Our President has raised or lowered (depending on your point of view) denigrating America to the world to an art form. His latest was to the United Nations. He must think that it is cute to denigrate America in front of people that spend their time tearing down all that America stands for. As for me, it grates on my nerves to have any American, especially our President, denigrate American in front of foreigners.

My attitude is this: in a political argument within the United States anything goes. That means that you can say whatever you want about America and I will defend to the death your right to say it, no matter how wrong you are. But, in a situation where foreigners are involved, all bets are off. There are protocols to be met and standards to uphold. The first among those is that to foreigners or on foreign soil, you do not speak ill of the United States. I know that with the 24 hour news cycle anything said by a President is known all around the world within seconds. But, if it is a domestic political contest, I still stand by the rule that you can say whatever you want. I am very 19^th century about that sort of thing.

What grates about denigrating the United States to the United Nations is that it plays into the hands of the communist dictators like Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez. They say that kind of thing all the time. Nobody believes them because they can see for themselves that it is not true. But, when an American President says the same thing, it lends credence to the words of the lying dictators.

One other thing that makes absolutely no sense to me is the situation in Honduras. They had a President who wanted to be a dictator like Hugo Chavez. The legislature, courts and military said that would not happen and threw him out. The legislature, courts and military followed the Honduran Constitution in throwing out the dictator. The communist dictators in the hemisphere protested the ouster of Zelaya and called it a coup. Barack Obama picked up the cry from the communist dictators and declared the constitutionally legal ouster of Zelaya to be a coup. This is crazy. We are aligned with the communist dictators and against the cause of freedom. It should be exactly the opposite of that situation. We have now forced Zelaya back into the country. He is being housed at the Brazilian Embassy until things can be worked out. Even the communist leaning Brazilians know that Zelaya is a thug and are giving Zelaya the cold shoulder. I am just afraid that we will force Honduras to throw out their Constitution and take a communist dictator.

Glenn Beck has been having a series of shows on the people that surround Barack Obama. Since we do not know much about Obama, the only way to know much about him is to know who he associates with. Most of the people that are in his inner circle have some ties directly or indirectly to communism or Marxism. In my mind, those are two sides of the same coin. Since that is the inner core of people working around Obama, can’t we make the jump and say that Obama leans heavily toward the Marxist philosophy. Looking at what Obama is saying and doing would also lead one to believe that Obama is at least leaning heavily toward the Marxist philosophy. My opinion is that he is a Marxist. But that is my opinion, not necessarily a true fact.

As Glenn Beck pointed out on his show yesterday, Barack Obama has all the parts set up to fundamentally change America, if we do not find out what he is doing. Unfortunately for Obama, we have started to figure out what he is doing. Because we are starting to figure out what he is doing, we are starting to fight back against the onslaught of socialist programs. Because of that push back by the American people, we just may regain the America that we had for over 200 years. Even catching it this early, we gave up a lot of ground. That will have to be reclaimed to get America back. The conservative American has awakened. The time for the conservative American to take back this country is coming in November 2010. Then, it will take a lot of hard slogging to get America back on the right track. We would have to rid ourselves of all these socialist programs, one at a time. That will take time and will involve a lot of yelling and stamping of feet. It will be worth it in the end, but hard to take at the time. I hope to be around to see America back in the saddle as the greatest nation on the face of the earth. That is where she belongs and where she should stay. Obama is wrong to apologize for America.

There were two items that happened yesterday that need to be mentioned today. The first is the fact that Barack Obama is taking a position on the Honduras Presidential situation that is exactly the same as three known communist dictators and against the rule of law. The second is that Al Franken officially was declared the winner in the Minnesota Senate race. That means that he stole the Senate seat from Minnesota. We are in big trouble if both of these are allowed to go unchallenged.

The most disturbing is the fact that the United States is being put in a position supporting a communist dictator against the people of Honduras. The President of Honduras wanted a second term of office. In fact, he wanted to be President as long as he wanted to be President. The Constitution in Honduras said that he could only hold one four year term of office. So, the President decided to change the Constitution. The only problem with that was that the Legislature had to initiate the process to change the Constitution and they refused to do it. He then decided to have a referendum on his own, without the legislature’s approval. The legislature had to approve the funding to print the ballots and they refused. So, he had the ballots printed in Venezuela with Venezuelan money. When the ballots were delivered to Honduras, the country’s Supreme Court had the ballots seized. The President then organized a mob to get the ballots and hold the election. The Supreme Court ordered the Army to arrest the President and have him removed from the country. That was completed.

Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega, all of our hemisphere’s communists, went on record denouncing the effort in Honduras as a coup. It was not a coup, but a Constitutional effort under the direction of the Supreme Court and the Legislature. Barack Obama sided with the communists and against the free people of Honduras. Today, the leaders in Canada also called on Honduras to allow the return of the dictator to power.

Our country should be on the side of freedom, wherever and whenever we find it. In our current President, we find him not supporting freedom when given the chance and supporting dictators whenever given the chance. This is backwards from what should be happening. Is it just me or is there something wrong with this picture? I am getting the feeling that we are being prepared for something in the future. I am not sure of what that something is, but I have a feeling that I will not like it when it happens. The early indicators are that freedom will not have a part of the Obama legacy.

