The American Tsunami A Fig Leaf President

Last week the Japanese people began to experience a one-two punch, an earthquake of incredible magnitude and an epic tsunami, that will bring them to their social, political and economic knees. At the same time the American people are experiencing a foreign policy calamity that will have a moral and political ruinous effect upon generations to come.

Television, radio and cable news is filled with calamitous stories concerning the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last week. The cable news stories have concentrated their lenses on the 3 nuclear power facilities fanning the excitement by predicting that a meltdown is all but inevitable. All this is occurring while talking heads from MIT and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission are trying in vain to calm the waters. They are wasting their time.

And while Americans are riveted on possible but fairly improbable concentrated radiation drifting over to the West Coast, Col. Muammar Gaddafi is beating the hell out of the rebels that have dared to challenge his authority. The battle for Libya is into its fourth week and the Gaddafi government, with the help of a reluctant and ambivalent America, is slowly but relentlessly, with tanks, helicopters and aircraft, each day destroying the momentum of the rebellion.

President Obama looks to the United Nations and NATO, organizations that forever have shown an unwillingness to engage any government or gang, for that matter, that will require even one soldier, one sailor, a tank, a plane, anything that would allow those who harbor aspirational hopes, who cry for freedom and are willing to die for it, to win. President Obama relied on the corruption of the U.N. and the dithering of NATO since he knew that these two feckless organizations would never accede to a no fly zone or provide military assistance to the rebels. They did however provide what he believes is the fig leaf to suppress America’s world leadership role, the role he campaigned against.

So finally this American president has accomplished what no American president has ever accomplished before: The end of American hegemony which shall result as a message to every ruthless dictator on this earth that if you do not hesitate to kill your people in the street you have nothing to fear. And for those nations and peoples that wish to maintain their freedom, they are on their own.

The Bush Policy Doctrine

The Middle East is on fire. And it is no surprise that Barack Obama, one of the most naïve, inexperienced presidents this country has ever had in a century seems flummoxed and completely lost as to how to respond to this international calamity.

This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.

Today headlines throughout the nation’s newspapers tell of the horrific events transpiring throughout the Middle East. We are now being told that the Libyan air force, upon the orders of its strongman, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi is dropping bombs upon protestors in its capital Tripoli. There is a strong belief that in one of most oil rich nations of the world a civil war is breaking out with police in Benghazi shooting at soldiers who were firing upon protestors. It would be unfair of any of us to blame President Obama for the events that have developed in Bahrain, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, yes even Iran. In fact if there was one country that we could give President Obama any credit it is what is now happening in Iran, in spite of his wrong-headed strategy when the protests first occurred in June of 2009. Throughout all of this President Obama reveals a certain awkwardness in addressing these monumental matters. Let’s not forget these events are occurring in the most oil rich region in the world and will have a direct adverse effect on our already shaky economy.

I am not saying that much of this could have been avoided. What we are observing in the Middle East is decades of continuing blunders of many administrations. President Obama for the first time would be right to say he inherited a can of worms. However I have no sympathy for this demagogue in the White House in that he demeaned the very doctrine which today could provide the American people some direction in what is clearly an administration which is 3 sheets to the wind, namely the Bush Doctrine. For years, while a small time politician in Chicago and as a newly minted U.S. Senator Barack Obama criticized President Bush’s attempt to begin to clarify America’s role in forging democracies throughout the world. Years ago President Bush said, “Concerned nations must remain actively engaged in critical regional disputes to avoid explosive escalation and minimize human suffering. When violence erupts and states falter, the United States will work with friends and partners to alleviate suffering and restore stability.” Amen to that. And wouldn’t the American people be proud if you, Mr. President, had adopted this Doctrine long before today’s terrible events.

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Progressive Socialist Barack Obama

“Sticks and stones can break my bones but names can never hurt me.” That was true when I was a kid growing up in Ozone Park but that’s not going to be true for President Barak Obama when he runs for re-election in 2012.

