An inscrutable phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria

Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world’s largest economy, direct the world’s most powerful military, execute the world’s most consequential job?

Imagine a future historian examining Obama’s pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a “community organizer”; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote “present”); and finally an unaccomplished single term in United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions.  He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as legislator.

And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama’s “spiritual mentor”; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama’s colleague and political sponsor.  It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?

To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberaldom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass.

Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass — held to a lower standard — because of the color of his skin.  Podhoretz continues:

And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) “non-threatening,” all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?

Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon — affirmative action.  Not in the legal sense, of course.  But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.

Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back.  Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow.  Liberals don’t care if these minority students fail; liberals aren’t around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action.  Yes, racist.  Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin — that’s affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn’t racism, then nothing is.  And that is what America did to Obama.

True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be?  As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate.  All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary.  What could this breed if not the sort of empty  narcissism on display every time Obama speaks?

In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama’s oratory skills, intellect, and cool character.  Those people — conservatives included — ought now to be deeply embarrassed.  The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that’s when he has his teleprompter in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all.  Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth — it’s all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years.

And what about his character?  Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles.  Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess.  It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence.  But really, what were we to expect?  The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?

In short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job.  When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense.  It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.

But hey, at least we got to feel good about ourselves for a little while.  And really, isn’t that all that matters these days?

See also: The Era of Confronting Obama at Public Events

Update:

Author’s Note.  A lot of readers have written in asking me how I came to the conclusion that Obama was an unremarkable student and that he benefited from affirmative action.  Three reasons:

1)  As reported by The New York Sun: ”A spokesman for the university, Brian Connolly, confirmed that Mr. Obama spent two years at Columbia College and graduated in 1983 with a major in political science. He did not receive honors…”  In spite of not receiving honors as an undergrad, Obama was nevertheless admitted to Harvard Law.  Why?

2)  Obama himself has written he was a poor student as a young man.  As the Baltimore Sun reported, in:

“‘Obama’s book ‘Dreams from My Father,’….the president recalled a time in his life…when he started to drift away from the path of success. ’I had learned not to care,’ Obama wrote. ‘… Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it.’ But his mother confronted him about his behavior. ’Don’t you think you’re being a little casual about your future?” she asked him, according to the book. ‘… One of your friends was just arrested for drug possession. Your grades are slipping. You haven’t even started on your college applications.’”

3)  Most damning to me is the president’s unwillingness to make his transcripts public.  If Obama had really been a stellar student with impeccable grades as an undergrad, is there any doubt they would have been made public by now and trumpeted on the front page of the New York Times as proof of his brilliance?  To me it all adds up to affirmative action.

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Members of Congress Are the Bandits; “We the People” Are the Fools

Did you miss the horrendous story 60 Minutes broke last Sunday. If you missed it, it will be well worth your time to see  it here and now. The story shows that some members of Congress, including House leadership on both sides of the isle, are apparently engaging in insider trading. Said another way, the members of Congress are making out like bandits and “we the people” are the suckers they are stealing from by their insider trading. Insider trading by you and me would land us in prison for a long time, but it is merely another perk for members of Congress.

Kudos to CBS for this story

I know CBS NEWS has not been known for doing much hard news in the past, except for stories that cast conservatism and conservatives in a bad light, but they claim that is changing, and I, for one, am inclined to take them at their word until they prove otherwise. This video is an example of hard news that take no prisoners on the progressive or the conservative sides of the political spectrum. Kudos to the CBS show 60 Minutes for this story.

This 60 Minutes story was probably sparked by a book that touches on this subject. The book is Throw Them All Out by Peter Schweizer. Click the book title Throw Them All Out and get your own copy. The cost at the time of this writing was $15.60. (Fair warning, I will make a  shekel of two if you buy using this link to Throw Them All Out.)

Book Description:

One of the biggest scandals in American politics is waiting to explode: the full story of the inside game in Washington shows how the permanent political class enriches itself at the expense of the rest of us. Insider trading is illegal on Wall Street, yet it is routine among members of Congress. Normal individuals cannot get in on IPOs at the initial asking price, but politicians can and do routinely. The Obama administration has been able to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to its supporters, ensuring yet more campaign donations. An entire class of investors now makes all of its profits based on influence and access in Washington. Peter Schweizer has doggedly researched through mountains of financial records, tracking complicated deals and stock trades back to the timing of briefings, votes on bills, and every other point of leverage for politicians in Washington. The result is a manifesto for revolution: the Permanent Political Class must go.

