No Joke - Obama is Truly Scary

This is all getting so insane. It's terrifying. What's the Obama campaign doing?

Is the country supposed to shut down because Obama is calling a work strike for his supporters - for the sake of winning? This man is really scaring me more and more every day. If this is the control he is having right now - I'm really scared about the things he will push as president.

I can't trust him.

At the very least, he's a salesman making empty campaign promises for things he can't fulfill because there is no money to do it with. I don't like that, but I could endure it if that were the only thing to be concerned about.

But I am concerned about more. He says he's going to "change" not only America, but the entire world. That makes him pretty scary. I kind of doubt that every country wants him to be their president; to take a leadership roll in the direction their country goes or laws their country passes. (although it seems several would love to see him as a world leader.)

But what makes it particularly scary is that it appears that he really does think he has the power to change to the world. The power to change people. But half of us, and many in the world, don't want him to change us. So...there would be only one way to make his opponents submit to his vision. Many dictators, intent on making changes their opponents don't like, have used scary methods to make those changes.

I do fear a man who is comfortable around people that are comfortable with murder. I do fear a man that talks about changing America and changing the world, although half of America doesn't believe the way he does on the issues. How will he change the half of America that opposes him? How will he change the minds and behavior of me, my family and our friends?

Either "change" in America is an empty campaign promise, or he intends to hurt me. Not sure what form that hurt will take or if it will take more than one form. But that's the way I perceive it.

He's a really scary person.

2001 Radio Interview with Obama

In 2001, Barack Obama gave a radio interview in which he stated that the Warren Commission hadn't gone far enough; it should have redistributed the wealth then and there. He then says that the best way to redistribute the wealth is legislatively and administratively and talks about "reinterpreting" the U.S. Constitution in order to redistribute the wealth.

Listen to the audio interview at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

Would an Obama Presidency bring Civil Unrest?

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Let me say first - when I refer to civil unrest, I am NOT speaking necessarily about violence, (although many of the blogs and internet comments in the last couple of months have frighteningly entertained that possibility).

I have never been involved in violence and don't have intention to be.

That said, I can’t listen to what Senator Obama preaches about without wondering how he intends to carry it off.

What exactly does he mean by “Change?” What is he leading half the country to “Hope” for? He hasn’t been specific, other than to say that he would like to spread the wealth around.

He talks about how we “divide one another”, and how we can’t afford to do that. He talks about how we are “all together,” and we have to “believe in each other.” What does he mean, “We will change the country and we’ll change the world”?

How is he going to bring about that change, (whatever change he is referring to) if half of the country doesn’t believe in him or the direction he intends to go?

People decry the attention we give his close relationship with many extreme leftists through the years, his endorsement by the Communist Party of America, and hymns that are sung to him by an organization called the Young Communist League.

One must understand America.

Half of us do not believe Obama. We don’t believe what he says, what he stands for, and who he is. Some of us have been around the block a few times and know a fraud when we see one.

So unless he can sweet talk the other half of America into accepting his vision of America, which would include left-leaning social policies such as universal health, increased funding of entitlement programs, cuts in defense at a time when the world is most dangerous, increased availability of abortion, same-sex marriage, and maybe even relaxed drug laws, how will we ever become One America? It doesn’t seem likely that he can sweet talk half of America into accepting these types of changes.

So how will he bring about this One America that he is telling crowds we will be? Unless he plans on creating forced “re-education camps,” everything he claims he can change in America will meet strong opposition. His only option is to simply force it on us. With the Senate and House at his command, it is very possible that many of his bills will be passed. Yet, with half the country not behind the extreme changes he intends to make, some say the likelihood of civil unrest exists.

Unfortunately, despite what he is telling people at his rallies, no matter what he claims, he can’t control half of us. He can’t make us into who he wants us to be.

Biden Angry Reporter Asked Tough Questions

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A Florida Reporter from station WFTV asked Senator Biden about Acorn, Spreading the Wealth, and Obama's preparedness to be Commander and Chief. Senator Biden, as the questions progressed, appeared to get angrier and angrier and began responding with sarcasm. Now, it is reported that the Obama campaign will no longer allow interviews with that particular news station.

Barbara West quoted Karl Marx and asked if the comment about "spreading the wealth" wasn't being Marxist.

