Or, would he prefer to remain in the Democrat majority of the Senate come January 20? Or maybe he’s even sending out feelers for a Cabinet post in an Obama Administration… It is getting hard to tell. In fact one could possibly argue that he doesn’t really want it. After all, how many opportunities has McCain had to call into question Obama’s stealth past, his socialist and terrorist connections, his complete and very obvious lack of any academic work that might offer even a minute view into that the man is really thinking and how he views the world – and he has passed nearly all of them by until last week. Indeed, even going on the attack for Senator McCain seem to mean letting you running mate do the dirty work. It is not an abnormal thing to have the candidate at the top of the ticket try to remain above the fray and appear more “statesman-like” while their running mate goes for the jugular. 

Here’s where I have a problem with McCain’s alleged strategy: he’s not going for the jugular and I don’t think he will. Worse, I believe it’s not that he wouldn’t, it’s that he believes he shouldn’t. Senator McCain, a career navy man who has more than served his fair share of time in combat and the living hell of North Vietnamese POW camp, no doubt understands very well the essence of combat. Whether the combat is military or political the goal of combat is victory, and one achieves victory in only one of two ways: one forces the enemy to surrender, or one destroys and terminates the enemy. 

Given the stakes in this election and the fact that they have just been raised immeasurably higher by the recent government actions to nationalize massive segments of the private economy, which McCain himself supports, one would think the Senator would be fighting as hard as he can to destroy and terminate the enemy rather than simply try to force him to capitulate and surrender, and this most especially so given the fact that Obama is undoubtedly the most dangerous man ever to position himself for a takeover of the US Government. I say takeover, rather than “seek election” because in seeking election one does not employ miscreants to engage in vote fraud on a massive scale, nor does one celebrate little children being forced to sing propaganda songs about “hope and change,” nor does one remain conspicuously silent on the subject of youths dressed in fatigues performing paramilitary drills in public schools while shouting out Obama’s plans for “change.”

The thing I am finding truly disturbing is that right now he appears to be fighting for neither capitulation nor destruction of the enemy. In fact, just within the last couple of days Senator McCain has actively defended Obama. His admonished his own supporters for demanding he hit Obama harder over his connection to terrorist William Ayers, and then called Senator Barack Obama an inherently good and decent man who loves and believes in America.

Senator, I beg to differ wit your assessment of Mr. Obama, and here’s why:

1. Inherently good and decent men do not enable infanticide;

2. Inherently good and decent men do not remain silent when their supporters threaten to bring criminal charges against anyone who speaks ill of The One;

3. Inherently good and decent men do not remain silent when children are being exploited for political purposes;

4. Inherently good and decent men to not go out of their way to hide their past;

 5. Inherently good and decent men to not remain silent when children are indoctrinated into politically extremist views by those who are entrusted with their care and education’

6. Inherently good and decent men would not have spent 20 years in a racist, anti-American “church” listening to their pastor incite hate in the name of Christ;

7. Inherently good and decent men would admit to their past associations with extremist groups like ACORN, would admit to the roles they served, and denounce attempts to win an election by fraud;

8. Inherently good and decent men do no associate with admitted and unrepentant terrorists;

9. Inherently good and decent men would denounce their endorsements by Marxist and socialist groups, as well as foreign terror organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah;

10. Inherently good and decent men would not actively try to subvert the foreign policy of the sitting President (however misguided he may be…);

