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Well, the day has finally come that I thought never would; I am forced to speak words I swore would never make the trip past my lips. Here goes:

President Obama is r-r-r-… (gimme a second) Obama is ri-rr-r…(dang it!) Obama’s not as wrong as he usually is.

In case you’ve been under a rock recently, our President, while attending a dinner celebrating the Islamic holy holiday of Ramadan, (which is another issue altogether) started a poop storm in the press by asserting that government interference in the building of a mosque in the shadow of the World Trade Center site, mere blocks from ground zero, is against the founders intent. And he has a point. Out of every civilized country in the world, the United States should be the last to use the force of government to squash the religious practices of any religion, even Islam. Since then, Obama has refused to comment on what he terms the “wisdom” of building the mosque, but his main point is actually, well…right.
But let’s not lose our perspective on this issue; while it is part of the American provenance to allow full and unhindered religious freedom, where national security is concerned a line must be drawn and make no mistake, a mosque on what Americans consider hallowed ground, where three thousand of us were mercilessly slaughtered on national television, is a national security issue.

Can a mere nine years since 911 be sufficient time for abandoning honor in the face of so-called tolerance? Does Mr. Obama actually expect Americans to just be fine with this disrespect to our fallen dead, on 911 and since? How many times must Islamic extremists murder or attempt to murder U.S. citizens on U.S. soil before he and others like him will admit, when the cameras are rolling, that we are at war with them? They certainly have made it plain that they are at war with us, but instead of taking a really courageous stance and saying unequivocally that hell no this Imam who preaches U.S. complicity in the 911 attacks should NOT build his mosque over the graves of our citizens, our President throws a tax payer funded state dinner and kisses their collective asses. It’s a mere accident that he actually said something containing a grain of truth; it probably gave him a migraine.

Mr. Obama’s statement about religious freedom was correct, but the intention behind it was all too recognizable. Like the crafty politician he outwardly despises but innately emulates, he was playing to his crowd, telling them what they wanted to hear in order to be appreciated, if only for the evening and he either didn’t think about what his comments would mean to those who still feel the chill and horror of watching those people die, or he didn’t care. Either one is unacceptable for a U.S. President.

The sad truth is, as long as there are no laws against it and they have the wherewithal to do it, they can build their shrine to the 911 hijackers on the hallowed ground of the World Trade Center, but that ground sits on a slippery slope. If this mosque is finally built, there will be violence, there will be blood and there will more loss of life in a city and on a site that has seen far too many innocents die already. President Obama in truth should not have even made mention of this, should not have involved himself in it, because by doing so, he contradicts what could be the most intelligent thing he’s ever said as President.

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We told you that things in the hope and change era would be bad. We told you the Obama minions were out to socialize America, to make you all dependent on the government for everything, enslaving you, taking from you what they think you should pay and distributing it to themselves while claiming to give it to the “poor”. And we were right. Government run healthcare with mandates that punish you with fines and even jail if you do not follow the plan; soon to be much higher taxes (though they refuse to call them taxes) when the Bush tax cuts end in January; government control of the banking and finance industries; government ownership of the auto industry. These things cannot be denied or spun into a nice Liberal package and be made to look good for our country.

And we told you it would happen.

Now, the scary part.

We also told you that Obama’s mamby pamby foreign policy was dangerous, that talking with our enemies from a position of capitulation and weakness would only egg them on and engender in them a sense of righteous purpose, fueling their zealous antagonism towards the west and the U.S. in particular and spurring them to even more dangerous and murderous behavior.

Iran is enriching uranium, claiming to any bleeding heart that will listen that their intentions are peaceful while supplying our enemies with the weapons that are still killing our troops in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan itself, the Taliban and Al Qaeda are increasing their attacks daily while Pakistan looks the other way, counting the days until our intentionally announced withdrawal date so they can claim yet another victory for Allah. Here in our own country since Obama took office we have had three nearly successful bombings that only failed due to the ineptness of the attackers and one horrible incident on one of our own military bases that killed seven people and wounded twenty more.

And then there’s North Korea.

As we speak, the North Koreans are threatening retaliation for our U.S. Navy presence along with the South Korean Navy as they conduct anti-submarine maneuvers off the Korean peninsula. The exercises are a show of force in response to the alleged sinking of a South Korean warship by a North Korean torpedo earlier this year, an attack the North denies. The North Korean government run press released a statement that said among other things that the North would launch a “sacred war” with a “powerful nuclear deterrence” against the U.S. and the South Koreans calling our presence there a “provocation”, and in the background, China watches and waits, holding our I.O.U’s in their hands and licking their collective chops.

While the bluster of Kim Jong Il has in the past been merely rhetoric, any threat of a nuclear “deterrence” against U.S. or allied forces is no laughing matter, and Obama is learning the same lesson that Presidents past have learned; there can be no dealing rationally with despotic dictatorial mad men, no concessions that will ever be good enough and capitulation and apology only confirm in the fevered minds of these lunatics what they have always believed; America is a paper tiger and no longer a force to be respected in the world. The last country that made that mistake suffered greatly and still bears the scars of sand turned to glass and flesh burned from bodies.

Let us pray that we don’t ever have to learn that lesson – ever. Let us pray we don’t have to say “We told you so” ever again.

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First some caveats: 1. I haven’t been to the Gulf to see the effect of the spill with my own eyes. 2. I have no doubt that pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the ocean can have nothing but a negative effect on the natural environment and 3. Heads at BP should already be rolling.

Having said that, I wonder if the national media has purposefully over exaggerated the extent of the actual damage http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/has-the-media-overreacted-on-the-oil-spill/question-1049847/ . It’s no secret that the liberals who run the traditional so-called main stream media outlets are rabid for any story that casts a negative light against any element, public or private, with ties, real or imaginary, to conservatives and the Republican party, most especially to the previous administration. To listen to the popular narrative, George W. Bush was an oil man with deep ties to “big oil” and of course everybody knows that Dick Cheney worked for Haliburton when not sleeping in a coffin filled with dirt from his homeland or roaming the night searching for victims. Except, Cheney only worked for Haliburton for five years out a decades long career the majority of which had nothing to do with oil and George Bush has no love for the big oil companies considering they crushed his tiny oil concern not long after he started it. Again, the popular narrative falters in the face of the actual facts. So what’s to stop them from sensationalizing the oil spill to further their owner’s liberal agendas?

Liberals have long been against drilling for oil anywhere in the U.S., ostensibly because of the environmental impact, but really because they have a subconscious aversion to any big companies they perceive as being run by greedy conservatives and that ingrained hatred overrides actualities and truths every time. So it only makes sense that the liberals who own the news outlets (though the irony of their own greed always seems to escape the average liberal) would use their bully pulpits to preach mistrust and hatred against big oil, because big oil makes huge profits and unless those profits are spread around equally, then the people making them are automatically evil. It isn’t the oil in the ocean. It’s the dastardly rich oil magnates who callously spilled it. They did it out of spite and they don’t really care whether it kills the seagulls or not. They’ve got theirs, let everyone else eat cake.

The end game is to put big oil out of business in the United States altogether and they will use out right untruths and character assassination to achieve it. Every oil covered seabird they put out on camera turns one more person against big oil in their opinion, and they will go out of their way to show as many as they can. It sounds sick to say this, and it is sick, but the worse the oil spill becomes, the better it will be for the liberal activists because if it actually does get as bad as they are saying it is now, (and I have heard conflicting reports) then the entire blame can be laid at the feet of the evil oil companies and the drill baby drill Republicans, all in time for the November elections. Never let a good crisis go to waste? Indeed.

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It sounds great. Harmony, unity, the lion lying down with the lamb, but in the harsh face of humanity, it can never happen. Lions eat lambs, unity only lives within set groups and harmony is a temporary condition, sweet but fleeting and only reminisced.

Cynical, you say, and I agree, it is cynical. But cynicism in and of itself is a much maligned philosophy in that a good dose of cynicism can save you a long bout of victimization, because there are plenty of people more than willing to sell you the yard where the grass is greener, even if it belongs to your neighbor.

There is a lot of guilt in harmony and unity, at least the brand that the politicians who have usurped the ideals of Americanism and turned them into talking points and town hall meeting one liners sell. If you don’t believe, really believe, then you can be easily transmogrified into any number of readymade boogey people (there’s a PC shout out to all you feminists) replete with white sheet, silver spoon and thousand dollar suit. Read any newspaper or listen to any talking head and it will be made plain to you that if you are affluent, conservative and white you can’t possibly care about the plight of the poor, you couldn’t possibly relate to the man on the corner with the cardboard sign, you are by the mere fact of your station guilty.

There is a remedy though. Use one side of your mouth to condemn people like yourself while eating the cake with the other. Have fundraisers, start movements, show up at every natural disaster or protest march and stick your mug in front of a camera while in a loud voice decrying the callousness and insensitivity of the haves over the have nots, then quickly board your private jet and speed away to the next cause de jour. You can even purchase your dignity in installments, or rather offsets, and eventually, after enough sycophantic praise convinces you that aren’t really that shallow, you can look at yourself in the mirror without blanching. Meanwhile, the poor are still poor, the jobless are still on welfare and the country is still going to Socialist Hell in a hand basket, with the man you elected sitting in the seat of power.

Okay, maybe I shouldn’t be comparing Obama to Satan. But the facts are there for everyone to see. We were warned and still we wouldn’t listen. We were still mesmerized by the prestidigitation, still cowed by the guilt that the leftists use to try and make us ashamed of being American, still unwilling to be seen as being conservative because of the stigma that the media heaps upon anything right of center and so, because we were either disgusted into complacency or because we really believed in hope and change, we swallowed the bait hook line and sinker. Now here we are dangling on the line, out of the water and gasping for air and our future is a cornmeal over coat and a hot frying pan full of spilled crude.

Cynical? You’re damned skippy. But let’s not allow the fact that the scales have been removed from our eyes to cause us to shut them and hope it all goes away, because that’s just what they expect us to do. Instead, let’s use our cynicism as a catalyst for our brand of harmony and unity, a brand that actually means something and is not born aloft by rhetoric and carpet bagger snake oil pitches. Let’s do our due diligence and make sure we know who we are voting for before we elect more buffoons and caricatures; let’s look beyond the stage props and special effects and examine the high definition reality of what is right in front of our own faces and then act. Otherwise we deserve everything we get.

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Is anyone surprised that violence in Afghanistan has risen 45% since last year? You shouldn’t be.

The Taliban are convinced they’ve beaten us and they’re stepping up the attack to drive us out as quickly as possible. This should be, for Obama, one of his cherished “learning moments”, the lesson being that when your military is actively engaged overseas, you don’t announce to the enemy when you are planning to withdraw your troops, especially after you campaigned on winning the Afghan war.

The terrorists don’t care how many of their soldiers or citizens have to die to drive us out and that’s the difference in this conflict. No matter how by the book we go, they are playing with a different set of rules altogether and their rules say kill the infidel. The sad part is, we could win with our rules but for the reluctance to effectively use them for fear of international finger-wagging. No one wants to have happen to them what happened to President Bush, namely being labeled a war criminal and actually being in jeopardy of being brought up on charges (though I doubt Mr. Kucinich’s bleating was really seriously considered.)

The 45% number comes from the recent United Nations quarterly report as reported in Reuters yesterday (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65J01G20100620?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews ) saying that roadside bombings and suicide bombings have risen dramatically and that more “complex” operations show that the local groups linked to al Qaeda are growing more capable, which Secretary General Ban ki-Moon called “alarming”.

Alarming indeed. But is there still an opportunity to succeed in Afghanistan?

Nearly every time coalition forces strike targets in Afghanistan, civilians will be injured or killed, and not because they are simply regarded by us as unavoidable casualties, but because the cowards we are fighting hide behind them, mix amongst them and use them as human shields. There are of course those civilian deaths that are unavoidable in war; it is an ugly fact. Add to that an enemy that has no concern for the people they claim to rule and the tragedy multiplies. How can one measure victory against such cruelty?

We measure it by showing the people of Afghanistan that we are not just going to pick up and leave them to deal with or, rather, be dealt with by their oppressors, newly empowered by our abandonment and hungry to reinforce their dominance through new horrors exacted upon an already horrified people.

We measure it by a dramatic change in the rules of engagement for this conflict. The so-called Karzai 12 rules, which state among other things that our troops cannot fire when civilians are present or unless the enemy is “preparing” to fire on them and that villages must be warned before a search, make it nearly impossible for our troops and the Afghan forces themselves, which the rules say must be present during all searches, to effectively defeat this ruthless mob of religious fanatics bent on jihad.

Just who is Commander in Chief for American forces? Hamid Karzai or Barrack Obama? I understand we are in their country, but it wouldn’t be theirs right now if not for us and our allies and if they want to keep it, they should worry less about cultural sensitivity and more about ridding themselves of those whose only real motivation is power, though they would have you believe them holy warriors.

The Afghan war is winnable, the goal is attainable; all we need is the will to achieve it and the political fortitude to do what we have to know is the right thing to do. Unfortunately, Mr. Obama either doesn’t know it or hasn’t the political stomach for it and the people paying the price in blood are our troops and the Afghan people. Too late they are learning what those who fought against Obama’s election tried to warn us all about; this man cannot be trusted.

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I have spoken with many people over the last few weeks who, like me, believe that President Obama’s presidency has been an unmitigated failure and invariably they say they are happy to see him fail because that means that he will never be re-elected. Well, I have to disagree.

Firstly, don’t count your conservative chickens just yet. As far as I can tell, there isn’t one prominent conservative in the Republican, Libertarian or Independent parties that has the gravitas or wherewithal to beat the ridiculously popular Barack Obama in a heads up election, even with the President falling over his own feet on the oil spill disaster and his approval ratings dropping below fifty percent.

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I believe Sarah Palin is unelectable because the left wing media has effectively made her so. Mitt Romney so far has been far too silent for my tastes; if you remember, John Edwards, Obama and Hilary Clinton came out in full campaign mode two years before the election cycle during George W. Bush’s final term. John McCain has already proven he’s unelectable and neither Ron nor Rand Paul could match the Obama machine in campaign fund raising. Also remember, Bill Clinton was ripe for the picking in his second term campaign having lost Congress to the Republicans in the mid-term elections, but because the conservatives could only field an anemic Bob Dole as their candidate (despite the fact that he would have made a great President), the country was subjected to the humiliation of a president who was eventually impeached for lying to Congress. So, unless a Reaganesque figure emerges between now and 2012, we conservatives have very little to look forward to.

Secondly, rejoicing over the failure of Barack Obama is akin to burning down a house because the paint job has faded. Our economy is horrid; the jobs market is practically non-existent; the government has taken unprecedented control over private industry, dragging us against our will toward European style socialism; by the end of the year, taxes will be higher than they have been in decades; the national debt is completely out of control and may never recover; our deficit is in the trillions of dollars; the dollar itself is worth less now than at any time in our history and the Obama administration has done nothing – nothing – to stop the outrageous spending that will beggar our children and grandchildren. And now as what is rapidly becoming the worst potential environmental disaster in American history escalates in the Gulf of Mexico, Obama sits on his hands and waits while British Petroleum runs the show, showing an international community that already believes that America’s greatness is behind her that we can’t even take control of our own problems, much less be the standard for the rest of the world.

So, take no joy in Obama’s failures. Don’t gloat about having been right all along about his being completely unprepared and under qualified for the responsibility of the office of President. Instead, use his example as a cautionary tale and when it comes time in November to vote in the mid term elections and then again in 2012 for his reelection , don’t fall for Hollywood style campaign theatrics and slick presentations, don’t be swayed by flowery rhetoric and melodrama.

Don’t cast your vote for from your heart; use your head.

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Obama Fears The Ghosts Of The Fallen

There is great hue and cry amongst certain circles about President Obama skipping the ceremony at Arlington Memorial Cemetery yesterday and instead speaking in Chicago on what, for most of us, was a day for remembering the fallen dead, those who sacrificed the utmost in order to preserve the sovereignty of our nation.

Mr. Obama’s apologists will fall over themselves to remind us that he is not the first President to forego Arlington on Memorial Day. Ronald Reagan missed Arlington four times in eight years; both Presidents Bush missed going to Arlington on Memorial Day, in fact H.W. Bush never went once. Bill Clinton traded space in Arlington for political favors and sold others for cash. But that’s not the point as far as I’m concerned.

