Replying to a non-partisan story about how Scott Brown’s win is a “blessing in disguise” for Democrats to wake up, readjust and reclaim their party from the radicals, a friend emailed me Wednesday afternoon. He ignored the article and instead focused on my addendum whereupon I noted that “As an American, I am cheering for the president to do the right thing.” He wrote back, “You do not cheer for Obama and NOBODY that knows you believes that comment. If Obama got hit by lightening (sic), then you’d cheer and cheer and cheer. That’s the funniest comment and biggest lie you’ve ever come out with.”

So after a full day of work yesterday, I came home and spent an hour typing 2500 words to explain:

Every morning when I wake up I thank G-d that I live in America, and that I live in 2010 and not 1910 or any of world’s 6000 years prior. I need not elaborate why. Even though I probably make less money than 90% of salaried Americans (and about half what I’d now be making if still teaching in LA), live far from my family, am in the midst of a miserably cold winter, and much more, I could not ask for a better, more blessed life: living in the Heartland, newly married, healthy, etc. Therefore, I support people and policies that benefit America.

Every president in my lifetime, to varying degrees, regardless of party, has done what he believes is best for America. (I was born at the very end of Carter’s term). Though I obviously had to choose at the election booth, I supported all of them once in office. As an American, I also “support” President Obama and have praised three of his recent speeches: Ft Hood Memorial, Nobel Peace Prize and two or so weeks ago after the near terror attack on Christmas. I have emails to prove it. I shared those videos with friends, and watched them numerous times because those were the first and only speeches where the current president sounded like he supported America, understood good and evil, and the priorities of this nation. Though it took nearly a year, I was pleased.

But that was it. Those were the only speeches out of hundreds that made sense for America. That is troubling. And there has been little action behind the words. Akin to during the campaign, when Mr. Obama incessantly lied about governing from the center and being pragmatic to get the votes of moderates, then veered far left because that is his mindset (as proven over 48 years of his writing, speaking and life choices), lofty rhetoric means little when you’re in the big boys’ chair.

And these naive decisions over the past 365 days, my friend, have been more than prevarications: they’ve been backwards-thinking, dangerous and arrogant, especially in terms of our War on Terror. The ONLY area where Obama kept his pledge was to support the Afghanistan portion of America’s GWOT. And even this was done begrudgingly, after eight months of dawdling, and only did that since “Bush’s War” (the successful one he opposed and said was “lost") to him was in Iraq, not Afghanistan. And in the end, the president’s plans barely adumbrated the situation. It’s effrontery to the highest degree for a man in his 40s with no military background not to defer to his Generals and Field Marshals 100%.

(Notice the Democrats are 100% against Obama, our military, and the oppressed people of these nations here, while the GOP stands with him and our military on the side of freedom. Telling.)

Mr. Obama and his cheerleaders in the media and academia often muse, in stentorian fashion, that Bush “angered our allies.” That is, pardon the term, bullsh-t. Study history, and you’ll soon realize most nations like or dislike America to a certain point, at certain times no matter the president. They always want their daddy’s protection eventually though. Polls show this. History, again and again, shows this: More than half the French had negative views of America by 1947, two years after we saved their nation from Hitler.

And really, outside of urban centers in Western Europe where the media brainwashes the citizenry, the world loves us and billions would be here tomorrow if they could. Obama, however, has offended some of our greatest allies and erstwhile fans of Bush/America: namely two very important countries to me and my wife—Israel, Colombia. Add Honduras, Poland, Czech Republic, South Korea, and of all places, Africa (where Bush did yeoman’s work on AIDS).

Just as they were in the 80s with Reagan, the conservatives were right on this the whole time. The left lost the battle and endangered America all the way. Schools will assure that few remember. That’s what they do. They lose the real battles, so they “win” the battle over the textbooks.

Now, social and environmental policies are second tier issues, so I’d like to focus on why I support America (and the president), but explain also why criticism and occasional harsh words do not mean I don’t support him.

