I watched the Rick Warren Q&A with Barack Hussein Obama and John McCain with the skepticism of a coreligionist who would be quick to admonish, in lovingkindness, Brother Rick to remember the lessons learned by the Apostle Paul at Mars Hill. Don’t engage the intellectuals with intellectualism. Engage the intellectuals, and the World, with the truth. Jesus, and Him crucified on the cross. Jesus was dead, dead, dead and then rose from the dead. You, Paul, saw Him and speak to Him frequently now.

Those criticisms remain.

But, the sheer politics of it was awesome. If John McCain can do this for another 80-some days AND PICK A CONSERVATIVE VEEP, he can Nixonize and Reaganize Obama by a couple of points in key states to sweep this very 50-50 Nation.

Barry was smooth. The dummies, or his plants, in the audience applauded on cue. But, it was the usual vapid, feel good, talk, talk, talk.

John was outstanding. Sharp, focused, and Conservative.

Wow.

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From the AP, the “Demographics is destiny” news is:

• The U.S. has nearly 305 million people today. The population is projected to hit 400 million in 2039 and 439 million in 2050.
• So-called minorities will constitute a majority of the nation’s children under 18 by the year 2023, and of working-age Americans by 2039 – and all Americans by 2042.
• Non-Hispanic whites, who now account for 66 percent of the population, will comprise 46 percent by 2050. Increasing from 119 million to only about 204 million.
• By 2050, the number of Hispanic people will nearly triple, from 47 million to 133 million, to account for 30 percent of Americans. They comprise 15 percent today.
• The number of Asians will soar to from 16 million to 41 million by mid-century, and they will make up more than 9 percent of the population, up from 5 percent.
• More than three times as many people are expected to identify themselves as multiracial by 2050 — 16 million, accounting for nearly 4 percent of the population.
• The number of Americans who define themselves a black is projected to rise from 41 million to 66 million, or from 14 to 15 percent of the population.

So a mere 34 years from now, in 2042, all the offices, programs, agencies, give aways, set asides and affirmative actions will have to be re-named. They can’t be called ‘minority’, assuming truthfulness is somewhat still in vogue, anymore. They will have to be called by what was their proper name all along – “Anyone But Whites” offices, programs, agencies, give aways, set asides and affirmative actions.

Too bad that I’ll probably be dead (could be 92 that year). I’d like to toast the end of covert racism, and racism by other names, and comment on open, unapologetic government racism – in the Jim Crow tradition, just discriminating against different persons – coming back out of the closet.

One other fact jumps out. If Blacks go from roughly 41 to 66 million (+25 m) and Whites go from 199 to only 204 million (+5 m)– something is different. It’s the sex or the birth control. My bet is birth control, even though Blacks disproportionately abort babies.

Furthermore, if Blacks continue to have 2/3rds of their babies out of wedlock, then about 40 million Blacks will be illegitimate children raised, initially, by single mothers. That bodes worse for every social pathology in the Nation.

Let’s pray together that there is a huge revival in the Black churches and among all Blacks to come back to the Bible-based marriage and fatherhood. For the sake of 40 million American children. For the sake of the Nation.

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Oddly enough, this isn’t news for the MSM.

“SAUDI ARABIA: BURNT ALIVE FOR CHANGING RELIGION
(by Alessandra Antonelli) (ANSAmed) - DUBAI, AUGUST 13 - The sentence could not be appealed: guilty for converting to Christianity, a young Saudi woman was set alight by her father, who first had cut her tongue. Not an ordinary father, but a member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Against Vice.

The woman had added also the insult of the written word, by writing articles with Christian-religious content on blogs and regional websites. The brutal news was reported by the United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s daily Gulf News.

The father of the burnt alive Saudi woman, as reported by sources close to the victim, is investigated for “honour killing” and not “murder”, a motif which if acknowledged, might lead to a sentence of up to three years in prison, because caused by the necessity to “wash the shame of dishonour” fallen on the entire family, for the unbecoming behaviour of the daughter. (ANSAmed).”

How much does cost you to be a Christian?

