FATHERS DAY

Father's Day 2011 has come and gone.  I'm wondering if the president's family history makes that holiday hard for him.

President Obama married a strong woman and together they have steered their ship toward the harbor of a solid home.  Those little girls seem to adore their daddy and I'll bet he is a good daddy.

The cycle of brokenness seems to have stopped in the president's  generation, but still...those old heart holes must nag. 

An absent father-wound rips a huge anger portal.  His mother's absences and his moves from pillar-to-post must have been problematic.

As a teen, his grandparent's choice of mentors was unfortunate.  They turned him over to Frank Marshall Davis and it would be an understatement to say Mr. Davis was waaay off in the negative numbers for mentor-potential.

All the president's influencers taught him to see the world through eyes of radical strife.  Little Barry Soertoro carried a load that he had no control over.

                                                              But who would know that to look at him now?

Barack Obama has prospered in life and has been set in the highest place of authority and leadership.

President Obama has been in office two and a half years and has seen all the sparkly eye candy that the White House trappings afford.  He's been saluted and pampered; he has moved among people all over these United States.  Up until now, Americans have fawned over the man with great affection.  I just wonder if this is the country he thought it was?  Or that Michelle thought it was?

Have the president's experiences resulted in a philosophical watershed?  How could a person NOT understand our history after they have lived in a house full of precious artifacts?  Surely the documents from our framing have had an impact.  Has he searched the faces in those portraits of courageous men who led before him?  Does his heart stir when "Hail to the Chief" is played?  Has his view of black opportunity changed?  It would seem that all his mentor's advice about the white race...now has had to be rethought.

Until 2012 it is President Obama's charge to guard the liberties of ALL of us.  But as his change is instituted, our hope is draining.  People sense that our country is hanging by a thread.  Just as President Obama must have longed for a solid family, we long for a solid connection to liberty and justice for all.

Lately I've been convicted about not regularly praying for my president by name.  I am a Christian and my book calls me to pray for those in authority over me.  Since I disagree with his policies, my prayers in the past have gone something like this:  "Oh, Lord, HELP our country!"  But that is SO not the heart of prayer that He calls me to offer.  I never have prayed in depth for the man.

I never have said "Father, Barack Obama is made in Your image.  You loved him when he was a confused and isolated little boy and You love him now even as he sets his seat high.  Open his eyes, Lord.  Help him see that Your gospel has nothing to do with the black liberation theology that he espouses.  Show him how to bow to a real King and SERVE the people under him...just as he has promised he would.  Help him realize that the system he bucks is the same opportunity that gave him access to his office.  Lift his veil, Lord, and show him Your governance so he can turn and practice wise governance.

I pray for Barack Hussein Obama, Father.  I ask You to take him to the Damascus road.  And I make this prayer in Jesus' name."

ALL ABOUT ANTHONY

Has there been enough said about Anthony Weiner?

If this Congressman had an inordinate need to make himself known, that is certainly what has happened.

Narcissism pushed it's way past any potential concern of shame he would cause his wife...then went past any stain to the family name for his future child...then bowled over his high calling of leadership, and then slapped God in the face.

But perhaps if Anthony Weiner had been "@hisrightmind", those choices would have been no-brainers.

So what makes John Edwards and the Governator and Eliot Spitzer and Mark Foley and Mark Sanford and Bill Clinton and Anthony Weiner all lose their minds and become self-destructive?

Doctors-With-Couches can explain the compulsive behavioral issues, the power issues, the addiction and exhibitionist issues.  But at the end of the day Anthony Weiner has a sin issue.  Sin won't be dallied with because it wants to be master.  There's an old familiar phrase that comes to mind:  "sin will take you farther than you wanted to go, keep you longer than you wanted to stay, and cost you more than you wanted to pay".  That repeats the thought of the hymn words "I'd rather have Jesus than be the king of a vast domain or be held in sin's dread sway".  This Congressman underestimated the power of sin's dread sway.

Many years ago someone gave me an acrostic (SEE) that helps me remember that sin wants to keep me from seeing clearly.  Sin promises me S(satisfaction), E(excuse) and E(escape).  That acrostic helps me understand Anthony Weiner's humiliation.

Sin promised him satisfaction. "Wouldn't it be great to have a stringer of adoring women who are impressed with my brand?"  But the promised satisfaction was fleeting...and then required more and more rebooting.

