West Charlotte CountyRepublican Club“One Nation Under God”

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Editor – Peter J. Watsoncopterpete@comcast.net

2011 OFFICERS

President – Douglas Tucker

First V.P. – Lou Spacco

Second V.P. – Denny Curtis

Secretary – Nina Stamoulis

Treasurer – Dick Wieland

Director – Pete Watson

Director – Debra Rodi

Past President – Ray Corcoran

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE – SEPTEMBER, 2011

Dear Republicans, This week most of our attention will be focused on the 10th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks on our country.  Most of us will look back and think about where we were when we first heard or saw the events unfold in New York, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania. 

The thought that people would want to attack us in our own country was something that seemed far-fetched, but our lives as Americans changed that day and we should never forget it.  We need to remember that if we let down our guard, we will again have a false sense of security and another attack could happen. That is the primary reason we must stand together and fight this aggression against our way of life. If so, we will be unstoppable.  We need to remember everyday why we must pursue those who would kill us for no reason other than the freedoms we have.  Please take time on Sunday to remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for freedom, the innocent people who lost their lives, and our troops who protect us every day because freedom simply isn’t free. Douglas Tucker

COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Chaplain – Ed Lines

Webmaster – Pete Watson

Newsletter – Peter Watson

Membership – Debra Rodi

Fundraisers / Socials – Debra Rodi

Candidates – Ray Corcoran

Parliamentarian – Open

Legislative Relations – Open

The opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of the West charlotte County Republican Club, it's Board, Officers, or Members. They represent the views of individual writers who are solely responsible for the content. Not responsible for typographical errors.

I am happy to announce the new website for our club. The layout for the web pages was designed by our member Dan Eisenberg, and the content was added to each page by myself, under Dan’s tutelage. I will be responsible for updating the information on all of the web pages, as well as compiling and posting the monthly newsletter. And remember, this is only the beginning. We will build upon this model, and add pages as necessary to expand the information available, and make it completely user friendly. Click Here to go to our site now, and be sure to bookmark it as one of your favorites so you can return there often.

Newsletter Editor / Webmaster – Pete Watson

A DINNER MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER WILL BE:

MR. WILLIAM FOLCHIChairman of The Republican Party of Charlotte County

THE MEAL CHOICES FOR THIS MEETING WILL BE:

Baked FishChefʼs Salad

Chicken Breast over Rice

All meals include Iced Tea, Water, Coffee and Dessert.

A cash bar is available beginning at 6pm.

Please E-mail Denny Curtis for reservations, or call him at: (941) 681-0726 no later than Sunday, September 18th.

MEMBERS CORNERFrom: Director Debra Rodi

PLEASE GIVE A WARM WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST MEMBERS:

Thomas & Karen Conroy III

WE HAVE NAME BADGES READY TO BE PICKED UP AT THE MEETING FOR:

Robert and Margaret Ware

Vince and Shirley Falcone

Bill Breadheft

Kenneth Juall

THE WCCRC IS LOOKING FOR NEW OFFICERS

If you are interested in serving on the board of directors of the West Charlotte County Republican Club, there is one opening now, and more available at the end of the 2011 term in December. Contact Ray Corcoran for information on how you might be able to help our club in an official capacity. He is available at: (941) 759-0001

~ IN MEMORIAM ~

OUR FRIEND AND WCCRC DIRECTOR, JULIE COTTON

THE OFFICERS OF THE WCCRC HAVE DECIDED TO SOLICIT DONATIONSAT THE SEPTEMBER GENERAL MEETING IN MEMORY OF JULIE COTTON.THESE DONATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED AT THE DOOR WHEN YOU SIGN IN,AND WILL BE IN LIEU OF THE NORMAL 50/50 DRAWING.

MONTHLY MEETING INFORMATION FOR ALL OF THECHARLOTTE COUNTY REPUBLICAN CLUBS

West Charlotte County Republican Club: A Cocktail Social Mixer.The first Tuesday of every month at Johnny Leverocks Seafood House.Placida Road, Cape Haze, 5-7 p.m, $6 p/p, includes 2 drinks plus hors’dourves.No reservations required. Casual dress – dinner afterwards if you please.

West Charlotte County Republican Club:  Dinner Meeting - 6:30 p.m., The third Tuesday of every month.American Legion Post 113, 3436 Indiana Road, Rotonda West.Contact Denny Curtis for reservations: (941) 681-0726 or dcurtis@ewol.com  Charlotte County Republican Club:  Dinner Meeting - 6 p.m.The second Monday of every month.Charlotte Harbor Yacht Club, 4400 Lister Street, Port Charlotte.Contact Peg Thompson for reservations: (941) 391-6610 or reservations@ccflre.org. 

