The Founding Fathers tried to set a precedent, and gave us words of wisdom to bear in mind to keep our country free:

But our country did not achieve its independence just because of these brave, brilliant men. No, the women were right there with them:

Lest the women get short shrift, this one focuses on three women in particular who served their country during the pursuit of our Independence:

Now, we have this amazing woman to remind us of the importance of our freedom:

Finally, take heart – even the smallest of numbers can make the greatest impact:

So, Happy Fourth Of July, everyone.

And to my big brother, Dave, Happy Birthday. I am so proud of the man you have become. You’re the best!

Supporting their own demise. Like good little lemmings. And Cultists.

I tell you. Our prospects aren’t that promising.

If it is any consolation, a recent poll confirms that the electorate believes our country has veered away from the principles of it’s founding. And it’s founders.

CNN poll: Most say Founding Fathers wouldn’t be impressed

According to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey, 69 percent of adult Americans who responded to a poll June 26-29 said the signers of the Declaration of Independence would be disappointed by the way the nation has turned out overall.

So realistically 31% of Americans believe we are on the right course.

Not even a third of us.

And this all took place in the short space of a few years.

“In 2001, 54 percent thought that the signers of the Declaration of Independence would be pleased with the state of the country today.”

A 23% shift of confidence in 7 years.

23% closer to tyranny.

Words from one of the most enlightened and pragmatic of our forefathers mean nothing to Obama. He thinks that he knows better than this very wise man. After all, what good is a 4th Amendment if it gets in the way of positioning oneself politically to appeal to the right?

Keeping one’s word? That also means very little. Once you hoodwink the folks into believing you it’s time to move on. Screw em! Who else are they going to vote for? Certainly not that old man that will vote the exact same way.

And so it goes. On into perpetuity. There is no new politics of hope. It is just some fancy slogan that makes people believe and thus support you. It has exactly as much meaning as the phrase A Thousand Points of Light. A slogan that the elder Bush admitted meant absolutely nothing. A staffer wrote it and it sounded good. So they kept it and attempted to make it seem like it was a political strategy. A force to unite the country.

Move over Papa Bush. You don’t know who you are messing with here. Barack is the king of the Hoodwinkers. No doubt about that.

Here is how he justified his betrayal of our Constitution.

The bill has changed. So I don’t think the security threats have changed, I think the security threats are similar. My view on FISA has always been that the issue of the phone companies per se is not one that overrides the security interests of the American people.

Go ahead an watch him say it yourself. If you have a strong stomach that is. I thought that shit was supposed to come out of one’s ass.

And I won’t have it! It’s just so mean and so unfair! LOOK at these blog posts, will you????!!!! I’m dividing these posts into the “Ahhhhhhhhhhhh” (Leave him alone, he tired boy!”) and the “Cackling with glee” posts. (I’m collecting so if you spot any, please, please share below in the comments!)

IN THE AHHHHHHHHHHHHH, LEAVE HIM ALONE department:

MARC AMBINDER — he writes for the “let’s be mature and ‘across the aisle’ about this” for latte elites my-magazine’s-way-older-than-your-magazine Atlantic Monthly — and he’s the head of the “YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED FOR LAUGHING” DEPARTMENT:

From The “If McCain Did This” Files Obama, below, is tired, nothing more. … But if John McCain did this — if he mistakenly said he’d visited 57 states — the media would be all up in his grill, accusing him of a senior moment. Just saying….

FROM THE CACKLING WITH JOY DEPARTMENT — NO MATTER HOW YOU SLICE IT OR DICE IT, JUST PLAIN MEAN DEPARTMENT:

CAN HE SPELL “POTATO?” — [OHHHHHH that's brutal!]

SISTER TOLDJAH blog tells ya what’s what about all this:

He made these gaffes almost one year to the day after he claimed “10,000″ had died from the Kansas tornadoes, when it was actually only 12.

John Hinderaker at Powerline points out that the media won’t even come close to treating their Golden Boy like they did Dan Quayle’s gaffes.

Or President Bush’s, for that matter.

Marc Ambinder correctly points out that if McCain had said any of this:

[…] the media would be all up in his grill, accusing him of a senior moment. Just saying….

Yup, but maybe just for laughs McCain should strike back at Obama’s accusation of him “losing his bearings” by referencing Obama’s flubs and suggesting that the inexperienced, rookie Senator from Illinois apparently isn’t getting in enough daily naps.

Tom Elia quips:

Personally, I don’t think it was a ‘tired mistake’ as much as this is just how Chicago Democrats are used to counting during elections and election campaigns…

Tigerhawk suggests:

Of course, there is another explanation beyond the steak sauce theory or the traditional lame excuse that he was “tired” (yeah, right, like Winston Churchill used that excuse) or that he’s “lost his bearings”: Barack Obama is an imperialist! His mistake was not in counting the states properly, but in failing to say that he wants to visit 57 states. And who doesn’t? Why didn’t he say that he wanted to bring back “manifest destiny” a little earlier in the campaign? That would have helped him with the Reagan Democrats. For sure.

Heh.

I’d love to see someone come up with a bumper sticker design related to this. I’d display it proudly

“V” sent me a link to a blog that now has special lapel pins for all 57 states. Maybe Barack’ll wear this one?