This presidential election is sadly overshadowing everything else happening in my life right now.  While I plan to go out and enjoy the fall foliage while it is still at its peak, I wonder if these last few days before the election will mark the last time I’ll ever be able to enjoy an autumn season in a relatively free country again.

It’s often hard to take the predictions of doomsday and the end of the world seriously, regardless of who’s making it, and I’m sure Obama supporters think those of us who oppose him are overreacting with our dire warnings of utter catastrophe and disaster, should he be elected.

I just saw a movie though called Empire of the Sun (starring an adolescent Christian Bale), and what struck me about the movie was just how quickly everything had changed for one little boy.  One day he was living the good life in a peaceful and affluent town, and then quite literally the next day everything changed, as the Japanese invaded and turned his world upside down.  Now all the rights he had previously enjoyed as a British National disappeared into thin air, and he ultimately ended up in an internment camp, where he would reside for the entire duration of World War 2.

It can happen that quickly, without warning.  And yet, even while it’s happening, we still can’t believe it.  But it’s that lack of belief that will ultimately doom us, the overconfidence in thinking our rights just can’t be taken away from us that easily, the idea that even if we make a bad choice for a President, it won’t be so bad that our nation as we know it would come to an end.

And that’s the problem.  What I cannot stand more than anything is having to deal with people’s utter refusal to listen to reason.  It brings out the absolute worst in me.  They are so blind in their hatred and so unforgivably ignorant that they are willing to back a horse that they in truth know very, very little about.  A horse that may in fact be a trojan horse.

Just how is it that a guy with a resume as thin as air beats someone like Hillary, who despite her turbulent past is a seasoned politician and has a record for being a centrist and appealing to a broader base of voters?

How does a guy who breaks his campaign promise to use public financing and instead collects over half a billion dollars in campaign funds (refusing to disclose who’s been donating to him) not raise any red flags with his supporters or the media?

How is it that a politician from Chicago who has associated with and befriended some of the most extreme radical figures in America (denouncing their past acts only during an election season, and never before) not cause some of his supporters to be just a little bit uneasy?

How is it that Obama can talk about a “civilian national security force” without voters seeing visions of the Gestapo marching the streets?

How is it that he can evoke adoration and idolization amongst his followers, even while they would all be hard pressed to name any significant accomplishment he’s made prior to running for President?

How does the prospect of a one party system with a possibly filibuster-proof senate and a White House placed in the hands of a man with a mysterious past and an alarmingly extreme voting record not at least give voters pause?

Why do his supporters continue to believe he will cut taxes despite him having no record of cutting taxes before, and especially now that he’s already reneged on several key campaign promises and changed some of his platform positions?  How can he still be considered trustworthy?

We have gone seven years without a terrorist attack, and it wasn’t by sheer luck.  Do Obama’s supporters really believe we’ll continue to be safe as long as Obama doesn’t antagonize the terrorists and play favorites with Israel so much?  Have we so soon forgotten what Iran did with Jimmy Carter?  Will his supporters turn a blind eye to Russia’s own enthusiastic hope in his election, even while they set their murderous eyes on satellite states like Georgia and Poland, or to Iran licking its chops at the prospect of overrunning Iraq should our troops leave prematurely?  Can we really be expected to believe Iran will suddenly cease its nuclear ambitions and calls for Israel’s destruction so long as Obama treats them nicely, or worse, pursues a policy of appeasement?

How can Obama, who hides his belief in reparations for black Americans by using phrases such as “economic justice,” and who has enthusiastically thrown his support behind the machinery of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae be trusted to handle the financial crisis effectively and without bias?

How can we turn a blind eye to what happened to Joe the Plumber, who saw his privacy and rights as a citizen violated because he asked a question?  How can we not believe that this wouldn’t happen on a much larger scale should Obama become President?

I know there is a lot to dislike about McCain, but there is one thing that should never be in doubt: he truly loves his country.  Whether his ideas are wrong or not, there can be no mistake that they are borne out of his sense of patriotism and his desire for America to continue growing and thriving as the greatest nation on Earth.

As for Obama, just the opposite could be said of him.  I do not believe at all that he loves America.  Instead, what he loves is the idea of what he thinks America should BE.  He sees this nation now as being inherently evil, and believes himself to be the man who can mold and shape it into an image more befitting his own political ideology and belief system, one that is steeped deeply in the anti-American sentiments expressed by so many his mentors (including Reverend Wright), no matter how much he might deny it.  While McCain wants America to continue being America, Barack Obama instead wants it to become Europe, complete with a nanny state that coddles its citizenship, yet at the price of eroding some of our most basic and cherished individual rights.  What we might gain in free health care, we will most assuredly lose in freedom.  As government increases, liberty decreases.  This has been the lesson of history, and behooves us to always remember it.

