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At least that is what the Guardian UK is saying. I am beginning to wonder if an Obama administration is going to be more of a Clinton II administration rather than  a Dhimmi Carter II administration. Obama has 31 of the 47 Move.gov advisers are Clintonistas . I am just wondering why he is doing this, and what the people that voted for him are going to say???? They voted against Hillary in the Primaries and wanted someone other than a Clinton in the White House. But Obama is tapping all of Clinton lackeys and insiders for all his Change. Does that seem like change to you????

H/T to The Right Perspective

Hillary Clinton to accept Obama’s offer of secretary of state job

President-elect Barack Obama reaching out to former rivals to build a broad coalition administration

Hillary Clinton plans to accept the job of secretary of state offered by Barack Obama, who is reaching out to former rivals to build a broad coalition administration, the Guardian has learned.

Obama’s advisers have begun looking into Bill Clinton’s foundation, which distributes millions of dollars to Africa to help with development, to ensure that there is no conflict of interest. But Democrats do not believe that the vetting is likely to be a problem.—Guardian UK

Also I got a new blog Stix Blog ver. 3.0

While Tuesday was Veterans Day, we were all thankful for all the soldiers, seamen, marines and sailors have done fort his country. They protect the freedoms we hold dearly and at great sacrifice.  Many leave families with young children for years, and leave family members and friends behind.  And all to protect our freedoms and to protect us from those that want to do us harm.  And all to often we forget that these men and women are human and have feelings and are longing for home.  I got this email from my mom about one soldier’s quest to bring some of home in a far off place.

I sure hope the picture will go through for you - of this Army soldier in Iraq with his tiny “plot of grass in front of his tent.  It’s heartwarming!! Here is a soldier stationed in Iraq , stationed in a sandbox.  He asked his wife to send him dirt ( U.S. Soil), fertilizer and some grass seed so he can have the sweet aroma, and feel the grass grow beneath his feet. When the men of the squadron have a mission that they are going on, they take turns walking through the grass and the American soil.

If you notice, he is even cutting the grass with a pair of scissors.  Sometimes we are in

such a hurry that we don’t stop and think about the little things that we take for granted.

Upon receiving this, say a little prayer for our soldiers that give and give (and give up) so unselfishly for us.

You don’t have to send this on, but gosh, who wouldn’t?

Always rememeber the little stuff and never forget to thank all those brave men and women for all their service to this country.   And never take for granite the freedoms we have because of these soldiers, seamen, maries and  sailors.   And always remember them, not just on Veterans Day.

I wanted to let the elections sink in before I said anything about, or do a long post about it.   I want to congratulate Obama for a splendid campaign.   He had the organization and the rhetoric that people heard and wanted to follow.   He stated focused and did not make many mistakes.   So I want to congratulate him and wish him luck.   Because whoever was going to be the President is stepping into a hornets nest of problems.   Not all Bush’s fault and not all Democrats fault.   It is the combination of stuff that has finally fallen on our economy, CRA, Greenspan lowering the interest rates too many times and a CONgress that failed to see what was coming because of vitriol going on both sides.   So, Obama I congratulate you and wish you luck,

But with that, I am not going to go along and agree with most of what you are doing.  I do not believe the Constitution says anywhere where you are suppose to “redistribute the wealth” and form a National Military Organization.    Also you do not tax the rich to bring the poor up, that is a false theory.  And it especially reckless in a time of recession.  I do recall that we have tried this before and we had The Great Depression.   it never worked then and will not work now.

Now to the GOP.   or what is left of what the Republican Party stood for.   The GOP has become corrupted with politicians and hacks that are not out for the best interest of the country, but only in it for themselves.   What ever happened to “Limited Government”, “Individualism”, and “Personal Freedoms”?????   When the GOP won the CONgress in 1994, they came in with a plan, but by the time Bush came into power, the GOP had forgotten that Contract With America, and became what they despised, drunken sailors that did not find pork or lobbyists that they did not like.  What happened to the Party of Reagan???    There are only a few left that believe in anything in the Contract With America.   Most have been poisoned by greed and The Washington Elite.

