The case against films that make me laugh and get emotional for all the unintended reasons is strong from my possibly unpopular view.  For one, they rarely include discharging firearms, laser helicopters fighting cyborg sharks, or Jackie Chan.

But the lack of awesomeness found in most romantic comedies only tops the con list.  Of the myriad other reasons to change away from Nora Ephron-written or -approved films aside from their nausea-inducing properties is that the credits begin when the story should.

Most films that focus upon a coupling treats the start like it’s the end.  The events whereby either Jennifer Aniston or Lopez meets her respective dream guy by chance and ends up in his arms despite personality differences, misunderstandings that at the time seem fundamental, and an engagement to Bill Paxton may seem cute.  But that’s only at first glance.

In reality, the point after each party has consented to being together is when the hard yet fulfilling work of creating a meaningful relationship truly begins.  With that in mind, the best case against romantic picture shows is Barack Obama, who obviously let his wife choose what cinematic offering they were seeing on most of their numerous date nights.

It may be gentlemanly, although not quite manly, that he nearly always went along with her theater ticket wishes.  But he clearly allowed too much of the sap dripping from the screen to get in his pores.  Thanks to the influence of seeing too many movies end in a happy couple that hasn’t been together long enough to have an argument, he thinks his work stopped on election night.

I blame Hollywood for our present lousy administration.  It’s fun to accuse the unentertaining entertainment industry of acting detrimentally in any situation, and not just because quirky thinker and speller John Cusack works there.  In this case, the film generators don’t so much ignore life’s tribulations as they misunderstand where they take place.  Similarly, Obama thought he was in a successful connection with America without even getting to the first date.

That takes us to the most misdirected feature ever, namely the disgustingly cutesy story of a charismatic smiler who bumps into us on the sidewalk one day and sweeps us off our feet an hour and 40 minutes later.  Needed Change starring Barack Obama is about a protagonist who thought landing a significant other led to perpetual happiness.  But beating out John McCain only meant the courtship may commence.

For Obama, the point of getting elected was getting elected.  He treats governance like an annoyance; his irritation seemingly indicates he thought the tricky part was over.  After all, he famously asserted that his mere nomination would make the Earth splendorous and trouble-free. Why would anyone be surprised he’s half-assing the job when he thought acing the interview would alone provoke success?

He also thought life for all would be smooth sailing after his climactic winning speech in the Chicago park.  Unfortunately for him, the plot continues.  That confuses a man who has obviously been handed the wrong script.

Accordingly, he bristles at any criticism or question that implies his awesome wonderfulness has not necessarily been transferred to the world.  It’s an offshoot of his philosophy: leftist claptrap is difficult to implement and even more useless at improving our circumstances. Who could be surprised that our affiliation with him has turned rocky?

We already know his statist convictions will lead us only into sustained misery.  Viewers have already found out what happens to the Obama/America couple, and let’s say that the ending won’t test well.  One of the leads turned out to be fantastically unappealing, too.

Blessedly, the story has a definite concluding date.  There will be no sequel where we find out what happens starting in year five of the relationship, as the pairing will be dissolved before then thanks to how many of us have wised up to his shenanigans.

We’re not just slightly mismatched: we’re like Glenn Beck and Rachel Maddow being brought together with the Reverend Al Sharpton presiding over the ceremony.  Replace the wedding cake with Little Debbie snacks, and the disaster is complete.

It’s some of our fellow citizens’ fault for being seduced in the first place.  To them, Obama was charming enough to get himself a date or two.  But at least his attempted conquest is noticing that he keeps forgetting his wallet while never asking about what we think.

That’s not even to mention his troubling dinnertime talk about how he wants to commietize our economy, the difference being that the Soviets at least had the sense to spend plenty on army stuff.  Sure, military funding pushed them into superbankruptcy, which was remarkable for a country that had no money.  But they still believed that even their crummy system was worth defending.  Our present companion would never willingly fight for our honor even after he’s emptied our wallet.

Actually, someone should produce a follow-up that doesn’t present a formulaic ending.  Let’s ditch him.  He can be the schlub we’re engaged to whom we lose for Liam Neeson’s sake.  That simply means the flick isn’t over, which in turn means we could still get an ending we enjoy.

