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The election in Honduras actually says more about the amateur nature of the Obama administration than it does Honduras. The first gut-level reaction of the administration was to side with the communist kleptocrats of South America. Then, when it realized it was wrong, decided unity within the OAS was more important than Honduras. Finally, the administration has tip toed to the correct position, but refuses to announce it publicly lest it look any more weak than it already is.
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GEAUX TIGERS
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Never argue with a woman carrying a gun. Besides, she's right.
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Wow, worries about jihad and militant Islam are global.
links for 2009-11-29
If this country can go boldly forward with it’s plan for nuclear power, why can’t the US do the same?
Iran Approves Building 10 Enrichment Sites
Under Iranian law, Iran’s nuclear agency has been tasked with providing 20,000 megawatts of electricity through nuclear power plants during in the next 20 years. IRNA said the country needs to build enrichment facilities to produce nuclear fuel for its future power plants.
Now this is the spin Iran put’s on it. So you have to ask yourself - Why would a country that ranks 3rd in the known oil reserves of the world and is the fourth largest oil producer in the world - need to generate it’s power using nuclear energy? Hmmmm, I guess they are concerned with global warming? Maybe they are convinced by what Al Gore has to say?
Or maybe the leaders of Iran are rushing forward - hell bent to develop ICBM Nuclear Warheads?
You think? What will Barry & Hillary do now? Send another strongly worded letter? The UN is impotent in this matter. Now is the time to think about reversing all this pandering to the nutjobs of the world. Maybe now is the time to defund the UN and sell it’s building. The whole irony of this of course - is that Barack Obama may become only the second president in US history to have to drop some nuclear bombs.
The Evolution of Charlie Crist: He Says He is One Thing. His Record Shows Him to be Something Else.
Charlie Crist's campaign says Crist is a conservative. Crist himself says he does not know what it means to be a conservative.
“Charlie Crist’s actions prove him to be anti-family, anti-life, anti-gun, and very much in favor of taxes”
Last week, Charlie Crist decided to attack conservatives by telling reporters that “It’s hard to be more conservative than I am on issues — there’s different ways stylistically to communicate that — I’m pro-life, I’m pro-gun, I’m pro-family, and I’m anti-tax,” then went on to say he guessed he just wasn’t angry enough.
In the DNC - McClatchy News hit job of Jim DeMint and me, the one where the reporter and DNC dutifully compare me to Rev. Wright, the John Cornyn’s National Republican Senatorial Committee dutifully got in on the fun parroting Charlie Crist.
“Charlie Crist is pro-life, pro-gun and pro-family,” said Brian Walsh, a Cornyn spokesman. “That’s not a definition of anything less than a conservative.”
Remember, only a few weeks ago John Cornyn announced the NRSC was staying out of Florida.
In any event, we must question if Brian Walsh knows what he is talking about and we can trust that Charlie Crist is lying. Why? Well, because we have Crist in his own words.
Just this morning, Crist’s spokesman says Charlie is willing to shift ground on his principles for pragmatic reasons.
Crist spokeswoman Andrea Saul described Crist’s comment about not endorsing the stimulus as “a miscommunication.” She said in accepting the money the governor was simply being “pragmatic” during a time of “unprecedented” economic turmoil. Crist, she said, understood there are times when compromise is necessary.
“If you stand your ground on everything,” Saul said, “you don’t get anything done.”
On most issues important to conservatives, Crist does well, said Jamie Miller, a political consultant and former director with the state party.
He opposes abortion and same-sex marriage — though not vocally enough for some conservatives — and supports the death penalty and gun rights. A former attorney general and state senator, Crist earned the nickname “Chain-Gang Charlie” for sponsoring a bill to bring back prison work crews.
Having failed to show that Marco Rubio is not a conservative, the Crist campaign has gone back to square one and has decided if they just keep telling everyone Crist is a conservative, perhaps someone will believe them.
There’s just one problem — Charlie Crist has a record and he himself says he does not know what it even means to be a conservative.
“Asked what being ‘conservative’ meant to him, he grew vague. ‘I don’t know,’ [Charlie Crist] said. ‘It doesn’t really matter to me. I’m not really absorbed much by labels others might put on me.’” That was from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune on December 30, 2007.
