Barack Obama will be tested on the national security front. The tests will not come only from the Islamic terrorists either. Russia, North Korea, Iran and the Chinese all smell weakness. They see an inexperienced, un-tested and immature President who seems to believe that the power of his personality will be enough to keep our enemies under control. He believes that the entire world is no different than the American media who love him.

He is wrong, of course, but will he realize this when the test comes? My guess is that he will not. Obama strikes me as the type who has spent his entire adult life being told how special he is and I doubt his ascendancy to the Oval Office has done anything to temper his ego.

But don’t take my word for it. As recently as October, none other than Joe Biden commented in a speech to supporters that the Obama Administration ‘would be tested within the first six months’ by some type of international crisis. Biden went on to say (and this part was mostly for the media), “He’s gonna need help…he’s gonna need you…because it’s not going to be apparent initially; it’s not going to be apparent that we’re right.”

Feel better now? In a rare moment of clarity, Biden actually gets it right.

Obama will be tested and he will handle it badly. Biden knows this and his comments were a plea for the media to stay in the tank and support him…no matter what. Remember, Obama is “too big to fail”. Obama is “historic”. We cannot let the first affirmative action President be a mediocre one can we?

As conservatives, we take the defense of our country seriously. National security is serious business and failure, in this day and age, means a lot of dead Americans. That is why we don’t vote for the likes of Obama. We do not vote for leftists who view national security (and all other Constitutional functions of government) as a waste of time and resources that should be used for liberal, unconstitutional functions of government.

We always hope that the President will handle any national security crisis successfully. But “hope” is not enough.

Wasn’t it the misguided former Democrat Senator John Edwards who called the War on Terror a “bumper sticker”?

No, John. “Hope” is a bumper sticker. The War on Terror was President Bush’s response to an ideology that has the declared objective of wiping us out. And they’re still out there. They’re weaker and they enjoy far less support from countries that they could once count on when the Clinton Administration was napping. But, they’re still committed.

The Obama Administration will count on the media to carry the water, as they always do. And they will count on us conservatives as well. They will count on our virtue. See, liberals always indulge in the virtue of conservatives. They can always count on us not to “lower ourselves”…to their standards.

The same crowd that has politicized 9/11 since…oh, about 9/12, will certainly denounce any criticism of the Obama regime as being tasteless partisanship in a time of national crisis (prepare yourself to hear “politics stops at the water’s edge” a million times).

The same Democrats in the House and Senate who have compared our soldiers to Nazis (Dick Durbin) and accused them of ‘kicking in doors and terrorizing women and children’ (John Kerry) will react in mock horror at the utter ‘un-Americanness’ of any Republican that dares to point out inadequacies in any future action taken by Obama.

The same…clowns!…who have criticized to no end the “failure” of pre-war intelligence, then denounce methods used by our intelligence gathering agencies, which have proven to be effective, as “torture” because…we tie some bloodthirsty fleabag to a piece of one by twelve and pour water on his head?! You’ve gotta be [censored] kidding me!

They’re counting on us to be the virtuous ones all right. We’re suckers every time aren’t we? Well, not this time! Sorry liberals, I have no intention of ‘taking the high road’. For seven years I’ve been listening to all of you pontificating about President Bush as though your decisions would be perfect at all times. Well…they better be!

Unlike the liberals, I won’t lie. I won’t invest in the defeat of my own country and I won’t take any position that would threaten or undermine our troops. But I will seize every opportunity to scrutinize this President and every bad decision he makes! The rules have changed and, apparently, the only chance we have of educating our liberal friends is to apply the same rules to them.

If Obama is what his stooges claim he is, there will be no problem. If he really is “The One”, if he really is perfect, if he really is so damn special then there will be nothing for me to criticize and I’ll still be happy because that will mean a strong national security response from this administration.

But if they’re wrong about Obama…and I suspect they are…then they should know that their days of slapping us upside the head with our own virtue are over.

Happy Friday.

Obama’s first words to us as President of the United States he has already bungled it. Actually, forty three Americans have been sworn in as President. Grover Cleveland served non-consecutive terms and was, therefore, the 22nd and 24th President.

Not a big deal right? Splitting hairs you say?

Well, since these jokers have pounced on every grammatical error of our former President for the past eight years, I intend to return the favor. The default position of the media elites has been that Obama is “so brilliant” and “so well-spoken” and, to borrow a phrase from our own resident ‘Benedict Arnold’, ‘has an intellectual curiosity about the issues’…that’s right Colon Powell, we’re not going to forget about you.

