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Alaskans Fight Back Against Palin Ethics Complaints

Well, finally someone in Alaska is starting to get the ball rolling when it comes to changing the current Alaskan Ethics Act which is being used to ensnarl Sarah Palin and her administration in a quagmire of legal actions resulting in both Palin, and the State’s Law Department, spending thousands, if not millions, of dollars, and endless amounts of time, processing and fighting an array of frivolous ethics complaints.

Kudos to the blog “As The Fire Weed Turns”. This Alaskan blogger has initiated contact with the state’s Attorney General’s office and the current plan is to find a lawyer willing to help out pro bono and then to initiate a change in the current ethics law.  Right now, anyone can file any and as many complaints as they want for free; there is no cost to file the complaint and there are no repercussions if the complaint is found to be frivolous.

Here’s what is posted on the blog:

What is going to be needed to change or an amendment to the Ethics Act is for those who put in a complaint, need to sign a confidentiality clause in which they are not allowed to speak of the complaint until after it has gone thru all the proceedings concerning is. More or less these people will remain Anonymous throughout the whole time frame of the complaint. IF they speak about the complaint, the complaint will be throw out entirely (it does not matter if the claim was frivolous or not) and the person(s) who made the complaint will have to pay the State of Alaska back in entirety all fees associated with the complaint.

Also, if the complaint does turn out to be frivolous or fraudulent in anyway, the person(s) whom put in the complaint must pay back all fees associated with it.

This is excellent news for Governor Palin, as well as all of her supporters.  How much you want to bet the MSM, and the Anchorage Daily News, fail to report on this activity; we wouldn’t want anyone to know that there are actually Alaskans who support Palin and are willing to fight back, now would we?

If anyone wants to help out or knows of an attorney will to help out up there in Alaska, just email: HelpingPalin@gmail.com .

And, by the way, Sarah is on the Time Magazine 100 most influential people list.  Romney, Jindle, Huckabee, Pawlenty, and Crist….eat your hearts out and don’t let that green monster of envy overwhelm your massive male egos.

Time Photo of Sarah

While TOTUS takes a lunch break, POTUS disses half a million Americans who attended Tea Parties

You just can’t trust this POTUS for a minute.  As soon as TOTUS takes even a short break and POTUS has to ad lib, well, all hell breaks loose; one of the many-sides of his mouth just shoots off the hip and someone, somewhere gets dissed.

Today it was over half a million Americans who got the POTUS ad lib treatment.  While talking to a group of previously screened American dupes in Arnold, Missouri, POTUS made this snide remark about the tea parties and Fox News:

“…when you see, those watching another news channel on which I am not very popular and you see folks wavin’ tea bags around, let me just remind them I am happy to have a serious conversation ….”

Have you noticed how he tries to get folksy by dropping the “g” off the end of “ing” words?  This is how he thinks us common folks talk…TOTUS would never allow him to stoop to this level; neither would John F. Kennedy, who always spoke to the American people with intelligence because he recognized their intelligence.

I am wondering who he thinks these folks are that attended the tea parties?  It seems they are folks who have nothing to do with this country, I guess; they are those who watch the network that does not idolize him, so that in and of itself must mean they are not  voters who count.

So, where is the brilliance? Does he only display his high IQ for the elite?  Where is his eloquence? I guess that’s for the elite also.  Where’s the uniter?  Haven’t seen any samples of that since he got elected.  And, is he kidding about wanting a serious discussion?  That’s why he told the Republicans that, basically, he didn’t care what they thought because, as he so brilliantly stated, “I won”.

Here’s the video of the brilliant POTUS talking without TOTUS.

Notre Dame is going to hell in a hand basket: former Vatican ambassador withdraws from commencement

Frankly, I think Notre Dame should just declare its independence from the Catholic Church and get it over with. Really, in my opinion, if you belong to a religion or any group you either walk the talk or find another walk and it appears that Notre Dame needs to find another walk, whatever that might be.

In the Catholic Church pro-life is a major big-time position and always has been.  I’m not a practicing Catholic primarily because of the patriarchy stuff (like, when women can be priests, give me a call), but I do give credit to the church for its consistency on this issue:  pro-life; against capital punishment; and the previous Pope very strongly and openly opposed the Iraq war.

So, inviting the most pro-abortion POTUS I’ve ever seen to the commencement and giving him an honorary degree is a complete slap in the face to the Catholic religion.  What the heck did they expect would happen?

