President Obama
A New Era in American Politics

It's official. In the election of 2008, America has reaped what she has sown over the course of many years. Among the American electorate, the seeds of ignorance, greed, class-warfare, laziness and dependence have been sown. It started with the New Deal, was magnified in the Great Society & the War on Poverty, and has been promoted in and on everything from Kindergarten bulletin boards, where words like "hope," "diversity," and "progress" are taught to our children as the highest ideals, to the headlines of the nation's largest print media sources. Finally, the crop has been harvested and we are now left with a new beast of citizens that have bought the Obama spin that America prospers from the bottom up, that the U.S. Constitution is an impedance to social justice in America and that what we really need is to spread the wealth around. There is no sense in complaining about it. Barack Obama

Certainly a majority of Americans do not favor having the government take private income and disburse it to the lazy, but a majority voted, for one reason or another, for a ticket that believes this to be admirable.

commanded more votes than John McCain for a reason. These reasons are numerous and some are worthy of comment, but at the end of the day, more citizens were motivated to vote for thinly veiled socialism than for some degree of personal responsibility.

Weak Republican Strategy

Part of the problem was John McCain. It is worth pointing out that despite attempting to run an honorable campaign, despite refraining from definitively tying the millstone of Jeremiah Wright & Trinity United Church of Christ around Obama's neck, despite sparingly referring to Obama's ties to domestic terrorism, despite only timid offensive strikes during the debates, John McCain was still accused by Barack Obama of running a dirty campaign. I might suggest for future Republicans that if they are going to be accused of being dirty no matter what they do, at least do what it takes to speak openly and honestly. John McCain, for fear of being something less than honorable, avoided even pointing out the obvious facts: that Obama is a socialist, racist, America-hating revolutionary that has no business being a part of American government. And look where it got him. McCain keeps his seat in the Senate while the candidate who despised the U.S. Constitution is now the executor of that same Constitution.

I'm not sure what is worse, the fact that such a large block of voters was not informed about Barack Obama's history, motives and intentions, or the fact that such a large block of voters didn't seem to care. I don't remember a time in America when so many citizens chose to actively remain ignorant. The media did not scrutinize him, but we've know that about the media for years. It is also up to the citizens to investigate their candidates and inform themselves. Libertarians are partially at fault. Third parties only empower the fringe on the other side. Equally at fault are the Republicans who were hoodwinked into believing that Obama, the most Liberal senator in the nation, was actually a bipartisan savior for American politics. Christians who voted for Obama simply could not have been thoroughly informed. There is little from the scriptures that would inform one to vote for Barack Obama. The Christians among us who abstain from involvement in worldly politics ought to be ashamed of themselves, as well. Their consciouses may be eased having sat out an election, but they still have to live in an America for generations to come that will be stocked full of judges and Justices that not only ignore and abhor the U.S. Constitution but also contribute to the moral degradation of society. They will also have to suffer the consequences of inching America away from the U.S. Constitution and it's provision for religious freedom.

Racism and Obama

Anyone who thinks that Barack Obama's election will ease racial tensions in America is fooling themselves. They ought to be correct and I wish they were, but sadly, they are wrong. An Obama presidency should indicate that the color of a man's skin is not a limit to the success that he can achieve. Obama's life history, his friends and alliances (none more significant that his wife) have demonstrated overt racism over the course of the past several decades. This is not a new trend. Mark my words, there will be no progress towards racial healing in America during an Obama term. Instead, we're going to hear charges of racism every time a critic of the Obama administration speaks. Criticize Obama's fiscal policy? Racism. Challenge Obama's foreign policy? Racism. Question Obama's judicial nominations? Racism. It will be a constant drum-beat. Perhaps the public will grow tired of hearing such charges. The media that reports and echoes the charges of racism, the same media that has been the Obama mouthpiece for months, has already seen their ratings, subscriptions and revenues plummet. I'm optimistic that their consumers will continue to grow increasingly weary of their biased bilge and shun their product for alternative media.

How bad is bad?

History has shown me that things are never as good as they seem and things are never as bad as they seem. America defeated the greatest world power in the late-18th Century, survived a Civil War in the mid-19th Century, ended slavery, defeated fascism and communism (once), and made it through the Jimmy Carter era. Americans alive at any point during those times could be excused for believing that America's end was near. But Providence saw her through, and America is still the envy of the world. That being said, I'm not sure we yet know how bad an Obama presidency might be. I anticipate a profound shift to the left, such as we've never seen in America before. I anticipate a move towards European socialism, judicial nominations that will make Ginsburg and Stevens appear Conservative and will take generations to correct, unprecedented social spending, and frightening weakness when it comes to our nation's security. What about Obama's positions would lead one to think otherwise?

