There are generally two schools of thought regarding bullies. The first approach is to take them head-on and show them you will not tolerate being abused. The other approach is to ignore them, don't feed thier ego, and eventually they give up. It's been soundly proven that the second approach is almost always an abysmal failure. Ignoring the bully either entices him to be even more brazen in his attacks, or it appears to give the bully credibility since you won't defend yourself..., or both. So why bring this up? Sarah Palin has been bullied by the press, by Hollywood, by every Democrat pundit, from nearly the very first day that McCain announced her as his choice for a running mate. Her children, her husband, her stature as a mother, her intelligence, have been ridiculed in the way a mindless bully attempts to ridicule who he perceives to be the most defenseless target on the playground. As a politician a certain amount of this comes with the job, and you have to allow it to roll off your back..., to a degree. But there comes a time when it's reached its limit and the bullies need to be taught a lesson. When people who were on your side are turned against you launching the most petty, snide, cowardly, immature attacks from deep in the shadows, helping your enemies to tear you down, it's time to go after those traitors. Senator McCain proves again he is an absolutely bitter ingrate and a waste of time, as he sits idly by allowing lies from his own campaign staffers to be tossed at Governor Palin. Why? Because he never liked Conservatives and thinks they are the problem with the Republican Party. Sarah Palin worked harder than McCain himself in the last nine weeks of the campaign, to try to get him elected. And everyone I know thinks it's also disgraceful that Fox News drools this garbage all over it's network without first waiting for a response from governor Palin so that it can be presented as a fair and balanced report. Cameron should be fired for his hack journalism in aiding this spreading of innuendo and lies and violating the credo of his own network's slogan of fair and balanced.

Also have you heard of Obama's plan to force all public school students to perform community service? This is the sort of thing courts punish criminals with. Obama wants to do this to students. Obama said... "So when I'm President, I will set a goal for all American middle and high school students to perform 50 hours of service a year, and for all college students to perform 100 hours of service a year. This means that by the time you graduate college, you'll have done 17 weeks of service.". So what is this supposed to be, Obama's forced labor camps? Will the students have to wear t-shirts with Obama's image on them while they perform thier forced labor? What's next? Every school room must have a portrait of Obama on the wall that the students have to salute? Looks like we better hold on tight. The Obama presidency is going to be a very bumpy ride for those who cherish freedom.

 - Mike Silverman

A war for the freedom of our nation has been lost. When it became evident last night that Barack Obama had been elected as President of the United States, for the first time in my life my faith in the basic common sense of my country's citizens..., genuinely was destroyed. When I saw the landslide victory that Obama achieved, I felt a sinking in my heart..., not so much because we now have a genuine radical as President.., I believe we can survive this as a nation ( though it will be a struggle)..., but because so many of my fellow citizens were proven to be so deeply ignorant and so politically shallow regarding the dangers of electing a man like Obama to be the leader of the free world. There is simply no excuse in an age of information, when so much knowledge is so readily available at the fingertips of so many people at nearly instantaneous speed , that the electorate should have been so blind to the improbable competency of an Obama administration. This is a genuine problem. It means, despite the long and strident effort to reach people's hearts and minds with facts, common sense, and a fundamental foundational understanding of the principles of economics, national security and sound environmental policies..., the effort failed tremendously.  This is a sensationally disturbing event. It means that a high rift exists between those who look to the future with a carefully studied clarity of the present choices available, and those who base thier calculations for the future on the purely emotional trends of the moment and mood swings pushed and pulled by the manipulative practices of a deeply liberalized news media and educational institution. From a Conservative Movement seat, one has to wonder at what it would take to untangle the masses from the choking vines of a liberal jungle that apparently can not be cut simply with a collective shout of common sense from the wilderness. There is real evidence here that liberal institutions have successfuly marginalized the message of the Conservative base. A reorganization of the grass roots effort to bring straight forward undiluted Conservative principles back to the sole vision of the Republican party needs to be examined. If this had been a very close election, it would be a less dramatic change in course that we need to examine and a more nuanced approach to revitalizing the message of Conservatism. But with the blowout of this election's results , we need to jump in headlong and start ripping away the squishy moderate bi-partisanship that has marked the downfall of the Republican Party. We have been lead as a party , by fear of disengagement from the liberal press, fear of disturbing the liberal segments of the electorate, and lived by the focus group and the opinion poll. The message of this election to the Republican Party is that this approach is an abject failure. God help us, now we have to deal with trying to muddle through a presidency of the most radical liberal ever to hold the office with matching majorities in both houses of congress. We will get through this, but we will have a lot of work to do to unscramble the mess that an Obama administration is going to make.