"Are you joking?" Biden exclaimed.

Later, West asked if Biden was implying America was no longer the world's leading power when he said that if Obama wins, he would be quickly tested as president.

"I don't know who's writing your questions," Biden responded.

According to an Orlando Sentinel blog. the Obama camp then killed the station's interview with Biden's wife. They report that Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign, wrote, "This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best, for the duration of the remaining days until the election."

See the interview - Biden Angered by Tough Questions

It's about time someone asked them a tough question.

Sarah's Shopping Spree

Contrary to the claim of some that Governor Palin has just been pretending to be like the rest of us - She isn't pretending - she IS Jane Six-pack.

Remember, she and her family didn't have lots of time to prepare for the Republican Convention. That's why the campaign ran out to buy the family new clothes, get it? The money wasn't spent on her alone - the campaign wanted the entire family to be primped up. Which means she really is just like me and my family. By the way, if you look at the number of stores and the dates, many of them on the same day in different cities, it's hardly likely that she herself was even doing the shopping. Do you think she had time to shop as she jumped from city to city? The campaign had a professional buyer choose the clothes and bring them to her.

According to reported records of the Federal Election Commission, this is shopping list for Ms. Sarah Palin and her family:

• $75,062.63 spent at Neiman Marcus on Sept. 10.
• $41,850.72 to Saks Fifth Avenue in New York on Sept. 10.
• $7,575.02 to Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis on Sept. 10.
• $5,102.71 to Bloomingdale’s in New York on Sept. 10.
• $789.72 to Barney’s New York on Sept. 10.
• Charges of $4,396.94 and $512.92 at Macy’s in Minneapolis on Sept. 10.
• $4,537.85 to Macy’s in Minneapolis on Sept. 22.
• $349.50 to Lord & Taylor in New York on Sept. 25.
• $4,902.08 to Atelier New York, a men’s clothing boutique, on Sept. 10.
• Two separate charges of $98 to Pacifier, a high-end baby store in Minneapolis, on Sept. 10 and Sept. 25.
• $98.50 to Steinlauf & Stoller, a sewing supply store, in New York on Sept. 25.
• $133 to the Gap in Minneapolis on Sept. 25.

McCain's team did the shopping. That's their prerogative. She looks great.

Why The Democrats Must be Defeated This Year

Radley Balko of Reason Magazine wrote an article on Monday, Oct. 20th, titled, "Why the Republicans Must Be Defeated This Year."

Mr. Balko, you wrote;

• “I'm not thrilled at the prospect of an Obama administration (especially with a friendly Congress)” “
• This isn't to say that Barack Obama would be any better. Government would undoubtedly grow under his watch. And from my libertarian perspective, he has been increasingly disappointing even on the issues where he's supposed to be good. We may not go to war with Iran in an Obama administration, but we'd likely become entrenched in a prolonged nation-building adventure in the Sudan. Obama's vote on the FISA bill and telecom immunity also suggests that, for all his criticisms of President Bush's use of executive power and assaults on civil liberties, Obama wouldn't be much better.”

This wasn’t a convincing argument as to why we should vote for Obama instead of McCain. In fact, all I understood from the article is that you are mad at the Republicans. There wasn’t anything in the article to tell me why I should choose the Democrats instead.

The scariest thing you mentioned was that, “Congressional Republicans failed to rein in the Bush administration's naked bid to vastly expand the power of the presidency (a failure they're going to come to regret should Obama take office in January).”

I’m sorry, sir, your argument taught me things I hadn’t known about Obama and has convinced me that it is imperative that Senator McCain win the election.

Senator McCain: Only One that will Govern from the Center.

Lanny Davis, former White House Counsel said yesterday that he gives Senator McCain credit for the bipartisanship he has shown through the years; standing up to "the right-wing base of his own party." But, Mr. Davis said, Senator McCain has not shown that willingness in the last two years as he "sought to placate the conservative and religious right base of his party."

Mr. Davis went on to claim, "Mr. Obama seems to me to have greater political flexibility to reach out and govern from the center than Mr. McCain."

What?

