The Conservative Soldier

“I Am the Lord your God….you shall have no other gods before me. You shall make no graven image or any likeness of anything in heaven or earth, nor bow down to any such thing.” (The First and Second Commandments)

This just in …

Apparently, they’re sloshed on ‘The’ Kool-Aid in Oslo today. Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm, Barack Hussein Obama … Looks as if the “Skip” Gates beer summit paid off.

NEWS ITEM 1: OSLO (Reuters) - President … Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for giving the world “hope for a better future” and striving for nuclear disarmament, in a surprise award that drew both warm praise and sharp criticism.

Soldier: Obama could not even achieve “peace” between the U.S. and International Olympic committees and, thus, golf will make its Olympic Games debut in 2016 in Rio. The Caddy from Ipanema?

NEWS ITEM 2: LOS ANGELES (Wall Street Journal) - Obama spent two years at Occidental, a small liberal-arts college … before leaving to complete his undergraduate studies at Columbia. … (Occidental) is considering a statue (of Obama), an Obama-inspired reading room and lecture series, among other things.

Soldier: The guy shunned your school to find a campus populated by more non-white radicals, and you want to erect a statue?

NEWS ITEM 3: CHICAGO (Bloomberg) - At least 47 school-age children in Chicago have been killed in homicides, mostly by guns, since the month President Barack Obama took office. The latest youth homicide in his adopted hometown was different only in that the attackers used splintered railroad ties and were captured on video broadcast globally.

Soldier: Plenty of splintered railroad ties in those violent streets, but where was the hope and the change?

NEWS ITEM 4: TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A top official with Iran’s most powerful military force—the Revolutionary Guard—says Tehran will “blow up the heart of Israel” if the Jewish state or the United States attacked Iran.

Soldier: Is this a scenario to which the Nobel committee referred when it cited Obama’s “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”?

In a search for consolation in these dangerous times, perhaps the best that can be said is that there are really, really stupid people in any number of population centers, in Oslo, in Los Angeles, in Tehran, and in Chicago. Knowing this can only embolden those of us blessed with fully developed intellects, common sense and sincere hearts to soldier on. We have no choice.

Bud Eungard was a great guy. I admired him from the time I was old enough to understand that he was my uncle.

Uncle Bud was a cool guy. He had cool cars.

He had a Volkswagen Karmann Ghia, one of the first imported German two-seaters in America. I remember the day he gave me a ride. I can still feel that VW engine.

He had a 1967 Chevy Impala. Purple. Today, they’d call it plum. He had a 1976 Pontiac Trans Am. Red. Nice ride.

Uncle Bud was a resourceful guy.

He turned his big backyard in Plainfield, IL, into a dirt bike track. Like so many of his projects, this one was for his son, Bill, and his neighborhood buddies and his other nephew, Dave. Bill and Dave liked motorbikes and speed and danger. Their cousin, Steve (me), was not quite so adventurous.

But Uncle Bud never held that against me.

Uncle Bud had a motorcycle, too. As a matter of fact, through the eyes of a little boy, Uncle Bud had it all. He had tools and gadgets. He made things.

One winter he made some kind of a space-aged hovercraft. There are photos to prove it. He made it for the kids, of course.

When I was no longer a kid, I still admired Uncle Bud. I admired and saluted his service to our country. He enlisted in the Army in the 1950s,  straight out of high school, during The Korean War. He left his bride at home to serve a cause greater than himself. He served in Europe during that time, at the onset of The Cold War.

Uncle Bud was a true American. A Patriot. He wore the uniform; then he came home and went to work. He was married and had a son. He took care of his family. He was a wonderful husband and (cool) dad. He was devoted to his two sweet sisters, who were absolutely crazy about their little brother.

He lived his whole adult life in the same house in Plainfield. He rarely complained about anything. He loved to eat home cooked meals and good desserts. He told great stories and pulled off a lot of memorable pranks. He had a lot of friends. When they retired they took up golf. In recent years, Bud and I talked a lot about our shared frustrations with golf — and liberals.

Near the end of his life, when he could have been a bitter guy, he never seemed to change. He lived out his days in a wheelchair. It was no Karmann Ghia, to be sure. And he was not particularly happy about the Korean-made car he bought himself to replace an aging Ford.

But Uncle Bud was an optimist his whole life and that wasn’t about to change. The last time I saw him he told me why he bought the sedan made by the Korean car company, rather than a U.S.-made vehicle.

The Korean car had the longest warranty.

We know Barack Hussein Obama stumbled over the Presidential Oath on Inauguration Day last January, but who among us (other than George Soros and Rahm Emanuel) could have known the depths of his simmering contempt for the Office he swore to “faithfully execute”  or the Constitution he swore to “preserve, protect and defend”?

More apparent with each passing day is that Obama spent most of his adult life resenting American prosperity at home and influence abroad, and now, the Oath be damned, is moving at warp speed to exact his revenge. He has awaited this opportunity for a very long time.

Why do Obama and his compliant comrades on Capitol Hill desire to move so fast, to pass bill upon bill before they’ve been contemplated and debated, let alone read? It is a question more people are asking. The only logical answer is that he (and they) knows the Socialist Liberals can’t possibly get away with this tyrannical agenda forever.

The trends Obama’s Mission Irresponsible are establishing, while reversible, will not be easily undone. And behind his thin veil of sincerity, he knows it.

The “Cap and Trade” Climate legislation is a massive scam based on faulty premises about so-called global warming and rooted in a massive generational wealth shift, from the productive to the “entitled”. The heavy hand this bill would impose if it became law is almost incomprehensible (except to those indoctrinated in the Obama Wealth Redistribution Society).

History might indeed prove that Obama’s only rival in the realm of wealth confiscation is the soon to be imprisoned Bernie Madoff. The Heritage Foundation’s respected Center for Data Analysis has run the numbers on Cap and “Tax”, and they are about as appealing as Madoff’s prison sentence of 150 years.

While Obama’s Teleprompter insists the bill delivers reduced dependence on foreign oil, combats the consequences of “climate change”, promotes profitable “clean energy” and creates jobs, the reality is quite the opposite.

The Cap and Trade tsunami will cripple the American economy and leave every walk of life vulnerable to passing some bogus environmental worthiness test, lest it be a target for increased taxation. The Heritage center projects unfathomable increases, including 90% spikes in residential electric bills, 74% jumps in gasoline prices and GDP reduction of around $9.6 trillion by 2035.

Obama is probably smart enough to know that government-run energy and health care programs are destined to fail, which is why he supports them. He has lusted for a lifetime for an America gripped by chaos, taken down a notch, and ridiculed by the world.

On the foreign policy front, the same twisted logic prevails. Obama stands back, tongue tied, as a dictator terrorizes the people of Iran, but then quickly and bluntly admonishes Honduras for sending its president into exile though he boldly ignored the nation’s constitution in order to extend and strengthen his power.

Obama has Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemning the Honduran military for unseating the renegade President Mel Zelaya, yet Clinton has been all but silent on the fraudulent Iranian election and the violence that has followed in response to uprisings in the streets.

The most unsettling part of the recent developments on Capitol Hill and in far-away lands is that we can’t know for sure which scenario Obama envisions for his own future. When America has finally awakened, will he be the equivalent of arrogant dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, backed by powerful forces in the shadows and restored to his reign against the will of a population grieving the random deaths of its sons and daughters in the streets, or will Obama be a Zelaya who has no use for his own Constitution even if it thrusts the nation into political instability, pitting the military against the corridors of the political status quo?

This weekend, I would advise contemplating America’s Independence Day solemnly and celebrating it respectfully.