Also ~A Monthly Mixer on the fourth Monday of every month at 5 p.m.The Wyvern Hotel, 101 E. Retta Esplanade, Punta Gorda.No reservations required. Casual dress – dinner afterwards if you please. Mid Charlotte County Republican Club: Luncheon MeetingThe third Monday of every month at the Cultural Center of Charlotte County, 2280 Aaron St, Port Charlotte. Lunch 11:30am    Meeting 12 til 1 PM  Reservations -President Dianne Velde nsdvelde@comcast.net    Drop-ins Welcome.Next meeting Sept 19th with speaker - County Commissioner Stephen R. Deutsch. Peace River Women's Forum:  Social 11:30 a.m., Meeting 12 p.m.,The second Wednesday of every month.Benedetto's Steak House, Best Western, Punta Gorda.Contact Darlene Queener for reservations: 624-2185 or darbob1@comcast.net.   

 

THE VIDEO LINK OF THE MONTH

http://www.therightscoop.com/open-thread-grinding-america-down/

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. “

Abraham Lincoln

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OBAMA REGIME PUNISHES TEXAS BY WITHOLDING AIR TANKERS AS STATE BURNS!

Nearly half of the federal government's firefighting air tankers are siting idle at a California airport, grounded by the Obama administration in a contract dispute just weeks before wildfires swept through Texas killing a mother and her child, and destroying 100,000 acres.

The massive blazes forced Texas Gov. and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry to abruptly call off a campaign appearance in South Carolina earlier this week to respond to the crisis, and may force him to cancel his first debate appearance tonight.

The U.S. Forest Service terminated the contract with Aero Union five weeks ago to operate seven P-3 Orions that are critical to the agency's firefighting mission, leaving the federal government with 11 tankers under contract to help battle more than 50 large uncontained wildfires now burning nationwide.

"We were certified to fly all season, but they just terminated us and threw 60 people out of work and left the country vulnerable to fires, as you can see right now in Texas," said Britt Gourley, CEO for Aero Union.

"This is our 50th anniversary fighting fires for the Forest Service. It's not quite the way we wanted to celebrate it," Gourley said.

Gourley said the government did not provide details on why the contract was canceled, but that they did not agree with Aero Union's 15-year maintenance plan.

"We wanted to sit down with them and ask why it was canceled and find a quick resolution, but they didn't want to talk about it. They just said, ‘We don't want the airplanes, have a nice life,'" Gourley said. "I had to let go of my staff–60 people and their families were devastated," Gourley said. "It's really been tragic."

The Forest Service says it will not use aircraft that does not meet its requirements, and in this case that included the long-term airworthiness inspection program, although the company passed its annual inspection.

Despite the contract cancellation, Gourley told HUMAN EVENTS he has reached out to his former employees and that they could have four planes up in 48 hours to fly to Texas' rescue, and assist in other devastating fires burning in California.

"First and foremost, we are firefighters at Aero Union, and we do not want to sit idle while the people of Texas and California suffer," Gourley said in a letter Tuesday.

"We feel strongly that a contract disagreement unrelated to the safety of our fleet to fight fires should not stand in the way of our mission at a time when these aircraft are most needed. The tragic scenes in Texas and California make any contract issues appear very secondary," Gourley said.

Read more about this story, and the planes from Canada the government wants to contract with. — Audrey Hudson

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA – THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PRESIDENT

Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world’s largest economy, direct the world’s most powerful military, execute the world’s most consequential job?

Imagine a future historian examining Obama’s pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a “community organizer“; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote “present”); and finally an unaccomplished single term in United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions.

He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as legislator.

And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama’s “spiritual mentor“; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama’s colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?

Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal:

To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberaldom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass.Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass. Held to a lower standard, because of the color of his skin.

Podhoretz continues:

And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) “non-threatening,” all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?

Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon — affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.

Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don’t care if these minority students fail; liberals aren’t around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist. Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin — that’s affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn’t racism, then nothing is. And that is what America did to Obama.

True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary. What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks?

In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama’s oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people — conservatives included — ought now to be deeply embarrassed. The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that’s when he has his teleprompter in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth — it’s all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years.

And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?

In short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.

But hey, at least we got to feel good about ourselves for a little while. And really, isn’t that all that matters these days?

Author’s Note:

A lot of readers have written in asking me how I came to the conclusion that Obama was an unremarkable student and that he benefited from affirmative action. Three reasons:1) As reported by The New York Sun: ”A spokesman for the university, Brian Connolly, confirmed that Mr. Obama spent two years at Columbia College and graduated in 1983 with a major in political science. He did not receive honors…” In spite of not receiving honors as an undergrad, Obama was nevertheless admitted to Harvard Law. Why? 2) Obama himself has written he was a poor student as a young man. As the Baltimore Sun reported, in: ‘Obama’s book ‘Dreams from My Father,’….the president recalled a time in his life…when he started to drift away from the path of success. ’I had learned not to care,’ Obama wrote. ‘… Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it.’ But his mother confronted him about his behavior. ’Don’t you think you’re being a little casual about your future?” she asked him, according to the book. ‘… One of your friends was just arrested for drug possession. Your grades are slipping. You haven’t even started on your college applications.’” 3) Most damning to me is the president’s unwillingness to make his transcripts public. If Obama had really been a stellar student with impeccable grades as an undergrad, is there any doubt they would have been made public by now and trumpeted on the front page of the New York Times as proof of his brilliance? To me it all adds up to affirmative action.

Written By Matt PattersonVia; http://www.americanthinker.com/

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