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When it comes to politics names can be very important. For example, try running for public office on the Upper Westside in Manhattan with a sign that identifies you as a Republican. You just might get home alive. Voters on the Upper Westside identify themselves as progressives. This was the name Henry Wallace, an undeconstructed Socialist, gave to his party when he ran for President in 1948 against Harry Truman. I want you to appreciate that even though there were a lot of Socialist sympathizers in America at that time, especially on the Upper Westside, there was no way Wallace could even get enough petitions to get on the ballot if he called himself what he really was, a Socialist. And I’m being kind.

Or take George McGovern, he received the nomination from the Democratic Party in 1972 when he ran against Richard Nixon. McGovern was a delegate to Wallace’s Socialist Party, oops, I forgot, Progressive Party in 1948. However by 1972 no one running for public office wanted to be called a progressive, including McGovern, since that would mean you’re a Socialist. Oh yes, names are very important.

Now in the 2008 presidential campaign Barak Obama wiggled and waggled. He too gave himself the name of Progressive along with Hillary Clinton. Now the voters who lived on the Upper Westside knew exactly what that meant. But the rest of the electorate was clueless, especially the starry-eyed, twitterers below the age of 30. To them the name Henry Wallace could be a companion beer to Sam Adams for all they knew.

So where does all take us? Well it takes us to the subject of who or what Barack Obama really is. And those chumps who get their underwear in a twist about whether he was born in the United States are really being distracted from the important fact: President Barak Obama is exactly what he names himself, a progressive or what the Upper Westsiders know him to be, a Henry Wallace Socialist.

This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.

Obama Selling NYSE

Yesterday, President Obama sent over to the House of Representatives his 2012 budget. The budget is based on the Socialist belief that as long as you keep providing the American people with benefits, no matter the consequences, they won’t squeal.

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President Obama’s 2012 budget anticipates serious increases in taxes over the next 10 years but does not address the entitlements of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. So according to the Obama budget by year 2020 the American people will for the first time address how we are going to deal with 60% of current spending. Does this bore you? Well that’s exactly what President Obama wants to do. His hope is that after listening to him and the Republicans in the House the American people will finally throw up their hands and turn to more mundane matters, like how to find a job. The trouble is that President Obama’s budget is directly tied to unemployment. As long as his theory of government is to impose more taxes on individuals and companies the chances of reducing unemployment become less.

It wasn’t by coincidence that yesterday it was also announced that a German bank was considering purchasing the NYSE. Yes, the NYSE, the symbol of America’s financial prowess is being purchased by a company whose country we happened to have beaten to a pulp 55 years ago. You would think this is a wake-up call to all Americans that we better start dealing with our fiscal problems. President Obama, the Socialist is betting otherwise.

This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.

POW’s Should Stay That Way

“The very point of war is to use force, guided by intelligence, to prevent the enemy from carrying out future attacks.” So says John Yoo, currently a law professor at Berkley and a former Justice Department official. Unfortunately no matter how much we try we can’t seem to get Attorney General Eric Holder to understand this simple fact.

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Last week a Federal jury acquitted Ahmed Ghailani of charges relating to the killing of 224 people 12 of whom were Americans who were working at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He was found guilty however on one charge of conspiracy for this massive killing. Last year when Attorney General Holder was asked at a Congressional committee hearing whether it was advisable to try radical Islamist terrorists under Article III of the Constitution, thereby providing them with a full panoply of Constitutional rights he responded that “Failure was no option.” Well what do you know, team Holder failed and failed big.

Now I am not one of those who believe that these terrorists, enemy combatant killers, criminals against humanity should have been tried by a military commission rather than under Article III. No. I believe they should never be tried until hostilities end between the Islamo-fascists and the West, America included.

What possesses this Administration to try these enemies as Article III defendants in the first place? During the Second World War we had hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war locked up in prisons throughout a number of our Midwestern states. There were no trials, no punishments, no demands for some type of Constitutional justice. The sole purpose was to keep them from the battlefield. After the war was over we released them. After this war is over, which could be 20 years from now, we also will release our prisoners except there may be quite a number which we should try for crimes against humanity, Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his retinue among them.