The past few days I have been reading some posts of my friends and fellow conservatives online.  There are many great ideas on how the GOP can get back on track.  Get back to the basics of what got them in power in 1994.  Conservatism did not loose on election day, Republicans lost on elections day.  Many conservative ballot measures were
passed and many Liberal ballots measures were voted down.    So it is not Conservatism that lost, it was the GOP.  So we conservatives should not give up all hope.

Guest poster at Flopping Aces, Wisdom has a 7 point plan that I agree with:

1. We need to self police and purge our Party of the corruption that seeped into the ranks during our years of power. From the halls of Congress, to the living rooms where local Party officials meet, the people who have used political power to advance personal prosperity, illegally and unethically, need to be stripped from their positions of leadership, and censured or prosecuted as the situations dictate. Sarah Palin set a standard for us in how she hit hard against entrenched corruption in Alaska, and we would do well to heed her example.
2. We need to go back to the basics of what makes our Party great. We need to embrace the foundations of our party’s history, such as constitutional constructionism, federalism, individual responsibility, and conservative fiscal policy. We need cast off this idea that it is our job to include all points of view in our Party, and instead set a steadfast standard that others can look up to and join with as they see and understand the superiority of the Conservative Republican Platform.
3. We need to learn from the success of the Democratic Party and use their methods to teach conservative values from the bottom up. We need to become ‘community organizers’ in our own right, and work hard to make sure that our values are taught in our preschools, in our grade schools, our middle schools, our high schools, and ultimately in our colleges and our universities. We need to create our own educational programs to counter the liberal programs that have become entrenched in the liberal controlled education systems. We need to promote and support conservative community programs and charities, and take advantage of any chance to promote conservative social efforts wherever we see them.
4. We have to find strong, honest, charismatic, conservative leaders to take control of the current Republican Caucus in Congress. We cannot afford to have congressional leaders who cannot relate to the national constituency. The chosen leaders have to be able to articulate our congressional objectives, and communicate their importance to the American people. A Democratic majority can stonewall a Republican minority, but they cannot stand against a resolute American public that demands results. When the inevitable political infighting begins in the now too powerful Democratic Party, a calm, steadfast Republican minority can show America what leadership should look like.
5. We have to recruit, promote, and support good conservative leaders at all levels of local and statewide government. The first, and most important, place we can do this is on school boards nationwide. If we can shift the political balance of our education system, we can begin to take the control of our classrooms out of the hands of the far left.
6. We have to recruit, promote, support good conservative candidates to challenge the Democrats for control of Congress in 2010. The Democrats have two years ahead where they will have control of the White House and both houses of Congress, and we can take advantage of those two years to recruit candidates and build successful campaigns. The political infighting of the Democratic Party is inevitable, and a unified Republican Party can take advantage of that to make huge gains in congressional seats.
7. We have to find a great, young, ambitious, charismatic, conservative leader, who has a bulletproof past, who has a grand vision for our nation, to lead our party to victory in the 2012 Presidential race. I know this is asking a lot, but our Party needs a young Ronald Reagan — male, female, black, white, latino — it doesn’t make a difference. If we put forth anything less, then we will be trying again in 2016.

Night Twister at The Minority Report has got some other good Ideas:

We need new leadership for the Republican National Committee. We need someone that can present our conservative ideas to the public in a way that they can understand. Small government. Fiscal and personal responsibility. Strong, but wise defense policies. This is what is important to the core of our nation. There is such a man that can do this. He ran in our Presidential primaries, but was unsuccessful mostly due to his inability to put together a functional campaign strategy. Most everyone agreed he had the best and right ideas to lead our nation forward, but simply wasn’t the person for that job.  This man is Fred Dalton Thompson.
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We need new leadership in the House and Senate. I’ll be the first to agree that we’ve been our own worst enemy in Congress over the past eight years, and the current leaders inherited a good portion of this mess. That said, we’ve hired them to do a job, and while I was willing to let them slide in 2006, they had two years to stop the bleeding and were unable to do so. They’ve had no voice. It doesn’t matter that the MSM has been screaming liberal talking points all along. They know the lay of the land. They’ve got to find a way to get our voice out in such a way that people will hear it, or they need to get out of the way and let others give it a chance. What they’re doing now isn’t working.

