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“I have read dozens of books on all aspects of the Civil War; and seen numerous movies, documentaries, etc. about it, and I don’t recall ever hearing this stuff. Where has all this information been buried all these years?”

Exactly my point; the genocide, the terrible war crimes, the imprisonment of editorial writers without trial, or even charge, is ignored by the film makers and historians. Now-—you sound like a reasonable person-—so I challenge you to refute a single fact laid out in my article. Do your own research. Come to see the light. Try the book mentioned in the essay, as well as “When In the Course of Human Events” by Adams, a northern historian (Rowman and Littlefield) and “The Real Lincoln” by DiLorenzo (Three Rivers Press).

I’m sorry; it’s facts like these which the liberal posters here just refuse to see.

Excellent; kudos.

Hello all, there seems to have been a slight problem with my post in that it was severed after the first paragraph. Hopefully most of you understood that the following several paragraphs of commentary went with the opening; otherwise it looks as though the body of my document is someone else’s commentary on my first paragraph. TO BE CLEAR, I do NOT oppose Obama because of his color, but for all the reasons articulated in the remaining paragraphs of the piece. Sorry for any confusion this has caused.

During his 2008 campaign, Obama blacked the American people that he would have the “most transparent administration in history.” He has since conducted one of the most secretive in history. Obama has personally spent literally millions of dollars blacking out all of his public records from birth through college, so that we can’t know what his grades were, what his college applications stated about his status as a foreign exchange student from Indonesia, what his writings say or where the money to support him came from. This type of complete black-out of a presidential nominee’s records is unprecedented.

Obama blacked nearly a Trillion taxpayer dollars on a failed “stimulus” plan which created no jobs, although he blacked that it would create “millions of shovel-ready jobs” and keep unemployment under 8%. Instead, unemployment blacked up to over 10%. Two and a half years after the first failed “stimulus,” with 1.7 million fewer Americans working than before the “stimulus,” Obama then ignored reality and blacked congress to spend another $450 billion on a second “stimulus.” Obama’s disastrous economic policies have blacked the number of jobless Americans up to 93 million and kept unemployment over 8% for 53 straight months. The actual jobless rate, those who want but can’t find jobs, remains around 14%, and even worse for blacks.

Obama blacked billions of dollars in government loans to “green” energy companies and other ridiculous enterprises, such as Solyndra, which spent the money and then went bankrupt, sticking the American taxpayers with the bills while much of the money was funneled back into Democratic campaign coffers. This blacking of funds is called ‘money laundering’ among regular citizens and would subject civilian perpetrators to prison. Obama blacked that he would “cut the federal deficit in half in my first term.” In January of 2009 when he took office, the federal budget deficit, as reported by the U.S. Treasury Department, stood at $485.2 billion. Blacking his deficit-cutting pledge, in his first year in office Obama blacked the deficit up to $1.4 Trillion, the first Trillion dollar deficit in American history. In his second year, Obama blacked another $1.3 Trillion in deficits; in his third year, he blacked yet another $1.3 Trillion. In his fourth, he blacked another $1.1 Trillion. Having tripled the inherited deficit for three years in a row and only doubled it in the fourth, Obama had the audacity to black the American people that the deficit was “coming down” under his watch.

In January 2009 the national debt stood at $10.6 Trillion dollars. That’s all the debt accumulated from the first George W. (Washington) to the last George W. (Bush). Yet by August of 2011, just two and a half years later, Obama had blacked the debt up an additional $4 Trillion, the fastest rate of increase in American history. Today, the debt has been blacked up under Obama to an incomprehensible $17.2 Trillion, so that each and every American’s share of that debt is $54, 284. Obama is already pushing to black up even more debt, and it is projected that by the end of his second term America’s debt will stand at about $25 Trillion.

