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Went to bed early, thinking about this subject. Decided to file my weekly column three days early, since this general subject is, of course, lively today.

John / Billybob

1 posted on 11/05/2008 7:51:35 AM PST by Congressman Billybob
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I am sorry to say that I fear you are right.

Obama's tax plan is going to cripple businesses and cause more unemployment.

His unwillingness to drill our own oil is going to bring back the high gas prices, plus leave us vulnerable to middle east manipulation.

His policies to coddle Iran and Muslim radicals is going to leave us open to an attack far greater than the one on 9/11/2001.

2 posted on 11/05/2008 8:00:07 AM PST by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. - Abraham Lincoln)
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There will be no invasion of Pakistan, but we will invade Sudan. This is an article by Anthony Lake and Susan Rice, Obama's top advisors:

Some will argue that the U.S. military cannot take on another mission. Our ground forces are stretched thin. But a bombing campaign or a naval blockade would tax the Air Force and Navy, which have relatively more capacity, and could utilize the 1,500 U.S. military personnel in nearby Djibouti.

Others will insist that, without the consent of the United Nations or a relevant regional body, we would be breaking international law. Perhaps, but the Security Council recently codified a new international norm prescribing "the responsibility to protect." It commits U.N. members to decisive action, including enforcement, when peaceful measures fail to halt genocide or crimes against humanity.

This genocide has lasted three long years. Peaceful measures have failed. The Sudanese government is poised to launch a second round. The real question is this: Will we use force to save Africans in Darfur as we did to save Europeans in Kosovo?

It will start like Iraq did with no-fly zones.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/01/AR2006100100871.html

3 posted on 11/05/2008 8:01:22 AM PST by Soliton (Faith is an act of love; Love is an act of faith)
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Like all but a few here, you totally miss the most critical point. One of the first things that Obama and his new, larger majorities in House and Senate, with the collaboration of enough of the remaining Republicans, will do, is to legalize all current illegal immigrants.

When 30 million new dedicated Democrat/Socialist voters show up for the next Congressional elections, the United States of America will cease to exist, at least as anything remotely resembling what my ancestors fought to establish in the Revolutionary War.

The probable choices of what we will look like at the end of that road is either Britain or Mexico, but we WILL be a "democratic socialist" country with a "parliamentary democracy"---AT BEST. I suspect that the Hugo Chavez model is attractive to the "big O" and his Marxist minions and mentors.

4 posted on 11/05/2008 8:01:30 AM PST by Wonder Warthog ( The Hog of Steel)
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Frankly, CBB, I think the danger to the Constitution is real but isn’t 100%. Hussein still, thankfully, doesn’t have a bulletproof majority in the Senate.

I know it is tenuous, but IF the Republicans can hang together (will Joe LIEberman join them?) in the Senate, they can stave off the worst of the Marxist leanings the Democrat party embraces.

Two years...two years until another election. We need to get our bearings and keep the monster that is socialism from gaining more power.


5 posted on 11/05/2008 8:01:54 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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All freepers that are non RINOs need to reconsider the future..
This election is big.. big meaning a sea change..

To RINOs; ignore this post.. for you will be quite at ease with whatever party is in control.. as you bend over to accept anything "they" do as positive.. being cowards like you are..

6 posted on 11/05/2008 8:02:19 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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Sorry, he is not my president. He is not an America. He was elected through false representation. He will be a person in the White House placed there by questionable people who want to destroy the Republic.


7 posted on 11/05/2008 8:03:10 AM PST by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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Sorry, he is not my president. He is not an America. He was elected through false representation. He will be a person in the White House placed there by questionable people who want to destroy the Republic.


8 posted on 11/05/2008 8:03:10 AM PST by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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Sorry, he is not my president. He is not an America. He was elected through false representation. He will be a person in the White House placed there by questionable people who want to destroy the Republic.


9 posted on 11/05/2008 8:03:18 AM PST by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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Odds of a new Great Depression as a result of Obama becoming President, 70 percent, though it may take more than a year to become evident to the editors of the NY Times.

Like FDR, Obama will blame the results on his predecessor - and the media will echo and enshrine it.

10 posted on 11/05/2008 8:03:57 AM PST by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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What upsets me beyond my ability to express it, is that so many people could be so blind to what this ‘enemy-from-within’ plans to do to the very fabric of our Nation and voted for him. Shameful ... and a lot of other words I won’t post.


