Posted by
William D. Dannenmaier on Friday, July 17, 2009 7:44:14 PM
Two Republicans have delighted the media recently. Governor Sanford left for a five day holiday with a woman in Argentina without bothering to tell anyone where he was and Senator Ensign enjoyed an affair with a woman, also outside of marriage. When I saw my friend Jim at the Cardiac Club, he laughed to me about the cases, asking where were the Republican values concerning the sanctity of marriage. My weak reply was that if they were Democrats no one would care, it would be monkey business as usual.
Truthfully, I believe Governor Sanford should be impeached by his state and disowned by the Republican Party. The idea that the head of a state could leave for five days without anyone knowing where he was, is much more important than what he was doing. It was dereliction of duty at the very least. What if a major emergency requiring the Governors decision had occurred in his absence?
Concerning Senator Ensign, he proved to me that Jim is right on one thing he claims, which is that if people elected to the Senate are not millionaires at the time, they quickly acquire those millions. Senator Ensign’s wife’s family was reported as paying almost a hundred thousand dollars to the woman for her to keep quiet. Obviously, the family thought that his being a Senator would profit them, profit them greatly.
Early reports said the military overthrew Zelaya, “President” of Honduras, who was changing the laws of Honduras to permit him to be “President” ad infinitum. But those early reports were untrue. The Honduran Congress voted Zelaya out of office because he was disobeying Honduran law, the Honduran Supreme Court ordered the army to remove him – and the army did.
Castro, Chavez and Morales of Bolivia immediately condemned the military and argued for Zelaya’s restoration. That is understandable. He was their friend and only following their examples. Castro was elected President of Cuba, and then used his power to intimidate and imprison opposition and become “President” indefinitely. Chavez was elected “President” of Venezuela and has been using his police to quell dissent and continue as “President.” Morales is following their example as we know Zelaya was attempting to do.
All of these men hate the United States and the culture its democracy has created.
The name given to these men who are elected in a fair election and then use their power to maintain their positions indefinitely is “Caudillo.”
Obama also condemned the action of the military in obeying the orders of the Honduran Congress and Supreme Court in overthrowing the man who was using illegal actions in attempting to become the permanent “President” or Caudillo of Honduras.
I would have been happier with President Obama if he had condemned the military and paramilitary suppression of the people protesting the “election” in Iran immediately and supported the action of the elected congress in Honduras.
Obama has been elected President of the United States. He wishes to change the United States. Why? Does he believe our democracy needs a permanent leader such as Castro or Chavez? Does he have an eye on the job?
Obama’s response to criticisms of the effect of the “stimulus” package has been to point out that the main effect of the package will not occur until 2010 with a slight drop if effect in 2011. Isn’t that remarkable timing – just as Obama is running for re-election?
The Congress has just passed, at President Obama’s request, a bill providing him twenty million dollars to bring Hamas refugees to the United States. Aren’t those the people who drove Jews and Christians out of Palestine and stood in the streets waving their guns and cheering when Muslims blew up the twin towers in New York and the Pentagon in DC killing over two thousand Americans? Why should taxpayers welcome and support them?
Michelle Malkin has a worth reading essay (Townhall.com, July 8, 2009) in which she criticizes the excessive mourning of the death of Michael Jackson. In a way, I agree, but in another I don’t. I believe the nation SHOULD mourn, not the death of Michael Jackson, but a family and society which took a youth of talent and turned him into an unhappy, drug-addicted man who hated his own race so much that he went through numerous surgeries and treatments to look “white.”