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FREEDOM ISN'T FREE...SOMEONE HAD TO PAY FOR IT

Thanks Micah for this post-election donation to the archive. It is so poorly typed (more so than usual) and conspicuously racist I half wondered if it was a fake, but then I noticed the 29 email address history at the top. What's your take? What was once a mock-up has been adopted into a genuine forward? -mike


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Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 11:14 PM

THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY HAVE FINALLY PROVEN WHAT I HAVE

BELIEVED FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS ....... AMERIKANS ARE THE

STUPIDEST PEOPLE ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH ... NOT

UNEDUCATED, NOT UNINTELLIGENT, BUT CRIMINALLY STUPID .......

THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT BY GOD-FEARING CHRISTIANS AND JEWS

AND THE CONSTITUTION IS BASED UPON THE LAWS OF GOD ... AND

THESE FOOLS HAVE ELECTED A RADICAL MOSLEM TO THE PRESIDENCY

.......

THE PEOPLE WHO DID NOT DO ENOUGH TO PRECLUDE THIS HISTORIC

DISASTER, DESERVE EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO GET ... THE

PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR THE MOSLEM DESERVE IT IN SPADES .......

WHEN THIS LUNACY BLOWS UP IN EVERYBODY'S FACE, I WILL

BE THE ONE YOU HEAR LAUGHING ALL ACROSS THE SKY ... AND I AM

GOING TO LEARN HOW TO SAY, I TOLD YOU SO .......

GOD BE MERCIFUL TO THE CHILDREN .......

