By Daniel Grantham

Democrats really should admit that Republicans have a strong point about the lack of Obama’s experience compared to Bush, Cheney, McCain and even Sarah Palin.

The record is fairly clear: Obama seems completely incapable of lying the country into an unneeded, bankrupting war.

He is a babe in the woods when it comes to violating his oath of office to favor fat cat lobbyists. His history shows him to be utterly unable to squash his compassion in support of health care denial, lack of opportunity, poor education, lousy and underpaid working conditions or credit fleecing of the average citizen.

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Patriot Day Day 255 of 2008 111 days left in this year

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kumakaia: Betrayal, to betray
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Man nogut: Criminal
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The bones of an evil chief will not be concealed.
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “There never was a good war or bad peace.”  - Benjamin Franklin

WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — West Maui Watershed
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — McCain, Stop Lying
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Huffington Post
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Make a Wish Foundation

September 11, 2001: Nineteen Islamic fundamentalists make a surprise terrorist attack on the United States, bringing down the Trade Towers in New York City. Life is changed forever in the U.S. On Maui, most people hear about the news well after it happens (the first plane, American Flight 11, hits the North Tower at about 2:46:40 a.m. local time), and so they awake to see replays of crashes, towers coming down, and people running for their lives.

Tourists and residential travelers are stranded for nearly three weeks, as all aircraft are grounded, including an approximate 35,000 people on Maui. Many accommodations make special deals with visitors to keep costs down. There is a run on supplies at stores. As usual, toilet paper becomes something of a rare commodity on store shelves, reducing, in a sense, the horrific to the mundane, as sometimes only island life can.

Meanwhile, the top U.S. officials whose criminal negligence and incompetence allowed this attack to occur, and who have yet failed to capture the primary perpetrator, remain at large … and in charge.

EVENTS ON THIS DAY — September 11th
1609: Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island
1709: English, Dutch & Austrians defeat the French in the Battle of Malplaquet
1941: Construction begins on the Pentagon Building in Washington DC
1947: The U.S. Department of Defense is formed
1973: Chile’s elected Socialist President, Salvador Allende, is assasinated in a CIA-backed military coup
1997: The Army issues a searing indictment of itself, asserting that “sexual harassment exists throughout the Army, crossing gender, rank and racial lines”
1997: Scots vote to create their own Parliament after 290 years of union with England