Obama the Socialist

I don’t know how anyone can hear the latest audio from the great Obama and not be scared to death if that man becomes the next president of the United States.  If you like to have your taxes raised so you can share your money with everyone .  If you don’t like the constitution, or think that it is flawed.  If you think that it is OK to kill a baby that is half way out of his/her mothers womb or that a baby that survives an abortion does not deserve to be saved.  If you want the next generation of kids to be taughtsocialism as a way of life.  If you don’t think that we need to explore and drill for the resources that we have in our own country.  If you want Obama to be the one responsible to appoint the next several Supreme Court Justices.  If you want us to leave Iraq and concede defeat.  If you want this country to be tested with a great crisis that will not be responded to in a way we think is appropriate.  If you don’t like your country or are not proud of your country and want change.  If Obama gets elected as the next president of the greatest, most powerful country in the world then GOD HELP US ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lincoln’s Prayer Proclomation – second posting

After months of isolation, I nearly lost my desire for occasional solitude.  After years of corruption, I nearly lost my conservative balance.  While the election cycle recovers from the full-tilt we experienced over the past two weeks, I find I’m left with prayer and deciding between the Prayer of St. Francis and the Prayer of Lincoln.

Lincoln’s Prayer Proclamation

In 1863 Abraham Lincoln called the nation to repentance, confession of our national sins and turning back to God. We believe America, more than ever, needs to do this again. Seven months prior to his Proclamation for a National Day of Thanksgiving, Abraham Lincoln issued the following:

A Proclamation for a National Day of Prayer

Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the supreme authority and just government of the Almighty God in all the affairs of men and of nations has by a resolution requested the president to designate and set apart a day for national prayer and humiliation.

And whereas, it is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God: to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon: and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord:

And insomuch as we know that by His divine law nations, like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people?

We have been the recipients of the choices bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown; but we have forgotten God.

We have forgotten the gracious land which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God who made us:

It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

All this being done in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the divine teachings, that the united cry of the nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings no less than the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided and suffering country to its former happy condition of unity and peace.

Abraham Lincoln

 

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen

 

Alas, my favorite:

Let this be a holy place for the human spirit consecrated to the forces which magnify the soul.

Finished

That’s my case, brothers.  I’m done blogging.

Holy grail of the republican party

Reaganomics had a hand full of positive outcomes.  

That said,  the upside to trickle down economics looks something like obsolete and out of fashion household possessions assembled for a lawn sale while the downside looks like America’s mounting credit card balances, bankruptcy rates and 10 trillion dollar  national debt.   Unless the American voter is prepared to learn Chinese, our debt has to be tended to by a responsible president.   Please read this link where you’ll discover that Reaganomics failed to delivere on its promise of sufficient tax revenue generated by economic growth. 

If you don’t trust wiki, call an economist at your nearest Land Grant University and ask her to discuss the upside and downside to trickle economics.

 

Go to:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics

Campaign Reform: discovery period – voter fraud not admissible

Don’t we have to approach an 11th hour election attack with a healthy amount of skepticism?  

Go to:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/oct/13/election-acorn-voter-fraud

Banking Crisis — my problem with truth

My only problem with truth is that it requires a lot of reading.

 

Please read all the way through.  You will find significant blame for Mr. Mandate.  Go to:  http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/who_caused_the_economic_crisis.html

Why I Like Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin is unashamedly conservative.  She is proud of her family.  She does not pretend to be anyone other than who she is.  She is a social conservative. She is a Christian conservative.  She appears to be a fiscal conservative.  She pulls no punches.  She is charismatic.  She attended 6 colleges and earned a bachelor of science degree in communications-journalism from the University of Idaho. 

Reasons I won’t vote for Sarah Palin.  She is another pure-oil politician.  Her executive experience is unimpressive.   She blurs the line between personal and professional agendas (troopergate).   I expect our next executive officer to have a comprehensive working knowledge of basic political philosophies such as The Bush Doctrine (preemptive war) and The Carter Doctrine (military defense of US interests in global oil supplies).    I can stand about 40 yards from my parents front door and look both at their home and Kentucky at the same time.   This does not make me an expert in bestiality nor animal husbandry.  (Apologies to your wife brotherfour).   Don’t get me wrong.  I suspect Governor Palin could be given a crash course in international affairs, national security and perhaps even a rudimentary vocabulary for use while discussing the economic theories relevant to our present economic turmoil.  As John McCain has said, though, this is no time for on the job training.  (NOTE  Obama’s academic credentials:  Columbia University – B.A. political science with a specialization in international relations  &  Harvard – Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude).  Note as well the Nobel Prize for Economics given to Paul Krugman for work that he started 30 years ago that today provides an outline of the Bush policies that led to our present global banking crisis.  Yes, I know, Rush Limbaugh doesn’t approve of Nobel Prize winning egg-heads who go around poking holes in the existing world order.  We do have to think for ourselves from time to time though.    Sarah is a fine person and I am confident I would enjoy her conversation over a cup of coffee.   My attraction to her position on a few social issues will not get my vote, nonetheless.

