YOU SCARE ME

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

By Lou Pritchett

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America' crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Lou Pritchett


Note: Lou Pritchett is a former vice president of Procter & Gamble whose career at that company spanned 36 years before his retirement in 1989, and he is the author of the 1995 business book, Stop Paddling & Start Rocking the Boat.

Mr. Pritchett confirmed that he was indeed the author of the much-circulated "open letter." “I did write the 'you scare me' letter. I sent it to the NY Times but they never acknowledged or published it. However, it hit the internet and according to the ‘experts’ has had over 500,000 hits.

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U.S.A,, Not A Christian Nation

"We [Americans] do not consider ourselves a Christian nation...." This stated by President Obama.

LOS ANGELES, April 10 /Christian Newswire/ -- During his recent trip to Europe and the Muslim nation of Turkey, President Barack Obama told the Europeans that the U.S. has been "arrogant, derisive and divisive."

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Why is our own President ATTACKING us as Christians??

Is this the beginning of the END ?

China Strikes Again

By BRIAN SKOLOFF and CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press Writers Brian Skoloff And Cain Burdeau, Associated Press Writers –

PARKLAND, Fla. – At the height of the U.S. housing boom, when building materials were in short supply, American construction companies used millions of pounds of Chinese-made drywall because it was abundant and cheap.

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When will we realize, as Americans, that you get what you pay for!
We are always trying to save a buck. Well the buck stops here. There are way to many people willing to sell their souls to the devil.

As President Obama put it "We [Americans] do not consider ourselves a Christian nation....

Woody Harrelson Gets It Right

GOOD FOR YOU WOODY

I think that the harrasing media should be treated this way!!

Woody Harrelson Attacks Another TMZ Photog (MySpace Exclusive)

Obama Bowing

White House aide speaking anonymously: ‘It wasn’t a bow ... he’s taller than King Abdullah’

This aide, speaking anonymously, should be fired and the President should be ashamed of his actions. This is not a thing the President of The United States should ever do.

To have anyone say this was not a bow is simply someone thinking that all of us are stupid. It was CLEARLY a bow and it is on video for King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and his supporters to replay for all to see.

This is just the icing on top of the cake. The way that President Obama looked throughout this trip he has been on is shaming to the US as a whole. He looked uneducated, fumbling, weak, and totally overwhelmed. One thing about President Bush, when he was in office, I NEVER saw him BOW to anyone.

Be proud of the man YOU elected to be our president!

Let Your Voice Be Heard

US: North Korea loading rocket on launch pad. This coming from AP .
WASHINGTON – North Korea is loading a Taepodong rocket on its east coast launch pad in anticipation of the launch of a communications satellite early next month, U.S. officials say. U.S. counterproliferation and intelligence officials have confirmed Japanese news reports of the expected launch between April 4 and 8.

North Korea announced its intention to launch the satellite in February. Regional powers worry the claim is a cover for the launch of a long-range missile capable of reaching Alaska. National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair said earlier this month that all indications suggest North Korea will in fact launch a satellite.
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Our country is going to let other countries do what they want because of our invasion of Iraq.
Our leaders are leading our country down a slippery slop and they have no idea when to put on the breaks to slow down the advancement of countries with the goal of destroying the US along with Israel and any other country that do not believe as they do. Politically correct has gone to far. Our enemies have no rules of engagement. Why should they? The United Nations is a joke and I cannot see how all those people in the UN can actually believe what they are doing with warnings and sanctions after sanctions are actually doing anything whatsoever. As a poor 45 year old man I wonder if anyone thinks that we are going in the right direction? Evidently our leaders think we are. But how long do you think it will be before we, the people, have no voice at all? The electoral vote is a prime example. But we continue to believe that our government is making the best decisions for our country.
Wake up and smell the stink all around you. Each of us have a voice. Let, make, it be heard!

GOP Senators At Work

Despite severe economic hardship across the land, the Senate passed a massive $410 billion Omnibus Appropriations bill that contains more than 2,900 pages and more than 8,000 pork projects totaling $7.7 billion.

Passage of this irresponsible, pork-laden bill WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE had it not been for the eight RINO (Republican In Name Only) porkers who voted for the bill: .




Join The Resistance— an alliance of patriotic, resilient and determined conservatives who will not forsake their principles.

