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		<title>Is God For America?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proverbs 14:34 I think lays it out perfectly: &#8220;Righteousness exalts a nation but sin condemns any people&#8221;  Where is she this, righteous and perfect America that shining city on a hill? Why is America exceptional but so utterly unbalanced within its own borders? Does the world still believe we&#8217;re the model nation or are we trying to play the same old record in an iPod &#124; <a class="moretext" href="http://www.redstate.com/tomjeffersonsghost/2013/05/22/is-god-for-america/">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Proverbs 14:34 I think lays it out perfectly: <strong><em>&#8220;Righteousness exalts a nation but sin condemns any people&#8221;</em></strong><em> </em></p>
<p>Where is she this, righteous and perfect America that shining city on a hill? Why is America exceptional but so utterly unbalanced within its own borders? Does the world still believe we&#8217;re the model nation or are we trying to play the same old record in an iPod age?</p>
<p>What makes an abortion so exceptional? What makes homosexuality and gay marriage so exceptional? What makes our violent video game and movie culture so exceptional? What makes our hyper partisan and dishonest political system the envy of the world and so exceptional? What makes our sexual deviance and pornography driven culture so exceptional? Our freedoms are a double edged sword which has mortally wounded us.</p>
<p>Is America exceptional or wicked?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not anti-American just against the sinful things that happen within the confides of America.</p>
<p>Moore, Oklahoma was an act of God if you&#8217;ll ever see in your life you better believe it. And let me tell you something else God Almighty is far from done  unless we repent for the things we&#8217;ve done, accepted, or excused over the years.</p>
<p>How can we claim to be a peaceful nation that supports human rights when there are millions of abortions performed in this country every year. I&#8217;m talking about entire generations of human beings wiped out, more than any F5 twister could do.</p>
<p>Why does it take some historic disaster or mass shooting to get American citizens realize the meaning of community and actually treating one another with dignity and respect? When&#8217;s the last time you had a conversation with your neighbor where you actually shook hands or hugged rather than over the internet talking between a LCD flat screen monitor.</p>
<p>These events are tragic but in his own infinite way God is systematically ripping us from the false security of our comfort zones.</p>
<p>Those folks in Moore, Oklahoma and Shawnee will come together and unite more so because they have no choice. Hopefully and I pray this in Jesus name, the communities there remain unified long after the final home is rebuilt.</p>
<p>May they stand together as one during peaceful sunny skies as well as severe turbulent weather.</p>
<p>God is telling us something my friends and we better listen loud and clear.</p>
<p>Look at how we act in this country. We don&#8217;t know each other, we&#8217;re divided black against white, brown against black, liberal against conservative, every segment of the population is playing off one another in some unnecessary shouting match. The poor hate the rich because the rich have all the cash, the rich hate the poor because they believe poor people are lazy and need to stop depending on the government. Class warfare, cultural warfare, religious warfare in some cases.</p>
<p>Like I said earlier, you don&#8217;t know your neighbor and you don&#8217;t know the parents of your kid&#8217;s best friend.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll send our hearts and pay lip service to Moore, Oklahoma like we did with Sandy Hook and Hurricane Sandy. But when the new Xbox comes out we&#8217;re back to our disconnected selves.</p>
<p>This had nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with the changing view of God concerning America. He&#8217;s angry to say the least.</p>
<p>The more we murder, and lie, sell more porno and our youth buy more drugs and alcohol because we have the highest appetite for narcotics and alcohol in the world it seems, the more we sit in front of a television screen or inside a movie theater and pump hours and hours of violence and explicit language and mockery into our minds and our ears the more we&#8217;re going to slide down the hole into the pit.</p>
<p>What kind of individual would watch movies where kids are getting blown away but then when a tornado kills seven children or twenty children are blasted in half in Newtown all the sudden it ain&#8217;t funny anymore; it ain&#8217;t entertainment then.</p>
<p>The left calls it global warming, the right says it&#8217;s unfortunate, I call it God. That tornado was an act of an angry God whose patience is running thin with this country.</p>
<p>I was watching NOW with Alex Wagner and they were talking about the acceptance of an era of extreme weather in this country. Imagine that, Americans might now have to just accept this new era of killing storms that take no prisoners. But what does the book say?</p>
<p><em>2 Chronicles 7:14</em>-<strong><em>&#8220;if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.&#8221;</em></strong></p>
<p>We want God to save us after the fact. We don&#8217;t need him when we&#8217;re sitting in the nice plush home but we need him when the home is coming down.</p>
<p>God is definitely in America but I&#8217;m not sure he&#8217;s for America these days. How can God be for something that is opposite of himself? If the Lord said the children belong to me do you think God is for abortion? If God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah do you think God is for a bunch of sweaty men laying up with each other? If God said thou shalt have no other gods before me, do you think God is for our increased idol worship of celebrities and the celebrity culture?</p>
<p>Saying America is wicked doesn&#8217;t make you anti-American, it makes you honest.</p>
<p>I hate that so many lives were wiped out this week but things will get worse.</p>
<p>Can&#8217;t blame God I mean he gave us the guidelines in the form of his commandments. Not only that he said you know what Noah I&#8217;ll tell you what, I&#8217;m not going to flood this earth again I promise. What I&#8217;ll do is send this world a savior, my son name Jesus Christ.</p>
<p>Jesus Christ was the pathway to escape judgement and the grave. If Christ died on the cross for a generation not yet born, if he suffered for my life, the least I could do is surrender mine to him and live clean.</p>
<p>No drinking, no fornication outside marriage, treating my fellow man with respect, respecting the importance of life, treating women with respect, honoring my mother and father, taking an hour out of my day to fellowship in church, don&#8217;t use idol words, don&#8217;t be greedy and selfish, don&#8217;t be violence an commit murder, help those less fortunate than myself. And most important accepting Christ as my personal savior by repenting for my sins and confessing that he is the son of God and the Lord and Savior of the human race.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s not asking you to cut your arm off and sacrifice a virgin, but that you confess your sins and accept his son into your life.</p>