So when His Excellency misspeaks, I’m going to point it out. And I’m going to claim that it is evidence of how dumb he is as well. After all, what’s fair is fair right? It’s not as though this was some off-the-cuff remark at a fundraiser. This was his inaugural address! The moment Barack has been waiting for his entire life…right?

How many hours did he spend at the “Desk of the President-Elect” mulling over his comments? Did he proofread his speech?… while he was using the “Toilet of the President-Elect” perhaps? How about his advisors? Did any of them check even as far as the second paragraph of his speech for any factual errors? I thought these people were “brilliant”. Why is it that a “D-student” like me is pointing this out? I don’t have a law degree from Harvard. I wasn’t on the Harvard Law Review. I know how to use Wikipedia though…doesn’t he? Don’t any of “The One’s” advisors have internet access?

This group is getting ready to push national Medicare on all of us! I wonder how many factual inaccuracies they will use during the massive public relations blitz we are about to be treated to?

How many times over the past several months have we been told that Barack Obama is “uniquely qualified” to handle the challenges facing our economy? So, are we supposed to believe his numbers when it comes to the “stimulus” package? How about the auto industry? We know the income numbers keep changing for his definition of “the rich”, so what other figures is he going to shuffle around depending on which audience he is addressing? These are important questions…and I think it is fair to say that a man who has been elected President but doesn’t know how many Presidents there have been before him…well…he can’t be all that bright can he?

We should pay close attention to the numbers coming from this guy’s administration. I’m sure the mainstream media will also…but we should double check their math anyway, just in case.

On a more positive note, I’m glad to see that Obama has announced in his first press conference that he will enforce new “ethical standards” on those serving in his administration. Whatever it takes to get these folks to pay their taxes like the rest of us, I’m all for it!

By the way, these new “ethical standards” would be a terrific way for Obama to permanently get rid of the Clintons if he were so inclined…wouldn’t it? Since Hillary is on the team now, and we know she doesn’t let “ethical standards” get in her way any more than Bosnian sniper-fire, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if…well…we shall see. Never underestimate a Chicago goon when it comes to political sabotage.

I hear many of our brothers and sisters in the Conservative movement sounding pessimistic these days. While I am just as disgusted as you are over the love fest going on between the incoming administration and some of our so-called “conservative commentators”, I refuse to concede defeat simply because so many of our fellow citizens have been duped by a slick liberal marketing campaign that, far short of an ideological triumph, has been merely proof of the adage about fooling all of the people some of the time.

I want to repeat that last part, because it’s important. This was not a victory of ideology.

Had Obama announced that he intended to raise taxes, redistribute wealth, dismantle our free market system and weaken our nation’s defenses and still been elected, I would concede defeat on the “issues”.

But he didn’t run that campaign. He pledged to reduce taxes for ninety five percent of Americans, kill Bin Laden and boost troop levels in Afghanistan. When he was caught in a moment of honesty suggesting that we “spread the wealth around”, he did everything he could to detach himself from that remark and obscure his true intent.

Now we all know what Obama really is. He’s a socialist and he will do his best to govern that way. But he sure as hell did not run as a socialist did he? No! He tried to sound like a free-market, pro-defense, tax-cutting capitalist. He did so because he knew, and still knows, that no one will buy what he’s selling unless he packages it to look like something it isn’t. He had to package socialism to look like conservatism, and since our own candidate was not a conservative and didn’t have the stomach to match Obama where it mattered…he was successful.

Socialism didn’t win this election because socialism wasn’t on the ballot, at least not openly. Unfortunately, neither was conservatism.

This brings me to my real point. It’s not enough to hope that 2012 will have a different result. We have to clear the field of non-conservatives masquerading as conservatives in the primaries. We know who the sell-outs are, and it’s time for them to feel the heat.

The moderates, or as I like to call them “the Democrat wing of the Republican Party”, have become far too comfortable.

When they feel at liberty to proclaim that the Era of Reagan is over, boast about “reaching across the aisle” to appease liberals and pontificate about how important it is for Obama to be successful while mocking conservatives…they have become far too comfortable indeed. And it is time for them to pay for it.

For starters, there are a few Republicans who should not only have conservative challengers in the next primary, but they should expect no support from conservatives in the general election either. I’m talking about Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Arlen Specter and others.