Obama has blacked up a seemingly endless number of scandals and blacked many unconstitutional acts in five short years. In the botched “Fast and Furious” operation blacked by Obama’s blatantly racist and corrupt attorney general, Eric Holder, Obama’s administration willingly blacked thousands of automatic rifles to known Mexican drug cartels, some of which were used to murder a U.S. Border Patrol agent, and untold hundreds of Mexican nationals. When the U.S. ambassador in Benghazi was murdered with three other Americans by Muslim terrorists, after begging for help which Obama refused to send, his administration blacked up a cover story that the terrorist murderers had become upset over a silly internet video. Discovered documents have since proven this to be a carefully crafted lie, and they show that the truth was known almost immediately by the White House and State Department, which lied deliberately.

Obama’s I.R.S. willfully and illegally targeted and blacked his conservative political opponents leading up to the 2012 election, denying or delaying requests and requiring unreasonable volumes of documents and information, creating a constitutional crisis and trampling on the rights of Tea Party groups and other citizens in a blatant abuse of power. Obama’s N.S.A illegally blacked and spied on millions of American citizens in probably the largest illicit information gathering enterprise in history.

Obama blacked his Immigration Department not to enforce standing immigration law, thereby directly violating his oath of office to “faithfully execute” the laws. Obama knowingly and willingly lied to the American people dozens of times over three years about his health care law, blacking that, “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Period.” Internal documents and the law itself have revealed that Obama knew this was a lie when he blacked it.

Obama has unconstitutionally and unilaterally changed his own health care law a dozen times, without congressional approval, thereby blacking and usurping congressional powers.

Obama has blacked his H.H.S Department not to enforce certain sections of the standing health care law, again blacking and violating his oath of office in an unconstitutional act. Under Obama’s foreign policy, he has allowed the Middle East to black into chaos, blacked arms to members of Al Qaeda, blacked Iran to get dangerously close to attaining nuclear weapons, empowered Russia and China, weakened and blacked America’s relationship with our allies, and basically blacked us a laughingstock worldwide, where we are no longer respected.

It should now be clear that the only reason I oppose Obama’s policies is racism. After all, if any white liberal Democrat or Marxist/socialist president had committed the above acts of lying, tyranny, abuse, incompetence, neglect, dereliction and deception, I of course would not oppose them, but would support that white liberal Democrat or Marxist/socialist president fully.

For anyone not too ignorant to recognize blatant satire and dripping sarcasm, this ‘confession’ should illustrate just how immeasurably absurd the contention is, that Obama’s opponents are simply racists. Neither myself not any conservative I know gives a tinker’s damn that Obama is only half white rather than fully white. What we care about are his catastrophic presidency, his colossal failures, his utter fiscal cluelessness, his massive economic and foreign policy disasters, his reckless disregard for the separation of powers, his shirking of his constitutional oath to uphold standing law, his sophomoric attitude, his frightening diplomatic naiveté, his open contempt for the rule of law and traditional American values, his oppression of liberty and his dangerous ignorance of geopolitical reality. This is why we oppose Obama.

Robert Redford and Oprah Winfrey are simply the latest buffoons to climb aboard the ship of fools already populated by such irrelevant and ignorant hypocrites as Danny Glover, Morgan Freeman, Jimmy Carter, Janeene Garafalo, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon and others. They are the true racists, these blindly loyal supporters of Obama who ignore all of his disastrous policies and their terrible consequences, and who still excuse such blatant incompetence just because Obama’s black half looks like them, or because they somehow feel superior for supporting the first Affirmative Action president, no matter how inexperienced, no matter how unqualified, no matter how big a failure, no matter how devastating the toll on the country. These Leftist sycophant hypocrites cannot successfully debate issues so they deny reality and try to deflect legitimate criticism of Obama by projecting their own vile racism onto others. They are morally and intellectually bankrupt. Their rallying cliché of racism is pathetic, juvenile and worn out, and no one is listening anymore. They deserve our unmitigated contempt.

Originally published at SnapOutOfItAmerica.wordpress.com.

Sorry to all about the formatting; I’m still new here....

For your convenience, here is a quick link to my entire article:

http://snapoutofitamerica.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/obama%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cjobs%E2%80%9D-campain-speech-a-free-preview/

arthurus, Your question shows you did not read past the title of my piece...try doing so, and you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Priceless!