<p>We have to have alcohol in this country? Does drinking beer make watching a football game more of an experience than say a cold soda? What is it about pot and other narcotics that give you a feeling that peace and stability in Christ cannot?</p>
<p>Sloppy drunk and falling out ignorant is better than what exactly? High I mean torched out your brain just gone is better than what exactly?</p>
<p>Sleeping with every piece of booty you see in the bars and nightclubs gets you where exactly, but the clinic.</p>
<p>God is a merciful and teaching God but make no mistake he is a God of wrath and judgment that is absolute. God does not deal in the gray my friends.</p>
<p>These mass shootings and monster storms don&#8217;t have to be our new normal, believe it or not.</p>
<p>And people say well what about the end times and you Revelation talks about famines and droughts, earthquakes and extreme weather. Right, but you I started repenting and praying for my family, this nation, and my neighborhood and by the time the same storm system that struck Oklahoma reached Missouri all we got was lightning and heavy rain. We were supposed to get tornadoes by the time Monday evening hit but God spared us because his word is truth. He said if those who are called by my name repent and seek my face I will heal their land.</p>
<p>Repentance and prayer works even in these the last days before Christ returns.</p>
<p>So I pray in the name of Jesus that the residents of Moore and every American truly seek the face of the living God and repent for their wickedness. I pray that the families affected by the storms find peace in God&#8217;s word and his presence, and I pray this nation is spared the judgment of God and that every lip confess Jesus Christ is Lord, amen.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p><strong><em>El Fantasma </em></strong></p>
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		<title>I Pray Lizz Winstead Never Has To Experience The Loss Of A Child: The Ghost Man Roasteth The Bat Crazy Lib Astrocreep</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 22:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lizz Winstead is best known for being the head writer and co-creator of the Daily Show on Comedy Central; you know the one with Jon Stewart. Look I&#8217;m not going to call for some silly boycott or anything like that because I absolutely support Ms. Winstead&#8217;s freedom of speech and her right to be an insensitive jack hole. She is in fact an insensitive jack &#124; <a class="moretext" href="http://www.redstate.com/tomjeffersonsghost/2013/05/21/i-pray-lizz-winstead-never-has-to-experience-the-loss-of-a-child-the-ghost-man-roasteth-the-bat-crazy-lib-astrocreep/">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lizz Winstead is best known for being the head writer and co-creator of the Daily Show on Comedy Central; you know the one with Jon Stewart. Look I&#8217;m not going to call for some silly boycott or anything like that because I absolutely support Ms. Winstead&#8217;s freedom of speech and her right to be an insensitive jack hole. She is in fact an insensitive jack hole who judging by how unfunny the Daily Show is, she&#8217;s also a crappy writer. But I support her right to be a sort of crossed eyed, unfunny, crappy writer jack hole who like most female liberals, or well liberals in general, have this deep personal sadness about them which serves as a trigger for their public antipathy toward Christians, Jesus, Republicans, and conservatives&#8230;oh and Sarah Palin.</p>
<p>Like Kathy Griffin the red headed soulless plastic surgery having, skinny shriveled up bitter tranny, Lizz Winstead strikes me as the type who grew up the ugly duckling that no guy wanted to get with. So all throughout her life she held this anger inside until finally she got her big break and uses it to exercise her revenge toward people she sees as the representation of those who tormented her during high school. Sounds deep but most of the liberal stand up comedians have that way about them because well, most of them were bullied as youngsters.</p>
<p>That being said I pray Lizz Winstead never has to experience the tragic loss of a child. Whether it&#8217;s a tornado or whatever, the loss of a child period is something so sad and devastating I don&#8217;t wish that on my worst enemy&#8217;s worst enemy. My mom experienced the loss of a child, my aunt had the misfortune of experiencing the loss of her oldest son last summer when my cousin was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident. No parent should have to bury their child long before their days.</p>
<p>I apologize on behalf of Lizz Winstead and my heart will forever go out to the parents of the children who died in the Moore, Oklahoma tornado. I only wish Lizz Winstead had the integrity and the honor to put others before herself. She just had to make that joke on Twitter? No, but she did because she&#8217;s selfish. Better to make a funny at the expense of those who are in pain because her fans beckon, oh do they beckon for the court jester.</p>
<p>Tornadoes tend not to touch down in Hollywood or New York City, how convenient.</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t that like a liberal, kick a person when they&#8217;re too vulnerable to fight back.</p>
<p>God bless Moore, OK and the families of those who have lost.</p>
<p><em>Romans 8:28-<strong>&#8220;And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.&#8221;</strong></em></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p><strong><em>El Fantasma</em></strong></p>
<p><em>Ain&#8217;t Nobody Got Time Fo Dat</em></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Is President Obama A Liar?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 20:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thought of the day: Buzz or howl under the influence of heat There seems to be a sort of conventional wisdom that has developed from the latest scandals plaguing the Obama administration: That despite at the very least some ineptitude on his part, overall President Obama&#8217;s hands on involvement in the IRS scandal in particular is highly unlikely and that it looks as though the &#124; <a class="moretext" href="http://www.redstate.com/tomjeffersonsghost/2013/05/17/is-president-obama-a-liar/">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Thought of the day:</strong><em> Buzz or howl under the influence of heat</em></p>
<p>There seems to be a sort of conventional wisdom that has developed from the latest scandals plaguing the Obama administration: That despite at the very least some ineptitude on his part, overall President Obama&#8217;s hands on involvement in the IRS scandal in particular is highly unlikely and that it looks as though the players within the agency were acting alone.</p>
<p>But is our president a liar? Did past presidents lie at any point during their administration? Do men lie, are there liars in the human race?</p>
<p>Are we not so flawed that even our elected leaders extend the truth like a Stretch Armstrong doll? Or are we so convinced by our own perceptions that we cannot accept the possibility that Mr. Obama lies, if not about these scandals, perhaps about something else?</p>
<p>I have long accepted what my government is: Which is to say my government is wicked and at best has bouts with the truth, however the federal arm seems to strangle honesty more often than not. All men lie, let&#8217;s repeat, all men lie.</p>
<p>No man is above his own imperfections, you cannot logically argue a case that shows Mr. Obama has never lied during his life much less his time as president of the United States.</p>