Maybe we’re in the midst of a cliffhanger.  Dumping Obama and finding the presidential partner who actually completes us would make for the happiest plot twist ever.  As with so many romantic comedies, the present presentation contains neither romance nor comedy.  But let’s watch what happens next.  I may enjoy it even if the yet-unseen hero isn’t equipped with a flamethrower chainsaw.

Anthony Bialy is a freelance writer and “Red Eye” Conservative in Western New York.  He blogs at http://thebuffalobean.com and tweets at http://twitter.com/AnthonyBialy.

That said, hacky excursion narratives have their limits.  While they fit within the context of a paper that may never make it past your front bushes, they’re not quite presidential.  Of course, Barack Obama isn’t quite presidential himself, either, which explains why he’s working for an endless weekend.  He’s actually been doing his assigned tasks this week, which is notable due to the fact it’s notable.

If you’re among the one out of about 10 Americans who remains unemployed, know that Obama envies you.  The only man paid more to toil less than the head of state is Conan O’Brien, and even he’s managed to get rehired.

Obama doesn’t understand why anyone would bother with strenuous employment.  Can’t you just get someone to ghostwrite a book and slap your name on it so you can harvest royalties and work only when you feel like it?  Such a surefire method for generating income will be our president’s next suggested job creating or saving move.

Naturally, Obama thought his present job would resemble a vacation.  The recitation sensation figured he would repair everything busted in the world simply by showing up and speaking.  There would be no dirty work involved, as all those who were entranced by his campaigning seemed ready to execute his bidding.

Unfortunately for him and us, this particular planet isn’t named Nobelland.  He can’t just say he wants America to be a more prominent, ethnically diverse Norway and make it so.  The fact he is unable to will us into progressivism frustrates him to the point where he constantly flees his post.  I am shocked someone gave him a helicopter in the first place.

It’s apparent why the president spends much of his time at work thinking about getting out of work: Obama has genuinely never labored before.  Go from prep school to Columbia before lecturing about law and bitching that certain Chicago neighborhoods haven’t been stimulated enough before falling into the state and then national senates until finally exploiting an uncanny set of circumstances into the White House: he hasn’t had to sweat to find a job, not to mention after getting one, either.  Why would he have to strain himself now?

Oh, right: he should because he’s the most powerful man on Earth, although he’s doing his best to demote himself by weakening the nation.  It’s a chore for him to work, in part because he thought it would be more like being paid to have fun.

Wasn’t everyone happy when he got the job?  We all loved him, at least according to his memory, and we were apparently supposed to clear away any opposition to his edicts so his agenda could become fact.

But we collectively decided we prefer flying rattlesnake flags at Tea Parties to pushing progressivism, especially those of us who never fell for the gaudily oblivious sales pitch during campaign season.  We’ve made his job exponentially tougher, and we have earned an ale or cocktail for it.  As a result of our obstinate refusal to let him concurrently weaken our economy and global standing, he now doesn’t even want to bother showing up to whine for what he wants.

The fact that he’s better than you and me on account of how he is humanity’s savior isn’t helping, either.  Obama acts as if he necessarily deserves to be president despite the unbearably overwhelming contrary evidence.

But factors such as his skimpy résumé and historically rotten performance won’t keep him from wallowing in the office’s trappings.  By contrast, a worthier leader might decline to act like he’s better than us.

Someone equipped with humility would act modestly upon becoming president, especially considering the current economic climate for his fellow Americans.  That someone is not Barack Obama.

Of course, the incumbent embodies the precise opposite of humbleness.  But he’s not going to let his shady past or America’s uncertain future dampen his delighting in the office’s perks at present.

For Obama, holding his current job is all about how it affects him and not at all about how his performance impacts the nation of which he happens to be president.  I blame whoever hired him without performing a background check or calling references.

But at least he’s kind enough to currently try manning his post, at least for a couple days.  It may take some time for him to get in his work groove.  But then he’ll be right back to railing against people who dare to earn more then $250,000 per year once he’s recovered from spending close to that on himself during one fantastically indulgent week. He expects to be thanked for standing on the class war’s front lines, although he’d prefer that we’d not ask about what side he’s joined.

