Bill, I read your books and listen to your show occasionally, but I think you are going a bit far in your efforts to be fair. Of course, we should not hate Obama the man, as that is not the Christian thing to do. However, we are taught to hate sin, which here could more aptly mean deliberately misleading policies to force America into socialism while muzzling and persecuting those who disagree with his radical agenda. I ask you,sir, can you defend his policies with a straight face, and tell me you agree with where he is wanting to take our country? If you can, you are not a conservative, nor a republican. I do not care if Obama is a  nice guy and means well, and really, REALLY, believes he is right. So did Hitler and all the other fascists throughout history. The proof is in the pudding, my grandpa always said, and what Obama is doing to this country through his policies, nominations, and budgetary shennanigans is to make us into a parody of the European socialist states. I say parody because their masses are sheep ready and willing to be fleeced by the government as long as they get their handouts, while our citizens are buying enough guns and ammo in the last year to literally arm both the Chinese and Indian standing armies. Somehow, I do not think these freedom loving patriots are doing this because they are in agreement with the Obamination our great land is becoming. Quit being an apologist for Obama, and stand up for what is right. Our president is worthy of the respect due the office, yes, and a fair chance to see what he intends for the nation. But..., after 100 days of his madness, I think any sane and objective observer can plainly tell where his path for us leads. One last question, Bill: I know you grew up in a fairly rough neighborhood, where liars and pantywaists did not thrive. How well would it have gone over if you walked around telling all who would listen how ashamed you were of being Irish, and told everybody the best ways to whip you and badmouthing all your friends who might otherwise protect you (you know, leaking national security memos, refusing to back up our allies, that sort of thing)? Your mortal life would have been measured in minutes, if even that long.  That is Obama's foreign policy in a nutshell, and you gave him a "C"??!!! The very best I can say about the man is that he is incompetent and unqualified for the job, and it goes downhill from there.

I want to ask a serious question: at what point do the depredations of the Government rise to the level that requires the use of armed force against its tyranny?
    The point must certainly be reached while we still have will and weapons to resist therewith, but really, how does the average citizen know that it is time to "root hog or die"? I hate the way things are going, but am enough of a student of history to know that it has been worse in America's history regarding Socialism and fascism masquerading as the law of the land, and we did not need armed rebellion to balance the scales.
   The real unknown is if the Obamites ( well, actually after seeing who was really in charge of the stimulus bill I ought to say the "Pelosites" aka, parasites) can pass enough laws to muzzle and outlaw free speech, freedom of assembly, religion, etc., so that when they do the gun grabbing nobody can effectively organize a resistance.
    I am not being alarmist here, just practical, because if there is not a plan for an almost certain Europeanization of our gun laws and personal freedoms, we are going to have to our heads handed to us, just like Hillary did, by Mr. Hope and Change.
      Remember, armed rebellion against tyranny is a constitutional right, and the only reason we even have a nation of our own.
     If we are not willing to risk our lives, liberty and sacred honor to defend freedom, we deserve what we get.

     Talk about losing money! We, the public, have just been alerted to the fact that the real reason  for all the panic and doom  in the credit markets was somebody got the keys to the national ATM and tried to suck us dry. That  the Fed stopped it  by basically pulling the plug on the whole system kept it from being a complete disaster to the tune of 5.5 trillion dollars flushed down the drain and Sayonara to the world economic system as we know it, is a Good Thing.
      I feel safe now......
    Oh, and by the way, it happened almost 5 months ago, and nobody thought it was important enough to tell us about. Might have kept Obama out of office, eh?  Everybody in the MSM would have blamed Bush anyway, so why sit on the news?
That is the sticky question I am wondering about , is who besides Obama stood to profit from trying to destroy the money market system, and more to the point, why has there been no investigations on this that John Q. Public  is aware of? I had always thought it a bit fishy that bad mortgages could induce the level of fear and panic we saw in Bush and the Treasury scions  in September, and now that we have been told the possibility of a 5.5 trillion run on the money markets  in the course of a few hours being averted and ONLY losing  550 billion, well, that explains a lot.
    The only single country with those kind of foreign currency reserves to withdraw is China, and it does not make sense for it to cut it's own economic throat..., the one thing China's communist regime is not is rash. So that leaves a cyber-attack on a very large scale (and you thought China hacking the Pentagon was big!), or a multinational joint effort to destroy the world economy (think New World Order, Trilateral Commission kind of thoughts), which would also explain why we have not heard about where the money went: The Fed might not know. I am not sure what bothers me more, them not telling us, or the possibility that some organization could have vacuumed our whole monetary system out of existence (along with the world economy) and we  not know who did it. 
    I do not care how sophisticated the methods, a two hour window and that amount of withdrawals is going to leave a superhighway of a trail to somewhere.Think about tracing a cell phone, except a million times bigger. 
   Oh, there is something that makes me even more enraged....,  Reid and Pelosi ( not to mention Spector, Collins, and Snowe) knew all this about the money market  crisis in Sept., and the best they can do as patriotic Americans is give us Obama and  $800 billion more of liberal pork!
   Capital punishment for traitorous politicians should make a swift comeback, along the lines of what the British did to traitors in the War of Independence. Look it up, it was quite brutal, but hey, recidivism was not a problem.
    Maybe we could even get some competence in Washington if we quartered, choked, boiled and hung traitors, but on second thought, unless the new politicians were also moral and honorable, competency would be even worse than what we have. Think about what the Dems could accomplish with their political  trifecta of House, Senate, and Presidency   if they were truly competent, and give thanks to God that they have idiots like Reid and Pelosi to lead them!