So I am making one final plea to those intending to vote for Obama; one final appeal to your sense of reason.  Do not vote for this man.  I speak as one who is a dyed in the wool conservative, yet one who could have lived with Hillary Clinton being President.  The most powerful elements of the Democratic Party subverted the will of its voters and nominated someone whom they could project their own hidden agenda onto, a man whose past we still know very little about.  You must see this.

And as much as you might loathe McCain, he is the devil we know, and I would prefer the devil we know over the devil we don’t know any day of the week.

But alas, I suspect I’m writing all this in vain, knowing you will not be persuaded, and indeed I count myself an absolute failure here, in that I have never been able to convince anyone of anything, no matter how hard I try.  But the wool has been pulled over your eyes, and you will not see.  You will pull the lever with your mind clouded with hatred for Bush and all things Republican, or perhaps because you believed the campaign slogan of “hope and change” and your heart always skips a beat at the sound of Obama’s baritone voice.  Having tossed in your lot with the great unknown, you will go about your life’s routines, blissfully unaware of the “Japanese” that may even now be lying in wait in the trenches, biding their time.

God help us all.

Tags: america, autumn, barack hussein obama, barack obama, campaign, christian, Christian Bale, conservative, country, disaster, doom, doomsday, fall foliage, freedom, georgia, God, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Iraq, Israel, jimmy carter, joe the plumber, john mccain, political ideology, president, presidential campaign, presidential election, Russia, vote, voters, voting
Categories: Politics and Poker
 
(  Print This Post | | 166 views )

Tonight’s debate was in a word, boooooooooooooooooooring!

Both men did much better than last time, but I was hoping against hope that McCain would come out and basically slice Obama’s balls off, cram them down his throat and then pull it out his ass.

Didn’t quite happen that way.  The biggest disappointment was McCain’s refusal to smack Obama around over his association with Bill Ayers, an unrepentant Marxist radical who had participated in several bombing acts during the 60s and 70s.  That very association alone should have disqualified Obama from even seeking political office, much less the Presidency.

Other than that though, McCain performed exceedingly well regarding questions about the economy and the financial crisis.  He got specific and outlined his policy in a very clear manner that definitively helped distinguish how his approach would differ from Obama’s were he elected.  Looking at this debate from an objective perspective, I can understand why McCain didn’t attack Obama with the Ayers connection, because ultimately it would have been a distraction for undecided voters, who likely would have seen this as an indication that McCain didn’t really have a plan and thus could only resort to attacking Obama personally (an argument the Obama camp has been using by the way to discredit McCain.)  But tonight McCain was able to dispel that notion quite effectively, and far from abandoning the Ayers issue, that task has instead been delegated to the Pitbull Wearing Lipstick.   In a way this could actually be a solid strategy, allowing McCain to present himself as a personable leader willing to be bipartisan for the good of the country, while at the same time ripping into Obama over his ties to 60s radicalism and Marxism.

Though I consider the debate to be a draw, there are two things that hurt Obama which may ultimately have a significant impact on the race.  As stated before, his campaign had been feeding the media circuits the notion that McCain’s platform had no substance and could only resort to attacking Obama on a personal level.  That lowered the bar for McCain and provided a much needed boon to help attract undecided voters that McCain was easily able to take advantage of.  The second thing was Obama’s attempt to circumvent the rules so he could respond to some of McCain’s arguments against him.  Tom Brokaw shut him down, but he proceeded to rebut McCain’s arguments anyway in a future question.  It made him look petty and arrogant, as if the rules didn’t apply to him, and it’s the very sort of thing that tends to stick in people’s minds.  People will largely forget this debate and what was said, but that confrontation between Brokaw and Obama will almost certainly be remembered, and in a way that will reflect badly on Obama.

So what’s the End Game Scenario?  The race will tighten up into a nail biting nightmare that will bring unwelcome memories of 2000, but… Obama will ultimately come out the victor by a razor thin margin.

Maybe. 

Tags: barack hussein obama, Bill Ayers, debate, disappointment, economy, john mccain, presidency, president, presidential campaign, presidential election, Tom Brokaw, undecided voters
Categories: Politics and Poker
 
(  Print This Post | | 84 views )

Remember that scene from Ghostbusters?

Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, “biblical”?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes…
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!

Maybe it’s bravado, but strangely enough just like Venkman, I seem to be relatively ok with the fact that we’re all going to die.  No, really.  Because if this crisis is truly meant to be the beginning of we’re-all-royally-screwed-end-times judgment on America for its many sins, then I can’t think of a better way to ensure our complete and total destruction than to elect a Christ denying (yet Christ imitating) dillweed who thinks he can neutralize the threat of a nuke building Iran and a nuke ready Russia with his charm.  Really, what better way to tell God just how ridiculously irredeemable we’ve become than to elect a guy who claims to be a Christian and yet thinks a good Muslim could still make it to the pearly gates as long as he keeps the bombing of civilians to a minimum?  Hey, we’re all good people here, really(!), even if we do think having a baby is tantamount to a punishment, and if we don’t seem to be too bothered at the thought of leaving those that survived failed abortions out to die.  Not that Big-O would ever intentionally do such a thing, he just doesn’t think they merit protection of course, at least not until the kind of offensive language that dares to remotely suggest a fetus is a living thing is completely stripped from such a bill of protection.  Because you know, God forbid we should toss those whacky pro-life freaks a bone that even NARAL wouldn’t have had a problem with.  We do need to be principled here, after all.

No, I just don’t see why God would want to rain fire and brimstone on us darling cherubs of light… except for possibly giving our rich folks far too many tax breaks.

When I think about it, it’s not even Obama that I can’t stand so much.  I don’t even hate on the heathens for supporting him either, since such a godless sort devoid of any sense of morality will obviously go for the Barry-O show.  I can respect that.

No, it’s the self professing Christians who hang on every word he speaks, and who teach their children to sing musical praises of Hopey-O-Change that make me want to stomp their faces in with something rusty and spiky.

It’s no secret that I intensely dislike what passes for American Christianity today, whether we’re dealing with dimwits sipping Starbucks while they fawn over girlie boy Rick Warren’s latest perfume scented books, or Calvinist snotheads who think knowing two words in Greek makes them the most brilliant scholars in recorded history, or charismatics who scream and flail their arms in revival meetings because they think they’re “on fire” and they’re about ready to projectile vomit out a stomach’s worth of 24 karat gold.

Yet nothing makes me want to go out and start bouncing people’s heads off the cement more than those ever devout Christians drooling puppy love over that Obamanation of nature otherwise known as Barack Hussein Obama.  I am absolutely convinced that this very same flock of fluffy sheep will also someday jump at the chance to stand in line for an opportunity to lick the hairy hindquarters of the Antichrist, thinking it will taste just like rainbows.

These to me represent the most darkened, clueless minds in all of creation, and because of their depraved stupidity I may end up witnessing the one thing I never wanted to see in my lifetime: the death of my country.  Thank you so, SO much for that, my brothers and sisters in the Lord.

I don’t get it.  I really don’t.  You hate Bush?  Fine.  You think he’s a war mongering, oil happy, half brained cowboy who caters to the rich?  Fine.  I can understand that.  I even dig the pacifism thing.

Explain the abortion thing to me then.  Explain to me how the violence involved in ripping fetuses to shreds doesn’t somehow repulse your pacifist side the way “Bush’s war” does.  Because when I see people looking to extend human rights to red assed baboons or wail whenever a dolphin is caught in a net, but scream at the top of their lungs for the right to twirl up a fetus into itty bitty bits that would have otherwise become a full fledged human being, then I see only the kind of deranged, twisted up minds that no medicine on earth could ever possibly cure.

And yet somehow, you’re all ok with it.  You can relate to a guy who can’t even get the basic tenets of Christianity right, (though I admit, it would have been more palatable to me if you merely agreed with him on some points and decided only to vote for him while holding your nose at the polls.)  But no, your attitude is one of complete adoration for a morally compromised Chicago politician as if he had come from the very throne of heaven itself.  It exhibits the same kind of mentality that the Antichrist will no doubt someday feed on: unabashed adoration and unquestionable loyalty, despite the transparent seedy and evil character of your so called hero.

It almost makes me want to see the Obamanation become President, if for no other reason than to see the collective look of your ashen faces when you realize with horror that “the one” turned out to be the second coming of JC after all: JC as in Jimmy Carter that is.  Mr. Malaise has finally come back to finish the job.

