What Does Petraeus Think?

“Pakistanis are deeply suspicious of American staying power in a tough fight. They tend to see our country through the prism of Somalia — and a premature Iraqi retreat would have confirmed that image beyond question. “

by Michael Gerson

http://townhall.com/Columnists/MichaelGerson/2008/10/17/the_man_who_stayed

Even though it could get my husband killed…

…I support the mission and completing it. 

http://thecoffeeshopblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/world-of-good-and-plea.html

Like Palin, a real American woman: real courage, real integrity, real class.

Obama’s Public Allies helps illegal immigrants

Is helping illegal activity illegal?

ACORN may be getting a lot of press these days, but Public Allies gives an even clearer picture of what the Obama’s believe about the world.

http://www.publicallies.org/site/c.liKUL3PNLvF/b.3960231/

Public Allies, among other things, exists to right America’s wrongs: racism, sexism, homophobia, capitalism. 

Public Allies also works to help illegal aliens get welfare.

Michelle’s Boot Camps For Radicals

http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?status=article&id=305420655186700&secid=1501

Here is the response to the IBD editorial.

http://www.publicallies.org/site/c.liKUL3PNLvF/b.4487165/k.8664/Response_to_Investors_Business_Daily_Editorial.htm

Remember:  Obama wants to give driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants too?  What’s next? The right to vote?  Health care?  College tuition?  

Public Allies nationwide funded with your tax dollars is Obama’s dream.   Do you share that dream?

McCain was brilliant last night . . .

. . . and hilarious!  If you missed it, here is McCain at his best, the real deal, American hero.

http://wcbstv.com/video/?id=118836@wcbs.dayport.com

“MAVERICK I CAN DO, BUT MESSIAH IS ABOVE MY PAY GRADE.”

“IT’S GONNA BE A LONG, LONG NIGHT AT MSNBC IF I MANAGE TO PULL THIS THING OFF.”

“WE ALL KNOW THE PRESS IS REALLY AN INDEPENDENT, CIVIC-MINDED, AND NON-PARTISAN GROUP . . . LIKE ACORN.”

Exodus Plan for America Haters

If McCain is elected, I’d like to suggest he consider the following proposal:  offer this exodus plan for all you Leftist socialist America haters—we will help you leave.   We will invade Cuba, remove Castro, install Obama, ship you all there for free, give you Gitmo, and subsidize you for two years.   After that, you are on your own.  In this way, you all can have your island paradise, and we can be left alone to rebuild our country, in peace, and freedom.  Any takers?

PS:  If Cuba isn’t enough you can always solicit the help of Hugo Chavez, maybe even form one country from two and have a real field day!

PPS:  Residual benefit of this plan—we could solve the illegal immigration problem too and send all of those folks with you.  You will need good workers!

PPPS:  I’m told there’s plenty of oil in Cuba too!  And just think of the wind power potential with all those hurricanes!

If Obama wins . . . it means . . .

A Liberal Supermajority

Get ready for ‘change’ we haven’t seen since 1965, or 1933.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122420205889842989.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

“If the U.S. really is entering a period of unchecked left-wing ascendancy, Americans at least ought to understand what they will be getting, especially with the media cheering it all on.”

“In both 1933 and 1965, liberal majorities imposed vast expansions of government that have never been repealed, and the current financial panic may give today’s left another pretext to return to those heydays of welfare-state liberalism. Americans voting for “change” should know they may get far more than they ever imagined.”

Gov’t Healthcare Hawaii Fails

. . . and so goes the nation?   What does this portend for BHO’s promises?  Hillary and Bill could not get it done in 8 years.  What makes Obama supporters believe he will get it done, especially in this environment.  Another promise down the drain.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081017/ap_on_re_us/child_health_hawaii

Nine Terrifying Words

by Allan Erickson   10.17.08

 

People dispute this, but many say Winston Churchill once stated the following:

 

“If you are not liberal in youth, you have no heart, and if you are not conservative in later life, you have no head.”

 

I followed the pattern.   As a college student, and for years afterward, I was liberal, very liberal, in my entire world view, not just politically.

 

I recall a newspaper editor of mine years ago describing his journey from liberal to conservative, explaining that the realities and difficulties of life eventually confront and contradict liberal presuppositions, chief among them, the idea that sheer human wisdom will overcome human wickedness if we build and maintain correct and benevolent political and economic structures required to dispel injustice and poverty.  

 

Of course the trouble is agreeing on what the “correct” structures are, and agreeing how to maintain those structures.  However the larger issue involves the reliability of sheer human wisdom.  Cutting to the bottom line: has human wisdom ever delivered us from human wickedness, ever?

 

Liberals routinely urge us to rely on human wisdom manifest in government for salvation.   The trouble with liberalism is with the core of its philosophy, that human wisdom is reliable, especially when expressed through bureaucracy.  Since when?   