The latest episode in this saga was announced yesterday when Mary Ann Glendon, former ambassador to the Vatican, announced that she would not accept the Laetare Medal-- the highest honor conferred by the University of Notre Dame-- at this year's commencement exercises.

Glendon is a Harvard Law professor and pro-life feminist who recently stepped down from her post as US ambassador to the Holy See.  She indicated that she decided to decline the Laetare Medal because of her concerns about the commencement address that will be delivered by President Barack Obama.

In her April 27 letter to Father John Jenkins, the president of Notre Dame, she wrote:

….as a longtime consultant to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, I could not help but be dismayed by the news that Notre Dame also planned to award the president an honorary degree. This, as you must know, was in disregard of the U.S. bishops’ express request of 2004 that Catholic institutions “should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles” and that such persons “should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.” That request, which in no way seeks to control or interfere with an institution’s freedom to invite and engage in serious debate with whomever it wishes, seems to me so reasonable that I am at a loss to understand why a Catholic university should disrespect it.

Then I learned that “talking points” issued by Notre Dame in response to widespread criticism of its decision included two statements implying that my acceptance speech would somehow balance the event:

• “President Obama won’t be doing all the talking. Mary Ann Glendon, the former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, will be speaking as the recipient of the Laetare Medal.”
• “We think having the president come to Notre Dame, see our graduates, meet our leaders, and hear a talk from Mary Ann Glendon is a good thing for the president and for the causes we care about.”

A commencement, however, is supposed to be a joyous day for the graduates and their families. It is not the right place, nor is a brief acceptance speech the right vehicle, for engagement with the very serious problems raised by Notre Dame’s decision—in disregard of the settled position of the U.S. bishops—to honor a prominent and uncompromising opponent of the Church’s position on issues involving fundamental principles of justice.

You go, Mary Ann!  How refreshing to hear from someone who stands by their beliefs; who walks their talk.  You are a fine example of a person of honor and integrity.  All of those Notre Dame students should be swooning over you, not some two-bit Chicago politician who talks out of not two sides of his mouth but at least eight…the man with the octagon-shoped mouth.

Other news on this situation, comes from  David DiFranco, a Michigan businessman and Notre Dame graduate, who started an effort to withhold donations to the college.

DiFranco reports that alumni have withheld a total of $8.2 million in planned donations to the Catholic college as a result of its decision to have Obama give the commencement address at its upcoming graduation ceremonies.

Defranco says, “We knew many donors and alums were unhappy with the decision to honor a pro-abortion president, but we never expected this large of a response.  We can hardly keep up, and this is only the beginning. We can only imagine what fundraisers at the University are experiencing, but understandably not reporting.”

DiFranco says the $8.2 figure is a very conservative estimate.

Of course the gentlemanly thing to do, and the most diplomatic and unifying, would be for Obama to withdraw from the commencement ceremony. And, of course, he won’t, because one of his goals is to create discord and creating discord within the Catholic Church is very important to his secular, socialist agenda because the Catholic Church is a powerful and cohesive force which, if unified, could compete with the adoration now directed towards him.

Now, we wouldn’t want people to focus on God, when they could be focusing on Obama, would we?  If he's going to hell for creating false idols (namely himself), well he's not going to go alone; the fighting Irish will be right there in the fires with him.

 

It’s Just the Flu and this White Bird Must Fly

Fortunately, I don’t own a television and it’s been such wonderful weather here I have not spent much time on the computer and when I do I don’t go to msnbc or cnn or abc or any of the rest of the MSM, so I guess you will not be surprised to hear that I am not in a panic about swine flu. 

Flu? Are you kidding me?  After weeks of rain and gloom, we are now having sunny, beautiful, warm 80 degree weather and I am truly enjoying it.  I’ve been out hiking every day in the woods; sitting by waterfalls; admiring the wild flowers….and oh, the dogwood is in full bloom.  It is definitely heavenly where I live.

Hey, folks, it’s only the flu.  People get the flu every year and some of them die from it.  Of course, that is sad, but we all have to die sometime, don’t we?  If not the flu, then cancer, or heart disease, or a car accident. 

What’s the panic all about?  Or is there a panic?  Or, better question, what is our attention being diverted from?  Or, maybe, what is it that the Manipulator in Chief wants us to support?  Or, who is going to benefit from making extra flu vaccine? 

Anyone who is falling for this ridiculous all out attempt to create a crisis when there isn’t one is a fool.  I know one thing; you won’t catch me getting some swine flu shot made up real fast in some Chicago-style drug factory.  No thank you; I’ll take my vitamins and go for a walk in the woods; sit by a waterfall; read some poetry; and express gratitude for living on such a beautiful planet.

