Beware Obama - Your vote is not a toy.

An Obama Presidency will be much, much worse than simply another Carter administration. Mr. Obama is throwing around ideas like a “Civilian National Security Force just as powerful as the military” and “The Fundamental transformation of America.” Given Mr. Obama’s far left tilt, these words of his should be scaring the hell out of you. This man just threw three right leaning newspapers off his campaign plane. I guess we know where he stands on free speech!

This man talks about redistribution of wealth in very benign terms, as if it’s no big deal. Given his association (in what is most likely a mentor-disciple relationship) with a known Marxist/anarchist like William Ayers, his (denied) twenty years of listening to the hate speech of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and his unwillingness to produce his records from the Illinois State Senate, I think it’s fair to conclude that he’s being cagey; that he’s talking about a bigger “change” than he lets on.

I think it’s fair to conclude that he’s is a Marxist.

What do we need a “Civilian National Security Force” for? Sounds like the Gestapo to me. What does he mean by the “Fundamental Transformation of America?” Sounds like he’s thinking of making major changes to the Constitution itself, doesn’t it? Don’t laugh, with an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress, and a left leaning Supreme Court to rubber-stamp his ideas, he can make a lot of trouble - one amendment at a time.

Perhaps I’m being paranoid. After all, with all the money that’s just been doled out to bolster the financial industry, there won’t be much left to spend on Mr. Obama’s grand schemes. He has been making promises of all kinds to all people, and in the best case, that will make Mr. Obama just another liar making political promises he can't keep. I don’t see how he can deliver any tax breaks, health care or energy independence given the trillion-plus dollars of federal funds that have just been squandered by the Congress to bail out Wall Street.

All the same, I don’t see how we can afford to have a radical leftist in the White House just months after nearly nationalizing our banking industry. Now is not the time to use your vote as a toy. Use it unwisely, and it may just get taken away from you!

America in Distress

I have been annoying a lot of people lately. I’ve been called ignorant, racist, and a hate monger. I’ve been told that I’m resistant to change and a particularly mean spirited apparatchik told me to “enjoy my new surroundings come Jan 20th”.
My crime, of course, is not so much in my supporting John McCain, but in not supporting Barack Obama. It seems I’m unreasonable for wanting a good explanation for Obama’s association with a terrorist-turned-professor, an America-hating pastor, and a former mouth-piece of Yasser Arafat, among others. If I can’t get caught up in all the excitement, I must be a bigot!
I’m not a racist, and I’m not a hate monger. I just want my country left intact. I’d also like left-wingers to be careful in the way they throw around these terms. If any of these smart mouths ever actually encountered a real racist or hate monger, I assure you that they’d be too busy filling their pants to call him any names. A real racist is a truly nasty and evil piece of work, usually found in bunches.
I’m not at all resistant to change, but the use of the word bothers me when it’s not accompanied by specifics. Nobody really knows what either candidate’s tax plan is going to look like until Congress has had a chance to swine it up, after all. One thing is clear: raising taxes on the “rich” (however that is defined dollar-wise) means taxing the segment of society that makes the most investment and provides most of the jobs in the private sector. All taxing them is going to do is reduce investment and reduce the number of jobs available. We, as a nation, already had this discussion in 1980. Reaganomics, AKA trickle-down economics, AKA voodoo economics works. Ask anybody that remembers the double-digit inflation of the Carter administration and how it dropped off virtually overnight once Reagan took the helm. I wish Mr. McCain would make this point once in a while.
As far as the “new surroundings” comment goes, all I can say is: enjoy it while it lasts! Should Mr. Obama get elected, he’d better be careful not to let Pelosi & Reid get too carried away with their left wing antics. We’re in for a wild ride if this Obama-Pelosi-Reid government begins unrestrained liberal lunacy. The controversy over the “Fairness Doctrine” alone will likely cause a lot of turbulence, but the big trouble will come from the runaway inflation and soaring unemployment caused by their grand scale tax-and-spend policies.
Once the American people realize what they’ve done, and whom they’ve elected, they will begin to take corrective action. The recoil in 2012 is bound to be shattering. Mr. Obama and his team are well advised to heed the words of Abraham Lincoln:

“You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”

Don’t forget to vote.