On this day 68 years ago, nearly 3 million Allied troops readied themselves for one of the greatest military operations of world history.
D-Day. And the push that lead to Hitler's defeat.
At least 160,000 of those troops landed on the shores of Normandy, France. As they stormed the beaches, General Dwight D. Eisenhower's confident words summed up the incredible significance of their mission:
"You are about to embark upon a great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you," he wrote in a famous letter sent to troops before the assault.
"We will accept nothing less than full victory! Good Luck!"
But there's another letter that he set aside "in case of failure." What if we lost?
As you may have seen before in the National Archives, General Eisenhower had doubts in the face of a "well trained, well equipped and battle-hardened" enemy. If the invasion of Normany failed, this is the message he would have relayed to the public. How different the world would be.
Scroll down for a transcription.
Here's what it says: "Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."
*He accidentally dated the letter July 5. It should have been June 5. We're sure he had a lot on his mind.
Forget the rigged polls and the media happy face. Mitt Romney will
win the White House in November, probably in a big way, unless he is
foolish enough to repeat John McCain’s 2008 display of campaign
cowardice.
The 3 ½ year reign of Barack Hussein Obama has been a disaster for
taxpayers, most of the business world, and the American public in
general.
He has waged war on energy producers, threatening the coal industry
with destruction, shutting down the drilling of oil, and driving natural
gas suppliers from the country, all the while wielding the EPA like a
sword to wreak havoc on corporations and individuals alike.
He has wasted billions of tax dollars in politically motivated green
energy ventures, usually for the purpose of enticing money from–or
bailing out–big money contributors to the Democrat Party.
He has created virtually no jobs, except for members of public employee unions.
He has weakened the armed forces of the United States, insulted and
betrayed longtime American allies, and provided our enemies with a level
of support bordering on treason.
He has smuggled guns into Mexico, made deals with murderous drug
cartels, and brought about the death of hundreds as a result of his
criminal attempt to undermine the 2nd Amendment.
He cheered his Department of Justice as it justified the intimidation
of white voters and prevented states from cleansing their voter rolls
of illegals, felons, and corpses.
He has refused to enforce immigration law while encouraging the
filing of lawsuits against states that have worked to protect their
citizens from an endless invasion of aliens carrying disease, committing
crime, and living on funds confiscated from unwilling taxpayers. The
cynical claim of DOJ attorneys: enforcement of immigration law is a
FEDERAL matter!
In 2008, the liberal media suckered and intimidated a gullible voting
public into buying the meaningless, “hope and change” scam of a
constitutionally ineligible, Manchurian Candidate. Yet it’s quite
possible Obama would still be a senator from Illinois if McCain had run a
campaign designed to win the election rather than applaud the
media-invented genius of his opponent!
Obama will not be able to campaign on his record. “Hope and Change”
were abandoned for “Forward,” a bust that has already been discarded.
The public will remain solidly against ObamaCare, regardless of any
ruling handed down by the Supreme Court. And as his arrogance and
thuggish nature are now well known, even the concerted efforts of the
media won’t allow The One to relive the glory days of the 2008 campaign.
So Obama will follow the same strategy that prompted John McCain to
destroy himself—he will play the race card. Any attack by Romney will be
met with the phony lament of Obama’s “blackness.” Reveal the truth
about the President’s willful destruction of the economy, and it will be
immediately related to a mythical study of race. The question is, will
Romney fall for it?
Democrats played the race card for months during the 2010 campaign,
yet were destroyed on Election Day. Will the Romney campaign remember
the utter failure of the left to shock American voters with the
fabricated, racial insensitivity of Republicans just 2 years ago?
The outcome of the election will depend on Mitt Romney’s realization
that a well-played race card is Obama’s only hope of victory. If he has
the guts and smarts to avoid McCain’s mistakes, he’ll be the new
president.
Two huge battles are under way in Florida that could have a major
impact on the Presidential election and the validity of the voting
process. These must be closely watched in the coming days.
First is a challenge to President Barack Obama’s eligibility to be on
the Florida ballot. Democrat Michael Voeltz filed the challenge which
claims that Obama is not a natural-born citizen as defined by the Minor v. Happersett ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court because Obama is not the offspring of two citizen parents.
In the case, Obama lawyers filed briefs
claiming the discovery process would place an undue burden and expense
on the State. Florida Circuit Judge Terry Lewis rejected that argument
and ruled that Obama lawyers must cite the authority on which they based
their argument that it isn’t necessary to have two citizen parents to
be a natural-born citizen as required by Article II, Section 1 of the
U.S. Constitution.
It is the first time that a judge hearing an Obama eligibility case
has not dismissed it based on standing or “because the issue was settled
by snopes” as one judge ruled. Lewis, who was appointed to the bench in
1998 by Democratic Governor Lawton Chiles, set a hearing for June 18.
The second case
involves a looming battle between Florida election officials and the
Obama Department of Justice and criminal enabler and racist Attorney
General Eric Holder. The DOJ has ordered Florida election officials to
stop their efforts to purge the voter rolls of “non-citizen voters.”