Do you stand up, speak out, in public for CHRIST and your faith?

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Barack Hussein Obama has carpet bombed Virginia with ads about a ‘windfall’ tax on oil. He thinks Virginians are as stupid as the voters in Illinois. He assumes voters are ignorant of economics and history.

Barry should take this simple econ writ:

1. Windfall profits tax on oil will:
A. Increase the price of gas.
B. Decrease the price of gas.
C. Who cares as long as the proletariat sticks it to the oil capitalists?

2. Windfall profits tax on oil will:
A. Decrease the supply of gas.
B. Increase the supply of gas.
c. Who cares as long as the U.S. doesn’t drill anymore for oil - no offshore, no in Alaska?

3. Windfall profits tax will:
A. Decrease revenue to the U.S. government.
B. Have huge compliance costs - to the government - like Carter’s 1980 Windfall Profits Tax
C. Who cares as long as Barry “Jimmy Carter II” carries on the Carter policy legacy?

4. The Windfall profits tax should be:
A. Every penny the filthy capitalists make.
B. Enough to produce $1000 hand out x 100 million families = $100 billion asap.
C. Who cares as long as the symbolism is made?

5. The Windfall profits tax should:
A. Only tax companies that sell gas in the U.S. to make sales everywhere else in the world more advantageous.
B. Ask, because you can’t tax them, the companies (some are called ‘Countries’) that produce oil to voluntarily tax themselves for us.
C. Tax the distributors of gas - the last link in the chain because you can.

6.The Windfall profits tax on ethanol (corn, etc.) producers who have jacked up prices twice as much as Big Oil should be:
A. Impossible. You can’t tax farmers. They vote.
B. Applied to agribusiness, but not the noble family farmer.
C. Paid by politicians who mandated ethanol.

7. The mandates, subsidies and restrictions imposed by the U.S. Government are:
A. A Constitutional duty - like the 14th Amendment’s claim of abortion rights - written in invisible ink.
B. Create winners and losers. The biggest loser is the average American consumer - voter.
C. Everything for alternative energies are for good companies and everything for oil, coal, nuclear energy are for evil companies.

BONUS QUESTION.
Barack Hussein Obama can count on the MSM to not challenge his ads as political scam and economic hogwash:
A. Because the MSM is as economically-challenged as Barry and all Liberals (Socialists).
B. Because the MSM will do anything to elect a Democrat, a dhimmi or a dummy who panders.
C. Because the MSM doesn’t want Mark Warner to face tough economic questions.
D. All of the above.

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Russia is a regional power. You could call it a Great Power on the world stage, but not a superpower or, like the U.S., an Uber-Superpower.

Russians will pick up a lot of pride from a little war in Georgia. That is more important to them than the peace - which will be on their terms.

Sooner or later we can chat with Russia on the diplomatic and military points of access - at all different levels.

We can talk because we aren’t enemies. There is plenty of resentment, for a host of reasons - loss of the Cold War, break up the Soviet Empire, personal humiliation of the military during the 90s - because of their economic impoverishment, impotence to help Serbia - and eating the terms of those peace agreements, criticism for two wars in Chechnya, etc, from the Russians. But, most Russians must see the concurrence of national interests with the U.S. Russians, like the French, can enjoy putting a stick in our eye on occasion, which is quite different than being enemies.

We aren’t the Russians allies either. Yet.

The issue is how fast the problems on the horizon come to the doorstep of the autocracy in Moscow and the great population of Russians on the European side of their country. When the crisis from their de-population, Muslim population bomb, and Chinese illegal immigrants hits matters. If it is in the next 30 years it is much different than 70 years from now - because the situation among Russia’s many neighbors will be much different.

NATO fights Islamists in Afghanistan. That is a huge positive step forward for the alliance that matters the most. If NATO continues to fight Islamists, instead of becoming d’himmis under submission to Islam, then Russia may find its national interests more aligned with NATO and the U.S. than opposed.

In the early 90s I wondered what it would take for Russia to be the eastern rampart, a bastion, of NATO - in partnership or actually as a member - of the Great North defending Western Civilization.

