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Sunday, October 12, 2008
Phil Harris :: Townhall.com Columnist
America Needs a Trustworthy President - Not a Lawyer
by Phil Harris
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I don't know, but coming out in the light of a national election, these denouncements are not convincing at all. The integrity that Obama (allegedly) keeps in his rear pocket has been waved in our faces, sort of like flashing a badge without giving us time to read what it says.

Democrats hold a majority in both Houses of Congress, and Democrats have been wailing incessantly, telling the American people how Republicans (especially G. W. Bush) are to blame for everything wrong in America. These are lawyers, people, and 68% of you believe lawyers are not going to be truthful.

Sixty-nine percent of Americans polled believe that Actors are the least trustworthy of all, and that they are least likely to tell the truth. Yet, actors hands-down are stumping for Barack Obama, a lawyer who ranks only one percentage point higher in trustworthiness than actors. The Actors are considered the least capable of telling you the truth, yet many Americans have believed them, accepting their assessment of what is good for America, and who is to blame for the problems we face as a nation.

None of this makes any sense folks. Why don't you listen to that common sense voice that guides you in all else that you do. Actors and lawyers are working overtime; spending tens of millions of dollars trying to convince you to ignore that little common sense voice. The least trustworthy want you to give them even more power. They want you to put more lawyers in Congress and they want you to put a lawyer in the Presidency.

If Americans really want "Change for America", I might suggest that throwing lawyers out would be a great place to start. There is no doubt that a lot of dysfunction exists in government, but the lawyers want you to believe that they are blameless.

Look more closely at the innocent grin on the fox's face, and you may detect a feather or two, caught on his whiskers. Lawyers are masters at deflection, and the deflection of blame from lawyers in Congress seems to come effortlessly and without any hint of remorse.

Lawyers have more than half the power of our Legislative branch of government. It makes absolutely no sense to hand the office we need to trust in most, the Presidency, to someone we instinctively trust the least, Barack Obama, the lawyer.

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Phil Harris is a software engineer, author of Cry for the Shadows and blogs at Citizen Phil.

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Don - The Enemy Ace...
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...took a total of *FIVE* BuAer serial numbers off the government property list.

Number 4 was on the deck of the *USS Forrestal*, in which Crash Test Johnny was sitting, preparing for take-off, and of which he was officially in charge when it got whacked by that Zuni.

There have been stories ever since that McCain - ever the prankster - had been complicit in causing the fire by "wet-starting" his A-4 to cause a burst of flame from his tailpipe to startle the crew of an F-4 on the flight deck behind McCain's attack jet, possibly inadvertently causing the F-4 pilot to trigger the launch of that Zuni missile.

No proof had been sought by the Navy to evaluate this possibility, but given McCain's "Maverick" personal and professional reputation as a Naval Aviator....

Gotta give him credit for that deck-toasted Skyhawk, though. It was signed out to John Sidney McCain III when it went up in flames.






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"Shut up and die like an Aviator!"

- Senior U.S. Navy fighter pilot to rookie panicking over the radio during air-to-air combat in World War II

Two lawyers are running...
Obama and Biden are lawyers.

McCain and Palin are not lawyers.

But McCain lost four planes as a pilot.

Elect Palin President.

"Obama Timeline" at:
http://colony14.net/id41.html

"What Obama would do..." at:
http://colony14.net/id35.html
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