Steven Den Beste at Chizumatic also has some very good thoughts:

1. It is no longer possible for anyone to deny that the MSM is heavily biased. The MSM have been biased for decades but managed an illusion of fairness. That is no longer possible; the MSM have squandered their credibility during this campaign. They’ll never get that credibility back again.

2. Since the Democrats got nearly everything they hoped for in this campaign, they’ll have no excuses and will have to produce. They’ll have to reveal their true agenda — or else make clear that they don’t really have any beyond gaining power.

3. Every few decades the American people have to be reminded that peace only comes with strength. The next four years will be this generation’s lesson.

Leslie Carbone also has nail the head on this one:

One of the truest adages in politics–Bad things happen to Republicans when conservatives are unhappy–came true again last night.

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Voters didn’t reject Republicans because they reject conservatism; voters rejected Republicans because they no longer trust Republicans to uphold conservatism.  And there’s no reason why they should.

I know that there are many other great posts and thought out there.  But I do not want to just cut and paste a whole bunch of blog posts here.    What I want is for us to take back the GOP from the political hacks that have ruined the Republican name.  These people have left Conservatism behind and tried to change the Republinan Party to a Democrat Lite Party.   We do not want that, we want the Republicans to be Conservatives, not Moderate Mavericks.    And this is not to poke at McCain, he is a great man and a true American Hero, but he was no Conservative.  he did have Conservastive tendencies, but he was more a less a Centrist.

We need to start now and not rest.   We need to see what the Democrats have done and not exactly emulate them, but learn how to get the message to the average Joe better.   Not just bitch and moan about Obama, but to try and change the minds of the American Public.  Get them to listen and not just watch American Idol or Survivor, and not care what is going in Washington.

I know I do not have all the answers and probably never will.  But we as Conservatives need to unite and not point fingers at each other.   That will just tear us apart.   We need to join together and take back the Party of Reagan and Lincoln.

And if you have any good ideas leave them in the comments.  I really would like to hear what everyone has to say.

I have two observations about this picture. First, what is up with this podium sign? The Office of the President Elect? You’re kidding me, right? I don’t recall ever seeing a President-Elect of the United States of America with a podium sign meant to make him look Presidential. But what else can we expect of someone who had his own Presidential-style seal made to be used during the campaign?

My second observation: The President-Elect of what? If he were to have such a Presidential looking podium sign, shouldn’t it include the phrase of the United States of America? Why would the Country be completely left out of the equation? Is it that the United States of America is nothing more to Mr. Obama than a tool to achieve the power he so desperately desires? I fear that Mr. Obama is going to be a self-centered, narcissistic (redundancy intended) individual who expects the country to serve him rather than him serving the country.

Oh, and one more observation: notice how the word PRESIDENT is in a larger font than the word ELECT? Kind of the way OBAMA was bigger than BIDEN on all those campaign signs. Why? Because Mr. Obama clearly puts himself first, above all things.

None of this should surprise us, really. After all, Mr. Obama had to remind himself in his first press conference today that the United States only has one President at a time, and right now, that man is George W. Bush.

This man is forcing me to break my moratorium on political writing during the rest of November, as I promised on Wednesday. I really should be working on my NaNoWriMo project.

Your comments?

Joe

Read more at Average Joe American.US.

The low-road treatment of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin continues. Unfortunately but not surprisingly, it comes from “tools” within the McCain campaign. Perhaps these “tools” should remember that every dog has its twelve o’clock and thus, they will have theirs. Tools in this case refers to “lobbyists”, the suspected anonymous assassins. Anonymous is synonymous with cowardice in this case. More likely, the McCain tools are merely trying to cover for their own ineptitude. Senator John S. McCain, if you have integrity, you will denounce this shabby treatment immediately. Here is a supporting view.