You know what really frosts my Chips Ahoy cookies about all this though?  It’s the fact that I’ll have to endure the travesty that will soon come upon us, alone.  There will be no honey bunny snuggles to share my misery with while we watch our beloved country commit suicide.  No cuddly bunchikins to hold and share a sweet, tender moment with while our cities riot and burn.  Every dark day that lies ahead of me I will have to face completely and utterly alone, all because not a single one of you hateful, despicable, vile women could manage to find it in your hearts to wubs me.

Fine then.  Don’t come crying to me when the world ends and you desperately need a manly shoulder to cry on.   I won’t be there.

Well maybe I will.  I am desperate and all so who knows, perhaps I can learn to forgive and forget. 

Tags: abortion, alone, america, barack hussein obama, christian, christianity, Christians, country, death, ghostbusters, God, heathens, jimmy carter, judgment, life, living, loneliness, misery, nation, Obamanation, people, president, rick warren, single, stupidity, violence, women, women suck, world
Categories: Christians Gone Wild, Politics and Poker
 
(  Print This Post | | 1,279 views )

As much as I’m frothing at the mouth over the left’s putrid treatment and vicious smearing of Sarah Palin and her family, it’s always the Christians that manages to put me in a fire-breathing, throw-down mode. 

I found one one dissenter’s opinion of McCain’s choice for a running mate yesterday and read the following:

I came to this conclusion before I found out Palin has a five-month-old infant (I believe mothers [and fathers, OK?] should raise their children) and a knocked up teenage age daughter (who ought to give up the baby for adoption to an older, married, two-parent family) or that she’s under investigation for ethics violations.

You’re going to tell me that despite the daughter having the support of her entire well-to-do family, (and the fact that she is marrying the father), none of it is enough to justify keeping the baby?

La Shawn Barber (LSB) further links to a Dr. Laura piece to bolster her argument about why Palin was a bad choice too.  Yes, seriously.

With my jaw on the keyboard, I tapped out a comment on her blog and made it known that I thought her opinion here was one of the stupidest I’ve ever seen.  It was of course, promptly deleted, even though I wasn’t actually calling her stupid, just the views she held on the issue.  Well, now that she censored me (which she is perfectly free to do) I’ll just repeat my comments on this here blog of mine:

Um, what?  What???  That was one bar none, of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen you write.  Oh, and you’re a pigheaded skunk of a dweebish idiot too.

I added that last part just now by the way.  Yep, immaturity and spitefulness, that’s what I’m all about.

But besides that, LSB thinks Palin is ultimately unqualified, though admittedly much far more qualified than Obama is, and ultimately she really is qualified after all to be VP, so… um, what’s the problem again?

Ah yes, the problem is, (according to Dr. Laura), mothers can only do one thing at a time.  They can’t run the country and raise their families all at once, and to attempt to do both just makes them really bad Mommys.

Yet curiously enough, fathers seem to have no trouble with this.  How many fathers of wee little ones that were also Presidents did we have who still managed to make executive decisions even while their beloved ones were sick in bed?  I’m guessing quite a few, starting with Kennedy, who was the last Prez to have infants in the White House if I’m not mistaken.

And besides that, from what I’ve seen of the Palin family, it looks like each member of age appeared to take turns taking care of the younger ones.  This is not one father or one mother raising a family here: this is a whole family raising a family.  A truly cohesive unit making a group effort to support each other.

Yes I can see why Palin’s daughter would need to give the kid up for adoption here.  Gotta get that poor child far away from these whacknuts and their sick, sick circle of wubs after all, yesiree bobba ling.

Good grief.  How these Christian bloggers manage to get the audience they do when they up and say stupid controversial smack like this is beyond me.

On second thought, I probably answered my own question there. 

Tags: adoption, bloggers, christian, Christians, daughter, dr laura, family, fathers, La Shawn Barber, mommy, mothers, president, presidential campaign, presidential election, sarah palin
Categories: Christians Gone Wild, Politics and Poker
 
(  Print This Post | | 185 views )

Hmmmm….

Members of the East Central Narcotics Task Force arrested a West Hartford man was arrested after a short chase in South Windsor Thursday evening.

According to police, Almighty Supremebeing Allah refused to stop for a marked cruiser and was detained about a mile down the road after the initial stop.

Witnesses reportedly heard the deity cry out as he was being subdued by police:  “Infidels!!!!  FILTHY INFIDELS!!!  I, the Supreme Being am not subject to your human laws!  Release me at once so that I may continue to bestow my loyal servants with fresh supplies of my homemade white powders!!!  AND GET THAT FILTHY DOG AWAY FROM ME!”

