Charlie Daniels – Better Off

A True American Patriot

When you look at a presidential candidate, you are faced with the sobering fact that, if elected, he will be the most powerful person on earth for the next four years and have power over not only weapons of mass destruction, but also the economy, foreign policy, social and civil rights issues – and the quality of your life.

New candidates have to run on a limited record of public service, their character, their personality and their believability.

If the person is an incumbent, that person should stand on past achievements and the accomplishments, or lack thereof, in the last four years.

Being a good president requires much more than being a nice and charismatic guy, a good public speaker and looking good for the television cameras.

A president is supposed to be a leader, a pacesetter, a father figure, a pursuer of justice, and a champion of the American way of life, defending it around the world verbally and militarily, if necessary.

A good president is a good administrator who realizes that he can’t possibly be everywhere at the same time, that he needs capable assistants to take care of the details and strong competent men and women who have the experience and ability to run departments of government, leaving him free to tackle the big problems and oversee the work the people under him are doing.

The president is the face of America to the rest of the world. Every word that comes out of his mouth is diced, dissected and analyzed by foreign leaders around the world and has to be carefully chosen so as not to show weakness or vulnerability.

A president can’t be a crybaby or petulant or petty and should, above all, take responsibility for his actions, good or bad. Harry Truman said it best, “The buck stops here,”

When we examine whether or not to elect an incumbent, we should not just ask ourselves: Am I better off than I was four years ago? We should also ask: Is the country better off than it was four years ago?

Let’s look at Barack Obama’s four years in office.

One of the first things Obama did was to tour the world, apologizing for America’s greatness and bowed to a Muslim king who is one of the worst human rights violators on earth.

The prestige of this nation has fallen ever since.

Do you feel better about America’s place in the world than you did four years ago?

He surrounds himself with incompetence and inexperience. Eric Holder alone is enough of a testament to Obama’s weakness when it comes to appointing capable personel.

Holder’s tenure has been an unmitigated and unparalleled disaster. In the hands of Holder, justice is not blind and certainly not colorblind.

His refusal to turn over pertinent documents pertaining to the Fast and Furious debacle, in my opinion, means that he’s got something to hide. There is no way possible that a gun running operation that crosses international borders could possibly have happened without the approval of the head of the department, if not approval at an even higher level.

Holder is not Attorney General material. The man seems to think the Constitution is a list of suggestions. He is dangerous.

Do you feel better about the Justice Department than you did four years ago?

Tim Geithner’s understanding of the street level economics is either non-existent or well hidden. He looks and acts like a lost child.

Do you feel better about the treasury department than you did four years ago?

Have you flown lately? If you have, you probably got a taste of Janet Napolitano’s style of Homeland Security. It seems that the TSA just goes from one blunder to another and there’s simply no telling how many terrorists have crossed our border with Mexico unimpeded.

Do you feel safer now than you did four years ago?

Obama has had more Czars that the entire history of the Russian Monarchy and, in most cases, we don’t even know what they do.

Obama has shown his contempt for the Constitution on several occasions. He has also shown his contempt for the will of the people with his sneaky midnight legislation and further corrupting of the already corrupt houses of Congress to get his socialist agenda passed over the will, and behind the back, of We The People.

Do you feel that your government represents your interests better than it did four years ago?

Obama’s whispered conversation with Russian President Medvedev, when he thought the mics were off, bespeaks what a second Obama term would be. And, his message for Vladimir that “after my election I’ll have more flexibility” is a harbinger of some dealings with the Russians he wants to hide from the American voting public.

His secretly recorded “guns and religion” statement seems to pretty much sum up how he feels and talks about Middle America when he thinks it can’t hear him.

Do you trust the president more than you did four years ago?

A net two million jobs have disappeared under Obama, the national debt has grown to sixteen trillion dollars and is getting bigger every day,

Do you feel better about the economy than you did four years ago?

Obama has been the most socially divisive president in my lifetime. He fans the flames of racial and class envy any time he thinks it will benefit him politically.

Do you feel better about race relations than you did four years ago?

Obama talks about all the jobs he saved by bailing out General Motors, but many of those jobs are overseas and don’t benefit the American economy or tax base at all.

His chosen head of the White House’s “Jobs Council”, Jeffrey Immelt – the head man at General Electric – moved the manufacturing of GE light bulbs to China.

Do you feel better about keeping your job than you did four years ago?

