America and Russia - Comrades in ideology?

After Comrade Medvedev took the message from Comrade Obama back to Comrade Vladimir, I'm wondering what Comrade Vladimir's message from Moscow back to Comrade Obama is?

As a Public Policy Spokesman for the late President Reagan, I encouraged him to dialogue with Premier Gorbachev, believing that once inside the Russian camp we would know what they're doing and thinking. It didn't, however, include becoming one of them.

Some things never change.

Report Links CIA to Military Harsh Interrogations

April, 2009

A Senate report this week is seeking to strengthen policies of the leftist Obama Administration. As reported by Fox News, the "harsh interrogation techniques" used by the Bush Administration "directly links the CIA's interrogation program to the military's use of aggressive tactics."

There was a time when matters were not out of control, as they are today. We are seeing continued and successful attempts to discredit the CIA. Now the target of the Left has been expanded. They are infiltrating our National Security Agency. The wolf is in the hen house.

There has already been enormous damage done by the Obama administration, which will will continue. Hopefully we can endure this for only four years and return common sense to the White House and Congress by convincing his supporters of the danger they are.

Didn't you see it coming America?

WILL PRESIDENT OBAMA NOW WANT TO FINANCE CUBA?

Speaking from a meeting that "Bonito Mussolini" Chavez hosted in Venezuela, Cuba's Raul Castro said: "We have sent word to the U.S. government in private and in public that we are willing to discuss everything — human rights, freedom of the press, political prisoners, everything."

What this means, of course, is they looking for American money. Didn't Russia dump financial support of this little communist nation years ago? If Chavez loves Cuba so much, let him send Venezulean money to them.

Will President Obama emerge from these meetings with a continued focus OUTSIDE OF OUR BORDERS? Stay home Mr. President, and pay attention to the real problems in America, like halting the fleeing of capital.

It has been private enterprise that made America great. Jobs are created by capital. Socialism hasn't worked anywhere it has raised its ugly multi-headed being.

Didn't you see it coming America?

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR IT

Cleveland's left wing newspaper, the Plain Dealer, has finally said it - "Democrats fear black backlash if Obama's denied the nomination." Doesn't that have a totally negative connotation - as if he DESERVES the nomination? And what are African-Americans going to do - pull out their gun stash and attack white voters who backed Clinton or McClain?

The problem with the vast majority of American Democratic black voters, as I see it, is their narrow focus. They don't see things in black and white - they see them in black only. And vote black.

Folks, we don't live in a democracy. This is a REPUBLIC - representative government. Popular vote doesn't win elections. And black America forgets there's others who vote. And, judging from the Plain Dealer, we better vote the way black Democrats want us to vote or else.

Senator Obama initially defended his former pastor. When his campaign finally realized that middle America didn't take too kindly to the inflammatory remarks, Obama finally changed his tune. That's what chameleons do. And maybe it's why some of us don't trust him to be President.


Sullivan is an internationally published Irish-America writer residing in northeast Ohio. His website can be visited at http://jcsullivan.net/

My Fear of African-American in Political Office

We're seeing a phenomenon in American politics with the candidacy of Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama for the office of President. As individuals, I don't fear either. However, I've long thought that African-Americans (A-As)are black first and American second.

There's a joke about having Irish Alzhemers - one forgets everything except the grudge. The fact that Senator Barama does not wear the American flag in his lapel signals to me that me has a grudge - he's a member of an African-American nation and is not one of us.

Speaking of the Irish, we are proud of our Irish roots. However, I don't know any who are Irish first, American second. The majority of us came to America better equipped - we had a shirt on our back, our strong faith, and we spoke English. That's about it.

The ancestors of most Americans did not arrive on these shores as slaveholders or with gold in their pocketbook. Neither did they have the economic value that slaves had. Southeners will tell you that, in the case of the Irish, they were given the jobs that blacks wouldn't be given. Why? Slaves had value and Irish laborers did not. I've also read accounts about Civil War era slaves who were obviously better fed than the soldiers in both camps.

What could we expect from an A-A President? Let me leave that to your imagination. However, the American Left has rarely taken issues head-on. They can't win them with a direct approach. But, when they've been able to open the door to a political issue just a crack, it has then been kicked open. What would happen with an A-A President? The first thing that comes to my mind is the issue of reparations.

I'm not writing this because I'm anti-black - I'm pro-American. The big issue in the upcoming Presidential race should be about investment in America. Our national economic policies continue to force capital to flee our country as fast as water over Niagara Falls. What is now disappearing is the industrial backbone of this nation - the American working class. No, not unions, Democrats or Republicans - American jobs. And our bankrupt American government, which would have been called "Red" in the old days, is the cause.

If you believe the Democratic candidates for President, Republicans are the problem. I you believe Republicans, Democrats are the problem. Both say their style of Government is the answer. However, Americans who incorrectly perceive this are the problem - they elect people who would like us to believe that Government is the answer. It is not. Americans are the problem.

Quit treading on me.

"It's time for....."

Senator Ted Kennedy has spoken his mind in support of his candidate. "It's time for Barack Obama" What gives? Is it "time for" Hilary Clinton because she's a woman? "Time for" Barack Obama because he's an African-American? Time for John McCain because he was in the Hanoi Hilton?
Sorry folks but I don't wear the cape of "time for" and the generalization that it assumes. It insults what's left of my intelligence. If I like a candidate's ideas, and that candidate has no legs, I'll vote for that candidate. If my candidate is female? Black? I'm listening to their ideas and how they would manage the issues I deem to be important to Americans. I'll cast my vote based on this, not because I'm supposed to feel one way or the other.
This crafted appeal to the feelings of the American voter is nothing more than a manipulation. And lots of folks continue to fall for it.