Posted on 10/31/2008 12:16:22 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
This election isn't just about whether America is to be ruled by a political party a little to the right or the left of center. This is a uniquely dangerous election in all of our history. The issue is whether we elect a president and a party that will destroy America as we know it and so weaken America's economy, national defense, national security and foreign policy that others will destroy us first.
I have been writing about Sen. Barack Obama five days a week, because I was so appalled at what I found out about him. And the more I investigated his background, associates, collaborators, friends and positions the more frightening the prospect of Sen. Obama in the White House became. Based on everything I've learned, and based on all my instincts and intuition about Sen. Obama and what the mainstream media has been hiding from voters, I'm convinced Sen. Obama would be an unmitigated disaster. I'm convinced if the full truth were known, he would look at least 100 times more dangerous than he does now.
These are the factors that make the future look catastrophic if Sen. Obama is elected:
1. We might well say, "Barack, we hardly know you." The mainstream media has not vetted him. We are essentially buying a cat in a bag. Even the wildly liberal Los Angeles Times, almost totally supportive of Sen. Obama, had to run a story saying reporters who cover him don't even know him or what to expect from him. He is usually scripted (and when he is not he makes horrendous mistakes, as when he finally admitted his socialistic objectives). He is kept from the press. He avoids news conferences. His campaign ignores tough questions.
That's bad enough, but what we do know about him suggests he's a far left liberal extremist and radical and has flown with a platoon of racists, bigots, America-haters, socialists, anti-capitalists and even terrorists. It is inconceivable that such a man would even be considered for the nomination, let alone win the Democratic Party nomination, and be leading in the polls with the days dwindling down to a precious few.
2. If he wins the White House, it is likely that he will have a Congress controlled by the same radical liberal wing of the Democratic Party that he represents - Sen. Harry Reid in the Senate with a filibuster-proof majority and Rep. Nancy Pelosi holding sway in the House also with a supermajority. Already they are talking about taking us down the most radical path in history with more spending bills in the works, with tax hikes of all kinds likely to kill business, with the "spread the wealth" philosophy in the air and with the standard Democratic Party cry of cutting defense spending.
They represent the old Democratic Party's approach of endless taxing, spending, expansion of government, limitation of freedom, and a feeble military and foreign policy. But the Obama presidency would take that all to a power of ten, and would add on a stream of radical liberalism that we've never seen before.
3. This also means Sen. Obama, if elected, will be naming perhaps three or more justices to the Supreme Court. And he is already on record as favoring a living constitution - code words for forgetting the intent of the Founding Fathers and legislating from the bench. He has also said he wants judges who empathize with the single mother, the disabled and other vulnerable people.
This is his way of saying he wants judges who decide on emotions and sympathy rather than on the rule of law. That means there will be an explosion of far-out radical liberal laws and regulations, coming from all three branches of government. This means that the courts will be able to legislate the far-left liberal agenda Sen. Obama represents. That triumvirate is so far out that they make people like Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis and George McGovern look like conservatives. It is important to observe that even Mr. McGovern, former presidential nominee, has taken to the air to oppose proposed legislation backed by Sen. Obama, the Democratic Party, and labor bosses that in effect kills the secret ballot for union elections. Unions will be organized by workers just signing cards, subject to intimidation and harassment, and unprotected by the secret ballot. I've also detailed in earlier columns the anti-Democratic and sometimes even Storm Trooper mentality of Sen. Obama and his campaign. Unfortunately, Sen. Obama and the Democrats are more committed to power and winning elections that obeying and protecting democratic principles.
4. And this barrage of radical liberalism will not just be an updated version of the New Deal or LBJ's Great Society. It will be a new form of radicalism that up to now would not even be dreamed of. We will see "spread the wealth" and "redistributive justice" on the face of legislation rolling through Congress and being signed by the president, without any checks and balances from a minority party, without any veto, and without any filibuster.
We will see even more radical ideas that will change the face of America. As Rush Limbaugh reported on Oct. 29, Sen. Obama and the Democrats have big ideas for changing the very face of the nation. Sen. Obama has advocated citizenship for all 12 million of the nation's illegal immigrants. Sen. Obama has said, "... We cannot ... deport all 12 million people. That's why we need to offer those who are willing to make amends a pathway to citizenship. That way, we can reconcile our values as both a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws."
