While I am somewhat chagrined about having to support a foreign country against my own...

You're gonna have to give me a freakin' break on that one, my friend.

What on earth do you really mean by that, anyway?

I hate religion...

Religion is the biggest crutch ever conceived...

My admiration and support of Israel has absolutely NOTHING to do with religion and EVERYTHING to do with the respect I feel for Israelis, especially their military.

I have been deployed to Israel on many occasions and have always been honored and privileged to work with the best of the best.

I admire the tenacity and the never-say-die attitude of the Israeli people.. If there ever was a people and a culture that DESERVED to survive, it would be the Israelis...

While I am somewhat chagrined about having to support a foreign country against my own, I am firmly convinced that Israel and the Israeli people are worthy of that support...

I have nothing to do with, nor nothing in common with the Jewish people, as far as their religion goes..

But I would gladly take up arms to defend the nation of Israel as ferociously and with as much dedication as I would defend my own nation...

So.... Yea.. Count me in Israel's corner.. :D

It has absolutely NOTHING to do with religion or politics.. And everything to do with honor and a debt that is owed..

Michale.....

Yea, ask the Jewish people here in America if they are "simply ignoring" this issue??

I bet you will be surprised... :D

Michale.....

I understand...

Such rapid fire information, while common in my former profession, is kind of hard for civilians to keep up with..

I'll attempt to dumb it down for ya, but don't hold yer breath.... :D

Michale....

But ALL of those points you mention have relevance to the upcoming election AND with the polls, which is (after all) the subject of this commentary.....

OBAMA POLL WATCH

:D

I'll try and slow down for you, but I can't promise anything.... :D

You might have to up your game a little... :D

Michale

If anyone needs a reason to vote for Romney, there it is...

Michale.....

I think between Comment #16 and the above, it's completely clear that Obama and the Democrats have utterly and completely thrown Israel under the bus...

As much as it pains me to say, Netanyahu and Israel don't owe a damn thing to the Obama Administration..

"Kick the tires and light the fires"
-Harry Connick Jr, INDEPENDENCE DAY

Kick Iran's ass, Israel! The majority of Americans are with you, even if our government is not...

Michale....

Tiny convention floor!
http://washingtonexaminer.com/tiny-convention-floor/article/2506813#.UEZQw5anzUJ

Democrats know how to throw a party!!!

NOT!!!!!

:D

Michale.....

That would be *50,000+* less seats!!! :D

"Whatta maroon!"
-Bugs Bunny

:D

Michale.....

And that STILL didn't fill up the stadium... They had to move the venue for the speech that had 40,000+ less seats so as not to make Obama look like an idiot..

Too late! :D

Michale.....

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/03/dems-bring-in-crowds-by-busload-to-fill-stadium-for-obama-speech/#ixzz25Woz0u25

If they're worse, it's going to underscore the futility of keeping Democrats in office..

If they're better, it might allow Dems to get back some MUCH needed credibility...

Michale.....

The Obama campaign have been working desperately to ensure that the 74,000-seater Bank of America stadium in Charlotte would be filled.

Buses for students from across North Carolina and even members of black churches in neighboring South Carolina have been arranged.

Images of rows of empty seats at the stadium, home of the Carolina Panthers, as Obama speaks on Thursday night would be politically disastrous – an enduring image of the contrast between his campaign of ‘hope’ and ‘change’ in 2008 and his dour, negative struggle for re-election in 2012.

Now, it looks like the weather has come to the President's rescue.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2198206/Democrats-set-Obamas-big-speech-74-000-seater-outdoor-stadium-20-000-seater-indoor-arena.html

The magic is gone...

Michale.....

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/09/04/why-obama-has-abandoned-israel-and-jews-should-abandon-obama/

If Obama is elected, Israel will likely cease to exist in Obama's next term...

Michale.....

Gee, that's roughly the percentage of voters who voted O into office. I'm smelling a bit of buyer's remorse.

It should be noted that, Labor Day 1980, President Carter lead Reagan by 6 points in the election polls...

As I indicated earlier, we all know how THAT election turned out...

