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“I listened carefully to the president’s commemorative speech and many of the other public statements from our elected officials. This year’s anniversary marked a somewhat new tone, tentative, near apologetic — as if the Ground Zero and Pentagon attacks were wholly tragic rather than solely due to the premeditated murdering of radical Islamic zealots. We’ve come a way from the resolute pact with the departed that resonated from Ground Zero, when George Bush, in his finest moment, put his arm around retired fire-fighter Bob Beckwith, and announced to the world, “ I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.” […] [T]he Left is suddenly quiet about the previously supposed constitution shredding — a trope to destroy George Bush, rather than worry about forgetting the Founders. Obama has adopted or expanded all these measures. Iraq is now dubbed by the Vice President as one of the administration’s “greatest achievements” and by the President himself as “a remarkable chapter” in our history. The surge is as appreciated and taken for granted as its reference is taboo. The Move.On.org discounted New York Times ad — “General Betray Us” — never existed. […] A people at war needs to hear at times Churchill’s or Clemenceau’s defiance as much as tolerance. Both are necessary, but if we are continually reminded that Pastor Jones and his supposedly extremist al Qaeda doppelgangers cannot turn us from the path of our accustomed liberality, we equally need to hear that the United States has brought defeat to its enemies, and will continue to do so at home and abroad. […] America needs a Lincoln to give about a 10 minute speech — nothing more — about whom the Muslim world should really fear: perhaps the Russians who destroyed Muslim Chechnya, or the Chinese who curb Islamic expression, or the Arab tyrannies that slay their own, but not the U.S., not us who have welcomed in millions from the Middle East, and saved Muslims from Bosnia to Indonesia. The people have heard enough lectures that “sometimes we have let ourselves down…” Or “sometimes we haven’t always been…” Blah, blah,blah. […] Our president is not connecting with the people on the matters of radical Islamic terror. Yes, we do not wish to be hard on Muslims and yes we are not prejudicial. But at some point, Mr. Obama should think deeply and ask why a Major Hasan murdered his own army comrades, evoking Allah as he butchered innocents. […] Was it really the Jews, or Iraq, or cartoons or something we did? Or rather a warped radical religious ideology that is allowed to spread too often without censure?”
— Victor Davis Hanson, September 11, 2010 (pajamasmedia.com)

There is a recurring TV ad that I enjoy mocking thus: "Are you being audited? Have you not paid taxes for decades? Does the IRS come to your home and office threatening to drill your kneecaps? Are you a stupid f*ck?" More and more I find myself employing such mockery to The Obama's nauseating insistence on misdirection from the intuitively obvious to the obviously absurd.

For over sixty years I have lived as an American, proud to be part of a society living in what is undoubtedly the finest Nation ever conceived and ever dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we have acquired, through what can only be explained as a nation-wide wave of temporary insanity, an obnoxious specimen of leftist elitism as our national spokesman. His every utterance is an insult to our intelligence, our self respect, and our sacred honor. He is an abomination to everything I hold dear.

Never forget what the bastards did on September 11, 2001. Let The Obama apologize for His own perverse vision of America. And don't forget to vote on November 2, 2010.

The Proud Warriors of Baker Company
Part of the Only Marine Infantry Battalion Left in Iraq

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