<p>Sometimes lying is the only way you can withhold classified information, sometimes lying is the only way you can save your rear.</p>
<p>I go by history and like Angel Garcia says: &#8220;Tha tru hurts ma frien&#8221;</p>
<p>And the &#8220;tru&#8221; is that President Obama has a long history of verbal jabs directed at the right, Fox News, the Tea Party, and conservative talk radio.</p>
<p>But even if he didn&#8217;t order the IRS to put the muscle on conservative grass roots organizations; what&#8217;s stopping him from doing it in the future?</p>
<p>So he&#8217;s Jesus Christ now and he doesn&#8217;t have dislike or annoyance in his heart for anyone I suppose? So when he sparks a few words about Fox News and conservative opposition that&#8217;s not coming from the heart? You think he would much rather have his opposition the least bit handicapped or hassled in a way that will inconvenience them? Then you don&#8217;t know politics because both Democrats and Republicans forever seek a way to give it to their opponents. And those ways aren&#8217;t relegated to the moral and legal boundaries of the arena; you must not know Richard Nixon.</p>
<p>All&#8217;s fair in love, war, and politics because man it&#8217;s a jungle out there; and a lion&#8217;s gotta eat home boy.</p>
<p>The culture of politics is about lying when it counts and leaving no trace like a silencer on your steel.</p>
<p>What concerns me is the fact that the American people are gullible enough to accept at face value that the President never lies ever.</p>
<p>But he&#8217;s Messiah like, but from what word was Mr. Obama made flesh? Rules for Radicals</p>
<p>I hope when these hearings and investigations and scandals are done away with the American people don&#8217;t fall into being convinced that President Obama was always an honest person, but that it will raise the level of skepticism about his administration and big government in general.</p>
<p>We shouldn&#8217;t have such a level of blind trust for our presidents to where they&#8217;re automatically eliminated from the conversation about dishonesty because well, we want them to be what we want them to be.</p>
<p>Keep in mind we don&#8217;t know any of our presidents past, present, and future. I have no idea who Barack Obama is on a personal level because I only know him from his public perception.</p>
<p>But even that gets distorted because the media for five years tried to play this man off as if the public knows him like an old pal or family member.</p>
<p>His name is Barack Obama and he&#8217;s a married father of two from Hawaii; other than that and what he did in politics, I have no idea who this man is.</p>
<p>How can you trust anyone you don&#8217;t see face to face on an everyday basis?</p>
<p>When it comes to President Obama we weirdly throw everything we know about human nature out the door, why?</p>
<p>He never lies, he never does wrong by the people, he never gets it just a bit off, he&#8217;s always right, and he can solve all our problems if we just follow him.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not a president, that&#8217;s a false god idol.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what I think is going on in this administration:</p>
<p>I think there&#8217;s been attempts to try and silence the opposition which is stronger and more vocal than the president and his team first anticipated. I think that angers him a great deal because the conservative movement has done a good job at building a worthy defense in response to this far far left legislative agenda that&#8217;s coming from the White House. And as a result the President I believe gave the nod here and there for different agencies within the government to use necessary means to try and intimidate or discredit the other side. Now, does he have a history of acting in a way that leaves more blood on the floor so to speak than on his hands? Without a doubt, but the idea that Mr. Obama is completely innocent of having involvement in these scandals is moronic.</p>
<p>You can call it conspiracy Mark Dice black helicopter lizard people talk if you want, power is a heckuva drug to those it has made an addict.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p><em><strong>El Fantasma</strong></em></p>
<p><em>Freak out</em><br />
<em>And give in</em><br />
<em>Doesn&#8217;t matter what you believe in</em><br />
<em>Stay cool</em><br />
<em>And be somebody&#8217;s fool this year</em></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Jason Chaffetz&#8217;s Irresponsible Talk Of Impeachment Being An Option On The Table</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Republican Congressman from Utah Jason Chaffetz said something very irresponsible during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN yesterday. He said while it&#8217;s not his ultimate goal impeachment is still an option he&#8217;s willing to leave on the table when it comes to President Obama and Benghazi. Jason Chaffetz is a moron, not because he&#8217;s stupid, but because he said something only a moron &#124; <a class="moretext" href="http://www.redstate.com/tomjeffersonsghost/2013/05/16/jason-chaffetzs-irresponsible-talk-of-impeachment-being-an-option-on-the-table/">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Republican Congressman from Utah Jason Chaffetz said something very irresponsible during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN yesterday. He said while it&#8217;s not his ultimate goal impeachment is still an option he&#8217;s willing to leave on the table when it comes to President Obama and Benghazi. Jason Chaffetz is a moron, not because he&#8217;s stupid, but because he said something only a moron would say given the reality of things.</p>
<p>The reality: Suggesting impeachment as an option on the table when it comes to the first black president is very dangerous politically.</p>
<p>And if Reince Priebus and those boys in the establishment want to position the party going forward in a way that gives them a better shot at increasing their chances with minority voters then this kind of talk coming from the Congressman needs to cease. We live in a nation and a society where the name of the game is victim hood, where anyone and anything can be used to spark those feelings of antipathy and grievance along racial and economic lines. President Obama is guilty of many things are president, he&#8217;s a cold blooded killer and a liar but I wouldn&#8217;t impeach him for the world, if I knew it would ultimately ruin my party&#8217;s chances in 2014 and 2016.</p>
<p>Republicans are already trying to fight off this stigma that they only care about rich white men and largely ignore the plight and issues affecting the Black and Latino community.</p>
<p>If the GOP got less than 30% support from those communities in 2012, imagine what that percentage would be if President Obama is impeached from office.</p>
<p>Again I know he&#8217;s not saying this as an absolute but leaving it on the table as a viable option is equally destructive. You cannot impeach President Obama, plain and simple. You cannot impeach him for the same reasons you wouldn&#8217;t be able to impeach the first homosexual, first woman, first Hispanic, or first transgender president; unless of course they were Republicans but that&#8217;s another matter.</p>
<p>Our country has changed for the worst now and conservatives need to accept that. The things you could do or say thirty years ago you cannot do or say in 2013. People are more sensitive, more angry, and there are a lot more ways to exploit that anger and sensitivity and as a result the likelihood of possible eruption among these groups are much higher than in the past.</p>