We're in deep trouble, economically speaking, if Obama is able to enact his energy policy. Learning of his desire to bankrupt the coal industry just days before the election was both journalistic malpractice and unprecedented. At no time in American history has a major candidate advocated the elimination of a significant sector of the economy. Absent from his conversation about this bankruptcy is any sort of suggestion as to what might replace coal as a viable source of energy, and most troubling is that Barack Obama is not upset about the certain increase in the cost of energy as a result of this bankruptcy. Each and every American ought to take a moment to consider that if Barack Obama has been on the national scene for 18+ months of campaigning and we have only now learned of his desire to cripple the energy industry, what types of news have been successfully kept from us? What else are we going to learn about Barack Obama in the coming days, weeks and months. A presidential candidate should be thoroughly vetted, and this candidate was not. The consequence of this journalistic malpractice is that we have to live not with a stealth candidate who cannot enact policy, but with a stealth president who has the ability to issue executive orders!

Socialist in Chief

"Lately [John McCain has] called me a socialist for wanting to roll back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can finally give tax relief to the middle class. I don't know what's next. By the end of the week he'll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten." --Barack Obama, October 29, 2008

"...John McCain and Sarah Palin, they call this socialistic. You know, I don't know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness." --Barack Obama, October 31, 2008

I'm not sure why it is so hard to grasp, but Leftists and socialists view the following two scenarios as equivalent:

1. A child choosing to share toys that belong to him with other children.
2. A school telling a child to share toys that belong to him with other children.

Further, Obama's alleging that a healthy economy is grown from the bottom up is simply foolish. Name one college researcher that applied for a grant by soliciting the poor. Who among us got their start by getting a job from the poor? This logic is silly. The healthiest economy is grown from the top down, where employees can succeed and grow their wealth to the point where they can then go off on their own. This is not bottom up, this is top down. The wealthy, keeping their earnings rather than having it confiscated by the government, are free to use their wealth to expand their businesses, hire additional employees, give to charity, pay for a child's or friend's college tuition, etc. The poor can rise up by working, not by taking a handout. If taking from the wealthy and giving to the poor were fruitful, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society would have been a raging success and we would have no more poverty in America. But despite a massive transfer in wealth over the past five decades, we continue to have millions of dependents trapped in their poverty and believing that they have no opportunity to advance in America. Nothing could be further from the truth, but there is a major political party in this nation that is not interested in the truth.

There's no use complaining about it now, though. We must determine how we can be as successful as possible over the next four years without having our productivity taxed away. At some point in time we'll learn what Barack Obama's true definition of "rich" is, and it will be incumbent upon us to produce just below this definition. What incentive is there for one to work above this line? Anything more earned will simply be confiscated by the government. If Obama and the congressional Liberals have their way, incentive for productivity will be extinguished. Most depressing is that a majority of voting Americans have chosen this way of life. Certainly a majority of Americans do not favor having the government take private income and disburse it to the lazy, but a majority voted, for one reason or another, for a ticket that believes this to be admirable.

Though no one is entirely sure, Alexander Fraser Tytler is often credited with saying, "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years." It remains to be seen if we are on the precipice of a dictatorship, but it does seem clear that a majority of those who voted on election day believed that they could vote some of the "largesse" their way. Or they soothed their consciouses by voting for someone who would, in their opinion, be compassionate on their behalf with the money that was taxed away form the productive. This is disturbing, and unless corrections are made during the mid-term 2010 elections, America will continue to trend in the wrong direction. Sometime soon, a Conservative government (with a spine) will need to be installed to ensure that the majority of Americans are not receiving handouts from a minority. Left uncorrected, however, there is certainly a point of no return. This is impossible to see without the benefit of hindsight and as such, ought to be addressed sooner rather than later.

Where Do We Go?

The danger with continuing to lose elections is that with each passing cycle we accept a more and more watered down version of Conservative candidates. We eventually will take anyone that will both call themselves Republicans and give us a shot at defeating the Liberal Democrats. How many more times will we tolerate losing an election so that a lesson can be taught (as in 2006) or nominating a "maverick" Republican to represent us on the Presidential ticket?

Hunker down, folks. Our national security has been compromised. The war on babies has been escalated and an infanticide adovcate will now reside in the White House. Everyone's taxes will increase by 2010 at the latest. Do all you can to shelter income from the empowered Obama IRS. A man who does not believe the U.S. Constitution is the best foundation for our government will take an oath to protect and defend it. Educate yourself and others. Vote Conservative in 2010. We survived Jimmy Carter... we can survive Obama.

rg

11/5/2008

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