 

Ever been to a V.A. Hospital?  Sure, roads get built, at huge cost overruns.  Has the $50B a year Energy Department created by Jimmy Carter produced one dime’s worth of independence from foreign oil?  What has the $25B a year Education Department ever done for you, other than provide declining test scores and soaring dropout rates?  How about government-sponsored family planning giving us 40 million abortions, STD epidemics, teen pregnancy, encouraging promiscuity, much of this impacting negatively the very building block of society, the nuclear family.  Examples of government incompetence and waste are monumental.  About the only government-run outfit of merit is the Post Office, and even there, they clear the place with an AK periodically.  Our military is brilliant, but even there, line troops joke about SNAFU.

 

And then, the most glaring recent example of liberalism run amok—Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac—a massive fraud by government trying to engineer outcomes, yielding economic destruction, leaving the poor worse off than before.

 

Ronald Reagan was absolutely correct proclaiming:  “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”

 

I’m reading his diaries.  Very insightful.  In 1982 he said unless we reform Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, those programs will overwhelm the federal budget to the detriment of all other spending priorities.  Here we are today, and those programs consume 45% of the budget.  With Boomers now retiring and submitting claims, the system will collapse in perhaps 15 years. 

 

The only practical solution is generating more government revenue through economic growth stimulated by tax cuts, open markets and renewed productivity, coupled with drastic cuts in federal spending, the Republican platform.

 

Instead, Democrats insist on increasing taxes and increasing spending, all in the name of relying on human wisdom and government.  Trouble is, this platform will only accelerate economic decline, hastening collapse.  Some people think that is the idea, for once the collapse occurs, a new socialist utopia can be constructed on top of the rubble.

 

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6967

 

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html

 

Furthermore, modern liberalism runs contrary to American tradition.

 

After all, our country was born out of a deep suspicion of government, a deep resentment felt toward oppressive bureaucracy, and a violent rejection of the idea government was the answer, coupled with a hunger for FREEDOM.  Thanks to an ever-expanding federal government populated by politicians who no longer represent the people, we face much the same situation as did the Founding Fathers.  This is no longer a government by, for and of the people as Lincoln proclaimed.  It is a government by, for and of liberals, and the ‘new’ structures they are building to ‘dispel injustice and poverty,’ more government domination, and control, especially control of the economy.

 

We were in a huge debt situation before the crash and the $1.5 trillion bailout, before many banks were ‘nationalized.’  Politicians have put us in hock up to our ear lobes. We are slaves to debt and government.  Think of the control government will have over your life once government controls your health care, cradle to grave.  Remember, health care represents about 1/7th of the U.S. economy. 

 

The Founders would be astonished and ashamed to see people who call themselves Americans willingly allow government shackles to destroy the original goals of the Revolution.

 

In 1972 I voted for Shirley Chisholm.  Back then I was a liberal, and she was a champion of the underdog.  She was also a champion of open government.  She hated the back room dealing in Washington.  She also scolded voters, saying Americans get the government they deserve, and if we don’t like what’s going on, we have the power to change it.  She got my vote because she had guts and spoke plainly.

 

The question is, will Americans vote freedom Nov. 4 and return to the principles that launched our great Republic, or will we meekly walk into the prison cell and close the door, content to be housed and fed, no longer a free and vibrant people?

 

The Founders knew something about human wickedness and the power of power to corrupt.  This is precisely why they designed a system of checks and balances so that the three branches of government would be restrained.  The idea was to avoid too much power centering in one place so as to corrupt the entire government.

 

The assumption is Barack Obama will be our next President, and he will preside over a heavily liberalized Legislature, and he will appoint liberal Justices, creating a heavily liberalized Supreme Court.  If this happens, too much power will be centered in one place, and checks and balances will be drastically diminished, perhaps rendered impotent.

 

So here is a negative reason to Vote McCain: preservation of the system of checks and balances.

 

Here is a positive reason to Vote McCain: if you understand the preservation of freedom requires hard choices that often run contrary to self interest (a matter of the head, not the heart), then you also understand we must stand with Lincoln, Churchill and Reagan, and vote to preserve traditional Americanism.

 

 

And besides, in a world more dangerous than ever, does it make sense to gamble on an unknown quantity when you have a known and reliable alternative?

 

 

PS:  Leftists academics and media types said Reagan was unqualified, ignorant, reactionary, stupid, uninformed and out of touch, but Reagan’s presidency is now seen as one of the most successful in history, simply because he had faith in traditional American values, promoted them, and confronted evil.  McCain/Palin are cut from the same cloth. 

 

 

I could be wrong, but I suspect Shirley Chisholm would be mighty proud of Sarah Palin.