Florida officials are indicating they may fight the DOJ and have
expressed frustration that the Obama Administration has stonewalled the
State’s non-citizen voter hunt for nine months. Election officials say
they have identified about 2,700 non-citizen voters. Florida was decided
by just 236,000 votes out of more than 8.2 million cast in the 2008
Presidential election.
Media humiliated over election coverage
CNN's Wolf Blitzer transforms from 'joyous' to somber in 1 hour
Some
members of the national news media are coming under heavy criticism
today for their coverage, or lack thereof, of last night’s Wisconsin
recall vote.
At 9 p.m. Eastern, when polls officially closed and networks could
make their prediction, all of the cable networks including CNN, MSNBC
and Fox News all announced the race was “too close to call.”
Radio host Rush Limbaugh said CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer sounded
“joyous” when he declared at 9 p.m.: “We begin with breaking news out of
Wisconsin where polls have just closed in a recall vote that could
preview November’s election. Look at this! Our exit polls show it’s a
50/50 race as of this minute!”
“Why was Wolf Blitzer excited?” asked Limbaugh this afternoon. “Why
was 50/50 exciting to Wolf Blitzer and anybody on the left? It was
because all the pre-election polls had Walker winning by anywhere from 3
to 10 [points].”
During the 9 o’clock hour, CNN actually departed from election news to cover Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee in Britain.
But at 10 p.m., Blitzer returned with another update on the vote, but
his tone was much more low key, without the exuberance expressed an
hour earlier.
“We have breaking news,” said Blitzer. “CNN can now project a winner
in the Wisconsin gubernatorial contest. The incumbent Republican, Scott
Walker, will retain his job as the governor of Wisconsin. The Democratic
challenger Tom Barrett will not be the next governor of Wisconsin. Once
again, he loses to Scott Walker.”
“Notice how Blitzer stopped talking at that point about how the Wisconsin vote would be a preview of November,” Limbaugh said.
“Once they called it for Walker, then this race didn’t mean anything.
Didn’t mean a thing. At 9 o’clock, when they believed their own exit
polls, it was nirvana. And I guarantee you, throughout the Democrat
Party coast to coast, they are looking at all the polling data they’ve
got and they’re wondering, ‘Is any of it right?’
All the polling data
they have that shows Obama with whatever number of electoral votes now
based on polling, all the polling data they have that shows Obama’s
personal likability – which is pretty high in these polls – they’re
looking at it and they’re wondering if they can trust any of it. And the
odds are, if they’re smart, they’re going to tell themselves they
can’t.”
MSNBC was blatantly rooting for Tom Barrett to defeat
Gov. Scott Walker, even sending union champion Ed Schultz to cover an
event with no apologies for the dog he has in the fight. (Earlier
tonight, Chris Matthews even told Schultz that if he wasn’t an MSNBC
host, he could be head of the AFL-CIO.) When it became clear that
Barrett would lose, Schultz looked almost teary eyed. Not long after,
the network’s contributors immediately began suggesting that this was,
in fact, good news for Obama – who, after all, hadn’t even set foot in
Wisconsin – and began attacking Mitt Romney.
Meanwhile, Fox News was blatantly rooting for Gov. Walker, and the
moment it became clear that Walker might win, host Sean Hannity called
it “a repudiation of big unions,” which did “everything they could do to
demonize Scott Walker.” Guest Hugh Hewitt then predicted that, five
months from now, Romney would follow Walker just “as Reagan followed
Thatcher.” Fox’s Greta Van Susteren later hosted what amounted to a
victory celebration for the Republicans.
Given this blatant partisan coverage, it was absolutely impossible to
watch either network and weed out any clear understanding of the actual
significance of the event, much less what effect it would actually have
on the 2012 presidential election.
Limbaugh noted that irrespective of any partisan political beliefs,
all Americans should be celebrating Walker’s victory in Wisconsin.
“Strip away all the partisanship, strip away all of the reasons that
there’s acrimony,” Limbaugh explained, “doesn’t this victory last night
by Scott Walker, doesn’t it mean that states all over the country now
have another choice when it comes to dealing with fiscal emergencies?
“They don’t have to raise taxes. States do not have to lay off
people. They don’t have to go bankrupt. The federal taxpayer does not
have to bail out these states. There’s now another choice. The states
can trim a little fat from the public-sector union contracts, which is
always their biggest expense. Isn’t that good news?
There’s a way here
that’s been lighted. In the real world where we’re in fiscal trouble,
here is a state which has shown a way out of it. I know, I’m whistling
‘Dixie’ here because … the left doesn’t care about that.
They don’t care
about fiscal responsibility or sanity. They don’t care about balanced
budgets.”
"If the single man plant himself indomitably on his
instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him." --
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great Scotts! Just as Scott Brown's 2010 victory in
Massachusetts foretold the Republican rout later that year, so Scott
Walker's win is but a foretaste of the November election's likely
result. Polls come and go.
But when a Republican governor, in a
Democratic state that Obama carried by 14 points in 2008, wins by seven
points (Walker 53% - Barrett 46%), it shows how overwhelming our victory
later this year will be.