It depends on how WW IV Against the Islamists shakes out over a few decades. And how Europe, China, and India see themselves in that struggle and in their own identity. Russia will be playing off those events along with shifts in the global economy - and energy demand.

Unless Russia becomes Muslim, like Europe and Canada will be - ceteris paribus, it won’t be our enemy. Unless, of course, our politicians play so far to emotions that they decide to make Russia the enemy.

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Note to Georgia (Country not the U.S. state): Be careful when you take military action against your much larger neighbor. Even if the territory you attack is yours legally. It had Russians in it and it had not been under your control since 1992 - right? Might want to re-think how you swat at a bear.

What would the U.S. do if, say, 24 citizens were killed in a cross-border raid? Jeopardy answer: What was the Pershing Expedition into Mexico?

What has the U.S. done lately about cross-border crossings? Jeopardy answer: Looked sternly to the South.

What was the justification for the invasion, occupation and overthrow of Noriega in Panama in December 1989?

How about Grenada in 1983?

Haiti in 1994?

Not to mention all the other interventions in Latin America. Great powers exert power in their national interests as they see fit. As they see the circumstances and as they understand the consequences.

Shift your attention to Georgia. One can argue that the Russian response it disproportionate. Especially, if Russia conquers all of Georgia.

But, Russia isn’t playing realpolitik by the Marquis de Queensbury boxing rules. The fights in the Caucuses have serious ramifications for their future. As their population declines. As their Muslim population explodes. As the oil and gas becomes even more valuable.

Russia has been an autocracy - with few, brief exceptions for over a thousand years. Since Russia got out of the yoke of the Golden Horde. Why is it a big surprise that after 70 years of Communism, the Russians revert to autocracy?

And on their borders why is it a surprise that Russians act like Russians?

This isn’t a return to the Cold War. The conditions are dramatically different. This is Russia being Russia.

If the Russians fall back and just keep Abkasia (Sp) in addition to South Ossetia, we, the West, will be lucky. And, so will Georgia.

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Been in my loop - attending a conference this week - that kept me off this net.

Interesting, busy and away.

Back in God’s Country and home at 3 am last night.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a Nobel literature laureate and Soviet gulag survivor died at age 89.

His book “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”, struck me as much as the movie I saw a few years before, Judgment at Nuremburg - that showed so many films from the death camps. I was surprised to read about the oppression of Russian Baptists by the Communists. I didn’t even know there were Baptists in the old Soviet Union. There were and the oppression didn’t seem to dim their fire from Pentacost.

One of the families that suffered so at the Islamist massacre at Beslan was a Russian Baptist minister’s family. I wonder how the survivors of Beslan are doing now.

Solzhenitsyn is remarkable in the clarity of his vision and his ability to speak it clearly. There is good and evil in the world. Men should choose good. Men should choose God. Men should lead nations and civilizations to do the same.

How many other Solzhenitsyns were there who saw as he did and their grasp of the world and the choices people make to do good or evil died with them in the camps?

And, how similar it is, indeed, that the Nazi Human Secularists and the Communist Human Secularists had labor camps and death camps. Murdered millions. Starved millions. Twin sisters of totalitarianism share their birth right in the French Revolution.

The totalitarian ideologies based on human secularism seek to perfect man. And governments. And economies. And societies. To perfect justice. To correct past wrongs. All the nostrums Barack Hussein Obama says in a pleasing way.

Maybe Obama thinks he will need a National Police force bigger than our half million soldier Army to really make things more perfect in his first term. he should explain more on that subject in much greater detail.

Liberal or Socialist Human Secularism comes from the same thinking as the people who seem like monsters, now, from the 20th Century camps for political incorrectness. Solzhenitsyn experienced this tragedy to warn us not to do it again.

Islamist Totalitarianism is a different stripe of terror and repression. But, its another wrong to be fought by good men and women. By Christians and Jews - who are hated more by the Liberal/Socialist Human Secularists than they fear the Islamist Totalitarians. War, as an extension of politics, makes very strange bedfellows.

Thank you, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, for you courage and voice.

