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My greatest fears are coming true when I see our lefty President Barack Obama walking in step with Nasty Pelousy, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Vladimir Putin, and the rest. It's not a matter of where we're going. What scares me is, we're almost there.

Two years ago I said to my b.w., "If the U.S. does not return to original principles, I sense with my whole being that we have seen the best years that this country has to offer, that from here on it's downhill all the way." B.w. agreed.

From The Patriot Post, February 15: "In lecturing us about blowing our money, The Great Ozbama displays breathtaking gall. … I hold in my casino chip-calloused fingers a list procured … of Mrs. Obama's staff and their salaries. She reportedly has a staff of 22 assistants. … a Chief of Staff costing $172,000 a year; a Deputy Chief of Staff at $90,000; a Director of Policy and Projects at $140,000; a Director of Communications at $102,000; a Deputy Director of Scheduling at $62,000; two Social Secretaries … one at $65,000, one at $64,000; an Associate Director of Correspondence at $45,000, an Assistant to the Social Secretary at $36,000, and more, in total consuming $6.3-million annually …." — Columnist Dan Kennedy

Obama is messin' up bad with his: 1. alienation of our best allies, i.e., Israel, Poland, Czech Republic, Colombia, etc., and 2. his eradication of the world's best health care system — which involves 1/6 of the U.S. economy.

President Obama took from our pockets some $787 billion to pep up the economy before unemployment ran rampant in the land. Little of this money has yet been spent to make jobs. This money may mysteriously reappear when Dems need campaign money to elect their guys in November — FDR used this ploy way back in the '30s and it worked! Are Obama and FDR characters drawn straight from the "bad boys" of history?

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." — H.L. Mencken

Many school teachers report that kids today pay no attention to lectures or instruction. They also do not listen to their parents. One likely communicative method is that one kid hears something on TV and passes it on to others. How far can secondhand soaps get you when you live in the real world?

I'm trying once again this year to get my b.w. to go out and buy some "new spring clothes." As yet she has "not been in the mood." I bet plenty of other husbands will view me as a menace influencing their clothes-hungry mates.

"Recession is when your neighbor loses his job, Depression is when you lose your job, Recovery is when Obama loses his job" — Anonymous

Eric Massa, former New York U.S. Representative, can't tell his preposterous "tickle fight" story to people who have served in the U.S. Navy. In my four years' experience as a shipboard naval officer, I assure you that any guy starting that kind of thing may well have ended up over the side in the middle of the night.

Mr. Obama is perennially depending on his "unpopular" platform. Also, hardly a day seems to go by without reference to his questionable credentials for leading our land. Sinking polls don't seem to bother him, and sinking our national wealth into his favorite projects seems to afford him his best jollies.

Did you catch the short announcement on radio that His Divine Majesty Obama is planning to control all fishing, by sports and professional anglers in both freshwater and saltwater? He's no longer preaching; he's now meddlin' in dangerous waters.

A Longwood neighbor sends me the following: "Thank God For Obama! WHY? Obama is destroying the Democratic Party before our eyes! Dennis Moore quit, had never lost a race — Evan Bayh quit, had never lost a race — Byron Dorgan quit, had never lost a race — Harry Reid — Soon to be GONE. (We hope!) These are just a handful of the Democrats whose political careers Obama has destroyed! Thanks Obama!"

As Ronald Reagan said, "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."

Asked to name the two best presidents in my memory, I mused a moment and said: Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan.

We simple citizens darn well better learn to understand the jargon that flows in the narratives about "government doings." The Truth may or may not be buried in the Maelstrom that is written to suck us in, and to enlighten us. However, if we don't discover the truth — or the lack of it — the scoundrels will never be found out, and we all will go down with the ship …

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." — Cicero, 55 B.C.