Folks, it’s only the flu and this white bird must fly!

 

Lakotah Indians Plan Civil Disobedience: Memorial Day Fish-In

The Republic of Lakotah has given notice to Larry Long, the Attorney General of South Dakota, that on Memorial Day, 2009, a group of Lakotah Indians will enter Angostura Recreation Area near Hot Springs, South Dakota, refuse to pay the admission fee, and fish without paying the license fee. 

Angostura Recreation Area

Russell Means, the chief facilitator of the Republic of Lakotah, states that the Lakotah retained the right to fish and pass in the 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty territory and that those rights continue today.

The event, which is being billed as the Lakotah Freedom Fishing Day, is about much more than the three dollar admission fee or the seven dollar fishing license fee; it is about getting the South Dakota and United States governments to follow their own laws.

Means said, “After having been an occupied nation for over 150 years, we have asked the United States government to leave our country. Meanwhile, until the United States Government leaves Lakotah territory we will take every opportunity to insist it follow its own laws and that its states do the same.”

In the letter to long, the Treaty of 1851 and 1868 are cited:

As you may know, all members of the tribes to the 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty have the right to fish within the 1851 Treaty territory (which includes all of South Dakota west of the Missouri River). The relevant language from Article 5 of the 1851 Treaty reads:

“It is, however, understood that, in making this recognition and acknowledgment, the aforesaid Indian nations … do not surrender the privilege of hunting, fishing, or passing over any of the tracts of country heretofore described.”

Some may assert that the 1851 Treaty was superseded by the 1868 Treaty. They are mistaken. Article 17 the 1868 Treaty states:

“It is hereby expressly understood and agreed by and between the respective parties to this treaty that the execution of this treaty and its ratification by the United States Senate shall have the effect, and shall be construed as abrogating and annulling all treaties and agreements heretofore entered into between the respective parties hereto, so far as such treaties and agreements obligate the United States to furnish and provide money, clothing, or other articles of property to such Indians and bands of Indians as become parties to this treaty, but no further.”

Accordingly, under the treaties, Lakotah, and all Indians in tribes of the 1851 Treaty have the right to enter the park with no fee, and fish with no license.

Means plans to call in federal marshals to enforce the treaty rights. Means said, “According to the Civil Right Act, federal marshals should arrest any state official who tries to stop Lakotah from entering the park and fishing. However, if the United States ignores its own laws to deny Lakotah rights, it will certainly not be the first time.”

This is the first action taken since the Lakotah withdrew from all treaties and agreements with the United States and formed the Republic of Lakotah. So far, the United States has ignored the withdrawal.  But, Means is prepared for the eventuality that Long and the state of South Dakota will point to the withdrawal from the treaties as a means to block the fish-in. 

If that should happen, Means contends that:

The Indians have the right to enter the park and fish with no interference from your agents; and All agents of the State of South Dakota operating in Republic of Lakotah territory are trespassing. We are planning on inviting the press. Members of the press can either film: Indians being allowed to exercise their rights, or Your agents arresting Indians who are exercising their rights, followed by federal marshals arresting your agents for violating those rights.

Also, if you do not instruct your agents to permit the entrance and fishing, there will be more press coverage when we sue your agents under 42 U.S.C.

This historic event is planned for Memorial Day, Monday, May 26th, at 10:00 am. Lakotah will enter the park at the north entrance and fish at the north fishing dock.

Best wishes to our Lakotah brothers and sisters.

 

Weekend Meditation: Blessed Mother Theresa of Calcutta

Lately, I have been drawn to the words of two souls:  Thomas Merton and Mother Theresa.  So, this weekend, I am offering a video meditation featuring photographs and the words of Mother Theresa.  After the video are a few words by Thomas Merton.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta (August 26, 1910 September 5, 1997), born Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun with Indian citizenship who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (Calcutta), India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries.

By the 1970s she had become internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless, due in part to a documentary, and book, Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her humanitarian work. Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity continued to expand, and at the time of her death it was operating 610 missions in 123 countries, including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counseling programs, orphanages, and schools.

The beatification of Mother Teresa took place on October 19, 2003, thereby bestowing on her the title "Blessed".

 

 

"Her delights are to be with the children of men.  She is their 
    sister.
The core of life that exists in all things is tenderness, mercy, 
    viginity,
the Light, the Life considered as passive, as received.
    as given, as taken,
as inexhaustibly renewed by the Gift of God."  

