Lipstick on a Pig

A few days ago, Senator Obama used the term which has caused such a stir, with Sarah Palin supporters viewing this as an insult to her, because of her reference to lipstick. Obviously there is a much deeper divide and it has offended many. When others offended Obama supporters, they immediately apologized and put the issue to rest.

Senator Obama has immediately shifted the blame to the McCain team, saying "spare me the phony outrage", adding fuel to the fire. Many women have faced years of discrimination and abuse in all areas of life, even more so than racial prejudice. Intimidation, emotional, physical, and financial abuse is rampant and thousands of American women still die at the hands of men every year. Single mothers still make up the bulk of families in poverty.

Sarah Palin represents a new era for women, the same as Barack Obama represents a new era for the African American people and minority races. Both these issues have been very sensitive because they’re new for us and hidden wounds have been coming to the surface.

These blowouts are probably what our nation needs to deal with the root issues of our problems which has been our lack of understanding and respect for one another. A house divided cannot stand, no matter what great ideas either party comes up with, the other party will do it’s best to sabotage them as we can see in our governments stalemate year after year.

This is Obama’s first test in Presidential diplomacy and he hasn’t handled it well. An apology for a perceived offense would have been so easy. But pride comes before a fall, and already he’s sliding in the polls and a lot of the slide is female votes. Let’s hope the McCain/Palin Team will learn from Gov. Huckabee to keep politics vertical and build bridges to unite Americans.
Olga Hermann

John McCains Nomination Acceptance Speech RNC - (last part)

I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else’s. I loved it not just for the many comforts of life here. I loved it for its decency; for its faith in the wisdom, justice and goodness of its people. I loved it because it was not just a place, but an idea, a cause worth fighting for. I was never the same again. I wasn’t my own man anymore. I was my country’s.

I’m not running for president because I think I’m blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save our country in its hour of need. My country saved me. My country saved me, and I cannot forget it. And I will fight for her for as long as I draw breath, so help me God.

If you find faults with our country, make it a better one. If you’re disappointed with the mistakes of government, join its ranks and work to correct them. Enlist in our Armed Forces. Become a teacher. Enter the ministry. Run for public office. Feed a hungry child. Teach an illiterate adult to read. Comfort the afflicted. Defend the rights of the oppressed. Our country will be the better, and you will be the happier. Because nothing brings greater happiness in life than to serve a cause greater than yourself.

I’m going to fight for my cause every day as your President. I’m going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank Him: that I’m an American, a proud citizen of the greatest country on earth, and with hard work, strong faith and a little courage, great things are always within our reach. Fight with me. Fight with me.

Fight for what’s right for our country.

Fight for the ideals and character of a free people.

Fight for our children’s future.

Fight for justice and opportunity for all.

Stand up to defend our country from its enemies.

Stand up for each other; for beautiful, blessed, bountiful America.

Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. Nothing is inevitable here. We’re Americans, and we never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history.

Thank you, and God Bless you.

The Republican National Convention

Fred Thompson actually gave a powerful historical account on John McCains life and time as a war hero and the tortures he endured during his 5.5 years at the Hanoi Hilton. Something McCain has not been able to talk about himself. I'm so glad I heard that, because my own father was a POW during WWII, also in the Pacific, and other members of my family were as well. And he was never able to talk about it much.

I was deeply moved by the story of Senator McCain as a true American Hero and all he went through. After being so grieved listening to John Kerry's testimonies about our men being killers and cowards.

Today we got to hear about a Vietnam hero, bringing long overdue honor to all those who served, suffered and died there.

The whole theme of "Service, putting others first" was amazing, there has never been a Convention quite like this one and should shift the country to do what's right, that Mike Huckabee has been speaking out on from the beginning.

It seems like God keeps bringing out all sorts of truths for old wounds to be healed in our Nation. Mike Huckabee's time will come, it just isn't yet as President. It may be that where our country is headed we need a strong military leader who won't back down, nomatter what the personal cost.

Now I see why the Gov. shows such great respect for incoming President John McCain. Listening to the stories told by Fred Thompson and the others has really humbled me.

God bless Senator McCain and all who serve our country. God bless America!

Olga Hermann

It Ought To Be About Life

August 23, 2008
by Mike Huckabee

The Democrats are beginning to arrive in Denver for the coronation, er uh, NOMINATION, of Barak Obama. In the past few weeks, some of the shine and glitter has begun to disappear as he stumbled badly trying to escape his own record on fundamental issues like the sanctity of life. His non-answer to Rick Warren in the Saddleback Forum was more revealing for what he didn’t say than what he said. He did what many far left liberals do when it comes time to discuss the life issue—he changed the topic. He said that answers to such questions either scientifically or theologically were “above his pay grade.”

Mr. Obama, most people earning far below YOUR pay grade know enough science to realize that when 23 chromosomes from a female and 23 from a male unite in the moment of conception, a life containing 46 unique chromosomes is created. For all the talk from liberals as to how they follow science and therefore end up with their positions on global warming and evolution, they seem to claim utter ignorance of one of science’s irrefutable facts---what kind of life is created at conception.