Unfortunately, the White House did labor while he was gone.  Specifically, moaning about America’s utter dreadfulness to the United Nations remains this administration’s job one even when the boss is hammocking it up elsewhere.  Obama might have felt uneasy about personally singling out this nation’s atrociousness while away, as he did not do so even when he took a break from lounging about to acquire shellfish in one of America’s cushiest locales.

To be fair, he doesn’t hate the unending benefits of living here.  It’s the America the rest of us inhabit that’s so rotten, you see.  But he’s trying to change everything he perceives as being miserable about our country.  Um, hooray?

Instead, the next report the White House submits to the UN about our awfulness should detail how our leader is bleeding us dry while emasculating us.  The only reason we needn’t bother submitting such a report is that everyone already knows the damage the Obama administration has wrought.  Why submit a document that reveals nothing but an open secret?  It’s not very green; the Earth thanks us for not bothering to detail redundant information on paper.

A president who doesn’t care for this nation is this nation’s biggest problem.  We’re stuck with a hyper-leftist whose first act as president was locating the Oval Office escape hatch, and the country suffers accordingly.

But it could be worse: think about poor Michelle rotting away last week in Martha’s Vineyard while missing Spain.  It’s all about perspective.  Did you even care when Obama’s Hawaii time was interrupted because some inconsiderate terrorist tried to blow up an airplane on Christmas?  You’re so insensitive about our president’s recreation.

We should take an important lesson from our gallivanter-in-chief: life would be easier if we all tried to flee our problems.  Why worry about running out of currency or in which direction Iran will soon be pointing what kind of weapons?  Relax, dudes: there’s always going to be things about which to fret, but the ice cream parlor closes around dusk.

Even if he’s physically there, Obama’s heart might still not be into his revulsion for our way of life.  It’s going to take some time for the president to get back into the swing of at least feigning to be presidential even after he’s again punched his timecard.

Obama will have a case of the Mondays for weeks after he gets back behind his desk.  On the bright side, such revulsion at exertion will hopefully keep him from implementing some of his toxic ideals.  We could tell him there’s no money in the budget for him to stay for overtime, but worries about him being a workaholic aren’t really justified.

So, let him ditch whenever he wants.  He may be lounging as America gets kicked to the gutter.  But any time Obama steps from his presidential duties counts as a vacation for the rest of us.

We should treat Obama’s frequent scurries away from his profession as if they were trips to the Magic Kingdom with no lines and open kegs on Main Street, U.S.A. for the rest of us.  Next, voting him out of office will be more fun than shooting Mickey with paintballs.

Anthony Bialy is a freelance writer and “Red Eye” Conservative in Western New York.  He blogs at http://thebuffalobean.com and tweets at http://twitter.com/AnthonyBialy.

At one point, the speech took a particularly bizarre, but predictable turn. In yet another example of B. Hussein’s ability to read ANYTHING and say it with a straight face, he stated:

Unfortunately, over the last decade, we have not done what is necessary to shore up the foundation of our own prosperity. We have spent a trillion dollars at war, often financed by borrowing from overseas. This, in turn, has short-changed investments in our own people, and contributed to record deficits.

So the record deficits are due to the war? I know that’s the Left’s favorite talking points, but like most of their mantras, it’s at war (no pun intended) with reality, as this article from Investors.com demonstrates. Check out the chart accompanying the story to really understand what’s going on.

One last question: now that Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, perhaps there’s a better name for the new mission in Iraq than Operation New Dawn. I know that Rush Limbaugh has used this one before, but given the inability of the Iraqis to form a government at this point, I’m thinking Operation Chaos is a tad more appropriate. Ideology and domestic politics aside, the situation in Iraq remains unresolved, no matter what the Dear Reader recites.

I guess I can see why this unaccomplished empty suit needs to take credit for the achievements of others, and why he tries to run away from his embarrassing statements like saying the Iraq surge would never work, that couldn’t be more wrong if his name was Barry Wrongman, which actually wouldn’t be a bad alias, if he’s looking for to try a third name. He’s had at least two others, including the one on his birth certificate, which is …wait …oh never mind.