Then there is this from LifeNews.com on May 27, 2008:
Good News: Food Stamp Use Soaring; Stigma Gone
Good News if You're Building a Social Democracy, Anyway
I suppose this is just a testament to how well Obama’s economic recovery plan is going: 1 in 8 Americans is now on food stamps - and 1 in 4 children are. I remember the bad old days of the Bush economy, when millions of Americans were forced to rely on private sector jobs to pay for their food.
Those benighted days are past: now more and more Americans get their food money from Uncle Sam. And who knows - the way things are going, someday soon we all may wind up on the dole:
It has grown so rapidly in places so diverse that it is becoming nearly as ordinary as the groceries it buys. More than 36 million people use inconspicuous plastic cards for staples like milk, bread and cheese, swiping them at counters in blighted cities and in suburbs pocked with foreclosure signs.
Virtually all have incomes near or below the federal poverty line, but their eclectic ranks testify to the range of people struggling with basic needs. They include single mothers and married couples, the newly jobless and the chronically poor, longtime recipients of welfare checks and workers whose reduced hours or slender wages leave pantries bare…
From the ailing resorts of the Florida Keys to Alaskan villages along the Bering Sea, the program is now expanding at a pace of about 20,000 people a day.
How Can Obama Lead American When He Clearly Hates America
Fellow patriots, we are at a crossroads for our country. While ideals of freedom and conservative values have been declining in our government for years, the recent months since Barack Obama took office have seen the direction of that decline escalate at an alarming rate and this week the battle for our freedom takes on more furor with the Senate debate on health care.
This furor comes mainly because of the anti-America leadership and agenda of Barack Obama. He claims he loves America but everything he says and does shows that he hates what America stands for and additionally hates Americans who want to remain free. His agenda promotes hatred for America because it steers this Nation away from the principles of American exceptionalism and liberty that have been the center piece of our land since the Founders first set the foundation of freedom in our Constitution.
Obama has expressed his hatred of America in speech after speech especially while in foreign lands and before world leaders. He has shown his disdain for our country by his actions and his policy which clearly prove his hatred of freedom and freedom loving Americans. Those who have taken a principled stand against his attacks upon our freedom are considered right wing terrorists and racist by his administration and by those who support what he is doing.
He shows greater concern for those who stand against and hate America than he does for those who love her and are willing to fight for her. He seeks Constitutional rights for the Islamic murderers who planned the attacks that killed thousands of Americans on 9/11, while demeaning the day in which we remember them by calling for the country to volunteer rather than remember.
He leaves our troops dangling at the end of a rope in Afghanistan while taking three months to decide what action to take in order to support the fight they are waging in defense of our Nation. And then will not make his decision known until he can get a staged PR platform at West Point in order to, “look,” like a Commander in Chief.
He pushes for legislation that hurts business and forces job loss in order to give his liberal friends the socialist programs they have longed for for decades and calls it an economic stimulus. He rushes to force Cap and Trade legislation that will hurt every American and sign treaties that take aways American sovereignty to promote a junk science that has been proven a fraud. But his political agenda is more important than facts so he moves on as if the fraud does not exist.
Americans by the millions and a clear majority have expressed anger against his push for health care yet he ignores our voice and continues to force this destructive legislation which is about control and not reform. He appoints Czars whose executive authority is designed to usurp the Constitutional separation of powers and centralize that power under his control. Appointments whose background is as anti-American as the agenda of their boss.
He tells Americans and world leaders that we are arrogant because we believe in the greatness of our country and then bows to those leaders in abject humiliation of our Nation. Those who he has appointed to his cabinet praise Mao, Castro and Chavez as the great principles of freedom like free speech, a free press which scrutinizes government and it leaders are considered tactics used by Nazis and avenues for greed and increased revenue for the one news agency that dares to tell the truth about Obama and his people.
In his Constitutional Oath of Office taken on the day he was inaugurated Barack Obama promised to, “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution,” yet his every move since taking that oath seeks to destroy every principle and law that is found in our foundational document of freedom and the rights of every citizen in this country. He once stated that the Constitution was nothing more than, “a series of negative liberties,” and since taking office he has shown that he believes it is his destiny to correct this,” flawed and outdated,” document by destroying the liberties it provides for America and Americans.