- Mike Silverman

 I think character is an imperative part of leadership, and I think it speaks ill of the citizens in general when the press suggests that it doesn't matter to us who Obama allies himself with personally. I recall Bill Clinton's first run at the White House. All the "bimbo eruptions" as they were termed, and how many on the opposing side tried to point out that this is a character flaw that shows he will be an untrustworthy leader.  His supporters told us, "hey it's his personal life, and it's completely separate from professional life, so leave him alone".  Of course we know what happened in the oval office, that we all pay to maintain with our tax money. I think Bill clearly proved if you do it to your wife ( affairs, infidelity), you'll probably do it to the country as well. But that's just one example. How many times has an infidelity , or ( use of call girls as a certain governor is now famous for) ended a political career on the spot?  Quite a lot. While adultery is certainly very bad, associating with people who want to see our government and our allies destroyed, who hate the united states, is even worse.  It's wrong to take the question of morality out of leadership ability. It's key. And I think if a strong enough case can be made, then it definitely should be one of the determining factors in who you will give your vote of trust to. I wrote a little poem here about my views on Obama, and his policies.  I call it The Obama Blues...,
 
Obama and his friends
have a plan of attack,
My money's going down,
They say it's not coming back...,
Now I've learned it hard,
What they believe,
They're draining the blood
From those who achieve.
 
I worked and I scraped
To make a good living,
I do my share of
Helping and giving,
But it's never enough
For the left wing vote,
They want what I earn
To keep others afloat.
 
Joe found out
You can't say a thing
If freedom of speech
means dissing the king,
You'll be run on a rail
Straight out of town
If you don't bow your head
To the Democrat crown.

Pulling it back,
And washing it out,
Fighting for freedom
Is truly in doubt,
When the plan is to stop
As the war's being won,
And meeting our foe
Like a petulant son.

So for goodness sake DON'T VOTE OBAMA!
 
- Mike Silverman,

They're getting bold. The liberals are slipping and letting thier real plans surface because they sense an Obama victory and they think that means socialism is the wave of the future. This may be even more dangerous than suspected. An Obama presidency will be used by liberals as an excuse to claim a national mandate to socialize healthcare, energy companies, home ownership, ban fatty foods, extend the waiting period for gun ownership to 90 days.., and it goes on and on. It seems like, once Obama slipped and let the cat out of the bag with Joe The Plumber, liberals got all excited about hoping on the bandwagon. This can't be a good trend. An Obama win could realistically signal the start of a disasterous social experiment via a liberal congress taking advantage of dislike for Bush as a mandate for the extreme opposite. I have an inherent trust in the goodness of... and generally the wisdom of... the vast majority of our country's population. Yet there is no doubt that an aging baby boom generation with significant segments raised without the sorts of ethics thier parents or grandparents had been raised with is so focused on "themselves" that they may not be looking very far down the road.  It will take those of us who are focused on the future to bring those of us who are focused only on the present to thier senses, and we may have to drag "them" metaphorically into the controlling seats of government. It boggles the mind in astounding ways to conceive of the notion that anyone familiar with Obama's fiscal record and stated goals would look to him as the answer for a struggling economy. Everyone has been told, by the Republicans and Conservatives, from every venue, of the dangers of an Obama presidency, but if we are to believe the opinion polls, a large enough segment simply don't care. They are trained to know only one thing, whatever party is in Power during a presidential election must be tossed out if the economy has problems. It's like an inbred DNA program. It doesn't matter that the "other" party might be worse, it's all about decades of political programming. So, what can "we" the people do..., in these remaining days to bring the light of knowledge shining down on the less intuitive members of the population. That "may" be an impossible task. To overcome decades of programming in a matter of days is a tall order. We bring out evidence of the truth for those whose senses have been dulled by decades of liberal exposure, but they've been trained by the media, colleges, whatever.. to be skeptical of anything that smacks of Conservative values. The problem is leadership. There are no universally respected national figures who are decrying an Obama presidency. The icons of our society are mostly trash. When you have Oprah and The View setting the tone for daytime talk, when you have sports figures and whole teams tied up in scandals, when you have the hollywood left producing trash that trashes the US, when you have a political party with a moderate tone that seeks compromise and bi-partisanship at the expense of foundational principle.., "where" is a powerful national figure who can grab the attention of the country who will set the record straight on Obama, national defense and socialism? Changing minds at the grass roots is a long process. The NEW media is pouring out the truth every day, we are all desperately trying to make it understood that we face a seminal moment in our history as to how we approach governance of the country. I'm not sure that there is much more we can do. It may be a generational change that is the only way to really fix this. Kids growing up and seeing the self destructive behavior of the irrational ideals of liberalism and of living only for the moment. AND ONE MORE THING... You know that outrageous Halloween display showing an effigy of Sarah Palin hanging by a noose? Where is the same outrage in the press who were all upset over the "false" accusations that McCain/Palin rallies where fomenting hate? Why aren't they harping on a real display of genuine hate with the same eagerness? And where is the rabid investigation into this guy's past who put up the display, any outstanding taxes, any personal problems, what he does for a living and where he works, his political affiliations.... just like those dirt sniffing pigs did to Joe the Plumber? Where is it? We know press outrage simply is not there when the Republican candidate is the target of hate because of the same old double standard the press has held for decades. When liberals engage in open displays of hate it's never called "hate" it's simply lauded and defended by the press as free speech.
 