Sir - you point out that Senator McCain moved right during the campaign to placate the conservative and religious right base of his party. You claim that Senator Obama is in the center. But you know just as well as the rest of us that Senator Obama has also moved to the right during the campaign in order to placate conservative Democrats as well as centrist Republicans.
The Truth - which everyone of us is well aware of - is that Senator McCain is normally in the center and Senator Obama is normally way to the left. Senator McCain is usually in the center. That’s why we conservatives needed someone like Governor Palin to be on the ticket.

So the fact is, Senator McCain, as he has proved time and again in the past, is the one more likely to reach across the aisle and work with everyone. Senator Obama has a clear history of judging things right or wrong through very leftist glasses.

First Dude and Gun Rights

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“I know John and Sarah will work to get the government back into the people’s hands,” Todd Palin said when he visited Scheel's Sporting Goods in Morehead, Minnesota Friday. The crowd of about 200, packed into the store, cheered and waved McCain signs as well as bumper stickers with the words, “Read my lipstick: McCain-Palin ’08.”

He went on to tell us that Alaskans share a lot of common interests with Minnesotans. “hunting and fishing and, of course, our Second Amendment rights.”

"I know Sen. McCain and my wife will continue to fight for those Second Amendment rights with your support,” he said.

He reminded us that not only is Senator McCain the only candidate that fully supports gun rights, but he’s also the only one with a plan to encourage both big and small business, which is what the economy needs. The other thing that he wanted us to remember is that should Democrats control the Senate and House as well as the Executive Branch, not only will Obama’s foreign Policy be implemented without opposition, but his domestic policies as well, including his economic and health care plans.

Finally, he told us not to mind the critics that claim that Sarah, as a woman and mother, can't do the job. "She’s been told that in every job that she’s had, running for Mayor, they told her you can’t do it because you’ve got Bristol, Track and Willow. So, any female that puts herself into politics is always going to have that criticism and so, she’s faced challenges before and at the end of the day, she always proves them wrong."

He was humble and kind. On the drive home, one of my adult daughters commented that while listening to Senator Obama speak in a stadium earlier this year, she found it very hard to pay attention. She said Obama had good inflection when he is speaking, but his content was just too smooth. As she put it, too “politician.” On the other hand, she really enjoyed listening to Mr. Palin. He wasn’t a polished speaker, but she said that’s what she liked. He was real, and you knew that what he was saying was really coming from his heart.

Palin Made the Difference

- I was a Democrat 30 years ago when I was 18 and served as an alternate at a State Convention.
- I was a Republican ten years ago when I served on a County Republican Committee.
- Fed up with them both, I have voted independently for about eight years. When this campaign season began, I supported Duncan Hunter. When he bowed out, there was no one left that I could get behind. No one was a good as Hunter, as far as I was concerned.

However, when McCain chose Palin, it made a difference for me. I realize that as VP she won't have much clout. But she'll be there, she'll have a voice, and she will be a breathe of fresh air. Obama supporters can mock her - and us - all they want. It doesn't change a thing. I want her in high office.

Joe Plummer - Just Like the Rest of Us.

Sad that the media went digging for dirt on this poor guy. Sadder still that some self-righteous bloggers are pretending that they've never had dreams or gotten behind on their bills.

I, just like Joe, am dreaming about buying a business, so I was interested in Joe's question and Obama's answer. I, just like Joe, have also gotten behind on my taxes in past years. In my case it was property taxes. All this proves is that taxes are too high for struggling families. Did I expect my neighbor to jump in and pay it for me? ABSOLUTELY NOT. We found ways to pay our own bills. Contrary to what Obama states in his "spread the wealth" plan, taxes need to be lowered for EVERYONE and government reduced. I don't want other people's wealth. I want the room to grow myself. Businesses need a chance to thrive in order for everyone to benefit.

Leave poor Joe alone. He's just an average guy who I'd like to thank for having the guts to ask Obama the question he'd asked. It helped us all a lot to hear Obama's plan for "spreading the wealth."

Cuss Whites and Palin, but Better Not Say ANYTHING'S Wrong with Obama

It's okay to call Governor Palin anything you want. Swear at her, mock her, judge her hair, her ideas, her husband and her children. Slander her church, ridicule Alaska, call her supporters white trash. Accuse her husband of incest, tell everyone she is an unfit mother, make sexual innuendos about her and her family, paste photo-shopped porn images all over the internet.

