This Is What a Vote for Obama Gets You [Must Read]New Media Journal ^ | October 31, 2008 | Frank Salvato
Posted on Sunday, November 02, 2008 6:03:57 AM by Zakeet
I live in Illinois, just outside of Chicago. I live in the state that incubated the political career of Barack Obama and for that, as a resident of the State of Illinois and a conservative, I apologize. But this puts me in a unique position to afford you a glimpse of things to come for our nation should Barack Obama attain the Oval Office, and especially if Democrats maintain or increase their control in Congress. I present to the citizens of the United States the State of Illinois; a working model that illustrates the consequences of a government run by the Progressive-Left.
In 2003, five short years ago, the State of Illinois went blue; not light blue or royal blue but Daley Machine, Chicago Democrat, Progressive-Left cobalt blue. For decades our state existed in a symbiotic political state; the Daley Machine Chicago Democrats controlling Cook County and most of the lesser urban areas and the Illinois GOP holding sway in the collar counties and rural areas. But the failure (and I believe cowardice) of Republican Governor George Ryan to take one for the party by stepping down before he was convicted of corruption, ushered in a dark era of Progressive-Left, Democrat political control in Illinois. Democrats now hold all statewide offices and control both houses of the legislature. This being said, everything that has happened since 2003 is attributable to Democrat and Progressive-Left action and leadership.
The governor of the State of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, has an approval rating of 4 percent. Rasmussen Reports ranks Blagojevich as the countrys least popular governor. He is embroiled in the Tony Rezko/Stuart Levine corruption probe. Levine pled guilty and Rezko was convicted for scheming to obtain kickbacks from investment firms seeking business from two state boards. The governors wife, Patricia, was a business partner of Rezko. Of course, we know the name Tony Rezko from his shady relationship with Barack Obama.
Under Blagojevich, the states unfunded pension debt is the largest in the United States. In 2005 that amounted to $35 billion. But that didnt stop Blagojevich from raiding the State University Pension System to the tune of $1.2 billion in order to balance the budget, something that still eludes the governor. Additionally, Blagojevich raised licensing fees on auto dealers almost 20-fold, required small businesses to print all of their own forms when filing state paperwork and proposed raising the fee for the Illinois Firearm Owners Identification Card from $50 to $500. He said the increased FOID fee, ...was necessary so people would think twice about wanting to own a gun. Of course, it also put the ability to purchase a gun to defend oneself with a legally purchased firearm out of range for many middle and lower-middle income families, the Second Amendment be damned.
Because of the ever expanding entitlement mentality possessed by the Chicago City Council, Chicago now has a $420 million budget deficit for the year and the highest sales tax in the United States at 9 percent. The sales tax is causing Chicago residents to flee to the suburbs to buy big ticket items, thus decreasing the tax revenue earmarked for the city. The $420 million budget deficit hot on the heels of a 2006 $217 million budget deficit has caused Mayor Richard M. Daley to institute mandatory furlough days for non-critical, union, city employees, as well as numerous other gimmicks to generate revenue. Shedding surplus entitlement programs and/or trimming the budget of unnecessary programs or agencies would make too much sense.
The City of Chicago, being the caring, diverse, tolerant, progressive city that it is, has achieved a rare distinction among American cities: Chicago is the new murder capitol of the United States. Chicago has experienced 426 homicides this year to date. This compares to 417 in New York City and 302 in Los Angeles, California (both of those cities have Progressive-Left friendly mayors and city councils as well). In fact, Chicago is home to a number of fine, upstanding young Progressive citizens in the form of a plethora of street gangs. From the Latin Kings to the Gangster Disciples, the Insane Deuces to the Insane Gangster Satan Disciples, street gangs that deal drugs, enforce protection schemes and offer a culture of fast-living, easy money and early death reign in Chicagos neighborhoods. Meanwhile, owning a handgun in Chicago is forbidden and Mayor Daley has shamefully used the murder of a young child to call for a complete ban on civilian owned firearms, usurping the Second Amendment of the US Constitution. Incidentally, the Chicago City Council has also passed a resolution that makes Chicago a nuclear weapon free zone, so weve got that going for us.
Chicagos education system is also a jewel. Chicagos Board of Education pats itself on the back for achieving a 51 percent graduation rate, while sending graduates to institutions of higher learning whose proficiency in reading, writing, math and science is arguably insufficient. In fact, an inordinate number of Chicago Public School graduates must take rudimentary classes in math and English in order to be fully accepted to College or University. Violence, including gang related shootings, is not unheard of in the schools of Chicago. In fact, there are special police that are assigned to schools throughout the city and metal detectors adorn many a schools doors.
