America The Beautiful ~ by Joan Swirsky

[Charles Lingerfelt, Texas State Coordinator]

A Little Long, But good Read!!>>
-Charles

America The Beautiful
November 7, 2008
by Joan Swirsky
"The sun will come out tomorrow," Little Orphan Annie sang in "Annie,"
the long-running Broadway classic.

Well, on the morning of November 5, the sun wasn't shining for over
55-million Americans, including me, who voted for a McCain-Palin
administration. But the sun was blazing in another way for the historic
election of Barack Obama as the first person-of-color to be elected
President of the United States.



For those who witnessed, as I did, the violent racial strife of the 1960s,
the assassinations of the most ardent advocates of minority civil rights,
and also the redemptive messages and effective actions of Martin Luther
King, Jr., a Republican, it is stunning to realize that, not 40 years after
blacks were being murdered for aspiring to equality, a person-of-color has
been elected to the highest office in the world.

And for those of us lucky enough to have also witnessed men walking on the
moon, the fall of the Soviet Union, and the invention of the Internet,
President-elect Obama's election is yet another affirmation of the
exceptionalism of America - its limitless opportunities, God-given freedoms,
bountiful generosity, and the essential optimism and decency of its
citizens.

For nearly two years, our electorate has watched and listened as the
candidates presented their versions of the American Dream, explained or
rationalized their past and current associations, and defended their
stupefying verbal gaffes.

Like other conservatives, the American Dream I prefer is about small
government, low taxes, a free-market economy, domestic-energy independence,
a judiciary that strictly interprets the Constitution, and value for the
life of the unborn. But the American electorate - besieged by a shaky
economy and entranced by a charismatic "change" agent who stood for none of
these values - strangely opted for a candidate who touts big government,
high-taxes, strict curbs on domestic drilling (and the destruction of the
coal industry), leftwing Supreme Court justices in the mold of Ginsburg and
Stewart, and a remarkable distain for the value of in-utero infants.

It almost makes you believe that the people who voted for Obama have been
living in an alternative universe. After all, under the first six years of
President Bush's stewardship, the economy soared to heights previously
unknown, consumer confidence was at an all-time high, unemployment levels
were unprecedentedly low, and the affordability of both gas and food was
never a topic of conversation. But from the minute Democrats gained control
of Congress in 2006, the downward spiral began:




Consumer confidence plummeted.
The cost of regular gasoline soared.
Unemployment escalated by 10%.
Households saw $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate through stock and
mutual fund losses.
Home equity dropped by trillions of dollars and untold numbers of homes are
in foreclosure.
Food prices skyrocketed over 30% in 1 year.
In spite of this, our electorate selected a man who promises a trillion
dollars in new spending and draconian tax hikes on the most productive
members of our society. His election inspired plenty of dancing in the
street - both here and overseas - but the stock market reacted by taking the
greatest plunge in history after a presidential election. It's going to take
a whole lot of "hope" to get us out of this Democrat-created mess!

That said, if the Supreme Court decides that Mr. Obama meets the
Constitutional mandate of being a legal citizen of the United States - an
issue that has still not been resolved - I wish him good health, as well as
wisdom and strength, in the daunting tasks that lie ahead of him.

If The Supreme Court Decides...?

At this point, Supreme Court Justice David Souter's Clerk informed Philip J.
Berg, the lawyer who brought the case against Obama, that his petition for
an injunction to stay the November 4th election was denied, but the Clerk
also required the defendants to respond to the Writ of Certiorari (which
requires the concurrence of four Justices) by December 1. At that time, Mr.
Obama must present to the Court an authentic birth certificate, after which
Mr. Berg will respond.

If Obama fails to do that, it is sure to inspire the skepticism of the
Justices, who are unaccustomed to being defied. They will have to decide
what to do about a president-elect who refuses to prove his natural-born
citizenship.

"I can see a unanimous Court (en banc) decertifying the election if Obama
refuses to produce his birth certificate," says Raymond S. Kraft, an
attorney and writer. "They cannot do otherwise without abandoning all
credibility as guardians of the Constitution. Even the most liberal
justices, however loathe they may to do this, still consider themselves
guardians of the Constitution. The Court is very jealous of its power - even
over presidents, even over presidents-elect."



Also remember that on December 13, the Electoral College meets to casts its
votes. If it has been determined that Mr. Obama is an illegal alien and
therefore ineligible to become President of the United States, the Electors
will be duty-bound to honor the Constitution.

