OOhhh that Sharon Rondeau ! She makes the pen sing....
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Open Letter to Roger Ailes, President of Fox News
YOU HAVE SOLD OUT YOUR COUNTRY FOR THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR
by Sharon Rondeau
The Fox News Channel was launched on October 7, 1996
(Mar. 30, 2011) — The following letter will be sent to Mr. Roger Ailes, President of Fox News Channel and Chairman of Fox Television Stations Group:
March 30, 2011
Mr. Roger Ailes
President, Fox News Channel
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10036
Dear Mr. Ailes:
Despite your leadership of the “profit engine” of News Corporation owned by Rupert Murdoch and a recipient of $23,000,000 in salary and bonuses last year, you have failed the American public by refusing to report the questions regarding the eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama to serve as President and Commander-in-Chief of the United States.
One of your recommendations for success is for your staff to “read the U.S. Constitution.” When is the last time you read Article II, Section 1, clause 5, which states:
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
With your extensive and impressive history in media production, politics, consulting and business, you have steadfastly refused to allow your staff to report on the most pressing matter possibly in the history of the country: whether or not the person currently occupying the White House has a constitutional right to do so according to Article II.
Another of your slogans is reportedly “See things other don’t. Do things others won’t.”
Then why won’t you? Why haven’t you?
During the 2008 presidential campaign, your reporters asked Obama no tough questions. You must have heard that even Chris Mathews of MSNBC stated in 2007 that Obama was born in Indonesia, as did a reporter for a Hawaii newspaper. Did that not make you curious?
Apparently not. The fine investigative journalism which millions of Americans had come to expect from Fox News Channel was glaringly absent. The tough, tenacious questioning of E.D. Hill disappeared, only to be replaced by other blondes with shorter skirts and increasingly lower necklines but no ability to investigate anything. You allowed a man who has hidden his past completely from the American public to gain a place on the ballot in every state and to actually be elected president without one scrap of evidence that he was constitutionally eligible.
None of your reporters ever performed any in-depth questioning of Obama during the campaign nor gained access to his background. Just when did he go to Indonesia, and what proof did you obtain that he was born in Hawaii? How many people did you interview who knew him as a child, either in Hawaii or Indonesia? Why did you not subpoena his Illinois state senate and U.S. Senate records so that they could be open for inspection by the American people? And your pompous, overrated evening host, Bill O’Reilly, whose slogan is “We’re looking out for you,” lied when he stated on-air that he had “seen” Obama’s original birth certificate. He never saw any such thing, because no one has, at least not anything issued in this country. O’Reilly has seen only what the rest of us have seen: an online image which has been widely debunked as a forgery due to its four different versions, alterations (affirmed by the state of Hawaii as invalidating the certificate), and contradictory statements made by two different Hawaii governors unreported by a complicit media, which includes you.
If O’Reilly had seen Obama’s birth certificate, then Donald Trump wouldn’t be calling for it now.
Of all the cable channels, Fox News Channel has refrained the longest to report anything about the question of whether or not Barack Hussein Obama has a U.S. birth certificate. Only recently have you been forced to allow the airing of this urgent matter because Donald Trump has raised it as an important constitutional issue. Until now, your anchors nervously laughed off the question posed by Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, a decorated 18-year Army veteran and former flight surgeon, misrepresenting the matter by calling it “a political statement.” Again, another blonde anchor who, instead of investigating before Lakin’s court-martial was posing, failed to report when Lakin was sentenced to six months at Ft. Leavenworth, having been denied discovery by a complicit, treasonous military as if he were living in the former Soviet Union.
Your reporters remained complicit about this travesty of justice and over more than two years as multiple lawsuits have been filed against Obama and even Congress, as the military ran scared, and now that a citizen is facing criminal charges for publicly exposing Obama’s lack of proof that he is constitutionally eligible to serve.
And what about that alleged Kenyan birth certificate, Mr. Ailes? Did you know that Mr. Smith has publicly stated that he will testify in front of Congress about its authenticity? What if he is telling the truth?
Recently your popular showman, Sean Hannity, has been labeled a traitor by a veteran of the U.S. military.