(Thomas Merton)

Sarah Palin Defense Fund Up and Running

The Alaska Fund Trust has been created to defend Sarah Palin, her family, and her staff from the harassing onslaught of political attacks that have been launched since her Vice Presidential campaign. The fund trustee is Kristan Cole, a long time Alaskan citizen and resident of Wasilla, Sarah’s home town. 

Cole states:

"Over the past months it became increasingly clear that supporters of Governor Palin needed to help defend against the onslaught of frivolous attacks against her. These baseless accusations are designed to inhibit her ability to focus on the issues Alaskans truly care about and force massive personal debt on her and her family. I joined with fellow Alaskans in forming the Alaska Fund Trust to help alleviate the Governor's legal debt incurred while performing her job as well as eliminate the incentive for future attacks by her opponents. In doing so, we have created one of the most restrictive and transparent legal funds in history."

The way the fund is setup, the maximum contribution is $150.  Clearly, Sarah is upholding her populist roots and asking We The People for our support.

All that I can say is it’s about time!  It is so clear to me that the barrage of ethics complaints is a well-orchestrated, planned attack by the Obama campaign, aka the Democratic Party.  The purpose: to destroy the reputation and integrity of Sarah Palin; to ensure she does not run for governor, or if she does run that she will be defeated; and to ensure that Sarah Palin does not run for POTUS in 2012. 

As far as I’m concerned this is a sexist attack, also.  The same tactics that were used against Hillary are now being honed and refined on Palin.  What is particularly galling to me is the use of other women in these attacks.  By using women, the strategy is to prevent the cry of sexism.  It is cynical to say the least. It disgusts me that other women will allow themselves to be used in this way; to destroy a sister that we should all be proud of.  I mean, she is the first female governor of Alaska and only the second female to run as VP on a major party ticket.  Isn’t that something to be proud about?

Sisters, wake-up! Stop allowing yourself to be used by the patriarchy for its own selfish purposes.  Stop pretending that well, you don’t vote for someone because of their sex, you vote for the best candidate.  You are only fooling yourself; you are being used.  Wake up and grow up.

The latest ethics complaint is by some woman who “leaked” the complaint even though all complaints are supposed to be kept private.  When asked about this, the dupe whined that she was just an average citizen, with a special needs child, who really didn’t understand the law.  Give me a break; that is so obviously a scripted reply and the fact that she and the Dems are using a special needs child as a cover for what is blatantly a political action, is pathetic.

What also bothers me is that there appears to be no recourse in Alaska for combating these frivolous complaints.  Not only does it not cost the complainers anything to file the complaint, there is no punishment for filing the frivolous complaint in the first place. Therefore opponents continue to drum up ideas, file complaints, and leak them to the media. As the complaints disappear due to lack of evidence, there is no media follow-up on a blatant, costly abuse of the process.

How much you wanna bet that after Palin is gone and a new, male, and possibly Democratic, governor takes over, that situation will be changed?  How much you wanna bet that the complainer will have to pay expenses for any frivolous complaint and will be barred from continuing on?  I bet good old Holland French, mouthpiece and probably paid politico of the Obama campaign already has the new statute written and ready to deliver.

So, I strongly urge you all to click here and head on over to the Alaska Trust Fund and make a donation for Sarah’s defense.  Remember, no donation is too small.  Show your support for a true reformer and a strong woman. 

Below are three short audios of Kristan Cole, trustee, and Bill McAllister, Palin's staff press spokesperson, on the Eddie Burke radio show talking about The Alaska Trust Fund.

 

Earth Day Predictions 1970’s Style or Did You Know We Are In An Ice Age?

I like Earth Day.  I love Mother Earth, Gaia, and think it is always nice to spend time appreciating our home.  We have a beautiful planet and I think we should honor it more than once a year.  Actually, I honor Mom much more frequently; every time I go out for a hike I say thank you to Gaia and God for the beauty of this planet.

Every year on Earth Day there is someone somewhere making a prediction about our future on this planet, which many people consider fragile, but frankly, my experience is that good old Mom is a lot tougher than us humans think she is and that in the end she will win out. 

Mother Nature always wins is a motto I have had for most of my life and I am right on this one.  Of course, in terms of human survival, that is not always a pleasant thought because as the Earth shifts and heaves and huffs and puffs to balance whatever is going on here, the human being is not a very important consideration.  We are mere ants and if a few of us get huffed and puffed away, well, in the course of eternity that isn’t a very big deal.