 - Mike Silverman.

Newspapers, such as the New York Times, are agenda driven and they attempt to shape opinion with thier choice of stories, they do not let events determine what is news worthy. The constantly declining circulation proves that they are sinking to feeding an ever tightening niche audience of radicals who expect partisan attacks on any political issue rather than fair and balanced and truthful reporting. They print for thier spoon fed audiences and not for the wide open masses. The new media, the blogosphere, talk radio, XM, newsletters that cater to individual tastes, and networks like Fox News that are not driven by an inside agenda but rather by delivering a factual accounting of the  events of the day or the week..., have served to cut down once giant news media machines like the NY Times to the point where they only appeal to thier own rigidly ideological readership.  The Audit Bureau of Circulations reports that the daily version of the NY Times is at a current circulation of 1,077,256 which is down from the previous year, and they continue to sink.
 
Now, on to the latest attacks on Sarah Palin. At a recent fund raising event she said the following ;

"We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, pro-America areas of this great nation. This is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans. Those who are running our factories and teaching our kids and growing our food and are fighting our wars for us. Those who are protecting us in uniform. Those who are protecting the virtues of freedom."

For this innocent statement she has been ridiculed, derided, and in general attacked as she always is by the politically motivated left wing press for every statement she makes on anything at all.  The mistake Sarah made here, and always makes,  is that she forgets she's not allowed to express her own opinion.  Her opinion of what makes America great must  match the views of the left wing press, or she's ridiculed as a rube from an outland of snowblind posers. Well, Sarah said it herself back at her convention speech, she's not going to DC to please the media.  And we love that attitude in her. We love it when the liberal press is flummoxed and angry and panicked and flabergasted at Sarah, because it exposes them for the hyper-partisan yellow dog Democrats they are, as they attempt to hide behind a window dressing of impartiality and fairness. Sarah is absolutely correct to point out that some areas of our country produce a higher ratio of openly displayed genuine patriotism than others. We all know, even the liberal press knows..., that there are rabid anti-American hate mongers foaming at the mouth in all sorts of places around our country.  Barack Obama could introduce you to several of the more prominent ones since he has allied himself with some of the most vicious examples. We have been long exposed to the inbred hatered of middle America by the liberals of this country who think that the average American is a racist, redneck ingnoramus... as that fumble-mouthed idiot congressman John Murtha recently expressed. The entire Democrat leadership on Captiol Hill could easily be declared a gaggle of facist anti-American anti-patriotic narcissists. They held our troops in Iraq hostage time after time by fighting against success, against funding, and deriding the effort at every turn.  It's about time we have some courageous political figure like Governor Palin to point out that this country does have a distinct lack of patriotism in some circles. We already know this is the truth, but it takes a real leader to state fearlessly that fact in an open forum in front of a hostile media. Sarah has what it takes to do that. Frankly we'd all be much better off with  a President Palin than a President Obama or a President Biden.
 
- Mike Silverman