Non Party Politics

The Atlanta Journal Constitution led today with the story that a local judge struck down a motion by the Democratic Party in Georgia, to rule as “unconstitutional” a law that requires a picture ID to vote.

The Dems say it places a hardship on disabled or poor voters. How can that be?

I’m disabled, yet I still have a picture ID (one on my driver’s license and one on my concealed weapons permit). How can anyone function ANYWHERE without some type of photo ID? How can you cash checks, including disability or welfare checks without ID?

Voting irregularities have gone on for years and years, and the only way to determine that someone is a LEGITIMATE REGISTERED VOTER is to check their ID against the voter registration polls. I don’t understand why getting a government photo ID should be a problem. If you ACTUALLY register to vote at the Department of Motor Vehicles, you can get your photo ID at the same time.

Years ago, shortly after I moved to South Carolina from California, I was a poll worker. When I saw, and protested, voting irregularities (including several “Reverends” accompanying three or four of their congregation into the booth at a time - to show them where to make their mark on the ballot), I was told to ignore the issue. “That’s just the way it’s done here!”

Now, with an influx of illegal aliens dispersed throughout the state of Georgia, and elsewhere, it seems even more important to verify that anyone who marks a ballot BE a registered voter. Not only a legitimate registered voter, they need to be able to PROVE that they are who they say they are.

Many years ago, when I was still living in California, I discovered the hard way that someone else was using my Social Security number for an ID and employment. It was a mess to straighten out, and yes, it involved illegal immigration issues. So don’t think it doesn’t happen.

My only question is, “Why is the Georgia Democratic Party OPPOSED to picture IDs?” Why wouldn’t every honest, legitimately-registered voter be happy to prove their identity?

On Tuesday, Senator Barack Obama told a group of supporters in Powder Springs, Georgia just what direction he wants to take the country.

Can you say, “Hola, Amigo” ?

If you look at his voting record, you’ll see that BO has opposed every legislative attempt to make English the national official language. Instead, he wants all our children to learn to speak Spanish.

Now I have no argument with the benefits to our children of being bilingual, or even trilingual. Anyone with a brain understands that being able to communicate in Spanish with Mexican or Latin-American business people is an advantage. Likewise, being fluent in Japanese or Chinese is a bonus.  But what does that have to do with making English the official language?

Senor Obama revealed that he is as embarrassed with America (as his lovely wife is only now proud of America) when he told the crowd,

“It’s embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe and all we can say is ‘Merci beaucoup.’”

As BO becomes more of a world traveler (perhaps during his touted visits to Iraq and, yes, Iran), maybe he can find time to take a little car trip through Europe, before he comes back to the good ole USA. If he sees Europe first hand, perhaps he’ll understand how closely those countries are situated to each other, geographically.

It is entirely possible to drive through several countries during the same car trip, and not even break a sweat. French, German and Italian tourists routinely take little vacation day jaunts to neighboring ski resorts, or other attractions. Learning each other’s languages is as normal as breathing (and a matter of practical necessity) when the next country is no farther away than Vermont is from Maine.

Perhaps Monsieur Obama could also note how rigorously each of those individual countries insist on their own language, sovereignity, and traditions being preserved. Why else would those individual languages have continued so completely when each country is in such close proximity? Wouldn’t a single language, like “Frengermitalospanport”, or “Spanitalofrengerm”, be more convenient? Guess not!

Perhaps that’s one of the reasons why Europeans utilize English as a handy-dandy universal communication tool.

This objection to English as our official language is just one indicator of the direction Senor Obama wants to take this country. I’ve been wondering what his motivation is in being so opposed to immigration legislation and reform.

Can you say “amero”, anyone? (And if you don’t know what an ‘amero” is, for the sake of the future of the USA, please look it up! Learn about the prospect of the North American Union that’s staring us in the face!)

Maybe I’m just too provincial. However, since I have no intention of visiting France, especially with their disdain of everything “Americaine”, the only French I need to know, to live happily in the good ole USA, is “pie ala mode”.

The political scene is getting more and more important to the average American, whether they know it or not.  At the same time, issues are getting more and more muddled.

As the countdown to the Democratic National convention ticks on, Hillary Clinton has joined Barack Obama on his fundraising tour. My understanding is that, in return for her help, his backers will help to pay-off Hillary’s campaign debts.

Doesn’t appear as if she’s getting her money’s worth yet, as her staffers complain that BO’s backers have ponied up a “piddling amount” of approximately $100 thousand dollars so far.

Meanwhile, the ‘Barack & Hillary Show’ has been raking in donations in the millions. Hmmmm!

On the GOP front, John McCain is still leaving a terrible taste in the mouths of conservative voters, many of whom are adamant that they will vote for Libertarian, Bob Barr, in November. After all, Barr really is more in line with conservative thinking.

Looks like Barr just might be the ’spoiler’ for McCain. Or maybe not, depending on who McCain chooses for Veep. Only time will tell.

And, finally, my fellow Americans, we need to wake up to the impact that Supreme Court pronouncements, and caving-in to international pressure, is having on our world.

Three years ago, Adbullah Saleh al-Ajmi was safely locked away at Guantanamo Bay. Yet, four weeks ago, he blew himself up in Iraq, brutally murdering seven people. How did it happen?

Based on a review of classified and unclassified documents, al-Ajmi was declared a threat to the U.S. and its allies and confined at Gitmo. But after Al-Ajmi’s lawyers denied all the charges, the U.S. government folded and sent him back home to Kuwait.

Now the international community wants us to close Guantanemo, and send more prisoners home to become “MARTYRS”!

If you do just a little research, you’ll find that BOTH Obama and McCain are in favor of abolishing Gitmo. Are you interested in knowing whether they have an alternative in mind, other than just releasing everybody to go about their merry way?

We gotta WAKE UP!