Sin promised an excuse.  "This wasn't real sex."  "I'm connecting with my constituency and contributing to my popularity."  "It is hip and young to sext and send racy pictures."

Sin promised escape.  "Huma is away.  Besides, I've already told her some of this."  "I am powerful enough to slip the noose if I'm caught.  Or I'll blame the accuser."

Anthony Weiner is getting a WHOLE lot more exposure than he ever dreamed of, but now he's overexposed.  Who could take him seriously now?  He SAYS he is taking responsibility, but what responsibility does not have consequences?  Now it's uphill sledding for the Congressman because he is not trained to fall back on another profession and he doesn't want to quit.

Here are some reactions from the man on the street.  "It's his personal business and has nothing to do with his job".  "I support Rep. Weiner because he's done a good job for us."  "He will go away to some rehab and be cured."

1.  Nothing to do with his job?

First, there are pictures of him both in his office and in the Congressional bathroom, where he snapped pics of himself without clothing.  So he seems to have lost his vocational focus.

Then his requested job-leave certainly affects his work.

But infinitely more important, the question that I don't hear being asked is "what about how the risky behavior of this man could have affected our nation?".  He IS married to a woman who is the top aide to our Secretary of State.  Could there be possible opportunity for blackmail there from a foreign government?

Anthony Weiner does not have the option of corrupt personal business when he assumes the mantle of a public figure.

2.  Rep. Weiner has done a good job?  That does not deserve a dignified response.  The intensity of his abrasive personality does not lend itself well to a mercy plea.  Now he has lied in several ways.  His behavior lied in passive ways.  Then when caught, AW boldface lied about himself to the nation and was just about to involve the FBI in an investigation.  Then he purposefully damaged the truthteller's name by defamation of Breitbart's character.

3.  Will the Congressman get fixed?  Do people really think a man who has forty-six years of accumulated behaviors will go to rehab for a couple of months...and get straightened out?  Who ARE these people on the street?

This man should be on his face before the Lord, begging for forgiveness for the abject mess he has made.

But what a complicated situation!
Congressman Weiner is Jewish (although on his Wiki page, he says he did not come from a religious household), his wife is a devout Muslim, and Jesus is the answer.

There are MANY young people who regularly send suggestive emails and pictures; they do not see this behavior as problematic.  But the real question is what would God say?  Is sexting problematic?  We know that things with God are all about the heart.  He has said that if you look on a woman to lust for her, then you have committed adultery in your heart.  The Lord wants a pure heart and His standard is waaaay above what the world demands of Anthony Weiner.

So can the Congressman be forgiven?  Is God that good that He would offer His Son for a liar, a thief who stole a man's reputation, brought shame to his family, and could have compromised the nation's security?

Here's a little story to answer that question.  Back in the 50's there was a comic strip called "Dennis the Menace".  Dennis was a little tow-headed trike rider who could find trouble effortlessly.  He had a pal named Joey and an older couple who lived next-door, the Wilson's.  One day Dennis and Joey were leaving Mrs. Wilson's front steps with a cookie in hand.  Joey says "why does Mrs. Wilson think we deserve a cookie?"  Dennis replies "you got it wrong, Joey.  Its not that WE are so good, it's that Mrs. Wilson is so good."

God is all over the redemption page; He specializes in second chances.  He is that good.  His Son is the atonement Anthony Weiner needs...the Passover Lamb.  The Congressman still would have the horizontal consequences, but his vertical channel would be clear.  Sin prowls and seeks our demise, but we serve a loving Father who has made provision for sin.  And His patience waits for us to ask for Jesus' covering.

Yes, God IS good.  Hope your choice is to believe that, Anthony.  He loves you more than you could imagine. They say on the news you are now despondent about your situation, but brokenness can be a path.  Call out to Jesus.  That's why they call Him the Savior.

"God wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth." 1 Timothy 2.4

"NO, I HAVEN'T SEEN YOUR LIPSTICK!"

Fables are spun out of cotton candy and air.  But  sometimes they're as obvious as the lipstick on your face.

Americans are called constantly to swallow fables that are economically implausible.  We are WEARY of being insulted.

Think about being told we are in a recovery summer...or that there are jobs saved/created or shovel-ready... or that we can be saved by the slush fund called stimulus... the bogus your healthcare costs won't go up...the ridiculous I won't raise your taxes...the miracle we staved off a depression...and blah, blah, blah.