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From March through mid-November its my ambition to sit outside at sundown. Like most things where the road of my good intentions is an 8 lane highway to hell, the best of intentions matter naught. Yet, I can when I can. Every evening wouldn’t be enough for me. Even though whole weeks go by without one sitting session.

I ’set.’ Its a Southern thing. And some of us are professionals. My Granddad used to ’set’ under a catawba tree. My Dad would ’set’ and listen to a ‘hi-fi’ stereo playing big band music. I watch the sky darken outside by a pool of water.

When the clouds catch the setting sun to reflect its glory in pinks, reds and oranges contrasted against the northern blue sky, it’s an absolute delight for the eyes and preamble to much prayer.

Google ‘N.C. Wyeth’ and look at his illustrations from Treasure Island. Look at the clouds. That is what I see in Poquoson. The pirates are out of the picture, but the brilliant, deep, textured color’s there - just looking to the North from my back yard.

Or google images for the ‘Columbia pictures’ logo. Look behind the young woman in the toga. Same skies and clouds.

Sometimes I play music from the IPOD thingy and speakers my kids gave me. 12 hours of eclectic music. Christian praise, soul, rock, Celtic, show, country, folk, classical. Many times I set with the the bug chorus buzzing or in absolute silence except for the occasional car or airplane.

It’s time of great gratitude to the Lord. The one, only, living, true, real, God.

It’s a time of confession. Remembrance in sorrow and joy.

It’s many intimate moments that look like I’m alone, but I’m not. The paraclete is with me. Physically within me. Carrying my every thought, and odd occasional spoken word, to the Father.

Somehow, the weight of heat in Summer make those N.C. Wyeth skies seem different than in the crisp Autumn or fickle Spring. The humid air is a presence you feel. But its warm embrace is comforting to those of us who grew up with it.

Those N.C. Wyeth skies are soothing sights for my soul. I rise when I must with the words my Bowden clan holds true, “God is good. All the time. No matter what.”

Look up the man-made pictures of those clouds. Go out at try it. You’ll like it. Especially if you spend some quality time with the greatest friend of all mankind and your personal savior.

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Spent some quality time with John Brownlee - Republican candidate for Attorney General.

I had told him that I was supporting Sen. Ken Cuccinelli - unless the truth changed (Army expression). But, he wanted to chat anyway.

He makes a great pitch for AG. Serious candidate. Thoughtful guy. Ready for prime time in state-wide politics.

I am still supporting Ken Cuccinelli. But, I like the cut of Brownlee’s jib. He has a political future in the Commonwealth.

It’s very interesting to see a young man start out on a political career - and that is what it is for most politicians - a career of office seeking and holding. John has great qualifications. He seems to have good political instincts and super connections through family.

I wish him well.

Even though I cheer when someone rises to the challenge and runs for public service - alone - with no intent or desire for career, I realize how rare that is. If we must have career politicians, then I hope we can have more like John Brownlee. And, I hope we - Conservatives - can support John when the time is ripe.

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Junior Senator Barack Hussein Obama, The Magnificent, raises a good question for the election. How is the U.S. Government going to make good on issues and reparation for minorities who didn’t suffer any grievances from the U.S. Government?

(lau@starbulletin.com reports from Chicago, 30 July 2008) Sen. Barack Obama, speaking to a gathering of minority journalists yesterday said, “There’s no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we’ve got some very sad and difficult things to account for,” Obama told hundreds of attendees of UNITY ‘08, a convention of four minority journalism associations.

“I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it’s Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.””

Okay, now what are the specific things that the U.S. Government will do after your ascension?

While you are at it, please give us the specifics for that National Police force of yours.

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Tomorrow the House Armed Services Committee will vote on a new destroyer for the U.S. Navy. This past Sunday James Zumwalt gave the arguments about a new class of destroyer named for his late father, Chief of Naval Operations Elmo Zumwalt in a long op-ed.

Several data points stuck out. The magazine of the ship is 600 rounds of 155mm shells. They are ‘precision’ weapons - but it didn’t say how so - like laser-designated, etc. The range of the shells is 70nm. Other land attack weapons on the ship were not mentioned (note: the earlier experimental destroyer program only had the 155mm as the single land attack system) .