Giving Credit

Mr. Obama's victory on November 4 has been attributed not only to his own
personality and message of "change" and "hope," but also to a highly
efficient ground operation, an uncritical - indeed fawning - leftwing media,
and the ability to raise a staggering $650 million (much of it from foreign
sources, the names of whom have still not been reported).
Also unreported, but a crucial part of his success, has been the heroic work
done - historically - by Republicans.

It was a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, who sacrificed everything - including
his life - to fight a Civil War that ended slavery.

As documented by Diane Alden for Newsmax.com:

During the Civil War, Republicans planned the most significant amendments
ever to our Constitution and enacted - despite fierce opposition from the
Democrats - the 13th Amendment to ban slavery, the 14th Amendment to protect
all Americans regardless of the color of their skin, and the 15th Amendment
to extend voting rights to African-Americans.


"Every man that wanted the privilege of whipping another man to make him
work for nothing, and pay him with lashes on his naked back, was a
Democrat.Every man that raised bloodhounds to pursue human beings was a
Democrat.Every man that cursed Abraham Lincoln because he issued the
Emancipation Proclamation was a Democrat,"wrote Robert Ingersoll in 1876.


For its first 80 years, the Republican Party was the only one to provide a
home for African-Americans.Until well into the 20th century, every
African-American member of Congress was a Republican. The same was true for
nearly all state legislators and other elected officials.


In 1888, Republican Senator Aaron Sargent introduced the "Susan B.
Anthony" Amendment to the Constitution, according women of all races the
right to vote.Strong Democrat opposition to what would become the 19th
Amendment delayed ratification until 1920.
But that's ancient history, you say. Okay, how about the 20th century?

In the 26 major civil rights votes after 1933, a majority of Democrats
opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 percent of their votes, while
the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 percent of the
votes. See here and here.


When President John F. Kennedy was a senator from Massachusetts, he could
have voted for the 1957 Civil Rights Act pushed by Senate Majority Leader
Lyndon Johnson, but he didn't. This Act only passed with the help of
Republicans. After JFK was elected president, he failed to suggest any new
civil rights proposals in 1961 or 1962.


In 1963, Kennedy decided to act on the 1964 Civil Rights Act, but faced a
filibuster by southern Democrats. Republicans favored the bill, which would
have failed without their votes.


Hubert Humphrey, a member of Congress when Democrats held both houses of
Congress, admitted that, "without the leadership and help of Republicans,"
legislative efforts "would have been watered down or failed because of
obstinate Democrats - i.e., the Dixiecrats."


The fact that Democrats are quick to take credit for the Civil Rights Act
and for the civil rights movement itself is both phony and a self-absorbed
vanity," Alden says.


The Republican Leader in the Senate, Everett Dirksen (R-IL), wrote the 1960
Civil Rights Act, and was the person most responsible for defeating the
Democrat filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.The 1964 Civil Rights
Act passed the House of Representatives with 80% Republican support but only
61% of Democrats.


In the Senate, 82% of Republicans supported the bill compared to 69% of
Democrats.


Similarly, the 1965 Voting Rights Act was supported in Congress by a higher
percentage of Republicans than Democrats.Democrats vigorously opposed
Republican efforts to protect the civil rights of African-Americans, from
Reconstruction until well into the 20th century.
In much of the country, racist Democrats virtually destroyed the Republican
Party, which did not become a force in those areas until President Reagan's
message of freedom and equality prevailed in the 1980s.Today, the Republican
Party continues its historical commitment to civil rights at home and around
the world.


In 2004, [America celebrated] the 150th anniversary of the GOP as well as
the 50th anniversaryof Brown v. Board of Education - a watershed of the
modern-day civil rights movement.In May 1954, former Republican Governor and
GOP vice presidential candidate Earl Warren, appointed Chief Justice by
Republican President Eisenhower, wrote this landmark decision declaring that
"separate but equal" is inherently unconstitutional.To help enforce this
principle, the Eisenhower administration drafted the 1957 Civil Rights Act
and guided it to passage over a Democrat filibuster.

The Four S's

In Why Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican, Frances Rice, Chairman of
the National Black Republican Association, tells us that, "in that era,
almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854
as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed
freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated,
the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's:
Slavery, Secession, Segregation and now Socialism." Rice continues:

It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the
discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.


The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks.


The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law
beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860's, and continuing with the
civil rights laws of the 1950's and 1960's.

