Just when I thought nothing could surprise me, it happened again, and with one of the stupidest and most irresponsible stunts I've ever seen in politics. I am not a big fan of Rush Limbaugh, or any other talk show host, and don't really listen to or watch much of anything from any of the media outlets when it comes to politics. They are too biased and hypocritical for my tastes, talk radio on one side and the MSM on the other. Nor do I trust most paper outlets either, journalism in the true sense of the word died a long time ago. I do have a few trusted bloggers I read, but I don't rely on them for factual evidence on most things, even though I find them extremely insightful on many issues. Rather, I do my own research via trusted online sites from around the world, and by talking with people from around the world who are actually on the scene of many current events.

I spend a great deal of time reading bills that come before Congress, and the Texas legislature, along with an occasional foray into the legislative sites of a few other states. I have studied the Qur'an, the Bible (several versions), and the Torah, as well as many other forms of religious text. And I've read more than my share of philosophies from one extreme to the other, including the works of Marx, Hitler, Plato, and Aristotle. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to brag about my lifetime of studies, I am only saying this as a preface to my next statement, and to explain why I made the first statement in this blog. I make my decisions about what I believe, and what I write about, based on my personal observances and my own research. I am prompted, from time to time, to address certain occurrences that are widely discussed, but rarely when they are as trivial as this current issue.

I will make an exception on this one only because of the incredible stupidity involved. Three weeks ago, CPAC held their annual conference at the Wardman Park Marriot in Washington, DC. There were a host of speakers, but the closing remarks were given to Rush Limbaugh, who, from his remarks, felt it was a great honor. But it was from his remarks that this furor started, even if those remarks were taken out of context and altered to produce only a negative view. Personally, I would have paid no more attention to it than a bug in the wind, but we have all been assaulted with a created fiasco used for the spread of more political bigotry than I had though possible after listening to certain groups blast Bush for eight years. And Rush isn't even a politician!!

I listened to name calling from the left on an unbelievable scale, our 43rd president being called Hitler, chimp, monkey, buffoon, etc., etc. but now the shoe is on the other foot, and any comment about the current president are considered bigoted, racist, etc., and even more insults fly as they go off in more ways than a Chinese pinwheel. I don't quite understand the double standard of it all; it is so illogical as to befuddle a panel of shrinks. But it still happens, and on a daily basis, even at the national level. So what started this bananafest? (That's all this is, a fight between monkeys armed with bananas.) To properly examine the supposed comment, we need to look at the context, and what was really said.

"This notion that I want the President to fail, folks, this shows you a sign of the problem we've got. That's nothing more than common sense and to not be able to say it, why in the world do I want what we just described, rampant government growth indebtedness, wealth that's not even being created yet that is being spent, what is in this? What possibly is in this that anybody of us wants to succeed? Did the Democrats want the war on Iraq to fail!"

"They certainly did. They not only wanted the war in Iraq to fail, they proclaimed it a failure. There's Dingy Harry Reid waiving a white flag: "This war is lost. This war is" -- They called General Petraeus a liar before he even testified. Mrs. Clinton said she had to, willingly suspend disbelief in order to listen to Petraeus. We're in the process of winning the war. The last thing they wanted was to win. They hoped George Bush failed. So what is so strange about being honest to say that I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to restructure and reform this country so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? Why would I want that to succeed?"

To use only six words, "I want Barack Obama to fail", out of the over ten thousand five hundred words Limbaugh spoke that night, many of which were in a positive nature, completely misses the point. So why use just those words? Sensationalism, nothing more, nothing less. Does anyone really believe that Rush Limbaugh, who makes his money from an open society, want to see this nation fail any more than the rest of us do? Is wanting to preserve capitalism and individual liberty a bad thing? And to see so many Republican politicians jump on this along with the entire DNC and the White House is among the most ridiculous things I've ever witnessed in my lifetime. What is it they want? Capitalism to die? Individual liberties to be surrendered?

Now, in the most ludicrous crowning achievement of all, the DNC held a contest to place a slogan on a billboard in Limbaugh's area to show their disdain for the comment. And the winner is, "Americans didn't vote for a 'Rush' to failure". Talk about LAME. Limbaugh is a radio talk show host, not a member of the RNC, or a politician, he is only a celebrity, and then only among conservatives. So why go after him when there are so many other real problems across this land? Especially after eight years of wanting to see Bush fail? That old double standard at work, to be sure. And the MSM is feeding off it, fueling the fire by not clarifying the context of the comment, or publicizing the entire comment, all to widen the gap between the left and the right to further their own agendas.

It was a way to create more smoke and mirrors, distraction, diversion, misdirection, redirection; anything to keep Americans from finding out what is really gong on inside the beltway. And to mask how dysfunctional the current administration is in dealing with the ever increasing mess politicians have made of our country, and are continuing to make, by passing more and more extremely costly bills that will do nothing to solve our current economic woes, not to mention the lack of understanding of protocol and diplomacy required to negotiate the dangerous world we exist in today. There are several projections that our National Debt will exceed fourteen trillion dollars before Obama's first term ends. More and more economists are starting to toss out red flags about what Congress and this administration are doing, saying that it is only adding to the economic downturn in our society and creating a burden not even our great grandchildren will be able to pay off.

Is this the modern DNC version of beautifying America??!! I'd think people could find a better use for their money. But that would take some common sense, something severely lacking in the world today.

And, of course, bloggers have already photo shopped an appropriate response!!

WAKE UP AMERICA!!

WE'RE BEING SOLD DOWN THE RIVER!!

And many of us are being manipulated beyond belief, without even knowing it.

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