But Don't You Dare say anything negative about Senator Obama.

The left has called Governor Palin every name in the book, made every derogatory gesture possible, and even worn T-shirts calling her the "C" word. But don't you dare say anything in support of her or you'll get the same. And don't you ever, ever dare say anything negative about Senator Obama.

Jesse Jackson, Pastor Wright, Michelle Obama, and Louis Farrakhan have all given us fair warning that Senator Obama might not view non-blacks in an equal and just manner. Relationships with Bill Ayers, Acorn and Tony Rezco have also warned us that Senator Obama might use corrupt methods to obtain his objectives. But don't you dare think any of it might be true, and heaven help you if you talk to anyone about it.

No one has published photos of Michelle Obama in lewd poses. No one has been reported to have worn a T-shirt calling Senator Obama the "N" word, but that hasn't stopped the left from insinuating its opposition are all nothing but "R" words. Jesse Jackson, Pastor Wright, Michelle Obama, and Louis Farrakhan have each insinuated that all white people are inherently racists and most especially those that disagree with the left. Even Democratic Rep. John Murtha said the other day; "There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area." Michelle Obama is reported to have said last week, “African Press International is supposed to support Africans and African-American view. It is strange that API has chosen to support the racists against my husband."

When I first became a member of an inter-racial family almost 30 years ago, I was initially surprised by the amount of racism coming from some of my new in-laws across the kitchen table. Because whites that are the ones primarily accused of racism, I had assumed that minorities must be relatively free of bigotry and very attuned to equality and justice. I was wrong. In all my years, other than one neighbor two doors down, I had never heard bigotry from the mouths of my white family and friends. The biggest surprise for me with my new in-laws was the hate generated toward other minorities - more so than toward whites. But in either case, it was very disturbing. Not everyone at the kitchen table was filled with that hate and rage, but I am no longer naive. It's a real issue.

However, racism from the Obama camp isn't the only disturbing issue. The way the left treats Governor Palin is mind-boggling. Few on the left have stood up in her defense. The main stream media says nothing about the terrible way she is being treated. Why are these people acting so horribly? Her politics, spirituality and way of life are nothing new under the sun. A large percentage of our nation agree with her and live their life very similar to hers. So what is all of this hatred really about? Why are these people so afraid of Governor Palin?

And why are so many NOT afraid of Senator Obama? Acorn and Ayers are not non-issues. They are warnings. When Obama talks about change, he really means it. Only most of his supporters haven't clued in to what that change might actually be. Dr. Corsi, author of the "Obama Nation," was recently arrested in Kenya where he was scheduled to hold a press conference by invitation of missionaries in the area. No documented word yet on why he was arrested. (He has since been released.) We know it was said that he didn't have a work permit, but many have gone to Kenya to minister at evangelical churches and camps for short periods of time - two weeks to a month - without a work permit, including our own pastor several times.

For those who wish to pull out worn arguments that Troopergate and the Keating Affair are worse than any of Senator Obama's associations, please don't bother.

1. The Troopergate ethics inquiry concluded that Palin was 'proper and lawful' in firing a state commissioner - but failed to keep her husband from meddling in the trooper's discipline. There is nothing wrong with an administrator releasing those that don't work well with the administration, or worse still, those who might be a danger to the public.

2. McCain was also cleared of impropriety for the Keating Affair.

3. Four of the Keating five were Democrats. But in fact, there was really only a
"Keating Three," because both McCain and John Glenn were actually held blameless. Later, Robert Bennett, Chief Counsel to the Democrats during the investigation, repeatedly said that McCain should not have been included in the investigation. He said that here was no evidence of any wrongdoing, and the Democratic controlled Senate simply kept McCain involved so it would be “bipartisan” scandal.

4. McCain's involvement with Keating has been public knowledge for
years. No one is allowed to question or examine Senator Obama's history.
This is the difference.

I agree with McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds, who said, “Americans need to ask themselves if they’ve ever befriended an unrepentant terrorist, or had a convicted felon help them buy their house — because those aren’t smears, those are true facts about Barack Obama.”

Jesse Jackson stirs Racist pot in regards to Obama

Much of what Jesse Jackson said to New York Post columnist Amir Taheri at the First World Policy Forum in Evian, France, last week has been reported – but there was more to the interview than has been talked about.