So here is my question to President Obama and Attorney General Holder: What is going on in your heads? Is it more important for you to gain some perceived good will from the likes of countries such as Iran or North Korea or Russia or China than to keep American’s safe?

It was Saul Bellow who said, “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”

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The Groucho Marx Tea Party Movement

When the husband barges into his bedroom and finds Groucho Marx in bed with his wife there is little to explain even as Groucho protests vehemently. Finally, knowing that his life may be at stake Groucho blurts out, “Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes!”

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When the Tea Party came exploding on to the American political scene in April last year pundits from the left immediately marginalized it as a kooky, racist bunch of red necks with a large space between their 2 front teeth and with not an ounce of political sophistication. Fast forward today and what we have are numerous Tea Party candidates, having won positions on Republican tickets throughout the country running against Democrats, in some cases entrenched Democrats, either leading or neck and neck in campaigns in which incumbent Democrats can’t even get above 50% in the polls.

On January 3, 2011 President Obama will be running into the brick wall of the United States Constitution, the very Constitution about which he has expressed derision, accusing it of being defective by failing to include a provision which requires the distribution of wealth. During this fall campaign the President has been going around the country claiming that the Republican Party is the party of “No” and it was the “No” of the Republican congressional representatives that stopped the necessary legislation to cure the ailing American economy by spreading the family wealth to those poor Americans who have been adversely affected by capitalism. The American people haven’t been listening and will going to the polling booths throughout the country to express their idea of the Constitution that they love and wish to preserve.

This is the Constitution that Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institute recently said contains enumerated powers; a separation, balance, and blending of these powers among branches of the federal government; and a distribution of powers between the federal and state governments which operate to leave substantial authority to the states while both preventing abuses by the federal government and providing it with the energy needed to defend liberty. That may be a mouthful but that’s what the Tea Party movement is all about. And what’s so apparent is that it doesn’t take a pinheaded law school professor to figure it out.

So who are you going to believe the President of the United States or Groucho Marx? This is the one time I’ll pick Marx.

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White, working class support for the GOP

White working class Americans have been favoring the Republican Party ever since Reagan won the presidency in 1980. Today polls show that white working class Americans favor GOP candidates in the upcoming election in November by a whopping 22 percent.

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White working class Americans constitute 40 percent of those that actually show up to vote. They are not college educated and do not consider themselves middle class. Though Democrats consider these voters one of their core constituencies they seem to be doing everything they can to alienate them. This time around, especially as a result of the high unemployment rate among those with an education level of high school or less white working class Americans sense that the Democratic Party has thrown them under the bus.

West Virginia exemplifies the white working class anger at the current unemployment rate. Polls show a dead heat for the Senatorial seat of the late Robert Byrd between Republican John Raese and Democrat Joe Manchin. Manchin is a popular governor and was thought to be a shoo-in when the race started.

Democrats have been accusing white working class voters in particular, of being racist in their criticism of blaming President Obama for the bad economy. Remember this is the group of voters they want to win over. During the campaign of 2008 for the presidency candidate Obama accused white small town residents, read white working class voters, of expressing their bitterness about their status in America by clinging to their guns and religion.

White working class Americans are very angry. They sense the party in power, the Democrats, is doing nothing about closing our borders, reducing the entry of low cost imports and creating jobs. Moreover they sense that the Democratic Party cares more about perceived racial injustice and global warming then their own economic well being. How ironic that the party Democrats claim to be made up of fat cat capitalists is the very party that the white working class is coming to believe is its savior.

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Welcome to Tyranny, USA

I strongly believe that all socialism, benign or otherwise, leads to tyranny. There is historical proof of this but something happened only last week, right here in America, that should end all further doubt.

