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For the first time in my life, I fear the loss of freedom in my country, the give away of sovereignty and patrimony, and the very loss of our Republic. Not much to laugh about when a buffoon interviewed a budding tyrant on Letterman-not a very entertaining program in its heyday and now a misery to watch, but I am willing to endure a lot for my readers. Letterman started his monologue with a tirade against Republicans with jabs at Sarah Palin and Mark Sanford to make his upcoming guest absolutely comfortable that he would be preaching to the choir. Letterman introduced the Big Kahuna and gave him a most apropos gift for an environmentalist wacko (which truly minimizes Obama's green overreach which has more to do with mechanisms of control than a non-existent fix for climate), a heart-shaped potato from a woman in the audience. Obama presented the illusion of authority and was greeted with real deference, but despite the appearance of leadership, Obama demeaned the office with much of what he said. Even the obligatory mention of sending boys and girls to their deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq belied the fact that the ship of victory, helmed by every previous American President but Truman, Johnson, and Carter is rudderless with Obama spoiling for retreat from Iraq and increasingly shying away from commitments to win in Afghanistan. Obama campaigned on the premise that Bush had taken his eye off the ball by going to Iraq and diluting the effort to win in Afghanistan and kill Osama bin Laden-now Obama only seeks a way to placate the leftist peacenik base who share his raise the flag of surrender ethos against jihad as well as in suicidal unilateral nuclear disarmament. As for the dreary atmospherics of the Letterman broadcast, Obama seems to be a devotee of the speeches of Hitler-using the word "folks" quite a bit, from our beleaguered citizenry trying to cope with Obama's assault on our free markets that have created the most prosperous nation the world has ever known, to the "folks" in Afghanistan who dispatched the murderers of three thousand. Maybe Obama is conflating the two, and doing to the American people what he should be trying to do to our nation's enemies. If Obama could inflict as much damage on al Qaeda and the Taliban with his "good intentions" as he has inflicted on us, we would have secured victory already. At least Obama's cold insouciance was not as boring as Letterman usually is- one a so-called entertainer and one a so-called leader, positioned to lead us over the edge.