Barack Obama is not alone in his hatred for America and Americans. He is joined by the Speaker of The House, the Senate Majority Leader and many who, “serve,” in the Congress that seek along with their leader the destruction of our society and the control of each American through forced dependency on government. While many of those who hate America like Obama have been in elected office for years, it was not until the Obama Presidency that they have had an advocate with the power to push their hatred upon the American people and they have taken quick advantage of their advocate and his authority as the Nations Chief Executive.
I asked the question in the title of this post, “how can Obama lead America when he clearly hates America?” While he Constitutionally holds the elected office of leader of our Nation, we as Americans who love our Nation and believe in the true Constitutional principles in which Obama clearly disdains do not have to follow his leadership. The same Constitution which gives him his authority because of the results of an election gives us equal and in actuality more authority to stand against him BECAUSE of how he is using that authority to usurp and destroy the Constitution and our Nation.
It is our Constitutional responsibility as the people of this land to fight any authority who seeks to deny our freedom and destroy our country. It is our responsibility to speak out against him at every opportunity and to stand together as free Americans to prevent his agenda from damaging the country he so obviously hates. We may seem helpless and out numbered at times and feel that what we are saying and the stand for freedom we take is useless when those who have the authority refuse to listen.
I am sure that our Founders felt the same many times as they fought to give birth to our Nation but just as they did we must stand true and never falter in our fight and likewise just as they did we will prevail in our war against the tyranny of Obama and for the freedom of our people and our Nation. Our love for our country is stronger than his hatred. More and more Americans are standing with us with each passing day, many of whom voted for Obama, and we still have the Constitution and freedom on our side and we cannot lose. Thomas Jefferson once said, ” All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” Our voice will bring our victory!
Ken Taylor The Liberal Lie, The Conservative Truth
LF Chapter 7: The Liberal Racist.
This Chapter has enough information to create a week long discussion without the rest of the book. It’s hard not to read this chapter and draw parallel’s between the now debunked global warming movement and the previously debunked eugenic movement. Both movements were sacred cows of the liberals, and both involved letting the State control the daily lives of people. With eugenics movement, the State would decide who was and who wasn’t fit to have children. In the global warming movement, the State would decide how you live your life.
But this chapter also debunked the myth that only conservatives can be racists. Considering the point of the Book Notes project, I think that is the more important point to discuss. Conservatives are often accused of being racists because conservatives typically don’t make special allowances for race. Conservatives believe people can solve problems if the government will stay out of the way. However, if the government gets involved setting race quotas, it can’t stay out of the way. The Liberal tells us that the government needs to do this in the name of fairness. But what the liberal is really saying is that they believe minorities can’t complete on a level playing field.
Mr. Goldberg looks at a number of liberal policies and points out the racism in these “feel good” policies. The one that struck me the most was his section on abortion. There were three points that I think every conservative should know and have ready for any abortion debate. First, Jonah Goldberg states,”African-Americans constitute little more than 12 percent of the population but have more than a third (37 percent) of abortions.” This is an incredible fact. Whether you feel abortion and eugenics started as rasicst movements are not is irrelevant. It’s hard to ignore the devastating effects of abortion on African-Americans.
Next, Mr. Goldberg states, “…roughly 80 percent of Planned Parenthood’s abortion centers are in or near minority communities.” This statement, taken with the first one, starts to paint a much uglier picture. This starts to look like a revival of the eugenics movement. We also know that Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger started the “Negro Project” with hopes of limiting the number of black children born in the United States. If this had been a conservative project, we would still be hearing about it periodically in the press.
The third fact that conservatives should remember is that Jesse Jackson looked at this same evidence and came to the same conclusion. According to Mr. Goldberg, he viewed abortion as a “genocide against the black race.” For once in my life, I have to agree with Jesse Jackson. It’s intersting that he only changed his position to run for President as a Democrat.
Eagle Scout Update: After Getting Caught ‘Purple Handed,’ SEIU’s PR SNAFU Shames Union Bosses Into Volunteerism
A mere two weeks ago, the Union of Purple People Eaters (aka the SEIU) found itself in the middle of a media maelstrom for picking on a pathway-clearing eagle scout.
In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin Anderson, 17, has toiled for more than 200 hours hours over several weeks to clear a walking path in an east Allentown park. Little did the do-gooder know that his altruistic act would put him in the cross hairs of the city’s largest municipal union.
Nick Balzano, president of the local Service Employees International Union, told Allentown City Council Tuesday that the union is considering filing a grievance against the city for allowing Anderson to clear a 1,000-foot walking and biking path at Kimmets Lock Park.
