House and Senate service to 6 years maximum.

Congressmen would no longer be supported for life but would be rewarded for the years served.

I would reduce the government payroll and workers by 40%.

I would finish the fence between Mexico and the US and put the Nat. Guard on duty there.

I would round up and identify all illegal aliens. Give them green cards that would be processed and followed carefully. Would have them send all dependents back to Mexico.

The country I would give the most aid to would be Mexico, our closest and neediest neighbor. I would try to only give aid for catastrophic events, either natural or man made. I would not prop up other governments and their politicans with US taxpayer's money.

I would imprison all gang members and throw away the keys. Crime would probably go down by 65%.

I would bring back the death penalty for murderers and pedophiles. And use it within 2 years. With DNA, we now know who is innocent or guilty of heinous crimes. If there were no DNA or witnesses...no death penalty...just life.

I would reopen Guantanamo.

I would give all the far left county, state, federal and Supreme Court judges walking papers.

I realize that many of my wishes would not pass our Constitution but I believe that some very intelligent devious men have undermined the Constitution to a degree.

It helps me somehow to dream of what could have been instead of the harsh reality we now face.

beloved

Nice list…You cover many issues.

End union extortion, yessss….Term limits, yesssss, caps on all government salaries and end lifetime benefits, yesssssss….add this to the list: gov't workers pay social security taxes…

cut the size of government by 40%...why just forty? Let's give them a severe hair cut...a Mohawk.

These ideas are constitutional.

What to do about the media? It is happening. Leftie news is losing profits because nobody is listening to them. Lefties blame the right. The Lefties' other explanation for failure is the advent of the internet, but that is nonsensical. Cable and Radio news has gained even as the internet rose. But, whining MSM may be right in one sense; the internet has helped expose the MSM. David Horowitz at Front Page Magazine has a website you might be interested in. Knowledge is power. Speaking of which, you didn't mention lefties entrenched in education and popular culture.

About Nat'l Guard...How fair is it to force border states to defend the rest of the states from illegal immigration? Those states take on the burden by themselves. Maybe we can contribute federal money to each state militia along the borders. I would not mind state soldiers defending our borders. I mean, the US is still guarding South Korea.

About illegals, we should definitely change the law about babies born on our soil are automatically citizens. Some illegals are going home since the economy turned down. But, they may come back for the trillions the US government is dropping from the sky. They will compete with Congressional rats. I favor a fence and changing that baby citizenship law.

About aid…Mexico loves you. They would agree. Did you suggest aid to Mexico as an answer to illegal immigration? Mexico has a bigger problem than we do with illegal immigration. South and Middle Americans travel through Mexico to come to the US. I agree with you that we give too much away. You know that food aid to Africa that Captain Phillips was delivering? Food aid undermines free markets. Besides that, we risk enriching tyrants.

States already have the right to establish a death penalty and punish pedophiles. You must come from a liberal state dominated by socialists.

About Guantanamo, we should give each prisoner back to the nation who originally captured them, and take care of only those prisoners that the US captured. Bush is right about Guantanamo.

ARGH! The Supreme Court. The best we can do in this area is take local elections and appointees for judges more seriously. A strange fact emerged at the last election. A suspicious number of judges have names that begin with A, B, and C. The judges are listed on a ballot alphabetically and voters do not know anything about the judges when they vote. They pick the first or second name on the ballot. Turning the Supreme Court around will take years. Public pressure helps.

You could always start a blog about these issues.

I would add no bailouts, lower spending, cut taxes on business and the "rich," FAIR Tax, end taxpayer support of abortions, DRILL, DRILL, DRILL, and stop obstructing nuclear power plants. I also want an investigation of Fannie and Freddie and Pelosi et al to be tarred and feathered.

See you at the Tea Party!!!

An American

beloved,

My list was tooo long, I think you missed part of it. I did mention a flat Tax as number one, and increasing nuclear, oil and coal production.

Also mentioned liberals taking over our schools but I didn't have a real solution. It would take decades to take back our schools.

Good points on the media...it is committing slow suicide. I do worry that Obama and cronies will try to take control of the internet.

You are right about judges..I vote for just the few I know something about and not the rest because I don't know their records. It's hard to find information on them except what the lawyer's guild recommends and we all know we can't believe lawyers/politicians.

Agree on not spending federal money on abortions. I find it strange that it's the liberals that are aborting their babies and encouraging others to abort theirs. They'll protest for days outside a prison to save a mass murderer but kill an innocent vulnerable baby...

Agree on an investigation of FM and FM that would force Pelosie, Frank, etc. out. Will they ever do a survey on Pelosie's popularity...would love to see those results.

My point on Mexico is that, if we are going to give any assistance to a country, it should be Mexico first, since Mexicans are crossing into the US illegally for work. I agree with you that we should stop most aid because it just goes into crooked politican's and despot's pockets. I live in a state bordering Mexico and we are being invaded because Mexicans are so desperate. Unfortunately, Mexicans are going to turn to Communism shortly which will be bad news for the US. I predict we'll have another Cuba on a bigger scale.

Agree on the baby-citizen law.

Our New Mexican governor just signed away our death penalty recently. I imagine our serious crimes will go up...we already have a large hispanic gang-drugs problem...I imagine they will be murdering each other in larger numbers now since they've been given the green light.

Sorry my list was so long...too bad we can't change things for the better for our wonderful country.