<p>If black people were willing to riot over Rodney King and the Los Angeles Police Department God knows they&#8217;re going to spark off if the first African American president is impeached.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m telling you this isn&#8217;t the past, our society is more unstable and unpredictable for a variety of reasons.</p>
<p>Also if you want the best way to get the media back on the side of this president then impeachment and talk thereof would be your best bet.</p>
<p>Lastly, it takes these very credible and serious scandals like Benghazi and it gives ammunition to those who from the very beginning saw this as political witch trials conducted by Republicans. If you start talking about impeachment it takes Benghazi and turns it into an issue no longer worth taking serious by the media or the public. It makes it about Republicans trying to get Obama, and that&#8217;s where this whole thing will be lost.</p>
<p>Win the game, stop trying to focus so much on winning one quarter. We win the game by building on a narrative which is more about trust and government than trust in President Obama. He&#8217;ll be gone after this term and say he is impeached, what will the future look like for Republicans who focused on getting him rather than getting the White House back in 2016. And the two are not, and have never been mutually exclusive.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p><em><strong>El Fantasma</strong></em></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Is It Time To Abolish The IRS?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember Irwin R. Schyster aka &#8220;IRS&#8221;? He was a wrestler for the WWF back in the early 1990&#8242;s. He wore a short sleeved white collar shirt with a red tie and suspenders and he carried a brown brief case. Maybe not, I was just taking a little trip down memory lane. Anyhow, is it time to abolish the Internal Revenue Service? Or is it more &#124; <a class="moretext" href="http://www.redstate.com/tomjeffersonsghost/2013/05/16/is-it-time-to-abolish-the-irs/">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember Irwin R. Schyster aka &#8220;IRS&#8221;? He was a wrestler for the WWF back in the early 1990&#8242;s. He wore a short sleeved white collar shirt with a red tie and suspenders and he carried a brown brief case. Maybe not, I was just taking a little trip down memory lane.</p>
<p>Anyhow, is it time to abolish the Internal Revenue Service? Or is it more like the Eternal Revenue Service, the ERS because it seems this is one government agency that will be around forever. The IRS got caught with their pants down this week when news came out that appointed officials within the agency were targeting conservative grass roots organizations like the Tea Party. They also singled out groups with the words &#8220;Patriot&#8221; and &#8220;Constitution&#8221; in them. Members or these groups were asked what kind of books they read and other irrelevant questions that had nothing to do with anything.</p>
<p>On the other hand as a recent USA Today headline read, liberal groups were given a pass by the IRS. The double standard is obvious in this case but what about the conduct of the IRS during the Bush administration and the Clinton administration? There&#8217;s a pattern that crosses the partisan lines and we ought to look more closely at whether or not the IRS is more objective necessary pain in the butt when it comes to taxes or whether it&#8217;s a political weapon of choice for any administration Republican or Democrat who seeks to silence their targeted opposition. It&#8217;s not okay for the Internal Revenue Service under President Obama to purposely harass conservative groups for political and ideological reasons, and it wasn&#8217;t okay for the IRS to unjustifiably investigate the NAACP during the Bush administration.</p>
<p>Making the situation more complex is the fact that the President&#8217;s signature piece of legislation, the ACA (Affordable Care Act) will soon be administered by that same bully tactic, politically run IRS. It comes down to impartiality and the sacred trust of the people toward government. Now, government ought not be trusted like you trust your loved one, but some level of concrete trust in terms of competence and integrity should exist between the state and the citizen. But when the arms of government extend into matters of the freedom of assembly and the freedom of speech, then you have to wonder for future purposes how far will those arms extend; perhaps into the private lives of everyday Americans?</p>
<p>Will the IRS start harassing conservative individuals who might have said something perceived as anti-Obama during a call into a conservative radio show?</p>
<p>Will there be more instances where the IRS investigates Evangelical churches and leaders for no substantial reason like they did to Franklin Graham who said the IRS notified him that they were conducting a review of his organizations&#8217; activities for the 2010 tax year?</p>
<p>Liberals have always mocked the idea of abolishing the IRS but this latest scandal only validates those who still support the its abolition.</p>
<p>It goes back to the loyalist mentality of liberals in relation to government. Government has essentially become their Lord and Savior, by way of the men and women who work within the federal body. If government ran itself, then an argument can be made perhaps, but government does not run itself, it is run and controlled by people who are imperfect. If not this group of legislators then maybe the next group will fulfill a goal of absolute tyranny over the individual, and if not that group then the next. We never know with government because we&#8217;ve given it an excuse to be less and less predictable because the citizen has allowed government to siphon more and more of their liberties with each election that presents itself.</p>
<p>I support the abolition of the IRS for no other reason than a lack of trust and issues of integrity. If you cannot exercise a level of trust then you shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to function inside the government. We can&#8217;t live in a country where parts of our federal system can be weaponized against the people. What the IRS did under this administration was basically an attempt to impede law abiding groups from using their constitutionally protected rights as citizens of the United States.</p>
<p>They did so by way of intimidation and unjust investigative measures, to send a message that if you speak out in protest we&#8217;re watching you closely.</p>
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<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p><strong><em>El Fantasma</em></strong></p>
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		<title>When Arrogance Rules A Nation: When Government Feels Untouchable/The Ego Monster</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the movie the &#8216;Untouchables&#8217; with Kevin Costner and Robert De Niro. De Niro and Sean Connery carried that film, and just added on to what was otherwise a very solid outing by Brian De Palma who by the way never gets the proper just due he deserves. I mean Mission Impossible was a great film and usually I&#8217;ve not been the biggest fan &#124; <a class="moretext" href="http://www.redstate.com/tomjeffersonsghost/2013/05/15/when-arrogance-rules-a-nation-when-government-feels-untouchablethe-ego-monster/">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love the movie the &#8216;<em>Untouchables&#8217;</em> with Kevin Costner and Robert De Niro. De Niro and Sean Connery carried that film, and just added on to what was otherwise a very solid outing by Brian De Palma who by the way never gets the proper just due he deserves. I mean Mission Impossible was a great film and usually I&#8217;ve not been the biggest fan of Tom Cruise&#8217;s work, but he killed it in that movie. Carlito&#8217;s Way was alright, Sean Penn looked weird in that movie.</p>