It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who pushed to pass the Civil
Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools.
Much is made of Democrat President Harry Truman's issuing an Executive Order
in 1948 to desegregate the military. Not mentioned is the fact that it was
President Eisenhower who actually took action to effectively end segregation
in the military.

President Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr.
King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph who was a black Republican.
President Kennedy, through his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy, had
Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a
Communist in order to undermine Dr. King.


In 1968, after riots broke out in Tennessee where a teenager was killed,
Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, called
Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after
trouble is ignited. A few weeks later, Dr. King returned to Memphis and was
assassinated on April 4, 1968.


Although affirmative action now has been turned by the Democrats into an
unfair quota system, affirmative action was begun by Nixon to counter the
harm caused to blacks when Democrat President Woodrow Wilson in 1912 kicked
all of the blacks out of federal government jobs.

It was Republicans who founded the historically Black Colleges and
Universities.
Critics of Republican Senator Barry Goldwater who ran for president against
Democrat President Lyndon Johnson in 1964, ignore the fact that Goldwater
wanted to force the Democrats in the South to stop passing discriminatory
laws and thus end the need to continuously enact federal civil rights
legislation.

President Johnson, in his 4,500-word State of the Union Address delivered on
January 4, 1965, mentioned scores of topics for federal action, but only
thirty five words were devoted to civil rights. He did not mention one word
about voting rights.Then in 1967, showing his anger with Dr. King's protest
against the Viet Nam War, President Johnson referred to Dr. King as "that
Nigger preacher."


Contrary to the false assertions by Democrats, the racist "Dixiecrats"
did not all migrate to the Republican Party. "Dixiecrats" declared that they
would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican because the
Republican Party was known as the party for blacks. Today, some of those
"Dixiecrats" continue their political careers as Democrats, including
Democrat Senator Robert Byrd who is well known for having been a "Kleagle"
in the Ku Klux Klan.


Republican Senator Strom Thurmond defended blacks against lynching and the
discriminatory poll taxes imposed on blacks by Democrats. If Senator Byrd
and Senator Thurmond were alive during the Civil War, and Byrd had his way,
Thurmond would have been lynched.
"Today," Rice says, "Democrats, in pursuit of their socialist agenda, are
fighting to keep blacks poor, angry and voting for Democrats." In 2004, they
blocked passage of a bill to renew the 1996 welfare reform law that was
pushed by Republicans and vetoed twice by President Bill Clinton before he
finally signed it. They are opposed to school-choice opportunity
scholarships that would help black children get out of failing schools, and
they blocked Social Security reform, even though blacks on average lose
$10,000 in the current system because of a shorter life expectancy than
whites (72.2 years for blacks vs. 77.5 years for whites).

"Democrats have been running our inner-cities for the past 30-40 years,"
Rice adds, "and blacks are still complaining about the same problems.
Over $7 trillion dollars has been spent on poverty programs...with little,
if any, impact on poverty."

These are facts - you know those pesky little things that liberals abhor.
But in spite of the Democrats' historical racism, their abominable record in
serving the needs of the black community, and their obvious inability to
handle our economy, there's a new Democrat in town, once again promising the
moon.



Will The Sun Come Out Tomorrow?



Mark Alexander, the publisher of http://www.patriotpost.us/, quotes George
Washington, who said: "We should never despair. Our situation before has
been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again.
If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and
proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times."

Alexander, ala FDR, calls the election of Barack Obama "a date which will
live in infamy." "Liberals have elected a Socialist with deep ties to
cultural and ethnocentric radicalism, and his executive and legislative
agenda pose a greater threat to American liberty than that of any president
in the history of our great republic.
"Obama has twice taken an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of
the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" and to "bear
true faith and allegiance to the same." He has never honored that oath, and,
based on his policy proposals and objectives, he has no intention to honor
it after again reciting that oath on 20 January 2009.
Obama seeks to, in his own words, "break free from the essential constraints
that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution."

My perspective is not so bleak. We still have an influential conservative
media, a growing number of exciting conservative stars on the political
horizon, and an electorate that voted in huge numbers for a Republican
candidate who was outspent by multimillions, shamefully savaged by a biased
media, and distrusted by many of his fellow Party members. We won't make
that mistake again! And we won't make the mistake of not reminding the
electorate just how contributory we Republicans have been in fighting the
Democrats to bring about true racial justice in our country.

Until and unless the socialists among us take away our rights, my country
will always be America the Beautiful to me.
(www.rightsidenews.com)