"Godwin'd by paragraph 3. From my right-wing grandmother in Ohio...sigh." -Erin
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> 
> 
> 
>   Some food for thought. 
> Subject:   FW: Narcissism and Obama 
> I try to check these things out before forwarding them. 
> This one is
> true.  You can Google Dr. Sam Vaknin and get the same
> information.  This
> is the most frightning one yet.  Maybe because it is more
> clinical than
> political… 
>   
> Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer 
> By Ali Sina 
>   
> I must confess, I was not impressed by Sen. Barack Obama
> from the first
> time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black
> candidate. He
> looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident, a
> wholesome
> presidential package. I was put off soon, not just because
> of his
> shallowness but also because there was an air of
> haughtiness in his
> demeanor that was unsettling. His posture and his body
> language were
> louder than his empty words. Obama's speeches are
> unlike any political
> speech we have heard in American history. Never a
> politician in this
> land had such a quasi  'religious' impact on so
> many people. The fact
> that Obama is a total  incognito  with zero accomplishment
> makes this
> inexplicable infatuation alarming. Obama is not an ordinary
> man. He is 
> not  a genius. In fact, he is quite ignorant on most
> important subjects.
> Barack Obama is a narcissist. Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of
> ' Malignant
> Self Love ,' also believes, 'Barack Obama appears
> to be a narcissist.' 
>   
> Vaknin is a world authority on narcissism. He understands
> it and
> describes the inner mind of a narcissist like no other
> person. When he
> talks about narcissism everyone listens. Vaknin says that
> Obama's
> language, posture and demeanor, and the testimonies of his
> closest,
> nearest and dearest suggest that the Senator is either a
> narcissist or
> he may have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). 
>   
> Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of
> themselves. Jim
> Jones, the charismatic leader of People's Temple, the
> man who led over
> 900 of his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and
> even murder
> their own children was also a narcissist. Charles Manson,
> Joseph Koni,
> Shoko Asahara, Joe Stalin, Saddam, Mao Zedong, Kim Jong IL,
> and Adolph
> Hitler are a few examples of narcissists of our time. All
> these men had
> a tremendous influence over their fanciers and followers.
> They created a
> personality cult around themselves, and with their blazing
> speeches
> elevated their admirer's souls, filled their hearts
> with enthusiasm and
> instilled in their minds a new zest for life. Those men
> gave their
> followers hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, they
> invariably
> brought them to their doom. When you are a victim of a cult
> of
> personality, you don't know it until it is too late. 
>   
> One determining factor in the development of NPD is
> childhood abuse.
> 'Obama's early life was decidedly chaotic and
> replete with traumatic and
> mentally bruising dislocations,' says Vaknin.
> 'Mixed-race marriages were
> even less common then. His parents went through a divorce
> when he was an
> infant (two years old). Obama saw his father only once
> again, before he
> died in a car accident. His mother re-married and Obama had
> to relocate
> to  Indonesia , a foreign land with a radically foreign
> culture, to be
> raised by a stepfather. He was raised as an only child,
> full of himself
> and no others. He never had to share the spotlight with any
> siblings. At
> the age of ten, he was whisked off to live with his
> maternal (white)
> grandparents. He saw his mother only intermittently in the
> following few
> years and then she vanished from his life in 1979. She died
> of cancer in
> 1995.' 
>   
> One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of
> pathological
> narcissists.  They project such an imposing personality
> that it
> overwhelms those around them. Charmed by the charisma of
> the narcissist,
> people become like clay in his hands. They cheerfully do
> his bidding and
> delight to be at his service. The narcissist shapes the
> world around him
> and reduces others in his own inverted image. He creates a
> cult of
> personality; his admirers become his co-dependents. 
>   
> Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help
> them to reach
> their personal objectives. They are focused on one thing
> alone, and that
> is power. All other issues are meaningless to them and they
> do not want
> to waste their precious time on trivialities. Anything that
> does not
> help them is beneath them and does not deserve their
> attention. If an
> issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in one way
> or another, he
> has no interest in it. The  'Present' vote is a
> safe vote; he used the
> 'Present' all the time as a member of the Illinois 
> legislature. No one
> can criticize him if things go wrong. Why should he
> implicate himself in
> issues that may become controversial when they don't
> help him
> personally? Those issues are unworthy by their very nature
> because they
> are not about him. 
>   
> Obama's election as the first black president of the
> Harvard Law Review
> led to a contract and an advance to write a book about race
> relations.
> The  University  of  Chicago Law School  provided him with
> a fellowship
> and an office to work on his book. The book took him a lot
> longer than
> expected and at the end it devolved into…, guess what?
> His own
> autobiography! Instead of writing a scholarly paper
> focusing on race
> relations, for which he had been paid, Obama could not
> resist writing
> about his most sublime self. He entitled the book
> 'Dreams from My
> Father.' 
>   
> Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own
> autobiography when
> he was still nobody. So did Stalin. For a narcissist no
> subject is as
> important as his own self. Why would he waste his precious
> time and
> genius writing about insignificant things when he can write
> about such
> an august being as himself? Narcissists are often callous
> and even
> ruthless. As the norm, they lack conscience. This is
> evident from
> Obama's lack of interest in his own brother who lives
> on only one dollar
> per month. A man who lives in luxury, who takes a private
> jet to
> vacation in Hawaii, and who has raised nearly a half
> billion dollars for
> his campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no
> interest in the
> plight of his own brother. Why? His brother cannot be used
> for his
> ascent to power. A narcissist cares for no one but himself.
>  
>   
> This election is like no other election in the history of 
> America .
> The issues are insignificant compared to what is at stake.
> What can be
> more dangerous than having a man bereft of a conscience, a
> serial liar,
> and one who cannot distinguish his fantasies from reality
> as the leader
> of the free world? 
>   
> I hate to sound alarmist, but one must be a fool if one is
> not alarmed.
> Many politicians are narcissists. They pose no threat to
> others. They
> are simply self-serving and selfish. [Witness Al Gore's
> Income Tax; it
> reveals that he gave away NO MONEY to charities, not even
> to a church!]
> Obama evinces symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is
> different
> from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or
> Bill Clinton,
> for example. To him reality and fantasy are intertwined.
> This is a
> mental health issue, not just a character flaw.
> Pathological narcissists
> are dangerous because they look normal and even
> intelligent. It is this
> disguise that makes them treacherous. [Look up the word
> 'treachery.'] 
>   
> Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama.
> But this man
> could put an end to their party [and to this great nation].
> The great
> majority of blacks have also decided to vote for Obama.
> Only a fool does
> not know that their support for him is racially driven.  
>   
> Let us call a spade a spade [No pun intended]. This is
> racism, pure and
> simple. The truth is that, while everyone carries a
> misconceived
> collective guilt towards blacks for wrongs done centuries
> ago by a
> bygone people to a bygone people, the blacks carry a
> collective rancor,
> enmity or vendetta towards non-blacks, and to this day want
> to 'stand
> up' to the white man. They seem to be stuck in 19th
> century [encouraged
> by race baiters like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and
> others]. 
>   
> The downside of this is, that if Obama turns out to be the
> disaster I
> predict, he will cause widespread resentment among the
> whites. The
> blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their man.
> Cultic
> mentality is pernicious and unrelenting. They will dig
> their heads
> deeper in the sand and blame Obama's detractors of
> racism. This will
> cause a backlash among the whites. The white supremacists
> will take
> advantage of the discontent and they will receive
> widespread support. I
> predict that in less than four years, racial tensions will
> increase to
> levels not seen since the turbulent 1960s. Obama will set
> the clock back
> decades. America is the bastion of freedom. The peace of
> the world
> depends on the strength of  America , and its weakness
> translates into
> the triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue nations. It
> is no wonder
> that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Maoist Castroists, the
> Hezbollah, the
> Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists, and
> virtually all sworn
> enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect of
> 'their man' in the
> White House.  America  is on the verge of destruction.
> There is no
> insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as
> president. 
>   
> 
> 

Dear Fellow Business Owners

As a Business owner who employs 30 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barack Obama,
will be our next President, and that my Taxes and Fees, will go up in a BIG way.