In an often quoted post of September 17, “The Hidden Sinisterisms of the O Campaign” we reported as follows:

First the explosives. The media are nowhere in evidence in the matter, but the initial charges were laid out nevertheless in a NY Post article titled “Obama Tried to Stall GIs’ Iraq Withdrawal” (…)

Amir Tehari alleges that Obama on his recent fact-finding mission in Iraq a few months ago, against official policy … “(…) has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence. According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July. (…)

Video material is available here. The McCain camp has responded that “(…) If news reports are accurate, this is an egregious act of political interference by a presidential candidate seeking political advantage overseas. Senator Obama needs to reveal what he said to Iraq’s Foreign Minister during their closed door meeting. (…)” >>>

During the same trip Obama also tried to persuade the US commanders, including Gen. David Petraeus, to suggest a “realistic withdrawal date.” They declined. (…)”. Bob Owens in a PJs article “Obama’s Questionable Diplomacy in Iraq” had a reaction to the allegations from the Multi-National Force Iraq Press Desk.

Fast forward to breaking news this morning by The Right Perspective, mentioning the comments made by an Iraqi MP in newspaper Aswat al Iraq. The article “Lawmakers call on Obama to pull out troops from Iraq” quotes legislature Mohammed al-Mehmedawi of al-Fadila bloc saying …

“Obama advised Iraqi politicians not to sign the pact.” “He did so because he believed that if the pact would not be signed, it would be a landmark for republicans’ policy failure in Iraq,” he noted.

The keen observer may have noticed nothing was spared in the Obama campaign to win the Presidency. A number of efforts crossed the line of generally accepted standards of proper conduct. The above was clearly one of them.

One cannot help wondering, will the unraveling continue?

The 2008 Presidential election is behind us, but the repercussions of the vote are yet to begin. Whether you supported Barack Obama, John McCain, or one of the many third party candidates (or no one at all — and shame on you if that’s the case), we all have to live with the repercussions of this week’s election.

I am an Army Veteran from the first Gulf War era, and have always had an interest in politics. Senator John McCain made a political junkie out of me. For the first time in my life I found myself blogging daily in support of John McCain and exposing the liberal and socialist leanings, the lies, and the complete lack of experience of his opponent. For the first time in my life, I found myself volunteering to make phone calls for a political candidate. I made calls from the Indiana Republican Party Headquarters in Indianapolis, from the Marion County Victory Center, and even from my own home office on election day.

I became a political junkie for John McCain because he has been the only true American hero to run for the office of President in my lifetime (I’m a huge fan of Ronald Reagan, but he wasn’t the kind of hero that John McCain is). John McCain endured things in Vietnam that very few Americans have ever had to endure. John McCain has given his country a lifetime of service, with never a complaint.

John McCain made me a political junkie because he gave me something to believe in for the future of America (I should say that I believe in twenty years time history will consider George W. Bush to have been one of our better Presidents) at a time when most people claim to have lost faith in our government.

John McCain made me a political junkie because he has always had the courage to stand up for his convictions, regardless of popular opinion, often to the possible detriment of his political career. He has stood up to Democrats, he has stood up to Republicans, and he has never allowed political expediency or political correctness to determine what course of action he should take on any issue. He has been his own man, and he has been America’s man.

John McCain made me such a political junkie that for the first time in my life I found myself and my family standing for five hours on an airport tarmac waiting for a political candidate to arrive and repeat the same talking points that had been played out on TV for the past week. And it was an incredible campaign rally, with a throng of devoted supporters cheering for their candidate — devoted supporters who have a passion for their country and knew that their candidate was the best man to lead the country they love.

The election is now over, and I believe dark days may lie ahead. I have no confidence that our next President can execute the duties of his office efficiently and effectively. And I have already seen the comments of many bloggers — those even who were writing pro-McCain posts during the election — attack this American hero, blaming him for losing the election, for making stupid choices, for not attacking his opponent strongly enough.

I am embarrassed and ashamed for the conduct of those who would so quickly turn their back on this candidate, this great American who has never turned his back on them. This American hero who has suffered great pains and inconvenience for the country that he loves deserves much better than the type of treatment I have heard today from some of his so-called supporters.