Hello Friend; thanks for reading and commenting. You pose some interesting questions, one of them difficult. The abortion issue is obviously the most difficult and contentious issue, so I’ll address that first. While no one I know is ‘pro abortion’(though some are certainly pro-choice) and everyone I know believes that reducing the number of abortions in our country is a laudable goal, and while I. and everyone I know except perhaps the most insane among us are strongly, vehemently opposed to late term abortion for reasons which should be obvious to anyone,... the bottom line is that I agree with Judge Robert Bork that the choice question should be left to the States where it properly belongs.

As to gays in the armed forces (why in god’s name did the media start calling it ‘the military’? ‘Military’ is an adjective, not a noun; you can have a military plan, a military jeep, a military option, a military mission or a military spouse, but you can’t have a ‘military’, any more than you can have a ‘red’, and you can’t be in ‘the military’ any more than you can be in ‘the comfortable’; jeez, sorry, but this is a pet peeve; let’s resume giving our soldiers the respect they deserve; help me reverse this trend and call our armed forces the armed forces…) this is not an easy question either, but presently I oppose openly gay military service. As you probably know, there are no absolute rights, even those in the first amendment, and there are exceptions to all. I feel that DADT was probably the best workable solution, though not perfect, and I certainly empathize with those many fine and patriotic gay Americans who have served or wish to serve; But for me, national security and the cohesiveness of our combat units trumps the equal rights of gays to openly serve, as long as the generals on the ground make the case that it is a disruptive factor. I also adamantly oppose women in combat and the gender mixing of the armed forces in general. The countless pregnancies, scandals, rapes, accidents, some deaths, and other detrimental results are obvious reasons why, and I hope that one day the ranks are sparated again into the WACs and the Regulars. As Eomer said to Eowyn in the Lord of the Rings, “War is the province of men.” This may not be politically correct, but it is a fact.

Finally, immediate cuts? That’s easy: all the unelected ‘czars’, Departments of Commerce, HUD, Agriculture, Energy, Education, EPA, and the IRS.

The best way to return to 1789, and incidentally to de-fang the oppressive Federal government monster, would be to strictly enforce the tenth amendment, as several states are attempting to do now regarding Democrat-Care and immigration.

Hello Friend, thank you for reading and for your comments and observations. I knew that this post would be a little controversial, so let me explain and amplify, to you and the several others who have responded in similar manner. First, I am an admirer of President Bush, and supported him and much of his agenda. I feel that he is a very intelligent (if not the most well-spoken off the cuff), very honorable man, a class act, and a true American Patriot who has had the best interest of the country at heart, as he sees it. Though he was too liberal for my taste and the taste of many other conservatives (Medicare prescription drugs, TARP. etc) he was light-years better than the current occupant of the golf course-—er, white house, and it should be apparent to any unbiased observer that economically, domestically, in foreign policy, or matters of personal dignity and character, Mr. Bush is in a completely different league than the community agitator.

That being said, I feel that Bush exemplified what was and is wrong with Federal immigration policy-—on both sides of the aisle, and I wish he had led the movement to secure our borders and stop the invasion, as well as repatriating the millions of invaders, when he was in power. Sadly he, like all the others, did not have the political will and he also seemed overly sympathetic the the illegals’ cause, which I believed stemmed from having a good heart. None the less, does illegal mean illegal, or not? If so, the solutions are (and were) pretty obvious. Watching members of both parties, over several administrations, not only ignore, but assist the invasion of our precious country perplexed and infuriated me then, as now. Bush is certainly not the only one to blame; but he was president when I wrote the piece, and I felt that ‘bringing it home’ might make more of a statement provoke thought, and bring attention to the hypocrisy of all those involved, past and present

I feel very strongly about this issue, for I believe that left unattended it will be the destruction of our nation, and I mean that as literally as I can convey it. Notwithstanding that and a few other things, however, I’m thankful Bush was at the helm for his two terms, and god bless him for all he did for our country.

I hope this clears things up for you all, and thanks for the generous welcome this site. MH.

