but by the content of his character!"
Posted on 06/14/2008 5:44:47 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
For most of my adult life I took an oath to a simple document, the US Constitution, to support and defend it against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same. My allegiance is to America, its people, and their rights as put forth in that superb document. I shall not discard my principles and commitment to my God and Country, just because. I applaud Senator Obama for his accomplishment, however, there is no way I will vote for someone that is so contrary to my beliefs in lower taxes, limited government, individual rights and freedoms, individual responsibility and accountability, not collective prosperity sharing.
I grew up in inner city Atlanta Georgia, and my elementary school, Our Lady of Lourdes, is across the street from Ebenezer Baptist Church. Dr King's seminal ideal of "content of character vs color of skin" resonates with me. Regardless of the probable ensuing vitriolic name calling, my ideology and principles are not in concert with those of Senator Obama. I wish him well, but I dont wish him to be President of THESE United States of America".
Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret)
Republican Candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives
Florida District 22
Allen B West has my support AND money.
You can find out more about Col. West at:
Allen West for Congress
I’m about ready to support this man for president of the United States.
Yep, that guy’s the real deal.
If a black "conservative" was considering voting for Obama there are two things they should consider:
They can no longer call themselves "conservative."
If the color of a man's skin is going to cause a "conservative" to think about electing a pro-abortion, socialist/marxist candidate they are exhibiting racist characteristics.
I hope you give ‘em hell, Colonel.
That would be nice if we can get rid of the rat. Klein.
ABW for Pres ‘12!
The Weekly Standard’s Noemie Emery disputes the media’s facile, predictable racial interpretation of Obama’s poor showing in Appalachia. It’s not because of race, but rather reflects a deep national divide between action-oriented Jacksonians versus clerical, paper-pushing Brahmins:
Let us call this rival approach the Barone Manifesto, after its author, political analyst Michael Barone, who crunched the poll numbers for Obama’s primary battles with Hillary Clinton and discovered that while the former did exceedingly well with white voters in university towns and state capitals, he did poorly almost everywhere else. From this, Barone broke the electorate down into two large divisions–academics and state employees who live in these places, whom he calls Academicians, and Jacksonians, who live elsewhere, especially in the regions close to the Appalachian mountains.
Yep, that’s it. Academicians eat arugula, and worry about its price at Whole Foods. Jacksonians don’t.
There’s nothing wrong with being an academician or eating arugula (hey, I do), you’re just going to have a hard time selling yourself to Jacksonian America as the kind of bold leader they’re looking for. Even if you were the bestest “community activist” in all of Chicago.
Emery’s last paragraph is interesting:
Now let us imagine a different candidate, one who looks like Barack Obama, with the same mixed-race, international background, even the same middle name. But this time, he is Colonel Obama, a veteran of the war in Iraq, a kick-ass Marine with a “take no prisoners” attitude, who vows to follow Osama bin Laden to the outskirts of Hell. He comes from the culture of the military (the most color blind and merit-based in the country), and not the rarefied air of Hyde Park. He goes to a church with a mixed-race congregation and a rational preacher. He has never met Bill Ayers, and if he did he would flatten him. He thinks arugula is a town near Bogota and has Toby Keith on his favorites list. Would he strike no chords at all in Jacksonian country? Does anyone think he would lose 90 to 9 in Buchanan County? Or lose West Virginia by 41 points? For those Jacksonians who would be fine with a black man in the White House (not as tiny a group as Newsweek thinks), Colonel Obama is the one we are waiting for. When we will get him is anyone’s guess.
I don’t know about Colonel Obama, but there’s one politician on the scene this year running for Congress in Florida who completes Emery’s List (heh) pretty nicely: Lt. Col. Allen West. What an amazing biography– and he’s even against amnesty:
In my time spent in Afghanistan I saw first-hand how an unprotected border can destabilize an entire country. All you hear coming out of Washington is foolish rhetoric about writing new laws and creating new government programs that sound good on paper but do nothing to solve the problem. Our border patrol officers put their lives on the line every day protecting our borders and engaging in high-powered gun battles. The duties they perform go beyond those of an immigration official. They are defending our borders and it is time we equip them with the tools they need to secure our border. As your congressman, I will push to move the Border Patrol out of the INS and into the Department of Defense. This is not a social issue; this is a national security issue.
Furthermore, something tells me LTC West isn’t going to be very patient with the Supreme Court’s handwringing on interrogation.
LTC West’s feelings about arugula remain unknown, although I think we would be willing to overlook a few youthful indiscretions of that nature.
UPDATE: via Robert Stacy McCain, here’s a sample of LTC West speaking:
Not too shabby. (I think he’s wrong about American weapons going to bin Laden through our assistance to the mujahideen in the 80’s; OBL was in a separate group funded by the Saudis.) But seriously, good speech.
Note the part where West says his opponent has more money than he does. Hint, hint.
Come on, what do you want, a video of Allen West chewing out CAIR as unindicted co-conspirators and “an insurgency in our country” and taking up for FISA?
MORE: Back on Jacksonians v. Arugulaticians, here’s Cuffy with a pretty good photoshop.
“My fellow Americans, judge him not by the color of his skin,
but by the content of his character!”
BHO has no character, but he does have a lot of suspicious characters around him.
But then again, this is the character of a dem and getting away with it is the norm.
If only we could. Instead we have a person (McLame) and ever time I hear him speak, I think, NO,NO,NO!
Now his wife doesn't have that bitter America hating look.
Kinda looks like President Palmer from “24”. Now there is a President I would have voted for regardless of his race!
theotherwayne
I’d vote for the Colonel, if I could.
Handsome family.
I guess I’ll tell this story. I grew up in small town Wisconsin. There weren’t any racial issues that ever intruded on our consciousness, but my mom was from Chicago and we traveled there often. Someone must have said something to me about how to refer to black people because I asked my mother about calling black women ladies. I think someone suggested otherwise, but I was very young and my recollection is hazy.
She said whether a person is a lady, or a gentleman, depends on the person’s behavior and you will be able to tell the difference, but you are never to be disrespectful to your elders, period. This was long before anyone ever heard of Martin Luther King.
My mother was not a fighter for racial equality. She was just a decent human being. Like most of us, I think.
PING
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