Anyway, getting back to predictions, you might be surprised to learn that we are now living in an Ice Age!  No kidding!  On Earth Day in 1970, an ecologist named Kenneth Watt made this prediction:

“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”

Halleluja, praise the Lord, we are not all going to cook to death, no, rather we are now currently freezing to death!  Brrrr, I can feel it hitting me now; just where is that goose down parka I had when I lived in Maine?

And, here’s another one: you might be surprised to learn that if you live in a city you should be wearing a gas mask right now and if you are not you must be dead! 

This according to Life Magazine, January 1970:

“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”

Followed by this prediction by Harvard Biologist George Wald:

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”

This is so fascinating and it certainly lends a jaundiced eye to our current panic over what used to be called Global Warming, now known as Climate Change because, I think, the scientists are hedging their bets on what is really happening.

I personally think there is definitely something going on climate-wise on Mother Earth, but my belief is that it takes a mighty big ego to think that human beings can affect the climate of entire planet by making dirty dirty on it.  Now, I agree that by making dirty dirty we are not helping matters and, in fact, are damaging our health by breathing in our dirty air and drinking our chemicalized water, and dumping poisons in our own neighborhood.  I mean, that’s really stupid, and most animals don’t doo-doo in their own nests.  But, no, I think it takes something more than that to change the entire climate from an ice age to a hot age or vice versa.

So, the word of warning is “don’t believe anything you hear” and just to make my point, here is a list of a few more of those 1970 predictions:

“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
 Kenneth Watt, ecologist

 “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
 Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist

“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
 New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
 Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
 Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,”
 Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day

“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University

 “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”        
Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

 “Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”                                                                                                     Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.”
Martin Litton, Sierra Club director

“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’”
 Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
Sen. Gaylord Nelson

 

51% Have Favorable Opinion of Tea Parties; The Lord’s and Lady’s Strongly Disagree

No surprises here; Rasmussen Reports finds that 51% of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Tax Day Tea Parties, including 32% who say their view is Very Favorable.

Meanwhile, amongst what Rasmussen labels the Poltical Class, i.e. the Lords and Ladies who presume to run OUR country, only 13% offered even a somewhat favorable opinion, while 81% dissed the event.  Amongst thou Lords and Ladies not a single survey respondent had a Very Favorable opinion of the event, while 60% shared a Very Unfavorable assessment.

This statistic is even more telling:  one in four adults (25%) personally know someone who attended a tea party; but this figure includes only 1% of the Lords and Ladies

Hey, no wonder I didn’t see any pictures of Lady Caroline Kennedy and Lord John Kerry rallying with the masses.  My, my, our white gloves might have gotten stained touching all of those dirty paean hands.  Sniff Sniff…please pass my brandy snifter and where is my arugala salad?  Oh, Barack, how absolutely brilliant you are to not even bother noticing what the louts are doing; shine your light on Hugo, he’s real upper class.  And we absolutely adore that lovely book he gave you. Cheers to another successful journey outside our borders.

The answer to three questions are used to define Mainstream and Political Class:  1. Most Americans trust the judgment of the public more than political leaders; 2. view the federal government as a special interest group; and 3. believe that big business and big government work together against the interests of investors and consumers. Only seven percent (7%) share the opposite view and can be considered part of the Political Class.

So, I would say, the Tea Parties were a huge success.  The Lords and Ladies are more than a little unhappy with the behavior of We The People.  I would say we are doing something right!

More Power to the People. Yeah!

Reminder: Who is Barack Obama?

I found this new video over at Native Americans Against Obama and I thought it was a timely reminder about the roots, influences, and background of our current POTUS, the Usurper.

I also think it’s important for all of those engaging in the tea parties and other activist activities that are currently labeled “conservative” to remember that there are people from all segments of our society who are a part of We The People.  It’s why I keep urging people to not be too quick to affiliate the movement with a particular political party or ideology. We The People do not belong to a party or ideology. 

We the People are patriots, first and foremost; people who care about our country.  We can be red, brown, black, yellow, or white; left, right, and in the middle; Democrats, Republicans, Independents, or Libertarian.   We care about returning the power to the people.

This is from the website Native Americans against Obama:

The tea parties are the best thing that has happened to America in a long time.  They bring out people from all parties and all walks of life.  They bring to the forefront, the issue of taxes and big government.

This video will remind you of where Obama’s roots are.