Did I miss something? Apparently, we did not leave Europe some time ago in the hopes of getting away from their ideas and way of governing their countries. Seriously, I guess I have been wrong all this time. Wait, I checked and I am not wrong. Why then should I vote to make the rest of the world happy? I don't give a damn if some one in France cares about MY country's election. I don't give a damn if the people of Naples (whom by the way, can't even figure out how to take out their own trash) like or dislike McCain. The fact that other nations like France and Italy don't like McCain make me want to vote for him even more. France!? To quote a movie, and forgive me for doing so but, "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" Why would other countries dislike McCain, hmm, its a good and fair question isn't it? Could it be that McCain would promote country first? Could it be that there would be less to gain if McCain was in office in the way of mass immigration? In the way of importing? In the way of global handouts? Now with Obama, do I really even need to point out all the chaos that will ensue if he were elected? How about the fact that there are parts of the anti-America world that claim him a messiah? How about the fact that he associates himself with self proclaimed anti-American people? We are suppose to look the other way because if we don't we are instantly racist. If Obama was a white man and he came to me as a white man and said, "Ok Kimberly, in my presidency I would like to take the top earning Americans and tax the hell out of them so that I can redistribute (through government) their wealth to the rest of the people, I want to use these tax hikes to give every one here free healthcare, I want to bring all our troops home in one and a half years regardless if we have won the war or not. We may have to wave the flag of surrender, so be it, just so long as we are not spending any more on the war in Iraq. I would like to continue to let your children go out and get abortions with out your permission, but will continue to support the fact that a lip ring must require your signature. I want to send the UN an extra 10 million or so to help them out, because after all we all know they value our input so much that it could only help. And so on..." I would look at his white face and say, " STOP YOU SOCIALISTIC, CRAZY, LEFT WINGER!" You see for me the color of Obama's skin is made important only by those that cannot afford to be held accountable for their actions or aspiration of actions. Ok so we are not suppose to look at the fact that Obama has relations with known terrorist both domestic and abroad. We are not suppose to look at the fact that his "plan" for national medical care will finish taking out the last crippled leg our economy is standing on. Ever go to an ER in a big city? Death doesn't come soon enough for some waiting there, wounds heal on their own before they are seen, now imagine going when the WHOLE NATION WILL BE THERE FOR FREE! It is un-American to question why our leaders are so eager to take away our basic rights to defend ourselves, to hold true to the God that this nation was built upon, to want to succeed.That is anti-American? Then we should in fact tell our kids not to strive for excellence, after all we are all winners aren’t we? We should not strive to grab on to the American dream and make something of our selves, we should aspire to stand in the same line as every one else to get our cheese and bread? NO THANK YOU! What happened to the America I was promised as a child? The one that wouldn’t take crap from anyone including the socialist morons that we claim as our own? Why do we have to worry about what the rest of America hating countries think? What about the way this land was shaped? Was that also un-American? Was the blood shed to separate us from England un-American? Perhaps it is just me that doesn’t understand this way of thinking. If in fact that is the truth that it is just me, I apologize for my stupidity. For my naïve way of thinking that I can aspire to be more in life than just government dependant. I have seen hard times in my life. I grew up in an apartment with very little. I have eaten popcorn for dinner and I have had to go to bed with hunger pains. I have lived on the generosity of my friends because I didn’t have my own home or my own food, but I have seen myself through those times because I had the promise of being and gaining something more out of life. I feel like those times have helped me become stronger. Those times in my life when I was less or in a place of less helped me to always remember to look up and try just a little bit harder. Silly me. Now we have to sit back and listen as Palin is criticized for saying that she likes small town America because it reminds her of real America? Excuse me, has anyone looked at the leading reason posted by small town America to visit their little towns? SMALL TOWN VALUES. SMALL TOWN IDEALS. Hello, is this thing on? Isn’t that what separates the heartbeat of America with the hurried hum of the city? Aren’t the values expressed in small town churches and town halls combatant of the moral-less vibe felt in the big city? Is that not in fact the America of our parents and grandparents? Perhaps it should be considered un-American of Lincoln to have aspired for a better life for slaves and all man kind. Perhaps that pesky JFK should have asked not what we could do for our country but what our rich could invest in for the “spreading of the wealth”. And perhaps MLK should have dreamed of a time when aspiring to stand in welfare lines was the most we would be able to accomplish. And our founding fathers should have been blind to the fact that they saw and warned of a time when our government might become too powerful and try to make America a land of the government not of the people.