11 posted on 11/05/2008 8:04:30 AM PST by MissMagnolia (Obad. 1:15: As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head.)
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thanks Congressman Billy Bob....I awoke this morning with great heaviness thinking about future court appointments under the Dems...when my daughter first got out of law school she was a staff attorney with the 11th Circuit down in Atlanta....so I heard first hand the stories of the Clinton appointees and the Carter appointees before that....with Obama we will see judges in his likeness...lightweights with no judicial experiance....hope I’m wrong.
Stonewalls, from way up in Ashe County, NC


12 posted on 11/05/2008 8:05:47 AM PST by STONEWALLS
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President Obama: How Bad Will It Be?
As bad as most of us sitting here in the comfort of our homes understand it to be, can you imagine how bad it must seem to our men and women fighting in the wars around the world?
They now serve for a person that has no faith in their mission, their duty, or them as the defenders of America.
They serve under a Socialist for the first time in our Nations history.
I can not begin to imagine the horror that these brave men and women feel and how turned on by the people that they defend they must feel.


13 posted on 11/05/2008 8:05:54 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Coming to You From the Front Lines of Occupied America)
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How does Obama propose to deal with this situation? He proposes protectionist foreign trade policies

this is my biggest fear: that even conservatives will go along with this and start a war with China.


14 posted on 11/05/2008 8:06:44 AM PST by ari-freedom (So this is how Liberty dies... with thunderous applause)
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Best case scenario: A third term for Jimmy Carter.
Worst case scenario: See Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe for reference.

Kool-Aid drinkers who are gloating at me today and will continue gloating until Oba Mao's agenda becomes apparent will get only a terse question in response: Who is John Galt?

15 posted on 11/05/2008 8:08:03 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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John, I disagree completyely about Pakistan. Now that he's elected Obama will show NO inteest in anything but disengagingfrom Afghanistan. His base, which made him, always opposed the war in Afghanistan and Obama will use the talks between Karzai and the taliban as a stepping stone to withdrawal. By 2010 the Talis will be back in the govt and probably in control. No war with Pakistan. Not a good situation of course, but not as extreme as a ground war with a nuclear armed enemy.

Iran is more troubling, but Obama's difficulty is his promise to respect the feelings of our allies. Well Sarkozy is the unofficial leader in Europe and he is adamant about a non nuke Iran. Obama may have to follow Europe in this regard.

His tax policies and especially the cap gains and dividend increases could be very bad news if people begin pulling their money out of the market and look for the tax free return of state and local bonds. The market could tank and that would lead to serious results, but it would play into the Congressional Dem hands of constructing a command economy.

Which leads to your last point. I think the dangers to the Constitution are paramount, given Obama's self described criteria for Justices. he will replace at least three with young activists who are determined to create a central, not federal govt, with the power to accomplish what they believe to be the Good. The Constitutional obstacles to this goal will be removed, leaving the U.S.A., at best, a Centralized European Socialist Democracy where the people's rights are no longer protected by the govt., but given by the govt.

16 posted on 11/05/2008 8:08:25 AM PST by xkaydet65
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Only one thing:
It usually takes about 18 to 24 months for congressional action to translate into the economic reality that follows. If Obama and his collaborators in the Congress get their economic agenda accomplished early, the depression should be in full force for the next elections.


19 posted on 11/05/2008 8:12:37 AM PST by wolfpat (Revolt, and re-establish the Constitution as the law of the land!)
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I do not think we will survive (as a nation) the four years.
Not pessimistic, just realistic - we have been judged, and Obama is our punishment the way the Babylonians were used by God as ancient Israel's punishment.
No time for fence-sitting - choose today who you will serve, the God of Abraham, or the pagan god Obama.....
20 posted on 11/05/2008 8:13:00 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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If you want to read something that was written before the election here you go :

Letter from 2012 in Obama's America


22 posted on 11/05/2008 8:14:21 AM PST by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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Either over a nuclear Iran, or as a result of an induced revolt in Pakistan, we are likely to be in a global war with the Muslims within a year of Obama being sworn into office.

Nope, there won't be a war. At least with the US. Obama is going to leave his brothers alone and they are going to leave him alone. They're going to do horrible things worldwide, but they won't mess with the US too much because they know that an Obama Presidency is the best thing that could ever happen to them.

23 posted on 11/05/2008 8:15:23 AM PST by DouglasKC
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I suppose it’s time to join the John Birch Society.


25 posted on 11/05/2008 8:20:57 AM PST by BuffaloJack
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