The fact that Donald Trump has recently released both his short-form and long-form birth certificates proves that O’Reilly was misinforming the public when he stated that he had seen Obama’s. Why would Trump and millions of Americans still be demanding it if O’Reilly, your all-powerful arrogant media mogul, had seen it and shown it on national TV?
Besides, read the Constitution, Mr. Ailes! Being a “citizen” is not enough to be President!
Several months ago, Fr. Jonathan Morris made the statement on Fox & Friends Weekend that Obama was “born in a Muslim country, Kenya,” after which the three anchors nervously and vehemently denied it. Rather than asking how Fr. Morris obtain his information, they tried to quell any curiosity about it and correct the record as quickly as they could to state that Obama was born “in this country.” How do they know? Have they seen the birth certificate and not said anything?
In early 2009, I personally mailed to you presentments from the American Grand Jury charging Obama and others with treason and fraud. You did nothing. Obama has unconstitutionally taken over the health, banking and automobile industries, and your anchors continue to soft-pedal and smile as they silkily mention “President Obama.” If the man is ineligible to hold the office, is a usurper who has committed massive election and possibly identity fraud against the American people, why are you even referring to him as the “president?”
Because you received the AGJ presentments, you also received a copy of the criminal complaint for treason filed more than two years ago by LCDR Walter Fitzpatrick, a retired Naval commander with 25 years of service. More than 3,100 other citizens have done the same, and the FBI refuses to respond. What do you think that means, Mr. Ailes? A retired military member accusing a seated “president” of treason should have been arrested, but he has not been. Neither the FBI nor the Secret Service has taken any action; instead, the complaint remains open and unanswered. Why do you think that is, Mr. Ailes?
Now that your obscenely-paid anchors such as Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, Gretchen Carlson, Greta Van Susteren and Geraldo Rivera have had to choke out a few questions about Obama’s birth certificate and therefore his presidential eligibility with Donald Trump, you might as well have them begin reporting the following:
There are multiple ways to obtain a birth document in Hawaii, one of which includes merely a statement from one relative who has resided in Hawaii for a minimum of one year claiming that a birth took place. Particularly in Obama’s time, no corroborating information was required. Perhaps this is why Obama does not seem to have an original birth certificate from the state of Hawaii and the reason why the state of Hawaii has obfuscated and refused to answer questions for almost three years. Neil Abercrombie, the new governor, has even gone so far as to say that no original birth certificate exists for Obama, agreeing with former Hawaii elections clerk Tim Adams.
There is more than ample circumstantial evidence that Obama’s birthplace is Kenya, not Hawaii. Kenyan officials such as th[e ambassador to the United States and members of Parliament have stated such on the record. Why would you not report such information to the public? Is that not the purpose of Fox News Channel, or is your real purpose to push an agenda?
While on Monday evening, Greta Van Susteren played dumb when Donald Trump stated that Obama has spent millions of dollars to hide his original birth certificate, if he even has one, and lamely stated that she “hadn’t seen her birth certificate lately,” Trump truthfully affirmed that Obama has concealed his past, official public service records, and that people “on the internet” are asking legitimate questions.
A follow-up report on his telephone interview with Van Susteren inaccurately stated that Trump “doesn’t want to become a ‘birther.’” He never said any such thing; rather, he said that the term “birther” is a pejorative to marginalize those who are asking justified questions about where Obama was born, whether or not he is eligible to serve, and what he is hiding about his past. So despite having to now cover the issue, your reporters are still trying to deny that there is a serious question about Obama’s truthfulness, birthplace, qualifications and therefore a constitutional crisis in which every law and treaty he has signed, every appointment made, and every executive order issues, might be subject to invalidation.
Your staff has known about this potential problem for over two years but pretended that it didn’t exist, much to the detriment of your company. Years ago, I and millions of others relied on Fox News for accurate and timely information, but you have lost any credibility you once had.
I am in possession of documentation from the state of Hawaii which shows that the Hawaii Democrat Party changed the required wording on its nomination certificate for Obama and Biden in 2008. I had to prepare to file a lawsuit to obtain this information. There is also evidence that it sought cover from the Democrat National Committee to certify that Obama and Biden were constitutionally qualified. Therefore, officials in Hawaii would not have been the ones to certify his eligibility if what we are now discovering was uncovered. Why has your huge news organization not obtained and reported on such documentation which clearly reveals election fraud?