To compensate for these increases, I figure, that the customer, will have to see an increase in my
fees to them of about, 8%. I will also have to lay off six of my employees. This really bothered me as
I believe we are family,here and didn't know how to choose who will have to go. So, this is what I did. I strolled thru the parking lot and found, eight Obama bumper stickers on my employees cars. I have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off.

I can't think of another fair way to approach this problem. If you have a better idea, let me know.
I am sending this letter to all business owners that I know.

Sincerely
Ward

Thanks Foy for sending us this shocking follow-up forward to this entry in reference to this gem. This guy sounds like he's done his homework, any bets on his accuracy?


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I have suggested this very idea over the last several months. Now, we need to find another source to check our facts against other than these sites. Perhaps the old fashioned going back to the source idea is the best idea. After all historians know better than to believe a website their research.

Factcheck.org is also run by a liberal Obama supporter, so that's why both of these "experts" go all around their elbow to deny the "rumors" that have been spreading about Obama. So much for checking snopes from now on!

>

> GUESS WE SHOULD BE CAREFUL TO TRUST ANY MAN'S "TRUTH".

>

> For the past few years www.snopes.com has positioned itself, or others have labeled it, as the 'tell all final word' on >>any comment, claim and email.

>

>

>

> But for several years people tried to find out who exactly was behind snopes.com. Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it. Well, finally we know. It is run by a husband and wife team - that's right, no big office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers. It's just a mom-and-pop operation that began as a hobby.

>

> David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles , California started the website about 13 years ago - and they have no formal background or experience in investigative research. After a few years it gained popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but over the past couple of years people started asking questions who was behind it and did they have a selfish motivation? The reason for the questions or skepticisms is a result of snopes.com claiming to have the bottom line facts to certain questions or issue when in fact they have been proven wrong. Also, there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really investigating and getting to the 'true' bottom of various issues. I can personally vouch for that complaint.

>

> A few months ago, when my State Farm agent Bud Gregg in Mandeville hoisted a political sign referencing Barack Obama and made a big splash across the internet, 'supposedly' the Mikkelson's claim to have researched this issue before posting their findings on snopes.com. In their statement they claimed the corporate office of State Farm pressured Gregg into taking down the sign, when in fact nothing of the sort ever took place.

> I personally contacted David Mikkelson (and he replied back to me) thinking he would want to get to the bottom of this and I gave him Bud Gregg's contact phone numbers - and Bud was going to give him phone numbers to the big exec's at State Farm in Illinois who would have been willing to speak with him about it. He never called Bud. In fact, I learned from Bud no one from snopes.com ever contacted anyone with State Farm. Yet, snopes.com issued a statement as the 'final factual word' on the issue as if they did all their homework and got to the bottom of things - not!

> Then it has been learned the Mikkelson's are very Democratic (party) and extremely liberal. As we all now know from this presidential election, liberals have a purposeful agenda to discredit anything that appears to be conservative. There has been much criticism lately over the internet with people pointing out the Mikkelson's liberalism revealing itself in their website findings. Gee, what a shock?

> So, I say this now to everyone who goes to www.snopes.com to get what they think to be the bottom line facts...'proceed with caution.' Take what it says at face value and nothing more. Use it only to lead you to their references where you can link to and read the sources for yourself. Plus, you can always google a subject and do the research yourself. It now seems apparent that's all the Mikkelson's do.

> After all, I can personally vouch from my own experience for their NOT fully looking into things.

"Arrrrggggg! my whole family is sending me this crap!!!" -Wayne

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Subject: Fw: Twas the night before elections

'Twas the night before elections And all through the town Tempers were flaring Emotions all up and down! I, in my bathrobe With a cat in my lap Had cut off the TV Tired of political crap. When all of a sudden There arose such a noise I peered out of my window Saw Obama and his boys They had come for my wallet They wanted my pay To give to the others Who had not worked a day! He snatched up my money And quick as a wink Jumped back on his bandwagon As I gagged from the stink He then rallied his henchmen Who were pulling his cart I could tell they were out To tear my country apart! " On Fannie, on Freddie, On Biden and Ayers! On Acorn, On Pelosi" He screamed at the pairs! They took off for his cause And as he flew out of sight I heard him laugh at the nation Who wouldn't stand up and fight! So I leave you to think On this one final note- IF YOU DONT WANT SOCIALISM GET OUT AND VOTE!!!!

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This is great!! Too bad it's true.

The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third
grade in 2000. The presidential election was heating up and some of
the children showed an interest. I decided we would have an election
for a class president. We would choose our nominees. They would make
a campaign speech and the class would vote.



