A message from Patrick J. Buchanan

BUCHANAN TO OBAMA
By Patrick J. Buchanan

Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America . Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to. This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known. Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.

Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ' 60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream. Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants. Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated their time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.

We hear the grievances.. Where is the gratitude??

Barack talks about new 'ladders of opportunity' for blacks. Let him go to Altoona? And Johnstown , and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for 'deserving ' white kids.? Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America ? Is it really white America 's fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?

Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?

As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?

Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?

We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena . And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.

Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.

I saw a magazine cover.....

That had Obama's picture on the cover with a caption that said "America's Hope". I couldn't find the picture online to share it, but I created something similar with my own response and here it is.


There is only one Messiah, and it IS NOT Barack Hussein Obama!

He could have done more, but we'll take what we can get.

Today, on his last full day in office, President Bush has commuted the sentences of two former border patrol agents who were convicted of shooting a Mexican drug smuggler in 2005. Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were sentenced to 11 and 12 years repsectively. Bush's commutation means that their sentences will be completed March 20.

A commutation is a reduction in sentence where a pardon is a forgiveness of the crimes with which a person is charged. While I applaud and commend President Bush's decision, I do wish he had given each of them the full pardon that they deserve. So, half kudos to President Bush. You did the right thing as far as it goes, but you could and should have done more.

Jim Chitty
Writer/Columnist/Blogger

The Bush years: A look back.

As the Bush era comes to a close and this clown Obama prepares to take office, I thought it would be appropriate to take a look back at the last 8 years. I will look back with some fondness and some disdain over the events of President Bush's 2 terms. There have definitely been some highlights, and some low lights.

It all started in 2000 when George W. Bush won the election over Al Gore. That's right, he won it fair and square. You idiots who think otherwise, get over it. He was then almost immediately faced with September 11 2001 terror attacks on New York, Washington D.C., and a Pennsylvania field. He managed the nation and our recovery from this horrific tragedy in stellar fashion I believe. We have not even had a credible threat of attack since President Bush decided to show the terrorists America would not tolerate their misdeeds.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been a huge topic of debate for many. We were right and justified responding with force to the terrorist attacks on our soil. I have often said that a much clearer and more decisive message would have been delivered to the terrorists if we had gone over to Iraq, turned the place 20,000 degrees, and been done with it. In some ways, the war has been handled properly, in other ways, not so much. But, the ways in which the Bush administration has mishandled the war and things related to it, is nothing compared to the way the Democrats will screw it up once their anointed one takes office.

I was in stark disagreement with the Bush administration when they came out in favor of the amnesty plan for illegal immigrants. You simply don't reward law breaking. Not if you want to remain a safe and free country.

And now, as the Bush years draw to a close, our nation's economy is in the tank, and in the minds of many that is Bush's fault. I don't think so. A co-worker suggested yesterday that it is possible that the markets have purposely created this economic crisis to make Bush look bad and then in Obama's second quarter they will turn things around and make out to look like the hero. Is it possible? Yes. Is it likely? We will have to wait and see. Bush didn't cause the economic crisis and Obama's liberal tax increases and socialistic big government ideas will only make things far worse than they are now.

Many say we spent too much money fighting the wars. Had we spent more it would have already been over with and we wouldn't be having this conversation. I am as much against increasing government spending as any Conservative and more than some. My only problem with spending on the war is I think we could and should have done more to give our troops the tools necessary to do their jobs, to help make them safer, and to care more for the wounded and for the families of those lost. Where we have spent too much money as a nation is in giving free medical care, food stamps, and myriad other benefits to illegal immigrants. $400-600 billion a year we spend on criminal immigrant invaders would have gone a long way to taking care of those who are fighting and have fought for our freedom to have this debate.

George Bush was not as Conservative as I would have liked, but he was way better than his skirt chasing predecessor and his Marxist/Socialist successor. George Bush will carry a mostly positive legacy into private life. Not for those incurable and intellectually vacant Bush-haters who think he is the devil incarnate and whose views don't matter anyway, only for the patriotic Americans who are and have been paying attention these last eight years. Ultimately history will look back positively on the Bush years.

Another huge disagreement I had with President Bush was over the incarceration of the two border patrol agents Ramos and Campion who were arrested for doing their job. They have been locked up for two years now because they fired on a Mexican drug smuggler who was trying to get across the border with a stash of drugs. He tried to run over them and they shot at him. But yet they get locked up??

President Bush, you MUST pardon these fine defenders of our national sovereignty IMMEDIATELY. Do the right thing one last time before you leave office. I and many other patriotic Americans will be disappointed in you if you don't. Of course you will make the illegals and Phillipe Calderon happy if you don't. The question you have to ask yourself is, where do your loyalties lie? With America, or with Mexico and a bunch of criminals trying to get in here illegally? It appears it may be the latter and that is unfortunate and sad.

Thank you President Bush for your service to this country. I haven't agreed with you 100% on everything you've done, but I commend you for your willingness to give it a go. I believe you sincerely believe you were looking out for America's best interests, we just had different opinions on what those best interests were at times. And, in four to eight years we may all be wishing we had you back after Obama has his way with our country. God bless you President Bush, and God bless America. We are going to need it in the upcoming years more than ever.

