His in-the-’hood strut is nothing in comparison to the accelerating gait of his socio-political and economic agenda that we must begin stopping in its tracks.

Obama’s tack toward Socialism will cripple America now and into future generations—perhaps beyond effective repair. The many maneuvers taking place fast, furious, and secretly behind closed doors belie his promise of an open, “transparent” government. The nameless people behind these maneuvers are themselves quiet and stealthy, achieving successes right under the radar of public scrutiny.

But there’s no guessing about the larger picture developing daily. It shouldn’t take a social scientist to see that this man, by his actions, has little regard for traditional America and its values; that he’s no friend of the military, let alone their Commander in Chief; that he’s antithetical to America’s founding principles; to Capitalism and American business; to Constitutional rights and every other right regarding our lives, our industry, our wealth, and our very sovereignty as individuals.

In recent instances abroad of unctuously bowing before the king of Saudi Arabia, ignoring France’s suggestion to pay respects at our military cemetery for some 9,000 soldiers on the heights of Normandy beach, using his “surprise” visit to troops in Iraq as a picture-perfect photo op, and apologizing to Europeans for an “arrogant” America, this politically pubescent president has at once diminished our great nation and roundly insulted us all.

It’s not the British who are coming. Barack Obama means to radically change traditional America into his America. Surfacing are the politically tendentious appointments of administration characters with poor professional resumes and histories of questionable personal and political conduct; the innumerable hate-America-for-any-number-of-reasons crowd; the “useful idiots”; the junk scientists and left wing “environmental” front groups; the second- and third-rate politicians—all of these and much more, working feverishly and synergistically doing great harm to our Republic.

And when we include the leftist monolith working our system, institutions, and people, including the putative “representatives of the people,” we’re seeing a political cancer sickening the United States, subverting the American polity, hobbling the nation, to effectively kill it and morph up a Socialist state. This is not the America this vet wants for his children and their children . . . and their children’s children.

“The medium is the message.” Our focus right now must be on throttling Obama’s agenda and on his removal from office. His campaign did not end on January 20, 2009. It’s still in motion at this hour, in other guises. Sometimes the “campaigning” comes at us subtly; at other times, it strikes openly from virtually every point on the communications compass. One way or another, we’re suffused daily with political propaganda and outright lies among artful PR for both the “public” and “private” Obama.

But it’s not only Obama and the Washington reps who are justly suspect. It’s also the entrenched, Byzantine network of leftists in our very government, in our labor organizations, in our education institutions, and, most importantly at this hour, in our communications outlets.

This isn’t the “rant” of a “McCarthyite who sees Communists ‘under every bed’” (as the leftists used to say to discredit and destroy their opponents). Our modern electronic media and Fourth Estate are blatantly discharging misinformation; packaged news; distorted news; back-paged news; and, in a selective, purposeful act of information suppression, no news at all—a kind of metaphorical C-4′ing of radio and TV signal relay towers across America.

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“Now is the time to come to the aid of our country.” Which means, we’ve got to send Obama packing, along with his administration and the Washington worthies abetting him. If it’s something impeachable, by all means, the sooner the better. Otherwise, it’s the voting booth.

We need our Washington and local reps to know their jobs are on the line come the next election, and that we’ll solicit replacements now if they don’t begin showing signs of “stepping up” in defiance of Obama. We need to tell them we want movement on removing from public office the people charged and found guilty of malfeasance. Tim Geithner, Charles “Charlie” Rangel, and Christopher Dodd come to mind, for starters, as does the munificent Barney Frank.

The larger issues to challenge are hard to miss. But the lesser ones matter, too. They’ll surely recur during the run-up to the next election, and we must be ready to counter them: The attempts by certain voting officials who brazenly sought to reject presidential votes from our citizen-soldiers; the Obama tactics in using storefront- and street-politics throughout select communities across the nation; Obama’s support of “community” organizations like ACORN, which has been charged by many states with perpetrating voter fraud. ACORN, you’ll be happy to know, is now in line to receive a very large part of some four-billion of your stimulus/tax dollars, shiftily earmarked for “neighborhood stabilization activities.” And there’s that vexing vetting matter, still unanswered and curiously dismissed at every legal challenge, of the authenticity of Obama’s delivered birth certificate, sans official raised seal.

Move on dot Obama now. We must pass the word as far and wide as we can. This administration is aggressively encroaching across the nation, targeting all countervailing voices on radio and TV; American businesses and their employees; ordinary citizens and citizen groups demonstrating opposition; law enforcement agencies and officials attempting to enforce immigration law—even American farmers whose field machinery “generates dust that harms the environment.”

It’s not hyperbole to say the Obama administration is out to fashion a government that will intrude on and effectively assert some form of control over virtually every facet of our American lives—from pre-cradle to our estates beyond the grave, from our abodes to our zoos, to the very climate enveloping us; viz: Obama’s consideration of the environmentalists’ idea to fire tiny sulfur particles into the stratosphere to block the sun’s rays and thus “cool” our allegedly “heating” planet!

We might start by joining the “Tax Revolt” spreading across the nation, and by telling our Washington representatives, “no tax increases”—reminding them of Obama’s “promise” of no tax increases for 95% of us. Yes, his lie is darkly humorous in light of the unprecedented spending and debt he’s incurred for us and for our posterity. But the truth is, it masks a deadly issue of immediate importance, the kind that once added enormous political powder in igniting our war for independence.