To quote two undeniably great men:

“I have tried to live my life so that my family loves me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.” --John Wayne

and President Reagan of John Wayne…

There is a great truth in those words spoken. There is a great living legacy in the spirit of conservative America, I find pride in that. I find hope in that. There was a time in this land when a man was not worth more than his handshake. What is wrong with wanting to live a life that only allows virtue and honor as a means of sustaining itself? What is wrong with wanting to live a life that accepts only wrong or right and leaves all the “gray” areas for the rest of the world to embrace? I realize that wanting to live a life that makes my father-in-law proud, because to me he is an American hero, is a silly desire. As an American that is my right, is it not? When I die I want simply those that remember me to say, “She was a good woman. She was true to the life she lived. She was true to her husband and children. She loved the Lord and she died proud to be American.”

That’s the way I see it!

Sitting in my car this morning, I began to realize just how important this election really is. So much of our lives are at stake and it would seem that intelligent beings are far becoming the minority. I try to reassure myself that we are not really voting for socialism, yet every where I turn I hear the ranting of a mad man, and the rants are believed. I try to reassure myself that the one and seemingly only way to hear conservative news is not going to be eliminated, yet the "fairness act" threatens in a very real way to do just that. When my children do not want me to know they ate more cookies than they should have before dinner, they come up with ways to shield it from my eyes. When I listen to the spew of the left wingers, I feel like I am standing in my kitchen with an empty cookie jar listening to the non-sense my children would have me believe. Well, I am sorry my friends, but I do not believe aliens have come to take my cookies to spread around the universe; much like I do not believe Obama should take my hard earned money and spread it around the country. I do my part, I give when and where I can. I live, like most folks, paycheck to paycheck. My husband would see his job in jeopardy if Obama's craziness is in fact implemented. What would we do then? Will Obama really be there with his wealth to share? Will I really be able to rely on his generosity to buy groceries, pay my bills, buy my gas? I think not. I don't want to sit in judgment of the herd calling them selves Americans but COME ON! Really? Moo is what you are going with? Perhaps Oprah has so much money that taking more than half of it will mean nothing to her, perhaps Madonna is such a saint that she will gladly give up her fortune. Praise them and their unselfish ways! I and my family however need what we make a month to live. Sorry. I know that that is rude. I know that that holds true to being uncompassionate, but I'm not talking about wealth to send my children to college, I'm talking about being able to pay my car payment. Beyond the queuing of the violins, I am not racist. I am not racist. I am not racist. I am going to vote for McCain. I am not racist. Why is it that the only people out there promoting racism are the ones that should be denying its importance? Obama said during a dinner speech (done in humor) That despite what every one has heard, he was not born in a manger. I laughed. Man did I laugh, because it was funny. Until the glass ball of that humor shattered around my feet, with the realization that most people voting for Obama view him as just such. A savior. Has any one besides me had the thought that African Americans hold them selves down? That being so full of hatred has blinded them to a life that could and should be wonderful? When the country and country men of your home become your worst enemy what do you do with that? Where do you go from there, how do you begin to heal? I often wonder what Martin Luther King Jr would in fact think of today had he not been killed. I don't think he would be emitting pride. I wonder if his fellow African Americans would be in the direction they are in had he been running for president today? I would be willing to bet he would be saddened by the direction our country is going. I firmly believe that we are becoming so deplorable as a nation that the extreme left wing is our only way to go because there is no accountability in that belief system. Every thing done is easily some one else's fault. Much like my child with chocolate on his face, he did not eat the cookies because HE did it by choice, he ate them because they made him by being so delicious. In his logic then, he should not be punished, the cookies should and what better way than to eat more? This is not logic beyond that of an eight year old, is it? Disappointingly, resoundingly, YES. The idea that we need to be told at every turn what to do, where to do it, when to do it infuriates me. I am not an eight year old and I am not stupid. Government has its place. Government has its importance. However, neither of those things are in the living room of my house, with my check book, with my children and certainly not with my marriage. Look Liberal America I am not sorry I am white. I am not sorry I can successfully think for myself. I am not sorry that I feel I have the right to say where and when my money goes. I am not sorry that the colors RED WHITE AND BLUE bring a lump in my throat when I see them flying. I am not sorry that seeing men and women in uniform protecting my country brings a level of pride in me so high I don’t need drugs. I am not sorry to be a free-thinking, “right” defending, moral toting, American so really, take a flying leap! Take your granola bars and your Birkenstocks and go hike yourself into oblivion. I am done with you. Take responsibility for once in your life for the things you think and do and make a real change for the better, become REPUBLICANS! I too have a dream, and its that America wakes up from its moral-less, guilt free, godless, disgusting stupor and remembers just what it means to be free and who gave that right to them.
That’s the way I see it!