Moreover, why aren’t you reporting that Obama could never have been eligible because he inherited British citizenship from his father? Even Obama himself admitted it. Why have you let all of this slip by without one report on it?
Instead, your anchors make fools of themselves by reporting that the “first celebrity” was “bounced from ‘Dancing with the Stars’” as our country sinks deeper and deeper into a Marxist coup and unparalleled economic crisis under a constitutionally-ineligible de facto chief executive. And you continue to pay them their outrageous salaries for sitting there and looking good rather than reporting what is really happening.
And how about the accusations and evidence that Obama committed social security fraud? When will you be reporting that to the American people? Notice how the report states that Col. Hollister could be brought up on charges when Obama is suspected of criminal wrongdoing!
Mr. Ailes, the charade is over. There is no “President Obama.” There is a man who is foreign-born with a foreign father who no more qualifies as a “natural born Citizen” than the Pope. Instead of trying to cover up the truth, why don’t you return to your original mission which included the late Tony Snow and other reputable journalists who sought the truth, regardless of where it led? Had you done your job in 2007 and 2008, our nation would not be close to destruction due to the election of an ineligible person to the presidency. Instead, you aided and abetted the usurpation and have masked the many crimes of which there is ample evidence he has committed.
Even if only one or two of these charges prove to be true, Obama’s crimes against America far outweigh those of President Richard Nixon. Wouldn’t that be worth reporting to save your $23,000,000 salary, Mr. Ailes?
Could there be any more pressing issue than whether or not the man making decisions to send our servicemen and women into war, sign legislation passed by Congress, appoint Supreme Court justices, signing treaties with foreign governments and invading sovereign countries is legitimate?
And what about his treason, Mr. Ailes?
Sincerely,
Sharon Rondeau
Editor
The Post & Email, Inc.
P.O. Box 302
Stafford Springs, CT 06076
203-987-7948
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A growing number of bloggers such as Richard Cohen, Brigitte Gabriel, Sharon Hughes, Charles Krauthammer, Kenneth Blackwell, Naomi Ragen, Debbie Schlussel, Ed Lasky, and William Levinson are pointing out Barack Obama’s numerous connections to unsavory individuals and organizations that espouse and promote hatred of Jews, Catholics, white people, Israel, and/or the United States.
On February 8, Ira Forman of the National Jewish Democratic Council allowed himself to make the following noises about this rapidly widening campaign to expose Obama for his choice of friends i.e., Jew-haters, racists, Israel-bashers, anti-Catholic bigots, and America-haters.
- It is time all of us organizations and individuals take the responsibility for outing and yes, even shaming, the purveyors of sinat chinam in our community to protect our values and to protect our communitys genuine political interests. —Ira N. Forman is executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council.
I identified myself to NJDC as one of the leaders of efforts to expose Barack Obama for cavorting openly with vicious anti-Semites, racists, and/or hate organizations like Al Sharpton, the National Action Network, Jeremiah Wright, and MoveOn.org, and I am still waiting for NJDC to even try to “out and shame” me.
As stated by James Fenimore Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans,
- “Your tongue is loud in the village, but in battle it is still. None of my young men strike the tomahawk deeper into the war-post–none of them so lightly on the Yengeese. The enemy know the shape of your back, but they have never seen the color of your eyes. Three times have they called on you to come, and as often did you forget to answer.”
I have called NJDC at least three times to back up its threat to out and shame me, and as often, it forget or failed to do so. NJDC is now going to take my assessment because it fears a face-to-face confrontation in front of cameras, microphones, or other media. An organization with such a long record of misrepresenting (e.g. about the “Left Behind: Eternal Forces” computer game), whitewashing anti-Semitism, and promoting hatred of Christians for political gain knows its statements are indefensible.
Having dismissed it for what it is, I will now go into the specifics against Barack Obama.
Bill Levinson:
We do not, to the best of our knowledge, know of any racist or anti-Semitic statements that Obama has made himself. He either does not understand or just doesn’t care, however, that his promotion and solicitation of bigots empowers and enables their bigotry against Jews, white people in general, and/or Catholics.