Upon hearing the news, President Bush hastily called a press conference to declare victory and an end to the war on terror.

Barack Hussein Obama also commented on the arrest during a campaign stop in Moscow.  “This is not the god I thought I knew,” he said, while expressing suspicion that the charges may have been driven by what he termed “spiritual racism,” and made a public plea for donations to have Allah released on bond.

“We must learn to respect the actions of these deities, regardless of how evil their actions might seem.  Indeed, the only true evil that exists in our world today is the evil of intolerance.  And Republicans,” he said.

Several journalists reportedly fainted at the sound of Obama’s voice while he made these comments.

Meanwhile, Muslims have begun a worldwide phenomenon of praying away from Mecca and towards the prison center currently housing the Supreme Being.

I might have made some of this up by the way.

Does it really surprise anyone at all that Allah would be caught hanging out in West Hartford?

Tags: arrest, barack hussein obama, drug dealer, drugs, funny, God, hartford, humor, infidels, muslims, police, president, president bush, press conference, satire
Categories: Comic Relief
 
(  Print This Post | | 69 views )

I recently came across a post from a blogger asking readers why everyone thought Schmuckabee (uhh, I mean Huckabee) was a conservative in name only. After contemplating the question for a minute or two, I wrote a somewhat lengthy comment that I thought was eloquent, to the point and profoundly expressed how I felt about the man. It took me over an hour to write, but once I get into my groove it’s hard to stop.

So what happens? Neigh on 60 comments go by without anyone mentioning a thing I said.

As the Cookie Monster might so aptly say:

Great, some of my best writing of the week, and it ends up on somebody else’s blog. Ah well, that’s enough of that then. I mean if my writing is going to be ignored and unappreciated, then gosh darnit all, it better be on my own turf, you feel me?

Anyway, here’s a copy of the comment I made on that site, highlighting my own personal case for why Huckabee should not be nominated (and no I’m not linking to the weenie’s site because his PR6 blog gets enough backlinks and traffic, thank you very much):

**************************

I think Huckabee’s biggest problem is his take on immigration. He seems to think it’s the function of the U.S. government to coddle illegal immigrants in the same manner that Bush does. He also seems to show little concern for border security, and does not support using the military to help stem the tide of illegal immigration. At least in this regard, he’s just another Bush.

He also needs to stop wearing his Christianity on his sleeve. We’re not voting for a Christian leader here, we’re voting for a political one, and his mannerisms suggest that he seems to think Jesus Christ Himself sent him to win the Presidency. Attributing his current success to God might be to him an act of humility and a nod to divine providence, but to the rest of us it comes across as arrogant and closed minded. It’s akin to Pat Robertson proudly projecting a Bush landslide victory based on what God “laid on his heart.” How many of us though can really presume to know the mind of God?

This also creates an environment where he could easily accuse anyone of disagreeing with his policies as either being un-Christian or racist, if he hasn’t done so already. He also has a tendency to shoot from the hip without considering all the facts at hand (such as his initial support in lifting the Cuban embargo.)

Ultimately, I think what turns many conservatives off about Huckabee is not so much that some feel he’s the GOP version of Jimmy Carter, but also that he’s a Bush clone. His conservative principles may be sound but are still largely untested in several key areas, appearing a mile wide but only an inch deep, and where he vaults into enacting or supporting policies suspiciously liberal in nature, this is explained away by him having to be a pragmatist. Well Bush was a pragmatist too, and when it came time for him to put his own proclaimed conservatism to the test, he failed miserably.

While Huckabee might seek to limit government in some fashion in accordance to conservatism, it also seems to clear that he wants to expand it as well, and in accordance with nothing more than his own personal Christian beliefs. He wants to take back this nation for Christ? No, what he should be fighting for is taking back this nation for the PEOPLE. That takes a political mind which understands that government, in order for it to serve the people’s interest, must first learn to get out of their way. It recognizes that the government’s function is to enforce the law, not promote Christian charity. Huckabee’s heart might be in the right place, but his mind isn’t.

I say all this by the way as a conservative Evangelical Christian who believes Huckabee does not qualify to be our President.

Tags: best writing, blogger, border security, christian, christian leader, conservative, cookie monster, divine providence, evangelical, groove, humility, illegal immigrants, illegal immigration, liberal, michael huckabee, Pat Robertson, presidency, president, presidential campaign, turf, weenie
Categories: Politics and Poker
 
(  Print This Post | | 1,007 views )