To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other
class members. We discussed what kinds of characteristics these
students should have. We got many nominations and from those, Jamie
and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot.



The class had done a great job in their selections. Both
candidates were good kids. I thought Jamie might have an advantage
because he got lots of parental support. I had never seen Olivia's
mother. The day arrived when they were to make their speeches Jamie
went first. He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better
place. He ended by promising to do his very best. Every one
applauded. He sat down and Olivia came to the podium. Her speech was
concise. She said, "If you will vote for me, I will give you ice
cream." She sat down. The class went wild. "Yes! Yes! We want ice
cream."



She surely would say more. She did not have to. A
discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She
wasn't sure. Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it.
She didn't know. The class really didn't care. All they were thinking
about was ic e cream. Jamie was forgotten. Olivia won by a land slide.



Every time Barack Obama opens his mouth he offers ice cream,
and fifty percent of America reacts like nine year olds. They want ice
cream. The other fifty percent know they're going to have to feed the
cow.

update: SJT added this link of a woman who took this forward a little too seriously.

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> October 19, 2008
> A Harvard Trial Lawyer for McCain
>
> By William A. Jacobson
> I would seem to fit the profile of a Barack Obama supporter. For
> over 20
> years I represented investors against brokerage firms. Now I teach
> at an
> Ivy League law school. And I went to Harvard Law School. Yet I
> wholeheartedly support John McCain.
>
> Why would a Harvard-educated, Ivy League-teaching, plaintiff-
> representing
> trial lawyer support John McCain? What follows will not make me
> popular at
> my upcoming 25th law school reunion, but some things need to be said.
>
> Electing a President is a hiring decision, where the stakes are who
> will
> best preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. We forget that
> our
> legal system does not exist in a vacuum. Our constitutional and
> political
> rights can exist only if this nation is safe. Whether I agree with
> John
> McCain on each and every issue makes no difference to me. John
> McCain gets
> my vote as the person who will keep this country safe, so that we
> have the
> luxury of arguing with one another.
>
> First and foremost, John McCain is the real thing. He reminds me of
> many of
> the most effective lawyers I have dealt with in my career. He's not
> polished. His ties don't quite fit. He is smart, but he didn't
> have good
> grades because he couldn't sit still in class. His clients don't
> have a lot
> of money. And sometimes his syntax is not quite right.
>
> But John McCain is a scrappy fighter. He's the opponent who just
> won't quit
> even when things look bleak. The guy who runs circles around the
> Harvard
> lawyers, who takes the seemingly impossible case, and through sheer
> determination brings home the verdict. He is the guy you want on
> your side
> in good times, and more importantly, in bad times. If I were on
> trial for
> my life, I would hire John McCain as my lawyer.
>
> And John McCain sticks around long enough to make a difference. He
> had a
> distinguished 22-year career in the Navy. He could have left the
> Hanoi
> Hilton early, but he didn't. I don't know if I would have had the
> strength
> to say no to early release from a prisoner of war camp, but John
> McCain did
> have that strength.
>
> John McCain carried his fight to the United States Senate, where for
> over
> two decades he has fought battle after battle with both political
> parties on
> some of the hardest issues confronting the nation. John McCain put
> country
> before career in supporting the surge in Iraq. On some of these
> issues I
> have agreed with John McCain, and on others not. But what is
> important to
> me is that John McCain has proven over time that he is his own man.
> What
> you see is what you get, and he will be there for the long haul.
>
> Barack Obama also reminds me of many lawyers I have dealt with in my
> career.
> He's the smooth talking lawyer on TV who will get you "the
> settlement you
> deserve." But he has no credibility where it counts because he hasn't
> beaten the insurance companies at trial. He is a paper lawyer who
> fools
> only his own clients. So Barack Obama can promise "tough diplomacy"
> with
> the likes of Iran, but he hasn't fought the tough fights that would
> cause
> dictators and tyrants to take him seriously.
>
> Barack Obama also is the deep thinker who ponders great things. And
> the
> thing that Barack Obama seems to ponder most is his own greatness. He
> doesn't write biographies, he writes only autobiographies. He gives
> speeches which he declares to be historic. He recognizes his place in
> history long before he has created history. This nation is but a
> stage upon
> which Barack Obama creates his life story, and it's all about him.
>
> Yet Barack Obama has never been in one place long enough to make a
> real
> difference, or to fight the hard fights. He was a community
> activist for a
> few years, then a law student, then in private practice for not too
> long,
> then a state senator for not too long, then a United States Senator
> for not
> too long. The paint was barely dry in his Senate office when he began
> running for President. Barack Obama's career is a series of not-too-
> long
> positions, each one more grand than the one before it.
>
> Yet what great achievement has Barack Obama obtained other than his
> own
> political advancement? What historic law did he author, what
> historic court
> case did he argue, what historic battle did he fight, what cause
> greater
> than himself warranted more than a passing interest in his historic
> life?
> If my life were on the line, I wouldn't hire Barack Obama as my
> lawyer. I'd
> be concerned that he'd be up late at night working on a draft of his
> book
> about how my case affected his life.
>
> Barack Obama loves this country, in his own words, because nowhere
> else
> could his story be possible. John McCain loves this country just
> because.
> And that's why I'll vote for John McCain.
>
> William A. Jacobson is Associate Clinical Professor of Law at
> Cornell Law
> School in Ithaca, NY, and author of the Legal Insurrection Blog.
>
> Page Printed from:
> http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/a_harvard_trial_lawyer_for_mcc.html
> at October 22, 2008 - 01:25:37 AM EDT
>