Zumwalt illustrates the cost trade: “In February, the Navy awarded $1.3 billion shipbuilder contracts to Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics/Bath Iron Works to build two lead ships under the unique acquisition strategy well-supported by Congress. The approximate delivery cost of each ship is $3.2 billion. And, the Navy is confident each of the remaining five DDG-1000s can be delivered for $2.7 billion.

Critics claim these estimates are wishful thinking, calling for the Navy to “can” DDG-1000 and re-start the DDG-51 production line before moving to the next-generation CG(X) guided-missile cruiser. Various estimates indicate one DDG-51 will cost $2.2 billion; two for $3.5 billion. But, these outside estimates may be understated for failing to consider growing shipyard supplier constraints and diminishing manufacturing sources.”(James Zumwalt: When ‘good enough’ is the foe of ‘better’, Washington Times, 27 July 2008)

I don’t know which way the staff will advise the Congressman in the district where I ran to vote. But, I know he doesn’t know what hard questions should be asked about the binary choice above. just either or. How about a different choice? One that will produce a far better defense of the Nation for the $60 billion or so that will spent?

I know the correct political answer is contracts for the Newport News Ship yard and Dahlgren. And, there are other answers that will still provide the ship building to NN and better provide for the Common Defense. I ran to give those answers a voice in Congress.

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(From Larry O’Dell, AP, July 23, 2008) “A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected the Rev. Hashmel Turner’s lawsuit challenging a nonsectarian prayer policy adopted by the council in 2005.

O’Connor wrote that Turner was given the chance to pray on behalf of the government, but was not willing to do so within the government’s guidelines. She wrote that he “remains free to pray on his own behalf, in non-governmental endeavors, in the manner dictated by his conscience.””

The City Council of Fredericksburg made a discriminatory religious test in its prayer policy. But, given the First Amendment – as it was written, not as re-written by Courts – their actions weren’t unconstitutional. Just biased against Christians.

The City Council’s policy is contrary to Virginia’s Statute of Religious Freedom – “Be it enacted by General Assembly that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief, but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of Religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.” But, I don’t know if these words remain in the Code of Virginia.

What other deities – than Jesus – are proscribed from public prayer in Fredericksburg? Jesus is the only name that can’t be spoken? Does a Muslim prayer meet the nonsectarian standard? How so? Or a Wiccan prayer?

It’s up to the citizens of Fredericksburg to elect a city council to correct their policy.

The Court decision is a different matter. Where is ‘government speech’ defined in the Constitution?
If judges can make up a category of speech, then judges can define speech as they like. As they already have in Sandra Day O’Connor’s addled logic above. Which means they can do far worse in the future.

When did We, The People, as Sovereigns of the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Virginia, give federal judges the power to re-write free speech in the individual free exercise of religion?

The judicial branch is a co-equal political branch of government. The judiciary is semper inter pares only in their constitutional duties to adjudicate existing laws – not to make up new ones.

The issue of who prays what in public in Virginia lies squarely with the cities and counties and Commonwealth of Virginia.

It’s time to take individual freedom back from judges. The Courts seized the power to re-write the First Amendment – especially since 1962. The Legislatures and Executives need to do their constitutional duty to limit judicial excesses – abuses of authority.

The judiciary is as wrong about religion as it was about race for so many decades. Judges built up a body of legal precedents supporting slavery and segregation for over a hundred years after Dred Scott. The five decades of legislating religious prejudices from the bench is less time and no different, politically, than the racial prejudices of former judges.

So, when is it time for civil disobedience in Virginia? If a person prays a public prayer in Jesus’s name, who will arrest him? Do Federal Judges issues bench warrants? Who will prosecute? What is the crime? What is the punishment?

The Apostle Paul spent time in jail. What better reason could there be to be in jail than, “I prayed in Jesus’ name?”

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Why did the President oppose “The National Highway Bridge Reconstruction and Inspection Act” for $2 B?

