Obama......A patriot? Not likely......

Courtesy of Reuters.....

"Democrat Barack Obama admitted on Tuesday he was wrong to say his uncle helped liberate the Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp after Republicans said Soviet troops freed the camp.

Obama's campaign said the candidate meant to say that his great-uncle, Charlie Payne, had helped liberate a part of the Buchenwald camp, not Auschwitz. "Yesterday he mistakenly referred to Auschwitz instead of Buchenwald in telling of his personal experience of a soldier in his family who served heroically," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.

Burton said in the statement that Obama's great uncle served in the 89th Infantry Division that entered Germany in 1945 and on April 4 overran Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp."

I'm assuming this was his "typical White Woman" grandmother's brother......Which I guess probably makes him a "Typical White Man"......except when it's politically convenient to have ties to someone who served in the military during World War II, however remote those ties may be.....I find it more than a little disturbing that Obama embraces his African American ancestry and denigrates his caucasian ancestry when he approaches African American voters, yet flips completely the other direction to embrace the white side of his family when he can find something appealing to use as a talking point.

Regardless of who Charlie Payne was.....A private, a captain, a colonel.....it simply has NO bearing on whether Obama is fit to be the President of our country. My great-great-great uncle was Grover Cleveland. Does that somehow make me any more fit to be our President than other people who have those aspirations? Of course not......This media "love fest" with Obama completely escapes me. The Democrat "love fest" with Obama is equally as puzzling. I have yet to hear him say one single thing that I find remotely praise worthy.

I do however find many of the things he has said or done a little frightening for someone who would lead our country.....No lapel pin......The Dem's say "not a big deal".....My response.....Then why not wear it? If wearing the lapel pin is a minor detail to them then it wouldn't hurt the guy to take 10 seconds out of his day to put the damn thing on.....Oh, but there is something a little telling in that.....especially when you have his wife saying "this is the first time I've been proud of my country" when hubby Barack is making some political headway. Even if he's not wearing it because he doesn't like where our country is now one would think that he would wear it to show that he at least believes in the vision of our founding fathers, and believes in his own vision for our nation.

No hand over the heart during the National Anthem.....A simple gesture of allegiance to the "idea" of the United States and to the Constitution.....Is somehow beneath his dignity. I think his Uncle Charlie would be appalled at this if he is still living, having served and fought for that flag that Obama refuses to wear, embrace or salute.....

The lack of knowedge on simple U.S. Geography.....A question that would have ended his stay on "are you smarter than a 5th grader".....not realizing that Kentucky BORDERS Illinois after getting his ass handed to him in the Kentucky primary......

The "bitter clingers" debacle.....bashing white middle class Americans.....Basically saying that having religious faith is akin to having a disease, and owning a firearm makes a person somehow less intelligent, less able to understand the situation in our country, and less adept at making good decisions.....

On this he has no room to cast aspersions......This is a man that "clings" to ANYTHING that he thinks will make him more electible.....His blackness......his whiteness......he's everyman.....he's elite.....he's against the Iraq war.....he's for a strong military.....he says we can "ALL" afford to pay a little more.....but wants to keep the tax cuts.....He's against global warming, but he wants manufacturing to come home......

The only thing consistent about the man is his inconsistency.....and THAT, to me, makes him weak, unqualified, and far too malleable to EVER be considered for this job that he seeks.

Some quotes to think about......

"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country" Nathan Hale

"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." Adlai Stevenson

" that we will pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of Liberty." John F. Kennedy Innaugural Address 1961

"...That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg Address November 19, 1863

"In a chariot of light from the region of the day,The Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree." Thomas Paine July, 1775

"A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country." Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln

"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it."
John F. Kennedy

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." - The Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776

Strong words from all......

.....and Obama gives us gems like......

"I've been in about 57 states so far...." Barack Obama

"We stand here to honor our unbroken line of fallen heroes.....many of whom I see in the audience today" Barack Obama

"I see dead people" Haley Joel Osmett.....in "The Sixth Sense"

Thrown in for comparison......

For the sake of our Nation please have some common sense.....do not vote to put this neophyte in the White House. We cannot, as a nation, afford to make that blunder.....