Charlie Daniels says:

[Teresa]

I've always liked Charlie Daniels because he's always been straight forward:

Guns and Church

Since I identify with the people who fall into Barrack Obama's elitist description about of people of faith who keep firearms I'm not very happy with Barrack Obama's recent remarks.

He said something to the effect that us rednecks cling to our guns and our religion when we get frustrated and I would like to take umbrage to these remarks. My faith goes much deeper than his superficial explanation and I love my guns even when I'm not frustrated.

And I am not by myself. I was going to church and shooting guns before Mr. Obama was even born and come from a long line of good people who have been doing it for generations.

To me this latest Obama blunder only helps reveal the depth of condescension the far left wing of the Democrat party has for the folks out here in flyover country.

Mr. Obama's remarks are insulting to a lot of folks. It's kind of like Abraham Lincoln said, "God must love the common people because he made so many of them".

His remarks make me think that Obama doesn't know the people of this country very well. I'm sure he knows the jet set and the Hollywood bunch, the limousine liberals and the save the whales, kill the babies crowd, but does he think that the ordinary people don't count? Does he think that they're so stupid that they don't know who he's talking about when he says these things? Does he think their opinions aren't important? Apparently.

How can a man stand in front of America and tell people what he wants to do for them and have so little respect for a whole segment of the population. In fact, a very large segment. Does that mean that he would only represent the high-minded liberal ideals of the far left and ignore the rest of us?

What kind of Commander and Chief would he make if he doesn't respect the very people who make up the lion's share of the armed forces.

You may say I'm over reacting, but I'm getting sick and tired of him making these elitist statements and saying that he had been taken out of context or some other flimsy excuse.

After his wife's remark about not being proud of this country and his pastor's statements calling America the U.S.K.K.K.A. and his own statement about not wanting his daughter punished with a baby, it makes me wonder what kind of a man Obama really is and what kind of a president he'd make.

Would he be an antigun advocate pushing the effort to take the firearms out of innocent citizen's hands? Would he not respect the religious beliefs of America, not taking them into account in his agenda?

I really don't know much about the man and neither does America. He basically came from out of nowhere and as the facts come out little by little, they don't make a particularly confident picture.

I have a great fear that if our military gets broken by another president, this time we're not going to have time to fix it again and what that spells for America, I don't even want to contemplate.

Oh well, I guess I'll grab my gun and go to church.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

April 14, 2008

http://www.charliedaniels.com/soapbox-2008-041408.htm

[frawin]

Teresa, can't you just see Charlie reading that on stage with his big stetson pulled down, and maybe adding a few choice words with it. That is as good as I have seen. That one will be all over the internet pretty quick. No question Charlie is an all-american guy.

[flo]

OMG I've got to add my 2 cents to this.  Charlie Daniels is a straight shooter, no pun intended, and will not mince words to make his point.  He don't have to.  His remark about Obama coming out of the woodwork, so to speak, is true.  I, as I'm sure many of you, had never heard of him before he decided to run for president.  I've said many times that the "race" issue should not be a part of this election and I didn't think it was, on a large scale, UNTIL I heard a black Obama supporter say on the TV the other night, as he was bad-mouthing Sarah Palin, that so far as he knew there was not one black person living in Alaska.  So what??? But it sure sounded like the blacks are going to make this a "race" issue and probably been doing that all along, I just wasn't paying close enough attention.  I do know that there will probably be more blacks vote at this election than in the history of all past elections.    no, Frank, I'm not divulging who I'm gonna vote for.  Pretty much made up my mind, but not entirely cause something could happen between now and November. 

[frawin]

Maybe Charlie will tour with Sarah Palin, now that would bring out a crowd. They could raise campaign money and get voters at the same time.

[frawin]

Flo, who you vote for is up to you, but I like your response to Teresa's Charlie Daniels posting. Good old country girls are the best. And I bet old Charlie would agree with that.

[frawin]

I liked what Charlie said VERY MUCH!  Of course, I've thought he was a great person for many years.  We saw him on the 4th of July in Midland many years ago!  He is VERY patriotic!  Thanks for posting this, Teresa.
Myrna

[Marcia Moore]

     Frank, the last I knew, instead of Stetsons, Charlie Daniels is wearing custom-made hats made by Jack Kellogg, aka Hat Man Jack, of Wichita.  By the way, did you know Hat Man Jack is a nephew of Jim and Virginia Garver?  -- Tim

[frawin]

Marcia, I thought about the stetson thing after I posted it, I know Charlie's hats are way bigger than Stetson's. That is interesting and no I didn't know he was Jim's Nephew, I will point this one out to Myrna, she will like that. We got to attend one of Charlies shows and he was awesome in person. It was in Midland Texas the land of Cowboys and red neck oilfield workers and Charlie really got a big welcome from a fun crowd.

[pam]

Saw Charlie in Wichita in 1988 I think it was....That dude can PLAY the fiddle

[Diane Amberg]

He's been here in Newark too. Played at the Stone Balloon.