We shall see. I am encouraged by the volume of solicitations I receive via the US Postal Service, most of which cite our current president as the biggest problem in the country.

What we wish, we readily believe,

and what we ourselves think, we

imagine others think also.

----Julius Caesar (100 BC-44 BC)

While at dinner last night we were seated next to a table of black folks. The conversation ranged but the most salient discussion pertained to the upcoming elections. It was a large table and it seemed, to a person, that our Dear Leader has proven a disappointment.

We could not help but notice the other listening ears at tables surrounding us, and were interested to notice the small smiles, sideways glances, and nods of the other diners upon hearing the comments.

Let them call us "extremists". It only gives us more free air time and furthers our cause. As Glenn Beck said, and any logical American voter knows, "Fiscal responsibility is not extreme, it's common sense".

By the way, at the 9/12/2009 Tea Party rally in DC we also picked up our own trash (but then, according to the lamestream media, there were only 20,000-80,000 of us)and stacked it in and around the available trash receptacles, and this year we had volunteers to help - and larger receptacles. I would venture a guess that the same was done at the Apr 15 rallies.

If it's Bush 50, Obama 42 I'd say the threat to return to big bad bush is probably not going to work.

The democrats are holding a copycat tea-party-like rally on 10-02-2010. I will be very interested in comparing the tone of the speakers and the attending crowd, as well as the condition of the National Mall following the event.

I get confused over which were right wing, the Visigoths or the Ostrogoths.

Hey Charles. Along with Glen Beck's rally, I was at the 9/12, 2009 march on Washington as well. When it was finished, the grounds were clean as a whistle.

Phil Dollison

Charles, as a neo-conservative, how do you feel amount America commitmenting agressive unConstitutional, unDECLARED wars against 3 countries, and now conjuring up a 4th (Iran), establishing military bases all over the world and yet leaving both of OUR borders porous? How do you feel about unconstitutional search warrants with no judge signing off on them, how do you feel about enacting laws with Congress always asking the question, "What would Israel think about this?"

I just hope real thinking conservatives will one day wake up and realize that the Pax Americana you lust for in endless, wealth-draining idiotic nation-building wars is total evil.

Rtaylortitle, I cannot speak for Dr. Krauthammer, but I can surely answer your questions.

In the first place, there's no such word as "commitmenting." In the second place, your Leftist pals didn't have any objection to undeclared wars in Vietnam or any of the numerous places Bill Clinton threw American muscle around. The only time you Leftists drag that adjective out is when a GOP President sends our military into action. When it was Clinton, you all said it was a fine thing.

As for Unconstitutional, you can't be serious. For one thing, you might actually read the document in question, paying particular attention to the part where the President of the United States is in fact -- as well as in title -- the Commander in Chief of the United States Military. See also the sections where he is given the power to send troops into combat without Congressional approval.

Then there's your peculiar math. I'm aware that during the Bush years, we invaded Iraq and deposed a bloodthirsty dictator with nuclear ambitions. We then installed a Democratic government which has held no fewer than 5 Democratic elections since our "illegal aggression." I'm also aware we invaded Afghanistan in pursuit of al Qaeda and bin Laden, where we deposed a drug-producing, terrorism-exporting, vile thug-ocracy and are even now attempting to erect something like a Democratic government. But try as I might, I can only get that tally to add up to 2. Countries, that is.

I know, you're probably going to complain that we have hurt North Korea's feelings or something, but until you can show we "illegally aggressioned" NK, I'm afraid that doesn't count.

And you can complain about Iran all day long, but unless we do something about that lunatic state pretty dang quick, you'll have to do your complaining from the bottom of a mushroom cloud. I know you Leftist "thinkers" like to pretend that there aren't any bad guys in the world, except America, but the actual bad guys have a different opinion of the matter -- and theirs is the one that counts.

That brings us to your unbelievably dishonest assessment of our porous borders. A quick history lesson for you, since you're obviously VERY young and weren't yet on this planet when the following events took place: all through the 60s and 70s, the DEMOCRATIC PARTY, led by such towering figures as Ted Kennedy, enacted various measures that made porous the very borders you are complaining about. People like me angrily protested, and in the 80s a US President you probably never heard of, named Ronald Reagan, tried to nail down border security. He was bitterly opposed by YOUR Democrats, led by the same buffoon Ted Kennedy. They proposed a "compromise" by which Reagan would agree to Amnesty and in exchange the Democrats would agree to tighten border security. Reagan saw this as a way to achieve the goal in a bi-partisan manner, and he agreed.

The Democrats took Amnesty -- and then promptly said there was not enough money this year for border security; we'll do it next year. They said the same the following year. And the year after. And the year after that. And pretty soon Reagan wasn't President anymore, and the Democrats immediately forgot the agreement altogether.

Every single attempt to tighten the borders since then has been met with vicious charges of racism, lawsuits, manipulation of public opinion, protests, counter-legislation, fillibusters and every other flippin' trick the Democrats can muster to keep those borders open. So do not even think about whining here or anywhere else about how the GOP has let the borders stay porous, buddy, because it's YOUR Liberals who made it that way and they're the ones keeping it that way.

How do we feel about allegedly unconstitutional search warrants with no judge signing off on them? Well if such a thing had ever happened under Bush, we certainly would have been alarmed, but I'm afraid you're seriously misinformed. The Patriot Act did not allow any such thing until after Obama changed it. NOW it does what you claim. Your Liberal President did it so he could spy on people like me. How do YOU feel about it, bud?

How do I feel about Congress asking "What would Israel think about this"? A darn sight better than I feel about Congress and this President constantly making decisions not based on right or wrong, or on what's best for the country, but on how the blasted MUSLIMS feel about it. Funny how you have no problem with THAT, but your major concern is over whether we're being too kind to Israel. I guess it's not hard to see where YOUR mind is.

Idiotic, wealth-draining, nation-building wars? There is nothing idiotic about keeping nukes out of the hands of bloodthirsty Muslim regimes. And I note with disdain that none of you Liberals had the slightest issue with Clinton's rampant nation-building, even when he was doing nothing more than wagging the dog to keep Americans' eyes diverted from his impeachment. Every one of you defended THAT. Funny how that works.

But that doesn't really answer the question, and I did promise an answer, so here it is. Dinesh DeSouza answered it most eloquently. "America is not trying to impose Democracy everywhere. America is merely trying to encourage it SOMEWHERE." It is impossible to argue that Iraqis are not better off today than they were under Saddam. To even attempt it is a lie they themselves refute. Stop reading the mindless, dishonest drivel at the New York Times and Rolling Stone and start talking to people who've actually BEEN to Iraq, worn a uniform and put his life on the line to bring them freedom. Nobody at the NYT or those other Liberal rags thinks that matters.