Do you still recognize your country?

With the Fourth of July coming up I started feeling patriotic, proud and depressed all at the same time. When I used to write my old blog I used to talk a lot about politics and current events. I wanted to focus this new blog more on western themes but I said I would dabble in politics from time to time and the week of the Fourth of July is as good a time as any.

This current president has done more to damage this country than anyone else I can think of. That includes Jimmy Carter and Franklin Roosevelt. I don't doubt that he is sincere in what he is doing but we are not socialists and he doesn't seem to be able to grasp this concept. He seems like a nice guy, a good father and would probably be a nice neighbor to have but that is not qualifications for leader of the free world.

I sincerely believe that the nation got caught up in the notion of electing our first black president (well half black anyway). Yes it was a milestone for us as a country I am glad that as a society we have moved passed those kind of racial divisions and deep seeded hatred for our brothers and sisters. But this goes back to prove my point that I've always made about quotas and affirmative action. Dont give someone a position based on the color of their skin. Martin Luther King died protesting this kind of thing. We need the most qualified and best suited candidates to fill positions, whether it is president, general, teacher, doctor or quarterback. I am not opposed to a black president but give me J.C. Watts, or Michael Steele or Condoleeza Rice. Any of them would do a better job than the current commander in chief.

It is not just the president though. There are two houses of Congress that act like crackheads who just won the lottery. There are a few good ones there like John Cornyn, Tom Coburn and even Joe Lieberman who I almost always disagree with but I believe he is a dedicated principled man. Over in the house you have people like Mike Conoway, Duncan Hunter and a few others.

Then there is the supreme court which is barely in our favor right now. When I say our favor I really mean in the country's favor when they defend individual rights, property rights and religous freedoms. That could change in the next few years.

Sometimes people feel so overwhelemed that they dont know what to do and they feel like giving up. Don't, you really do have a voice. You have to write, call or email you represenatives in congress. Any of you who listen to talk radio know this is effective. If you burn up the lines to D.C. they start to get scared and worry about their next election. They will tend to do what is right if you scare them enough. It has worked on drilling and illegal immigration, of course we have a new administration now so that went out the window, but before the elections there was real progress being made on that.

People remember you do not work for the government. Your hard earned money does not belong to them. Your property does not belong to them. Your rights as human beings, men and women, are bestowed to you by God almighty! Barak Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid can not bestow inalienable rights to you only our creator can and as much as Obama thinks he is God, he isn't and he is up for another job interview in 2012.

People are always saying "God bless America" that is much more than a song and a bumper sticker. Folks God has blessed America, over and over and over again. I read a book once called The Greatest Virtue by Reverend Pat Robertson. The theme of the book was that we have to be humble in our lives in order to be blessable by God. We have lost that, we have become very secular and very arrogant and that is why we don't always recieve the blessings we want when we do come running back to God asking him to bail us out of our latest problem. Here are a couple of quotes to make my point.

"By meditating on Christ's humility, we shall see how far we are from being humble."- Saint Teresa of Avila

"Unless humility precede, accompany, and follow up all the good we accomplish, unless we keep our eyes fixed on it, pride will snatch everything right out of our hands"- Saint Augustine

If you want another book that really explains what it means to be a conservative and what the role of America's government is all about you should really read "Liberty and Tyranny" by Mark Levin. It is the perfect guide to remind us what America was, how we lost it and more importantly how we get it back!

Here are a few more quotes about our liberty and our faith to remind you why there is no place else like the good old U.S.A.

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take it away"- Thomas Jefferson

"They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety"- Benjamin Franklin

"The constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness, you have to catch it yourself"- Benjamin Franklin

"That government is best, that governs least"- Thomas Paine

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then the dumb and silent may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - George Washington

"All men having power should be distrusted to a certain degree." -James Madison

"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."- James Madison

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here."- Patrick Henry

"It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible."- Theodore Roosevelt

"I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning...."
"A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty."- Ben Franklin

"It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness..."
"I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance by faith, and you will live and die a better man."- Abraham Lincoln

"Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty." – Abraham Lincoln

"The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth."- George Mason

God and Texas,

Jason Watson