Posted on 04/24/2006 9:57:10 AM PDT by Warhammer
"It's not that liberals don't know anything; it's just that they know so many things that aren't so." - Ronald Reagan
Remember how the Gipper used to inspire us from the Oval Office and on the stump? Remember "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" George W. Bush could learn a lot from the great communicator.
On the recent outburst by a Chinese dissident during a joint press conference with Chinese President Hu Jintao, I would have loved to have heard my president say: "What you are witnessing is freedom of speech in defense of freedom of religion, Mr. President. These rights are granted by God to Americans, and to all people, and are confirmed and defended in our Bill of Rights. It's why the United States of America will always defend liberty for oppressed people everywhere."
Instead, Bush apologized to this dictator, who presides over a government as evil and repressive as any that has ever existed on this planet. Meanwhile, the protestor was arrested for disturbing the peace. Granted, the president did issue an official statement that China should allow greater freedom of worship, but he also assured the Chinese Communists that he supports their despotic claim over the lives of the free people of Taiwan.
On the issue of illegal immigration, I would love to hear my president say: "America has always been a beacon of freedom to the world, but we cannot long remain so with uncontrolled illegal immigration into our country. My foremost constitutional charge is to defend and protect our nation's borders. Rest assured that we will do so, by whatever means are necessary."
On the press and the war in Iraq, I would love to hear my president say: "Without the free flow of information, no free society can long remain free. But the American people have not been given a free flow of information. Instead, they have been treated to a continuous string of negative stories about America's involvement in Iraq. In fact, if Ernie Pyle had worked for CNN, America would have given up on World War Two long before we were anywhere close to victory."
On education: "The federal government has failed miserably at educating our children. The Ted Kennedy education bill of 2001 has been another power grab for control over the future of the next generation. Therefore, my next budget will contain no funding for the U.S. Department of Education. Those funds instead will be block-granted back to the states for use in school choice programs that will put parents and local officials back in control. The education of America's children is too important to trust to bureaucrats in Washington."
On taxes: "The current tax system is no longer salvageable. We are burying our nation's productivity beneath an antiquated tax code. This punitive system is driving our corporations to flee our shores. The only answer is to unleash the engine of prosperity we have known for more than two hundred years by replacing the federal income tax with a national consumption tax, otherwise known as the Fair Tax."
On oil prices: "Overpriced foreign crude oil threatens to strangle the American economy. I cannot let that happen. Environmental extremists and liberals in Congress have damaged our nation by insisting on unreasonable restrictions on domestic oil production. My presidency is committed to a three-fold solution to the problem: First, we will press the new leaders in Iraq to make protection of their oil production a top priority and to sell their oil to the United States and our allies at half the current price on the world market. Second, I'm calling on Congress to immediately approve legislation to explore and drill in ANWR. Third, we will build new refineries. We will bring back reasonable fuel prices as we transition to alternate sources of energy. As your president, I will see to it."
These are just a few of the many things I would love to hear my president say.
Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and policy advisor to federal, state and local candidates, elected officials and public policy organizations. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including TheConservativeVoice.com and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at dougpatton@cox.net.
What else would you like to hear him say?
heh!.......not holding my breath.
President Fox, if any more of your troops cross our border a state of war will exist between the United States and Mexico.
But why live in a dream world. Bush is on the down slide of his last term.
I would like to hear him explain why I can't import cheaper medicine from Canada but it's OK for business to import cheap labor from Mexico.
9... Guilty on all counts! Do you have anything to say before sentencing, Mrs. Clinton?
8... Guilty on all counts! Do you have anything to say before sentencing, Mr. Kerry?
7... Guilty on all counts! Do you have anything to say before sentencing, Mr. Kennedy?
6... Can I borrow your shotgun for the press conference, Mr. Cheney?
5... The border is closed until Congressional approval of a plan to evict the illegals and keep them out.
4... Howard Dean is hereby appointed as U.S. ambassador to California.
3... Janice Rogers Brown is hereby nominated for the USSC, Ms. Ginsburg.
2... Mr. Cheney, won't you reconsider your decision?
1... Iran has been disarmed.
Google and Yahoo would disagree.
Laura, where's the broom? I'm going to clean house.
"Laura, I'll be back later, I'm headin' down to the border to help Simcox build a fence!"
"What you are witnessing is freedom of speech in defense of freedom of religion, Mr. President. "
Yeah, Mr. Communist Dictator. It's an old American custom: Free Speech. We even let Communists talk, though usually they hide behind some other name because it doesn't look good to be a Communist.
If Clinton didn't stand up, it's because he is a wimp.
If Bush doesn't stand up, it's because he is a "statesman".
"freedom of religion, Mr. President. These rights are granted by God to Americans, and to all people"
Actually, God's pretty explicit about "Worship no other gods except me" in the 10 Commandments.
Freedom of Religion - freedom to worship whatever and however one chooses goes completely against the 10 Commandments.
I'm done building bridges. tommorow we start the wall.
Patton begins with a quote from Reagan, then wants to hear Bush say things that Reagan would never say either.
Some conservatives think it's just dandy to invite a foreign leader to the White House, then insult him to his face.
Or, to demand that a struggling country like Iraq sell its oil at half price to the United States.
This dope is living in a dream world.
Um Dick, what button did I just push?
When you and Roy Moore found your theocracy, then you can imprison those who don't base their beliefs on the 10 Commandments.
Until then, we'll have to make do with leaving other people alone in their worship.
Huh? What is that crap supposed to mean?
No matter whom Ernie was working for, he'd never have a bad word to say about G.I.s & you can bet your last dollar on it.
I'd like to hear him say:
"I'll be danged. It's NU-CLEE-AR, not NU-CYU-LAR? Can't believe I got that wrong all these years. Why didn't anybody tell me?"
"When you and Roy Moore found your theocracy, then you can imprison those who don't base their beliefs on the 10 Commandments.
Until then, we'll have to make do with leaving other people alone in their worship."
WHOA!! You misunderstood me! (Or more accurately, I didn't completely explain myself!!)
I'm all FOR people worshipping or not worshipping as they choose. I just tire of hearing this "God Given rights to freedom of worship" line, when God made His intentions on Who we are supposed to worship pretty clear. Any Satanist, Wiccan, etc. in America is in direct violation of a Commandment.
There are only 2 Commandments that have any real legal standing: Theft and Murder. For being "founded on the 10 Commandments" argument that idiots like Moore like to make, it's amusing to show that only 20% of them have any real basis in American law.
Sorry about that. I mistakenly thought you were advocating a government based on the 10 Commandments.
1) Mecca no longer exists. Or the Middle East, for that matter. 2) All muslims are being deported. 3) All illegals are being deported. 4) Castro had a fatal cold. Our sympathies. 5) Chavez had a fatal car accident. Our sympathies. 6) Little Kim ate some bad kimchee. Our sympathies. 7) We are drilling the daylights out of Alaska for oil. 8) All unconstitutional gun laws are revoked. 9) Federal income tax has been revoked. 10) Federal spending has been reduced.
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