Within a few days, the offending Purple People Eater had resigned his post after having been thrown under the purple bus by his New York bosses.
On Wednesday, after getting hit by a steady onslaught of rights, Balzano got hit by one big left when his own union distanced itself from his comments and called Balzano’s wounds self-induced.
“His comments were completely unauthorized and they do not reflect the position or views of the union,” wrote area leader of the SEIU’s Mid-Atlantic District Wayne MacManiman in an apology letter to Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski.
“The careless and insensitive comments were prompted by frustration over recently laid-off workers in Allentown,” MacManiman wrote Wednesday.
Now, however, in what may be too little too late, the SEIU is trying to make amends for its ill-conceived attack on the eagle scout.
Hauling brush and old tires out of the woods in Allentown early Friday, members of the Service Employees International Union learned an Eagle-Scout-to-be is just as forgiving as he is trustworthy, loyal and helpful.
The Eagle Scout service project of Kevin Anderson, 17, of Upper Saucon Township was caught up in a national media firestorm after Nick Balzano, an Allentown union official, threatened to file a grievance over Kevin’s work clearing a trail in Kimmets Lock Park. Conservative pundits seized on the remark as evidence of the SEIU’s ”thuggery,” and Balzano later resigned.
To show there were no hard feelings, SEIU members from as far away as Philadelphia and New Jersey accepted Kevin’s invitation to help with the project Friday.”They completely agreed — to come out, to help, to make amends,” said Kevin, a member of Troop 301 of Center Valley.
Of course, SEIU bosses wasted no time using their ‘volunteerism’ as a means of trying to get a boost in its PR debacle:
Wayne MacManiman, who leads the SEIU’s Philadelphia-based mid-Atlantic district, said he thought Kevin’s invitation was a great idea.
”Everybody’s here on their day off, volunteering,” said MacManiman, of Burlington County, N.J.
He noted SEIU members from Allentown had signed up to be part of the union’s 20-member crew.
”Kevin’s doing an amazing thing. We’ve always supported the Boy Scouts, whether it’s here in Allentown, Bethlehem or Philadelphia,” MacManiman added, gathering branches alongside Bethlehem SEIU chapter leader Bill Tone.
Always supported the boy scouts? Well, “always” may be always except when your union gets caught threatening to file a grievance against one and you, Mr. MacManiman, after throwing the offender under the purple bus for getting caught.
[Editor's note: It might be a safe bet that a union heavy like MacManiman wouldn't be picking up branches on a Friday after Thankgiving were it not for the bad PR his union received for picking on the scout to begin with.]
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Gatecrashers or Genial Guests
It began as a zany gate-crashing
incident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and now it appears uninvited White House State Dinner guest, Tareq Salahi, has a fascinating link to controversial Columbia University professor of Modern Arab Studies, Rashid Khalidi. Who could forget Rashid Khalidi, PLO sympathizer and friend to Barack Obama? Jew hater Khalidi contends that the establishment of Israel was a “catastrophe” and called the Jewish nation a “racist state” and an “apartheid system in creation.”
Personal long-time friend, Rashid Khalidi is just one of the many extremist individuals who have had questionable affiliations with Barack Obama. Though the President strives to keep the Khalidi connection in check, an article in the LA Times reveals a closer alliance than Barack Obama cares to admit.
It was a celebration of Palestinian culture — a night of music, dancing and a dash of politics. Local Arab Americans were bidding farewell to Rashid Khalidi, an internationally known scholar, critic of Israel and advocate for Palestinian rights, who was leaving town for a job in New York.
A special tribute came from Khalidi’s friend and frequent dinner companion, the young state Sen. Barack Obama. Speaking to the crowd, Obama reminisced about meals prepared by Khalidi’s wife, Mona, and conversations that had challenged his thinking.
His many talks with the Khalidis, Obama said, had been “consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases . . . It’s for that reason that I’m hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation — a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashid’s dinner table,” but around “this entire world.”
More recently, Obama addressed his association with controversial character Rashid Khalidi by downplaying the relationship in the following way, “To pluck out one person who I know and who I’ve had a conversation with who has very different views than 900 of my friends and then to suggest that somehow that shows that maybe I’m not sufficiently pro-Israel, I think, is a very problematic stand to take…So we gotta be careful about guilt by association.” Guilt by association, wasn’t it Obama who commemorated the years of consistent conversation around the Khalidi’s dining table?