Other than the unequivocal desperation of the Left and Team Obama, I see nothing to indicate that history will not repeat itself....

Michale.....

Oh really??

For more than 200 years, our party has led the fight for civil rights....
democrats.org/about/our_history

Democrats have a long and proud history of defending Civil Rights and expanding opportunity for all Americans.
democrats.org/issues/civil_rights

Somewhere, there is a puppet rolling in his grave...

I think we can put to rest the complete and utter fantasy that, somehow, Democrats are less liars than Republicans....

"Just the facts, ma'am"
-Detective Joe Friday

Michale...

Doesn't look good for the Home team...

Michale.....

2016; OBAMA's America???

If the Leftest of the Left Steven Spielberg calls it fair and truthful, then it's definitely a movie to see..

I'll be watching it today and I'll report back.. :D

Michale.....

Simple..

Republicans saw how Democrats behaved when they had complete unchallenged and unequivocal control of the government..

They reasoned, correctly in MNSHO, that *these* Democrats simply cannot be trusted to run the government..

So, they decided that, WHATEVER it took, they were going to make sure that these Democrats could not be in a position to cause any more damage to this country..

The Ends Justifies The Means...

A concept that Democrats have whole-heartedly embraced in the last 3 years...

Michale.....

LEAD, FOLLOW OR GET OUT OF THE WAY...

and how did this turn of events come to pass? republicans have regained much of their power by being IN the way, then successfully framing the stagnation on democrats. democrats would have to be fools to behave any differently. oh wait...

When Obama took office, 56 Senate seats were Democrats. It's 51 now...

Democrats had 257 seats in the House when Obama took office. That number has shrunk down to 190 plus 3 Dem vacancies waiting to be filled..

Obama had 29 Dem governors when he became POTUS.. Now he has 20...

Of State Legislative seats, 4073 were Democrats in Jan of 2009.. Now??? 3319 are Democrats...

No matter HOW you slice it, no matter WHAT litmus test you use, the FACTS clearly indicate that the time of the Democrat has come and gone...

LEAD, FOLLOW OR GET OUT OF THE WAY...

It's time for Democrats to get out of the way...

Michale.....

CNN is a standard water-carrier for Obama.

Even THEY recognize how bad Obama and the Democrats have been for this country...

How else does one explain the Great Democrat Shellacking of 2010???

Michale....

Yea... And last summer was the "Summer Of Recovery".... Or was that the summer before???

You ask ANY average American if they feel the economy has "turned around". I doubt you would find ONE who would say that the economy has turned around..

Other than someone who has a vested interest in making the claim.....

Any American who is not a political ideologue will tell you unequivocally that they are NOT better off than they were in Jan of 2009...

How much was gas when Obama took office?? $1.95 a gallon..

Now, we would kill to have such low prices again, what with seeing $3.92 a gallon these days...

Americans are NOT better off than we were in Jan of 2009...

Even Joe Biden can't explain how Americans are better off. Of course, he blames the heat, but hay.. You know ol' Joe.. :D

We're not better off.. It's that simple...

Will we be better off under Romney?? At least Romney understands business. He KNOWS who to make a business successful... If he can do that with a business, he can do that with a country...

Obama and the Democrats had their chance...

They blew it..

Time for a clean sweep...

It's really THAT simple...

Michale.....

How do I break this to you ...

The economy was turned around in LESS than three years! Much less, in fact.

Granted, we still have a ways to go to get back to where we started from (that is to say right about the end of the Clinton admnistration) but we are on the right track with no desire to go backwards now.

That says it all...

"If I can't turn this economy around in 3 years, I don't *DESERVE* another term."

I say, we take Obama's advice...

Michale......

Thanks!

Yeah, maybe I won't have to get up at 4:00AM to get interviewed!

:-)

Check back tomorrow, there's a cool auto-post column that should be up by noon Pacific time, and everyone will want to read it... if something goes wrong with the auto-post, I'll fix it by midnight East Coast time, I promise, so keep checking back.

-CW

Bon voyage, safe journey and have lots of fun in Charlotte!

It'll be nice to have you in the Eastern time zone for a change. Heh.