We must stamp this kind of behavior. This book will provoke you and all freedom-loving Americans.

If You Haven’t Seen This Video Yet, You Need to See It Now

If you haven’t seen it yet, see it here and now. You may want to download the transcription of the show on the CBS News website here instead to read later or to read along as you watch the video.

CBS NEWS VIDEO

Should “We the People” Throw Them All Out?

There is a reason that no one should be able to use non-public information to make money with stock transactions: Such a practice creates an unlevel playing field and strips markets of credibility and fairness. There is an even better reason members of Congress should not be allowed to do so: It interferes with their ability to do their job, which is presumably to represent “we the people,” rather than represent their own selfish interests.

You would expect this sort of self-dealing from people like a Muammar Gaddafi, not members of the U.S. Congress. What makes it even worse is that this is a problem that is simple to solve. Members of Congress should do what the President does – have their assets in blind trusts so they have no ability to influence the investments they own. I hasten to add such a blind trust should be monitored by regulators to see to it that it does not engage in financial shenanigans for the benefit of its Congressional owner. Commonsense and Christian morality dictates this course of action. But since commonsense Christian morality obviously don’t work for many in the U.S. Congress, I suppose yet another law would be in order.

What do you think? Should trading on inside information be just another Congressional perk? Or do you see it my way; as common criminal activity that should be severely punished. Share your view here.

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First, here is the Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford commencement speech that has been much ballyhooed in recent days by TV’s talking heads. It is a very good speech.

I think it goes without saying that Steve Jobs was a pioneer in a league above and beyond all others as a computer communications innovator and marketer. I have admired him from afar for a long time and expect that he and his expertise will be sorely missed for sometime.

Though he made a lot of people happy with his products, I wasn’t one of them. I have yet to buy my first Apple product. Not that I haven’t wanted to buy one or two; I have, but, for a lot of reasons, I could never convince myself to buy even one of his severely overpriced products. One of these days when I have money to burn I will gladly buy an Apple something or other. I’ll have a really big pile of money before it comes to that though.

But, that’s me and then there is the rest of the world and it is the rest of the world Steve Jobs was keen on satisfying and selling, and he did a wonderful job of doing both. Add to that all the jobs he created for people and you have a wonderful force for good.  Most of the good he did came as a result of his creation of economic wealth and enjoyment for many people. He did more to spread the wealth by creating jobs for people willing to work than has been done by all  governments put together since the beginning of time.

Yes, he was a champion of the world in his field of endeavor. I sure hope he worked hard, as well, on securing his place in the sweet by-and-by. What a waste for him it would be if his by-and-by isn’t even better and more comforting than was his life.

Thanks for all the good you did in the brief time you were here, and now, Steven, I pray you will enter and rest in peace where all the saints repose. Amen.

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The War on Terror Is a War America Must Win

My two cents worth

As the anniversary of 9/11 approaches it is appropriate that “America’s War on Terror” is the subject of the latest Hillsdale College First Principles on First Fridays free webcast. No caring, patriotic American should allow this free webcast lecture, or any of others in this series, to pass them by, if at all possible.  Your fellow American patriots hope you will attend.

Now here follows your invitation from Hillsdale College:

Join Us on Friday, September 9, for Another Free Webcast!

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Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship will offer a FREE, live webcast of its next “First Principles on First Fridays” lecture.

“America’s War on Terror”

Lt. Gen. Ronald L. Burgess, Jr.

Director, Defense Intelligence Agency

Friday, September 9, 2011 · 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT

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About the Lecture

A decade after September 11, 2001, what have we learned and what changes have we made within the intelligence community to strengthen the nation’s defense intelligence efforts? With attention to the role intelligence has played in the global conflict, this presentation will salute those who help keep our country safe.

Lieutenant General Ronald L. Burgess, Jr., is Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and Commander of the Joint Functional Component Command. In a career spanning nearly 40 years, he has received numerous awards and decorations, including the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Achievement Medal, and the NATO Medal. Commissioned in Military Intelligence through the Auburn University ROTC Program, he earned a Master of Science degree in Education from the University of Southern California and a Master of Military Arts and Science from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

Funding for this month’s First Principles on First Fridays program has been provided by Mrs. Walter R. Buerger.

About the First Principles Series

This monthly lecture series, launched in December 2008, addresses significant and timely political, historical, and economic topics from a constitutional perspective. Past speakers have included David Horowitz, Brian Kennedy, Paul Rahe, John Bolton, Thomas G. West, and Larry P. Arnn.  A video archive of past First Principles lectures is available here.