Over the years, Barack Obama has distanced himself from the circle of extremist associates like Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko and Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Yet, while the White House denies it was the notorious Ayers on the White House visitor’s list, the cofounder of Weather Underground’s name has mysteriously disappeared from the roster.
New questions arise: could Khalidi, supporter of Palestinian terror and former Palestine Liberation Organization worker have an ideological association to zany power couple Tareq and Michaele Salahi, crashers of the State Dinner honoring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh?
Coincidentally, it appears that one half of the reality TV Washington DC couple that allegedly busted through the security detail at the White House is Tareq Salahi of the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) Board of Directors. The American Task Force on Palestine is an inadvertent successor group of the American Committee on Jerusalem (1995-2003), to which Khalidi once served as President.
Tareq Salahi’s picture, which was still posted a week ago on the American Task Force on Palestine website, is currently deleted from the Board of Directors gallery. Yet, as cited by TPM Document Collectors the audacious party boy remains on the Board of the American Task Force on Palestine’s website.
At the State Dinner, the Salahi’s were officially announced and took cozy photographs with the Vice President, Chief of Staff and Katie Couric. And if that weren’t stunning enough, it now appears, “…President Obama met the couple … as they went through the receiving line.”The Secret Service is downplaying security threats posed by the couple and the Salahi’s attorney Paul Gardner claims his “…clients were cleared, by the White House to be there.” If it is found out that Salahi was a valid guest, the question that deserves an answer is who granted the Khalidi-styled Director entry to the function? Specifically, because the Obama administration, on perpetual surveillance for threats posed from right-wing extremists, pro-life advocates, ex-military and born again Christians are, together with the Secret Service, bizarrely downplaying security threats posed by the Salahi’s.
Supping around the First State Dinner table with cronies like Michaele and Tareq wouldn’t be a first for Obama who admittedly dined on more than one occasion with the likes of Mona and Rashid Khalidi. Based on President Obama’s comfort level dining with PLO activists, its feasible that either he or a close associate extended the invitation to kindred Palestinian sympathizer Tareq Salahi and his wife.
Let’s review: Salahi is on the Board of Directors of Palestinian Task Force, which has connections to former American Committee on Jerusalem who’s President was Rashid Khalidi. Obama is a friend and supporter of Khalidi. Then out of nowhere the Salahi’s show up at the first White House State Dinner and make it past high security barriers to the reception line successfully gaining direct access to the President of the United States.
Could this be one big serendipitous twist of fate? Perhaps, but if Michaele and Tareq were indeed legitimate White House guests, such a revelation would be of indicative of anti-Israeli sentiment deep within the recesses of the Obama administration and would be a more unsettling than two reality TV wannabes successfully crashing a White House party.
If proven that the Salahi’s are old friends of Barry such startling news could be all that is needed to catapult the President into his own starring role in a reality show entitled, How to Dupe a Nation. The series can be a primetime special where a left wing, liberal, anti-America, Israel hating, radical socialist, swindles America into electing a barefaced impostor to the undeserved position of leader of the free world.
The Black eyed Peas, the President and the Party Crashers — what a surprise!
DNC Sends Out Oppo Research About Me to a Berkeley Grad Who Works for a Newspaper That Rooted for the Terrorists in Iraq
I was a bit annoyed that the reporter working the DNC hit job on me didn’t bother calling me first, but then I read the dude’s bio and just felt sorry for him — the guy’s got the career trajectory of an anvil tossed out of a hot air balloon.
In any event, the Democratic National Committee sent out oppo research on me (!!!) to join Jim DeMint and me at the hip in South Carolina. This is, by the way, the same DNC that accused Eric Cantor of stoking nazism.
Democrats have seized on DeMint’s affiliation with Erickson to attack the senator. Democratic aides e-mailed links to controversial statements the blogger has made on redstate.com and in other conservative forums.
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Susan McManus, a political science professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa, said Democrats’ linking of DeMint with Erickson is similar to Republicans’ bid last year to tie Obama to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the president’s former minister in Chicago who’d bitterly criticized the United States in fiery sermons.
Obama, though, distanced himself from Wright, while DeMint continues to use Erickson’s army of followers to reach conservative activists.
(By the way, the reporter didn’t even spell my name right.)