(1) Obama belongs to a church whose pastor said that “white America” got its “wake up call” after 9/11, and that Israel occupies Palestinian land illegally. Jeremiah Wright also compared the United States to Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
The same church has a “non-negotiable commitment to Africa.” Don’t most Christian churches have non-negotiable commitments to the teachings of Jesus, along with the equality of all human beings regardless of race or ethnicity? Obama’s church also gave an award to the vicious anti-Semite and racist Louis Farrakhan, although it must be said that Obama distanced himself from Farrakhan.
(2) Obama endorsed Al Sharpton and his National Action Network, both of which have a long track record of promoting hatred of white people and especially Jews.
(3) Obama solicited and accepted the support of MoveOn.org. MoveOn’s now-disgraced Action Forum served as a platform for hate speech against Jews, Catholics, Israel, and Evangelical Christians, along with 9/11 conspiracy theories that blamed Jews and/or the U.S. Government for the terrorists’ actions. Many Action Forum entries added that Israel has no right to exist. An official MoveOn.org bulletin blamed Israel for Palestinian violence while citing references like the Electronic Intifada.
Naomi Ragen
Naomi Ragen dismisses the smear and makes frontal attack on Obama
The Jews who are considering voting for Obama (or Clinton) should be doing a lot more research. Even if they don't care if Israel is wiped off the map, do you really want a man whose Church gives out awards to people like Louis Farrakhan? Do you want a man whose volunteers sit under Che Guevara posters (according to the picture shown on KRIV-TV iin Texas)?Don’t worry, Naomi, NJDC has burrowed so deeply into the hole that it just pulled in after it that it won’t come out until Groundhog Day in 2009, much less by Election Day in 2008, to say a word against you. As for the Che Guevara picture, here is a screenshot.
How many times can a voter turn his head and pretend that he just doesn't see?
If I've made a mistake, please debunk me. Until then, I guess I'll have to believe what I see. Just a reminder: I am a U.S. citizen who pays taxes and I have every right to express my opinion on candidates running in an election in which I plan to vote.I don't mind telling you: It won't be for Barack Obama.
Pamela of Atlas Shrugs
Obama’s Pastor is a Total Hater
Obama’s Pastor sounds more like a hate spewing imam. I am shocked this hasn’t gotten real media play (oh yeah, it’s Obama.) The more you peel back the layers of the Obama onion, the more rotten it is at its core.Right, Jeremiah, “white America got its wake-up call on 9/11.” Maybe your Caucasian counterparts (as in KKK) think the Negroes in New Orleans got their wake-up call during Hurricane Katrina, although “Negroes” isn’t exactly the word they use. Actually, it was some cheap televangelist (i.e. one of Barack Obama’s “religious” counterparts) who said New Orleans got want it “deserved” for welcoming a gay pride event. We do not find the gay lifestyle particularly attractive, but what consenting adults do in private is none of our business or society’s business, and only Islamic supremacists think people deserve to die because of their sexual orientation. Anyone who agrees with those Islamic supremacists, or is glad that people of a particular skin color were murdered by terrorists, is more than welcome to get out of our country.
[Per Tucker Carlson, quoting Jeremiah Wright]: Nine-eleven, he [Wright] says: “White America got their wake-up call after 9-11. White America and the Western world came to realize people of color had not gone away, faded in the woodwork, or just disappeared as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.” So 9-11 was payback for white racism. I mean, it goes on, and I will read more.
Richard Cohen
Obama’s Farrakhan Test
Barack Obama is a member of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama’s spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright’s daughters serve as publisher and executive editor. Every year, the magazine makes awards in various categories. Last year, it gave the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to a man it said “truly epitomized greatness.” That man is Louis Farrakhan.Sharon Hughes
Maybe for Wright and some others, Farrakhan “epitomized greatness.” For most Americans, though, Farrakhan epitomizes racism, particularly in the form of anti-Semitism. Over the years, he has compiled an awesome record of offensive statements, even denigrating the Holocaust by falsely attributing it to Jewish cooperation with Hitler — “They helped him get the Third Reich on the road.” His history is a rancid stew of lies.