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Register today for the Constitution Day Celebration and “Introduction to the Constitution” webcast series!

This six-week introductory course on the U.S. Constitution is really a six-day (make that evening, if you prefer) course delivered over a period of six weeks. Not to worry, you will not be inundated with information for hours on end each of those six days. People who, for the most part are not still in school somewhere, cannot be expected to absorb too much. That is the reason this is called an “Introduction to the Constitution.” The first night will primarily be devoted to remarks by Charles Krauthammer and Congressman Paul Ryan; both of whom know something about the U.S. Constitution. The five following lectures will be delivered by Dr. Larry Arnn, and I can promise you that you will not be bored by his lectures. He is a well-known (in conservative circles, as least), excellent lecturer who knows his subject as well as anyone you will ever hear or meet.

Now, click one of these hillsdale.edu links and give yourself six interesting and worthwhile evening lectures by some easy-on-the-ears-and-posterior speakers.

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On September 15, in observance and celebration of Constitution Day, Hillsdale College will hold our second annual Constitution Day Celebration, this year featuring Congressman Paul Ryan, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer, members of the Hillsdale College faculty, and other distinguished guests.  Once you register for this event – it’s free – you’ll be able to watch all of these speeches and panels live from your home or office. Even if you are unable to watch on the day of the event, we will make all of the videos available to view in the weeks following.

Register for FREE now: constitution.hillsdale.edu

Then, for the next five weeks after our Constitution Day Celebration, we invite you back to this site for a special series of lectures, delivered by Hillsdale College President Dr. Larry Arnn, called the “Introduction to the Constitution.” Included in what we will discuss is:

* What the framers of the Constitution understood about the document they were writing, especially its fundamental principles true of human beings at all times and in all places;
* Why the fundamental features of the American Constitution are representation and separation of powers;
* Why the key to a republican form of government is the vibrancy, size and independence of this private society.
This program will serve as the basis for future educational programs on Constitution and related topics, including a more complete Online Constitution Class, of which this series will serve as a basis. We will be asking for your participation and feedback along the way to help us improve our efforts.

Register for “Introduction to the Constitution”

Please share this information with others – your friends, family, and colleagues who, like you, understand the vital need for restoring an understanding and love of the Constitution in our great nation.

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“The religion that the Prophet Muhammad preached provided his followers an ethical and moral vision for leading a life of righteousness?” Perry/Khan curriculum.

The follow article will makes a person wonder. This article, which appeared on the Big Government blog,  caught my eye regarding one of my favorites in the 2012 presidential sweepstakes:

All traces of Perry/Aga Khan curriculum removed from web

In this post I [the author, not yours truly] included numerous links to the Rick Perry/Aga Khan Islamic curriculum for Texas public schools. The links were to the Google cache of the curriculum material, because several days ago, after we began calling attention to it, the curriculum was taken offline. Accordingly I wrote in that post:

One very odd thing about the Aga Khan/Perry curriculum: since this whole brouhaha started, it has been taken offline. It is now available only in cached form here. Why was it taken down? Was the Perry camp embarrassed by the material that Pamela Geller published here, showing it to be a whitewash of Islamic teaching and history? Or was it taken down because it really is, as Ace says, so “biased against Muslims it will reinforce perceptions [Perry] is some kind of rootin’-tootin’ six-gun shooting cowboy yahoo”?

Is either option favorable to Perry? If it was taken down because it’s a dhimmi whitewash, Perry is tacitly admitting that our criticisms of him were right, and those evaluating Perry should be concerned about his naivete in dealing with the Aga Khan. If it was taken down because it was too honest about Islam and will thus hurt Perry with the dhimmi/Norquist faction of the GOP, Perry is again tacitly admitting that our criticisms of him were right: he is not able or willing to stand up to Norquist and his Islamic supremacist allies. So which is it? What are they hiding? And does it matter? Either way, the deep-sixing of the curriculum proves that we were right about Perry all along.

Continue reading this Big Government blog article here.…

Does Rick Perry Deserves a Closer Look

I hope you will continue reading the rest of  this article. Look, if you are like me, you have liked what you have seen and heard of Rick Perry so far. But, I thought from the beginning that unless we want another hidden pig-in-a-poke taking the whelm of the presidency, we need to look behind the scenes of the always less than incisive reporting of the news media, including my favorite Fox News, and decide for ourselves which of the  presidential candidates best fills our bill of particulars for the next president of the United States.  Having said that, these charges merit close scrutiny and the links in this story will give you some guidance for doing that very thing.

