Obviously, Comrade Jong-Il never had the privilege to meet your august person, else he would obviously have been forced to cede the title of World's Greatest Writer to you.

Elsewise, you are, as always, spot on with your assessment of the frustrating lack of recognition at the threat that the Islamic fundamentalists pose to the free world. Islam is no religion of peace, and the sooner that the rest of the world wakes up and makes that realization, the sooner it can be addressed in as forceful a manner as necessary.

Our next President (anyone but Obama) MUST be willing to confront Islamic extremism wherever it rears its despicable head, as we cannot afford to stick our heads in the sand and assume that 'if we leave them be they will like us', for that is a certain recipe for disaster.

As always, Mr. Prelutsky, your columns are a pleasure, and the first place that I go, whenever I visit the Patriot Post.

Patriot LE: Thank you for the kind words. The tip off that the politicians don't believe a word they're saying when they claim that Islam is a religion of peace is that they feel compelled to keep saying it because no sane person believes it. You notice that these same yahoos never feel compelled to say it about Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism or Shintoism. It's only the religion responsible for 99.9% of the terrorist acts in the world that has to be sold 24/7 to a justifiably skeptical public.

Best wishes, Burt

Good post Burt.

Well for me, the three worst Presidents of all time, without a doubt are Johnson, Carter and Obama. All three liberal democrat dolts. These Presidents have done so much damage to America, all humanity, and all the worlds posterity, that I can only assume God dozed off in 64, 76 and 08.

I realize Wilson, Buchanon and "his accidency" Tyler were fairly bad, but Johnson, Carter and Obama are inexcusable.

Worst still is the fact that their elections to the Presidency reflect the American mindset of our totally enfranchized democratic process. What are Americans thinking, or perhaps why aren`t Americans thinking.

Islam is the inferiority complex allied with its naturally arising emotion of hate, itself serving as the "fire in the belly" motivant. It motivates Islam and Islamics to pursue their superiority via a conquer, submit and enslave policy by way of hostile aggression and terror, only to ultimately rule in tyranny which in turn yields only misery.

However never fear, this doom and gloom portrait I paint, is, I`m told by all liberals, just a reflection of my racist, Islamophobic conservative mindset.

But wait, on the other hand, I tell the liberals that I am not racist, nor irrationally Islamophobic, but rather it is they who have failed to mature beyond their cowardice and their accusations of me are born of their illusion created to allow them to shirk their responsibility to mature by dumping the price of their irresponsibility to mature onto me and our entire culture.

Many have probably heard the line, "two men say they are Jesus, one of them must be wrong". I wonder whether liberals and their mindset born of illusion are correct, or whether conservatives and their mindset born of reality are correct?

Because Islam is metastasizing in the West as we speak, and in our lifetime, further because Islam is seeking total global domination, our fellow liberal citizens best hurdle their cowardice obstacle quickly. Our window of opportunity to outlaw Islam diminishes as the Islamics numbers grow. Humanity, especially America, must consolidate and contain Islam now while we can.

Islam represents the lowest level the spirit of humanity can descend to. Presidential candidates should find courage in this reality and begin the process of challenging the Islamic invasion and the liberal dolt mindset.

Woe will be humanity, when all are enslaved to Islamic insanity.

Nobama 2012, vote republican. Thank you.

Burt,

We've seen what a Muslim can do when placed in the White House.

Truth is Muslims breed faster than any race, which is suprising what with their keen interest in virgins, young boys and goats.

Another fact is that 10% are always devout, or fundamental, in their zeal to adhere to the Quran. This is true in every country they live in, including here.

By last count 10 million Muslims live here, giving their jihadists somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 potential suicide bombers.

BTW- The Quran dictates to all believers to lie to the infidel, thus allowing Barrack a clear conscience.

"...and that in any war waged between one Muslim sect and another, our place should be on the sidelines, cheering them on...."

I remember hearing someone relatively famous (Who?) say during the Iran-Iraq war, that we should support the losing side. Then, when "our" side gains the upper hand, we switch sides, and just keep doing that, eventually aiding in the annihilation of both. I thought it was a great idea as long as we didn't have to actually go fight. We didn't do it, though. More's the pity.

I only wish that your additional talent is a 100 percent success record in prognostication as I fear that the Incompetent One will be re elected. Since you are always right in all other things, maybe my fear is unfounded. Please tell me so.

