Obama can have the Bears, I’ll stick with the constitution

Lately, I’ve contemplated the unthinkable – an act of treason; an act of disloyalty so treacherous that friends and kinfolk may very well cast me out from the bosom of our family.

No, it’s not as bad as you think; I’m not going to start rooting for the Packers. I may, however, stop rooting for the Bears. In fact, I’m thinking about rooting for the Lions. Hey, what do you want from me? I like underdogs.

Not exactly where you thought I was going with this in the opening sentence? Thought I was alluding to something a little more important than team loyalty?

I know someone who is tired of all that is going on in this country and has told me he’s planning to move to Fiji. Now, I think Fiji is probably a nice place to live but I’ll be damned if I’ll let these radical leftist pukes destroy this country. They’ll shovel 6-feet of dirt in my face before I abandon our nation’s children to a life in the shadow of what once was and could continue to be the greatest country the world has ever known.

To get back to the point of this posting, through significant control of our educational system and virtual complete control of the media, liberals have so castigated and maligned our country that many today would find it easier to abandon their country than their favored sports team.

I’ve been a hard-core Bear fan for a long time now. I remember wearing paper bags on our heads in the ‘70s and early ‘80s while watching them consistently lose – and yet my loyalty was firm. I watched the team slowly disintegrate after the 1985 season and yet I stood my ground, you know, for the team.

The straw that finally broke the camel’s back was when the Packers visited the White House last week. I stumbled and figuratively fell on my face when I read, and re-read, the line that Obama welcomed the Packers to the White House even though he’s a devout Bears fan.

That, in and of itself, wasn’t enough to cause me to change my colors but it did start me thinking.

For several years now, the only piece of team-monikered clothing I’ve worn is a hat given to me by a dear friend who didn’t otherwise realize my attitude about such things. I think it’s a tremendous scam professional sports has pulled on the American people, convincing them, not only to wear and market team logos, but to pay, and pay extravagantly, for the privilege to do so.

It also occurred to me that the team I’ve traditionally supported is from Chicago – Chicago, where the only joke about “vote early and vote often” is that we all know it’s true, where political corruption is rampant, where Rahm “Deadfish” Emanuel is now mayor and where liberalism is a disease that has actually gone viral among people who even work for a living.

In other words, the only real connection I have with the Bears, or any other Chicago sports team, is an emotional connection fraudulently nurtured and supported by the sports teams themselves. So, why should I continue to support the Bears?

Now, if the only reason for supporting America and its constitution was out of nostalgia, it might not make any more sense than painting my body blue and orange so I could stand out in the stands at Soldier Field on a frigid, wind-swept, 20-below Sunday afternoon watching grown men play a game.

But, I don’t support the constitution out of a form of nostalgia, though I deeply respect my country’s rich history. I support America because the constitution does one simple thing – it recognizes the inherent need to limit the power of those in government.

A lot of people are willing to abandon that limitation when it’s to their advantage. As I pointed out in an earlier posting today, the constitution is not a shield that we can wear in times of convenience.  We live by it or we don’t. And when we don’t, our ability to draw upon its protections becomes questionable.

As our opponents are quick to point out, the constitution can sometimes seem a heavy and cumbersome shield. There’s no guarantee we can draw it into a defensive position as quickly as threats to our liberties might strike. But, if we’re willing to bear the burden of eternal vigilance, there is no better protection on the planet from those who would stomp on our individual and inalienable rights.

As for professional sports, just to spite Obama, I might even purchase a Lions hat. Yes, it’s inconsistent of me but it’s an inconsistency I can live with, unlike inconsistent adherence to the constitution, which we can’t.

Walsh looks even better by a Dold light

Someone made a pretty good point yesterday after I posted my comments about Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) and the exemplary manner in which he has not forgotten the promises he made during the campaign. He is well deserving of the praise, particularly since, when people in public office screw up, I'm among the first to jump on that.

However, as was pointed out, I failed to mention Rep. Robert Dold (R-IL). During the campaign, Dold had a clever little campaign ditty that played off the similarity between his name and former Presidential Candidate Robert Dole. Otherwise, Dold was very similar to Walsh in terms of the promises given. As was pointed out, that's apparently where the similarity ends.

Where Walsh has demonstrated limited-government, fiscal-conservative backbone, Dold has apparently sold out on virtually all of his campaign promises. The way it's been explained to me, it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility to find out that Dold was a liberal progressive plant from the start only masquerading as a conservative. I understand he has a voting record that would make Nancy Pelosi proud.

In a sense, I regret highlighting Dold's 'accomplishments' since arriving in Washington, D.C. My intention was that I felt Joe deserved the limelight unencumbered by the likes of a charlatan spewing patriotic rhetoric as though he means it. I regret the decision because, in reality, Dold's behavior makes Joe's all the more noteworthy.

Just a couple days ago, a conservative I know complained that, Republican or Democrat, they were essentially all alike - out for themselves and screw the nation. With people like Joe Walsh in Washington, D.C., I was able to respond, "Well, not quite all of them. Sure, we've got our Dolds but we also have our Walsh's, and thank God for that."

Fear and Panic - Obama's greatest allies

I have an old friend I chat with from time to time on Facebook. I've found that our discussions help to clarify my thoughts. Such was this case when I was speaking about Obama, Rahm Emanuel and FDR. Suddenly, the pieces all fit together.

Emanuel is well known for his statement, "A good crisis is a terrible thing to waste." Of course, he was referring to the economic crisis of the Great Recession. But, as I realized while chatting with my friend, it was more than the economy; it was the panic that economic fear engendered.

In a crisis, those who keep their heads are usually the winners. If you've ever seen the movie "The Unforgiven" with Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman, you'll probably recall they speak about this. It's not the best shot or the one who is fastest with a gun that wins in a gun fight. It's the one who keeps his head - assesses the situation coolly and aims carefully, the one who doesn't shoot himself in the foot.

Without fear and panic, Obama probably would not have been elected, Obamacare would have been DOA, Congress would have reacted appropriately from the start to all these czars and agencies setting up a shadow government. We wouldn't have sat back while our president went around the world back-seat apologizing for our history.


I'm clearly not a big fan of FDR's but, he was right when he told America, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." He was telling people not to panic. FDR believed he could achieve his aims through the American system. Oh, he intended to circumvent the Constitution from time to time, but he was still an American at heart.

Obama hasn't truly tried to calm the waters, has he? Why not? Panic and fear are Obama's greatest allies. Panic and fear is what convinced people to buy into his "Hope and Change" in 2008, even though people didn't really realize what they were buying. All they knew was the economy was in the toilet and that Bush, utterly demonized by the lamestream media, was to blame.

Our job, between now and November of 2012, is to clear away the fog of fear and panic. People need to see clearly even if they're afraid. They need to realize, if they aim carefully in the ballot booth they won't shoot themselves in the foot again. FDR was right. Fear is the one thing we must fear the most.

My new Patriotic blog and facebook page.

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