We can build networks of like-thinkers among home-front family and friends, and get them to repeat the process. We can urge friends and family in the military to do the same among their units and among their worldwide contacts throughout the military community. We can even work on convincing Democrats of all brands to reject Obama. You may find, as I have, that many are now disenchanted and disaffected with him.

There’d be no greater victory than translating all of these sentiments into a fatal No-vote for Barack Obama in 2012.

For as long as I can remember, I believed you didn’t have to travel far to find outward patriotism way down yonder—despite the South’s history as the original political maverick in the extreme.

Patriotism still endures, but our last presidential election suggests that it’s less than clear amid a roiling sea of political change throughout Dixie. Regardless of any lingering sentiments that cast Republican-Yankees as “Scalawags,” I just cannot accept that our southern countrymen would choose union in a twenty-first century Socialist America to which we are coerced to cede our hard-won freedoms.

I’ve a sense that our southern states may face a kind of “Secessionist” movement among themselves—one that would see particular segments “withdraw” from that distinctive amalgamation we’ve always called “the South.” It would be an irony, when we recall the burning question among their 1860-citizenry of whether to remain in the Union: “Y’all goin’ Secessh?” Recast this antebellum question based on today’s political fractures among southern folk, and the hot issue of 1860 might well have been, “Y’all goin’ Secessh or goin’ Secessh Secessh?”

My imagination listened in on Vernon and Howard, who gave me some perspective on how people down home might be dealing with the heavy, personal struggles in their newest New South—the very same struggles, but for local dialect, facing the entire nation..

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Vernon: “Heidy Heidy, Howard.”
Howard: “Vern. . . . The wife?”

“Alright, I guess. But . . . well . . . Howard, not to pry none: but we heard you voted fir that ol’ boy up in Washington. That true?”

“Uh, sounds like ol’ lady Clay’s been puttin’ her oar in m’business agin’. But, yeah, I did, Vern.”

“[Sigh ] Well, see, thing is, we just don’t git it. I mean—Lord, Howard—you helped put that ol’ boy in the White House? The White House!” In all my born days! Heck, Howard, your people come from this county, ridin’ with Longstreet up’n Gettysburg an’ Lee at Col’ Harbor. You got roots down here, Howard. Deep roots.”

“Yeah, I know all ’bout the famly. But see, Vern, there’s reasons fir it. Estelle an’ me—we’re goin’ through some real sorry times. I mean, I ain’t found no job since m’cousin stop recommendin’ contract work. Ain’t nobody got the money fir it. An’, heck, we barely got enuff money to make payment on this here house, let alone fill up on oil and propane. Truth be told, Vern, I’m mad as far with m’self. Sometimes, I think, ‘Well, Estelle an’ me—we gonna be in a mud hole if we cain’t make those payments,’ an’ then agin I just don’t know.”

“I understan’, Howard, but don’t you wanna do fir y’self?—y’know, be in charge of y’own life?”

“‘Course I do. But like I say, hit ain’t fir not tryin’. I keep lookin’ fir work but just cain’t find none! [Sigh] Lord, I don’t like wallerin; but I just don’t know whut we’re gonna do, seein’ as how I ain’t gittin’ any younger, as they say.”

“I hear ya, Howard, but I think yer missin’ the Big Picture. That boy’s real trouble fir the en-tire country. I’m tellin’ the news here, Howard: he’s slicker’n owl sh*t. Why ya think my daddy kep roustin’ them ol’ boys back in the day? To keep them in line, that’s why. Anyways, whut I mean is, we’re gonna have to keep that ol’ boy really in line up there. . . .”

Well, ain’t no point runnin’ them folks like they did, Vern. Besides, we all have to be practical here.”

“‘Practical’?” Now, where’d you get that high-falutin’ talk?”

“Look, Vern, even if some ol’ coots ’round here wanted to, it’d still take money! It’d take money fir gasoline and a heck lot more fir bail if ol’ Tighe come by—money, Estelle an’ me just don’t have.

[Sigh] “I’m funin withya, but I’m darn serious ’bout money, Vern . . . an’ eatin’ right. We cain’t keep fillin’ ourselfs with Macroni ‘n-such. An’ I ain’t ’bout to start eaten’ possum, like some of them Georgia boys. Ol’ man Sykes over there—he’s still eatin’ that critter for supper. Anyways, thing is, I carry Estelle darn-near thirty miles ‘cross county to a clinic doc; we ain’t got no hospital hereabouts; I ain’t gettin’ no VA help; an’ the pickup’s kindly wore out.

“I’ll be plain with ya, Vern: I don’t rightly care where I git help. Them boys up’n Washington—they got plenny of money, givin’ out millions evrywhere. They lookin’ to help me, thin here’s my Rural Route number: Send . . . me . . . that . . . check! Thin Estelle an’ me won’t have to worry s’much. Know what I mean?”

[Sigh] “Yeah, I know, I know. Hit’s hard times for evryone—me included, Howard. Well . . . alright then, I’ll be talkin’ at ya. But Howard, I still think yer not seein’ the Big Picture. Somebody threw a clod in the churn, an’ there’s gonna be a price. There’s gonna be a price. You ‘member that Faust feller?—one made a deal to be ol’ Satan’s slave so he could git worldly pleasures? Well, that’s kinda whut I reckon will be happenin’ now.”