Additionally, there are many very well qualified and successful female politicians and business people with experience that is relevant to this brave new world filled with lost jobs, lost income, lost retirement accounts and a brand new vocabulary of scary words like recession, depression, derivatives and credit default swaps.   Look for a link below to top female candidates.  I have a personal attraction to her personality, her support for life and her support for gun rights, but she brings only one genuine contribution to the McCain campaign… distraction.  Keep your eyes on the ball America.  Our retirement funds and real estate investments are paying the price for two decades of collective indifference.  I do really like the way she winks and nods. 

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_Sarah_Palin_hold_any_degrees

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_college_degrees_does_Barack_Obama_have

http://www.r8ny.com/blog/gatemouth/partial_list_of_republican_women_more_qualified_to_be_president_than_sarah_palin.html

http://mobile.reuters.com/mobile/m/FullArticle/CTOP/ntopNews_uUSTRE49C37520081013?p=1

Ayers – Wright – Iran – Wall Street – Conventional Wisdom

Conventional Wisdom Survey

 

Does William Ayers Matter?  Does Rev. Jeremiah Wright Matter?  Should We Talk to Iran?

The link above takes you to an anonymous survey.  It’s not scientific.  It’s not unbiased either.  It was written to encourage critical thinking during the final months leading to the November elections.  After taking the quiz, you’ll see a running list of responses.  We’ll update averages from time to time. 

Why William Ayers Matters and Why Rev Jeremiah Wright Matters.

McCain’s Courage Reappears

John McCain would have made a fine President in 2000.  He fell victim, though, to the Rove politics that are the foundation of the administration that has destroyed not conservatism but the republican party.   His campaign fell victim to Rove politics as well.  We saw this coming when Rove left the White House. 

 

This weekend John denounced the fear that Rove spent eight years nurturing among the conservative faithful.  John told party faithful that they have no reason to fear Sen. Obama..  It takes great courage to turn from within on Rove politics.  The courage Sen. McCain demonstrated during his military days came through this weekend. 

 

Thank you, John.  The underlying tensions in this country are poised to fracture into social chaos.  The courage you showed this weekend is remarkable.  You alone might have the personal character to prevent the polarizing climax of the Bush administration from exploding into the state of temporary anarchy that is right now so near.

 

Thank you, Sir.  God bless.

 

lehman brotherthree small c conservative

Obama for President!

Did Democrats Cause Crash?

Let’s put this in perspective.  The entire global banking system is imploding.  Governments across the entire planet are propping up, buying, nationalizing, insuring, lending to nearly every bank and investment firm in existence.   Those not yet affected will be affected by those presently failing as well as those yet to fail.  They all rely on each other.  When one fails another loses assets.  It is a positive feedback loop with devastating consequences. 

As we ask ourselves, did the democrats cause this, we have to put it all in perspective with this question;  Is is possible that a calamity of this magnitude was caused by Barney’s equal housing campaign?  Let’s think this through.  The sub-prime market was but a small piece of the global economy.  There ARE many factors at play.  Sub-prime is only one of them.  Congress may have encouraged sub-prime experimentation.  Congress did not pass any piece of legislation, though, directing any bank or investment firm to abuse derivatives or credit default swaps.  This problem is exponentially bigger than a trillion odd dollars in sub-prime  mortgages that still have a true present and future cash value.   

The Bush administration did in fact push this bubble up and up and up.  Please open a new browser window, go to www.google.com and put the words Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in the search window.  Dig and dig, America.  There is plenty of blame to go around, and much of it lands squarely on the Bush administration. 

All this said, within the past three weeks John McCain said the economy is fundamentally sound.   We now know without any doubt that John McCain’s understanding of the gravity of the situation could not have been more wrong.  John McCain is not qualified to lead America at this time.   Sit down, John.  Take a deep breath.  Then retire.

Go to:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis