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Isn’t it sadly ironic that the last time this country actually united together and stood as one nation, indivisible, it came at the loss of 3000 lives?

Looking today at the hatred spewed across the internet and across the television airways, where Democrats call Republicans war mongering fat cats, Republicans call Democrats lily-livered crybabies and us Libertarians call them all clueless profiteers, an outside observer might get the impression that our country is divided against itself and so weakened by our internal hemorrhaging that we are now the proverbial straggler in the herd of man and therefore ripe for the picking. And how did we get this way? We have no leaders.

Americans are fickle, like all humans, when it comes to patriotism. There are those who post the flag outside of their house all year long, there are those who post it on holidays and in memoriam, there are those who don’t own flags and there are those who burn the flag in protest. Some of us are outraged when banning the pledge of allegiance on elementary school campuses is proposed; some of us choose not to have our children participate when the pledge is read and still some of us try to force their wills on others by making it impossible to opt in. America was founded on the principle that, under and guided by the rule of law, all are free to believe what they will. That is the freedom we believe in.

In decades past, when America was attacked and Americans called to action, we put aside those differences and overlooked our ideologies, sacrificing our lives in defense of American values and ideals, overcoming seemingly impossible odds, calling upon that part of us inherited from our collective history, the part that brooks no insult, suffers no indignity and defends against any aggressors who dare the cross the line in the sand and attack our homeland. We were Americans representing America.

Recently, however, it has almost become socially unacceptable to show pride in your nation, to speak out against those who have openly declared hostile intentions towards us, who have indeed taken lives in a war that only they seem to be aware we are in. It is chic, now, to denounce America and American culture not only here at home, but abroad as well and if that weren’t bad enough, the main denouncers are our own representatives, even our President. Today, when media driven schisms funded by billionaire ideologues can influence what we hear and what we see and how we vote, the ultimate goal being controlling and sculpting the political landscape to suit their own agendas, then those with the wherewithal to recognize a snake oil pitch when they hear it, in the end become victims of political sleight of hand disguised as slick advertising campaigns selling the product of freedom that we are already guaranteed.

So, where are our leaders? Where can we find men and women truly dedicated to the cause of American freedom, who desire nothing more than re-elevating our country back to the pinnacle from which we ourselves have deposed it by buying into the hype and bitter partisanism constantly bombarding us from satellites and cables and blogospheres? I wish I knew, because we need them now, perhaps more than we ever have before in our history.

The last time our country banded together arm in arm and shook our fists at the sky in defiance of the powers allied against us, was ten years ago today, a day when three thousand people were slaughtered on our soil at the hands of another group of ideologues whose fervor and passion for their own cause led them to despicable acts of violence against the sovereignty of the United States. We came together then. I shudder as I wonder what it will take to unite us today.

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I have lived long enough to see the first last gasps of a dying idea; the idea that, as the bard would have it, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. There was a time when the most revered ideal held up by the United States was the ideal that guarantees freedom of expression without censorship by the government; that time apparently is over.

The AP reports that Mark Twain “scholar” Alan Gribben and NewSouth Books in Alabama are editing “Tom Sawyer” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, to remove what they deem “offensive” words. Their plan is to remove certain words and phrases: “Injun Joe” will now be “Indian Joe” and the term “half-breed” will become “half-blood”, but the biggest change will be the infamous “n” word. The plan is to replace it with what they apparently believe is a less demeaning word – slave.

In a popular culture where the “n” word is bandied about in verse, song, television, movies and is even used by some people as a term of endearment for one another, Mr. Gribben and the people at NewSouth have taken it upon themselves to declare it “offensive”. In fact they fancy themselves the mediators of what is or isn’t “offensive” for the American public and though they technically don’t work for the government, Mr. Gribben does work for Auburn University in Montgomery, the connection being that the recent 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, otherwise known as Federal Stimulus Plan or Recovery Act, where stimulus money ($48.6 billion nationwide) goes to directly to schools from kindergarten through college, as well as the governments virtual takeover of the college loan industry make the United States Government, by act of law, involved in censorship, an act prohibited by the First Amendment to the Constitution.

The attempted indoctrination of American schoolchildren by a biased bureaucracy tied directly to the U.S. Government by the purse strings of the Department of Education has risen to a level unprecedented, to the degree that millions of conscientious parents are pulling their children out of public schools and teaching them at home, where the kids have teachers who honestly care about their students and ideas of what is right and what is wrong morally and spiritually comes from them, and not from the government approved schoolbooks and lesson plans given to teachers to pass along to our children from the so-called powers that be.

Mr. Gribben no doubt thinks he is doing something noble; he believes himself responsible and indeed obligated to correct the record on behalf of Mr. Twain. He believes himself so beyond reproach that in his mind, everyone must think as he does, at least all the good people, and that anyone like myself who believes that the decision whether or not to read Mark Twain or allow children to read it is not in the bailiwick of anyone other than those to whom the responsibility lies, in the individual or the parent, we are merely too stupid to be allowed to make that decision for ourselves.

For the government to allow or disallow a book into a school or university library based on whether or not the proper edits have been made is unconstitutional, its un-American and it’s a prime example of exactly the type of power mongering the Constitution was set up to circumvent and if the new whitewashed version of “Huck Finn” or “Tom Sawyer” is accepted over the original in any government run or government influenced school library, then that is exactly what will be happening.

Mr. Gribben has the right to make his changes; the public will decide whether they like them or not, just as they did 20 years ago when the very same thing was done to the very same books and the books were roundly rejected. It didn’t work then and it won’t work now. Violating the first amendment rights of a man 100 years in his grave is a weak attempt at social engineering and to imagine that desecrating a man’s life work will somehow magically heal race relations and erase bigotry in people’s minds is naïve and backward thinking. That, I believe, is the ultimate irony of the whole idea, that one can use outdated and oppressive methods like censorship to bring about more openness and awareness.

Imagine for a second a group of parents gathered together at their church going through rap lyrics or Stephen King novels and revising them according to what they thought was “indecent” or “offensive”. How far do you think those same activists and self-appointed arbiters of the public conscious like Mr. Gribben and his ilk would let that go? How hard would the media come down on and marginalize and demonize those parents who took after the example of Mr. Gribben and attempted to remake popular culture in their own images? What happens when the government decides to just go ahead and take control of all media – television, radio, the internet, email, text messages, cell phone calls…

…fallen down the slippery slope yet? Cause we may have just teetered over the edge.

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How has it come to this? How has the United States fallen so far? Once (it seems ages ago now) the world respected the U.S., and those that didn’t at least had enough fear of us to remain relatively docile. Now, with a President who seems bent on weakening the people through socialism and the country itself through capitulation and cow towing to any radical with a turban, the once greatest nation in the history of the world is a laughing stock, a punch line at elitist liberal dinner parties and as far as I can tell there is no resurgence in sight.

As more and more of our liberty is stripped away legislatively through faked compassion and pseudo-science, as our industries are co-opted by an ever growing bureaucracy, as drug lords cross the Mexican border and murder our citizens, as Iran creeps ever closer to becoming nuclear armed, where is the backbone of the American ideal? I’ll tell you where it is.

The national backbone is broken and bent, weakened by milquetoast liberalism and so-called progressive thinkers whose convoluted idea of strength means little more than the rhetoric spouted at political rallies and tabloid-esque town hall debates between representatives of two parties chosen by a no more contemplative electorate than those who call in their votes on television “reality” shows, but the true reality, the stark reality of life, is that while the government grows and the powerful struggle to remain powerful, the suffering continues unabated. The jobless are still jobless, the hungry are still hungry, and those willing to sacrifice are forced to pay for those unwilling to lift a finger toward their own welfare.

Our troops are demonized by their own press in their own cities and states while they die because the oh so much more intelligent politicians conduct their affairs from a thousand miles away; our industries are seized and taken over by our own government in the guise of some communistic ideal of re-distributive “justice”, then the proceeds are auctioned off to foreign governments who already own our financial futures well into the next several decades; charity and benevolence are legislated away by official edict, forcing those who already give of their own free will to support those to whom their charity was never intended; the very care of our children and our elderly (the majority of whom are part of generation who never would have stood by and allowed communism to take root in the homeland they defended in the great war of our time) their care is given over not to their families, their doctors or their own desires, but to a panel of bureaucrats who have no stake other than keeping their government pensions; citizens – actual citizens – who have lived and paid their taxes and followed the line of what they were led to believe was the American dream are now forced to participate in their own robberies under penalty of law, including the loss of their own liberty, while those who are here illegally claim rights and privileges they are in no way entitled to. That’s the America we live in. Now you tell me: does that sound like the founder’s intent?

The time is drawing near when the government, for our own goods of course, will legislate away everything that makes us unique in the history of world government. The time will come when the fruits of your labor will no longer go towards the benefit of those for whom you intend it; indeed that time is already here. The next phase of the plot is the removal your right to defend yourself and your property, where speaking out and standing up are criminal offenses, when standing off invaders, foreign and domestic, at the point of a gun will be the only recourse left to those with the backbone left to do it, because it is obvious that our leaders have no backbone at all.

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The GOP in a bid to shore up support for the upcoming November election has released the “Pledge To America”, trying to emulate the 1994 “Contract With America” championed by then Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich during President Clinton’s midterms when Republicans swept the House and the Senate for the first time in decades. But as President Obama’s administration is falling apart and support for him is at an all-time low, Republicans should know better than to try the same type of political theater that Obama’s ’ detractors have grown so tired of to push an agenda designed around appeasement rather
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First let’s compare the “Pledge” to the “Contract”.

The first part of the “Pledge” is basically a study in redundancy, repeating what we all know to be the principals and ideals set forth by the founders, that in America we, the governed, through our votes are supposed to be able to determine for our collective selves what the laws of the land should be, what direction the country should take and what values are important to us as a nation.

They go on to state “We pledge to make government more transparent in its actions, careful in its stewardship and honest in its dealings.” Sounds familiar. In fact, it sounds a lot like a certain mantra from a recent Presidential campaign. That turned out well. The pledges continue.

“We pledge to uphold the purpose of a better America, knowing that to whom much is given, much is expected and that the blessings of our liberty buoy the hopes of mankind.” To whom much is given? How many people have to die on foreign battlefields before some people realize nothing is given…it is earned. Gifts are given – freedom has to be fought for and bled for and for the people who have to do the bleeding, pledges and promises in the same old political rhetorical language are hollow, staid and too little too late.

The preamble ends with “We make this pledge bearing true faith and allegiance to the people we represent and we invite fellow citizens and patriots in forming a new governing agenda for America.” A new governing agenda? The agenda we conservatives want isn’t new, it’s been the agenda from the beginning of the Republic: government by and for and of the people, not the representatives and the sooner they realize that the better for them. But is it better for us? This last “pledge” is a transparent attempt by the GOP to associate and ingratiate themselves with the Tea Party contingent, which in recent primaries have upset the conservative apple cart and scared lifelong politicians out of their smoke filled rooms and into the light, to straddle the rails of the ship just in case it sinks.

The rest of the “pledge” lays out the “plans”; the plan to create jobs, end “economic uncertainty” and make America more competitive; the “plan” to stop “out of control spending” and reduce the size of government; the “plan” to repeal healthcare; a “plan” to “reform” congress and restore trust; and a “plan” to “keep our nation secure at home and abroad.” All of these so-called “plans” are full of the same talking points and key words that some overpaid advisor told them we wanted to hear and there are even pie charts and graphs and inspirational quotes from historic figures like Margaret Thatcher, Dwight D. Eisenhower and of course Ronald Reagan. No document designed to mollycoddle the conservative base could be complete without a quote from Reagan. I just wonder if ol’ Dutch would give this “pledge” the time of day. I doubt it.

Gingrich’s “Contract” by comparison was a concise, mainly non-rhetorical and straightforward statement of actual acts and laws (not vague “plans”) that would, if enacted, have made an actual difference instead of double speak manufactured to merely win an elective seat for some dinosaur politician too used to the perks and celebrity that are too often accepted as coming with the territory. No quotations from Conservative heroes past, no empty phraseology, and no cliché riddled teleprompter talking points and it worked because we bought it and for a while the people who wrote it stood behind it, but only for a while. Too soon, the trappings of elected office and the perceived power it brings got the better of the men and women who rode that bandwagon into Washington and they began to reap the benefits, growing the bureaucracy they swore to deflate and losing the trust of the people they swore to defend. The result was a shift to the far left that has tilted the country into dependency and brought about the bankruptcy of the American dream, not to mention the abandonment of the ideals and values the “pledge” wishes us to hearken to.

We don’t want or need any party or any coalition or movement to remind us what it means to be American, what our ideals are or what this Republic was founded on; we need our elected officials to remember it. We need our voices to be heard and we need to know that when we speak, not only are we listened to, we are obeyed.

Pledges? We don’t need no stinking pledges.

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Article first published as America’s Fading Passion on Technorati.

Much political hay has been made about the reasons we are at war, indeed even if we are at war at all. Some would have us believe that the 9/11 tragedy was planned, that we ourselves were complicit in it, either directly or indirectly and there are even some in our own backyard who would further the cause of Islamic jihad by killing their one-time friends and neighbors.

Protesters carry signs demonizing our troops, marching up and down shouting slogans, showing up at funerals claiming they are doing God’s work. So-called journalists with tingly feelings use their bully pulpits to make accusations of torture and midnight raids into innocent people homes terrorizing women and children, tearing one administration down while they mollycoddle the next because they feel it is their job to make the one they agree with work, all the while conveniently ignoring the fact that were they in the enemy camp, their heads would have most likely rolled years ago.

We here in America complain a lot about things as they are and as they once were, but never enough about how they should be and we never stop to think about how they could be. Instant gratification, redistributive justice and the myth of equality are what drive us these days, romantic notions of a Utopian society that even if it could exist would not last long because of the self-same entitlement mentality that wishes it in the first place. No room for growth, no remuneration for hard work except some phantom feeling of misplaced self-importance and no desire to better our stations in life unless it be as American Idols. We have become spoiled and lazy, petulant children who want what they want when they want it and feel they deserve it whether they earned it or not, no matter who has to pay the bill. So what separates us from our enemy?

Passion.

Those who carried out the 9/11 attacks believed they were slaughtering three thousand people in the name of God, truly, passionately, believed it. The insurgents who killed four thousand more of us and continue to fight us in the streets of Iraq and Afghanistan believe it; those here in our own country who are planning as we speak to carry out more acts of terrorism against us believe it. But what do we believe? Where is our passion?

It is in the hearts and souls of our fighting men and women, our first responders, our police and firefighters and in some cases in our political leaders who refuse to buckle under the pressure of the far left agitators who label them war mongers and neo-cons and other unprintable monikers.

Right now, on the anniversary of 9/11, we desperately need to find our passion as Americans and stand up on our principals, on what we know to be right and make the hard choices. We need to hearken back ten years and remember where we were and what we felt as the flames spread and the lives were lost and use that passion to re-rake our country before another day like that happens again. Ever.

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A Gainesville, Florida church has plans to burn copies of the Qur’an ostensibly to commemorate the 9/11 tragedy, despite calls from religious leaders of all faiths to reconsider and warnings from General Petraeus that it would add further danger to troops still in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I hope and pray that this is only an isolated incident, that there aren’t churches across the country taking up what seems to them, in a twisted and ignorant sort of way, a seemingly patriotic idea. It must be an overly fanatic, warped sense of national pride that would prompt these misguided parishioners to behave so primitively, because the idea has no relationship to Christianity in any way that I’ve ever heard of.

Make no mistake I have no love for our enemies. I know and understand that they believe themselves to be holy warriors who offer either conversion or death, and who have no problem burning our flag, our holy books or our people in order to indoctrinate the entire world into their religion and that they are simply puppets under the control of their religious leadership. In my mind, Islamic jihadists in a nuclear world are the most dangerous people on the earth. But I don’t believe that in order to defeat them, we must become them.

It’s time for us to stop using religion as a backdrop for hatred and violence, especially here in the United States. More people in the history of man have died in the name of one organized religion or the other than because of disease or natural disaster or act of God. It is hypocritical to preach peace with a holy book in one hand while waging war with a bayonet in the other.

There are two forces in the world, extra-human forces, wavelengths of power, one positive and one negative. Their origins are beyond our understanding, so much so that in order to even express our comprehension of them we have personified and deified them, but they are there and though we cannot understand them, we can affect them as they affect us. Through our actions (some believe even through our thoughts) we can direct the flow of these wavelengths of power, with our natural world being the fulcrum on which the results balance. To help those who would be our enemies by evoking the negative more than the positive is counterproductive and actually helps to tip the balance in their direction.

Our enemies are our enemies because they chose to be our enemies, and for no other reason. Their religious leaders have manipulated their beliefs and their emotions by fomenting a religious fervor, with us as the oppressors, us as the ones who want them dead, us as the defilers of their religion. They have focused the negative flow and hypnotized their followers with it and then set them upon us. To publicly burn their bible on television for them to see (and they will see it) only helps those who would use them as chattel in their quest for world domination to further the lie that we hate them because of their religion. The fact is, we hate what they do in the name of their religion, and if they insist on making us their enemies, then they give us no choice but to defend our lives, even if that means hunting them down before they can come here and slaughter more of us.

But we are Americans. We are not our enemy. We do not need to burn their Qur’an, we do not need to convert them to Christianity, and we are not going to heaven because we die in the war to defeat them. To use the 9/11 atrocity to promote your church is disgusting and a huge reason why a lot of caring, conscientious, spiritual people stay away from organized religion altogether.

We are supposed to be an enlightened nation, a beacon for peace and tolerance and freedom. For God’s sake, let’s act like one.

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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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