Jackson said, "Obama is about change, and the change that Obama promises is not limited to what we do in America itself. It is a change of the way America looks at the world and its place in it." Jackson makes Obama sound like a messiah that assumes he truly can change the way half of America feels on the issues.

Taheri then asked Jackson if Obama's election will close the chapter of black grievances linked to slavery. Jackson appeared to take a deep breath and think, then responded, "No, that chapter won't be closed. However, Obama's victory will be a huge step in the direction we have wanted America to take for decades."

Of course he wouldn’t respond that it would be closed. The milking of white guilt has got to be maintained as long as possible. This is why he needed to stop and think before he responded to this unexpected question. Of course, white people can never, ever be absolved of the guilt they're all supposed to feel.

Jackson then rejected the suggestion that Obama was influenced by Marxist ideas in his youth. He said, "I see no evidence of that. Obama's thirst for justice and equality is rooted in his black culture." Again, Jachson shows his prejudice by insinuating that justice and equality are things foreign to non-black cultures. And yet, Obama sees no injustice in taking hard earned money from laborers and giving it to those that haven’t earned it. He sees no injustice in destroying the lives of unborn babies. He see no injustice in the agreements Palestinians have made with Israel, only to back track when the agreements weren't convenient anymore.

But, Taheri asks Jackson, is Obama - who's not a descendant of slaves - a typical American black? Jackson emphatically answered: "You don't need to be a descendant of slaves to experience the oppression, the suffocating injustice and the ugly racism that exists in our society," he says. "Obama experienced the same environment as all American blacks did." (while growing up in Indonesia and Hawaii as well as attending Columbia University and Harvard Law School.)

Jackson also strongly supports Obama's idea of opening up direct dialogue with the Iranian leadership. "We've got to talk to tell them what we want and hear what they want," Jackson says. "Nothing is gained by not talking to others."

This ignores the fact that many non-western countries have a foundational worldview different from Americans. One can not simply assume that by sitting down at the table one can talk things out if there is no foundational agreement in goals and objectives. Mid-eastern countries are notorious for saying what’s necessary at the table and then doing their own thing, because their goals and values are different than ours. We have a foundational history in America of attempting to compromise so that everyone benefits as a nation. They have a foundational history of doing what is necessary to benefit their individual tribes and clans, and that doesn't always mean their nations. Remember, as an example, that most of Saddam Hussein's administration came from his home town of Tikrit. They were members of his clan. This is common in the Middle-east. Clans come first – even before their nation. (See “From Beirut to Jerusalem” by Tom Friedman.) Compromise isn't a foundational value. Survival of and benefit for the clan is.

Jackson says that as long as the Palestinians haven't seen justice, the Middle East will "remain a source of danger to us all." He doesn’t understand that Justice isn’t what many of our Mid-east opponents are really looking for. They are looking to win, irrespective of justice.

Jackson goes on, "Barack is determined to repair our relations with the world of Islam and Muslims. Thanks to his background and ecumenical approach, he knows how Muslims feel while remaining committed to his own faith." I don’t doubt that Barack, having attended a Muslim school in Indonesia as a child, understands how Muslims feel. My greater concern is that neither Obama or Jackson, despite calling themselves Christians, understand the way Christians feel or have any real understanding of Christianity at all.

Jesus Christ had special warnings for those that would harm children, as abortion does. Christians also understand the special purpose God has for the Jewish people in the Middle East. And Christians understand that God made us all in his image. Race is unimportant in the eyes of God. My husband used to say he was a Christian first and a Native American second because when he accepted Jesus Christ, he accepted his part in the family of God – first and foremost. This is the way we’ve raised our kids. We don’t identify ourselves as Indian, White, Jewish, German, or Irish. My children are all of those things, but first and foremost, they are Christian. All the rest is secondary. It would be great if our society as a whole, including Obama and Jackson, would consider race a non-issue.

Jesse Jackson says Obama will push off Israel

New York Post columnist Amir Taheri reports that Jesse Jackson, former presidential candidate and friend of Barack Obama, said at the first World Policy Forum in Evian, France, last week that there are going to be some "fundamental changes" in US foreign policy if Obama becomes president. Jackson said that America must “heal wounds” it has caused to other nations, revive its alliances and apologize for the “arrogance of the Bush administration.”