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A couple of childish comments tell me that some Democrats stumble upon my blog. Their middle school scat is laced with the fatty invective of a coarsened culture. If only the Liberals could be funny, if not bright. If only Liberals could learn by reading – instead of understanding the world with feelings.

Here is some of what they need to learn and Conservatives would do well to remember.
Important issues contest big issues. These are lost in the small politics of each election.

For example, 739,714 homes went into foreclosure in April, May and June 2008. 1 out of every 171 family-owned homes in America. Doesn’t include rentals. And, I don’t know how many homes were foreclosed in the same months last year.

In addition to the personal hardship of so many families facing the loss of their homes, the financial houses of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in financial trouble. So, the Congressional response is to throw money at all – including states and localities to get into the real estate business. But, its compassion at a cost. Congress will feel good appropriating more money – increasing public debt – while ignoring the problems that caused the families such calamity.

The families not paying the mortgages are those who can least handle changes in the economy. They are just getting by. Many (like to see numbers on this)likely are illegal aliens. Yet, Congress – both political parties – failed for 35 years since the oil embargo of 1973 to work for energy independence and an abundant supply of energy. Instead, Congress and the Virginia General Assembly intervened in the economy to mandate bio-fuels – bumping up the cost of food. The legislatures need to let the marketplace provide energy. That means politicians have to butt out more than they bull around the china shop.

Doubling the price of gasoline is a budget buster for millions of Americans. The chickens of this energy folly came home to roost. Economics is a science of inter-connectedness – where causes lead to effects. For every economic effect, like foreclosure, there is a cause – not a crime and a convenient criminal. The trillions of dollars that went to oil producing countries in the past year didn’t go into financial institutions holding mortgages and housing bonds. It is Econ 101.

Meanwhile, in like fashion, the Medicare and Social Security crisis to come – boil in a pot. Elected officials can lead or they can keep spending, spending, spending. Neither party has the leadership to say No”. Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma is starting to speak up and stand up to lead. We should find such men and women in Virginia and elect them to the General Assembly and to Congress – like Cong. Eric Cantor.

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Barack Hussein Obama’s photo op after the free concerts in Berlin included a speech. It had pretty words. You could call it soaring if you are ignorant of history and humanity or lack the maturity of a person living above a middle-school emotional dichotomy. Furthermore, the speech had words that since the French Revolution resonate for sane persons because they begin in hope and end in the terror of totalitarianism.

Citizen of the World. Anyone who claims the old tricolor title of “Citizen” could be searching for a status free of feudalism - as we have in the U.S. where we are citizens, not subjects of the state or they are parroting the watchwords of the European elites who run the European Union - and will run Europe under the veil of Muslim domination.

America is electing the President of the United States of America - not to any other position.

“I know my country has not perfected itself.” The French, Communists in Russia, China, Cambodia and Vietnam, and the Nazis sought to perfect humankind as only good Human Secularists knew they could do it. More millions died at their hands than all the bloody wars of religion - including Islam’s long history of subjugation and oppression.

“Tear down walls between Christians, Jews and Muslims, nations, tribes and immigrants?” Tear them down to what? The proletarian nihilism of peasants living in a secular, socialist society governed by their elite betters? it’s true that we humans are alike in our basic humanity, but culture commands and defines us persons living in very different civilizations. Only one culture can support a civilization at a time. Not two. Ever. Which one will it be for America? Our traditional Judeo-Christian, capitalist, liberal (small L) constitutional, rule of law, federal republic or what?

If you think a young, eager graduate assistant - a B- student at that - should be the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, then go ahead and support Barack Hussein Obama.

If you want a grown up to lead in a dangerous world, support and vote for John McCain.

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The first play I ever saw in New York City was “The Great White Hope.” James Earl Jones was magnificent. The play captured the pride of millions of Blacks who found a champion for their race in a champion boxer. Sinisterly, the play captured the desperate attempts to find a white man who could beat Jones in the ring.

Enter – stage left - Barack Hussein Obama.

Senator Obama will be as much or more pathetic a character as the Great Black Hope for President than Jones was poignant, powerful and persuasive for boxing. Too much hope is being placed in too unaccomplished and empty a suit, too radical Leftist a politician, and too unprepared a man.