Reality says our May job numbers are dismal even though President Obama called them "a bump in the road".  Half of those meager 54K new jobs listed were McDonald's jobs.  No one is hiring or creating in a hostile business climate.

Unemployment is @9.1%.  Food costs a fortune.  Gas bites.  We've lost our home value, which was our nest egg.  Spending continues to freely pour out of a boot.  Government regs squash free enterprise. We pay Brazil to drill for oil so we can turn around and buy it back...and we have joined into another expensive armed conflict in Libya.

Where is the way out of this financial morass?

After 2.5 years in office, all this can no longer be hung on the last guy.  The big my bad belongs to someone else.

And that someone has had a flawed plan from the beginning.  If you tried to SPEND your family's way out of debt, it wouldn't work.  Government is no different; government cannot create wealth.  They can pay a man to work a shovel (with MY money), but when my money runs out, so does the "job".

Criticizing the plan usually draws the "racist" or "party-hack" label.  Sometimes criticism is even judged to be unpatriotic (as in..."why would you NOT want your president to succeed?").  The kicker is that from the beginning, the economic policies were predictably catastrophic...and now the fruit bears out that claim.  Who WOULD want their country to slide down that dead end?

So here we are.  Now what?  Does the president have Plan B, or do we continue with his A game?  Stimulus Three, anyone?

JOPLIN

Gotta love an imaginative, entrepreneurial spirit.  For 5K, you can get some guys to come dig out below your garage slab and insert a fraidy hole.  The car is parked above it, but there is still room to slide the lid open and get in.  I'll bet those companies pick up the business now!

Well, if you lived down South this spring, you would be considering a fraidy hole, too.  Arkansans are used to tornadic activity and STILL we have been frightened.  Why?  The tornados came after months of out-of-a-boot rain and flooding, which came after ice storms, 24" of snow, and a minus 20 degree temp.  We are scratching our heads here.  Since I don't have enough faith to believe a global warming theory, does that mean the world is coming to an end?

We're certainly closer to that than we were yesterday.  Jesus called the days He lived in "the last days" and that was 2,000 years ago.  It MUST be the last of the last days.  Disasters are coming more frequently and with greater fierceness.

The people of Joplin had a twenty-minute warning on May 22nd, but where would you go if you didn't have a concrete hole?

Where would there be protection from a wind that sucks paint off a house and implants a brick into the side of a red Chevrolet?

Yesterday a dozen from our church went to Joplin.  One team worked with the Salvation Army to assimilate supplies.  The second team went out to homes with four chainsaws and assorted log bearers.

The home where we served was missing the hospitalized grandmother, who was making her way into the bathroom to be safe when the tornado hit.  The wind blew out the bath window and the grandmother was picked up and slammed against the hall wall, breaking her hip.

You might wonder why the lady was late getting to her safe place if the alarm had been sounding for twenty minutes.  Perhaps the 76-year-old was having difficulty getting there.  But sometimes when I hear the tornado warnings, I don't want to be interrupted until I really need to be.  So I keep one eye on the sky and proceed with my agenda.

As we later drove through the swath-leveled neighborhoods, you only saw matchsticks.  There are piles and piles of matchsticks as far as the eye can see.

I know that Solomon was the wisest man on earth and he said all of life was vanity.  But I'm thinking if he had seen Joplin, he might also want to add "matchsticks" to his assessment.  All their dwellings, Barcaloungers, and toys are all bulldozed out by the curb and worthless.



What endures?  Only God's people and God's Word go into eternity.  No one gets out alive from this world...but then, this world is not our home.  This is just the dress rehearsal.  According to Colossians 1.17, the One who spoke all this world into existence also holds it all together.  And if the Lord is slightly removing His protective hand, men will begin to realize how much protection we've taken for granted.


I like what Dr. James Denison said:  "God redeems what He allows, in ways we see and ways we do not see".  If this weather is a warning, and if this weather causes people to look up...then it is a good thing.  Souls are important and eternity is a long time.  I wouldn't go sit on the porch in Joplin or Tuscaloosa with sirens blasting, and I wouldn't fail to sandbag my home along the Mississippi River.  By the same token, I wouldn't ignore God's words about what is coming.