11. Inherently good and decent men would not subvert the Constitution at every opportunity;

12. Inherently good and decent men would not subvert their own nation’s sovereignty to a world body like the UN;

13. Inherently good and decent men speak plainly about what they believe and what they want to do;

14. Inherently good and decent men do not actively sanction the suppression of free speech;

15. Inherently good and decent men do not devalue human life to the equivalent of a “mistake”;

16. Inherently good and decent men do not engage in corrupt activity and then point fingers at others;

17. Inherently good and decent men would admit to past mistakes and ask forgiveness;

18. Inherently good and decent men do not play the “race-card”;

19. Inherently decent men do not incite race-riots through their surrogates;

20. Inherently good and decent men would speak the truth.

There is nothing good and decent about Barack Obama. He is a monster who enabled infanticide simply so he could continue to rake in campaign money and support from Planned Parenthood. He was an “academic” yet never published any professional work, only is self-crafted and spun autobiography. He has denied associations anyone with an internet connection can validate that he had, he refuses to answer questions on almost every facet of his life’s story, and he received not merely a free pass but the adulation and love of the smitten masses who have been waiting for “the One.” History shows time and again when a man come out of nowhere and ascends to high office without vetting and proper examination, the consequences can be most severe. And now with the perfect storm brewing economically, socio-politically, and culturally, we have in Obama the most extreme and dangerous ideological zealot every to seek the Presidency, and a man who has employed masterfully the teaching of his master, Saul Alinsky – deceit on a massive scale, because one cannot divulge who they really are lest they be rejected. Hence the necessity of pretending to be like everyone else; to lie, cheat and steal, to employ thuggish threats and corruption, and to deny everything with a smile while playing the “race-card.” 

The fact is that we no more about Sarah Palin’s 17 year of daughter’s pregnancy and Sarah’s newborn son Trigg than we do about Obama. But John McCain believes he is a good and decent man. The man who as President would utterly destroy what is left of capitalism and liberty in this country is a “good and decent man?” 

While I had been a “fence-sitter” or a “nose-holder,” in less than lukewarm support of this ticket, with this statement coming from a man who portents to be a conservative and a maverick, I can stand it no longer, because with such a statement McCain has as much as openly admitted that he will not rock the boat in Washington, he will not cross the line that counts, he will not be a real maverick when it comes to truly standing up for what is right. And most disappointingly of all, in admonishing his supporters he makes it clear that he will not go for the jugular and fight to terminate Obama’s chances at the White House with the arsenal he has available to him. He will not use all the weaponry at his disposal to bring this combat to a victorious conclusion for the American people. He will not put his country first – for fear of offending fence-sitting Democrats and perhaps losing their support. At this point, in my own opinion, the only reason McCain can call himself a maverick is because he has fought conservatives every inch of the way. 

Like many others out there, I can take a lot and compromise to a point. My line in the sand has been crossed. And, I am now more than ever convinced that if this republic is to survive as a free society, it will be because the third parties run the Democrats and Republicans out of town and make the Constitution the law of the land once again. Anything less will be un-survivable after an Obama Presidency. Continued capitulation to Obama’s Chicago socialist propaganda machine is merely a policy of appeasement that will only serve to undermine the cause of the right. I am now convinced that McCain does not have it in him to fight Obama to the death, so to speak. We all know the MSM is in the bad for Obama, and that Obama is a vey intelligent man with a massive underground extremist organization determined to hand him the Presidency licitly or illicitly – by any means necessary. 

And now we know that the GOP leadership will roll over and cut the best deal it can with these traitorous thugs while leaving the rest of us with false hope. I will not be fooled. I know the GOP cannot be trusted any more than the Democrats. If the future of this republic is in any way to resemble the glories of her past days, the only viable way to set this course is through independent candidates, third parties and merciless phone and email assaults on Capitol Hill. I, for one and for what it is worth, will be throwing myself into third party activism and campaigning. If I had money I’d be throwing that too. It is far better to begin and end the revolution with the ballot rather than with the shedding of blood which should be avoided at all costs, although I am not at all convinced that the government, especially under Obama, would be able resist the temptation to fire the first shot. May God help us in our righteous cause of Liberty.

I was out of the country when Al Qaeda hit New York, DC, and rural Pennsylvania. My wife and I were on vacation in London, and had just come up out of the Tube having spent the day at the London Museum. We saw crowds of people rushing to the newsstands grabbing the evening papers. It was obvious to us that something was going on; yet when I got a copy of the paper in my hands and saw the front cover with the image of an airliner smashing through the North Tower, I was speechless. We stood there and read for a few minutes and then ran to our hotel and promptly turned on the TV. There we watched the images over and over again. We wept and stared in disbelief. 