Yeah, I know… “But what if these seats end up going to Democrats?”

So what! Seriously, so what!? I’ve had it with the same crew in the House and Senate from our own party who are always happy to fire the spoiler and act like we should be grateful to them for it! I would rather have ten good Republicans than fifty worthless ones!

I’m especially fed up with my fellow conservatives feeling like they have to flirt with the idea of a “third party” because they’re so disgusted with moderate Republican sell-outs. This is our party! This party belongs to conservatives not moderate, centrist or liberal Republicans! Why should we give it up!? Let them go find another party instead of telling us that it is we who don’t belong. It has been conservatives who have given this party the biggest landslide victories in history and it is they, the “moderates”, who have brought nothing except defeat and embarrassment!

How dare they treat us like we are the intruders! In our own house! The Republican Party is ours and yet these spineless, self-serving press junkies have the nerve to use our label to get elected, then turn around and act like we are somehow offensive and embarrassing to them!
Well, there’s just something about an ingrate that I’ve always found nauseating!

The results of the past two elections are just as unsettling for me as they have been for every conservative. And I do get depressed when I consider the possibility that hardening the line on our own candidates could result in more victories for Democrats.

But I would burn my own house to the ground before I would hand it over to a few termites!

Moderates and centrists within our own party have indulged in our fear of becoming irrelevant in Congress. That is why they never go away. They believe that they, like termites, are so embedded in the structure that to remove them would cause irreparable damage…at least…that’s what they want us to believe. But with the party in their hands, our ‘relevance’ is entirely a matter of convenience. That, to me, is the same as being irrelevant.

Sneaking in as many phony, moderate Republicans as possible in order to secure a majority, as a strategy, has been done already and it resulted is our side compromising too many of our core principles.

I’m not saying go out and vote for some third party joker “on principle”. I’m saying, we must have our principles and insist on them! Our principles are predicated on the right to life, the right to private property including one’s income, the right to be free from intrusive and overreaching government and the right to self-defense. How much of that are you willing to compromise?

I say, none of it.

Reagan (peace be upon him) had many great quotes, but my personal favorite was when he said, “No one can kill Americans and brag about it”. In that spirit I say “No one back stabs our Republican Party and gets away with it.”

The build-up to the event will be a blitzkrieg of gushing “man-on-the-street” interviews featuring teary-eyed worshippers proclaiming how utterly empty their lives have been until this moment.

The TV news media’s captioneering will be the most syrupy, sycophantic display of fortune cookie slogans since…well…since the last Democrat was inaugurated. If you haven’t bought stock in the phrase “This is truly an historic moment Katie”,…now would be a good time.

“The One” will enter the city from the east gate, carried upon the shoulders of Joe Biden, or as I like to call it, “riding an ass.” The news commentators will murmur in their most respectful “golf voices” as the adoring onlookers catch their first glimpse of “him”. Keith Olbermann will avert his eyes reverently and sprinkle rose petals on the ground before his feet which, of course, must never touch the ground on which we mortals walk.

The Obama Youth Choir (AKA the Zombie Kids) will sing the “We’re gonna change the world” song as he approaches the podium. Legions of overweight, camouflage-clad teenage floor-stompers will look on as The Chief Justice asks if he is ‘ready to take the oath of office’. At that moment…Obama will seize the bible from the Justice Roberts’ fowled hands! He will announce, “I swear-in myself!… Barack The First!… President!… and Global Citizen!… of the World!”

Is there any way we can get this whole event banned on the grounds that it is a government-sponsored religious display?

It really doesn’t matter what Obama says in his inaugural speech. As long as the “echo effect” is cranked way up…and we just know it will be. He can pretty much read the ingredients on a bag of Tostitos and the media will proclaim it to be, “The Greatest Speech of All Time!” I only hope we don’t have to hear about Chris Matthews’ leg (or whatever else) “tingling” again…but that may be unavoidable.

If all of this won’t be nauseating enough for you, wait until the post-inaugural festivities begin. I’ll summarize the commentary in advance, in case you can’t be one of the “fifty billion” expected to attend:

“Michelle Obama is the most beautiful first lady blah blah blah…like Jackie O”

Obama is the most dignified, regal, and blah blah blah…like JFK, Martin Luther King and Roosevelt.

The Inaugural Address was so eloquent, well-delivered, commanding blah blah blah…reminiscent of JFK, Martin Luther King and Hitler.