God is a gentleman.  There are lots of black books laying around that spell out His plan and there are churches on lots of corners.  They are like sirens going off to deaf ears.  Still, the Lord is a Grand Auctioneer, calling out "fair warning!".  Dr. Denison pointed out that God warned people before the destruction in Noah's day.  He also sent Moses to warn Pharaoh, and He sent prophets to Assyria and Babylon.  The Lord said in Revelation that those with ears to hear should listen.

Perhaps people intrinsically know that God is speaking through all this freaky weather.  It IS causing some to look up!  But we can't just keep one eye on the sky and proceed with our agenda.  Scripture says the Lord is a high tower; the righteous run in and are saved.

That means they give up their agenda, and ask God what His agenda is.

They tell the Lord that they are sorry for "going their own way".

They ask Him to make Jesus' sacrifice count for their sin...and they start living for Him.

And reading His book.  And getting together with His people.

And praying and growing.

Remember that fraidy hole at the beginning of this blog?  Make Jesus your place of safety.

VALUING INTEGRITY

In these divisive days, there might be one thing that everyone could agree is profitable.  Integrity.  That's a word that we recognize when we see it, but wrapping words around it might be tricky.

How would you describe integrity?

Could it be that a person has integrity when all of their lifehats mesh?

I am a wife, mother, Mimi, citizen, church member, Christ lover, retired teacher, friend, and blogger.  All my life areas have hats, and all the hats should mesh like the teeth of a gear.

On the political stage, there have been

some recent obvious illustrations for the lack of integrity.

The Governor of California threw in an outside woman hat that didn't mesh with his husband hat.  Proverbs says "the one who conducts himself in integrity will live securely, but the one who behaves perversely will be found out."  

In Governor Schwarzenegger's case, it took 14 years to be found out.  But think of the terrible stripping sound when the gears clashed in their home.  Pray for the pain and shame of that betrayal as it falls on the innocent. 

Newt Gingrich's private life is complicated.  He has promised three women he would be there "till death do us part".  Some folks may set that aside because they feel it is more important for the country to have a political professor who gets our need for historical context in the national debate.  But there are more troubling details.

When Callista Gingrich released financial disclosure records in 2006/2007 as part of her government job, there was a considerable revolving charge account debt.  Some might argue about the validity of challenging their spending habits, but I find two compelling things.  The debt was very large (a quarter to a half mil), and it was "trinket debt" (@Tiffany's).  Doesn't such a case define the country's number one problem...as it relates to debt?

Americans go for flashy candidates, but then we can't figure out why they disappoint.  Presidential hair does not make a leader with a core.  Can it be enough for a candidate to SAY they have a God hat, or shouldn't we reach for men/women who have a demonstrable life of integrity?  Only One was perfect, but doesn't a credible life-resume MATTER? 

When President Clinton was our leader, we were told that his compartmentalization didn't matter because the economy was good.  Really?  Now we have a generation of young people for whom oral sex is humdrum.

Unmeshed lifehats DO matter.  Intelligence is not more important than fidelity.  Prosperity is not more important than godliness.  Character qualities come together in a package or the package comes apart.

When our lifehats are all submitted to God's authority, the intersection is integrity.  So let's find a leader who shows in their resume that they have ALREADY lived such a life.  Let's reach for a person with common sense and dignity...a person who can seamlessly wear multiple hats without stripping any gears.

Let's value integrity.

ENMITY (noun: feeling of hostility)

This bluebird fam hatched babies @our friend LeAnne's house in the country.  She LOVED watching their whole process until yesterday when a black snake helped himself to a breakfast buffet of the baby birds.  LeAnne totally hit the warpath.  It's an old enmity thing; there is eternal enmity between the snake and the woman.


Running down the hill to the bluebird house, LeAnne found the snake still curled around the box.  You may know that snakes are stupefied after gorging and sit still to digest.  So much the better for LeAnne's fury.  She shot him, then hacked him into pieces.  Later that day, she had another enmity surge as she saw another black snake (albeit an innocent one) and killed him for good measure.


The snake in the garden of Eden was a troublemaker, too.  When he tempted Eve and she and Adam tasted the knowledge of evil...innocence went wanting.  So began enmity between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan.  Because the deceiver is a murderer, he killed our first parents' relationship with God.  But our omnipotent and loving Father had a plan to get us back.  The promise is in Genesis 3.15.