At the time all I, knew was that the planes that hit the Twin Towers had taken off from Boston. I assumed that they were the US Airways Shuttles from Boston to New York and Washington that both had been hijacked and had been flown into the towers.   The news channels did not have all the information and were only able to report what they could, and there were lots of unanswered questions about the attacks, and lots of missing information to put the whole thing together. 

As we watched the coverage from our London hotel room we also tried frantically to call home to our families in Dallas and Boston, which took hours to get through. Still thinking it was the Shuttles that had taken down the towers, I reflected and mourned for those crews and those passengers. I mourned for those families whose loved ones would never be coming home again. And, I thought about how easily it could have been me on one of those planes. 

You see, at the time I was an airline pilot living in Boston, based out of New York LaGuardia, and I commuted to LGA several times each week via the Shuttle. I knew the crews. I knew the passengers. I thought, like everyone else, “How could this have happened?” And in the wake of the sham that was the 9-11 Commission, half of whom were complicit in enabling the atmosphere that allowed the attacks to be executed, I still wonder. Today I watched, and wondered and reflected. And I grew angry and was moved beyond words. I don’t quite know how to describe the experience. 

My little girl was running and playing and laughing around the family room, blissfully unaware of what I was watching and what it meant for her future. I think it was precisely that which weighed so heavily on my heart this morning. I looked at her precious face and held her and hugged her, and I promised her that I would always be there to protect her. I thought about what kind of monsters would wantonly kill masses of people in the name of their religion, who would deprive children like my precious daughter of their parents – and parents of their children. I thought about our troops overseas and their families praying for their safe return. I thought about what the future holds. Never again – this can never happen again.

As an Army veteran, a former cop and airline pilot, security is something that is always on my mind. I have lived my life in code yellow since I was 18 years old, and will until the day I die. If necessary I will run to my country’s defense. And, when necessary I will disagree vehemently with my government and protest loudly when they screw things up. They screwed up royally before 9/11 with their heads buried in the sand and passing up opportunity after opportunity to get Osama Bin Laden when they knew he was a threat. Of course, not too many could have predicted something on the scale of 9/11, but that’s the point – that is what we are up against. Now is not the time for complacency. Not now, not ever. 

Perhaps that is what bothered me the most on this seventh anniversary of the attack of September 11, 2001: the fact that so many Americans have once again become complacent in the face of the threats of terrorism, while so many others have willingly surrender so much to arbitrary government authority for the promise of protection from terrorists. There is a delicate balance that must be maintained, and a certain amount of trust that we have to place in our government officials to keep our nation safe from those who would harm us. But that trust has to go both ways: government must respect our Liberty, and we must never relinquish any of our rights, any of our Liberty for the promise of security or prosperity. Not now, not ever; because history has shown time and again that once Liberty is relinquished to government, it is seldom, if ever given back to the people.

Complacency in the face of danger is fatal – always. This November we will elect our President, Senators and Representatives in Congress who will be the ones who will address these serious issues and will be charged with the heavy burden of responsibility of protecting our national interests and security. 

As you tuck your precious children into bed tonight and look at their innocent little faces, ask yourself what kind of world you want them to inherit. Ask yourself whether you want a President who will not back down from their threats and will pursue them to the ends of the earth, or one who will seek understand them so that he can better empathize with their grievances against us. Ask yourself if you want a President who has been to war and knows its horror all too well, or one who views men and women in uniform as bloodthirsty fascist thugs. Ask yourself if you want a President who has personally suffered at the hands of evildoers of the same ilk as Bin Laden, or one who thinks he can charm them into abandoning their Jihad? Look at your children and think about these things. 

One choice will cost us in the short term and will enable us to preserve our Liberty and way of life and to pass it on to our children. The other choice could cost us everything. It’s not just about where you were on September 11, 2001; it’s about whether or not enough of us remember and make the choice to make sure such atrocities never, ever, happen again.

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I remember, and I will never forget.