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!