Barack Obama reminds me of Don Draper, the lead character in “Mad Men,” who created a completely phony persona, that of a cool, suave, über competent, eloquent Madison Avenue genius, to attempt to conceal who he really is, a scared, inadequate, self-loathing hillbilly from Shacksville, USA. Last week, we learned that he got his start by getting his future boss drunk, then showing up the next day, allegedly in response to the offer he received from the inebriated partner. Now, self-destructive Don Draper/Dick Whitman is spinning out of control as he tries to continue to live the lie and hold it together, but there’s probably not enough booze in the world to help him avoid the inevitable plunge over the cliff. B. Hussein/Barry Soetoro sold himself as to a country, which he intoxicated by ploying many of its citizens with glittering generalities with a white guilt chaser, and in their drunken haze, they hired him. Now we can only hope that he doesn’t take us over the cliff as he seems hell bent to pursue his destructive agenda of job-killing taxes, crushing regulations, income redistribution and race-grievance redress.

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“The Republican Party of Texas today unveiled a new website, kristiworksforacorn.com. The site documents Democrat state Rep. Kristi Thibaut’s sordid past and her involvement with the notorious leftwing organization ACORN. Thibaut is the incumbent in House District 133.”

House District 133 encompasses Harris County, Texas the site of massive ACORN-like voter registration fraud and where a mysterious fire destroyed most of the voting machines in the county last week.

“Another blow has been dealt to voters in Harris County, Texas just days after the Harris County Voter Registrar Leo Vasquez released a 72 page PowerPoint on voting irregularities from a local group similar to the infamous ACORN.

‘The integrity of the voting rolls in Harris County, Texas, appears to be under an organized and systematic attack by the group operating under the name Houston Votes,” Vasquez said at a 2 p.m. press conference at his office, where he also released copies of applications in some of the most egregious cases.’

[Friday], voters are waking up with the news that the Harris County Election Technology Center was the site of a massive three-alarm fire early this morning.”

As the site kristiworksforacorn.com points out, Thibaut, actively worked for ACORN for a number of years, and was even a paid lobbyist for the group. Screen shot below. Click to enlarge.

By the way, yes, there was money flowing back and forth between Thibaut and ACORN.

A meeting was held yesterday in Harris County regarding purchasing new voting machines or other options regarding the upcoming elections.

Considering the current political climate and the impending sense of doom that most Democrats are experiencing, a situation is emerging it Harris County Texas and it reeks of corruption. Will voters have a chance to have their voices heard or are political players stacking the deck?

Cross-posted at my new site Emerging Corruption

Given the news black out from the Obamas’ latest summer vacation (number 6 for those keeping count), as a public service here’s a photo to show that no matter how tough times may be in your ‘hood, in the Obamas’ world, it’s all moonlight, roses, golf and lobster. Mostly lobster.

(H/T to White House Dossier)

Much of the news in the past month has focused on the new culture of corruption that is so pervasive in our nation’s capitol.  Stories such as Maxine Waters alleged malfeasance have garnered prominent positions in the headlines.  While issues such as this are important it is confusing why an even larger issue of corruption has been avoided.  Why have the government’s self-interested policies regarding General Motors been ignored by the media?

Maxine Waters is accused of helping to craft legislation to disperse money from TARP to the bank OneUnited.  This would not be wrong or dare I say criminal if her husband, Sydney Williams, didn’t have a board position and own a significant amount of stock in the bank.  After persistent lobbying on its behalf, $12 million was allotted to OneUnited to ensure its solvency.  Prior to the crisis, Williams’ stock was valued at $350,000 and declined to $175,000 after the financial collapse.  It is safe to say that Waters was an interested party in the bailout of this particular bank considering that her husbands stock would be worthless had it gone bankrupt.

Any clear thinking person can smell the impropriety of such behavior.  It is outrageous that a public servant would use their position to reap financial benefits at the taxpayers’ expense.  But can’t the same be said for government?