To be fair, this disturbing reality is more the result of union interference in matters of curriculum creation, teacher quality and classroom instruction and special interest group and civil rights organization influence and interference along with parental apathy than it is anything else. Chicago Public School Chief Executive Officer Arne Duncan has made an admirable attempt to maximize the learning experience for Chicagos students and teachers alike in the face of special interest tyranny, even if he has had to do so with one hand tied behind his back, the other under the critical and political eye of Mayor Daley.
And as Chicago, the city, becomes inebriated in decay, Mayor Daley and the Cook County Board are feverishly trying to salvage their entitlement-based regimes by capitalizing on the process of community rehabilitation the exportation of residents who previously lived in undesirable, non-revenue generating affordable housing to the collar counties and suburbs. As old high-rise affordable housing units are destroyed to make way for the tax-revenue generating condominiums, townhouses and Olympic venues, the stench of Progressive-Left entitlement, along with the consequences its ideology brings, is infecting the rest of the state in a destructive way.
An aggressive urbanization" of the once peaceful and amiable Chicago suburbs is causing a rise in problems traditionally found in urban areas: struggling schools, overcrowding, crime, traffic congestion, elevated costs of living, municipal budgetary woes, stagnant development, and ideological confrontation, complete with special interest influence from outside the community. Just as with the National Education Associations encroachment upon local control of schools and their curriculums, the urbanization of the suburbs, collar counties and progressively (no pun intended) the rural areas of Illinois is facilitating a culture of urban morality; a society ruled by moral relativism, victimhood and the caretaker nanny state.
We here is Illinois understand the pitfalls of a one party, Progressive-Left, socialist system of government. In a state where the largest urban locale accepts as unavoidable the notion that dead men can vote, sometimes twice, the art of committing voter fraud and eliminating opposition candidates sometimes of the same party is handed down from generation to generation in a quest to maintain a stranglehold on power for the machine. From precinct captains, aldermen and community organizers to special interest activists, racially biased religious leaders and former Weather Underground terrorists, Illinois, because of the unyielding aggression of the Progressive-Left, has been transformed from a land where individual rights were guarded and constitutional liberty was valued at all costs the Land of Lincoln to the home of religious zealots like Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Fr. Michael Pfleger and the Nation of Islams Louis Farrakhan and political opportunists like Jesse Jackson, Dick Durbin, Rod Blagojevich and Barack Obama. Conservatives are left with no voice on the national stage and small quarter in the state where we live.
This is just a limited glimpse into what it is like to live in a cobalt blue state; where Progressive-Left Democrats wield the tenets of socialism including wealth redistribution and the limitation of constitutional rights with impunity. Should the voters of America foolishly opt to discard liberty, opportunity and self-reliance in a self-centered quest for unearned wealth and a fraudulently engineered societal equality, we will come to rue the rhetoric of hope and change, just as we will all soon be weeping for the freedoms we so imprudently cast aside.
Government must come before politics. The sanctity of the Constitution must trump political ideology. Country first.
"It's too early. He hasn't done anything yet." Video here.
(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com
(Excerpt) Read more at usweekly.com ... Said it before, and Ill say it again.
Everyone reading this should hand write, or type, a personal letter to neighbors warning that Obama will: (deliver to at least 20 neighbors doorsteps TODAY)
Obama will:
*Remove Christmas as our national holiday.
*Bankrupt the coal industry, leaving us without power.
*Redistribute all personal savings above $100,000
(feel free to add your own)
By now, people are turned off to regular campaign literature. THIS IS VERY EFFECTIVE in changing minds and making people THINK ...
Take heart . . .Feeling discouraged, the following should help. From mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com - what some of the PUMAs have to say.
townes ward, on October 31st, 2008 at 1:50 pm Said:
I am a PUMA! I lurk the board but send 250 emails every day. I took the last two weeks off so I could focus on the ground. Flyers, phone calls and emails!
I was a DEM but now a Republican. Most of the folks I talk to are voting a STRAIGHT REPUBLICAN TICKET!
