During the campaign of 08 we heard over and over from then candidate Obama that if we would only sit down, talk with our enemies and sing "kum by ya", they would miraculously be transformed from enemies to allies.  Now that he as taken office as commander in chief we see the results of his foreign policy naivete.  Russia told him to pound sand when he offered to remove the missile defense system from Eastern Europe in return for their intervention in Iran.  Chavez has become more strident and tied itself more closely to Russia. Worse, Iran has just test fired a ballistic missile capable of reaching Israel, U.S bases in the Mideast and our allies in Europe and Obama has been in office less than six months.  Even Democrats in congress and his own FBI director realize how dangerous his shoot from the hip polices are as they joined Republicans today in rejecting Obma's plans to close Guantanamo and relocate terrorists to domestic soil.  Not since the days of James Earl Carter have we seen such incompetence in the oval office.

Clearly this man is unqualified to deal with foreign policy.  Over and over he has been the first to undermine the reputation of his own nation with constant criticism of policies that led the U.S to become the worlds lone superpower.  If Obama has such disdain for his own country how can he expect to garner respect among enemies and allies alike.  Our only hope to survive this debacle is to hold Congress's feet to the fire so that they will continue to reject the reckless policies of the Obama administration until conservatives find their voice and take back the Republican party from the mushy centrists that have brought this nation to the brink of disaster.

In a commencement address to graduates of  Arizona State University, President Obama said the following:

" Did you study business? Why not help our struggling non-profits find better, more effective ways to serve folks in need. Nursing? Understaffed clinics and hospitals across this country are desperate for your help. Education? Teach in a high-need school; give a chance to kids we can't afford to give up on - prepare them to compete for any job anywhere in the world. Engineering? Help us lead a green revolution, developing new sources of clean energy that will power our economy and preserve our planet." 

Is that what parents have slaved and sacrificed to send their children to school for, to increase the size of the welfare state?  Or did they they send them there so that they would develop the tools that would make them self sustaining so they wouldn't end up back on their doorsteps at age 30 with their husbands wives and children?

According to Obama we are in the shape we are in because for generations we pursued individual achievement at the expense of the common good and the only way out of it is to suppress that desire in future generations.  The following could just as easily come out of his mouth:  "Don’t set out to raze all shrines—you’ll frighten men. Enshrine mediocrity, and the shrines are razed."  Those are the words of Ayn Rand's collectivist character Ellsworth Toohey in the Fountainhead.  After the statements that were made at ASU there can be no doubt that is who now sits in the White House.

This past weekend Jeb Bush stated that "it's time for the Republican Party to give up its "nostalgia" for the heyday of the Reagan era and look forward, even if it means stealing the winning strategy deployed by Democrats in the 2008 election."  Bush went on to say " President Obama's message of hope and change during the 2008 campaign clearly resonated with Americans."  Statements like that show just how out of Touch Mr. Bush is with history and his party.  It was Obama who co-opted the Reagan message of hope, change and tax cuts and if Bush is that blind he has no business running for the party's nomination.  The Bush family has always been part of the country club / Rockefeller wing of the party and that hasn't changed.  It was his father that benefited from Regan's legacy and the first thing he did after taking office was to distance himself from the man who put him there.  His younger son won the nomination in 2000 by running on the Reagan agenda and the longer he was in office the further he got away from it, along with those in congress.   The reason McCain lost is because he completely abandoned the principles of Reagan and many conservatives failed to turn up at the polls as a result.  How can Bush and the rest of these so called leaders possibly believe that the key to winning back the oval office is to go even further down that path?  They say they are going to go on a listening tour?  Well perhaps they should all stock up on "miracle ears" because they are stone deaf to the members of their own party.  The icing on the cake was R.I.N.O. Republican now Democrat Arlen Specter blaming Jack Kemp's death on conservative principles.  I would rather see us wander the political dessert for as long as it takes to rid ourselves of these kind of influences than to take a chance on putting one of them in a position of power simply for the purpose of having a "Republican" in the White House.