Embarrassing isn’t it to be you? Is this supposed to be a scholarly piece? Name calling and labeling seems to be an outgrowth of your current presidents divisive style and you have followed along like a true sycophant.

Whiskey and Gunpowder, if we want this garbage we can go to a site that specializes in this nonsense. Continue it and we will.

In fact, the free market miracle (primarily based on principals found in Adam Smith’s” An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”) that propelled America to greatness is the bane of socialists, fascists, monarchists, communists, and community organizers everywhere. Such statists search in vain for that evasive successful example of a nation in which centrally planned wealth redistribution and fiat currency led to prosperity (fiat currencies always eventually fail and unfortunately all governments today use them and endorse Keynesian economics).

Indeed, Mr. Hader does not appear to like the fact that America has been so powerful in the past and almost gloats at her apparent loss of power and prestige. He states that in the past we used “military might to compel leaders there [in Asia] to bow to Washington’s dictates.” He accuses “nutty loudmouths,” Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck of overreacting to Obama’s deep bow at the waist. Further, he refers to President Nixon’s “bow” as proof of the hypocrisy of the conservative media. Of course, Nixon’s “bow” was simply a slight arch with hands at his side conducted simultaneously with Hirohito (a mutually respectful greeting in that part of the World in stark contrast to Obama’s obsequious kowtow), but such details don’t matter to Mr. Hader because it might refute his unfounded point that the conservative tea party movement and conservative media are hypocritical.

Of course, Obama’s bow is much more than a protocol error. It is significant because he has been touring the world since his inauguration apologizing for America’s past transgressions. It is relevant because his pastor for the last twenty years, Jeremiah Wright, is known for his anti-American and racist rants. It is significant because of Obama’s association with Bill Ayers, the Weather Underground Communist terrorist of the 1960’s (a movement that despised America and actively sought to undermine it). Nonetheless, Mr. Hader disrespects our intelligence by writing that the reaction to Obama’s bow is “probably just another example of the kind of hysterical Obama bashing that has engulfed America’s flagging political right since last November.” He conveniently omits the fact that there is so much wrong with Obama’s past and present that one could write a book about it. Oh wait, there have been many books (please see Culture of Corruption, The Case Against Barack Obama, and the Obama Nation to name a few), which explain many disturbing things about the “man-child” president (to quote Rush Limbaugh).

After making the bad case that Obama is a victim of “hysterical bashing” (notice the left always needs a victim), Mr. Hader puts words and thoughts into the mouths and heads of the ubiquitous “right wing universe” by claiming that “the non-reality based community” overlooks the weakened state of our economy and blames Obama for the recession and military weakness. The truth is that most tea party protesters are sick of the “two-headed snake” of big government that uses two parties, a corrupt Federal Reserve and deficit ridden budgets that continue to run our country into the ground. We have not had a true free-market economy and a political system based upon individual responsibility for many years. Nonetheless, Obama’s (naturally congress’ as well) grossly excessive budget this past year and proposed entitlement programs earn him a special dishonor since they drastically expedite the weakening of the United States of America. It seems that he intends to redistribute the wealth of this country so that we are all equally poor. According to an article earlier this year by Michael Boskin of the Wall Street Journal online,

“Mr. Obama’s $3.6 trillion budget blueprint, by his own admission, redefines the role of government in our economy and society. The budget more than doubles the national debt held by the public, adding more to the debt than all previous presidents — from George Washington to George W. Bush — combined. It reduces defense spending to a level not sustained since the dangerous days before World War II, while increasing nondefense spending (relative to GDP) to the highest level in U.S. history. And it would raise taxes to historically high levels (again, relative to GDP). And all of this before addressing the impending explosion in Social Security and Medicare costs.”

Mr. Hader, quick to criticize conservatives who support military power, recommends reducing such expenditures as a way to diminish U.S. indebtedness. He claims that those supporting a potent military while advocating for more fiscal responsibility are being hypocritical. More noteworthy is his omission that the costs of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other entitlement programs dwarf that of military projects. Of course, we all know that entitlement programs are scheduled to be drastically increased under the current congress’ leftist expansion.

Regarding Afghanistan and Iraq, many conservatives simply want to complete the mission with alacrity and dispatch. Projecting weakness by enforcing political correctness at the tactical level and maintaining an indecisive posture can only limit our chances of leaving both areas as quickly as possible.

Mr. Hader’s article reflects a misguided analysis of conservatives and tea party supporters. To read Obama apologists such as Mr. Hader, we can go to the Main Stream Media (MSM). Whiskeyandgunpowder.com typically publishes far more professional articles. Nonetheless, I applaud Mr. Hader for upsetting me so much that I was forced to write this contemplative response.