NO BACKBONE!

By you know by now Iran has captured one of our secret drones. Obama asked them “pretty please” to give it back. They are now taking this aircraft apart to find out our technology. They will surely pass this information on to China. Once the plane was lost we should have sent in a few of our planes to destroy it before they could dismantle it and learn from it. Again we are at the mercy of a timid leader, Obama.

Iran is trying to block the Straights of Hormuz. Obama has warned them not to block this passage. A great deal of our oil supply must move through the straights. Obama “huffs and puffs” with threats. Iran knows he is a weak, indecisive leader and I fear they will call his bluff.

It is time we find a leader with some backbone!

Stan Elrod

Charlotte, NC

TIME IS RUNNING OUT!

America, as we know it, is facing a mortal threat. The left has expanded their threat through union leaders, trial lawyers, the news media, and the court system. It seems the secular socialist run the political machine so they can remain in power. Before long, if we continue down this road, government will dominate the people instead of representing them.

We stand at a cross road because we will either save our country or loose it. Secular-socialist’s rewards its members and punishes overachievers. It kills jobs by over taxing small business. America was built on the belief that “we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.” The socialist are so opposed to God that they can not tolerate prayer in school.

The Socialist believe the answer to problems is higher taxes, more spending, and more bureaucracies. They don’t believe that Americans can be trusted to make the “right decisions”.

For the left to stay in power they must transform America. It will be a nation dominated by unions and bureaucrats. They will make us into a high-tax, low-growth country. There will be no place for God in this transformed society. Columnist Jackie Cushman has written, “we were told to vote for change we could believe in and found we had elected people who want to change what we believe”.

Obama promised the most open and transparent administration in history. We now know we do not get the truth from Obama. During the voting on the health care reform bill Obama, Pelosi and Harry Reid circumvented the normal process of committee hearings and worked out the bill behind closed doors. They struck a deal with their corrupt union bosses that would exempt union members from paying taxes while non-union Americans would still get taxed. This is a flagrant mocking of equal protection under the law.

Obama had promised that all bills would be given 24 hours for the public to react to them and that the negotiations would be on C_SPAN so the people could see what the choices were. He pledged this eight times in his run for the Presidency. “He went so far as to say “One of my jobs as President will be to guide this process”.

This is a President who does not keep his word. In fact he has lied to us, the American People. Please keep all this in mind when you go to vote next year.

Time is running out for our nation.

Stan Elrod

Charlotte, NC

BOEHNER SHOULD GO!

Is it time to replace House Speaker John Boehner? Let’s look at the recent temporary payroll tax holiday extension. Boehner let the Democrats and Obama play him into their trap. The Senate passed the extension for two months. This in itself is a poor piece of legislation, it makes no sense. This extension will leave many business unable to reprogram their payrolls. What businesses operates two months at a time?

It is said that Congress will reconvene after their vacation and pass a full year extension. This extension will come out of the Social Security Tax. The idea of a Trust Fund for Social Security is a joke, since Johnson started taking money from the Social Security Trust Fund and replacing it with IOU’s from the Federal Government. This was his way of paying for “the Great Society”. For all practicable purposes the Trust Fund is non-existence.

Boehner let the Democrats back him into a corner and make a fool of him. The Senate passed the extension by an overwhelming majority for two months, just so they could go on vacation. Boehner took a stand that was not a smart move. In politics you need to choose your battles. He could have gone along with the Senate bill and then take the high road to proclaim just how foolish a two month extension is.

The White House will make a big issue out of this because as they say, it will halt “the suffering of 160 million Americans”. Boehner was out maneuvered by the Democrats. I think it is time to replace him as Speaker. If he remains, I fear he will cave it again on other issues.

Stan Elrod

Charlotte, NC

Obama & the Keystone Pipeline

OBAMA AND THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE

Yesterday the Republicans put forth a bill to extend the Social Security tax cut to reduce unemployment. This bill includes language to start construction on the Keystone Pipeline, from Canada to the gulf coast. Obama has said that if the construction of the pipeline is included in the bill he will veto it.

There are several facts about the pipeline that we should be aware of. There is concern about routing the line over an aquifer. The bill now includes a provision to reroute the line away from the aquifer. We should also take into account that there are multiple pipe lines crossing the United States. To date none of these has had a spill that contaminated our drinking water.