Rosen, the McClatchy “journalist” parroting the DNC talking points into a poorly edited story, circulated a number of things on the internets trying to tie DeMint to me. One was the rather unfortunate Souter tweet I made and another tweet was the Nobel affirmative action one, which let’s face it, just hacks the left off because it was so dead on target. But the other three things Rosen was circulating were not things I had written, but things leftists had written mischaracterizing stuff I had written. Nice! All in a day’s work for a Berkeley grad.
What is really flattering about all of this though is that I am a thirty-four year old guy in Macon, Georgia with a laptop and the Democratic National Committee is so terrified of me it has to release oppo research on me to a sympathetic Berkeley grad. That’s not just flattering, that’s awesome.
Still, it is a bit annoying to be compared to Jeremiah Wright. I’m sure it is too difficult for a Berkeley grad and a left-leaning professor from a second tier school to distinguish, but unlike Rev. Wright, I don’t hate the United States and have never made disparaging remarks about the United States.
That a reporter for McClatchy, a newspaper known to harbor anti-American sentiments and support for the terrorists against American soldiers in Iraq (see here, here, here, here, and here), and a DNC oppo researcher grasping at straws think the comparison is a good fit shows just how much the left really does hate this country — where criticism of leftwing icons and support for freedom are deemed too offensive for polite society that those views must be equated with the views of a man who actually loathes his country. The irony, of course, is that Mr. Rosen and the DNC have no problem with Jeremiah Wright at all, but know the country does.
Beyond that though, Rosen and the DNC really have no idea how Jim DeMint operates. Senator DeMint is not using my “army of followers to reach conservative activists.” He’s Jim DeMint. He doesn’t need me. But I’m happy to help. How desperate must the DNC be to mount a hit job via a sympathetic Berkeley grad tying Jim DeMint to a 34 year old blogger?!
Lastly, James Rosen and the DNC clearly do not watch the Simpsons.
For such a time as this
I have a few mottos in life. Well mottos … or perhaps adages. Or maxims. Anyway here’s one of them:
For such a time as this.
It’s from the book of Esther, and it comes to mind when I envision my life as a series of dominos being put into place. Some by me. Some by others. Some totally against my better judgment. Some in spite of my best efforts to resist. Some sought and planned by me. Some joyously embraced, others strongly rejected (in vain). It’s one of the joys of life to realize that a domino or thread of dominos that were set up long ago have created an opportunity in present day.
When I was 8 the family who lived across the street told us about a girl’s softball league that was starting up and I tried out and got a spot on a team. A few months later my coach got into a car accident and couldn’t finish the season so my father took over coaching. Years later as I graduated high school my father, who coached the woman’s state softball team by then traded an opportunity for me to get a job at Florida Power & Light to a guy in HR who wanted a spot as assistant coach to that state team. The job that opened up was as a data processor which eventually evolved into my current gig as a freelance editor. That’s a lot of dominos! I’m detail oriented, obsessively thorough, and making things orderly and exact comes easy to me, which makes me a good editor and good at similar tasks involving data. Plus I spend hours a day in front of several computers, and am quite the multitasker.
So when a call when out this week on Twitter from a blogger/journalist who I’ve been reading asking for some help doing some data input I was quick to jump on that. “For such a time as this” do I have the time available and skills for data input that others may consider AWFUL. “For such a time as this” have I happened to followed this journalist and knew that a project he was asking for help with was probably at some point in time going to advance some conservative candidates that I would otherwise not be able to help. “For such a time as this” would I be in position to offer my time on a small project and who knows through networking on small tasks what other opportunities to help will come from it. There is nothing more important to me right now than finding a way to be constructively involved in supporting and electing conservative candidates and undoing the damage that this administration is inflicting on our country and our personal liberties and our economy. I’m so grateful for this opportunity.
So … what do the domino threads in your life look like? What skills have you cultivated for use in other avenues of your life that can now help you get in the fight? Are there any coincidences or nudges you’ve been bumping up against, a local news article promoting campaign volunteer opportunities? A knack for fundraising, the ability to rally influential people in your community, some leadership skills for taking on a regional position in the Tea Party movement? Or like me can you backstop some of the “in the trenches” efforts that are crucial to the nuts and bolts of campaigns, voter registration, and planning events?
“And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?”
(from my blog Ordinary Sway http://bourque77.blogivists.com/)