PDK: I considered including LBJ in my list, but even though he only won a single presidential election, he served more than one term because of JFK's assassination.

mmc: I believe the number of Muslims in America, like the number of homosexuals, is generally exaggerated two or three-fold. It's the number of illegal aliens that tends to be under-counted. It just doesn't make sense that in the mid-90s, we were told there were about 10 million of them...and 15 years later, we're told there are only 12 million.

I figure if you add the number of fictional Muslims and homosexuals to those 12 million illegal aliens, you'd be closer to the truth.

Regards, Burt

Burt-

That's still too many suicide bombers for my taste.

I think I'm going to get a bigger screen and forgo my season tickets from now on...

You've got the basic formula working Burt. God gives (some of) us a sense of humor as the only possible way to look honestly at the big picture without the mind melting down into gibberish. My brain keeps making pictures that seem, upon reflection, to be half inevitable disaster and half wishful thinking. Who dreams we won't be hit again and hard. Who isn't deeply amazed it hasn't happened yet. Who takes seriously the efforts made, to date, at nuclear non-proliferation. Who wonders, not if, but when, and how many there will be, of lead packaged nuke bearing freighters pulling into our ports simultaneously. Perhaps the hand of God remains on us yet and it won't happen. If it does we WILL wake up. Then I see a country freeing itself from the company of enemies within. Then I see a sudden national discernment between the virtues of the Judeo-Christian Freedom and the vice of Islamic Tyranny. And the leveling of mosques nation-wide, where jihad is so much as whispered. I see 10 million American Muslims drafted, from here to Somalia where their help is needed to curb piracy. Then I see support for an Israel the size and strength of King Solomon's. Then I see an Israel accepting, to fill up the land, the immigration of 10 Million Christians who confess that Christ their Savior was and is a Jew...But I will promise you this...I'm not quitting my day job....

Burt: Jimmuh should have been pounding nails into lumber making homes for the poor instead of padding along in the halls of the White House. Or he should have kept on growing peanuts. Either way, he would have spent his time wisely.

As it was, well, soon it will be difficult to say which of them was the worst of the worst -- him or Big O.

Big O has spent his time bowing to and otherwise ingratiating himself into the good graces of those who wish us death. For that he gets a failing grade and, I hope, a helping boot out of our White House.

Burt, somewhat ironical or coincidentally, but certainly apropos to LBJ, was the, just days ago release, of the last of the JFK tapes. At some point, Jack, while nearing his destiny with an assasin or two, he rhetorically comments to Jackie, "can you imagine what will happen to America if LBJ is ever President".

Jack did better prophetizing than the Prophet Al Gore. Gores pronouncements have twice failed to materialize, while Jack hit the bullseye with his implied catastrophic LBJ Presidency.

I certainly understand your point about LBJ, but I had to include him because he alone, nobody else, decided to stop the spread of socialism in SE Asia, while advancing the spread of socialism here in America. The first with an ugly war taking 58,175 young American lives, the second with his great society program that is now doing to America what his war did to those 58,175 young Americans.

It occurs to me that a movie script might one day be written. I think perhaps a working title might be " The Three Dolt Amigos". A somewhat fictionalization of truth of LBJ, Jimmy and BHO, centering around their truthful anti American, and their destruction of America personalities, but with them all in the same time period.

LBJ can be stupid, Jimmy can be the coward, and Barac can be the anti America Messiah.

This is a script you might try. When one thinks about it, this could be a big hit and make a lot of money.

Nobama 2012, vote republican. Thank you.

Burt & PDK, don't forget to include Lincoln, FDR and Wilson in the list of worse Presidents. And before anyone says "Lincoln", show me which section of the Constitution says a state can not secede. Considering Sherman's March to the Sea he should have been tried as a war criminal if he was not killed. FDR and Wilson turned us from a Republic to a democracy.

Burt,

You're right about numbers being exaggerated if what we see on TV is any indication.

One would think some minorities and homosexuals make up the bulk of our society.

I'm waiting for the first Muslim variety show, which of course may be a bit tiresome :

Call to prayer (looong wailing...) / Sit around and smoke a hookah.... / trade some goats... / swap a few camels... / Call to prayer (looong Wailing)....

Howard: In the words of Sam Goldwyn, include me out. I was referring to the worst one-term presidents. It's PDK who went hog wild.

Jeannette: As you probably know, Jimmy Carter posed for photos, he rarely hit a nail at Habitats for Humanity. What he was always best at was pounding sand.