Barack Obama’s passing up our most sacred military cemetery on the day we honor our slain veterans is more appropriate than anything else.

I would think that Obama probably would not want to go make a speech in front of the graves of the more than 300,000 brave souls whose mortal remains inhabit that hallowed ground. I would think that if he were to be made aware of how out of place he would be in the presence of so many true American heroes, he would at last develop a sense of shame concerning his open disdain for the country he so frequently chastises and decide that to speak in faux honor of those he does not honor is beyond even his stupendous ego. I would think that were he a superstitious man, he might very well imagine the ghosts of the fallen in Arlington rising up and pulling him down as he pontificated about a sense of duty and honor he knows little to nothing about.

Knowing that Mr. Obama has so little regard for the military and law enforcement in general, I am not at all surprised that his administration felt it was no big deal to lay flowers on the grave of a dead soldier, especially if no one knew who the soldier was. Given his propensity for painting our soldiers in the field as marauders, kicking in doors in the middle of night and terrorizing women and children, why would he honor them? Why show respect if you have none? The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated to American men and women who have died in defense of this country without their remains having been identified, so for all Obama knows he could be honoring a Confederate soldier or a Viet Nam Vet and how would Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers feel about that? How would the ultra left liberal America haters who put him in office feel knowing their icon honored baby killers?

So don’t be offended because Barack Obama didn’t feel it necessary to go to Arlington yesterday to revere our service men and women. Don’t assume that because he chose not to honor tradition that he did it as an open insult to our troops, because I don’t believe he did it as an intentional slap in their face. I believe that when it comes to President Obama, the slap in the face is implied. I believe he simply doesn’t give a damn.

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As the President once again shows the whites of his eyes in the face of another foreign power, it occurs to me that it makes no sense to expect him to do any different. Obama has cultivated an image for himself that speaks of diversity, fair play, justice, hope and change. Pretty much the gamut of what would make most people happy and exactly what one would want to hear when selecting a political candidate. He has a gift for being able to adjust his stance ever so slightly so that he can appeal to just about every demographic at any given time. He is almost as good at it as former President Clinton, who could stop on a dime and give you fifty cents better than just about anybody. When Mr. Obama can pick the place, the time, the questions and the questioners, he’s every bit the politician he claims not to be.

So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the President bows to Saudi Kings, shakes hands with Hugo Chavez and compares the U.S. human rights record to that of the Communist Chinese. That’s the super star mentality in action; he’s working the proverbial international room, schmoozing with the other heads of state in a giant country club mixer, saying what he knows will ingratiate himself to them so that, in his mind, they will like him and not want to take advantage of him. Instead, they shake his hand and pose for pictures, then move on to the next dignitary in the room where they both chuckle to themselves about how weak the United States has gotten. Meanwhile, the waiters and staff are all secretly Al Qaeda operatives, waiting for the right moment to toss away their serving dishes and hold the place hostage.

All satire aside, Mr. Obama is not doing anything we shouldn’t expect him to do. To use a popular phrase, he is what he is. He’s a liberal Democrat politician, and I’m sorry to say that politicians of any stripe, with very few exceptions, are of a type. There is a very long succession of politicians in this country who cultivated their own versions of themselves as Obama has, who would want us to believe they are above the fray of the mob and beyond reproach but invariably we see that they either cannot live up to their promise or had no intention to in the first place and the people pay the price because of wrongheaded policy and a show of weakness when a show of force is called for.

For instance, South Korea, after a yearlong process, has officially now blamed North Korea for the torpedoing of one of their navy vessels and has banned North Korea from entering their waters, suspended trade with them and promises another attack will result in a retaliatory action from the South Koreans. To his credit, Obama has pledged a joint military exercise with South Korea, but the elephant in the room is Kim Jong Il and the fact that he’s a nut job with a nuke. Those types of men, these dictators, believe that they are the most powerful men in the world, each of them, and when they sense weakness in one of their neighbors, they waste no time in exploiting and taking them over. I don’t believe under normal circumstances North Korea would use their nukes, because they get pretty much what they want just from threatening to use them and Kim Jong Il has no desire to be ruler over a wasteland, but I also know which way the nukes will be pointing if God forbid a war does break out because our long time enemies and one time allies find us ripe for the picking.

