Emasculating America

I think I must be in some bizzare wonderland where RuPaul carries more gravitas than Rudy Guiliani. Am I crazy or is Barack Obama turning America into a country of contrition for misdeeds that we believe we have foisted upon the world. What is going on here?
When in the history of the world has a leader allowed himself to be castigated by the enemy and seemingly lean over as if to say "Thank you sir may I have another.".
We are America darn it all. We have very little to apologize for. Seriously? We are apologizing to Hugo Chavez? Accepting an anti-american tract as a gift? Isn't that like Billy Graham accepting Anton LeVey's Satanic Bible at an anarchist convention? Obama should understand the value of propoganda, just look at his Che chic and Andy Warhol hip campaign posters.
Does he truly believe that by allowing a sham tribunal in Iran to stand as some sort of permutated rule of law decision against an American citizen he will gain some sort of gee whiz likeability from Imawhackjob?
Weakness never communicated reconcilliation to people bent on violence. Weakness is precieved as weakness, nothing more. Apologies and groveling don't raise the stature of our nation in the eyes of the world, they make us look weak.
A willingness to self-flagulate doesn't make us stronger it makes us look stupid. The enemy stands by, mouth agape, watching us tremble with secularized fervor over moral reletivism that refuses to call terrorists, terrorists. Does Al-Jezeera put Obama's bow in the context that the liberal left does? That it's NO BIG DEAL? Absolutely not.
Fidel Castro couldn't have been more direct in his repudiation of Obama's ovetures toward a new beginning in relations with Cuba.....you can walk toward our way of thinking or things can stay the way they were, but we're not budging. Does Obama think that by sending Cuba's leaders Hallmark cards and blowing socialistic kisses across the water Castro will change his mind? Not likely. In his rush to open up tourism to Cuba and demolish the embargo he's forgotten to answer one critical question.
Why have so many Cubans left the island nation? Hasn't he had a DUH moment about that one. It's because CUBA IS A BAD PLACE TO BE IN SPITE OF WHAT MICHAEL MOORE SAYS.
Seriously, with the prism of history to look through Obama shouldn't be apologizing, it is the world who should show some gratitude.
Would the world be a better place if Russia was the lone superpower? How much aid would they have sent after the Tsunami? Would the Middle East be a safer place if Saddam Hussein had ever, ever gotten a nuclear weapon? What if the Korean pennisula had never been defended? Or if Taiwan had never gotten aid from us to defend itself. What if we had never stepped foot on Omaha Beach?
Give me a break Obama. Stop your sniveling and realize that you are making us look like America the Weak instead of the home of the Brave.
America stands for something good and something strong and it can't be found in comments that make us look weak and wavering.
Making ourselves feel better through public apologies won't make any of our enemies want to sing kumbya.

Capitalisms Failures?

I just saw a photo on the wall street journal of protesters holding up a giant banner saying "Capitalism Isn't Working" and it made me think of how pointless it is to make statements without context. I would ask these protesters to finish the statement by answering one specific question. That question? Compared to what?
There has blossomed this bizarre mindset that is the downside of the amazing growth the world has seen in the last thirty years and that is one that is unable to make comparative analysis. I mean there is no doubt that capitalism is going through a transition and that mistakes and judgement lapses that have caused real pain to real people have happened. But there has never been a time in humankind where every period of expansion hasn't resulted in a period of contraction. It's very peculiar how protesters don't seem to understand this very simple context adjustment. Do they believe that by some sort of well meaning fiat we can wish away the negative consequences and just kumbaya into a world of never ending growth? What is important here is context and that context can provide some startling realizations. The story of mankind is one of upward trajectory over Milena. Does anyone think that Feudalism or Imperialism or Nativisim would mean a warmer more fuzzy world today? Does anyone seriously believe that even in desperately poor countries their people are in most ways worse off? There is a burgeoning middle class in India that almost eclipses the entire population of the United States. Most of the suffering in the world today is caused by governments that AREN'T capitalist.
If capitalism isn't working (and there is no doubt that there is some grist in the gears) then what is the protesters solution? We have a long sorry history of every conceivable type of "ism" related to economics that has ended in abysmal failure that far exceeds even the worst capitalist crisis. Most other forms of economic control revolve around centralizing power and we have over 100 million corpses buried around the world to show how well centralized power and control works. Even forgetting about Nazism, Communism and Facism the only real alternatives in the world today are Islam and Militarism and it's doubtful most people in world would prefer those alternatives.
Throughout the world centralizing power has resulted in economic contraction, humanitarian suffering and government caused famines that have resulted in needless suffering far beyond anything the misguided protesters can fathom or stomach. From Robert Mugabee to the needless suffering in the Palestinian territories whose government gets billions in aid it spends on weapons to Sudan's Beshir there is no shortage of alternatives to capitalism being tried throughout the world. Even Russia, where an hour outside Moscow homes don't even have electricity, is spending their money on military rather than humanitarian needs.
Capitalism's biggest fault is that it is antithetical to centralized control and the tyranny of the anointed. What politicians and protesters cannot control they despise and demonize and in this case it seems that Barack Obama and Gordon Brown have friends in low places.

Say What?????

So we now have GM being run by "experts" appointed by the Obama administration essentially. Well Mr. Wagoner, we hate to say we told ya' so but...... Ford had the right idea and deserves to have every American support their decision to fix their own problems and remain largely untethered from governmental intrustion into private markets. What I can say is that President Obama has shown complete disdain for free enterprise once again. When we look at the world around us we can see the glorious results of government run auto companies. I can not wait to get my hands on the "green" fuel efficient version of the YUGO. That's a very exciting idea that all of us should swoon over because the government "knows" what is best.
I for one, will be buying a Ford next as my way of supporting their moxie.
The most disturbing part of the press conference was Obama's statement that we need to reduce our dependence on "foreign oil.". I don't think even Conservatives would disagree on this one. However, Obama himself has hamstrung our efforts to do just that by rescinding Bush's executive order to open Federal Lands to exploration. The $147 barrel of oil completely collapsed at the very prospect of us doing this simple, logical act that would untether us from foregin dependency. Obama believes that the solution is not in greater supply but in tighter regulation and governmental control. So, he is going to design the kinds of cars HE thinks GM should produce, and they will. People will NOT buy them because gasoline is still the cheapest and best source of energy and it's cheap because it's plentiful not scarce. What he failed to mention in his speech is that the cars now sitting unbought on car dealership lots are Hybrids and Prius. This is because American's are greedy, gluttonous and obnoxious and don't care about the planet. Therefore it is up to the "experts" to force us into complaince. People deride those of us who fear socialist tendencies in the Obama administration but it looks eerily like Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascists are starting their march from Detroit and will be working their way into many corners of our lives.
That should make us all very, very scared indeed. The people aren't the problem....government is the problem. There is no scandal in the private sector that comes close to the waste, fraud and abuse that happens in government....NONE. The is no more dastardly idea today than the one that says a concentrated number of elites knows best what is good for the rest of us.