The “theme” is so hopeful, changeful and futureful blah blah blah…even more than Heaven’s Gate, the “Manson Family” and that magic bunny rabbit from the cereal box.

Yes, it will be difficult for the media to uphold their strict standards for unbiased, objective coverage in the face of such sheer…Obamanescence! In the coming months we will be treated to stories of how “Barack” has made the list of most popular baby names. We will hear of a “new optimism” sweeping the country with people “smiling a little easier” and being a little more courteous to one another. I will not be surprised if we even hear stories of paraplegics walking again, the blind seeing again, the deaf hearing again and Alec Baldwin acting again.

You haven’t seen Obama-hype like what is in store for us on January 20th. I guarantee it.

The inaugural address is the pinnacle moment of His Excellency’s life and you can bet that his best groupies, the lap dog media, will be pulling out all the stops to make sure that it will live up to the hype…and his presidency too if we let them get away with it.

I don’t intend to. I will be watching “South Park” re-runs on Tuesday.

Evidently Ms. Dowd has looked at Ms. Kennedy’s profile carefully and has come to the realization that yes, she is qualified to be a Senator in the sense that, from a spatial displacement standpoint, her ass will actually fit into the same chair once occupied by Hillary Clinton. With such broad criteria, I suppose we can no longer say that liberals are an exclusive group.

After dismissing Kennedy’s ‘Miss Teen USA’ orating style, attributable to the type of shyness to be expected from the multimillionaire daughter of a deified President who has had to endure a lifetime of adulation and liberal sycophantic idolatry, Countess Maureen recoils at the ‘howls’ of utter ingratitude over Kennedy’s offer to bestow upon us, the mere proletariat masses, her “magic capital.”

For JFK so loved New York that he gave them his only begotten daughter…Forgive them John, for they know not what they do…

Ms. Dowd goes on to lament the fact that JFK Jr. ‘died before he had the chance’ (insert music and slow-motion video tribute here) to save us from our miserable, failed lives. She refers to his magazine publishing endeavor as “A frivolous use of his time.”

For those outside of the Manhattan cocktail party crowd, “frivolous use of time” is lib-speak for “a job”.

How dare JFK Jr. squander so many years of his life by being good at something! How dare he ignore his legacy fortune and actually produce…like some…commoner. Thanks to his selfishly feeding an insatiable desire for worthiness, we would have to wait until 2008 for “hope” to finally come to the hopeless, tired, hungry, thirsty, shivering, slobbering, drooling masses.

What liberals don’t seem to understand is that it is not what Caroline Kennedy is that we find so ridiculous. Well, that’s part of it, but the real problem is what she isn’t.

So Ms. Kennedy has wasted her time with frivolous pursuits like raising children. So she almost wrote a couple of books. So she overcame her shyness and found the inner strength to ask her millionaire friends to contribute money to, you know, charity and stuff. SO WHAT!!!

This woman had one hell of a head start over ninety nine percent of the human race! Do we really have to fall all over ourselves in admiration of her because she deigns to press the “walk” button at an intersection all by herself!

So Caroline Kennedy is an author is she? Please. She is as much an author as Paris Hilton is a film-maker. Hey Caroline…your name is Kennedy. Your dad was the President. You could glue macaroni to construction paper and someone would pay millions for it and display it prominently in the palatial rotunda of some liberal “foundation”.

Despite the vanity Maureen Dowd and other liberals have over ‘Kennedy DNA’, there really is nothing “special” about Caroline Kennedy. Sorry Maureen. We know Jack Kennedy and…Caroline, you’re no…aw you know the rest.

President Kennedy was a tax-cutting war hero who hated communists. In other words, he was disqualified by today’s standards from any consideration for a position on the Democrat party presidential ticket. And if he knew the kind of bad-eggs you’ve been hanging out with, Caroline, he would send you straight to your room young lady.

Maybe it would be a good idea for Ms. Kennedy to spend some time “frivolously” before jumping into the Senate. Maybe she could start small, a paper-route or something. Then, after a few years, she might be ready to run a newspaper or magazine like her brother did. She might possibly gain some insight into how we ‘ordinary folk’ frivolously use our time before presuming to represent us in Washington. She may even bring something to that famous last name of hers which, to her entitle-manic generation, has been reduced to a vanity plate symbolic of wealth, privilege and…frivolous use of time.