"Are We a Paper Champion?"

Remember when America was a super-power, when we were respected because of our ability to enforce the world's rogue nations into positions that reduced their capability to coerce the rest of the world. Yes we were the champions of freedom and justice to millions of people who had nowhere else to turn when tyranny reared it's ugly head. The United States was responsible for victory in the worst conflict the world has ever seen and we have been the nation that was always called upon in times of need when disaster struck anywhere in the world. America was considered unstoppable and unconquerable, kind of like the "heavyweight champion"in the boxing world. I'm quite a boxing fan, I grew up watching the "Gillette Friday Night Fights" with my Dad and uncles religiously. I saw some of the greatest fighters ever in those early days of black and white television; Ray Robinson, Dick Tiger, Gene Fulmer, and Rocky Marciano were just a few of the great fighters I was privileged to see in our darkened living room. Later years I watched the rise of Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), the self proclaimed "Greatest of All Time",and "Iron Mike Tyson"; a fighter who could have been the greatest of all time except for very poor life choices. Mike Tyson was the most devastating puncher I had seen since Rocky Marciano dispatching his opponents in a string of knock-outs that were almost hypnotic in their speed and destructiveness. Tyson's reign as champion was like a sky rocket, each title defense was electric with it's action and devastation to the unfortunate challengers. Tyson became his own worse enemy, he started believing his press clippings, he thought he was un-beatable, he believed his mere presence was enough to assure victory over any opponent. Then the un-thinkable happened in Tokyo against an opponent who no one gave a second thought about, James "Buster" Douglass. In ten short rounds the invincible champion was reduced to a mortal with his mouth-piece hanging out as he crawled toward the corner, confused and beaten. Is America becoming the "Mike Tyson" of the world today? After 911 we responded with swift and decisive action, showing strength and resolve to those who would threaten our sovereignty in the world. For the eight years of the Bush administration there were no further encroachments on American shores, strength works! Over the coarse of the last few months we have had a shooting on an American military installation, an attempted bombing by a terrorist at an American airport, and a rogue nation (Iran) virtually tell the United States to "go to hell". In less then one year the mightiest nation on earth has succumbed to the weakness of an indecisive leader who has allowed our entire nation to fall to a position of reticence and confusion in an unsure policy of domestic defense. Are we now the "paper champion",are we now a nation to be taken lightly by those who threaten and destroy? We as Americans have a decision to make about the reputation and security of this great country. I implore everyone to contact your representatives and senators, and urge them to use their influence to restore the United States to the position it once held as the stronghold of liberty and might in the free world. If Mr. Obama continues in his current policies of weakness and submission we will all suffer. It is only a matter of time before some terrorist commits an act on our shores that will take a terrible toll of American lives and property. Mr. President it is time to wake up and stop reading your "press clippings", DEFEND the United States, that is your primary job!!