See what she has there?  Does it look familiar at all??

Yep, she’s got a version just like mine

H/T to Ace for alerting me to this shot

Dear President Obama, My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don’t believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.

I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos’n Mate. Now I live in a “rest home” located on the western end of Pearl Harbor , allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.

One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man.

So here goes.

I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish.

I can’t figure out what country you are the president of. You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like: ” We’re no longer a Christian nation” ” America is arrogant” – (Your wife even announced to the world,” America is mean- spirited.. ” Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to 23 generations of our war dead buried all over the globe who died for no other reason than to free a whole lot of strangers from tyranny and hopelessness.) I’d say shame on the both of you, but I don’t think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House.

After 9/11 you said,” America hasn’t lived up to her ideals.”

Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War? I hope you didn’t mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers, husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around, because we stand for freedom.

I don’t think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected.

Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man.

Shape up and start acting like an American. If you don’t, I’ll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue . You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves.

And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don’t want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts , who was putting up a fight? You don’t mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don’t want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are, terrorists.

One more thing. I realize you never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your life, but you’re the Commander-in-Chief now, son. Do your job. When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him. But if you’re not in this fight to win, then get out. The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you’re thinking of.

You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president. You’re not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy. That’s not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now. And I sure don’t want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle…

Sincerely, Harold B. Estes

I doubt the Teleprompter in Chief will listen, but I bet the next one will.  Of course, Sarah Palin has always been a patriotic American, one reason I like her so much.

My Conservative Identity:

You are an Anti-government Gunslinger, also known as a libertarian conservative or Tea Partier. You believe in smaller government, states’ rights, gun rights, and that, as Reagan once said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”

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H/T to Jennifer (she’s a giver too)

Regan returned us to a strong economy, a strong military, and a belief that America was exceptional.  A lot of things that had been forgotten during the Carter years he helped us remember.  For that I will always be grateful to him.

I could see this speech being given today, and being just as accurate.

I could see Sarah Palin giving this speech.  Maybe in three years we will.

I love this too

She says, “If Palin runs again, I’m going to run on a Republican ticket. What I know about Middle Eastern policy could fit on a thumbnail, but I still know more than she does. You have to ask, how could a nation nearly vote in somebody who isn’t qualified for the job?”

Well first, you insignificant twit, you are right that you don’t know shit from a hole in the ground but, just because you watched Katie Couric’s interview doesn’t mean you know a damn thing about what Sarah knows.  She has managed to run a town government, a state government, negotiated deals with Canada as well as forcing oil companies to drill on the lands they had leased so that we could have the oil and natural gas we need, and did it all while raising a family with her husband.  What the fuck have you done besides write some crappy songs that no one really listens to?  Do you even balance your checkbook or do you have someone do that for you too?

Also, I would say that her stint as a Mayor and Governor make her a heck of a lot more qualified than the community organizer in chief who only got where he is by selling out to the highest bidder.  See, by being a Mayor and a Governor she had a lot more responsibility than just voting “present”.

Second, if you’re going to run on the Republican ticket you actually have to BE a Republican and if you go that route you will prove that you are as big a joke as the Baldwin boys claiming they were going to move to Canada, France or some other fucked up country if someone they didn’t like won the election.  Of course, they didn’t – much to my disappointment.

But Amos feels more positive about the future of her country now U.S. President Barack Obama is in power: “I’m a lot more hopeful. The (George W.) Bush years were really difficult times if you were an American who loved your country. Having someone now that so many people respect doesn’t mean there aren’t going to be problems, but so many problems have been left behind.”

“Someone that so many people respect”??? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME???  Who?  The God Damn Terrorists?  Because he sure ain’t feeling the love here, or haven’t you seen the polls recently, sunshine?

Yeah, a -16 is really a bunch o’ love for the World’s Favorite Socialist, Dr Utopia.

And what “problems” have been left behind???  The problem of actually fighting terrorists since he certainly doesn’t want to do that.  Or maybe it’s the problem of us actually having jobs since he’s screwed that pooch too.  Affordable health care that we can choose to have if we want?  Nope, that’s gone under the wonders of Obamacare.  And please don’t try and say that “Oh, the people are all for this” since 57% of people are strongly opposed to it and only 25% are for it – hell, that’s worse number that Obambi has, and that’s hard to do.

Quit dying your hair, princess, it’s affected your brain.

**Update**

Since commenter Mike was heartsick over my use of a certain word, and since it is the Christmas season of giving, I give him an updated title to this post.

Conservative stuff and killing zombies.  Life is good.

“No, that’s fine, I’ll find it myself.  I’m going to look around a bit first”

Ten minutes later, as I’m showing another customer to 1984 I run across her in Literature looking around and she barges in to the conversation I’m having with my customer and sneers “Where is the section on Women’s rights?”

I tell her again “It’s upstairs and I’ll be happy to take you to it as soon as I am done here.”

“No, I can find it myself.”  Note the lack of a ‘thank you’.

Sooo, as you can probably guess, I end up helping another customer find the Christianity section, which is upstairs, and as we get to the top of the escalator that same woman is standing in the middle of Independent Readers YELLING “Is there SOMEONE ACTUALLY WORKING here who can HELP ME!!!!”

Once again (because we were slammed with customers) I offer to show her the section and she is bitching the whole way about how the women’s studies section should be near the front of the store because it’s so important and how this author’s book  should be on display because she’s doing a signing tour in California right now and she’s a NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST!!

Well, we get there and we have no copies.  She flips her shit over it and repeats how wonderful this writer is and how we should all be required to read her crap and then says “Why don’t you have 900 copies here?!?!  You have plenty of room!  Her book should be displayed all over the store to inspire women everywhere about what they can do!”

I had to.

I know it was wrong but what can you do when the set up is that perfect?

“Well, ma’am, we were going to but we’re saving that spot for Sarah Palin.”

**update**

Welcome to everyone from Brutally Honest, Texas4Palin, wizbang and elsewhere else in the interwebs.  Thanks for the linking and I must say I am stunned that this has been so popular.  Now all I can ask for is a signed copy of “Going Rogue” with the inscription “Instinct,   Thanks for saving me a spot – Sarah”

That would be most awesome.