"Geez, jump in my grave, why don't you?"

Perhaps President Bush is saying the same thing as this story is released:

"President-elect Obama plans to use his executive powers to make an immediate impact when he takes office, perhaps reversing Bush administration policies on stem cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas."

Wow, the man hasn't even been sworn in and he's planning on kiboshing things with his brand-spanking new executive orders? I know Bush did it and so did Reagan, not to mention Clinton, but I'm pretty sure they waited until they had their own presidental seal to make such announcements.

The way this John Podesta states this makes it look like Obama will take office and just willy nilly undo everything that has been done in the past eight years. I hope for the sake of "reaching across the aisle" that he carefully reviews each of these decisions before he proceeds to do the reverse simply because it was initiated under a Republican, rather than because he feels it is the best decision (whether or not we agree with it).

"John Podesta, Obama's transition chief, said Sunday Obama is reviewing President Bush's executive orders on those issues and others as he works to undo policies enacted during eight years of Republican rule. He said the president can use such orders to move quickly on his own."

"There's a lot that the president can do using his executive authority without waiting for congressional action, and I think we'll see the president do that," Podesta said. "I think that he feels like he has a real mandate for change. We need to get off the course that the Bush administration has set."

Frankly, these plans scare me. I can see ::shudder::: the partial birth abortion ban lifted, eighty-sixing drilling, embryos being conceived and harvested merely for destruction, maybe immediately removing BCIS from our borders, systematically issuing illegal aliens driver's licenses, all with a penstroke...who knows?

At the end of this article is a real funny note:
"In other transition matters, Obama's new chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, would not say whether Obama would return to the Senate for votes during the postelection session this month."

Does it matter if Obama returns to the Senate? Will a vote of "present" make a difference?

A friend of mine saw my McCain bumper sticker the other day and asked me why I wasn't voting for Obama. First, I warned her about getting into it with me and she said she really wanted to know.  So, I told her.

I'll keep it nice and simple, just like I did for her.  At this point, his gross lack of experience is at the bottom of my list of reasons. Here are just some of the things that don't add up to me.

1) The fact that the Governor of Hawaii has sealed Obama's official birth certificate bothers me.  If there were no issues with where he was born (possibly Kenya which makes him not a natural-born citizen; his mother is said to have been enrolled school in Washington state when he was born) then why is it sealed?  John McCain forked his over when asked.

2) His relationship with terrorist cum professor William Ayers.  He is not a casual acquaintance, nor was he just a guy he worked with a dozen times-Ayers is so significant to Obama that he hosted Obama's political coming out party in his home. Obama wrote a blurb for Ayers' book and they worked together on the failed school reform effort, The Chicago Annenberg Challenge. "Fact"check.org (Factcheck.org is a web site run by the Annenberg Public Policy Center) states that despite the newly released records, there's still no evidence of a deep or strong "friendship" with Ayers.  Wow, to me, having someone host a monumental event for someone, writing a blurb in someone's book (as Obama did for Ayers on his book's dust jacket) and putting someone in charge of millions of dollars (as Ayers did to Obama when he entrusted the new director Obama with Annenberg's millions) demonstrates a little more than a casual business relationship.  

3) His contributions ($800,000) to ACORN, the voter registration group that has had multitudes of problems with phony registrations this year.

4) His lies about his mother's religion- namely that his mother attended a Baptist church when she really attended a UCC church in Bellevue Washington- one that was so left-leaning that is was nicknamed "The little red church"  because of its communist leanings.  Is this a big deal? Yes- baptist churches are very conservative while UCC is probably the most liberal of the big churches. Why lie about that?

5) His relationships with people who would be happy to see Israel wiped off the map.  Louis Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright (the latter a subscriber to the Black Liberation Theology, based on Marxism) and the former, the head of the Nation of Islam, which spreads the message of Black separatism and anti-gay, anti-Catholic, racist and anti-Semitic bigotry throughout the United States and the world." (source- Anti-Defamation League in statement to Senator Joe Lieberman.)  Obama has since publicly distanced himself from these two people in a move of political expediency, but the fact that it took him so long gives me pause.