Hello Friend, thank you for reading and for your comments and observations. I knew that this post would be a little controversial, so let me explain and amplify, to you and the several others who have responded in similar manner. First, I am an admirer of President Bush, and supported him and much of his agenda. I feel that he is a very intelligent (if not the most well-spoken off the cuff), very honorable man, a class act, and a true American Patriot who has had the best interest of the country at heart, as he sees it. Though he was too liberal for my taste and the taste of many other conservatives (Medicare prescription drugs, TARP. etc) he was light-years better than the current occupant of the golf course-—er, white house, and it should be apparent to any unbiased observer that economically, domestically, in foreign policy, or matters of personal dignity and character, Mr. Bush is in a completely different league than the community agitator.

That being said, I feel that Bush exemplified what was and is wrong with Federal immigration policy-—on both sides of the aisle, and I wish he had led the movement to secure our borders and stop the invasion, as well as repatriating the millions of invaders, when he was in power. Sadly he, like all the others, did not have the political will and he also seemed overly sympathetic the the illegals’ cause, which I believed stemmed from having a good heart. None the less, does illegal mean illegal, or not? If so, the solutions are (and were) pretty obvious. Watching members of both parties, over several administrations, not only ignore, but assist the invasion of our precious country perplexed and infuriated me then, as now. Bush is certainly not the only one to blame; but he was president when I wrote the piece, and I felt that ‘bringing it home’ might make more of a statement provoke thought, and bring attention to the hypocrisy of all those involved, past and present.

I feel very strongly about this issue, for I believe that left unattended it will be the destruction of our nation, and I mean that as literally as I can convey it. Notwithstanding that and a few other things, however, I’m thankful Bush was at the helm for his two terms, and god bless him for all he did for our country.

I hope this clears things up for you all, and thanks for the generous welcome this site. MH.

Hello Friend, thank you for reading and for your comments and observations. I knew that this post would be a little controversial, so let me explain and amplify, to you and the several others who have responded in similar manner. First, I am an admirer of President Bush, and supported him and much of his agenda. I feel that he is a very intelligent (if not the most well-spoken off the cuff), very honorable man, a class act, and a true American Patriot who has had the best interest of the country at heart, as he sees it. Though he was too liberal for my taste and the taste of many other conservatives (Medicare prescription drugs, TARP. etc) he was light-years better than the current occupant of the golf course-—er, white house, and it should be apparent to any unbiased observer that economically, domestically, in foreign policy, or matters of personal dignity and character, Mr. Bush is in a completely different league than the community agitator.

That being said, I feel that Bush exemplified what was and is wrong with Federal immigration policy-—on both sides of the aisle, and I wish he had led the movement to secure our borders and stop the invasion, as well as repatriating the millions of invaders, when he was in power. Sadly he, like all the others, did not have the political will and he also seemed overly sympathetic the the illegals’ cause, which I believed stemmed from having a good heart. None the less, does illegal mean illegal, or not? If so, the solutions are (and were) pretty obvious. Watching members of both parties, over several administrations, not only ignore, but assist the invasion of our precious country perplexed and infuriated me then, as now. Bush is certainly not the only one to blame; but he was president when I wrote the piece, and I felt that ‘bringing it home’ might make more of a statement provoke thought, and bring attention to the hypocrisy of all those involved, past and present.

I feel very strongly about this issue, for I believe that left unattended it will be the destruction of our nation, and I mean that as literally as I can convey it. Notwithstanding that and a few other things, however, I’m thankful Bush was at the helm for his two terms, and god bless him for all he did for our country.

I hope this clears things up for you all, and thanks for the generous welcome this site. MH.

Friend, I understand your frustration and you make some excellent real life points; but don’t fall victim to a false dichotomy; it isn’t over yet. Apathy is out of the question. I’m not advocating armed rebellion——yet-—either. We must do all we can and awaken as many sheeple as possible before it truly is too late. Stand with us, for we are many. It is our country, we simply must de-fang the tyrannical federal government and bring it to heel, and soon. Otherwise, all is lost.