I love it when comments come 4 years later...

Obviously, this blogsite of mine is a labor of love. I don't get paid to write or give my opinions. I don't even pimp it out with advertisements. Would I love to be a paid opinion-giver? Sure, but until then, I have a day job and this is my side hobby. I do, however, wish I had more comments on my articles sometimes.It can occasionally be disheartening to spend several hours sometimes putting an article together in my sparse spare time and then getting no feedback on it. Sure, we all love the validation of a pat on the back, but sometimes even a dissenting opinion still lets me know folks are reading. I get traffic, mind you, lots of it actually, but seldom do I get real comments. Such is life.

That said, I just got an anonymous comment from someone who came across an article I wrote FOUR YEARS AGO, on August 2, 2008. In said article, I praised Jon Voight for his outspoken criticism of then-candidate Obama. It was refreshing to see a Hollywood Conservative.

Last week, Jon spoke at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Something tells me that my new commenter was actually trolling the Interwebz for articles pertaining to last week's speech and came across mine by accident. Regardless, this is what I received:

Anonymous said...This plays well to the crazies, but what about the people who actually know what socialism is, or who know that Obama is seated well to the right of Richard Nixon on the political scale?

And this was my response:

 Are you seriously holding Richard Nixon up as the paragon example of a Republican to compare against B-Hussein the Obamessiah? At least pick someone alive, instead of a disgraced criminal from 50 years ago. And are you speaking from experience as a Socialist? 

I don't exactly consider myself a crazy. I'm really not even remotely close to being "fringe" on the Right. I'm not religious, I have no problem with gays, I don't have a stockpile of ammo in a bunker with food for a year waiting for the Zombie Apocalypse, and I haven't eaten at a Chik-Fil-A in a looooong time. But I do want Obama out of the Oval Office. Period. End Quote. Thanks for reading, though. I appreciate the comment even if I disagree with you.

Way to go, Jon Voight

This week, Academy Award-winning actor and noted humanitarian activist Jon Voight, father of noted baby collector Angelina Jolie, had an op-ed piece published in the Washington Times. I wish more of the big names in Hollywood would stand up for conservatism instead of liberal tree-huggery and socialism. Here’s his op-ed, taken from the Times’ website”

“We, as parents, are well aware of the importance of our teachers who teach and program our children. We also know how important it is for our children to play with good-thinking children growing up.

Senator Barack Obama has grown up with the teaching of very angry, militant white and black people: the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, William Ayers and Rev. Michael Pfleger. We cannot say we are not affected by teachers who are militant and angry. We know too well that we become like them, and Mr. Obama will run this country in their mindset.

The Democratic Party, in its quest for power, has managed a propaganda campaign with subliminal messages, creating a God-like figure in a man who falls short in every way. It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.

The Democrats have targeted young people, knowing how easy it is to bring forth whatever is needed to program their minds. I know this process well. I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement. The radicals of that era were successful in giving the communists power to bring forth the killing fields and slaughter 2.5 million people in Cambodia and South Vietnam. Did they stop the war, or did they bring the war to those innocent people? In the end, they turned their backs on all the horror and suffering they helped create and walked away.

Those same leaders who were in the streets in the '60s are very powerful today in their work to bring down the Iraq war and to attack our president, and they have found their way into our schools. William Ayers is a good example of that.
Thank God, today, we have a strong generation of young soldiers who know exactly who they are and what they must do to protect our freedom and our democracy. And we have the leadership of Gen. David Petraeus, who has brought hope and stability to Iraq and prevented the terrorists from establishing a base in that country. Our soldiers are lifting us to an example of patriotism at a time when we've almost forgotten who we are and what is at stake.

If Mr. Obama had his way, he would have pulled our troops from Iraq years ago and initiated an unprecedented bloodbath, turning over that country to the barbarianism of our enemies. With what he has openly stated about his plans for our military, and his lack of understanding about the true nature of our enemies, there's not a cell in my body that can accept the idea that Mr. Obama can keep us safe from the terrorists around the world, and from Iran, which is making great strides toward getting the atomic bomb. And while a misleading portrait of Mr. Obama is being perpetrated by a media controlled by the Democrats, the Obama camp has sent out people to attack the greatness of Sen. John McCain, whose suffering and courage in a Hanoi prison camp is an American legend.

General Wesley Clark, who himself has shame upon him, having been relieved of his command, has done their bidding and become a lying fool in his need to demean a fellow soldier and a true hero.

This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way. “