<p>But anyway, you know often times when one obtains power one feels untouchable. It&#8217;s an age old epidemic that creeps into governments, empires, kingdoms, dynasties, crime families, and street gangs. From the most powerful king to the rebellious and brutal drug lords, the feeling of being untouchable compels men to do foolish things. Throughout history feeling &#8220;untouchable&#8221; has gotten many a man in power touched.  As a long time fan of Mafia documentaries and documentaries on organized crime in general, I&#8217;ve learned about the end game for these urban emperors in expense suits: Death or jail, no in between; unless of course they become a rat.</p>
<p>But a majority of these guys are either buried in the cemetery or doing years in the hundreds. In government the outcome isn&#8217;t nearly as concrete. President Obama and his administration is under the gun right now having to deal with three scandals at the same time, in the same week, in the same month. Though scandals aren&#8217;t unique to American presidents in their second term, President Obama and his loyal fans are surely acting as those this couldn&#8217;t have possibly happened to him; after all he&#8217;s the one we&#8217;ve been waiting for. President Obama was the change agent, the one who would make us feel better about being human beings, the one who, despite our flaws would highlight our positive qualities by virtue of his very perfected essence.</p>
<p>However, if Mr. Obama was perfect to begin with he would have no need for this feeling of being untouchable, because only men thirsty for power feel untouchable when they get it, and a lot of men throughout history who have graced the halls of powerful position have been plagued by some sort of insecurity, which in the end played a role in their downfall.</p>
<p>So what was it about President Obama that made him feel like he couldn&#8217;t be touched? It was the power of the office of the presidency coupled with having gone his whole life without someone being critical of him. When everyone around you your whole professional life tells you how great you are it feeds an ego that becomes a monster, which in turn will eat you.</p>
<p>The monster inside the president fed off praise and protection from an adoring media, it fed off rubbing shoulders with Hollywood celebrities and elites who stuffed the pockets of Mr. Obama at high dollar dinners in Malibu. The president&#8217;s ego fed off the self congratulatory pats on the back from manufactured accomplishments. The death of Osama Bin Laden, and winning reelection made for an all you can eat buffet dinner for the president&#8217;s ego.</p>
<p>Like Freddy Krueger said to Greta in<em> &#8216;A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child&#8217;</em>: <strong><em>&#8220;You are what you eat&#8221;</em></strong></p>
<p>President Obama must have known history, given he&#8217;s a man of history and one who made history himself. Surely he must have known the road leading from power usually finds the traveler headed toward a deep dark abyss below. For power is something more dangerous than a nuclear bomb, because well if one has the power to use a nuclear bomb who&#8217;s to say they won&#8217;t?</p>
<p>When arrogance rules a nation it makes you feel like you&#8217;re above the law, like you&#8217;re invincible. President Obama is starting to find out what happens when the law returns as the bounty man, coming to collect.</p>
<p>Erick Erickson had it correct in his piece, President Obama did bring back the politics of personal destruction. That&#8217;s what feeling untouchable does to you, it makes you feel like you can do whatever you want and not face any consequence because who dare steps up and challenges what you&#8217;re doing right?</p>
<p>Well, the AP stepped up, Darrell Issa and Congressional Republicans are stepping up, Brian Terry&#8217;s parents stepped up when he was killed because of Fast and Furious, the Tea Party stepped up in 2009 when Democrats tried to force feed Obamacare to the American people. But most intriguing to me is how the media is suddenly turning against their boss. Ever slightly but it&#8217;s there.</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s usually how it ends up with the bosses you know? Someone inside, someone close to them starts to get ideas of their own, or they get fed up with the way the boss is running things so they get bold, and well, just look at how John Gotti came to power or how he ended up in jail. When folks you think are loyal to you suddenly turn, at that point you&#8217;re in a world of heat my friend.</p>
<p>The moment they learned of Eric Holder and the Justice Department&#8217;s little &#8220;I spy&#8221; game, secretly obtaining the phone records of journalists working for the Associated Press, the media finally started to see where this was headed. I hope they finally understand and accept this hard fact: At what point do you stop being the loyal protector of this president and start being just another thing he seeks to control like everything else; or worse, a perceived enemy?</p>
<p>No one is above the law, not even those who sign them into existence.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p><strong><em>El Fantasma</em></strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong> Mentioned</strong>:<em> A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, The Untouchables, Brian De Palma, Erick Erickson, Carlito&#8217;s Way, Mission Impossible, Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, Kevin Costner, John Gotti, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Freddy Krueger</em></p>
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		<title>President Obama: &#8220;Scope and Range&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 14:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Scope and Range&#8221; would have been a cooler campaign theme to be honest. The scope of President Obama&#8217;s imperial tendencies, the tentacles of this administration seeping into the fabric like cat urine, curling around every corner like a telephone cord. From Drones to Benghazi, the IRS, unconstitutional appointments on a labor relations panel, Solyndra, Fast and Furious (not the movie but Michelle Rodriguez is just, &#124; <a class="moretext" href="http://www.redstate.com/tomjeffersonsghost/2013/05/14/president-obama-scope-and-range/">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><em>&#8220;Scope and Range&#8221;</em></strong> would have been a cooler campaign theme to be honest. The scope of President Obama&#8217;s imperial tendencies, the tentacles of this administration seeping into the fabric like cat urine, curling around every corner like a telephone cord. From Drones to Benghazi, the IRS, unconstitutional appointments on a labor relations panel, Solyndra, Fast and Furious (not the movie but Michelle Rodriguez is just, man she&#8217;s so great&#8230;enough said), the Associated Press, a hit list, I&#8217;m actually surprised at the number of scandals that have gone on under this administration. But as Jim Geraghty writes in his National Review article quote, <strong><em>&#8220;You hope and change true believers were a bunch of chumps&#8221;</em></strong>. And I agree with that statement although I would add the true believers of hope and change are still bitterly clinging to the president&#8217;s penis with their lips like folks in Pennsylvania bitterly cling to their guns and their religion.</p>