The Democrats will rush that citizenship, as they want to permanently tip the balance of power in favor of the Democrats. There has been a fine balance of power between the two parties, which will be ended by 12 million new voters who will favor the Democrats. That's because minorities and immigrants tend to like the big, benevolent, tax-and-spend governments that hand out welfare, benefits and cradle-to-grave security. Dick Morris, in his book Fleeced, points out how Sen. Obama wants to include even illegal immigrants in his universal health-care system. He argues that is sure to overload the system and create such new demand for health care that rationing will be in order. He goes on to point out that means that our senior citizens will probably have to be turned down for the most expensive treatments and surgeries, taking a back seat to younger immigrants and insureds, as their will not be the medical resources to go around.
Senior citizens don't fair well in a system applying rationing of medical care. What 47 million new insureds will do to the cost, inflation rate and quality of health care is too frightening and too obvious to even need further explanation. Sen. Obama, by his tax plans, his socialistic schemes, and his new welfare programs, will destroy the health-care system and the economy in short order. Small businesses, subjected to tax increases probably even far in excess of those talked about during the campaign, will be dead as a dodo. The only question is whether we will be thus destroyed by Sen. Obama's domestic policies, or whether we will be first destroyed by his foreign policy that will weaken our national defense, demonstrate weakness too our enemies and invite attacks and the destruction of America.
5. This all is more problematic in view of the demonstrated dishonesty of Sen. Obama in explaining his associations and positions. For more details see my column, "Obama Tells the Greatest Lies Ever Told, Even Before Beings Elected" (Oct. 30,) at www.thebulletin.us. Further adding to the grim picture is the whiff of corruption involving Sen.Obama and his campaign due to both of their connections to ACORN and its furtherance of voter fraud. During the debates, he said his only connection with ACORN was as a lawyer, but he omitted the more than $800,000 his campaign gave to an ACORN subsidiary and his work as an organizer for ACORN. It should also be noted Sen. Obama would have trouble getting a security clearance if he were applying for a federal job, due to questions about his loyalty and reliability flowing from his long standing association and collaboration with terrorists, subversives, radicals and hate-America types.
6. The best demonstration of how Sen. Obama's foreign policy would destroy America comes from Melanie Phillips, who wrote the classic book Londonistan, on the ongoing conquest of the United Kingdom by Islam. She writes in The Spectator, a British publication, that the impact of the financial crisis has obscured the most important issue facing America. She says if Sen. Obama becomes president, "U.S. defenses will be emasculated at a time of unprecedented international peril and the enemies of America and the free world will seize their opportunity to destroy the west."
Ms. Phillips writes that to understand the choice between Sen. John McCain and Sen. Obama you have to view each man in the round, and get a total picture of each man's world view, philosophy and values. Here is some of Ms. Phillips' reasoning:
* "McCain believes in protecting and defending America as it is. Obama tells the world he is ashamed of America and wants to change it into something else. McCain stands for American exceptionalism, the belief that American values are superior to tyrannies. Obama stands for the expiation of America's original sin in oppressing black people, the third world and the poor."
* "Obama thinks world conflicts are basically the west's fault, and so it must right the injustices it has inflicted. That's why he believes in 'soft power' - diplomacy, aid, rectifying 'grievances' (thus legitimizing them, encouraging terror and promoting injustice) and resolving conflict by talking. As a result, he will take an axe to America's defenses at the very time when they need to be built up. He has said he will 'cut investments in unproven missile defense systems'; he will 'not weaponize space'; he will 'slow our development of future combat systems' and he will also 'not develop nuclear weapons,' pledging to seek 'deep cuts' in America's arsenal, thus unilaterally disabling the nuclear deterrent as Russian and China engage in massive military buildups."
Sen. McCain knows we have to fight Islamofascism and win that fight. Sen. Obama sees the source of evil in the world as America. He has said, "A lot of evil's been perpetuated based on the claim that we were fighting evil." He has said Iran is a tiny country and not a real threat. He quickly reversed himself but that tells you something about his worldview. He said Hezbollah and Hamas, the terrorist organizations that have murdered Americans and are now doing so, have "legitimate grievances." Ms. Phillips doesn't know what those "legitimate grievances" are and I'd venture to say no other rational man does.
To solve the conflict, writes Ms. Phillips, "Obama places his faith in the UN club of terror and tyranny." Sen. McCain knows better, and also knows Israel is the victim rather than the victimizer. Sen. McCain knows that Israel is surrounded by genocidal enemies that just want to destroy the Jewish state. He also knows Israel is the first line of defense of the free world and that Israel is the first target in the Islamofascists attack on the free world.