Rick Perry is my pick

Despite all the hoopla being raised about his fitness as a conservative hopeful, Rick Perry remains my pick of those currently in the running or trying to be in the running.

Prospective presidential candidates are put through a grueling marathon to test their resolve and fitness

People seeking to be the presidential candidate of the political party out of power are put through a grueling year or two long marathon race, that tests their resolve and fitness for the office. This marathon much like, though much longer than, the seasonal marathon baseball teams are put through to see which two teams will play in the World Series to decide the world championship. ¹ In such a long contest there is plenty of time for candidates to shoot themselves in the foot and find it best to leave the race, and there is plenty of time for we the people, with the aid of good, unbiased news reporters, to determine who the best candidate is.

A good news reporter is hard to find

It’s that “with the aid of good, unbiased news reporters” part that often fails us. We have to recognize that and make allowances for those reporters we think biased. It isn’t usually very hard to see which are biased and what their biases are. The ability to see through biased reporting is something that comes to some people and never seems to come to others. Usually, the more logical and mature people are the more reliable judges of the character bona fides of the various reporters covering the presidential candidates.

Life ain’t a bowl of cheers

Life isn’t easy and it is not going to change, so get used to it. Just do your very best and that will have be good enough. Even the dumbest among us knows what they want better than does the smartest, most gracious politician. That is why we decide who best represents what we want in a politician.

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What have we learned about economics in tw0 thousand plus years

Back then they already knew:

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance

Question: Who said this and when did they say it?

Answer: Cicero, in 55 BC

Question: What have we learned since?

Answer: Evidently nothing!

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School Choice is coming soon to a School District near you

See Reason.tv video interview below featuring Dick Morse at FreedomFest 2011 in Las Vegas NV on how School Choice is gaining ground throughout the United States.

School Choice is now statewide in:

• Arizona
• Indiana
• Ohio.

It is also available in the parts of other states:

• the Memphis area of my home state, State of Tennessee
• Milwaukee area in Wisconsin
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Denver, Colorado.

If you don’t already have it, it is time for you to tell your State legislators that you want school choice in your state now.

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Some 800 numbers are bad for your economic health mainly because they take away jobs Americans could be holding.

The following is an email I received from a friend. I have taken some liberties with it to suit my needs.

Any time you call an 800 number to contact a credit card company, your banking or insurance, company, or some kind help desk, and you find that you’re talking to a foreign customer service representative—perhaps in India or Philippines, or some other country—please consider doing the following:

After you connect and you realize that the customer service representative is not from the U.S.A (you can always ask if you are not sure about the accent), please, very politely (this is not about trashing other cultures) say, “I’d like to speak to a customer service representative in the United States of America.”

The representative may suggest talking to his/her manager, but politely say, “Thank you, but I’d like to speak to a customer service representative in the U.S.A.” YOU WILL BE IMMEDIATELY CONNECTED TO A REPRESENTATIVE  IN THE U.S.A. That’s the rule and the LAW.

It takes less than one minute to have your call re-directed to the U.S.A. Tonight when I got redirected to a U.S.A rep, I asked again to make sure—and yes, she was from Fort Lauderdale.

Imagine what would happen if every U.S. citizen insisted on talking to only U.S. phone reps from this day on. Imagine how that would ultimately impact the number of U.S. jobs that would need to be created ASAP. If I tell 10 people to consider this and you tell 10 people to consider doing this—see what I mean… it becomes an exercise in viral marketing 101.

Remember—the goal here is to restore jobs back here at home—not to be abrupt or rude to a foreign phone rep. You may even get correct answers, good advice, and solutions to your problem—in real English.

If you agree, please tell 10 people you know, and ask them to tell 10 people they know… etc.… etc.

What this email counsels us to do when we call an 800 number and we hear a foreign accent on the other end of the line is very good. Try it next time you get a person somewhere in the Far East or anywhere outside the United States, try it. You may save an American job.

Be a patriot; save a job for America.

There is no legal job an American will not do, if the money is commensurate with the needs of the job.

Get rid of every last illegal alien in the U.S.A. and get rid of the minimum wage laws, and you might be surprised at how quickly we no longer have a low wage problem or an unemployment problem in America. It will be just like the 50s all over again. One person will be able to support a family in better style than two people working can now.

There is a lot more stupid Federal Government programs and regulations to get rid of, but a good place to start is to get all Americans back to work at a good wage.