This is a very interesting letter from a real person in East Texas.

Mr. Obama,

Given the uproar about the simple question asked you by Joe the plumber, and the persecution that has been heaped on him because he dared to question you, I find myself motivated to say a few things to you myself. While Joe aspires to start a business someday, I already have started not one, but 4 businesses. But first, let me introduce myself. You can call me "Cory the well driller". I am a 54 year old high school graduate. I didn't go to college like you, I was too ready to go "conquer the world" when I finished high school. 25 years ago at age 29, I started my own water well drilling business at a time when the economy here in East Texas was in a tailspin from the crash of the early 80's oil boom. I didn't get any help from the government, nor did I look for any. I borrowed what I could from my sister, my uncle, and even the pawn shop and managed to scrape together a homemade drill rig and a few tools to do my first job. My businesses did not start as a result of privilege. They are the result of my personal drive, personal ambition, self discipline, self reliance, and a determination to treat my customers fairly. From the very start my business provided one other (than myself) East Texan a full time job. I couldn't afford a backhoe the first few years (something every well drilling business had), so I and my helper had to dig the mud pits that are necessary for each and every job with hand shovels. I had to use my 10 year old, 1/2 ton pickup truck for my water tank truck (normally a job for at least a 2 ton truck).

A year and a half after I started the business, I scraped together a 20% down payment to get a modest bank loan and bought a (28 year) old, worn out, slightly bigger drilling rig to allow me to drill the deeper water wells in my area. I spent the next few years drilling wells with the rig while simultaneously rebuilding it between jobs. Through these years I never knew from one month to the next if I would have any work or be able to pay the bills. I got behind on my income taxes one year, and spent the next two years paying that back (with penalty and interest) while keeping up with ongoing taxes. I got behind on my water well supply bill 2 different years (way behind the second time... $80,000.00), and spent over a year paying it back (each time) while continuing to pay for ongoing supplies C.O.D.. Of course, the personal stress endured through these experiences and years is hard to measure. I do have a stent in my heart now to memorialize it all.

I spent the next 10 years developing the reputation for being the most competent and most honest water well driller in East Texas. 2 years along the way, I hired another full time employee for the drilling business so that we could provide full time water well pump service as well as the well drilling. Also, 3 years along the path, I bought a water well screen service machine from a friend, starting business # 2. 5 years later I made a business loan for $100,000.00 to build a new, higher production, computer controlled screen service machine. I had designed the machine myself, and it didn't work out for 3 years so I had to make the loan payments without the benefit of any added income from the new machine. No government program was there to help me with the payments, or to help me sleep at night as I lay awake wondering how I would solve my machine problems or pay my bills. Finally, after 3 years, I got the screen machine working properly, and that provided another full time job for an East Texan in the screen service business.

2 years after that, I made another business loan, this time for $250,000.00, to buy another used drilling rig and all the support equipment needed to run another, larger, drill rig. This provided another 2 full time jobs for East Texans. Again, I spent a couple of years not knowing if I had made a smart move, or a move that would bankrupt me. For the third time in 13 years, I had placed everything I owned on the line, risking everything, in order to build a business.

A couple of years into this, I came up with a bright idea for a new kind of mud pump, a fundamentally necessary pump used on water well drill rigs. I spent my entire life savings to date (just $30,000.00), building a prototype of the pump and took it to the national water well convention to show it off. Customers immediately started coming out of the woodworks to buy the pumps, but there was a problem. I had depleted my assets making the prototype, and nobody would make me a business loan to start production of the new pumps. With several deposits for pump orders in hand, and nowhere to go, I finally started applying for as many credit card as I could find and took cash withdrawals on these cards to the tune of over $150,000.00 (including modest loans from my dear sister and brother), to get this 3rd business going.