"And I will put enmity between you (Satan) and the woman, and between your seed (Satan's children) and her seed (Jesus); 


He (Jesus) shall bruise you (Satan) on the head (@resurrection) and you (Satan) shall bruise him (Jesus) on the heel(@cross)."


Matthew Henry describes the battle:  "the fruit of enmity is a continual conflict between grace and the corruption in the hearts of God's people.  Satan corrupts, assaults, buffets, sifts, and seeks to devour them.  They (by the exercise of their graces) resist him, wrestle with him, quench his fiery darts, and force him to flee.  Heaven and hell can never be reconciled, nor light and darkness.  Neither can Satan and a sanctified soul be reconciled, for these are contrary the one to the other."


The Genesis verse shows that from the beginning, the fight has been settled.  A child (Jesus) is promised and that Rescuer will win the battle.  Still, Satan doesn't seem to have gotten the memo.  He persists in his fight to be Numero Uno - against the One who IS the First and the Last.  Their fight requires that the rest of us pick sides, and we have since 4000BC.


There were times when Satan thought he had gotten rid of the coming Messiah.  The devil figured if he got rid of the Jews, he could destroy the Messianic line.  Satan knows that at the end of time, Jesus consigns him to the Lake of Fire.  No WONDER Satan has repeatedly tried to knock off Israel.


The Jews know that putrid smell of Satan's sulphur breath.  Pharaoh and Herod both killed innocent baby boys and quenched generations.  But Satan's two largest murderous lunges came in 473BC (@ Esther's story) and in our lifetime (@the Holocaust).  Here are some interesting similarities between these two events:


ESTHER
Did you happen to see the movie "One Night with the King"?  That is Esther's story, and it's on Hulu @ http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi729745177/

The guy in Esther's story who wears the black hat was her enemy Haman.  He was an Amalekite (Agagite), a people who plagued Israel for years during the time of Joshua and Gideon and even David.  They were a people in Ishmael's line, born to a concubine of one of Essau's sons.  They were known for not fighting a frontal assault, but for conducting raids from behind.  They were particularly cruel and killed the young, the sick, and the helpless.  Their king was King Agag and God had commanded King Saul to take out Agag and all the Amalekites.  God has good reason to order the death sentence, but Saul didn't obey.  That disobedience was costly.  1Chronicles 4.43 speaks of a time 300 years forward when 500 leftover Amalekites were finally put to death.  Those Amalekites were Haman's family tree.


When Esther's story is told, Haman finds out she is a Jew and hatches a plot to destroy her race.  Esther trusts that the Lord is with her for a time such as was before her.  She prayed and fasted and then proceeded into the king's presence to plead for her people.


How could Haman's plan have affected Jews around the world?  The Persian empire WAS most of the known world in that time.  So when the edict gave permission to kill the Jews, that meant the Jews worldwide.  Esther's courage was the difference in life and death.  Since that day, Jews celebrate Purim (meaning casting lots or fate); Haman cast lots to decide which day to attack the Jews.  Purim celebrates the woman who saved her people from extinction.


THE HOLOCAUST
Everyone knows about the genocide that removed 6 million Jews from the face of the earth.  That number represented 75% of the 9 million Jews who lived in Europe at that time.  Satan must have smiled to think how close he was to destroying God's chosen.

Here are some similarities between Esther's story and the Holocaust:


A. Haman and Hitler both led an effort to eradicate Jews and both came to a just end.


B.  Haman had ten sons who all were hanged on the gallows.


During the Nuremberg trials, there were twelve associates of Hitler who received a death sentence.  Martin Bormann was already dead and was being tried in absentia.  Hermann Goring committed suicide the night before his execution.  That left ten men to die by hanging.


C.  Haman died, then ten men were hanged.  The Jews survived.  Hitler died, then ten men were hanged.  The Jews survived.


D.  One of the condemned Nazis (Julius Streicher) screamed "Purim Fest 1946!" before the noose was put around his neck.


E.  The Talmud describes Haman's daughter as also having committed suicide.  She would be the eleventh death in Haman's plot.  Hermann Goring was said to be a transvestite.  His suicide was the eleventh Nazi officer's death.


The Bible says that 75,000 Persians perished as a result of Haman's treachery.  We know that perhaps as many as 17 million died at Hitler's hand (without even counting the Allied deaths).  What sickening numbers.  Satan does come to kill and destroy.