I think it would be great it we knew WHAT STATE each of the voters are in. That would let us know which state we need to send PUMAS to. I am in Georgia but on the AL line.
pacificisland, on October 31st, 2008 at 1:00 pm Said:
Dont trust the polls. PUMA report from PA:
I worked for the McCain campaign last week and over the weekend in the downtown Philly office. We started calling on Dems in Philly and were stunned at our results. Of those we spoke with, I was getting 30-40% supporting McCain, my friend was getting 20-30% support. And this is Philly!! If you are scared, frustrated, or angry about the horse shit in this election, go volunteer at your local McCain/Palin office. It is one of the most constructive and positive things you can do for yourself and your country.
Kerri, on October 31st, 2008 at 5:53 pm Said:
What are YOU doing this weekend to get out the vote for Mccain/Palin? Dems have turned PA red, we need Ohio, VA, NC, etc
go to JohnMccain.com and make phone calls from your home, at least!
We PUMAs are traveling hundreds of miles knocking on doors saying, Hello, Im a democrat who is voting for Mccain/Palin.
Real life people who are candid, respectful and informed are EFFECTIVE!
WE NEED EVERYONE!
PUMA: Vigilant, Fearless, Potent!
Kenneth, on October 31st, 2008 at 6:11 pm Said:
PUMA here - not only am I voting for John McCain in early voting tomorrow. I am driving a small busload (20 + ) of folks who I have recently convinced to switch from the Obama camp to vote McCain/Palin. These people are folks who live in my gated community and it took some time to convince them but they have all finally agreed that Obama scares them with his radical past and have finally decided that a vote for McCain rather than not voting or some other candidate like Ralph Nader would be in the interest of the nation.
Never underestimate the roar of a PUMA
its better and more effective than the bullying tatcics of the Obamabots
..we are out there and we will be heard on election day!!
Hispanic4Hillary 10.30.08 at 1:51 pm
Well Pumas
.my family and I went to vote yesterday
It was 48 of us
and we all voted for McCain/Palin
The other are going tomorrow
Some have voted since Saturday
there will be a total of over 200 votes for McCain from our family
It was hard but it was a must to defeat O
and I feel dammmm good about it..
Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback.
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A STEP TOWARD GLOBAL GUN CONTROL? UN panel backs call for standards in arms trade. Its supporters say not.
JOHN HINDERAKER: "We are now about to take a second vacation from history (assuming, of course, that Barack Obama prevails on Tuesday). Barney Frank has vowed to cut the defense budget by 25%. Apart from the budget, it is apparent that Obama and his fellow Democrats have little interest in the conflict with Islamic extremism and no intention of pursuing it aggressively. Like the interlude of the 1990s, the de-emphasis on national security promised by the Democrats is the fruit of success." As I've said before, this is why I don't worry as much about spending on war as on social and regulatory programs. Spending on war always gets cut back.
By Michelle Malkin November 1, 2008 11:25 PM
I predicted the totally predictable last night. And so it has come to pass: The left-wing fairweather friends of privacy are all over the leak of Aunti Zeitunis immigration info while Joe The Plumber remains persona non grata. Democrat Rep. John Conyers has already called for a federal investigation. The WaPo is already up with an A-section story on the anonymous leak. And the liberal blogs are up in arms.
The MSM abhor anonymous leaks unless theyre helping to undermine Bush administration anti-terrorism programs or conservative causes and candidates.
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November 2, 2008 Posted by Scott at 7:46 AM
NRO has posted Stanley Kurtz's National Review article "Senator Stealth" with a new preface. Kurtz prefaces his article :
When I wrote "Senator Stealth," just over two months ago, it still seemed realistic to expect that its revelations might stimulate press follow-up. After all, the Wright affair had occasioned significant media interest. Since "Senator Stealth" established that Barack Obama had intimate and long-standing ties to yet another organization with Wright-like anti-American views, the piece's news value seemed obvious. The Wright affair was no fluke, but part of a systematic pattern. Unfortunately, as Obama moved closer to nominee status, the press circled the wagons and began its own systematic pattern of refusing to question or report on his past.
Beyond its revelation that Obama's original community organizer home-base is pervaded by anti-Americanism, "Senator Stealth" foreshadows today's debates over redistributionism, and shows that concerns over Obama's radical "associations" cannot be separated from the most significant policy disputes of the campaign.
"Senator Stealth" also lays out a way of resolving the contradiction between Obama's radical past and his apparently moderate present. After learning that incrementalism, rhetorical disguise, and ideological stealth are second nature to Obama's community organizer compatriots, it's tougher to take his current self-presentation at face value. More than two months later, the same issues play out in the latest flap over Obama's ties to the New Party.