<p>And unlike Jim Geraghty I have a name for this turn of events: &#8220;Scope and Range&#8221;. Simple, to the point, and accurate. The scope being the measures to which this president and his crew will go to horde power and influence, and the range in which his power and influence will find itself; intimidation, political motives, yes every administration has done it but two wrongs don&#8217;t make a right winger my friend. Nor does it make these scandals mere right wing fantasies used to hurt President Obama and Hillary Clinton. Regardless of what the short bus clique over at the Daily Kos want to believe, these scandals are real, they&#8217;re a plenty, and they go way back like Afros and eight track tape.</p>
<p>When reports came out that administration officials were wooing the White House press corp with donuts, you think they knew something was about to hit kid? I mean, Obama hates the press even though they kiss his left butt cheek on the regular.</p>
<p>Scope and Range is the street hardened, ex convict, identity thief, short tempered distant relative of Hope and Change. They&#8217;ve met once at a family get together but they never really talked because they don&#8217;t have very much in common. But neither do Hope and Change and President Obama.</p>
<p>You see I&#8217;ve long determined that this President is more aligned with Scope and Range than the more soft, appealing cousin Hope and Change.</p>
<p>And this is why we fail, because we&#8217;re incapable of considering the very really and documented possibility that our presidents can and often times will do things that are questionable at best, and just plain corrupt.</p>
<p>President Obama I&#8217;m afraid is a very corrupt man with a very corrupt administration just as was the case with his predecessor. Two wrongs do not make a right and so that excuse is like a dookie stick son it belongs in the toilet.</p>
<p>Bush did it first so President Obama is off the hook? George Bush gave us the Patriot Act, one of the most unconstitutional blobs of legislation man has ever known, so when President Obama not only supported it as a candidate but extended much of its more controversial measures as president during his first term, it&#8217;s okay because Bush did it first? No!</p>
<p>Fast and Furious began during the Bush administration, so continuing the same failed operation during President Obama&#8217;s first term which led to the death of Brian Terry was okay because Bush did it first? C&#8217;mon son</p>
<p>The left says George Bush murdered thousands of innocent Iraqi women and children because of the war, but President Obama has murdered thousand of innocent women and children in Pakistan and Afghanistan because of the war and his hard on for drone strikes, so are they both wrong or is one wrong and the other excused because one started it first?</p>
<p>Time to get a new line, the old one is starting to fade</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p><strong><em>El Fantasma</em></strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>If President Obama owned a night club you never ever want to be on the list, because you&#8217;ll probably end up dead before the night is done.</em></p>
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		<title>Black Nixon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest scandal coming down the pike might be the most damning to the current administration. The Internal Revenue Service has been caught with their finger up their nose for targeting groups politically opposed to the president&#8217;s legislative agenda. Said groups containing the words &#8220;Patriot&#8221;, &#8220;Constitution&#8221; , as well as many Tea Party organizations were under investigation by the IRS. Now if you&#8217;re Carl Bernstein &#124; <a class="moretext" href="http://www.redstate.com/tomjeffersonsghost/2013/05/13/black-nixon/">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The latest scandal coming down the pike might be the most damning to the current administration. The Internal Revenue Service has been caught with their finger up their nose for targeting groups politically opposed to the president&#8217;s legislative agenda. Said groups containing the words &#8220;Patriot&#8221;, &#8220;Constitution&#8221; , as well as many Tea Party organizations were under investigation by the IRS. Now if you&#8217;re Carl Bernstein you swear on a stack of Satanic bibles President Obama had nothing to do with this witch hunt, but you&#8217;d be a bigger fool than a 7 foot man who bought a Volkswagen Beetle. The president was very much involved with this scandal because if you know his history then you know Mr. Obama hates conservative talk radio, Fox News, and the Tea Party.</p>
<p>I know he said he would have the most transparent administration in history, and he still maintains such nonsense today but reality tells us the Obama administration is as equally corrupt and full of liars as the Nixon administration. The only difference being of course Richard Nixon had to deal with a media hell bent on making him look as bad to the American public as possible; whereas President Obama operates in a realm where the news media will do all they can to make sure he looks like the perfect president. The problem is there are no perfect humans, which is why human beings occupying that space called federal government ought to be the last people we cast as &#8220;perfect&#8221;. Even some of our best presidents weren&#8217;t perfect, which in a way made them such great leaders because they recognized their own limitations as men and never tried to place themselves or their legacies above the greater good.</p>
<p>President Obama is arrogant, dishonest, and completely in love with the idea of his own legacy, which so far in this second term he&#8217;s done more to sour his lasting image than polish it&#8230;unless he wants to start polishing turds.</p>
<p>I call him &#8220;Black Nixon&#8221; because he&#8217;s more Nixon than George Bush was Nixon, perhaps more Nixon than Richard Nixon. He operates in a fart bubble where he wants his way, gets his way 70% of the time, but when he doesn&#8217;t get his way he reacts to the word &#8220;No&#8221; or to opposition like a 5 year old who would was made king. You know that child ruler who is too immature and too focused on what he wants at the expense of the empire. President Obama is like 5 year old Richard Nixon if Nixon was a king.</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t compare our current president to the likes of Abe Lincoln because Lincoln was a man of honor and integrity. Unfortunately President Obama has never had to use those qualities because every moment in his political life was handed to him already completed; he just had to take credit. When everyone around you tells you what you want to hear and make like a bunch of &#8220;Yes&#8221; men then it will certainly throw you for a loop when a band of folks be it on talk radio, Fox News, the Tea Party, come around and reject the stuff you&#8217;re trying to sell. When they tell you no, guys like Mr. Obama can&#8217;t accept that because they&#8217;ve never heard it before.</p>
