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If Bill Clinton was “the first black President,” then B. Hussein Obama is the nation’s first “Muslim” President.

In the course of B. Hussein Obama’s blatant, naked attempts to nationalize our economy by trying to destroy the private sector in part with mob outrage (think the ginned-up AIG executive bonus scandal), he continually whines about how tough the job of president is, and how horrible the mess is that he “inherited” from the previous administration. 

Did we hear Ronald Reagan whine about the mess that he inherited from Jimmy Carter (which, I might remind everybody, was much worse than this “crisis” we have to contend with now) in the early ‘80s?

More to the point, did anybody hear Mitt Romney complain about the colossal mess he inherited when he became the CEO of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee? In the late 1990s, the organization in charge of the 2002 Winter Olympics at Salt Lake City was awash in scandals of graft and, worse yet, in dire financial straits. It took the leadership skills and strong business savvy of Mitt Romney to turn things around, and put on the best Winter Games to date. That same type of leadership is what we are in desperate need of today. As Obama continues to make the economy even more stagnant with his utter incompetence – not unlike Jimmy Carter – it is as if he’s setting the stage for Mitt to take over after 2012. Time will tell.

As if we need to re-hash this again, the liberal-leftist drive-bys in the media (such as the very left-wing, very naïve cartoonist Clay Bennett)  have been sounding like a hoard of Pavlov’s Dogs when Rush Limbaugh said that he hoped that Obama would fail. Anybody with a modicum of mental capacity and who is intellectually honest as well – not necessarily a guaranteed package deal! – realizes that Rush did not say that he personally hoped Obama’s presidency would fail, as the price of such failure would be damage to our country in one way or another (think Jimmy Carter’s failed presidency by 1980). Rather, he said that he hoped Obama’s attempts to pervert this great nation into a Socialist Banana republic fail, and I for one do too.

Hope for that sort of failure? Count me in!

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I love Middle America. The elites on the coasts disdain it as “flyover country,” but to me, it represents the true American values of hard work, honesty, integrity, respect for free enterprise, and, more to the point, an appreciation of limited government. With that in mind, remember when liberal author Thomas Frank wrote that condescending book What’s The Matter With Kansas? Kansas isn’t the problem, per se, as other states in Middle America tend to be in subtle ways.

Many of us conservatives rightfully disdain the disgusting self-indulgence on display when voters in Manhattan, Hollywood, San Francisco, Boston or Seattle endorse boutique socialist policies that all taxpayers across the country are forced to subsidize by the very coercion of the government itself. What is even more disturbing is that folks in some pockets of Middle America, such as, say, Iowa, Wisconsin or Minnesota, are sometimes just as apt to vote in the same manner as the self-indulgent, shallow-living denizens on the coasts. 

Iowa, for example, can be thought of as part of the back-bone of traditional Middle-American values, and yet, sometimes their voting habits are indistinguishable from Manhattan-based socialism. The problem with the good-hearted folks of Iowa, is that they’re naïve enough to think that endorsing big-government policies is a way of helping out their neighbor, without realizing the drastic consequences that eventually follow. How ironic for these hard-working, church-going folk to forget that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

As an aside, this is way I’ve always liked the South more than the Midwest. Same Middle American values, but they’re not as apt to get suckered into big government initiatives. They’re more independent (and less complacent) than folks in the Midwest, and their recent voting habits prove it. Plus, the football is better and the girls are prettier in the South, and the cities of the South are among the best business climates in this great land. What’s not to love?

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Want the proof-positive that Marxism goes against everything that American society stands for? Contrast the basic premises of Marx’s ideology and our Protestant-rooted culture. To Marx, work was bad; it got in the way of what he viewed as the ideal for society, which to him was being to able to sit around the write poetry. For all you Harley-Davidson fans, classic car gearheads, SEC football fans and NASCAR fans, I’ll allow you sufficient pause time for you to grab your barf bags, as I’ll grab mine.

America, however, from its earliest days was rooted in the Protestant work ethic, where hard work is good for you, and as such is good for the soul. Indeed, almost 400 years after the Pilgrims established their colony at Plymouth Rock, work defines who we are. Just as we give thanks to Almighty God for his bountiful blessings, we should likewise give thanks for the myriads of opportunities we have to further fine-tune our personal definitions through our productivity. That is the American Way.