Here’s the clear “science:”

When the male sperm and female egg join, a new and unique life form is created. At conception. Not at birth or viability, or when a lawyer says so. At conception this happens. John McCain got it right; Obama pled less scientific knowledge than a 5th grader.

This life is either human or something else. Science irrefutably would declare that the life which is starting from that moment is human. It’s not a stalk of broccoli, it’s not a parrot, squirrel, or dolphin. It will never become a tree—it can only become a human. It has the entire DNA schedule that it will have for the rest of its life right then. In days it will begin to take on increasingly observable human characteristics and form, but at conception, it is biologically human.

If this life is human, then the only issue left is whether this human life falls under the notion that it has a fundamental right of existence or not. If not, it is because we as a culture have decided that some human lives are simply not worth living. If we can decide that about an innocent and unborn baby, we can also decide it on the basis of less absolute criteria than that. If we make that choice (and this is all about “CHOICE,” isn’t it?) then someone may decide that a terminally ill person is not a life worth living. Maybe a severely disabled child is a life not worth living; what about a person with a limited IQ? Say that’s absurd—that an educated and enlightened society would never be so audacious as to begin to terminate life based on such arbitrary excuses? Maybe you haven’t studied Nazi Germany, in which the murder of six million Jews was justified because of their religion and millions of others were murdered because of their politics. Germany was not a primitive, superstitious culture. It was one filled with the intelligentsia and enlightened.

This is an important issue. It’s why we can’t trust Obama with America’s future because he’s not even sure which Americans are worth saving and which ones aren’t. And it’s why that for many of us, McCain’s selection of a running mate really does matter. Because John McCain clearly is pro life, I will support and vote for him because Obama is not an option for me as a pro life person. I will be disappointed if McCain doesn’t pick a true pro life person and realize that should that happen, he will lose many of the very people who supported me. I cannot expect all of you to vote for McCain if he chooses someone whose record isn’t pro life. It will be a less than perfect decision for all of us---our only real choices are McCain and Obama; one will protect life and one won’t. Some will argue for a 3rd party candidate and I respect that, but in political realities, that is essentially a vote for Obama and I can’t go there.

I want lower taxes, less government, more local control, less spending, greater accountability for tax dollars, a strong national defense, and less government regulation. But above all, I want a government who respects life—mine, yours, and that of people I don’t know and even those I don’t like. A government that decides that an unborn baby isn’t worth anything may one day decide that about me. Or you.

This election shouldn't be about taxes. It ought to be about life.

War at the border

These videos are terrifying and explain the real trouble that's happening in our country. We lose more young men on our city streets than both wars combined. Where is the outrage?

Hannity's America - FOXNews.com

War at the border

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=1707495&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/hannitysamerica/

Santa Muerte

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=1893940&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/hannitysamerica/

Obama and Abortion

Jesus said, "you'll know them by their fruit, a good tree cannot bear bad fruit nor a bad tree bear good". He also said, "if you love Me, you will keep My commandments". So what part of "Thou shalt not kill" don't we understand.

It's troubling how callously Senator Obama who says he loves Jesus, can thank Planned Parenthood for helping men get rid of the result of their sexual pleasure. If a man whose job is to serve the public can be so cold in the death of the weakest of us, why should he care about anyone else.

From Hannity's America:

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=a50f69ac-2fcf-46f6-8fd1-1b6efcf3de8f&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/hannitysamerica/

Abortion harms both the parents soul.

Death of Social Security

Many of us would like to keep traditional values, because we seem to be heading into a direction that's never worked before. And even though my values line up more with the Republican Party, the Grand Old Party has already sold us two Governors that brought same sex marriage into the US. GOP Govs also gave us Abortion in 1967. And now Christians are supposed to believe that we need to stay faithful to the Party but how can we trust them. Although Senator McCain has voted Pro-life during his career, he has said he'll overturn President Bush's ban on Federal funding of Embryonic Stem Cell Research. Many on the Christian Right view this as bad as abortion and are still waiting to see if he'll choose a Social conservative as his running mate to help him mellow out on some of these exploitation issues, before we decide on jumping aboard his campaign.

Regarding Abortion, the stupidity of killing 1/3 of a generation of our children who would have continued to fund our Social Security System, and replace them with non-Tax paying foreign workers who send money home to their foreign families, will show up in the next few years as our SS system collapses with too many old people. The survivors of the Abortion Holocaust will most likely begin Euthanising us, the aging population who will no longer be productive, since we've already taught them how to kill. What were we thinking?

Leaders like Governor Mike Huckabee are some of the few who understand the longterm financial disaster this genocide will cause and had signed a Right To Life Amendment into Law in his State. Many of us may find ourselves hobbling to Arkansas to escape a Relative legally sending us to Dr. Kervorkian for an early death. Yes by all means lets vote in more leaders to keep on killing future Tax Payers and later sign our death warrants when our choice to stay alive begins to drain their political pockets. Folks, we've been had! We need Common Sense leaders. Vote PRO-LIFE, PRO-FAMILY, PRO-AMERICA Only!

Olga Hermann