Barack Obama's Very Controversial Pastor
[Jeremiah] Wright, who performed Obama's marriage and baptized his daughters, is also his close spiritual advisor. Barack's 2004 keynote speech to the Democratic National Convention was based on a sermon by Wright called 'Audacity to Hope, which also inspired Barack's book, 'The Audacity of Hope."Charles Krauthammer
In the November-December 2007 issue of Trumpet, their church's publication, Rev. Wright praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has described whites as blue-eyed devils and Jews as bloodsuckers. In the magazine Wright wrote, "He brings a perspective that is helpful and honest and will be remembered as one of the 20th and 21st century giants of the African-American religious experience. His integrity and honesty have secured him a place in history as one of the nation's most powerful critics and a religious leader who is sincere about his faith and his purpose".
…Recently Obama distanced himself from Farrakhan, but not from his pastor or his praise for Farrakhan. Why not?
For the record, it was Farrakhan who said:
"They call (Hezbollah) terrorists, I call them freedom fighters. No one asks why they would do such a thing. Why would they do such a thing? What has driven them to this point? That's what the UN, the U.S. and Europe doesn't want to deal with because the Zionists have control in England, in Europe, in the United States and around the world."
"The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the lake of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years."
"Hitler was a very great man. He wasn't great for me as a Black man but he was a great German and he rose Germany up from the ashes of her defeat by the united force of all of Europe and America after the first World War."
"Now, that nation of Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion [Judaism] under His holy and righteous name."
'Do you know some of these satanic Jews have taken over BET? Everything that we built, they have. The mind of Satan now is running the record industry, movie industry and television. And they make us look like we're the murderers; we look like we're the gangsters, but we're punk stuff."
"This Koran says that the Jews have altered the word of God out of its place. They did not want the masters of the people to know what Jesus really said, what Moses really said, because then you wouldn't have a yardstick to measure their deviations."
Obama is Burt Lancaster in a remake of 'The Rainmaker' or 'Elmer Gantry'
Obama has an astonishingly empty paper trail. He's going around issuing promissory notes on the future that he can't possibly redeem. Promises to heal the world with negotiations with the likes of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Promises to transcend the conundrums of entitlement reform that require real and painful trade-offs and that have eluded solution for a generation. Promises to fund his other promises by a rapid withdrawal from an unpopular war – with the hope, I suppose, that the (presumed) resulting increase in American prestige would compensate for the chaos to follow.We think this is what Mr. Krauthammer means, and we agree.
Democrats are worried that the Obama spell will break between the time of his nomination and the time of the election, and deny them the White House. My guess is that he can maintain the spell just past Inauguration Day. After which will come the awakening. It will be rude.
Brigitte Gabriel
Speaker at federation event slammed for calling Obama an "anti-Semite"
"Barack Obama is an anti-Semite," said Gabriel, who founded the nonprofit organization American Congress for Truth following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. "No Jews should support him. Jews should vote for Hillary Clinton."I don’t agree with the latter statement because Clinton also promoted Al Sharpton while backing MoveOn.org’s insult to General David Petraeus, and I will vote for McCain in November. However, Aesop was right about birds of a feather flocking together. Obama surrounds himself with so many anti-Semites, racists, and other bigots that it is difficult not to take him for one himself.
Ed Lasky, the editor of The American Thinker
Barack Obama and Israel
The ascent of Barack Obama from state senator in Illinois to a leading contender for the Presidential nomination in the span of just a few years is remarkable. Especially in light of a noticeably unremarkable record — a near-blank slate of few accomplishments and numerous missed votes.Kenneth Blackwell, NY Sun
However, in one area of foreign policy that concerns millions of Americans, he does have a record and it is a particularly troubling one. For all supporters of the America-Israel relationship there is enough information beyond the glare of the klieg lights to give one pause. In contrast to his canned speeches filled with “poetry” and uplifting aphorisms and delivered in a commanding way, behind the campaign facade lies a disquieting pattern of behavior.
One seemingly consistent theme running throughout Barack Obama’s career is his comfort with aligning himself with people who are anti-Israel advocates.