Finally, I couldn't have guessed, more than two months ago, that the Obama campaign, abetted by the press, would have taken refuge in near-total denial of his unsavory associations, from the question of his New Party membership, to the relationship to Bill Ayers, to the links to ACORN. Obama has downplayed or denied these many ties to an extent that is shockingly at odds with the public record, while the press has played along.
Stanley Kurtz has distinguished himself with his investigations into Barack Obama's background. Consider Kurtz's "Inside Obama's ACORN," "Chicago Annenberg Challenge shutdown?," "O's dangerous pals," "Wright 101" and "Barack Obama's lost years." It's the kind of work that might win a Pulitzer Prize were its target a conservative hero rather than an avatar of the left's hopes and dreams.
Video From 1948 About The Threat We Again Face Today
Remember when you Vote
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Were eliminating 17 specific assault weapons. There is no reason why anybody should need an assault weapon to protect themselves or their family, Were limiting handgun sales to one a month. Were calling for handgun registration.
- Barack Obama
Chicago Defender, 2/20/01
I dont know why the McCain camp is not running constant ads - at least in PA and Virginial, highlighting Obamas admission that - given the opportunity - hell bankrupt any new coal plants.
The press, of course, is mum. As we see with the LA Times, which arrogantly will release neither tape nor transcript of Obama speaking at an Israel-bashing event (can you just imagine how quickly theyd deliver same were John McCain speaking instead), they have no interest in actually covering anything Obama says. They just want to sustain an illusion
At this point, I pretty much want to see O lose just to punish the press. Theyve manufactured his candidacy (you go sit down, Hillary, even though youre tied and youve won all the big states) and now theyre trying to manufacture his win. Should they succeed, well be seeing the press become a monster unlike any seen in our history. Different parties, different rules, indeed. The press needs to lose this election.
Meanwhile, Thomas Sowell calls Obama Ego and Mouth and he seems to be correct. Obama has not given a press conference since Septemeber
but hell give one on Wednesday.
As soon as the uncomfortable issues of associations, blunders and doublespeak because apparent re Obama, he stopped talking to the press.
And the press helped him get away with it by burying as much as it could, or by distracting the electorate by focusing on something else. For instance, why focus on Joe the Plumbers question and Baracks answer, when you can just destroy the plumber.
Ive said repeatedly that the press is going all in on Obama because they see his presidency (and Pelosis hard-hand) as their last chance to regain the monopoly they held on information and communications before the alternative media took hold. They believe theyll go back to being the only game in town, with the support of a president who clearly does not think dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Victor Davis Hanson writes this absolute must-read on the end of Journalism:
we have never quite seen anything like the current media infatuation with Barack Obama, and its collective desire not to raise key issues of concern to the American people. Read the whole thing.
As Roger L. Simon said, its not the bias, its the lying. Actually, its the bias and the lying
and the plain-old covering up. The media has actively protected Obama by not reporting what it knows it should. And theyve admitted theyre doing it.
Im sorry. That sort of behavior should be punished, not rewarded. Ive never been more disgusted with the press.
On the other hand, I think a three-dimensional John McCain is doing better than most polls will report. Just a gut thing, I could be wrong.
And he killed last night on SNL.
McCains been counted out over and over again in this election, even in the primaries. If the voter fraud is massive, and it might be, he may still eke something out . One never knows.
And oh, yeah, one more thing
just something to think about while youre raking leaves or whatever? Read this in the WaPo:
Everybody kind of wanted to spend the last 100-plus days doing some legacy things, and the financial crisis has thrown a wrench into that, said one prominent Republican who regularly talks with senior White House officials.
You have a combination of no legacy stuff, a horrible economic mess and the likelihood that Obama is going to win, this person added. There is a real sadness there.
Then remember this:
Woodhouse said one goal is to make sure Bush does not enjoy a resurgence in public approval toward the end of his presidency that could help Republican congressional candidates and the Republican presidential nominee in this years elections.
Framing his legacy helps us in the 08 elections, there is no doubt about that, Woodhouse said. But our principal mission would be defining the failures of Bush and the ideology he represents.
And let yourself wonder just how many illusions are being played before our eyes.
Disorienting. Diabolically disorienting stuff.
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Just forwarded this link to all my friends and family in VA and PA. For anyone who is still teetering...this is a good reason to go McCain.