The government currently owns 60 percent of GM and therefore, certainly maintains an interest in its reemergence as a leader in the Automaking industry.  The plan at present is to promote the Chevy Volt as a new green technology that will revolutionize the industry.  Obama even test drove it for a couple inches and commented that it’s “pretty smooth.”  Well, considering its $41,000 price tag it better be “pretty smooth.”

But fear not savvy consumer.  The actual cost to you is reduced to $33,500 because of the thoughtful $7,500 federal tax credit the government is providing to consumers for the car it is selling.  Due to an additional state subsidy, the price drops further to $28,500 if you live in the bastion of liberalism known as California.

Are these the only competitive advantages the government has created for the company it owns?  Not quite.  The government also subsidized the production and design of the Volt to the tune of almost $400 million.  This means that the Volt would have been exponentially more expensive had a private company produced it without any external help.  Some suggest the cost of the Volt could be as high as $81,000 without subsidies or tax credits.  Regardless of the exact number, it is undeniable that without the competitive advantages that come with being a partner of the U.S. government, GM would be selling the Volt at a loss based on the current selling price.

It is amazing that anyone would point to this car as an example of how Big Government can improve lives.  If anything, the government has acted in a criminal way.  They have taken tax-payer money to provide financial aid to a company that they own a majority stake in.  By degrees this is actually worse than what Maxine Waters is accused of doing because we are dealing with billions of dollars versus a couple hundred thousand.  The government should be held to the same scrutiny that has been leveled at Congresswoman Waters.

When the government acts in this way, they are nothing more than a thief.  Their hypocrisy only makes their transgressions worse. I guess the slogan on Congressman Ron Paul’s desk remains true, “Don’t steal; the government hates competition.”

J.D. Thorpe is the Assistant Director of Programs at the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty.

By George Scoville | @stackiii

The trio of Senator Franken, DNC Chairman Tim Kaine, and Illinois State Treasurer and Senate hopeful Alexi Giannoulias did a little GOP-bashing during the Democratic County Chairmen’s Association breakfast on Wednesday this week, apparently in the midst of the Illinois State Fair. Most notably, Senator Franken attacked the GOP by denouncing remarks made by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich in response to President Obama’s support for the right of the Park51 group to build a Muslim cultural center approximately two blocks from the Ground Zero site where the World Trade Center stood until September 11, 2001:

Franken said conservative opposition to the mosque is “one of the most disgraceful things that I’ve heard.”

“I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it. It’s a community center. They’re going to have a gym. They’re going to have point guards. Muslim point guards,” Franken said, to laughter and applause.

“They (Republicans) do this every two years. They try to find a wedge issue, and they try to work it.”

Also see the Huffington Post’s coverage and, if you can stomach it,Franken’s Senate blog.

Now, don’t get me wrong—I still think that, in the long term, Gingrich’s remarks will damage the Republican brand. I also have my own set of feelings and opinions about the Cordoba House situation, which I previously promised not to air on the web—and I intend to keep that promise here.

But I will not stand idly by while some two-faced, power-drunk, opportunistic misogynist steps up on a soapbox to lecture the rest of America about what is tasteful or decent—and the most sickening part of the whole thing is that Franken’s PAC, Midwest Values, will probably make a ton of money from his yammering. I weep for America when I think about how unaware and uninvolved the general populace is about politics and political personalities—Alexis de Tocqueville, eat your heart out.

In 1995, among many other things, Franken was helping to write a skit for SNL and decided that a joking about rape during a staff meeting would be funny:

Franken’s problem is that he spent three decades as a professional comedian before turning to politics and has a large inventory of potential gaffe material to explain away: a 1995 magazine article describing Franken proposing rude, unfunny jokes about rape at a Saturday Night Live staff meeting; a 2000 article in Playboy in which he fantasized about three-way sex with robots (or something); an ungallant crack about women in Afghanistan (a place Franken has visited repeatedly with the USO); and so on.

Of course, the shills at Slate writing that piece went on to give the then-candidate Franken plenty of cover for his misogyny.

Translation: “My rape jokes are Norm Coleman’s fault. They’re George W. Bush’s fault.”