Taheri reports that “The most important change would occur in the Middle East, where ‘decades of putting Israel’s interests first’ would end. “Jackson believes that, although ‘Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades’ remain strong, they’ll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House.”

Jackson acknowledged that he was not an Obama adviser, but just a “supporter.” But he also described Obama as a “neighbor or, better still, a member of the family.” Jackson's son has long been a close friend of Obama, and Jackson's daughter went to school with Obama's wife. "We helped him start his career, and then we were always there to help him move ahead. He is the continuation of our struggle for justice not only for the black people but also for all those who have been wronged."

Jackson hasn’t denied that he made the comments, but on Tuesday Barack Obama's campaign denied that Israel would suffer under Obama. Senator McCain's spokesman, Tucker Bounds, also said Tuesday: "Literally, nobody knows what Barack Obama's policies would be if he were elected president, but it's very concerning that people believe he will not be a friend to Israel."

Plumbers should share the Wealth? Give me a break.

Quoting from a conversation Senator Obama had with a small business owner yesterday,

“Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?” the plumber asked. He then said that he was being taxed “more and more for fulfilling the American dream.”

Senator Obama responded, “It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success too,” ...“My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody … I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

Well, Obama thinks wrong. Having spent as much time in inner city neighborhoods as he says he has, he should know how it really works. I do. I've been there.

I have seen the rampant welfare fraud. I have known the guys that sleep till noon, then get up, watch TV for a little while, then go find their drugs of booze with their buddies. I have known the guys that make sure they are home with their girlfriend, mother or sisters when "Mother's Day" (the first of the month) arrives. They stay until the money runs out, and then hang out somewhere else until the next "Mother's Day." Thirty years ago I was taught by the best of them how to swindle the system. My husband and I lived that way for ten years, until we had a life-changing experience and woke up.

We stopped taking welfare at that point. In 1992, after a period of learning and growing, my husband made a decision that he wasn't going to accept any other funds from the government, either - not fuel assistance, WIC, food stamps or the commodities given out on the reservations. Instead, he worked hard to feed our family and raise our children. He also bought chickens and goats, and our oldest son learned to work - taking care of the goats and milking them. WE were the poorest of the poor, because we qualified for all the government entitlements, but were taking none of them.

Our children are now grown or near grown and they need jobs, not welfare. The only way they will have jobs is if there are jobs out there to be had. We need to support and encourage business, large and small. I can't understand how anyone with any sense can read what Obama said about "sharing the wealth" and even consider voting for him. He says these things in order to get the inner cities to vote for him - the people that Acorn is signing up. The people we left behind 20 years ago, who cared for nothing more than what they could get out of the system and will vote for Obama because the Acorn group and people like them are telling them that Obama will give them what they want.

Why is Sarah Palin our Princess Di?

Every time a Hollywood celebrity says something derogatory about Sarah, they are also saying it to me, a 40-something, Christian, former homeschooling, politically active, rural, not always perfect mom. When they mock her for being down-to-earth, pro-life, evangelical - and hey, even being the mom of a pregnant teenager - their words cut into our family as well.

Don't celebrities understand that in mocking Sarah, they are alienating many of people that - up until this last month - used to watch their movies?

Liberal women's organizations have never spoken for me. Even when I was a teenager, those organizations never understood or spoke for me. Hillary Clinton has never understood evangelical mom's like me. Even further, I have never cared for any of the so-called top named Christian women's leaders, either. I can't even name any right now, but I know that there's some...somewhere. At any rate, they haven't spoken for me either. When I have seen video's of "inspirational" Christian women speaking, I've never felt any closer to them with their poofy hair, religious dogma and perfect lives than I have Hillary.

But Sarah is different. She isn't perfect.

And not only is she like me in that respect, but finally, here is a woman that knows how I feel about the issues - and feels the same way.

