Relinquishing our sovereignty
That’s My Opinion
By Bob Robinson
Oct. 1, 2010
“Justice will be served and the battle will raise. This big dog will bite when you rattle his cage. You’ll be sorry you messed with the U S of A… we’ll put a boot in your ass, it’s the American way…
“Hey Uncle Sam put your name at the top of his list and the Statue of Liberty started shaking her fist, and the eagle will fly and its going to be hell when you hear Mother Freedom start ringing her bell and it’ll feel like the whole wide world is raining down on you…
I have a “play list” that I listen to while I drive between Greenville and Edison Community College in Piqua. I teach four classes, each of them at separate times during the day and week. Lots of driving time. The list includes Toby Keith’s Red, White and Blue and Lee Greenwood’s Proud to be an American.
In the last few weeks I’ve had reason to search these out and play them multiple times. My goal? Try to get my blood pressure down.
I’m furious over the Obama administration refusing to do anything about the carnage that is flowing across our borders from the Mexican cartel drug wars. Gunfire has crossed the border at El Paso. Parts of Arizona have warnings for American citizens to stay clear…
And Americans have died!!
This has been going on for months, but Obama and his Secretary of Defense will not help Texas protect its citizens. And his administration has had the audacity to file suit against Arizona for attempting to enforce the federal laws that it ignores.
But now his true ineptitude regarding our national security has come to light.
Bob Woodward talks about Obama sticking a “gun to the head” of Defense Secretary Robert Gates. He decided to send 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, not the 40,000 that his four top military officials said were needed.
Woodward said that Obama told Gates that he had to support this asinine plan or Obama was going to go with “what he described to Gates as a ‘hope for the best’ plan of ‘10,000 trainers,’ under which Afghanistan would almost certainly be lost to the Taliban.”
Telling the enemy exactly when we plan to “bail” is equally asinine.
Former Pres. Bill Clinton’s senior military aide, retired USAF Lt. Col. Robert “Buzz” Patterson told Newsmax that an Obama fundraiser and close acquaintance, Jodie Evans, co-founded a radical anti-military group CODEPINK, that raised more than $600,000 for the insurgents in Iraq.
In 2005 she personally delivered that money to the people who were killing U.S. Marines! She’s been his guest in the White House; she should be in a federal prison!
Patterson also noted that Obama’s push to repeal the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy is an attempt to “socially engineer” the military at a time when we’re fighting a war. He said as much as 25 percent of our armed forces will leave the military if he succeeds.
Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, LTG Douglas Lute, told Redstate.com that while he was stunned by some of the Woodward revelations recently published by the Washington Post, he wasn’t surprised.
“That a feckless and un-serious man when elected president would pursue a war in a feckless and un-serious way should surprise no one,” he said. “What has left me stunned is the fact that Obama never seriously considered whether winning the war in Afghanistan (or sealing the victory in Iraq) was in the national interests of the United States.”
Finally, Dick Morris reported that Obama told Woodward "we can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever... we absorbed it and we are stronger."
My God! Is he really that cold about lost American lives?
If he believes we can “absorb” another attack, why would he do everything possible to prevent it?
Morris added that Obama is incredibly naïve if he thinks the next attack will be comparable to 9/11.
“The next attack is not likely to be another 9/11,” he said. “It is far more probable that it would be a dirty bomb or even a nuclear device or some other weapon of mass destruction, dwarfing the casualties of 9/11.”
Not only is Obama inept and leading our country to economic disaster, his values go against everything our country has stood for since 1776.
Did we know this in 2008? Would it have made a difference? I doubt it. He’s great at campaigning!
Toby Keith’s song meant something two years ago. Today it means nothing.
We’ve made mistakes; I’ve often disagreed with our leadership. Sometimes vehemently. But I’ve only been ashamed of my country twice in my life… when we treated our Vietnam vets like dirt, and when we elected a man who would relinquish our sovereignty, and safety, to a bunch of thugs.
That’s my opinion. What’s yours?
Bob Robinson is the retired editor of The Daily Advocate, Greenville, Ohio. If you wish to receive a daily notification of his comments, opinions and reports, send your email address to: opinionsbybob@gmail.com. Feel free to express your views.
2 comments:
ok Bob. you have my attention. You, and others, need to get over your ongoing dislike of current Presidents.
President Obama is no more at fault for our ountries difficulties than his many predecessors. Each has shared in creating our troubles. HOW? Primarily by continuing to sign in to law many, many, bad acts of congress. You refer to troop levels in Afghanistan and Vietnam. OK, but many presidents failed to stand up to congress and big business during the Vietnam era, and many have failed in the same area for our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. IN fact, the USA trained and funded the beginnings of Al-Qaeda back when the Russians were involved in Afghanistan. So ............ let us get over blaming current Presidents for all the errors of our past and get on with voting a congress which will enact laws in support of our populations.
Yo, Charlie. As always your points are well taken, and I can't (won't) argue with any presented here. I have blamed every president in the past for equally bad judgment and will continue to do so with this one, and any future one as long as I'm around to do it. As far as Congress is concerned, we are hopefully doing just that... and they will be taken to task if they go astray.
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