Yes, once again, I had everything hanging over the line in an effort to start another business. I had never manufactured anything, and I had to design and bring into production a complex hydraulic machine from an untested prototype to a reliable production model (in six months). How many nights I lay awake wondering if I had just made the paramount mistake of my life I cannot tell you, but there were plenty. I managed to get the pumps into production, which immediately created another 2 full time jobs in East Texas. Some of the models in the first year suffered from quality issues due to the poor workmanship of one of my key suppliers, so I and an employee (another East Texan employed) had to drive across the country to repair customers' pumps, practically from coast to coast. I stood behind the product, and made payments to all the credit cards that had financed me (and my brother and sister). I spent the next 5 years improving and refining the product, building a reputation for the pump and the company, working to get the pump into drill rig manufacturers' product lines, and paying back credit cards. During all this time I continued to manage a growing water well business that was now operating 3 drill rig crews, and 2 well service crews. Also, the screen service business continued to grow. No government programs were there to help me, Mr. Obama, but that's ok, I didn't expect any, nor did I want any. I was too busy fighting to make success happen to sit around waiting for the government to help me.

Now, we have been manufacturing the mud pumps for 7 years, my combined businesses employ 32 full time employees, and distribute $5,000,000.00 annually through the local economy. Now, just 4 months ago I borrowed $1,254,000.00, purchasing computer controlled machining equipment to start my 4th business, a production machine shop. The machine shop will serve the mud pump company so that we can better manufacture our pumps that are being shipped worldwide. Of course, the machine shop will also do work for outside companies as well. This has already produced 2 more full time jobs, and 2 more should develop out of it in the next few months. This should work out, but if it doesn't it will be because you, and the other professional politicians like yourself, will have destroyed our countrys’ (and the world) economy with your meddling with mortgage loan programs through your liberal manipulation and intimidation of loaning institutions to make sure that unqualified borrowers could get mortgages. You see, at the very time when I couldn't get a business loan to get my mud pumps into production, you were working with Acorn and the Community Reinvestment Act programs to make sure that unqualified borrowers could buy homes with no down payment, and even no credit or worse yet, bad credit. Even the infamous, liberal, Ninja loans (No Income, No Job or Assets). While these unqualified borrowers were enjoying unrealistically low interest rates, I was paying 22% to 24% interest on the credit cards that I had used to provide me the funds for the mud pump business that has created jobs for more East Texans. It's funny, because after 25 years of turning almost every dime of extra money back into my businesses to grow them, it has been only in the last two years that I have finally made enough money to be able to put a little away for retirement, and now the value of that has dropped 40% because of the policies you and your ilk have perpetrated on our country.

You see, Mr. Obama, I'm the guy you intend to raise taxes on. I'm the guy who has spent 25 years toiling and sweating, fretting and fighting, stressing and risking, to build a business and get ahead. I'm the guy who has been on the very edge of bankruptcy more than a dozen times over the last 25 years, and all the while creating more and more jobs for East Texans who didn’t want to take a risk, and would not demand from themselves what I have demanded from myself. I'm the guy you characterize as "the Americans who can afford it the most" that you believe should be taxed more to provide income redistribution "to spread the wealth" to those who have never toiled, sweated, fretted, fought, stressed, or risked anything. You want to characterize me as someone who has enjoyed a life of privilege and who needs to pay a higher percentage of my income than those who have bought into your entitlement culture. I resent you, Mr. Obama, as I resent all who want to use class warfare as a tool to advance their political career. What's worse, each year more Americans buy into your liberal entitlement culture, and turn to the government for their hope of a better life instead of themselves. Liberals are succeeding through more than 40 years of collaborative effort between the predominant liberal media, and liberal indoctrination programs in the public school systems across our land.

What is so terribly sad about this is this. America was made great by people who embraced the one-time American culture of self reliance, self motivation, self determination, self discipline, personal betterment, hard work, risk taking. A culture built around the concept that success was in reach of every able bodied American who would strive for it. Each year that less Americans embrace that culture, we all descend together. We descend down the socialist path that has brought country after country ultimately to bitter and unremarkable states. If you and your liberal comrades in the media and school systems would spend half as much effort cultivating a culture of can-do across America as you do cultivating your entitlement culture, we could see Americans at large embracing the conviction that they can elevate themselves through personal betterment, personal achievement, and self reliance. You see, when people embrace such ideals, they act on them. When people act on such ideals, they succeed. All of America could find herself elevating instead of deteriorating. But that would eliminate the need for liberal politicians, wouldn't it, Mr. Obama? The country would not need you if the country was convinced that problem solving was best left with individuals instead of the government. You and all your liberal comrades have got a vested interested in creating a dependent class in our country. It is the very business of liberals to create an ever expanding dependence on government. What's remarkable is that you, who have never produced a job in your life, are going to tax me to take more of my money and give it to people who wouldn't need my money if they would get off their entitlement mentality asses and apply themselves at work, demand more from themselves, and quit looking to liberal politicians to raise their station in life.