6) He has stated that it was his mother who formed his political idealogy.  His mother, an anthropologist, was a Marxist. William Ayers is a self-described Marxist.  In his book, Obama says he sought out the Marxist professors.  Do I want a Marxist for president? No.

7) Reports of his campaign ordering/threatening/intimidating radio stations and tv stations who run negative ads about Obama disturb me.  Here's one story: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Obama_camp_blasts_National_Review_writer_as_slimy_character_assassin.html?showall

8)  His whole "share the wealth" notion, whether he gets away with it or not, scares me.

9) Other things that make my spidey senses perk up:

• He has the support of fidel castro, who stated that Obama "is the most-advanced candidate."

• Terrorist group Hamas endorses Obama.

• In March 2007, Sen. Obama stated that "Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinians."  

So, if you are undecided, if you are a friend of Israel, if you think Obama will save the country, ask yourself if any of the reasons I'm not going to vote for him bother you at all.  If they do, cast your vote for McCain.

Mr. Ponce, Sr. brought his family here from Cuba in 1966 and moved to the D.C. area. A native of Caibarien, he worked for the Ministerio de Haciendas (Treasury Department) as an accountant in Cuba and then in the US and became the president of Casa Cuba in DC. In this capacity he brought famous Cuban musicians to D.C. like Miguelito Valdes (Mr. Babalu), Celia Cruz and La Sonora Mantancera (the first time that they were brought to the DC area), Xiomara Alfaro, Roberto Ledesma, Primitivo Santos and Vicentico Valdes.  In 1976 he planned an event to mark the bicentennial of the United States which was held at the Kennedy Center and brought entertainment luminaries like Don Pedro Vargas and Fernando Albuerne to perform.

Mr. Ponce moved to Miami after he retired to escape the cold and the snow. He had suffered several strokes before succombing to heart failure. He is survived by his wife, Hilda Mencia de Ponce, his sons, Jorge and Mateo; his daughter, Teresita, and seven grandchildren.  he will be remembered as a meticulous planner of social events, a man whose heart never forgot Cuba, and a great father.

My condolences to Jorge and his family.

"...With that said, it is quite disturbing to see how similar Obama and his campaign are to the campaign led by Castro and his thugs fifty-years ago. Just like Castro, they will say anything they need to say to ensure an Obama victory. If the public does not like the language of one of their policies, they simply pull out the thesaurus and use a different word. If the McCain campaign hammers away at a weakness in one of their proposals, they just change it to take the argument away from their opponent. They are not changing these things because they believe it is right to do so--they are changing it so that they can win."

Will those who vote for him realize too late what he's all about?  Read more HERE.

Watch it all here.

Thanks to Ana Margarita for sharing the link!

and sign the petition to make sure EVERY VOTER shows proper ID when voting. 

Why the big fuss?  Well, here's a nugget from the Dallas News:

"The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now – ACORN – has been accused of compiling fake registration forms, including ones for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys, in Nevada."

From the Houston Chronicle: "Tony Romo is not registered to vote in the state of Nevada, and anybody trying to pose as Terrell Owens won't be able to cast a ballot on Nov. 4," said Secretary of State Ross Miller, referring to star players on the pro football team."

(Now, please don't give me another reason to hate the cowboys and someone fix this mess!)

Out of 5,000 new registrations that the ACORN volunteers "got," half of them have been found to be fraudulent- dead people, fake people who live at fast food places, etc.  Here is CNN's story on it:

If you don't know what this is all about, here are some links (among thousands available) to check out what is happening right under our noses.

http://stopacorn.org/

http://netrightnation.wordpress.com/

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094069/posts

http://newsmax.com/insidecover/voter_fraud_acorn/2008/10/09/139107.html

Don't forget to sign the petition!

