This morning, I was giving an older daughter a ride to an appointment. On the way, she asked me if I supported Obama. I told her that I didn’t support Obama. She asked me why I do not support Obama. I thought about that for a moment then summed it up with one word, socialism. I do not think that socialism is an American value. Since socialism is not an American value, it should be defeated wherever it is found.

My ancestor, Richard Warren, came over here on the Mayflower. When the Mayflower Pilgrims first started Plymouth colony, they owned everything in common. As a result of this common ownership, the colony almost died out. William Bradford quickly allowed private ownership and the colony thrived. They proved that common ownership may sound good on paper, in practice it does not work. Private ownership of property always does better than common ownership. Even the Soviet Union found this out. They had large collective farms that could hardly produce enough food to keep the farmers that worked the farms fed. After a while, they allowed the farm families to have private ownership of some small property. The privately owned property out produced the common ownership property by many times. The reason is that people will work harder for themselves than they will for someone else. The key is just that simple.

People may say that I do not support Barack Obama because he is black. I have a black son and a black daughter. How could I discriminate against Obama and then look my children in the eye? No, I do not support Barack Obama strictly on policy and philosophy. I have nothing against a black person holding the job of President. I wish it had happened sooner. I also wish that it had happened with a black person with a better outlook on life. I had said for years that we are nearly ready for a black President. I had also predicted that the black President would be Republican. My reasoning is that Democrats have some built in problems. The main one is that they are soft on defense. Barack Obama is a perfect example of a Democrat being soft on Defense. I also think that the first woman President and the first Hispanic President will be Republican for the same reason.

Obama’s healthcare plan is socialist in nature. Whether it is socialist, communist, fascist or whatnot, the point is that it tends to be socialist. Since it tends to be socialist, I oppose the plan on principle. Everything else Obama has proposed is socialist.

Barack Obama surrounds himself with communists and other radicals. His advisors do not read like what you would expect to see in America. Even if you subscribe to the theory that all America is liberal, not all liberals are communists and fascists. Most liberals are regular ordinary people that you can talk to. Obama has picked the worst from the worst to be his advisors. That to me shows at least extremely poor judgment. Most likely it shows that his views are extremely close to those of his advisors. He keeps telling us that they are not the same as his advisors, but I see no evidence except his word. His word does not mean much as he is constantly in a state of telling a lie. With Bill Clinton his lips had to be moving to be sure it was a lie. With Obama, just seeing him we know that he is telling us another lie.

No, I oppose Obama strictly on policy. I have nothing against his race. Since I am so strongly against his policies, some may take it that I have a hidden agenda against his race. I do not. I have many friends that are black. I work with blacks all the time. I have had many black supervisors that I thought did excellent jobs. To me, black is just a help in identifying the person like hair color or height.

Our historically challenged President is off jet setting around the world, changing the past. The latest was the talk he gave just before jetting off to Turkey. In the talk, he talked about how the Prague Spring was a success in changing Europe. He must be joking. The Prague Spring was a total disaster from any perspective. The only problem with the Prague Spring is that the left has decided that it was a golden time and taught that it was successful in changing communism.

Let me refresh your memory like Dennis Prager did mine this morning. In 1968, Alexander Dubcek instituted some reforms in Czechoslovakia. This included, but was not limited to, freedom of expression. Since the Soviet Russians hated freedom of expression, they feared the power of freedom; they decided to put down this rebellion while it was still a peaceful, non-violent revolution.

The Soviets sent in the tanks and slaughtered thousands. The Czechoslovakian government was ousted and a puppet government was put in its place. Maybe Alexander Dubcek expected America to come to his aid. That was not to be as President Johnson was bogged down in Vietnam and was hoping to be re-elected. Getting America involved with the Soviets right then would have been impossible for President Johnson. It was obvious that the Soviets did not fear anything that the Americans would do at that time. They just came in and cleaned house. Those that were not killed outright were sent to the Gulags and never heard from again.

The Prague Spring was the second time in 12 years that the Soviets came in and cleaned out reform minded people from Eastern European states. The first was in 1956 in Hungary and the second in Prague. They followed the same script each time. They came in with tanks and guns to defeat upstarts that thought they could win with ideas and good intentions.

What you intend to do is great. What you actually do is better. If you intend to change the world with ideas, you better have some way to back it up. Unfortunately, the world is filled with people with guns. Those that have the guns make the rules. You can have all the wonderful thoughts in the world, but without guns behind it, are useless. Of course, a people that have no ideas and have guns is also not good. The best of all possible worlds is when people have great ideas and are willing to back it up with their lives and guns. Then you have the ability to change the world. Barack Obama thinks that ideas change the world if they are good. That is wrong. Just look at Prague and Hungary and you will see that good ideas and good intentions are not enough. You also have to be able to back them up with guns.

A world without guns would be nice, but it will never happen in my lifetime. As Americans, we have the best ideas and we also have the best military. We do not have the best leader right now. We have a leader that thinks that good intentions are better than a strong military at deterring terrorists. We have a leader that thinks that if your intentions are good enough, you can keep all the bad guys at bay. He is living in a dream world. Unfortunately, that dream world can and will get a lot of people killed if Obama does not wake up soon.

On a side, but related note, why did Barack Obama bow to the King of Saudi Arabia? He should have known that American Presidents bow to nobody. I knew that for at least the last 50 of my 60 years. If I knew it so long, surely he has known it for a long time. When Bill Clinton was President, the New York Times made a point of lecturing Mr. Clinton on the fact that Presidents do not bow to anyone. That was over a head nod to the Emperor of Japan. Surely someone in his party would have remembered the lecture from the New York Times on the subject just a few years ago.

I am becoming more and more convinced that Barack Obama surrounds himself with “yes” men. The number of times he puts his foot in his mouth or he does something stupid or he gives a tacky gift to another head of state, it cannot just be innocent mistakes. There is a pattern emerging. That pattern is one of incompetence abroad and dealing with heads of state. That is what was warned during the election, but everyone scoffed and said it would not matter. Well, it does matter. Barack Obama represents the United States. When he acts like a country bumpkin, it makes the entire United States look like a bunch of country bumpkins. We used to run a tight ship over at the State Department when it came to this kind of thing. Now the wheels have come off the bus in only three months, disgraceful.