If Barack Hussein Obama fails to get elected, it will pound the wedge of racial divide a bit deeper with resentful disappointment. The ninety plus per cent of Blacks who vote Obama, will hear a loud, clear “No” to their race champion. The narrative of his loss will be his race, not all the many other reasons to vote “No” to such a flawed candidate.

If Barack Hussein Obama is elected, his failed presidency and the strong backlash, like Reagan was to Carter, will be a four year drum beat of criticism – followed by rejection at the polls. The narrative, again, for the passion stirred against incompetence and partisan Liberal policies will be mere racial revenge. The truth won’t matter. Just as truth didn’t count in the O.J. trial.

Too bad Alan Keyes didn’t win when I voted for him in the Presidential primary in 2000. The historic election of the first black person to the Presidency would’ve turned on the change that matters the most. The creation of more opportunity and freedom – real hope – would’ve been a victory of ideas that count. The election would have been the triumph of substance over the thin layer of shades of skin. Alas, it didn’t happen.

Worse, Keyes took a fool’s errand to lose a quixotic campaign carpetbagging against Obama in Illinois. He can’t be counted as credible against Obama now. So, who can set a standard better than the Chicago ward heel hustling of Barack Hussein Obama? Any Black Conservative and most Black Republicans.

But, America has to go through the Obama disaster in defeat or, worse – one term victory, where the failures and rejection of the Great Black Hope will resonate through the Nation. It won’t go well for many. Maybe busting Barack’s bubble will be an awakening across the sub-cultural divides of race. Maybe. I doubt it.

It’ll take a champion, just as James Earl Jones portrayed a champion boxer – not a chump, to be the champion worthy of anyone’s hope. It’ll take a leader who has Conservative vision, Judeo-Christian heart, and all-American common sense. It’ll take a man, or woman, who has lived life lessons of sacrifice, duty, and conscience fortified with courage. It’ll take a Black candidate whose race means as little to him as race means to a White candidate.

It’ll take some time to heal the wounds Barack Hussein Obama will make among Black Americans. But, sooner or later, a politician will come along to an election as the Great American Hope. He, or she, will just happen to be Black. This time, we’ll all be proud.

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Finished Robert D. Kaplan’s “Imperial Grunts.’ I’ve been reading him in Atlantic Monthly since the 90s. His life could be a major motion picture on the lines of a modern Indiana Jones journalist. His book is dated to 2004, but worth the read.

Kaplan captures the troop level view of different fights around the world for our imperial armed forces. Don’t get to exercised about the word “Empire”. The Founding Fathers talked about America being a continental empire. There never imagined Uber Superpower.

The United States is still a Republic. A Republic that has imperial responsibilities without imperial ambitions. It will be a real struggle from here on out - to stay a Republic and to return to the Constitution of 1787.

I thoroughly enjoyed Kaplan’s characterization of much of GWOT, or WW IV, or the long, long War Against Islamist Terrorists as being like our Indian Wars. I’ve written that for some time. The struggle is like the Cold War (WW III) for the ideological basis of the totalitarianism we are fighting. And for the need to contain that ideology - Islamism. But the means and particulars below the strategic level are substantially different.

At the operational and tactical level this is like our Indian Wars. There are layers and layers of complexity in each particular fight - local area of operations. Generalities are banalities.

Also, Kaplan, as an outsider journalist from Massachusetts, is struck by the influence the Southern culture has on our American forces. He sees the lingering shadows of the Confederate feats of arms in currently serving Southerners.

Kaplan draws no conclusions on political direction. But, his work suggests we look hard at how the highest level political direction translates to the boots on the ground as war-winning work or not. Not a subject for cocktail chatter.

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Jesse Jackson, reputedly a Christian minister and definitely an executive class race hustler, used the N-word talking about Barack Hussein Obama. Today, Whoppi Goldberg, a gifted actress however inelegant and ill-informed, repeated the N-word on national TV and defended it’s use by Blacks. Blacks only. No Whites Allowed - but they don’t actually print it out on signs like in Jim Crow days.

