Great Presidential Quotes and then there's Barack Obama....

Here are some great presidential quotes:

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

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

  

Thomas Jefferson
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”

James Madison

"The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted." 

Andrew Jackson
“Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error”

  

Ronald Reagan

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

.....and then there's Barack Obama:

"Let's Make It a Little Harder for Our Kids to Get Gunned Down"

Obama wiping a phony tear from his eye, to add
emphasis to his concern about gun legislation.

In other words, your kids are going to be "gunned down"--let's just make it harder for that to happen. Who thinks like that? Who talks like that? No one I know, except our beloved president,  who will exploit any tragedy for political gain. He wants every American thinking that their son or daughter is about to be gunned down and if we don't enact new gun legislation, our children won't have a chance for survival!

How about this, Mr. President, we already have 20,000 gun-control laws on the books. Let's begin by enforcing some of those laws. 

Here's an interesting stat cited by Sen. Ted Cruz: "In 2010, over 15,000 felons and fugitives tried to illegally purchase guns and were turned down. Out of those 15,000, the Obama Justice Department prosecuted just 44. Why is the Justice Department not going after the criminals who are already trying to purchase guns?"-- The reason why is they (the Obama administration, including the Justice Department under Eric Holder) don't want to catch too many people and make it look like they have sufficient legal resources to deal with this, because that would THWART their effort to get even MORE RESTRICTIVE gun laws! As Sen. Ted Cruz puts it, "If you have an existing law that would shut down illegal gun traffic, why do you need a NEW LAW???

None of the laws on the books, or any new gun-control legislation would have prevented mentally-ill Adam Lanza from going on his shooting spree at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

We have yet to hear our President wax eloquent on violent video games, or Hollywood films. We have yet to hear our President really tackle the issue of mental  illness and the danger that some of the mentally ill pose to society. 

With the "new rights" afforded the mentally-ill by a Democrat congress in the 1980s, we can't institutionalize them and we can't even force them to take their prescribed medication. What's wrong with this picture? 

Whose face would you add to Mt. Rushmore?

I participated in an "ice breaker" last week where the question posed was this: If you could add another face to be carved into Mt. Rushmore, who would you select? Who would you add to the four presidents carved into Mt. Rushmore? My first choice was Ronald Reagan whom I consider the greatest president of the 20th century.

He is almost single-handedly (along with Margaret Thatcher) responsible for bringing an end to the Soviet Union. Remember this famous line given in his speech at the Berlin Wall, "Mr Gorbachev, Tear down this wall!" His speechwriter and State Dept. handlers (those weasels) tried to eliminate that line in 3 or 4 revisions and Reagan kept putting it back in. He was not brain dead as the leftist media tried to make us believe, but rather, a man of conviction who believed in freedom, liberty and the evil of government intruding into our daily lives and robbing us of personal freedoms.


Then, I got to thinking. There were two more names that I wanted to add to Mt. Rushmore, and they are famous Hollywood libs. No kidding! Some of you may think I've gone over the edge but if I could add two more faces on Mt. Rushmore, alongside Ronald Reagan, they would be Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.

Why? Because both these men have been producers of some of the greatest and most memorable film projects that remind us of what it means to be an American. They have brought us face-to-face with the high price that has been paid for our freedom by making films depicting the horror of war as well as the evil of the Holocaust where one race of people sought to expunge another race from off the face of the earth!

Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's HBO mini-series' like "Band of Brothers", "The Pacific" and "John Adams" should be required viewing in every high school in America.

Here are some of the reasons why Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks deserve a spot up on Mt. Rushmore:

• Schindler's List - 1993. In Poland during World War II, kar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis. (Spielberg)

• Saving Private Ryan - 1998. Following the Normandy Landings, a group of US soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. (Spielberg)

• Band of Brothers - TV  mini-series 2001. The story of Easy Company of the US Army 101st Airborne division and their mission in WWII Europe from Operation Overlord through V-J Day. (Spielberg - Hanks)

• Flags of Our Fathers - 2006 The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at The Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in WWII. (Spielberg)

• John Adams - 2008 (TV Media Series). The life of one of the USA's Founding Fathers, its second President and his role in the nation's first 50 years. (Hanks)

• The Pacific - 2010  TV mini-series. A 10-part mini-series from the creators of "Band of Brothers" telling the intertwined stories of three Marines during America's battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II. (Spielberg - Hanks)

Question: Who would you like to see carved into Mt. Rushmore? Let me know. Leave a comment.