It's not that we can't hold our own, we can and we do.  But the difference is, we don't antagonize, we don't try to spray DNC convention go-ers with bleach. We don't cause destruction. We don't need to be arrested.  We don't accost people because of the bumper sticker on their cars. (That happened to me twice.)  I should have to worry about exercising my right to free speech by having a bumper sticker on the car that says "McCain-Palin" for fear of getting harassed? Obama supporters where I live have their yard signs prominently displayed in the center of their lawns, defiantly daring anyone to say a bad word against him.  McCain supporters don't have yard signs at all (I know there are plenty of Republicans among the 150 houses in my development) because they are afraid to be baited into an argument or get booed.  Yes, that's right.  We remain silent, scared, afraid to piss someone off.

So watching "American Carol" did not make me feel all warm and fuzzy that there are others who feel the same way as I do about this country. It made me feel alone and outnumbered.  It made me feel like there are so many people in this country that have been taught to hate it, in particular since the war started, that I often feel put on the defensive when someone finds out I am Republican, when I should feel proud and be able to hold my head up high.

But it's getting harder and harder to hold up my head lately.  It's been 8 years and my head and shoulders feel like they are carry the weight of the world, if not my party, on top of them. It started with the 2000 elections.  Everyone assumed Gore would win, and frankly, after coming off of an 8 year term of economic prosperity and relative international peace as VP, he should have been able to win by a landslide.  But he didn't.  So therefore, Bush "stole" the election.  And Democrats have never, ever forgotten that.  And if you think that all of the hatred directed to Bush and Cheney is caused by anything other than that still-festering wound, then you think too highly of the Democrats. It's the grudge that will never go away. Going to war was just pouring salt into the wound and 8 years later, it remains open, raw and refuses to be healed.

So now with a decent chance to get their messiah into office, by any means necessary (voter fraud, refusal to present a legitimate birth certificate, denying questionable alliances) the Democrats have started pooping in their pants at the thought of Sarah Palin running the country. (Of course, everyone has John McCain dead and buried although he is healthy, while Biden has had 2 aneurysms, but who needs details?) Why are they worried? She's a pro-life, feminine, attractive, strong-willed woman.  She can shoot a gun, she can kill her own dinner, she cares for her family, she runs a state... face it, she's Super Woman,    

whereas Hillary is more like a man in pumps. (Although I would take Hillary over Obama any day, but that's another story.)  So now she is under attack... all the time!  She's a dummy, she's just a MILF, she thinks living in Alaska gives her foreign policy experience, she can't raise a family AND hold office-and those are the NICE things that are being said about her. Here's a sample of the nasty things (via Michelle Malkin) and George Moneo has more at Babalublog.com.

So after 8 years of bashing, attacking, harassing, antagonizing, bullying, movie-making, protesting and hate-mongering, I'm really tired.  I hate feeling like I'm the underdog.  I hate the liberals trying to make Republicans out to be monsters just because the MSM declared open season on us in 2000. I hate that people don't know the facts when they go on attack.  It's enough now to often close my mouth at work when people bash Governor Palin because I fear that one day I will get angry enough and become one of THEM:  the crazies, the lunatics, the uninformed, the gut-reacting looney tunes.  I can be that person, I really can, it's not hard to do.  But not only do I have self-control, I also know that it will get me precisely NOWHERE. 

In the meantime, I just don't know if I can take 4 more years of this.  It's enough to make me want Obama to win, just to make the screaming stop.  But then there are people who tell me to stop being a wimp and that now is not the time to give up.  This is when it counts.  I'd like to listen, really, I would, but I feel like Rocky when he fought Clubber Lang (Mr. T.) in Rocky 3 and he just put his hands in front of his face and let Clubber give him beating after beating until, swollen and bruised, he just gave up.  I'm sorry Mick, I may just be down for the count.

It has been dismissed by Democrats as a ploy to derail Obama's campaign but this is serious.  This is possibly, and it appears, probably, a flagrant violation of the constitution of the United States- Barack Hussein Obama was not born in the US AND also re-entered the United States form Indonesia as an Indonesian citizen, becoming naturalized here.  Either scenario makes him INELIGIBLE for the presidency because you must be a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.

