What’s on your mind this Wednesday?

Post links to the stories you are reading so others can read them too.

While you are at it, let’s do some research into the Iowa Caucus…so we can all become experts on it by 2012.  The first step to ensuring the Caucus will be fair and untampered by the White House and DNC is to become as knowledgeable as possible about it…and after that, the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries.

After that, it’s still up for grabs as to which states will come next, but if we know enough about the first three nominating contests, we can come up with plans to make sure Dr. Utopia, ACORN, the SEIU, and DNC don’t game the process and select the Republican candidate they most want to run against (Romney, Huckabee, Crist, Pawlenty, or Hunstman).  If you want to see Sarah Palin become the GOP 2012 nominee, you have to start working today to make sure the Democrats don’t do to her what they did to Hillary Clinton in Iowa.

Trust us on this.

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Has anyone else been thinking about the scene at the end of the Lord of the Rings where the Hobbits stand before King Aragon, start to bow, and he steps forward and says, “No my friends, you bow to NO ONE.”  With that, the entire assemblage in the palace of the White City bows down before the Hobbits — for these were the people who saved their world, and they are eternally grateful for their heroism and contributions.

It’s, in our opinion, one of the best scenes in any movie we have ever seen.  We tear up thinking about it.

It’s also — quite frankly — what should happen when presidents like Dr. Utopia travel abroad and start to bow, scrape, prostrate themselves, grovel, or “assume the position” in any other way:  all things Dr. Utopia seems eager to do on his humiliate and degrade America world tour.

Without the United States, there would be no Japan. America rebuilt the Japanese economy.  America wrote Japan’s constitution and established a successful democracy there.

The Emperor of Japan should drop to his knees before any American president, because if not for Harry Truman, there would be no Emperor of Japan (and no Emperor left alive on Earth, actually).  Truman had the power to strip the Emperor’s throne from him, but General MacArthur argued the Emperor should remain on the Chrysanthamum throne as a gesture of continuity and cultural legacy for Japan as it formed its post-war government.  If not for the American president, Japan’s Emperor would have gone the way of China’s.

There is not a single nation on Earth that does not owe the United States something.  The American president should be received as a symbol of the American people, treated with all the gratitude owed to the brave men and women who gave their lives to fight for the freedom of others and the spread of democracy globally.

The current president not only embarrasses himself and shames the American people by raising his rump high into the air to bow to Emperors in Japan and the likes of the Saudi King — but he does what even Hobbits were told not to do.

Hobbits bow to no one.

So why do presidents scrape and grovel and prostrate themselves?

Dr. Utopia needs to realize he’s not at Man’s Country in Andersonville anymore.  He’s on the world stage.  Time to get off his knees and stop putting that rump in the air.

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