I want to live a long life and thrive. I don’t want Iran or any other rogue nations getting nukes and killing us all. This is not hyperbole or alarmist, but simple facts. For one full year now, this president, unlike his promises, has coddled our enemies and allowed the possibility of catastrophe to occur—in the ignorant name of “diplomacy.” Real history shows diplomacy fails as much as mindless theories like “peace” and “justice.” (Real peace is achieved through strength, military build-up, and victory.)

Meanwhile, having never been taught that at Harvard, Columbia or the Chicago “Community Organizers,” he refused to stand by and support the democracy movement in Iran; then there are his gaffes, inaction, or insane logic in Honduras, Venezuela, North Korea, Caucasus, the list goes on. No, I don’t inherently think Obama wants America or Israel to be wiped out, but he also does not listen, nor does he understand.

Why is that?

Barack Hussein Obama’s entire life (parents, friends, mentors, colleagues, all the way to his current Cabinet) has been in the company of ignorant and misguided people who were, like he, schooled in the “race and diversity studies” industry of post 1960s America. They were indoctrinated in the most radically left ways, where America, a country that’s freed billions from tyranny, is always to blame. This naturally rubs off on his world view.

His cabinet, which is the most important entity in policy-making, is as far removed from reality as he. It is, I am sad to report, riddled with anti-Israel people, socialists, communists and terror-appeasers that live in the proverbial liberal bubble. They are the protégés of Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Ramsey Clark and Jimmy Carter. They affect his every decision, and, most sadly, he’s not willing to remove them.

His Attorney General is particularly deplorable. He is openly supporting the mastermind of 9-11 by ignoring the pleas from relatives of those killed, and trying this monster in southern Manhattan, steps from Ground Zero where 3200 innocent Americans died eight years ago. Who on earth, in their worst hour, would encourage/allow this? And does this Attorney General care? No. He calls us and the relatives “cowards” for not wanting this trial. He (Eric Holder) used to head the ACLU. This is scary, yet expected.  Obama stands with him, ignores America’s wishes.

Fiscally, Obama, like his allies, strongly believes in socialism. Like him and his hypocrite wife, they are mostly extremely wealthy people, so this punitive form of governing has little effect upon them.

Like with national security, he’s proven over and over that we should never listen to what he says but focus on the actions. His actions show he admires socialism. This is not name calling, but truth. And believe me, he does not care what we think because he believes he and the Ivy League ignoramuses in his inner circle know what’s best for you and me, even though, due to their professions, place of residences, friends and education, they know far less than they guy driving a truck or picking up garbage in small town America, much less you or me. They may be educated, but they are very un-wise.

From their insular world, they ignore the people’s will, historic election results, our nation’s proud history, and the disastrous history of other parts of the world, choosing to emulate “the rest of the world,” dismissing American Exceptionalism with classic moral relativity. Instead they hard-working American, the tea party patriots, religious Christians, Fox News, talk radio, polls, blogs, and anyone disagreeing with their social engineering plans. Name calling is endemic in Statists, and petulant media members, but from the president and his staff?

So even though I make a small salary, I don’t want socialism. I’m not selfish. I am thinking long-term for America and myself. I want to work hard, be ambitious and have economic freedom the rest of my life…so as to hopefully prosper, unlike in most other nations where it’s impossible.

A point: Every time Obama speaks, I want him to say the right things. I fear for my nation, our prime ally against terror in Israel. I just received in postal mail a seven-page letter from non-partisan Defense of Israel Fund explaining how Obama is “at war with Israel.” Not pleasant sir, but true. He’s ignored and criticized Israel, revising Jewish history, siding with evil, and apologizing to our enemies with every major speech, press conference and executive order. As a Zionist and conservative Jew knowing that our “special relationship” of the past 60 years with this liberal democracy and beacon of freedom, benevolence and intellectual progress in a sea of 12th century Islamic-fascism is no longer existent, it’s pretty sad, to put mildly. I fear for the safety of my current and future family. And I am glad I care. I am proud that I don’t watch TV, and read a lot, so that I know I am firm (and correct) in my views before I make them known.