Sen. Obama's incredible naïveté is demonstrated many times, but no more dramatically than by his willingness to negotiate without preconditions with such genocidal maniacs as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and by his opposition to declaring the Iranian Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organization. A move to so declare it passed the Senate by a wide margin.
His statements (often quoted in this column) show he believes "Islamic terrorism is driven by despair, poverty, and inflammatory US policy and the American presence on Muslim soil in the Persian Gulf." Thus he adopts the agenda of the Islamofascists.
This drift of his thinking should surprise no one as he has closely associated with those in the Islamists' camp. He has multiple links to anti-Americans, terrorists, and subversives. The latest such association involves Rashid Khalidi, former spokesman for a terrorist organization. Mr. Khalidi, Sen. Obama, and the unrepentant terrorists William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn all attended an Israel-bashing party when Mr. Khalidi left Chicago to go to Columbia University. What's worse, most of his foreign policy advisers have that typically radical liberal view of blaming the ills of the world on Israel and America. He brought in a few for cosmetic purposes, such as Dennis Ross, but his initial selection and his circle of collaborators and friends show where he really stands.
Ms. Phillips summarizes her views of the meaning of a Sen. Obama presidency for the future of America:
"There are, alas, many in the west for whom all this is music to their ears. Whether through wickedness, ideology, stupidity or derangement they firmly believe that the ultimate source of conflict in the world derives at root from America and Israel, whose societies, culture and values they want to see emasculated or destroyed altogether. They are drooling at the prospect that an Obama presidency will bring that about. The rest of us can't sleep at night."
But we can still vote. And we better consider that vote carefully and not vote for a charismatic demagogue, who gives pretty speeches, but whose reality is the opposite of his rhetoric, who is inexperienced and shows it every time he gets off his teleprompter, who has a razor-thin resume, who has never done anything but run for office and self-promotion, and whose policies, advisers, and philosophy would destroy America as we know it.
Herb Denenberg is a former Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commissioner, and professor at the Wharton School. He is a longtime Philadelphia journalist and consumer advocate. He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of the Sciences. His column appears daily in The Bulletin. You can reach him at advocate@thebulletin.us.
November 4th, 2008
Mark it on your calendars.
The beginning of the end of the US as a free, capitalist country. The rest is degrees of slavery until it is taken down by an enemy and/or it implodes.
No, I am not kidding.
What will follow is going to blow your mind. Again, not as soon as this man steps into the oval office but within 2 years you will see stuff you didn’t think was possible here.
The disillusionment will be legendary.
could it be really worse than carter? because we had much higher tax rates before reagan
It is 3:20 a.m. and I just awoke with such a burden - and it is exactly what you have just written.
I am Canadian, but am donating to goptrust.com today because my neighbour, America, is about to elect this marxist, this enemy of Israel, to be the “leader” of the free world. I pray there is enough time left for them to get the word out.
This is so unbelievable. It has my mind racing to what will happen. The silencing of free speech (but only conservative / Christian free speech) will be on top of the agenda. This will mean that after four years of this dangerous man, it may well be impossible to turn back.
I am praying for American - may God open the eyes of so many as they go in to vote.
This will, by extension, be the end of human civilization as we know it.
When I hear people say that if the Marxist wins, then Sarah Palin can run for president in 2012, I think that it won’t even matter. This election is tainted by voter fraud, yet, if the Marxist wins, for many reasons it will be the last election that has even a little legitimacy. We will live in a totalitarian nation. We all have to vote, and get every other like-minded person out to vote.
bttt
“Could it be really worse than carter? because we had much higher tax rates before reagan.”
The tax rates are important to consider but the left, with unchecked power, will “complete” the constitution (positive liberties), stock up on leftist judges, fully utilize their unprecedented hold on the media (nothing gets out and everything else is sunshine), and take complete control of upper levels of gov’t to lock out opposition.
I’m not pulling this out of thin air. Barack has told us, not in so many words, that this is his agenda. The Democrats have told us this is their agenda.
Mark my words, they will come for your guns while 0bama is in office — I would bet everything I own on this one.
They will also come to you for slave reparations, a global tax (UN), an internet tax and all of their “pet taxes” they have been trying to pile on in recent years.
They will enact the “Fairness doctrine”, maybe a constitutional amendment regarding affirmative action (a permanent FAVORED “underclass”), confiscatory taxation for just about anything you can imagine — with emphasis on productive white males, I might add.
