National Political Upset
Goes Back to Our Roots

          By Fred Delkin

     Dear Mr. President: America's voters are madder than hell and won't 
take it anymore!

That was the message, loud & clear, spreading across every polling place in the state where the United States was born...a message delivered by a handsome fellow with the very American name of Scott Brown...a message delivered by a Republican victor to a Democratic party that has won the national elective posts in the Bay State for generations...a message from voters that they reject the corruptive nonsense of a Democratic Congress sneaking about behind closed doors to shove unaffordable legislation down their throats...a message from voters disgusted by your last minute personal appearance denigrating Brown as a "Trucker" and your chosen candidate's sneering at Mr. Brown for standing outdoors in the winter chill shaking voters' hands in front of a ballpark symbolizing America's unique sport...a message, Mr. President, that, while you have very notable speaking skills, rhetoric is no screen for reality.

Let's list some of your achievments, Mr.President, as we mark the end of the first year of your administration:

     * offended the Queen of England
     * bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia
     * praised marxist Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega  
     * kissed Venuzuelan dictator Hugo Chavez
     * endorsed socialist Bolivian leader Evo Morales
     * sided with Chavez and Cuban dictator Fidel Castro against Honduras
     * doubled our national debt
     * announced termination of our missile defense system the day after North Korea launched an ICBM
     * released information on our intelligence gathering despite the urging of your own CIA Director and his prior four predecessors
     * accepted without comment that five of your cabinet appointments cheated on their taxes 
     * appointed a Homeland Security Chief who avoids the words "terrorist" and "terrorism"
     * circled the globe delivering public apologies for America's leadership
     * accepted the Nobel Prize with a rambling 4,000-word speech without earning it
     * blame all of America's real problems on your predecessor
     * dithered for months before weakly following your military leaders' request for additional troops in Afghanistan

And your political cohorts, Mr. President, scoffed at Ronald Reagan as a "washed up B-movie actor" who preached right-wing nonsense...the same world leader who ended the Cold War, ended the nuclear arms race, restored the American economy and told USSR's Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!".
We're wont to quote Arkansas newspaper editor Paul Greenberg, who cited  this statement by Dwight D. Eisenhower..."An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."  This seems to fit our very well (and expensively) educated President very aptly.  

And, Mr. President, it's not what you say, but what you do, that earns respect.

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