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JOHN WAYNE IS CRYING!

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's right and there's wrong," Duke said in The Alamo. "You gotta do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around but in reality you're dead."

Duke Wayne symbolized just this, the force of the American will to do what is right in the world. He could have left no greater legacy. --Ronald Reagan

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!

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I'LL TAKE GOD AND GUNS, YOU CAN HAVE OBAMA!

My daughter found an online "bumper sticker" for her myspace that read that, I'll take God and guns, you can have Obama, I laughed. I laughed and then I suddenly realized it was slightly funny simply because it was true. Growing up Christian, I was always told that with God on my side I could not fail. I believed it as much then as I do today. I live my life always thinking if the choices I am making would indeed make the Lord happy. Growing up, what I like to call, true blue American, I have always believed in my right and possibly my responsibility to defend myself, family and country. I learned how to handle a firearm, I am comfortable handling and using a firearm. My husband and I have made it a point to make sure our children are not only knowledgeable but comfortable as well, handling safely, a firearm. It is in fact our responsibility to do so. I have noticed that regrettably, since our recent move we have not been doing that as much as I would like. Something I should remedy. All of which brings me to an interesting question, would I put a fire arm in my hand to defend a way of life that I honestly believe to be vital? Would I then be willing to put one in the hands of my teenage daughters, God forbid times came to that? I know the answers to both those questions to be yes. Then I look down my street and wonder who of my neighbors would stand with me? Who in this city I now reside would stand with me? When November comes and we are standing in the voting booth, who will ask themselves those very questions? Shouldn't we all be? A great man once said that freedom wasn't a right you were born with, it is something fought for. Something that is worth every sacrifice. How many of us have forgotten that fact? How many of us get up in the morning and worry about what the traffic is going to be like, or if the kids will be ready in time for school? When what we really should be doing is telling our children to pray. To listen to their hearts and be the people they know they can be. We should kiss our husbands and wives and say I love you, and mean it. Our way of life is being threatened, and I don't know who is to blame any more. Some say it started when women tried so hard to be just like men and men feared being men and started “embracing” their feminine sides. Some say it started when children started having children. After all how can one teach pride, honor, and respect when they are far too young to understand it themselves? Some say we started grabbing on to excuses and stopped taking responsibility for our own actions. We no longer get held accountable for the things we do. There is always some one else worth blaming and thus there are no consequences. I don't know what happened, I know that one day I realized we were headed to hell in the proverbial hand basket and the brakes stopped working. Am I alone in realizing this? Are there people out there that still believe that honor and respect are the building blocks of a society worth fighting for? I hear the polls, McCain up McCain down, and I wonder what are people thinking. I hear my fellow Americans express their fears and haunts and it's the same thing over and over again. Are morals like chivalry dying? I watch my daughters and worry about the world they are readying to enter. What is in store for them as women, as Christians? I watch my young boys play and wonder am I doing enough to counter act what is flying at them from every other source? What kind of men will they be? All elections are important, all voices are important. But never so much as now, because this is OUR now. This is OUR time. Who will be the representative of your voice in the near future? What will you prove you stand for? So, as I sit here pondering a comical phrase, and I feel the complete heaviness of its humor, I will take God and guns, and I pray that you will too. Leave Obama for a time beyond this, leave his lack of morals, his disregard for life, his hatred and anger and choose to embrace a life that would make you proud if you were brave enough to look your soul in the eyes.

That's the way I see it.
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What if John McCain's middle name was Adolph?

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.

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