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While I do not agree with all Pat writes, as I am not an isolationist, his analysis of Obama's speech has much merit. Consider, if you will, the kind of things Obama COULD have said, indeed were said by many prominent Democrats, and you get a feeling of maturity. Pelosi said her favorite part  of the event was Bush leaving on the helicopter and it felt "like a 10 pound anvil lifting off her head."
Others made childish chants and disrespectful gestures towards the outgoing president. Obama could have gotten up and reaffirmed to DailyKos and Moveon that he was, indeed, their man and given an Ayers type speech about how bad America is (the US makes  Ayers want to puke, but he is stuck in the US as news today said that Canada denied him entrance as too big of a security risk! Wish I could have seen that, but I digress) Obama made the type of speech no one would have expected during the primary, and one, incidentally, that would have kept him from getting all the fringe left votes necessary for him to win.
Of course he is liberalizing abortion funding and espousing gay rights: He believes in those things, and is acting consistent with his beliefs. While I do not agree with him, I expect nothing less of him.
You will note, however, that there were no calls to see Amadinejad without preconditions or any such campaign tripe. Obama will be known as the Pragmatic President, to the dismay of both the Left and Right. The left is going to be sorely disappointed in its more moonbat desires, and the Right will find most of its talking points co-opted into Obama's policies.
Unless Republicans can come up with another Contract with America, and another Newt to run with it, we are going to be a very marginalized party ( even tho I do have hope for Congressional gains in 2010 as the Dems there are feckless and have no control of their liberal impulses). The implosion of the Democrats is not going to come from the White House this time.

Ahhhh. Chicago! Gangsters, druggies, rappers, 8-mile road, convicted felons, politicians (but I repeat myself), and the ONE, even Obama or as Jonah put it, "hero-saint light-worker Jedi Knight Messiah that he is..., who can pick up manure from the clean end". How he can be elected in Daley's wonderland and remain clean is like expecting a girl at one of Nevada's "ranches" to be a virgin, it just defies logic and common sense. Yet, most of what the MSM passes for news these days has no relation to common sense either, being more like the dirty end of manure. Once the bulldog gets through with the Gov'ner and running down the who did what and knew it when, I expect Libby's memory will look pretty good to all of the Democratic politicians involved in this mess. And I will wager there will be a lot more felony convictions than the one throwaway Libby had to take a fall for. Blago has no incentive to be quiet about possible Obama malfeasance  as he is tossed under the bus, for  even he cannot be stupid enough to think Obama would pardon him, altho he was stupid enough to keep making plans to sell the Senate seat after knowing his phone was wiretapped.... It will be interesting what the MSM and other news outlets come up with over the next week or two(or if the MSM even tries). Like Buchanan said today, this one is not going away, there are too many questions  unanswered. Why oh why, does a seemingly intelligent man like Obama have such bleeping bad associates? I really think he should start being judged by the company he kept. Perhaps we are too parsimonious with our blame here, though, because after all, the voters in Illinois DO keep voting for this type of scum. I think Doug Giles is right, some people really should not be allowed to vote.

I have read quite a bit on both sides of the argument about how Obama is going to govern, and I am not totally convinced even he knows. From the time he sprang onto the national stage two years ago, he has been the epitome of pragmatism. Nothing has been too large, or sacred, to "throw under the bus" if it seemed to imperil his chances to gain the Presidency. Does that mean he has no guiding star other than power, or that he is truly an astute politician, one of the most stellar practitioners of rhetorical chicanery in modern history? By the way, I do not mean the forgoing in a positive light. Obama is not a typical liberal, in that he is not wedded to any one tenet of the liberal cause, except abortion, and even then there was no real challenge to call him on it(the partial birth fiasco ran more on whether he lied, not the substance of what he was espousing). Faced with an enraged electorate, I think he would have thrown his opposition to the "born-alive" bill under the bus too. So what does this have the do with Charles' column? Just that Obama has dreams, but when they meet reality, as his "withdraw from Iraq immediately!" met the NSA daily briefings, the dreams change to pragmatism. His vision of America is probably not that shared by most Townhall readers, but his ability to effectively Change what he Hoped to...? Pragmatically, it's not gonna happen.

I too thought it very interesting that the voters would split so much on a foundational issue for the Dems, ie. gay marriage, and Obama the state but uphold traditional marriage. My family and I have been having some good conversations about whether there is still a majority of good people left in the USA, and I think the gay marriage votes give some hope in that respect. For all you history buffs out there check out the rise of Hitler and the National Socialist party in Germany to Obama's rise, down to their platform of "hope and change", economic turmoil, takeover of a major political party followed by ruthless suppression of dissent and an elimination of opposition. The time it to0k to change Germany from a basically free republic to a Socialist/Fascist dictatorship (but I repeat myself): four  years, from about 1930 to 1934. Once a nation gets to a certain point on the slippery socialist slope, the fall to the bottom comes rapidly. It has also been pointed out that there is a correlation between the morality of the people and the amount of freedom they choose to have in relation to government, or to state it differently, the more righteous the people, the less government interference in freedom and individual rights. So..., we have a lot of deluded people out there who really do not understand where Socialism leads, but still have good basic moral values. As long as good people remain in the majority there is hope to change the socialist trend, but by the very nature of Socialism, it tends to corrupt minds and morals. Did I mention that in Nazi Germany, homosexuality was widely practiced among the elites, and Christianity was banished as a public nuisance/enemy to the State? Christianity and Socialism are antithetical, and cannot  coexist peacefully.  There was an excellent post about how evangelicals gave Obama the election
http://www.idahovaluesalliance.com/news.asp?id=941  
Kind of a wakeup call,eh?