The second disturbing thing is the elevation of Al Franken to the Senate. He lost the race in November. He lost the first recount. He lost the second recount. Then, his lawyers started finding votes where none existed and he managed to take a 700+ vote deficit into a 300+ vote victory. In the process, every canvassing board decision went against Norm Coleman. The Supreme Court decided that there was no pattern of deceit in the actions of the Franken team or the Minnesota canvassing board. That they could not see the obvious is ridiculous. Anyone with an eye and a brain can put one and one together to add up to two. This is the second election that the Democrats have stolen from the Republicans. The first was the Washington Governor’s race a few years back. In both cases, the Republican won the race and the first couple of recounts. It wasn’t until the Democrat vote producing machine took hold that the vote actually changed from Republican to Democrat. In both cases, miraculous votes appeared from unlikely places to give the Democrat the edge. In every case, the votes came from Democrat held counties. There were never any additional votes found in counties that were held by Republican officials. That makes one smell a rat. If this were a fair recount, there would be votes found in every county or at least most counties. No, all the votes found were in the heaviest Democrat counties. Either the Democrat held counties are the worst places to get votes counted properly or there was voting fraud after the election. I tend to believe the latter.

These two things do not bode well for the future. Al Franken makes it impossible for Republicans to stop anything without Democrat help. That means that any bill the Democrats can muster every Democrat to vote for will pass. It means Sonia Sotomayor will be on the Supreme Court, even though she is not qualified. Al Franken in the Senate is a disaster for America.

Barack Obama is signaling solidarity with his communist brethren. He has done this by coddling Kim Jong Il. He is standing firm against freedom everywhere he finds it. He is even standing firm against freedom at home. We are in big trouble as long as King Barack I is in office. Or is it Comrade Barack? I do not have good feelings about what will happen between now and November 2010. I just hope that there is still an America there that will be able to vote in November 2010. If we get to vote, the Democrats will all be lame ducks between November 2010 and January 2011. That is when they could inflict real damage, but that damage might be just temporary.

When Barack Obama announced his choice for Labor Secretary, I knew nothing about her. She was a member of the House from California, Linda Solis. That was the extent of my knowledge about her and that I learned when she was announced.

Obama said she worked with labor groups all her life. There is nothing wrong in working with labor groups. Many labor groups are perfectly legitimate and work for the good of the workers. Some labor groups are not there for the worker, they are there to promote the communist party and that could be a problem if that is the type of groups she worked with.

Obama said that she worked with union groups all her life. Again, there is nothing wrong in working with unions. Some unions are probably ok. My experience with unions says that unions are inefficient and cost employers far more than they are worth. I did belong to a union in the first jobs I had while in college. An example of what I am talking about is: I was to start work at a specific time; I do not remember exactly what time that was. To me, that meant that I had to have all the machines I worked with warmed up and ready to go at that particular time. But, each morning the shop steward would come in and tell me that I was to turn on the machines at the start of work and wait for them to warm up. So, she would turn them off. When she left, I would turn them all back on so I would be ready to work when I was supposed to work. If I followed the union rules, I would have wasted at least 10-15 minutes of my workday each day. If everyone did that, it comes out to a lot of lost work time.  Also, some unions are part of organized crime or communist fronts, not the type that I would hope a new Labor Secretary would work with.

On initial analysis, there are some potential warning signs, but nothing that would definitely disqualify her from holding the position. Then, I discovered some information on her over the weekend. The union and labor groups that she has been working with have been the type that would disqualify her in my estimation. They are the groups and unions that are supported by socialist groups and communist organizations. The communist news outlets in particular have been praising the selection of Rep. Solis since the selection was made. That is not a good thing. If the communists like you, it is time to look again at the pick and find out why.

I am not saying that Rep. Solis is a communist or a socialist. I am just saying that the communists and socialists are particularly happy at having her selected for Obama’s cabinet. If there is one thing I do not want to do, that is make a communist or socialist happy. Any person that makes a communist happy at their selection sends up lots of red flags that the person is probably a bad choice. Now, as Labor Secretary, Rep. Solis could not do too much damage. I do not want her to do any damage at all to our system. If she imposes rules that encourage communist groups, that would be harmful to the welfare of the United States. That kind of thing is what I am trying to stop with this post. I would prefer someone who supports the Constitution of the United States and endorses the idea that a secret ballot is essential to any vote. Democrats say that is the standard in other countries, but are getting ready to throw that standard out the window in the United States. That makes no sense at all.

Right now, I probably do not know enough about Rep. Solis to oppose her for Labor Secretary, but there are a lot of signs that I should. More information will come out as her nomination gets closer to being considered. If the early warning signs are true, her nomination should be rejected. If the people complaining are bringing up dirt to cause problems, then she should be confirmed. I, for one, would like more information before making a final decision on her nomination. If information is difficult to get, then she should be rejected just on that alone. Any time people try to hide information; there is usually a good reason for them to be rejected. Hiding information and having something classified as secret is not the same thing. Secret means there is a national security interest reason for with holding the information. Hiding the information means it is a personal reason that will embarrass the person or disclose damaging information.