The Gulf Between Obama and You

I don't care about the Newsweek magazine's front page of Gov. Sarah Palin that was not airbrushed, and I doubt Palin has lost one minute of sleep over it either.  We've spent too much time on trivia and not enough time on the real issues that are near and dear to our hearts.  I suggest the candidates stop whining and repeating the same old tiresome talking points and get down to the important issues.  Tell the media to shut up, don't count on them for anything, and realize it's up to YOU Senator John McCain, to either win or lose this election.

The media keep interviewing each other about the candidates as if they and they alone are the real experts and not merely well paid actors. [snip]

By definition, most politicians are thieves and liars whose Number One priority is themselves, then their family and friends, then those of their constituents who can reward them handsomely for passing or for refusing to pass a bill. Then, there are the rest of us, at the bottom of the pile-on. We are lucky to get the scraps.

Politicians do not necessarily deserve our adulation or even respect until or unless they can prove and keep proving to us that they are not cut of this common political cloth but of finer, more stately stuff.

-- Phyllis Chesler

Barack Obama's sex education in kindergarten ..  It gives us an insight into the huge gulf between Senator Obama's election year image and what he has actually been for and against over the preceding decades. It also shows the huge gulf between his values and those of most other Americans..   -- Thomas Sowell

...   is not education about biology but indoctrination in values that go against the traditional values that children learn in their families and in their communities. Obviously, the earlier this indoctrination begins, the better its chances of overriding traditional values.  [snip]

The old phrase, "a man of high ideals but no principles," is one that applies all too painfully to Barack Obama today. His words expressing lofty ideals may appeal to the gullible but his long history of having no principles makes him a danger of the first magnitude in the White House.  (more)

October Surprise? Senator Obama was member of socialist New Party.   Illinois Senator's ties to the socialist New Party offers a new twist on the secret life of the shady Chicago socialist.  From American Power Blog and Politically Drunk on Power:  "Web Archives Confirm Barack Obama Was Member of Socialist 'New Party' In 1996."
 

BY Thomas Lifson

Another piece in the puzzle of Barack Obama has been revealed, greatly strengthening the picture of a man groomed by an older generation of radical leftists for insertion into the American political process, trading on good looks, brains, educational pedigree, and the desire of the vast majority of the voting public to right the historical racial wrongs of the land.

From A Disgruntled Republican:

“We oppose laws that require identification in order to vote or register to vote.”
2008 Democratic Party Platform, page 56, read it here.

This above link is to the official Democratic Web site. Check it out! I am not making this up. I am not taking this out of context. This is unbelievable!

What are Decorates thinking? How could this plank make it into the party’s platform? This may be the most radical plank ever in any major party’s platform. What would happen it there were no laws requiring identification to register to vote or to cast a vote? Dead people would vote. Illegal aliens would vote. Underage people would vote. Some people would go from polling place to polling place and vote again and again and again. With early voting, the same individual could vote literally dozens, if not hundreds, of times. Caravan of voter would travel from “safe” states to go to battleground states to vote. Massive numbers of people would be bussed from states with few electoral votes to states with large numbers of electoral votes to cast their vote. This would spell the end of our democracy. Do Democrats want to destroy our democracy?

Dear Disgruntled Republican:  No they are not crazy, this is what they believe, this is what ACORN does, illegals already vote.  Obama worked with ACORN.  Any more questions?

It comes down to very simple questions.  Do the American people want bigger government, more taxes, a bigger nanny state, socialist-Marxist-communist leadership, a leader who is serious about the war on terror and America's security --- or do they want a chance at lower taxes, smaller government, more emphasis on personal responsibility, truly democratic leaders, and leaders that take the war on terror seriously?  It's as simple as that.  Make a choice.  Obama - Biden, or McCain Palin?

Comments

[Daryl N]

""Do the American people want bigger government, more taxes, a bigger nanny state, socialist-Marxist-communist leadership,"

Yes- they elected Bush twice.

Signed,

Another middle class white guy voting for Obama.

[Aukmuntr]

Faultline USA makes a great point. Our children have been indoctrinated by the left because that is all they have ever seen in their years of schooling.

I know this to be true because I worked for a Tier 1 university for 17 years. Having earned a masters degree in Education, it was as plain as the nose on your face that liberalism was the driving force at all levels of education.

One need only examine the educational path a single professor has taken to reach his position. Like most in upper crust colleges, the student never worked in the private sector. Once they graduated their baccalaureate curriculum they would simply just move on into graduate programs. At each juncture the person teaching them took the same path before them

When the system is this incestuous, where the same criteria of thought drives the machine, you get automatons, not educated people.

Once the student gets his/her masters or PhD, they go on to become assistant professors and work their way through associate professorship to full professor. At no time in this equation have they experienced the life of the common man. Their pool of discussion has been limited to one view point on the continuum.

The only people they ever talk are themselves and they believe that all others are simple people that lack education and therefore have incorrect viewpoints.

From this point, they effectively rule the discourse nationwide because they are perceived as the greatest of minds. This is a self-fulfilling perpetual motion machine of self-aggrandizement and it is most assuredly an incest of credentials.

This is how people are so easily sucked into Obama's rhetoric. No matter what character flaws he may have, they simply look beyond them because these are the same characteristics they possess themselves.

In the final analysis, it has been incestuous thought and an elitist attitude that has propelled this man with a great many character flaws to get where he is today.

Beware the man who seeks power based on lofty ideals, yet is lacking in principle! I truly fear for the future of this nation!

[Brian Smith]

At some point we need to stop fighting the Vietnam war over and over and over again. To blame 60's radicals for today's ills is no better than suggesting McCain's stubborn views on Iraq is simply his attempt to undo what was done in Iraq. It can't be done. There is no value in it.

After WWII, the Germans were forced to deal with a very ugly time in their past. Racist feelings don't disappear overnight, but huge portions of society were forced to confront their beliefs as disgusting as they were. The Germans had to reintegrate and relearn what it meant to be German.

Even if you were completely opposed to them, anti Vietnam war Americans are still Americans. They are a part of the definition of what it means to be American. They considered their actions to be positive at the time, regardless of what you felt about them. If the Germans could fully integrate the worst parts of themselves into a healthy, beneficial society, can we do no less for the opposing views of the 60's?

The war is over. We must move on. Let prior disagreements be seen for what they were; passionate, angry, disrespectful, and at times hateful disagreement.

It's fine if you want to argue the world of ideas. But, please, don't try to re-fight the Vietnam war again. This is exactly what we do when we claim that those who disagree are Marxist, anti American or subversive somehow. The war is something that we as Americans will never really come to any agreement on. For now, we must be able to come together and have a conversation of what being American means.

As you have seen over the last few years the labels of the past are meaningless. The Republicans are not the party of responsible government. The Democrats have not the party who cares about the poor.

[Layla]

I totally agree with you Debbie. It is disgusting how low they have stooped during this campaign.

Where are all the feminists! HEH!

[Skunkfeathers]

Yawp..a lot of 60s radicals have thoroughly infiltrated and corrupted the public education system, and a lot of young people get indoctrination instead of education. If Obama gets his hands on things, it'll only get worse.

[Faultline USA]

"Do the American people want bigger government, more taxes, a bigger nanny state, socialist-Marxist-communist leadership, . . ."

Unfortnately I think many younger Americans do want this. Most of our children have been indoctrinated since birth in public schools and leftist colleges and universities.