There is a small college up in Michigan that refuses all assistant from the U.S. Government. You may already know about it. It is Hillsdale College. Maybe you already know about its free monthly publication Imprimis.

Here is a small clipping from this month’s edition of Imprimis. The article is entitled The Right to Work: A Fundamental Freedom and is a very good in-depth essay of the problems we are facing in the United States in getting Americans back to work.

From 2000 to 2010, real personal income grew by an averages of 24.3 percent in the 22 right-to-work states, more than double the rate for the others 28 as a group.… In 2009, there were 20 percent more 25- to 34-year-olds in right-to-work states.

I think that little clip is a good note to end this piece on, however, you may click here to read the complete article.

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The Founding Fathers got it right from the beginning

George Washington, and the other founding fathers of our republic, got it right from the beginning in saying the United States should mind its own business and never interfere in the internal affairs another nation. And, they said, we should never attack another nation, unless it is in our vital interests to do so, or join in the wars of other nations.

The Constitution allows Congress to grant Letters of Marque

Soon after the Continental Congress ratified the Constitution of the United States, which under Article I § 8., authorized Congress “To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal… the effect of which was to give Congress the power to declare war, and grant license to private vessels and armies to attack the enemy in order to avoid or avenge injuries to the United States. Letters of Marque and Reprisal have been a part of English Common Law since 1354.

In his recent article Is Tribalism the Future?, Patrick J. Buchanan gives us an excellent analysis of why our government should never be in the business of nation building. He said this is true because we have little or no idea of the internal make up and workings of other nations; therefore, we can have no idea of the consequences that will result from our interference.

We know little to nothing of other nations, so we should quit meddling

It reasonable to say this is especially true in the case of countries in the Middle-East that have been cobbled together to suit the whims of their former colonizers. This total lack of knowledge has been manifested by the outcome of every skirmish, conflict, and out-and-out war we have engaged in, in the 20th century and so far in the 21st.

The Lord God has shown us to be meddling muddleheaded bunglers and hatemongers time and again

Consider the consequences of our joining the “great” war that was to become known as  WWI or the War to End All Wars, as it was known at the time. That war unleashed a monster on the world that arose from the ruins of its aftermath before they could be repaired or rebuilt, and before the economy of the conquered could be healed—not that the economy of the conquered was likely to be healed soon, or ever for that matter.  Such were the consequences of the damages inflicted by the allies on the conquered. Incidentally, it was France and the American Henry Morgenthau, Sr., which led the fight to make the consequences of that war as draconian, ruinous, and hateful as possible. The effect of this hatefulness was the cause of WWII.

I would add that hatefulness, which was so atypical of the America we believe in represented perhaps the most demeaning moment in American history.

Had we—the United States of America—been forced to suffer under the weight of such draconian, ruinous, and hateful damages as did the Germans after WWI, what do you think our response would have been had a politician, who acted and spoke with the mesmerizing power of a great, charismatic leader, come to us and promised:

• I will put a potato on every pot.
• I will fill your bellies.
• I will provide jobs with a living wage.
• I will cloth you with work uniforms.
• I will build roads.
• I will rebuild our factories and make them better.
• I will give you jobs that provide a living wage.

If, in keeping those promises, he:

• Provided not just one potato for every pot, but filled every pot with potatoes.
• Filled our bellies with good, nourishing, tasty food.
• Created jobs for everyone with wages that made luxuries affordable.
• Clothed us with fine garments fit for all occasions.
• Built the first national freeway system in the world.
• Rebuilt our factories and  built affordable automobiles called people’s cars.

I wonder how we would have responded? I suspect that we would have said, “Heil Hitler (or hail Obama, or whomever),” which, of course, is exactly how the Germans responded after Hitler started delivering many fold on his promises.

See why America should mind its own business?

This is just one example of how wrong headed it is for us when we join in the wars of other nations and meddle in their affairs. The most lasting legacy of WWI was WWII. Had we not joined in the fight of WWI, WWII would likely not have come to pass, and we and the world would be the richer for it. It will serve us right and show us in a good light to ourselves and to the rest of the world, if in the future we simply mind our own business henceforth. We seem to have enough trouble here at home to keep us busy for a long, long time to come. Let us get our own house in order and let others do the same.

I str0ngly suggest anyone who has read this far to read the comments that follow. Reading the comments related to this article is much more important than usual, although reading the comments is always a worthwhile thing to do.

What do you think? Agree or disagree, give the rest of us the benefit of your considered thoughts.

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