Alan West For Congress

Lieutenant Colonel Alan West is running for the U.S. Congress in 2010. Alan is a resident of Broward County, where he settled after retiring from the U.S. Army after 22 years of service. Alan served in Operation Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and in Afghanistan.

You can read more about Alan at Alan West For Congress, but to really get a good “feel” for what Alan is all about, watch this YouTube video. This is a video of Alan speaking at the Revolution Nightclub in Fort Lauderdale during the American Freedom tour.

It almost impossible to watch this video and not get emotionally fired up. Alan is every bit as engaging a public speaker as Barack Obama — but he’s speaking from his heart — not from a teleprompter.

Alan talks about individual rights and freedoms — about individual responsibility and accountability. These are themes that our “leaders” in Washington seem to have forgotten. These are American themes. They define who we are and why America is exceptional among all of the nations on the Earth.

If we had a hundred men like Colonel West in Congress, we could take back this country and make it great once again.