The Silent Majority by Col. Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired

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The Silent Majority

by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired

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The election which will be settled tomorrow is reminiscent of Robert Frost's poem, a poem that was both a lament and an adventure. On Tuesday over one hundred million voters will go to the polls and in the process will select John McCain as the next President of the United States. I hate to rain on Obama's parade but am struck that in the smugness of his dismissive arrogance. The political left believes its own lies. Lies that are so full of false pride as to call to memory the adage, "Pride goes before a fall." And fall they will. They obviously have not heard of the "Silent Majority," or the "Moral Majority," and they are about to find out.

There are a number of issues that if one is the least bit objective should cause the hair to stand straight up on the back of ones neck.

First, is Obama's pledge to bankrupt the coal industry, unless it figures out a way to capture all of the green house gasses it emits, keeping in mind that coal produces about fifty percent of the nation's energy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMwBbl6RoIs&feature=related

Second, is Obama's latter day announcement that he wants a "Civilian National Security Force" that is as strong as and funded as well as the U.S. Military. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s
If that doesn't scare one, that person is brain-dead absent a full explanation of the intent of such a force, and typical of Obama, he gave no explanation.

Third, Hugo Chavez, the PLO, Hamas, the UN and others whose desires with respect to the United States are inimical its interests, have endorsed Obama (that fact alone should convince every American Jew to vote for McCain.). Add to that he lifetime of associations with those on the far left, such as his pastor for twenty years, Jeremiah Wright who "damns America," and who refers to the United States as the "U.S. of KKK A," Obama's own animus toward "white folks," who he to the effect states that he universally distrusts; his affiliations with William Ayers the impenitent American Terrorist who Obama describes as "mainstream;" all these paint a picture of a man who despite his carefully crafted remarks is not worthy of trust, much less leadership of the United States. The "Change" that Obama is in fact informing us he would bring is so far left as to easily qualify as Socialist or Communist in its fulfillment. This is the case despite his poking fun at those who would accuse him of having those tendencies at the least, if not fully embracing those political systems albeit in the disguise of high sounding rhetoric.

Fourth, is his evidently long and close relationship with Louis Farrakhan, leader of the U.S. Nation of Islam. http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/farrakhan_obama_islam/2008/11/01/146685.html?promo_code=2A89-1

Fifth, The United States is at a major political crossroads, one that should Obama be chosen would bode ill for free enterprise, private property, indeed the Constitution, since I believe he would call for a new one. I base this last on his denigration of the Constitution as it was penned by he Founding Fathers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

If the nation wants the Change of the Obama variety, it will reap a whirlwind that will be hard if not impossible to control.

In the final analysis despite "mainstream media" propaganda and $600 million spent by the Obama Campaign, I believe that thinking Americans will vote for and elect John McCain, the man who will lead the country in correcting its flaws, faults, deficiencies, and inequities; in fostering an environment that would enable the country to prosper; and will provide the leadership both at home and abroad that will make the Nation's and world's future better and more secure.

"Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood and I, I chose the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference." Vote, for John McCain and Sarah Palin for freedom, security and prosperity!

"John McCain is a giant of a man, a man of integrity, a man of valor, and a man of experience; a man who endured the unendurable, was tried in the crucible and emerged an authentic American patriot and hero. He may not be an eloquent speaker, he may not have the most charismatic personality, and, although John McCain has manifest his human failures along the way, I will support him, I will work for him, I will vote for him and I will salute him in victory!"

Semper Fidelis

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