And how about Tom Vilsack’s Agriculture Department wanting to tell farm families the age at which their children can operate machinery. Mr. Vilsack is evidently out of his depths and knows very little about the family farm.

Do you feel better about raising your family without government interference than you did four years ago?

Kathleen Sibelius should be called the secretary of health, welfare and abortion because she has at least as much interest in terminating the unborn as she does in health and welfare.

Is the country better off than it was four years ago?

What do you think?

Pray for our troops, and for our country.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

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Charlie Daniels – This Ain’t No Rag It’s A Flag

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This video is made in tribute to a great band, The Charlie Daniels Band, and a great country. I think everyone should have pride in their country, and the symbols that represent that country. I think Terrorists and those who sponsor terrorism are simply cowards. I hope you enjoy my video tribute to the Flag of the United States of America. “United States”

An Open Letter to President Obama By Charlie Daniels

Excellent letter by a true patriot.


I write this letter as a patriot, a taxpayer, a lifelong resident and as concerned citizen of what I consider to be the greatest nation ever known to man, the United States of America.

I am Caucasian, so let’s get the racial aspect out of the way to start with. This letter has nothing to do with your race. I lived through the cruelty of Jim Crow and segregation and learned early on in my life that the color of my skin does not make me better or worse than any other man.

We all remember Martin Luther King, Jr.’s statement about judging people, not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character, and I believe that with all my heart.

I believe that America is an exceptional country. We have been liberator, benefactor and leader of the free world for centuries. America is an example of what can be achieved by free people living under the free enterprise system.

We have led the world in technology, industry, science and medicine for a long time.

Our capitalist system guarantees that those who explore new worlds and bring us new products and better techniques are amply rewarded for their efforts, and this is as it should be.

A person who is the first one to get there and the last one to leave, who burns the midnight oil and never gives up until they realize their goals, are a boon to humankind. They’re the ones who discover new cures, start new industries and create jobs.

These people deserve to be rewarded for their hard work and for the products and services they bring to make life better for all mankind.

Mr. President, it is my personal opinion that you want to take the well-earned rewards of these people and give it to those who have done nothing to deserve them.

It’s really redistribution of wealth, and it’s nothing new. It’s been tried many places before and it has miserably failed in every one of them.

It’s called socialism.

Am I calling you a socialist? Yes, I am. I firmly believe that you are a socialist and a globalist, and that you think America should have a comeuppance and have our playing field leveled to match those of other countries not as industrious or as innovative as we are.

Mr. President, how can you support the building of a mosque in the very same area where Islamic radicals murdered so many Americans?

Just who’s side are you on?

Am I accusing you of being a Muslim? No I’m not, but the jury is still out a little bit on that subject in my mind, because many times your sympathies seem to lean in that direction. You need to watch who you bow to Mr. President.

You have betrayed a whole generation of African-Americans who voted for you because they really believed all that junk about “hope and change,” they really thought you were going to do something great and the only thing you’ve done is to make their jobs disappear and their health insurance go up.

You and your party have corrupted duly elected officials in an effort to get your legislative agenda passed. Remember the “Louisiana Purchase” and the “Cornhusker Kickback,” and that’s just a couple we know about, but you bought off a bunch of congressmen and senators, knowing that you were going against the will of the majority of Americans, because you think that you and your arrogant friends know more about what’s good for America than the citizens your disastrous actions effect.

Am I accusing you of being an elitist? You bet.

I don’t believe you take the Islamic threat to America nearly as seriously as you should. You use semantics like “Overseas Contingency Operation” and “Man Caused Disasters” to soften your rhetoric toward people who would like nothing better than decapitate the entire population of America.

And Mr. President, if you’d really like to know the kind of warriors who are fighting the “Overseas Contingency Operation,” and you would like to really know about what kind of enemies they’re fighting, you should read a book called Lone Survivor by a brave, young Navy Seal named Marcus Lutrell who went to hell and back for his country, and is still a dedicated patriot. I think you’d find it enlightening, Mr. President and after you finish it would you pass it on to Janet Napolitano? And by the way, tell her that my invitation to take her to Iraq and show her some “Man Caused Disasters” is still open.

Am I calling you naïve? Absolutely.

You seem to think that America has an endless supply of tax dollars for you to waste and give away, and the debt you’ve piled up could well bankrupt the greatest nation on earth.

Am I calling you a failure, Mr. President? With all due respect that’s exactly what I’m doing.

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