Burt

Burt: Believe it or not, I was going to say what you did about what it was that Jimmy was good at pounding. I wasn't sure, however, if it was very nice. I shouldn't have worried, because nothing I said about him was very nice anyway.

Jeannette: Aside from liberals who feel they have to pay lip service to Carter, I don't believe anyone likes him. For one thing, his administration was such a total disaster that the Democrats lost the White House for the next dozen years. I guess that's one thing we can give him credit for.

Burt

We can also thank Carter for giving social security to immigrants who never contributed. (Boy, they came over in droves... thousands of checks still go to PO boxes.)

Wasn't it LBJ who put all the social security revenue into the general fund?

Ahhh, those progressives are so generous with other peoples money...

Burt:

I was going over the list of people who have been president during my lifetime: Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush the Elder, Clinton, Bush the Younger, and Obama. I wasn't particularly political until Johnson, so I can't really rank Eisenhower or Kennedy. Of the rest, I grouped Obama, Carter, and Johnson at the bottom (from worst to "best") and Reagan at the top. But for the life of me I can't bring myself to grade the rest. Perhaps Ford as a nonentity should come after Reagan, and then the rest of them in a group. How would you rank them?

PSU - this is how I grade the Presidents during my lifetime. FDR he died when I was 5 months old, so from what I have read and what my father told me, he hated the bastard. FDR was Joe Stalin's best friend. Truman should have been fired instead of McArthur. But he was one President that did not come out richer than he went in. Eisenhower a RINO. Kennedy the son of a crook. Johnson a socialist and a crook. Nixon took us off the gold standard, how do you say Monopoly Money. Ford our only appointed President. A good reason to repeal the 25th Amendment. Carter totally inept and a socialist. Reagan the best President of the 20th century (even though Gingrich thinks FDR was the best). Bush the Elder a RINO and CFR member. Clinton a socialist and a degenerate. Bush the younger a RINO. Barry a communist. The only one that you can call a conservative is Reagan.

PSU: I appear to be the oldest person in the group. I was born in 1940. From best to worst, I would say Reagan, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Ford, Bush II, Clinton, Bush I, Nixon, LBJ, Carter, FDR, Obama. What an embarrassment! There are a few tough calls here. Carter was truly awful, but he only won one election; FDR won four of them and eventually got to seat eight justices on the Supreme Court!

Howard Last: Compared to the other 12, Reagan was conservative. But we should always keep in mind when we provide litmus tests for every GOP candidate these days that, as governor, Reagan twice raised taxes, cut off funding for mental institutions and signed the most liberal abortion bill in America. As president, he signed the amnesty bill that saw our population of illegal aliens soar from three million to 15 or 16 million.

Burt

Burt,

We're in a downward spiral towards a meltdown. I suppose that's the real agenda of the leftists of our country.

The rift between the left and right is too great at this point. Hell, when was the last time the left actually tried to work with conservatives?

Seems to me that any consessions in the last 30 plus years have been from the right, to the detriment of the country.

Another civil war may be in our not too distant future.

Then again, we may all have been disarmed by then.

Burt - there are three other major screw-ups by Reagan. Picked Anthony Kennedy to be a supreme. We must follow international law. Picked George Bush as VP. Picked George Schultz as Secretary of State, a CFR member same as Bush.

PSU, I was born in 54, probably similar to you I suspect.

For me Nixon was abused by the liberal MSM during his Presidency, and by liberals in general ever since because it was their boy, LBJ, a liberal democrat who started the Vietnem war, but RMN, a conservative republican who ended it.

Richard did not just end the war, but ended the war by giving America peace with honor just as he promised in his campaign of 68. Richard inadvertantly reminds liberals of their hugh canker in their pusil blossom.

Kennedy was strong on national defense, national security, pushed to keep taxes low, founded the Navy Seals and the peace corps, was pro life, furthered American exceptionalism with his race to the moon, had decided to stay out of Veitnam, and displayed strength and sagacity with humanitys closest encounter with global thermonuclear war, the Cuban missle crises. JFK was a dino, democrat in name only.

For me the list from greatest to worst in my lifetime, starting from 1961 would be, Reagan, Kennedy, Nixon, W Bush, HW bush, Clinton, and then tied for last the three dolt Amigos, LBJ,Jimmy and BHO.

I did not read Burts response to your querrie yet. However now I shall.

Nobama 2012, vote republican. Thankyou.

I forgot about Ford, I would put him after W Bush, maybe after HW Bush.