Add to these facts the high turnout in
Wisconsin (over 60 percent, compared with less than 50% in 2010) and the
handwriting is clearly on the wall for Obama.
But the real meaning of the Walker victory goes far
beyond its obvious role as a predictor of the fall elections. It marks
the same kind of catalyst for a downward decline in state and local
public employee unions that the air traffic controllers' strike in the
80s signaled for federal and private sector unions in general. It is
the beginning of the end of their reign of power - or terror - over our
states and localities.
While only 7% of the private sector labor force is
unionized, 41% of state and local government employees are. A majority
of union members are now public employees. After foreign competition
has decimated private sector unions, the labor movement has found new
power in using it leverage over complicit legislators to prey on
helpless taxpayers.
But, in Wisconsin, Walker flung down the gauntlet to
public employee unions and they accepted the challenge only to go down
to a total defeat. Their power will never be the same. Already, the
National Education Association (NEA) has experienced a 150,000 decline
in its 3.2 million memberships this year and expects another 200,000
falloff in the next few months - more than a ten percent drop. As
states follow Wisconsin's example and stop automatically deducting union
dues from their employee's paychecks, the funds available to unions
will continue to drop - and with it will go much of their political
power.
But even the fall of the power of public employee
unions fails to capture the full extent of the impact of the Walker
victory.
Its most important impact is on America's schools.
By elbowing teacher unions aside and permitting local school boards to
abolish teacher tenure and insist on merit pay and school choice, the
Walker reforms open the door to a vast and rapid improvement in
educational quality throughout the nation. No other education reforms
have worked. Now we have no choice but to insist on competition at
every level of our educational establishment to improve the product.
Teachers must compete for jobs and higher pay even as their schools
compete for students. It is the only way we have left that can raise
student performance.
The sun is shining and Walker won!
Op-ed:
Wisconsin...America loves you!
By: Diane Sori
Barack Hussein Obama’s downfall started last night...thank
you Wisconsin!!!
WooooHooo....Governor Scott Walker and Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch
both won and won big! While the
speculation about what this means for the presidential election begins in earnest
today amongst all the political pundits, I can tell you in a nutshell that the writing
is now on the wall for Barack Hussein Obama.
With Wisconsin being one of the swing states that will
decide the presidency, I believe I can safely say that Governor Walker’s win
bodes very badly for the Obama political machine, and I couldn’t be happier.
Walker’s
victory, while obviously good for the people of Wisconsin, is also good, in
fact very good, for Republicans everywhere, as this should help turn Wisconsin back
to RED again...and the best part is that Obama knows it.
The last Republican to carry Wisconsin was in 1984 when Ronald
Reagan handedly beat Walter Mondale by 9 points. In the six presidential elections since then,
the Democratic nominee averaged 49.16 percent of the vote, while the GOP
nominee averaged 43.71 percent of the vote.
But that will soon change, and it’s thanks to Scott Walker
and the good people of Wisconsin. This victory was NOT accomplished by Republican votes alone, but also by Democrats who had the courage to cross party lines and vote for what they knew was right.
This long drawn out recall fiasco started when Governor Walker moved to reign in the out
of control collective bargaining powers and demands by ‘big union,’ but the
bottom deciding line for Wisconsinites was that Governor Walker kept his
promises, including to balance the state’s budget without raising taxes. That was something the people did NOT forget
no matter how hard Barrett and his cronies tried to twist, distort, and lie...they
just couldn’t change the simple fact that Governor Walker was, and is, doing a
good job for the people of his state.
Just as David won against Goliath, Scott Walker won against
the big money union bosses with their Chicago style bullying tactics. And even Obama sending in the likes of DNC
Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (insert gagging here), and the big kahuna Billy-Boy
Clinton himself, that still couldn’t hold Walker down.
Liberals and unions were on the losing end last night, and the
people of Wisconsin and all of America are the winners.
Mitt Romney issued the following statement on Walker’s victory:
“I congratulate Scott Walker on his victory in Wisconsin.
Governor Walker has demonstrated over the past year what sound fiscal policies
can do to turn an economy around, and I believe that in November voters across
the country will demonstrate that they want the same in Washington, D.C.
Tonight’s results will echo beyond the borders of Wisconsin. Governor Walker
has shown that citizens and taxpayers can fight back – and prevail – against
the runaway government costs imposed by labor bosses. Tonight voters said ‘no’
to the tired, liberal ideas of yesterday, and ‘yes’ to fiscal responsibility
and a new direction. I look forward to working with Governor Walker to help
build a better, brighter future for all Americans.”
To that I say, ‘amen.’
I have said since day
one that MITT ROMNEY will be our next president and last night's BIG win in
Wisconsin convinces me even more so of that. But I also know that with this victory comes
the fact that we must NOT let our guard down, for now Obama and crew will get
nasty...real, real nasty. But if we're
all prepared for it we can handle it, and I have the utmost confidence that Mitt
Romney can handle anything Barack Hussein Obama can dish out.
'We the People' WILL take our beloved America back, and last
night’s victory in Wisconsin has led the way.
The ‘silent majority’ is silent no more!