In fact, Franken was once quoted saying:

“I’m proud of my career as a satirist, which doesn’t mean every joke I’ve ever told was funny, or, indeed, appropriate. I understand and regret that people have been legitimately offended by some of the things I’ve written.”

Translation: “My rape jokes are your fault, America. How dare you not have a sense of humor!”

It would be laughable that the asshats at Gawker went after the GOP in 2008 for scaring Minnesota children with a mailer about Franken’s behavior—if standing up for misogyny weren’t so deplorable already.

Franken recently spoke at Netroots Nation 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and insisted that “net neutrality is the foremost free speech issue of our time.” Aside from not really knowing anything about technology or the Constitution, Franken could probably learn a thing or two about free speech—especially in light of his own hateful transgressions.

With all due respect, Senator – you probably ought to sit out of the debate over decency, taste, and grace. Good luck in 2014 when you can no longer ride Obama’s coattails.

George Scoville is a new media professional in Washington, DC.

As we discussed yesterday on the Teri O’Brien show, while it’s true that Barry’s comments were designed to energize his dispirited left-wing moonbat base, it’s not as if he had to leave his ideological comfort zone to make them. Jeremiah Wright’s parishioner of 20 years, friend of unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, and former member of the New Party believes that racist, imperialist Amerika probably brought 9/11 on herself, as he explained at the time while he was a state senator. Is it any wonder that he and his attorney general are considering trying the mastermind of the slaughter of 3000 innocents in New York City, spending millions from Americans to provide a stage from which this malignant murderer can rave about our many sins?

Not only does endorsing this taunting finger in the eye eyesore conform to the Dear Reader’s philosophy, it carries potential political benefits. One is obvious; that is, the afore-mentioned firing up of the extreme left, not necessarily for the mid terms, but for 2012. Less obvious is the fact that it hands Republicans an issue that will benefit them in the midterm election, and could make it more difficult for Democrats, which is exactly what he wants. Barack Obama’s nightmare is a Congress controlled by Democrats, especially with a smaller majority than he has now. His dream is a Congress that he can blame for his many failures, and use as a foil; that is, one controlled by Republicans. What better way to enhance his standing with the radical, American-hating Left and make things tougher for Democrat candidates than to do what comes naturally and back the mother of all victory dances, trophy mosque?

Conspiratorial? Perhaps, but in the Age of Obama, as Lily Tomlin famously said, just when you think you’re being too cynical, you realize that you can’t keep up..

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SGN: People outside of Delaware might not know why your election is so significant; can you explain in your own words why results on November 2 will affect the nation?

COD: It’s critical that Delaware elect a true Consitutionalist on November 2 for two reasons:

First, this is a special election for the US Senate seat vacated by VP Biden, which means that the winner will be seated *immediately* after election day, rather than waiting until the start of the new Congress in January. That means that if elected, I could be one of the critical votes to help stop an outrageous Democrat Lame Duck bonanza, as Democrats voted out of office by the American people seek to have their final revenge.

Secondly, it’s critical to elect a conservative because whether or not Republicans take back the Senate, the margin there will be very slim in either direction. This means that liberal Republicans who tend to vote with Harry Reid will have an incredible power to either thwart a Republican majority or side with a Democrat majority. In the past, liberal Republicans have seriously undermined the conservative agenda, including forcing the Bush tax cuts to be substantially less than they otherwise would have been.

SGN: Challenging a sitting Senator is no easy task. Can you explain why you chose to throw your hat in the ring this election?

COD: The Lords of the Back Room have anointed my primary opponent as the next US Senator from Delaware. He has been the most liberal Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, almost always voting with Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat caucus over his 18 years in office. As a Congressman, he has voted for the job-killing national energy tax known as “cap and trade.” He also was theRepublican lead sponsor on the embryonic stem cell research bill and the first amendment-shredding DISCLOSE Act.

Americans from every state, not just Delaware, should be very concerned about a liberal Republican being elected to this seat. He has been on a government payroll longer than I’ve been alive. He’s been part of the Washington elite who have brought our economy, our national security, and our fiscal solvency to the absolute brink. Only a wave of common sense conservatives storming Capitol Hill will stand any chance of reversing the damage and restoring American greatness. This race is one that conservatives can win.