Jim Chitty
Writer/Columnist/Blogger

The American auto industry bailout

I love America and the businesses that have made it great. Our big three automakers have fallen on hard times lately and have asked for government bailout money just like the banking industry has. Except for Ford. I have always been a Ford guy and am even more so now since they have refused to take the governement money. The raised the capital they needed to cover their shortfall the old fashioned way. They sold off assets. They sold their share of Jaguar to a company from India. They sold their stake in Mazda for $540 million. Go Ford!!
GM could do the same thing if they wanted to. They could sell off their share of Saturn, Saab, Hummer, or even their overseas holdings like Holden or Vauxhall. But, instead they have chosen to hold their hands out and beg us, the taxpayers and their potential customers to bail them out. They should be ashamed of themselves. Even Chrysler is in talks with Nissan about unloading Jeep.

Are the suits at GM that greedy, or are they just simply not smart enough to see the solution staring them squarely in the face? Obviously the guys at Ford get it. My only gripe with Ford currently is with how the have uglified the 2009 F-150. That is one ugly truck.

I would hate to see any of the car makers fail and go out of business. That being said, it is not our responsibility to bail them out. They got themselves into this mess by caving in to unions and paying inflated wages when the Japanese car guys were making better cars and paying their employees far less. The American car makers were then forced to price themselves out of competition.

Other factors that was beyond their control were the rise in gas prices and the trumped up fears about global warming. They spent billions developing hybrid technologies only to have gas go back down to a reasonable price and many car buyers go back to their big SUV's and rejecting the hybrid fad.

In conclusion, I just want to say hats off to Ford for solving your own financial problems and not coming to me and other taxpayers asking for a handout. As far General Motors, well, you should be ashamed of yourselves. And Chrysler, well, I hope you guys survive. I also hope you start making better cars. For your own sake.

Jim Chitty
Writer/Columnist/Blogger

The bank bailout fiasco

Our federal government has already bailed out the banking industry once. Yet here they are again asking for more of our tax dollars to keep them going. Funny thing is they can't seem to explain where all this money went. Citibank lost $2.3 billion dollars in the last few months and is going to get $20 billion from the government. Sounds to me like someone is making one heck of a profit.

Ultimately it's our money. When are we going to stand up and demand accountability? When are we going to shut off the spigot of free flowing cash to these money bleeding companies? I think immediately if not sooner would work. This is getting out of hand. Way, way out of hand.

Jim Chitty
Writer/Columnist/Blogger

Who's judging whom?

The other day I was accused by a reader of my blog of violating one of the key scriptures that we Christians try our best to live by, "Judge not, lest ye be judged". Apparently this reader has not read either my blog or his/her Bible in enough depth to understand the difference between judging someone and calling a spade a spade. I will go to great lengths in the next few paragraphs to explain the difference.

When you judge someone, you make assumptions as to the person's character. Saying that a rapist or murderer broke the law is not judging that individual. Even saying that since they were tried and convicted in a court of law they should serve time is not judging the person. Saying the person is a no good, worthless piece of trash would be judging the person. Sometimes people make serious mistakes, lapses of judgment and get in over their heads, but those people are usually salvageable and are still worth something.

By the same token, it is also not being judgmental to call an illegal immigrant just that. We have immigration laws. When they ignore those laws to come here then they come here illegally and thus become illegal immigrants. That is calling a spade a spade. Most of them are not bad people and mean well. They're just trying to make a better life for their families. That does not however change the fact that they have broken the law to get here and continue to break it by staying here. Saying that is not judging them and is not a racist statement. Neither is calling them what they are, illegal immigrants. Anyone who is not intelligent enough to know the difference has my deepest sympathy.

It was suggested by the reader that I should get to know some illegals and it might change my mind. It won't change anything. Getting to know them won't change their legal status just like getting to know a murderer or a rapist won't change their legal status nor what I call them. A murderer is murderer, a rapist is a rapist, and an illegal immigrant is an illegal immigrant. What really bugs me though are the statistics on how many illegal immigrants become rapists and murderers. Do the research for yourself. The numbers are staggering.

The reader was actually doing what she accused me of doing, judging. She was judging my character, calling me a racist and questioning my Christianity because I called a spade a spade. So, my question is, who is judging whom? I have never said I hate immigrants and have never called them all bad people. I have called the ones turned out that way bad people, but never have I lumped all of them into that category. This reader is the one judging, so, I would caution her to be extremely careful because it is not me she will stand before and answer to for doing that one day.

I personally don't care what she thinks or says about me really. It just shows that she hasn't bothered to get to know me. Those who know me the best, know that there isn't a racist or bigoted bone in my body.

I guess my final word to this reader would be, I hope you keep reading, and I hope one day you can find a way to handle the truth. I can handle the criticism. The question is, can you handle being confronted with the facts?

Jim Chitty
Writer/Columnist/Blogger