What?  You say this is all BS?  Fine.  All Mr. Obama has to do is PRODUCE HIS ACTUAL DOCUMENTS.  Not the birth certificate without the official seal.  Not the copy that fact check.org shows(he sat on the board of trustees for the parent company of this company-- CONFLICT OF INTEREST??)- Just do what John McCain did when the question of his birthplace came up (he was born in Panama to US parents when his dad was serving in the US military there)- SUPPLY THE ACTUAL DOCUMENTS!!

Don't believe me?  Well, believe this guy, Philip Berg, a lifelong DEMOCRAT from Pennsylvania and a staunch supporter of the US Constitution who is taking this case to court. 

I realize this doesn't matter to many Democrats-- don't think we don't realize that you are more than willing to even the score with the Republican party for "stealing" the 2000 election.  But remember something, if your candidate will lie and cheat this early on in the game, if the DNC is willing to back this guy, you are no better than what you have accused others of doing for eight years.  In fact, you are much, much worse.

H/T George Moneo of Babalublog

Thanks to George Moneo

Background info: Bacardi Rum is originally a Cuban company (via Spain in the 1800's). The Castro government (SURPRISE!!) seized Bacardi's assets, valued at $76 million, in 1960.  More Bacardi history HERE.

From Michael J. Zamba. Senior Director of Communications & Public Affairs, Pan American Development Foundation, Washington, DC

September 29, 2008 – In the aftermath of two destructive hurricanes and two tropical storms that recently struck Cuba, Bacardi Limited has donated $100,000 to the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) to provide assistance to the people on the island.

“Through this donation to the Cuban people, Bacardi Limited has continued to demonstrate its leadership in the area of humanitarian assistance,” says John Sanbrailo, Executive Director of PADF.

            PADF has been working with individuals and organizations to collect cash donations

( U.S. tax deductable) that will pay for humanitarian relief to Cubans. PADF accepts donations through a toll free number (800) 941-0114 and a special website www.PanAmericanRelief.org.

“The Bacardi family and Company are deeply saddened by the devastation caused by the recent hurricanes in Cuba . We hope that this donation will help alleviate some of the pain that the Cuban people are experiencing and remind all Cubans that they continue to remain in the hearts and minds of all Cuban exiles,” said Facundo L. Bacardi, Chairman of Bacardi Limited.

Marc Wachtenheim, Director of the Cuban Development Initiative at PADF, encourages individuals and companies to help the survivors. “Bacardi Limited’s donation has made a big difference to PADF’s disaster relief assistance in Cuba . Donations large and small have come in to support survivors of these storms,” he said. “But, we cannot stop here as this disaster requires assistance from around the world.”

            Bacardi Limited, with its roots in Cuba more than 145 years ago and being Cuba ’s first multi-national company, encourages companies and individuals to help those in dire need on the island.

PADF, which is a non-governmental organization, has in-depth experience in natural disaster relief. The non-profit organization is currently also involved in disaster relief in Haiti , where four back-to-back storms have resulted in more than 400 deaths and hundreds of thousands of homeless in that Caribbean nation.

About Pan American Development Foundation

PADF is an independent 501(c) (3) non-profit organization established in 1962 through a unique partnership with between the Organization of American States and private enterprise to promote, facilitate and implement social and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean through innovative partnerships and integrated involvement of the private and public sectors. For more information, visit www.padf.org.

About Bacardi Limited

Bacardi Limited, the largest privately held spirits company in the world, produces and markets a variety of internationally recognized spirits. Bacardi Limited's brand portfolio consists of more than 200 brands and labels including: BACARDI^® rum, the world’s number-one selling rum; GREY GOOSE^® vodka, the world-leader in super premium vodka; DEWAR’S^® Scotch whisky, the number-one selling blended Scotch whisky in the United States; BOMBAY SAPPHIRE^® gin, the fastest-growing premium gin in the spirits industry; CAZADORES^® blue agave tequila, one of the top-selling premium tequilas worldwide; MARTINI^® vermouth, the world-leader in vermouth; and other leading brands.  It was founded in Santiago de Cuba , February 4, 1862. For more information, visit www.BacardiLimited.com.