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How many have noticed that we're now referred to as "folks" and not as Americans? The latest assault on America: Obama has decreed it's okay for our national bird, the American Bald Eagle, to be killed by "green" energy windmills. Liberty and freedom are collateral damage, cynically symbolized by the fate of the American Bald Eagle, to those marching us down the road to serfdom.

How can any cogent American citizen possibly even consider voting for Barack Obama now? That's what lots of conservatives and moderates are asking each other, again and again. It's completely baffling, to those who grew up with any sort of sense of what America means and what the American character traditionally has been, that anybody can look at the man's record and want more of the same. Almost the entirety of the Muslim world is now rioting against an American president who promised that his olive branches to Muslims would secure peace. Like Jimmy Carter, Obama has only shown a...