Beyond Obama’s Beauty
Start with national security, since the president’s most important duties are as commander-in-chief. Over the summer, Mr. Obama talked about invading Pakistan, a nation armed with nuclear weapons; meeting without preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who vows to destroy Israel and create another Holocaust; and Kim Jong Il, who is murdering and starving his people, but emphasized that the nuclear option was off the table against terrorists something no president has ever taken off the table since we created nuclear weapons in the 1940s. Even Democrats who have worked in national security condemned all of those remarks. Mr. Obama is a foreign-policy novice who would put our national security at risk.Obama is not merely pro-partial birth abortion, he is pro-live birth abortion as shown by his central role in derailing Illinois’ Born Alive Infants Protection Act–and even NARAL Pro-Choice America did not oppose the Federal version. We suspect both from context and Obama’s record that “he refused to vote against a statewide ban on all handguns in the state” is a misstatement, and that Obama supported the handgun ban.
…How to fix Social Security? Raise taxes. How to fix Medicare? Raise taxes. Prescription drugs? Raise taxes. Free college? Raise taxes. Socialize medicine? Raise taxes. His solution to everything is to have government take it over. Big Brother on steroids, funded by your paycheck.
Finally, look at the social issues. Mr. Obama had the audacity to open a stadium rally by saying, “All praise and glory to God!” but says that Christian leaders speaking for life and marriage have “hijacked” Christianity. He is pro-partial birth abortion, and promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who will rule any restriction on it unconstitutional. He espouses the abortion views of Margaret Sanger, one of the early advocates of racial cleansing. His spiritual leaders endorse homosexual marriage, and he is moving in that direction. In Illinois, he refused to vote against a statewide ban on all handguns in the state. These are radical left, Hollywood, and San Francisco values, not Middle America values.
Debbie Schlussel
Obama's Nation of Islam Staffers, Edward Said & "Inflexible Jews" Causing Mid-East Conflict: An Obama Insider Reveals the Real Barack
But a former Obama insider says that Obama's sudden aversion to NOI and Farrakhan is belied by the fact that Obama employed and continues to employ several Farrakhan acolytes in high positions on his Illinois and U.S. Senate campaign and office staffs. I have verified that this person who agreed to talk on the condition of anonymity held a key position in the Obama campaign. The insider was so close to Senator Obama that they frequently personally discussed and exchanged direct e-mail messages on campaign and policy matters. This person is not connected with the Clintons and is not a disgruntled employee.
Schlussel cited this picture as follows: “Barack Hussein & Michelle Obama with Palestinian Activist, PLO/Arafat Advisor Edward Said @ Arab Fundraiser
(Photos From Electronic Intifada)”
Common sense says that, if a public figure appears with a prominent Klansman while praising the Klan, he is promoting and empowering racism even if the N word never leaves his own mouth. While Barack Obama has not personally said anything against Jews, Catholics, white people in general, Israel, or the United States, his open association with and promotion of individuals and entities that do these things enables and empowers their unsavory agendas. The fact that he either does not understand this or does not care is why he should not be President. All decent people must stand up on the Internet and in letters to the editor to expose the loathsome “Obamanation” behind the phony smile on top of the empty suit. We will gladly lead this effort and, if the National “Jewish” Democratic Council wishes to try to “out and shame” us, we have three words for them: “Bring it on.”
I will shortly prepare a set of viral E-mails and letters to the editor for people to use to discredit Obama. All will be placed in the public domain.
It’s a lot easier to start a war than it is to finish it, as Mr. Obama is learning on his Libyan adventure. That is why wars are generally entered into after some consideration of the situation on the ground. There is only one excuse for a rush to war—and that is either an imminent threat or in response to an act of war. Such was the case after September 11, and yet even then the United States waited longer to begin bombing the Taliban—than we did before bombing Gaddafi.
An election for President and Commander in Chief of the Military must strive to be above reproach. Our public institutions must give the public confidence that a presidential candidate has complied with the election process that is prescribed by our Constitution and laws. It is only after a presidential candidate satisfies the rules of such a process that he/she can expect members of the public, regardless of their party affiliations, to give him/her the respect that the Office of President so much deserves.