You see, I know because I've had them work for me before. Hundreds of them over these 25 years. People who simply will not show up to work on time. People who just will not work 5 days in a week, much less, 6 days. People always looking for a way to put less effort out. People who actually tell me that they would do more if I just would first pay them more. People who take off work to sit in government offices to apply to get free government handouts (gee, I wonder how things would have turned out for them if they had spent that time earning money and pleasing their employer?). You see, all of this comes from your entitlement mentality culture.

Oh, I know you will say I am uncompassionate. Sorry, Mr. Obama, wrong again. You see, I've seen what the average percentage of your income has been given to charities over the years of 2000 to 2004 (ignoring the years you started running for office - can you pronounce “politically motivated”), you averaged less than 1% annually. And your running mate, Joe Biden, averaged less than ¼% of his annual income in charitable contributions over the last 10 years. Like so many liberals, the two of you want to give to the needy, just as long as it is someone else’s money you are giving to them. I won’t say what I have given to charities over the last 25 years, but the percentage is several times more than you and Joe Biden… combined (don’t you just hate google?). Tell me again how you feel my pain.

In short, Mr. Obama, your political philosophies represent everything that is wrong with our country. You represent the culture of government dependence instead of self reliance; Entitlement mentality instead of personal achievement; Penalization of the successful to reward the unmotivated; Political correctness instead of open mindedness and open debate. If you are successful, you may preside over the final transformation of America from being the greatest and most self-reliant culture on earth, to just another country of whiners and wimps, who sit around looking to the government to solve their problems. Like all of western Europe. All countries on the decline. All countries that, because of liberal socialistic mentalities, have a little less to offer mankind every year.

God help us...

Cory Miller

just a ordinary, extraordinary American, the way a lot of Americans used to be.

P.S. Yes, Mr. Obama, I am a real American... www.cmillerdrilling.com

Subject: The next President? Something to think about!!! Think you know who this man is? This possible President of the United States!! Read below and ask yourselves, is this REALLY someone we can see as the President of our great nation!!!! Below are a few lines from Obama's books. In his words! From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.' From Dreams of My Father: 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.' From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.' From Dreams of My Father: 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.' From Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.' And FINALLY the most damning one of ALL of them From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'

"Greetings, MRWD - This one is from an 'undecided' co-worker." -Ava  

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THIS LETTER MAKES MORE SENSE THAN ANYTHING I HAVE SEEN, HEARD, OR READ, CONCERNING THE UPCOMING ELECTION...

IT'S A LETTER FROM A U.S. CITIZEN... WHO LIVES IN ILLINOIS... AND OBVIOUSLY IS A "SELF-THINKER"... NOT JUST A "FOLLOWER"!!!

IF YOU ONLY READ ONE THING, REGARDING THIS ELECTION... LET THIS BE THE ONE THING!! AFTER READING IT, YOU WILL PROBABLY WANT TO FORWARD IT TO OTHER AMERICANS WHO ARE "SELF THINKERS"!!

An impassioned letter from a "nobody". But he gives his telephone number at the end.

Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 3:19 PM
Subject: FW: A letter from Ilinois

Dear Friends:

My name is Joe Porter. I live in Champaign, Illinois. I'm 46 years old, a born-again Christian, a husband, a father, a small business owner, a veteran, and a homeowner. I don't consider myself to be either conservative or liberal, and I vote for the person, not Republican or Democrat. I don't believe there are "two Americas " but that every person in this country can be whomever and whatever they want to be if they'll just work to get there and nowhere else on earth can they find such opportunities. I believe our government should help those who are legitimately downtrodden, and should always put the interests of America first.

The purpose of this message is that I'm concerned about the future of this great nation. I'm worried that the silent majority of honest, hard-working, tax-paying people in this country have been passive for too long. Most folks I know choose not to involve themselves in politics. They go about their daily lives, paying their bills, raising their kids, and doing what they can to maintain the good life. They vote and consider doing so to be a sacred trust. They shake their heads at the political pundits and so-called "news", thinking that what they hear is always spun by whomever is reporting it. They can't understand how elected officials can regularly violate the public trust with pork barrel spending. They don't want government handouts. They want the government to protect them, not raise their taxes for more government programs.

We are in the unique position in = this country of electing our leaders. It's a privilege to do so. I've never found a candidate in any election with whom I agreed on everything. I'll wager that most of us don't even agree with our families or spouses 100% of the time. So when I step into that voting booth, I always try to look at the big picture and cast my vote for the man or woman who is best qualified for the job. I've hired a lot of people in my lifetime, and essentially that's what an election is - a hiring process. Who has the credentials? Whom do I want working for me? Whom can I trust to do the job right?