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Over the last month health insurance companies have been warning their customers that insurance premiums will be increasing to as high a 20% due to the recent new benefit mandates included in the recently passed socialist legislation called Obamacare. These benefits include keeping children on the policy until age 26, eliminating co-payments for preventative care, providing coverage to children regardless of pre-existing medical conditions and eliminating lifetime coverage caps. We are not arguing here that these benefits are not worthy of fulfillment. However, last week Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services sent out a warning letter to the chief lobbyist to the health insurance industry that government intends to track “unjustified” rate increases. She then added this ominous threat: “There will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases. We will not stand idly by as insurers blame their premium hikes and increased profits on the requirement that they provide consumers with basic protections.”

Will someone please remind the Secretary that there is a First Amendment? And what does the good Secretary mean by “zero tolerance?” Does she intend to place CEO’s in jail if they keep jabbering to their customers? Or maybe her intention is to put those companies out of business by denying them participation in the insurance exchanges that will be coming on board in 2014 – and all of this, just for telling the truth. Well boys and girls, welcome to tyranny.

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Economic Crisis Of The Century

This week China surpassed Japan as the second largest economy in the world. In a bit more than a decade China is expected to surpass the first largest economy in the world.

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President Obama has been going around the country this month warning the American people that if they give the car keys to the Republicans in November this year they are going to drive the economy into the ditch. With the news that China surpassed Japan as the second largest economy in the world and that within 12 years it will overtake the United States, all this while the Democrats are in power, Americans are wondering that if the President is right about the Republicans – who the hell is going to drive this car and get home safely.

What we tend to forget is that there was a time when the United States was not always the largest and most dynamic economy in the world. However by the turn of the 20th century it was clear to those countries that cared about such things, Great Britain, France, Germany and Japan the U.S. was a country that had to be reckoned with. By the end of World War II in 1945 a victorious America was the last country standing and it was clear that it intended to dictate how the rest of the world was going to do business.

The financial catastrophe of October 2008 resulting in the election of a Socialist administration and Congress both of which have been responsible for the increase in debt of nearly 4 trillion dollars and 15 million unemployed has convinced Americans that the only way to address this economic disaster is to grow the economy, something Socialists know nothing about. But the American public is not too happy either with the way Republicans ran the country when they were in power. Someone is going to have to drive this car and it may be the sober teenager next door who has been drinking tea rather than liquor.

This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.

FOX News Is Running The White House

If the Shirley Sherrod case has revealed anything it is that this White House is scared as hell of FOX.

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As most Americans now know Shirley Sherrod was forced by the White House to resign from her job at the U.S. Department of Agriculture based upon a 2 minute clip of a speech that she gave before the NAACP and manipulated to have the viewer believe that she is a racist. There is no question that the White House was snookered into believing that FOX, its nemesis, was going to air the speech on the Glenn Beck Show for the purpose of showing that the White House knowingly hires black racists. The White House strategy was to get ahead of Glenn Beck, by forcing her to resign, making the Shirley Sherrod matter disappear.

The next day FOX News, for the first time, ran the story of Shirley Sherrod and in the context of her forced resignation. The mainstream media also ran the story. However it was only after that that it was revealed that the 2 minute clip was actually part of a 45 minute speech by Ms. Sherrod in which she shows herself as a person who has lived through some terrible personal racial discrimination and has come out of it both redemptive and forgiving.

But it is the White House, by its precipitous, amateurish behavior in the Sherrod case that has revealed itself to be overly sensitive to charges of racism. But why should that be? The White House, supposedly, is a bastion of liberal progressive belief, a staunch defender against racial hatred. What does it have to worry about when it comes to a conservative cable station? Well it has a lot to worry about. The White House and the liberal politicians and the liberal media have attacked conservatives as racists because of their legitimate criticism of President Obama, who, if you haven’t noticed is an African-American. The White House knows that this accusation is unfounded and nothing more than just downright demagogic name calling. When it became aware of what it thought would be an embarrassing incident making it the target of racism they acted without even a thought that Shirley Sherrod was entitled to some due process.

If the White House can’t even handle a backwater incident of minor importance like the Sherrod matter, no wonder it’s having problems with Iran, the Middle East, China, Honduras and almost every other foreign policy issue.

This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.

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