Lastly, as to your offensive claim that I’d “only cheer when Obama’s hit by lightning.” While the left did wish death and failure to Bush, this is why I get along with conservatives. Yes, I know decent liberals and some not-so-decent conservatives; but by virtue of being a conservative, you tend to be more spiritual, pious, family-oriented and moralistic, refraining from juvenile outbursts like leftists of all stripes are notorious for. Nearly all conservatives I know do pray and cheer for the president. They do not wish him death. That’s for G-d to decide.

The left, mostly secular or atheistic/agnostic, generally stopped maturing in their teenage years. They hate “deep” and serious matters, so instead they make films, music and TV sitcoms about dead Bush, dead military heroes, rally against our troops and America, and do in fact cheer when Republicans die or are seriously ill. (It’s happened many times the past few years. See Olbermann, Keith; Moore, Michael; Kos, Daily). They definitely do not allow free speech, especially on college campuses, where it’s often the most important. 

And if forced to “debate,” they, like their heroes at PBS, CNN and MSNBC, call names. Just like little children. The only reaction to my “anti Obama” emails is that I am called a “racist.” OK, occasionally I am also called a bigot, Islamo-phobe, fearmonger or even anti-Semite. That’s the entire ammunition for Fascists. Hitler also did this.  Like his left-wing allies, made he got a kick out of poking fun of the speaking ability of his opponents.

Ironically, all these names are hurled at me and my conservative friends despite the fact that nearly all Obama supporters I know solely voted for him because he’s (half) black. So who is racist? (Never mind that Obama is at best half black, raised in educated by white people in the whitest parts of America.}

And by the way, if Obama died by lightning or other means, think I want Biden, Pelosi or the rest of the Democrat leaders or Obama Cabinet loons running America?

Concluding, and perhaps most important, there are thousands of WW2 vets dying every day, hundreds of thousands each year. Nearly all will be gone in a decade. They kept America safe and saved most of the world from Nazism/Fascism. I talk to them daily. To a man, 95% despise Obama. I believe they are ones to trust.

These great men cannot believe, in their final years, they are witnessing what’s happening to America, only because the country had white guilt. One man and his cohorts can tear this nation down, and that is what they intend to d—because that’s what they think is best apparently.

I prefer President Obama succeeds. I’m just scared and, like many others, including those who voted for him, finding it harder to have “hope.”

I wanted this email to be from the heart, and it is, but I think a short excerpt from RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s editorial in January 21st’s Washington Times encapsulates my thesis nicely:

“On Tuesday night, a lifelong Democrat resident of Massachusetts, who voted for President Obama in 2008, explained on television in very clear terms why he voted for Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts’ special election to the United States Senate: “I wanted to send a message ... I think they’ve been trying to shove this health care bill right down our throats.”

This voter, like many Americans, feels betrayed by President Obama. Why? One year ago, the American people gave the president an enormous amount of trust to enact “change we can believe in."”

But with a weak economy and rising unemployment, this administration decided to take a “big bang” approach to policy, taking advantage of the economic crisis to push their ultra-liberal agenda, including a government takeover of health care that will increase taxes and raise premiums.

So what were the results of Obama’s “big bang” this past year? Republicans took back the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey, both states that Mr. Obama won in 2008. Five House Democrats have announced their retirements, along with two Senate Democrats who were once perceived as “unbeatable” in their states. One House Democrat got so fed up with Mr. Obama’s liberal agenda he decided to become a Republican. Polls show fewer Americans identifying themselves as Democrats and more identifying themselves as Republicans. Republicans are winning against Democrats in generic congressional ballots. And independent voters, who were key to Democrats’ victories in 2006 and 2008, are running away from the Democratic Party faster than you can say “Yes we can."”

Thank you for reading…

Ari Kaufman