SGN: You come from a large family; can you describe the role family has played in your core values?

COD: I’m one of six children whose parents taught us that while life can be hard, hard work makes life better. My father worked three jobs in order to put food on the table and clothes on our back. My mom’s ability to make ends meet on such a tight budget taught me how to stretch a dollar. As adults, my siblings and I all hold different political beliefs, yet regardless, we support each other unconditionally. That dynamic around my mom’s Sunday dinner table certainly has prepared me to hold my own in the political arena. My family was always a rock and a refuge for me and fewer and fewer American children are growing up with that kind of support and unconditional love from a loving, two-parent family. I will fight hard for those values to be preserved in the U.S. Senate.

SGN: BP’s oil spill in the Gulf has led the people all around the world to discuss America’s energy policies and quest for independence. What do you think about Obama’s drilling moratorium and the future of off-shore drilling in America?

COD: Domestic oil and gas exploration is critical not only to our energy independence, but also our national security and our economic recovery. No one is disputing whether new appropriate safety regulations should be considered in order to prevent this disaster from occurring again. Yet, the Obama job-killing, judiciary-defying moratorium is a catastrophe for our ability to achieve all three of the above goals, especially for the already down-and-out working families of our hard-hit Gulf region. Either Barack Obama is too ignorant to understand the devastating effect of this outrageous policy, or he doesn’t care. My primary opponent is no friend to America’s energy workers either, since he voted for the cap-and-trade bill which would kill jobs and raise energy prices on every family.

SGN: It seems you can’t turn on a news channel these days without hearing about spending, the deficit, or pork. The government has certain responsibilities to the people and those come with a price tag. What do you consider “responsible spending” and what do you think it will take for the federal government to spend responsibly?

COD: Responsible spending is spending which puts the next generation ahead of the next election. Responsible spending means that taxpayer money is treated as a precious trust and should be spent by politicians as if it were their own. It means we do not demand that Americans yet unborn pay for the government programs we want for ourselves. It means we don’t spend more than we have. The way to achieve this is to replace career politicians with citizen politicians. When the job becomes more important than the people, career politicians betray their oath and spend for political expediency instead of out of good stewardship. Second, we need to elect fiscal conservatives to every branch of government. Mere party affiliation simply will not do, as we have seen from many past Congresses. I wouldn’t oppose forcing Members of Congress to take Economics 101 once or twice, either!

SGN: When it comes to education, you advocate for parents to have a maximum number of choices to include public, private, parochial, and charter schools as well as homeschooling. What is your plan to give these choices to parents and how will you overcome opposition within the Beltway?

COD: We can only oppose opposition within the Beltway by massive support outside the Beltway. That means that Americans elect conservatives who are running on a platform that includes educational choice. It’s always difficult to change the Washington establishment, but let’s not forget that the Federal takeover of local education is a new development, not long-standing policy, and can and must be pushed back through big and small legislative measures.

SGN: What are your feelings and thoughts towards the Constitution?

COD: You know, unlike so many other nations throughout the world and throughout history, America was not founded along tribal, ethnic or religious lines. It was not an accident of geography or post-war map-making. America was born of ideas. Those ideas are enshrined in our Founding documents, most pre-eminently the Constitution, and the more we stray from the limits prescribed in that document, the less we remain America. I love America and I will fight tooth and nail to prevent that from happening in every branch of government.

SGN: Describe how grassroots networks  have affected your campaign.

COD: There would be no O’Donnell for US Senate campaign without the grassroots! We have run a bottom-up campaign from the beginning, unlike my primary opponent, who has relied on top-down party king-making out of Washington. If not for the bloggers, the web sites, the homeschoolers, the Tea Party, and the other grassroots communities outside of the Washington cocktail club, I would never have made it this far. So I am grateful, and in awe of the incredible technological changes over the past few years which have so empowered everyday Americans to be able to make such a difference.

You can learn more about Christine O’Donnell and her campaign by visiting www.Christine2010.com.