This all from:
From the Desk of:Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org Alliance

YES WE CAN

AP - Acknowledging it's an "imperfect" bill, President Barack Obama said he will accept a $410 billion spending package but insisted it must signal an "end to the old way of doing business."
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Would President Obama be talking about "PORK"? I would say so.
The President of the United States can do what he thinks is best for the American people, can't he?

Just so I get this right. To "PORK" spending, President Obama, says "YES WE CAN".

Commuted prison sentences of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean.

By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer
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WASHINGTON – In his final acts of clemency, President George W. Bush on Monday granted early prison releases to two former U.S. Border Patrol agents whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer fueled the national debate over illegal immigration.

Bush, responding to heavy pressure from Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike, commuted the prison sentences of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. The two guards from El Paso, Texas, each were sentenced to more than 10 years for the shooting, which they tried to cover up. They will be released within two months.

Opposition to their convictions, sentencing and firings has simmered ever since the shooting occurred in 2005.

"After four years of fighting this, it's taken a toll on me and my daughter, and really the whole family," said Joe Loya, Ramos' father-in law, who has received tens of thousands of supportive e-mails and spent much of the past two years traveling the country to speak about the case. "We wouldn't give up. ... I knew sooner or later God would come through — that finally it would happen."

He said his daughter, Monica Ramos, called from New York after learning the news that her husband soon would be released from a federal prison just outside Phoenix.

"She could hardly speak," Loya said.

The border agents' case became a rallying cause for conservatives concerned about border protection. On talk shows, people sympathetic with the agents argued that the men were just doing their jobs, defending the U.S.-Mexico border against criminals.

Bob Baskett, Compean's attorney in Dallas, cited widespread congressional support from the bipartisan congressional delegation from Texas. "I think the president did the right thing," he said. "An awful lot of people did an awful lot of work to get this done."

David Botsford, a lawyer for Ramos in Austin, Texas, said he had been guardedly optimistic that the commutations would be granted because of the support from Congress and the thousands of people who had sent letters of concern. The president has shown "he's a compassionate man," Botsford said.

Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, who called the agents' convictions a "grotesque injustice," said he and other lawmakers initially had hoped to have the agents pardoned. "When it became evident there was resistance at the White House to a pardon, that's when we shifted gears to ask for a commutation," he said.

Culberson helped gather signatures from 31 of the 34 current members of the Texas congressional delegation and two former delegation members for a letter asking Bush for the commutations. Culberson hand-delivered the letter to the White House last week.

"I was beginning to really be concerned that with literally only hours left in the president's term, this might not happen," he said. "With this one decision, President Bush has done more to improve his popularity than any single thing he could do."

Compean and Ramos were convicted of shooting admitted drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete Davila in the buttocks as he fled across the Rio Grande, away from an abandoned van load of marijuana. He remains in a low-security prison in Fort Worth, Texas.

The border agents claimed at their trials that they believed the smuggler was armed and that they shot him in self defense. The prosecutor in the case, a U.S. attorney who was appointed by Bush in 2001, said there was no evidence linking the smuggler to the van of marijuana. The prosecutor also said the border agents didn't report the shooting and tampered with evidence by picking up several spent shell casings.

White House officials said Bush didn't pardon the men for their crimes, but commuted their sentences because he believed they were excessive and that they had already suffered the loss of their jobs, freedom and reputations.

Compean, 32, and Ramos, 39, were sentenced to 12 years and 11 years in prison, respectively. They each have served about two years. Under the terms of Bush's commutation, their prison sentences will expire on March 20, but their three-year terms of supervised release and the fines will remain intact.

During his presidency, Bush has granted a total of 189 pardons and 11 commutations. That's fewer than half as many as Presidents Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan issued during their two-term tenures. Bush technically has until noon on Tuesday when President-elect Barack Obama is sworn into office to exercise his executive pardon authority, but presidential advisers said no more were forthcoming.

In an earlier high-profile official act of forgiveness, Bush saved Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, from serving prison time in the case of the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. Libby was convicted of perjury and obstructing justice. Bush could still grant him a full pardon, although Libby has not applied for one.

Clinton issued a total of 457 pardons or commutations in eight years in office. Bush's father, George H. W. Bush, issued 77 in four years. Reagan issued 406 in eight years, and President Jimmy Carter issued 563 in four years. Since World War II, the largest number of pardons and commutations — 2,031 — came from President Harry Truman, who served 82 days short of eight years.

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Associated Press writers Alicia A. Caldwell in Glendale, Ariz., and Juan A. Lozano in Houston contributed to this report.