The excuse is that Blacks as a community used the most severe, as perceived, of a multitude of racial insults against their White oppressors. Now, Blacks can use it as they please because they own the word and took the sting out of it. But, it’s for Blacks only. So, half-Black Barack Hussein Obama may use the word, his preacher of hate can, his buddy Black Muslim huckster Louis Farrakhan may, his angry wife probably has, but his Arab-American real estate agent - who is in jail now - can’t.

What other speech belongs to Blacks only, but not Whites? Or Asians? Or Hispanics? Or all the Americans who transcend racial identity in their lives - and call themselves, simply, “American” these days? Conversely what words belong to Whites Only? Certainly the use of words by one race and their exclusion to another race, must be in the minds of Blacks who like the N-word - separate but equal.

Odd how that notion - separate but equal - plays among people who insist on seeing themselves as separate. Blacks get to use a word that Whites don’t use. Blacks get separate admission standards for colleges and universities - and in Virginia for TJ High School for Science - and some government contracts, jobs, professional associations, etc. Probably the same way Barack Hussein Obama and his wife got their opportunities in higher education - which we’ll know as soon as the SATs and LSAT scores are released.

But, separate but equal doesn’t work. It didn’t for Whites. It won’t for Blacks. A recent survey showed how great the perception of inequality and injustice divides Whites and Blacks. Not real inequality and injustice - unless you mean the government sanctioned discrimination against Whites and Asians - but the perception.

As long as the audacity of racial inequality - in speech as in all things - is perpetuated in front of the Nation without consequence, then racial identity will be promoted. At least for Blacks.

And Jesse Jackson will still be taken seriously by the MSM. Even though Jackson formed the lynch mob when Don Imus said “nappy haired hos.” Even though Jackson, good Christian minister that he was, had a child out of wedlock and paid the woman off. It’s almost as silly as taking Barack Hussein Obama seriously as a candidate for President of the United States of America.

As the former Democrat candidate for Vice President of the U.S., Geraldine Ferraro, said - if Barack Hussein Obama weren’t half-Black he would never be a candidate for President. That, actually, is the real audacity of racial inequality. Barack Hussein Obama can say the N-word and may become President just because he is half-Black.

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Luddites feared technology. They hated industrialization. They fought against it in utter folly and futility. They were passionate and prepared to fight. They were completely clueless and did far more damage than good. Luddite became synonymous with silly losers - out of touch with reality and progress.

The Liberals are Luddites on energy. Democrat Mark Warner is their chief Luddite in Virginia.

Republican Jim Gilmore has an energy plan. Expand supply as fast, and safely, as possible for as many sources as possible. Explore alternative energy sources that aren’t technologically or fiscally feasible now. Conserve as much as possible - without government causing economic chaos in intervention.

Liberal Luddite Mark Warner has a deceptive - to be the most generous and polite about it -TV commercial on his energy ‘plan’. He suggests he is for offshore drilling for oil and gas. But, he vetoed such a bill when he was Governor. What changed?

Is he lying about this like he did when he promised not raise taxes - over and over and over. The first week Warner was in office he announced his plan to raise taxes. Funny how everything changes after the election. Promises made are promises forgotten for Warner and his Liberal brand of Democrats.

The Liberal Luddites are against drilling for oil and natural gas, against clean coal technologies, against more refineries, against nuclear plants. They want the wind and solar power to magically provide all our energy needs - or and we should conserve in extremis to not use energy.

Modern Liberal Luddism is the environmentalism that mocks its own message. Rather than be going good stewards of natural resources, the Liberal Luddites are enthralled with the faux science of their totalitarian desires to control, control, control. Many Liberal Luddites focus spiritual energy of their human secularism on a theological devotion to environment as religion. It’s the same old worship of the god of small ‘g’ - called “Self”, but it is in the sackcloth of strained, self-conscious selflessness.

It’s another human foolishness. But, enough Democrats take it as their gospel, that their candidates - Mark Warner for Virginia and Barack Hussein Obama for the U.S. - have to run as Luddites.

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