And you will take it. Look at what you’ve taken thus far. The US press, which today is nothing but a propaganda machine for the Democrat party, is about to elect a socialist, with known terrorist ties, racist tendencies and friends that would make Tony Soprano blush, to the office of POTUS. The Democrats have you locked down in a lower standard of living for generations due to their failed (socialist) Fannie and Freddie “bailout”. What won’t the American sheeple take? They’re done for. Dumbed-down and hypnotized by their messianic black pied-piper.
They don’t care about the “bad economy” they’ll use it to keep you down and distracted while they re-wire the government. You are all too malleable when consumed with fear and desperation.
Well said - add the 12,000,000 illegals he will shortly add to his base, and that takes care of the next election.
“...add the 12,000,000 illegals he will shortly add to his base, and that takes care of the next election.”
Exactly. It’s a perfect storm right over our dumb heads.
I pray for a last minute opening of people’s eyes - like blinders being suddenly lifted as they go to vote.
For the sake of the world, America needs to dodge this bullet.
“I am praying for American - may God open the eyes of so many as they go in to vote.”
What is equally as amazing is that in many places in the world they have shifted to conservatives lately—but they almost unanimously support 0bama.
If we go hard-left, where do they think they will go?
Hello world!?
Where will you defect to?
I can’t believe that Canada just voted in a Conservative Prime Minister for his second term. Believe me, our media is far more left-leaning than yours (I know, you didn’t think that was possible) and we have NO Fox News equivalent up here.
Now if our nutty socialist populus votes Conservative, how can America possibly elect this anti-American Marxist?
It is very scary.
Cutting the Military which means our Nuclear Arsenal will decay because he wants no more investment in updating the systems, no space weapons and no new weapons systems period.
This guy thinks our enemies will just stop their Military Expansions? What a dolt. Ever hear ANY reporter ask about any of these Obama positions? Even McCain isn't mentioning them for God's sake.
We're distracted by our 401K balances, when there won't be a country to retire in if this keeps up and our enemies are emboldened by our weakness.
We are here because we treat the Constitution as a worthless piece of paper. At the very least, we should make sure Obama is eligible for the presidency. Also, redistribution of wealth should be a violation of the Equal Protection Clause.
The world will learn just how much they have depended on us. I don’t mean that in an arrogant way. I just mean, well, imagine the world without the US.
There is NOTHING special about the human beings that are lucky enough to be born here.
The ideas and principles that make up our constitution and our laws is what has made all the difference. Without this we could be like any other country you know.
Free humans do truly great and wondrous things. That’s all I’m saying. America allowed that to happen. And in the case of slavery and other oppression that managed to slip beyond the control of our founders I’ll say this: a free system will heal itself in time.
I don’t, however, think we need to elect a black person AT ALL COSTS to somehow prove we are not racists. He may be black but a socialist is still a socialist.
ONE NEWS NOW.com: "CUBAN-AMERICANS 'ALLERGIC' TO OBAMA-TALK" by Chad Groening (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A Cuban-born author and anti-Castro activist says Barack Obama won't make any inroads with voters in the Cuban-American community by pushing a wealth redistribution message. That community, he says, is all too familiar with the consequences of such a policy.") (October 30, 2008)
“Cutting the Military which means our Nuclear Arsenal will decay because he wants no more investment in updating the systems, no space weapons and no new weapons systems period.”
This is why our enemies have done everything but hold their own convention in Dallas to aid Obama.
Democrats/Liberals/Socialists have, what I believe, is a genetic predisposition to low/laggy threat response. They cannot see threats.
Think about it. If there were no threats, and no dangerous unintended consequences then wouldn’t you want to make the world a nice, soft, happy place with no war and not competition and no “unfairness”??????
OK, you can’t relate, I know.
BUT THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT — because they cannot register a threat. Haven’t you ever heard them say: “What enemies?” in arguments about military spending? They simply cannot fathom it.
This is why 0bama is saying these things.
Now, let me say that this affliction disappears when you get to communists. Everything is a threat to them and that’s why so many die under their boots. And guess who dies first? The “useful idiots”. The kind of people that are clammering for 0bama right now. The ones seeking his utopia of ethereal “CHANGE”. They suffer through their disillusionment and then become, however too late, enemies of the communists. The commies just take them to a big hole and shoot them in the back of their heads. Problem solved.
“Also, redistribution of wealth should be a violation of the Equal Protection Clause.”
Music to my ears, brother.
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