"I have not yet begun to fight"

His ship, the "Bon Homme Richard", a gift of the French, recently having sided with America, torn and shattered, divested of masts and sails by furious barrages from the British warship "Serapis" was close to sinking when the commander of the Serapis asked the American Commander if he wished to surrender.  "I have not yet begun to fight" was the answer received.  It was not long before the Serapis was in as sorry a state as the Richard, so much so that the British commander surrendered his ship with the American sailors boarding their prize not long before their ship sank.

John Paul Jones, one of the most effective naval commanders of the fledgling American Navy during the War of Independence is credited with these stirring words of courage and determination against odds not calculated to be in his nor the American favor.

But such boldness in the face of substantive odds is what has made America great.  Now, in this year of 2011, such boldness, such courage, such understanding that in times of crisis one does not count the odds must be our goal; one surges forward, not counting the cost, but keeping the greatness of America as a beacon to keep on course - to not "cave" out of fear.

Come on you Republican leaders in the House and Senate, FIGHT!  Democrats on the other side of the aisle, on the other side of reason and truth have sought to destroy this nation; tell them to their faces we love truth and freedom and that we will fight them to the last, that the fight is just beginning until the last vestiges of their corruption and lack of honor will be seen in future histories as a dark period long gone.

Obama now threatens to deprive us seniors of our social security checks.  He Threatens!  He doesn't care!  He is a demagogue never before seen in this America.  Tell that to his face!  Tell him you have not yet begun to fight to keep this nation free!  Tell him and his corrupt fellow thugs that we are Americans who love freedom and truth and despise the tyranny he espouses.  We trust in God and not in those who think themselves above God.  Tell him!  Tell them!  Tell them we are a free people and we have not yet begun to fight!