I'm concerned that a growing number of voters in this country simply don't get it. They are caught up in a fervor they can't explain, and calling it "change".

"Change what?", I ask.

"Well, we're going to change America", they say.

"In what way?", I query.

"We want someone new and fresh in= the White House", they exclaim.

"So, someone who's not a politician?", I say.

"Uh, well, no, we just want a lot of stuff changed, so we're voting for Obama", they state.

"So the current system, the system of freedom and democracy that has enabled a man to grow up in this great country, get a fine education, raise incredible amounts of money and dominate the news, and win his party's nomination for the White House that system's all wrong?"

"No, no, that part of the system's okay we just need a lot of change."

And so it goes. "Change we can believe in."

Quite frankly, I don't believe that vague proclamations of change hold any promise for me. In recent months, I've been asking virtually everyone I encounter how they're voting. I live in Illinois, so most folks tell me they're voting for Barack Obama. But no one can really tell me why only that he's going to change a lot of stuff "Change, change, change." I have yet to find one single person who can tell me distinctly and convincingly why this man is qualified to be President and Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful nation on earth other than the fact that he claims he's going to implement a lot of change.

We've all seen the emails about Obama's genealogy, his upbringing, his Muslim background, and his church affiliations. Let's ignore this for a moment. Put it all aside. Then ask yourself, "What qualifies this man to be my president? That he's a brilliant orator and talks about change?"

CHANGE WHAT?

Friends, I'll be forthright with you I believe the American voters who are supporting Barack Obama don't have a clue what they're doing, as evidenced by the fact that not one of them - NOT ONE of them I've spoken to can spell out his qualifications. Not even the most liberal media can explain why he should be elected. Political experience? Negligible. Foreign relations? Non-existent. Achievements? Name one. Someone who wants to unite the country? If you haven't read his wife's thesis from Princeton, look it up on the web. This is who's lining up to be our next First Lady? The only thing I can glean from Obama's constant harping about change is that we're in for a lot of new taxes.

For me, the choice is clear. I've looked carefully at the two leading applicants for the job, and I've made my choice.

Here's a question - "Where were you five and a half years ago? Around Christmas, 2002. You've had five or six birthdays in that time. My son has grown from a sixth grade child to a high school graduate. Five and a half years is a good chunk of time. About 2,000 days. 2,000 nights of sleep. 6, 000 meals, give= or take."

John McCain spent that amount of time, from 1967 to 1973, in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp.

When offered early release, he refused it. He considered this offer to be a public relations stunt by his captors, and insisted that those held longer than he should be released first. Did you get that part? He was offered his freedom, and he turned it down. A regimen of beatings and torture began.

Do you possess such strength of character? Locked in a filthy cell in a foreign country, would you turn down your own freedom in favor of your fellow man? I submit that's a quality of character that is rarely found, and for me, this singular act defines John McCain.

Unlike several presidential candidates in recent years whose military service is questionable or non-existent, you will not find anyone to denigrate the integrity and moral courage of this man. A graduate of Annapolis, during his Naval service he received the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross. His own son is now serving in the Marine Corps in Iraq . Barack Obama is fond of saying "We honor John McCain's service...BUT...", which to me is condescending and offensive - because what I hear is, "Let's forget this man's sacrifice for his country, and his proven leadership abilities, and talk some more about change."

I don't agree with John McCain on everything - but I am utterly convinced that he is qualified to be our next President, and I trust him to do what's right. I know in my heart that he has the best interests of our country in mind. He doesn't simply want to be President - he wants to lead America, and there's a huge difference. Factually, there is simply no comparison between the two candidates. A man of questionable background and motives who prattles on about change, can't hold a candle to a man who has devoted his life in public service to this nation, retiring from the Navy in1981 and elected to the Senate in1982.

Perhaps Obama's supporters are taking a stance between old and new. Maybe they don't care about McCain's service or his strength of character, or his unblemished qualifications to be President. Maybe "likeability" is a higher priority for them than "trust". Being a prisoner of war is not what qualifies John McCain to be President of the United States of America - but his demonstrated leadership certainly DOES.

Dear friends, it is time for us to stand. It is time for thinking Americans to say, "Enough." It is time for people of all parties to stop following the party line. It is time for anyone who wants to keep America first, who wants the right man leading their nation, to start a dialogue with all their friends and neighbors and ask who they're voting for, and why.

There's a lot of evil in this world. That should be readily apparent to all of us by now. And when faced with that evil as we are now, I want a man who knows the cost of war on his troops and on his citizens. I want a man who puts my family's interests before any foreign country.

I want a President who's qualified to lead.

I want my country back, and I'm voting for John McCain.
Phone: 760.434.####
E-mail: ronald.hess@alumni.purdue.edu