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American soldiers. Eventually, it aided in our withdrawal from Vietnam, and we all know how things went after that. In the wake of America’s exit from that part of the world, Pol Pot, a Communist mass-murderer in neighboring Cambodia, killed more than two million of his own people. Both North and South Vietnam fell into chaos.
    Flash-forward to now. Vietnam is in business with the United States. China, too. And Russia. And everybody. They could have all had it back then if they had just done it Nixon’s way and gone capitalist when we told ‘em to. So just remember, the blood of every American solider who died in Vietnam is partly on the hands of every antiwar journalist and every hippie protester, and so is the blood of the American political system and the blood of President Richard Nixon. And let’s not forgot that the corpse of the American people’s trust in government is buried in their backyard.
     
    Richard Nixon.
     
    Still my president.
     
    Rest in peace, great American.
     

     
     

 

It’s Not About Left And Right —It’s About Respect
     
    know all of you have been waiting for me, your New Champion of All Things Conservative, to start taking aim at President Obama. Although there are many verbal shots to take, there is something I’d like to share that will hopefully enlighten Obama Bashers and Obama Supporters alike. Regardless of my personal feelings, he is, first and foremost, President Obama. He was elected by the people of my country—the country I love, support, and would die for. He has chosen to take on one of the most difficult, time-consuming, stressful, and poorly paying jobs on earth. And personally, I believe his intentions are honorable and that he is doing his very best.
    Out of respect for the man, and the office, I call him president. I do not agree with many of his policies; I am philosophically opposed to many of his political positions; and he and I hold radically divergent opinions on most topics. But as a man, and as an American, I feel it is incumbent upon me to support him, even if that means being a member of the “loyal opposition.” My support may come in the form of silence. It may come in the form of respectful dissent. But it will be supportive, for the sake of my country.
    I would like you readers to give that a moment of thought. Then, I would like you to compare my approach with that of President Obama’s supporters in the years prior to, and even during, the election he won over John McCain.
    Answer me this: Were they behaving as members of the “loyal opposition” when:
 
They were ridiculing, mocking, and belittling George W. Bush?
     
They used every means, fair and foul, to malign Bush, question his intelligence and decision-making capabilities, and describe not only him, but also his wife and children, in terms of contempt, cruelty, wickedness, and anger?
    Why was it then (and still is now) that those on the left, the so-called progressives, always seem to fight the dirtiest? Why is liberal politics always the most cutthroat? Where was that type of personal, vicious attack on President Obama’s character, his intelligence, his very worth as a person, from the Right during the campaign? It didn’t exist.
    For eight years the liberal Democrats put their own feelings, their own hatred, and their own viciousness in front of the needs of their country. Because they hated—absolutely hated—President George W. Bush. And yes, ladies and gentlemen, liberal politics is the policy of hate and aggrievement, first and foremost. Just listen to liberals speak. Watch their actions. You can literally hear and see the hatred leaching out of their bones, forming a poisonous cloud that infects everyone around them. Let me make a few things very clear:
 
Liberals don’t love the poor; they hate the wealthy.
     
Liberals don’t respect justice; they hate and seek to destroy anything they perceive as unjust.
     
Liberals don’t even love their own ideas; they just hate