Allen Bernard West

This post is from earlier this year:

          The charge of racism towards those who oppose Barack Obama is right out of the playbooks of communists and Saul Alinsky. The particular charge in these cases doesn't have to be true and does not even have to make sense. What's only important is that a charge has been made. Repeat it often enough and it will be accepted.
          In my particular case, about the only thing left that I like about this president is that he is black. There have been too many black schoolchildren that have taken pride in him for me to utterly and totally regret his ascendancy to that office.... too may working class blacks (working class like myself) who had something, albeit only for a short time, to root for, and too many doubts of my own that America could elect a black president.
          There are plenty of negatives to go along with this and that may be the understatement of the year. He fulfilled his own prediction from October 30th of 2008 of "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." Racial relations have worsened because of him, the economic progress of the black community had been set back decades and strong, able and wise black leaders have been isolated and attacked simply because they oppose him. Barack Obama has stomped all over our Constitution, eviscerated our heritage, weakened our national defense, strengthened our enemies, is destroying our health system, and has put feeble leaders in so many important positions that on a daily basis..... no news is good news.
          Do you want a good book to read, a book that you can settle down with and read in a few days, not only enjoy it but become informed and educated in the process? Have you been looking for a good read to give to your teenage son or daughter to put wind in their sails as future producers in this country and as good citizens...well-educated in our nation's history and prepared to withstand the politically correct nonsense that they might get in their public schools? Well, I have the book for you!
Allen West writes as if he is right there talking to you. One minute he'll be telling you of his childhood in Atlanta and the next explaining why his neighborhood changed over the years and who was responsible. He writes about his army service as if addressing someone who has been there also. He writes about Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as if he were a history teacher and John Locke and Thomas Hobbes as if he were a philosophy professor, and all of it is easy to comprehend and digest and needed in our national debate.
          If you are not familiar with this man, Allen Bernard West, was born into a black, conservative, church going family in Atlanta in 1961. His father, who he pridefully writes about throughout the book, told him never to use his race as a crutch. West was too busy and too determined to dwell on his race. He advanced as a soldier, later as a husband and most recently as a patriot. He served one term as a Congressman in Florida and the Left was on him like flies on a stallion. He wasn't stopped in that campaign, he wasn't tackled, he just ran out of time, and he's about the last person the Democrats want in the national spotlight.
          His book is Guardian Of The Republic, an American Ronin's Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom. (you will have to read the book to see what 'American Ronin" means) Possibly the most important section of the book is his description of how the black community of today assumed it's present political stance. We meet Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois here. We see their fight and who was the honorable one.
          I've mentioned Allen West before and put him right up there just behind Jim DeMint who if Conservatives were wise, they would not only mention his name as a presidential candidate but would push for it and be determined not to take 'no' for an answer from Conservative leaders nor from Jim DeMint himself! Allen West has convinced me over the years that he also has what it takes, that he has a lot of James Madison in him, and a lot of Ronald Reagan, and a lot of Booker T. Washington!