LOSER: Chris Christie for his nomination of Sohail Mohammed, a Muslim Lawyer, who represented many detainees post 911. Sohail Mohammed now has a Superior Court Judgeship in NJ.

LOSER: Chris Christie, who just nominated an openly gay black man to another judgeship in NJ.

LOSER: Ann Coulter, who claims Chris Christie is a conservative.

LOSER: Fox News, who continually, along with Ann Coulter bashes a fellow republican.

LOSER: The Republican Heirarchy. The establishment doesn't want anything, but more of the same...with of course...ta da...Mitt Romney. They want MITT. The rich establishment does not want their own apple cart upset. They want things to remain the same with Mitt,another Rich man who will get richer during his presidency, and help his rich friends to become richer as well.

ULTIMATE LOSER: The American People, who believe everything they hear from the likes of Ann Coulter, who claims conservatism, but is as liberal as Ted Kennedy. They believe everything they hear from Glenn Beck, whose horse in this race is another Mormon, just like Glenn, Fox News, who propagates what the Republican Heirarchy want...they are the worst. The worst because people have begun to believe Fox can be trusted. They are leading people around by their noses. Use your own brain and vote for the man who can really get the job done, not some "pretty boy" who looks good in a suit. If you use your vote unwisely, may you be prepared for the consequences. To vote is a duty and a gift. It should not be used frivolously or stupidly, but should be handled with GREAT CARE.

Daylo - why should Fox News surprise anyone, after all they are owned by Rupert Murdoch a CFR member. About the only thing you can say about Fox, they are the best of the worse. The New World Order is coming.

Daylo: Okay, I have my own issues with Fox. These issues are named Juan Williams, Leslie Marshall, Bob Beckel, Marc Lamont Hill, Alan Colmes and Geraldo Rivera. But it's the one place you get to see and hear Steve Hayes, Bill Kristol, Bret Baier, Brit Hume, Dana Perino, Bernie Goldberg, Laura Ingraham and Charles Krauthammer. I can't help it if their idea of fair and balanced means turning over too much time to loonies on the left, but at least they give equal time to intelligent conservatives. Which makes the contrast all the greater.

Burt

Burt: Are those "loonies on the left" the very best that Fox can get to express a left-leaning view, or are they invited simply because they are so easy to dislike? A method to Fox's madness?

Actually, Juan isn't as off-putting as some, but the others are incapable of being tolerated. I won't watch Beckel; L. Marshall makes me want to throw things at the TV, and Alan Colmes makes me want to get sick all over the TV.

I've gotten very good at muting what I can't stand listening to: I now mute Newt quite regularly. What I won't do under any circumstances is either look at or listen to Beckel.

Hey Burt, don't blame Saudi Arabia. All those teachings come from the Quran. All good Muslims must believe every word.

Jeannette: I used to wonder if Fox used those liberals in order to expose just how awful their belief system is, but I came to understand that nobody can put a good face on liberalism. On the other hand, it would be just about impossible to put a, uglier face on it than Alan Colmes and Leslie Marshall unless Henry Waxman and James Carville made themselves available on a regular basis.

2War: By "all good Muslims," just exactly whom did you have in mind?

Regards, Burt

PDK mentioned Tyler. Last week an article on Drudge had Tyler's grandson opining against Gingrich. Yes, grandson! Seems whatever old Tyler was doing politically, he was the first to marry while in the White house (wife #2) and in total had fifteen children. Tyler's son had children well into his seventies and this fellow was born in 1926. Can't you just imagine the MSM tearing that apart!

I, too, hope somebody speaks up about this muslim infestation/infiltration. Even that Repub. Norquist has an agenda and it ain't keeping taxes low. I believe the threat from muslims and their apologists-enablers is huge. (Was the slash or the hyphen in my two compoundy descriptions better?)

Thanks Burt,

Carolyn

Do you really think the current high priest of the statist religion is worse than Wilson, Roosevelt or Johnson? Those guys did some real damage to constitutional rule of law, and instituted programs that are still crippling the republic today. They not only held anti-constitutional, anti-American, fascist ideas, but they were very effective in implementing them and making their destruction permanent. Obama is like a pipsqueak, perverted Isaac Newton; he stands on the shoulders of giants.

Regarding "the unfortunate truth about Arabs and Muslims" and the Arab spring, you might find this an interesting predictor of the near future, and a lesson about the efficacy of years of pouring billions of foreign aid dollars into Egypt, which is about to become the California or Illinois of the Middle East.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/middle_east/na24ak02.html