Esther was an orphan born into a conquered people who lived in a foreign land.  Who could have guessed she would have ANY influence, let alone become the queen of the known world?  Would she be flabbergasted to find that after 3,000 years, a movie was made of her life?  There is no telling how many people have been emboldened over the years after reading of Esther's courage.


Satan has a history of interference, but the God we serve is a big God with a plan that will be accomplished.  And at the end of the story, Satan goes to a fiery pit and all the world will celebrate the lack of enmity in the world.


Meanwhile, we remain alert for the hissing.

DITHER DIMENSIONS

How long is a "dither"?

A dither was measured in months... when the Iraq surge was waiting.

A dither was measured in days...when the captain was bouncing in the Arabian Sea with Somali pirates.  That is, they bounced until the SEAL team marksmen took the pirates out.

But a dither was only 16 hours when the CIA thought they had OBL and waited for the President to pull the trigger.

Credit for pulling the trigger?  Yes.  But probably by that time, too many people already knew Osama was in the crosshairs and no other decision could have been reached.  Still, let's give the President credit for going for that plan over the bomb option.

What?  No need to give him credit because President Obama has already taken the credit?  In his speech about getting Osama, Obama ran the personal pronouns into the ground.  And then there was the media hype about all the pressure the President was under.  Surely that caused a sweat ring in his golf shirt from that morning's golf game.

The raid had a small glitch with the helicopter, but the White House was Glitch City.  There was much adoo about that situation room picture.  Later the WH had to admit they weren't watching the take-down because the raid wasn't filmed inside the compound house.  National Security Advisor John Brennan, the administration's first voice, said there was a 40 minute firefight and five died.  Later that version had to be pulled back.  Brennan bristled and said "well, I wasn't there".  The narrative was that Bin Laden was armed, then that he was going for his gun.  OBL had a wife-shield, then he didn't.  Press Secretary Jay Carney took over and said Bin Laden was unarmed and was shot twice.  But Carney couldn't bring himself to credit the waterboarding intel.  CIA Director Leon Panetta said there would be a picture; the WH said there might be a picture and then said there wouldn't be a picture.

This bunch is the gang who couldn't shoot straight.  Their only part was to say yes and then report it.

President Obama's large credit-grab didn't fly with the public because the polls say he only got a small bump.  People can sniff a poser like a cheap toupee.  Everyone knows that the President stood for NONE of the things that made that capture work.  Although OBL went down on this administration's watch, this President has worked tirelessly to change the perception of the terror war.

REDEFINITION

The war on terror became a more mellow "Overseas Contingency Operation".

Terrorism became "Man-Caused Disaster" and terrorists are "foreign fighters".

JUSTICE TOOK AIM AT HER OWN COUNTRY

A former SEAL team was prosecuted for giving 

a foreign fighter a fat lip during his capture.

There was much talk of prosecuting the former administration 

for protecting the country.  That put a chill on CIA recruitment/morale.

Attorney General Holder spent two years trying to bring the "foreign fighters"

to our country, give them citizen rights, and put them on trial in NYC.

The administration said "no" to military tribunals 

and "yes" to a mosque near Ground Zero.

PATRIOT ACT

The President is trying to dismantle the tools that served us well in the Patriot Act.

Previously the NYTimes had squalled about "domestic wiretapping"

and the SEAL team was called "Cheney's Assasination Team".

The outcry against "torture" and "black sites" in Europe was deafening.

But waterboarding is not torture and the black sites delivered OBL.

Perhaps people who have REALLY been tortured would be able to explain

the difference in losing a body part and flooding the nose.

The NYTImes and others refuse to accept  
that waterboarding gave us the couriers.
But here is a video of Leon Panetta in his own words...

http://winteryknight.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/cia-director-leon-panetta-confirms-that-waterboarding-led-to-osama-bin-laden/

GITMO

With bravado, the President orders Gitmo closed...then cannot find a way to do it.

Some Gitmo prisoners are released, only to return to the battlefield.

DEFENSE SPENDING

The President is cutting back on military spending.

The SEAL team gave America swift justice.  Now the mass murderer will not have a Miranda warning or be lawyered up.  There was no checking with the UN or other governments.  The operation that brought the ladies of The View to euphoria...was planned and executed by THE GOOD OLE USA, using the prior administration's guidelines that BHO had to adopt.  Pure irony.

And American's "get it".  All along the President has led from behind.  Then at the last minute Sunday, he conquered his dither and basked in the sunshine.