<p>So yes our President is corrupt or at the very least presiding over a very corrupt administration having no knowledge of such corruption. And if that is the case then what is worse for a president: Being one of the most politically corrupted presidents of all time or being the most politically absent minded president of all time? Either way you look bad.</p>
<p>This is an issue concerning the freedom of assembly, and the right to protest. If George Bush authorized similar actions against the anti-war crowd I would stand up for them like I stand with the different conservative groups being targeted by the IRS under President Obama. If liberals and conservatives don&#8217;t stand together on this basic freedom, which gives us the right to protest peacefully and defend a common cause then what are we left with in this country? We&#8217;re left with having to accept whatever our government does and no way of fighting back.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>President Obama you are<strong> Black Nixon</strong>.</p>
<p>Sounds like a blacksploitation film</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Barack Obama is the president, and he&#8217;s paintin the White House black&#8221;</em></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;</strong><em>He is<strong>,</strong></em><strong> BLACK NIXON</strong><em><strong>!&#8221;</strong></em></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>&#8220;We gots ta investigate these crackas, wanna jam a brotha up&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Get the IRS to let em know, Black Nixon ain&#8217;t bout no crackas in ma grill protestin&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Jam on dem cracka man, the brothas know the scoop now dig&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;They ain&#8217;t bout dis life, now we got ta wrap em jack&#8221;</em></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p><strong><em>El Fantasma</em></strong></p>
<p><em> The X-Man, catch me doing drills in the danger room </em></p>
<p><em>big game hunting from high noon, til the full moon</em></p>
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		<title>If Hillary Clinton Were A White Male Republican Secretary Of State</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 20:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thought of the day: &#8220;Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind&#8217;s elation, little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotations, and if you want these kind of dreams it&#8217;s Californication&#8221; &#8230;Okay let&#8217;s begin- If Hillary Clinton were a white male, Republican, working for a Republican president ther&#8217;es no question the media would have long gotten to the bottom of the Benghazi scandal &#124; <a class="moretext" href="http://www.redstate.com/tomjeffersonsghost/2013/05/09/if-hillary-clinton-were-a-white-male-republican-secretary-of-state/">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Thought of the day</strong>:<em> &#8220;Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind&#8217;s elation, little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotations, and if you want these kind of dreams it&#8217;s Californication&#8221;</em></p>
<p>&#8230;Okay let&#8217;s begin-</p>
<p>If Hillary Clinton were a white male, Republican, working for a Republican president ther&#8217;es no question the media would have long gotten to the bottom of the Benghazi scandal instead of keeping it at the bottom of the news pile. You see Hillary Clinton must be president in 2016 there&#8217;s just no other way about it. Not only that she must be the first female president in American history because well, surely she&#8217;s the most qualified to be in that position. Chris Matthews, a man who once targeted her with such sexists attacks comparing her to an ex-wife, saying she only got where she is politically because her husband messed around, has suddenly come out in full pocket rocket support of Sec. of State Clinton; even going as far as to say she&#8217;s earned the right to be president. No, not earned the right to run for president, she&#8217;s earned the right to be president.</p>
<p>According to Chris Matthews she deserves to be handed the keys to the &#8220;Lamborghini&#8221; without having a driver&#8217;s license. Its all there for her, President Obama&#8217;s keeping the seat warm until 2016.</p>
<p>If Hillary Clinton were a Republican Secretary of State in a Republican administration the media would be writing her political demise. The headlines would read <strong><em>&#8220;Benghazi Scandal Grounds Clinton 2016 Hopes For Good?&#8221;</em></strong></p>
<p>By the way I like how Marco Rubio drinking bottled water on camera during his response to President Obama&#8217;s state of the union address was more likely to kill his presidential hopes in 2016 according to the media than a government cover up of a terrorist attack where an ambassador was killed and administration officials were threatened if they were to speak out about it. And on top of that Nakoula Nakoula Besseley is still a political prisoner whose first amendment rights were violated by the Obama administration.</p>
<p>Rubio drinks bottled water on live television his future as a presidential candidate is on the ropes and will never recover, Hillary Clinton is responsible for the death of four Americans including an Ambassador, she&#8217;s got a smooth rode ahead to 2016 as the favorite.</p>
<p>I know its cliche but if this were a Republican no way the media would be so eager to bury it under the rug. And you don&#8217;t even have to wonder if this were a male Republican Sec. of State, if this were Michelle Bachman or Condoleezza Rice, think about it: Condoleezza Rice took hell for the Iraq War, if she had Benghazi hanging over her head, game over son.</p>
<p>But like I said Hillary Clinton is the heir to the throne so the media has to make sure her path to privilege is as smooth and scandal free as possible; even if they have to cover it up and just flat out deny that Benghazi ever happened; which if they really could get away with it the media would deny Benghazi ever happened.</p>
<p>I actually think she and Mark Sanford should run against each other in 2016. It could be dubbed <strong>&#8220;The Battle of the Scumbags&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s overstated but absolutely true, Republicans and Democrats get treated different by the media. Like I said Iraq still haunts Condoleezza Rice because the media will never let her live it down. I wonder what the coverage would look like if she ran in 2016 and Hillary ran in 2016.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t give a crap how badly Hillary Clinton must become president or how historic it is, she lied, her boss lied, an Ambassador is dead along with three others, and no one seems to care. At least no one tasked with holding the government accountable and seeking out the truth..you know like the media?</p>
<p>Hey do you want a pair of lips to kiss or is Hillary&#8217;s a*s enough?</p>
<p>Be easy fam</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p><strong><em>El Fantasma</em></strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><em> &#8221;If you see me getting mighty</em></p>
<p><em>If you see me getting high</em></p>
<p><em>Knock me down</em></p>
<p><em>I&#8217;m not bigger than life&#8221;</em></p>