I was talking to a very dear friend the other day. We were discussing our lives and what was new in them. As with many of my conversations, our discussion began to include the election and various political view points. As our conversation progressed my friend stated to me that she was just an American American and not really into the politics of it all. She then asked me if that made sense. I chuckled and said that it did in a small way. Our conversation drifted to our children and husbands, but my mind stayed on the remark. I tried hard to come to terms with being "just an American American, not really into politics". I began to wonder how many of the men and women that died on 911 were just "American Americans". How many of the brave firefighters and police officers were just "American Americans". I wondered how many of the men and women in our armed forces are indeed just "American Americans". The thought chills me because, I am not just an "American American". Our nation is dying and it is due to the idea that we own our freedom, that we no longer have to remember our past. We stand united on the day of a crisis, no one does that better than an "American American". Then as the cameras are shut off and the media returns the slow and steady hum of what makes our world spin, we forget. We put it away because there are far more important things in our lives to deal with. Truly we are important as individuals, truly our daily grind is in fact the pulse of our country's heartbeat, but it is in those quiet moments when our country breathes together, that our true selves are defined. It is in that moment when we utter the words NEVER AGAIN, that we hold onto the real sense of being an American. It is our privilege to hold the colors of our nation, it is our honor to raise them up and believe in what they stand for. Our very soil is embedded with them, runs deep and dark and we simply forget. I know it is easy, I have at times been guilty of the same crime. The sale at the mall will only be for two more days and what about dinner, we have to eat, but what about the fact that those are our concerns only because we have brave souls out there doing what ever they can to guarantee us those beautifully simple moments in our lives? Are we going to look them in the face and tell them, I am sorry, but I am too American to be bothered with the politics of it all? Through out history humans have stood on the edge of change, they have held the moments that would decide for generations to come the life that would be lived. We are there, we are on the edge of forever and I wonder are we so far gone that we don't see the blades set up below us? Are we going to have to tell our grandchildren that we indeed held the key to a secure future but we were too American to turn the lock? This election holds more than who will be the blame of the next four years of ho-hum, this election decides what kind of Americans we are, we will be. What kind will you be? Perhaps I am too bothered with politics, perhaps I am not American enough, but until my last breath has drifted quietly away from my body I will care. I will care what kind of America my children get to live in. I will care what kind of America I will grow old in. America is dying and we need to realize it before it is too late to change that out come. What about you, are you too American to care? For our very sakes, I pray the answer is no. For our very sakes, I pray that you are not just “American American”.

That's the way I see it.

Now before all you vultures swoop in because you think another republican is dead in the water, let me clarify. I DO NOT support the radical ideas of Adolph Hitler. I am simply making a point. If his name was in fact John Adolph McCain, there would be cartoons in the New York Times, SNL skits depicting it, chants at Democratic rallies, blurbs every where about it and its ironic similarity to that horrible man. Democrat politicians would be sure to say it aloud at every opportunity and the negative notation that would go along with it would be blatantly broadcast. If in fact it was John McCain that had any form of ties with known terrorist we would hear of it at every turn. If John McCain made any kind of remarks announcing, denouncing his affiliation with anti-America spouting morons we would hear of it every time we turned on the TV or opened a paper. If McCain voted one way and then used the “I didn’t know I would be wrong when I did” defense it would be jammed down our throats until we bled it from our bowels. Frankly, I am tired of being called fascist because I have Christian morals and Republican beliefs. I am tired of being called racist because I’m NOT voting for Obama. I’m not voting for him because I don’t share his socialistic idea of America. I had a great friend as a child who happened to be black. Funny thing, I nor she ever saw the color of each other. Why should I now be called racist? And excuse me but what about all the people out there voting for Obama simply because he IS black? What if not racist are they? I’m tired of worrying about the person next to me thinking that I should be put away because I forgot to say African-American. In fact I think that from now on I want to be called Melting pot-American, because that is after all what I am, as is what all of us are. I’m tired of flipping the pages sent home from my children’s schools to find a Spanish translation. Last time I checked English was still our national language. Isn’t it? I am tired of going to certain parts of big cities and the street signs are in other languages. No, I don’t care that I share this great land with other cultures, but it would be nice if it still resembled AMERICA! How far have we come past our own morals, our own basic sense of humanity, that we stare down, shout at, and criticize a man serving our country as an elected official for simply saying out loud the full name of someone, but we can look the other way and watch an other movie or buy another designer bag while botched abortions are left to die in the arms of the unlucky nurses working that particular shift. How did we come to a point in our lives when we can leave hungry children, homeless children, abandoned children in our own streets here at home, just to have the newest fad, the child adopted from another country? It is time for a change. It is time for America to wake up from this numb walk we are doing. It is time to see our lives come full circle and embrace the very things that we are trying so hard to abolish and come back to a point where we are more than people, we need to come back to being human beings. So, Barrack Hussein Obama, I am not, not voting for you because your skin is black and I am not, not voting for you because your middle name is Hussein. I am not voting for you because if you ever knew what it was to be human, if you ever knew what it was to be American, you’ve forgotten and you have let me and your nation down.

That’s the way I see it.