Barack Obama did not win this election. Barack Obama’s supporters won this election. Organizations like ACORN and MoveOn.org won this election through their get out the vote efforts — whether legitimate or fraudulent. The mainstream media won this election through their lopsided coverage of the issues, their willingness to overlook the sins of their chosen candidate while raking the reputations of John McCain and his running mate over the coals. Barack Obama did not win this election.

John McCain did not lose this election. John McCain fought an incredible fight, never resting, never backing down from the liberal attack dogs of the Obama campaign and the mainstream media. John McCain did not lose this election. The Republican party lost this election. Those who failed to support John McCain lost this election. Those who chose to support him only with their vote lost this election. Those who found themselves too busy to make phone calls, knock on doors, talk to their friends and families about the issues and the candidates, and even too busy to get out and vote — those are the people who lost this election. Evangelical Christians on the national scene who came out in force in 2004 to defend President Bush against John Kerry but failed to do the same for John McCain when the threat of the socialist agenda of Barack Obama was so much greater than any perceived threat from John Kerry — Evangelicals like Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council — they lost this election. John McCain did not lose this election.

The repercussions of this election could ripple for decades. The Republican Party must act now to bring a balance of power back to America. We can no longer sit back and wait for things to happen while liberals make more noise than us, support their candidates more publicly than us, and sweep the elections while we stand in the wings. We as a party must organize, mobilize, and vocalize if we are to have any hope of returning this country to the course our founding fathers intended. It could take decades for us to reverse the damage likely to be caused by the liberal government that will be ruling in Washington come January. We cannot sit back and do nothing any longer.

Thank You, John McCain! Thank You for your lifetime of courageous service in the face of diversity! Thank You for your willingness to go up against the liberal marketing machine of Barack Obama when no one else had the stamina to do so! Thank You for making me a political junkie, for mobilizing me, and for vocalizing me in support of a candidate that I truly believed in (and still believe in)!

Looking forward to 2010, we must prepare now to retake control of Congress, and set our sights on the White House in 2012. For now, I will be taking a brief break from politics. For the remainder of November, I will not be making frequent posts of a political nature here. I hope to pour my energy and efforts into my National Novel Writing Month project.

But I’ll be watching, and I’ll be back, and I hope I can count on you to vocalize with me against the liberal social agenda that threatens to run this great country down a course that it may require decades to return from.

Your comments?

Joe

Read more at Aveage Joe American.US.

I want to thank Governor Sarah Palin for accepting McCain’s VP slot.  She has reinvigorated the Conservatives and will be the face of Conservatism for a while I hope.  She is what we are all looking for.  She is her own woman, and is a down to Earth person that understands what every day people are going through.   She accepted and was thrown into a firestorm of Left wing Hacks and MSM gotcha journalism.  But she came through and will stay.  She is what every female in this country should aspire to be, a self made women that still can take care of a family, being the Governor, and stay true her values even in the firestorm she was thrown into.

Thank you Sarah and do not get discouraged, there are many out here that love what you have done and are saddened by what the Left and MSM has done to you.  It is totally disgusting what they have done and you came though with flying colors.   Stay the course and we will be behind you.

I just watched a Fox News piece about Sarah Palin and the rumored in-fighting there was between her and McCain aides.

When I found out that her initial handlers were Bush people, I was not surprised that her first interviews went so poorly. Bush was a poor communicator. I’m not a Bush-basher, just someone who’s very frustrated that he never defended himself very well on Iraq (plus, he ended up being a big spender).

Palin got a new handler and we saw, again, the woman who won us over at the convention.

But then came word that McCain staffers who were previously Romney staffers were trying to bring her down in order to prop up their own candidate.

Now, that effort seems to be in full force. Romney’s people are likely more used to doing this national press work than Palin.

I, for one, won’t stand for it. These people are simply trying to cover their own, um, butts so they can get jobs with what’s left of our party in DC.

Don’t let them smear Palin. Don’t let these people who have left behind conservatives in the party - don’t let them run our party.

By the way, McCain lost 20% of the conservative vote and didn’t win over the middle. Many undecideds stayed home. If he had gone conservative, he’d be measuring the drapes for the Oval Office right now.