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		<title>A Mark Sanford Victory In South Carolina Is Nothing To Be Proud Of</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;m beating a dead horse because Mark Sanford defeated Stephen Colbert&#8217;s sister in a special election held in South Carolina. It seems the former governor will have a second act as he returns to the House of Representatives for the first time in nineteen years. Conservatives not just in South Carolina but across the country I assume will breathe a sigh of relief &#124; <a class="moretext" href="http://www.redstate.com/tomjeffersonsghost/2013/05/08/a-mark-sanford-victory-in-south-carolina-is-nothing-to-be-proud-of/">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know I&#8217;m beating a dead horse because Mark Sanford defeated Stephen Colbert&#8217;s sister in a special election held in South Carolina. It seems the former governor will have a second act as he returns to the House of Representatives for the first time in nineteen years. Conservatives not just in South Carolina but across the country I assume will breathe a sigh of relief because it looked for a nanosecond at least that Mark Sanford&#8217;s misadventures in the mountains would come back to haunt him. Stephen Colbert&#8217;s sister tried to tie him down with his personal life and use it to draw female support and hopefully ride that to a shocking upset in conservative deep red Republican owned South Carolina.</p>
<p>However Stephen Colbert&#8217;s sister sucked as a candidate and South Carolina is still too conservative for a liberal who tries to act as though she isn&#8217;t as liberal as we all know her to be. What were the odds of her not being as liberal as Stephen Colbert? I mean come on.</p>
<p>Having said all of that we&#8217;re still stuck with Mark Sanford. Mark Sanford is back because the people of South Carolina chose familiarity and ideology over integrity and standards. Let&#8217;s be clear, the voting standards of the American electorate are on par with the voting standards of those who judge wet t-shirt contests. I&#8217;m not surprised by the results in South Carolina and I won&#8217;t be surprised when Anthony Wiener is sworn in as the next mayor of New York.</p>
<p>But I would like to ask my fellow Americans to never ever complain about the people in office because you put them there. When President Obama&#8217;s supporters starting to complain about payroll taxes because their paychecks were smaller this year than last year, I just laughed and shook my head because got what they voted for.</p>
<p>And I&#8217;m not suggesting that Mark Sanford&#8217;s impact in Washington will equal the president&#8217;s but there is something to be said about our tendency to vote based on superficial criteria and or ideological allegiance. Mark Sanford was conservative in a conservative state where conservatives votes and conservative voters outnumber their liberal counterparts; therefore he won.</p>
<p>He cheated on his wife, then left her hanging like a nerd trying to get a high five from the captain of the football team. The highest of fives mind you, the highest of fives. Then he had the cashews to bring his mistress around during the campaign like she was his wife all along. If nothing else about the man Mark Sanford is one bold dude. I could never do that but then again I have integrity and a conscience.</p>
<p>But there&#8217;s also a dilemma we face in this country because our culture and our political culture especially has slipped to such a level that often times we&#8217;re given a false choice between the lesser of two evils. It&#8217;s either the guy who cheated on his wife or the guy who left his wife for another guy, who do we choose? I guess our &#8220;trusted&#8221; elected leaders are a bunch of deeply flawed individuals who are no better than you or I in that regard.</p>
<p>The problem is they want to act like they&#8217;re better than you or I until they get caught with their pants down or their shirts off, literally. When the campaign starts they&#8217;re just like us, when they win they&#8217;re just like us, give it some time they start to act as if they&#8217;re better than us, when they get caught slippin&#8217; now they wanna act like they&#8217;re no different than the everyday person dealing with issues and a flawed character.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s American politics in the modern day: <strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m just like you&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8221;I know best&#8221;&#8230;..&#8221;I&#8217;m only human&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;m not like most conservatives, integrity means something to me. Integrity is more important than whether or not such and such candidate is as conservative as I am on the issues. I would vote for a dry erase board over a solid conservative if I knew that dry erase board had more integrity than the solid conservative.</p>
<p>But like I said in American politics you stand by your own because ideology trumps what matters the most and that&#8217;s being honest and solid in who you are as a person and not as a ideologue.</p>
<p>This idea of well you only have two choices, no that&#8217;s not true. You can vote for Mark Sanford, Stephen Colbert&#8217;s sister or you could have stayed home. I would have stayed home. There are things that are more important than just whether or not this candidate can help save the country. What about the culture? What about the message we send to the next generation? It&#8217;s okay to do wrong in life because well, no one will hold you responsible because if you someone approves of what you&#8217;ve done on the surface then they&#8217;ll always be a seat at the table down the line.</p>
<p>Newt Gingrich, Bill Clinton, Anthony Wiener, Mark Sanford, really? Elliot Spitzer, really? Elliot Spitzer was able to get a job on CNN after what he did to his family. Dude is just weird son, dude likes to have sex with nothing on but his tube socks. What kind of people are we propping up in our society man?</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know, maybe I&#8217;m not seeing the big picture because I&#8217;m not one to bitterly cling to this country like most conservatives. I&#8217;ve made peace with the fact that this nation will come and go and won&#8217;t ever be the way we knew it when we knew it when. That&#8217;s why my voting habits have changed over the past few years. I no longer put &#8220;Who can win&#8221; as the top requirement. I voted for Mitt Romney knowing full well he would likely lose the election but because he was in my view the most honest candidate with the most integrity I had no issues with my vote. I&#8217;m all about integrity and honor and I expect the same of anyone running for office or I simply won&#8217;t vote.</p>
<p>Mark Sanford is back, count that as adulterer number&#8230;oh who&#8217;s keeping count anymore.</p>
<p>Plus he&#8217;s a solid conservative who will help us save the country&#8230;because the country yeah! He a scumbag but she a libal so I&#8217;m votin for da scumbag</p>
<p>Obama and the liberals are destroying our country! No we&#8217;re all doing that, they&#8217;ve just done a little more than the others.</p>
<p>Be easy</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p><strong><em>El Fantasma</em></strong></p>
<p>Cheat on your spouse and you too can be a Congressman</p>
<p>Show your penis on Twitter and you could be Mayor</p>
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