Second, this is truly a “shovel ready” project that can start now. Obama keeps talking about creating jobs, but his actions to block the pipe line make us recognize that he is catering to the enviromenlist in his party. He does not want to upset them as he counts on them to vote for him. It does show that he is playing politics by not pushing this project.

We should realize that Canada has the Oil and Natural Gas that we need. If this line is blocked, they will simply build the line across their land and sell the oil and gas to China. This will not help to make us energy independent as Obama insist.

The GOP language in the bill would give the Obama administration two months to issue a permit for construction. This would produce much needed jobs for Americans.

Obama says he is not opposed to the pipe line, but wants to postpone it until after the 2012 elections. I, for one, do not trust him to approve it then. We need to start this project NOW and put people to work.

Stan Elrod

Charlotte, NC

ISRAEL and OBAMA

At a fund raiser in New York last week, Obama made the statement that his administration “has done more in terms of the security of the state of Israel than any previous administration”

Let’s take a look at some of what he has done for Israel. His administration has supported forces that oppose Israel’s very existence and his officials publically opposes Israel on the diplomatic front. Hostility towards Israel has become common place with members of the Obama administration His ambassador to Belgium stated in a speech last week that the anti-Semitism among Muslims was Israel’s fault.

Last week Secretary of Defense Leon Paneta declared that Israel needed to “just get to the damn table” with the Palestinians. This implies that Israel is the primary obstacle to Middle East peace. Just who should Israel “get to the damn table” with? Should they meet with members of Abbas’s government? These are the ones in Abbas’s Fatah party who have said “They will never recognize Israel and will never do so”. These are the one’s who say Israel does not have the right to exist. These are the people who Secretary Panetta says Israel must “get to the damn table with”.

In one week Obama’s ambassadors said Israel was to blame for anti-Semitism, His Secretary of Defense said “just get to the damn table”, and his Secretary of State has criticized Israeli treatment of women as occasionally “unfair”. At the same time she has welcomed a Washington organization which promotes censorship of speech about Islamism.

All of the above makes me wonder just who Obama is trying to fool. He, and his administration, have not stood by Israel. Israel in our ally and we need to support them. They are a bastion of freedom in the Mid-East.

Stan Elrod

Charlotte, NC

LEADING FROM BEHIND

Obama is on his way to collecting millions of dollars for his reelection campaign. We should look at his achievements in his first term.

He talked NATO into attaching Libya without getting the US involved. Good move except it looks like the Muslim Brotherhood is going to take over. The same for Egypt. This will come back to haunt us before it is all over.

He has stopped most of the drilling for oil in the gulf. He has stopped work on the pipe line from Canada to the gulf coast. Both of these actions will make us more dependent on foreign oil. Both actions will not produce jobs as he has promised.

He has stayed on the side lines of the debate about the debt ceiling in August. Now he complains about it. A real leader would have been involved and brought the parties together. As it is we now have a failure of the “Super Committee”.

He pushed and signed Obama Care to take over 1/6 of the U.S. economy. We can only hope that the Supreme Court will strike down this law and it’s mandates.

He has made a complete waste of taxpayer dollars with the Solyndra debacle. He was influential in the approval process for this loan and the tax payers are on the hook

He has proposed a new “Jobs Bill” that will not produce jobs of any consequence. This is only another waste of taxpayer dollars.

He has resisted any attempt to reduce the size federal government . He resist any attempt to reduce government spending.

We need to seek a person to replace Obama. A person who will take control of needless spending. One who will strengthen our military. Wasteful spending should be reduced in the military also.

We need a person who will lead this nation back to Greatness. Someone who will cut needless spending. Someone who will have constructive ideas to return us to being the greatest nation in the world again. Obama seems to be determined to make us a second rate society. We have never needed a change in leadership as much as we do now. I fear that this nation can not recover from another four years of this administration.

Never before have we needed a leader who will lead this nation. Someone who will take the bold steps to restore our nation. Someone who will lead, not someone who is leading from behind. Let’s face it, Obama is not a leader.

Not all is doom & gloom. We need to take a close look at our nation. We are still the greatest nation in the world. We are the ones that come to the aid of other nations when they have a calamity. We are the ones that move to defend other nations when others attack them. We are the “City on a Hill” that lights the path for others to follow. We can be great again if we have the will to do so. I fear that we can not follow that dream with Obama in control! You must vote next November. I urge you to consider the actions and policies of the present administration before you cast your vote.

Stan Elrod

Charlotte, NC