The first and most sacred duty of the Federal government is to protect the nation from enemies foreign and domestic. Now is not the time to entertain Mexican President Philippe Calderon and allow him to insult the citizens of Arizona before congress while his citizens break laws right and left on both sides of the border; it is not the time for a sitting President to openly and publicly denigrate a sovereign state in his own country, showing the world even more instability; it is not the time to sit by and watch BP fumble with themselves while more and more oil spills unchecked into the Gulf of Mexico threatening to destabilize huge parts of the east cost and there will never be a time when a President of the United States should ever compare our country to China in civil and human rights issues either directly or through intimation. EVER.

There are plenty of examples in history of great world powers destabilizing themselves through greed, arrogance and a weak core of government led by men who want nothing more than the accolades of the mob and the wealth that comes with it. They let their countries become soft and decadent and in the end, the barbarians came swarming over the walls and set the entire country burning leaving nothing of them but relics and ruins. America has the chance to break that tradition, but we must first stop the slide down into the pit, we must first right the ship and set ourselves on an even keel or we may be the first world power in history able to visit our own memorial.

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President Obama yesterday was asked if he agreed with visiting Mexican President Calderon that the Arizona immigration law, in Calderon’s words, “…is forcing our people to face discrimination.” The President replied with yet another public slam against Arizona law enforcement, saying the law, “…has the potential of being applied in a discriminatory fashion.”

Excuse me, but doesn’t every law have that same potential?

Mr. Obama then went on to say that “a fair reading” (well there’s a good start!) of the controversial law (controversial only to far left liberals and the illegals themselves – %70 of the public agrees with it) ostensibly increases the chances of “harassment” and that the judgments made by cops in the field could be “troublesome”.

Troublesome? Really?

I wonder where this disdain and mistrust for law enforcement stems from in our President. Was he pulled over and “harassed” by some racist cop in Hawaii or Chicago or wherever? I doubt it. Because if he had, we would already know about it. No way would a political opportunist like Barack Obama let something like being hassled by the man lie dormant in a political campaign, which for him really hasn’t stopped since it started in 2007. That kind of juicy red meat is just the ticket for the liberal press and far left fringers to devour and regurgitate ad nauseum. It would have become part of his repertoire at every function, in every debate and on every commercial, be woven in to the fabric of his compelling back story and spoken with stern earnestness in the audio version of his book. So where does it come from, this propensity to blame the cops first as he did in the arrest of Harvard law professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. back in July 2009 where the President called the actions of the police “stupid” or to automatically assume that Arizona cops would be apt to make “troublesome” judgments in matters concerning race?

Personally, I think he is pandering to his constituency. I think that he wants to be Robin Hood, stealing from the dastardly rich with the long arm of the IRS and then supposedly spreading the wealth to those less fortunate, except the less fortunate really don’t get anything for their vote. They get promises and flowery rhetoric, but they still have no jobs, are still losing their homes and are still standing in welfare lines to sign up for more. The tax money? Oh, don’t worry about the money, the money’s fine, the money is going to help the needy, as long as what you need are iPads and Xboxes.

So what do you say to the President when he deliberately slams cops for no other reason than the sake of the vote of the downtrodden?

There is a remedy built into our legal system for discriminatory practices by law enforcement; they call it an appeal. That means if you feel like you’ve been arrested and jailed based on anything other than the evidence against you can appeal the verdict to a higher court. And then, if you’re still not satisfied, you can keep appealing all the way to the Supreme Court (which is looking more and more like your best shot.) If you finally get your version of justice enforced and have the findings reversed and are still miffed, you and your lawyer can sue the police department, the city, the county the state and or the individual police officer or officers who treated you so badly in the first place.

It’s called the rule of law. That’s the code we live by as American citizens and we have mechanisms in place to enforce the laws agreed upon by our elected officials. Then again, if the laws that are already in place concerning immigration had been enforced sometime in the last two decades, the State of Arizona wouldn’t have had to adopt their own version of the Federal law in order for their citizens to sleep peacefully at night.

So how about this Mr. Obama; let the Arizona cops do their jobs and you start doing yours? Ok? Because let’s face it, if the Federal Government had been doing their jobs all along, we wouldn’t be in this predicament.

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