• Abortion is wrong. Even during the most difficult times of my very turbulent life, aborting my children has never been a consideration. Sarah understands this. The woman's movement has never understood women like me.
• Open up ANWR to drilling. If a few acres of American tundra can make a difference, we should be doing that rather than buying oil from overseas.
• None of us like the war. But I do believe, as Sarah does, that McCain is the only candidate that understands what to do with Iraq.
• Corrupt government employees - including corrupt Senators, State Commissioners, or even Troopers - need a swift boot out of office.
• Although we have been low income, my husband vowed in 1992 not to take anymore welfare or entitlements. He made that vow and from that time until his death, he kept it - doing everything he could with his own two hands to feed us. We came to understand and agree with fiscal conservatives like Sarah. We do believe the Democratic push on the banks laid the foundation for this current crisis.
• My husband, a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, fed our family through hunting. He taught our children to hunt and cut up the meat on our kitchen table. There have been times when this was our only meat. We believe in hunting and gun rights for all US citizens.
• Yes, Creationism is something that many Americans believe in. We aren't nuts; it's part of our religion - (Remember? That thing that the first amendment allows us to have...) So when my kids come home from school, I need to re-teach them and explain that evolution is just a theory - there is no proof for it. Then I explain to them why. (Yes, as a former RN, I have an Associate in Science and can explain.) This is why many of us choose to homeschool. Something else we have a right to do.
• And yes, I and other parents like me are glad to have a homeschool mom in high office. You see, when so many from the left mock us and try to take away our right to teach our children our faith, that's a very scary thing.
• And Sarah believes in prayer. When I have listened to her pastors on the internet, I have appreciated them. They are no different than any of the pastors I have grown to love here in the lower forty. I am so glad that Sarah, a prayerful woman, is in the position she is in.

I have said that with the amount of mocking she has recieved from the elite, she is like our Princess Di. But she is also like our Esther. God Bless you, Sarah. We are praying for you.

Palin and Troopergate

This Palin thing is minor compared to the Acorn issue. Manipulating elections is far more frightening then firing a commissioner whom you have a right to fire.

Toni Foulkes, a member of Acorn’s National Association Board, confirms that Obama’s post-law school "Project VOTE" was undertaken in direct partnership with Acorn. Obama was also a key figure in Acorn’s annual leadership-training seminars. Obama was also always supportive of Acorn’s signature issues in the Illinois State Senate. He introduced Acorn-friendly legislation on living wage and banking practices. These banking practices included forcing bankers to give loans to people that couldn't afford them.

Palin's errors in judgement pale next to Obama's. So do McCain's.

1. The Ethics inquiry concluded that Palin was 'proper and lawful' in firing a state commissioner - but failed to keep her husband from meddling in the trooper's discipline.
2. McCain was also cleared of impropriety but criticized for poor judgment.
3. Four of the Keating five were Democrats.

In fact, so distressed was McCain about the Keating affair that he went on to introduce legislation to prevent that type of thing from happening again.

I used to say that what was great about America is that we all get one vote. Apparently that isn't so anymore. Several in America have already had more than their share of votes this month. This is what's really frightening. Troopergate is nothing compared to that.

But posting this on the Political Animal Blog by Steve Benen and Hilzog does no good. He first deleted and then blocked this posting on one of his pages. On another, other posters had commented before he could delete it, but I'm not allowed to respond to questions from those comments.

Susan Estrich is wrong on this one...

I don't agree with Susan Estrich most of the time, but I have grown to respect her courtesy, honesty, and point of view. Among liberals, Susan seems to have a sense of fairness and honor. But today, I need to correct her. Today Susan Estrich wrote,

"Election officials should do everything they can to make sure that this is a clean and fair election. But ...Perfection is not a realistic standard. You don’t need a perfect trial to have a fair result. Ditto for elections, especially those that are not going to be decided by razor thin margins....This election is not going to be decided by people voting early and often, or by scamsters selling out for cigarettes."

Susan, if people ARE voting "often" it WILL affect the election. I do believe that except for the misrepresentation of McCain's economic record, the undeserved treatment of Sarah Palin, and the fact that people have been voting "often," this probably would be a razor thin election.

Susan, I also cringe at your portrayal of persons that would accept cigarettes for votes as "scamsters." Those that would accept cigarettes in exchange for a vote are usually the most vulnerable of our society, ie on the streets, destitute, fighting dependencies, mentall ill, or mentally challenged. You know as well as I do that they aren't the ones that thought up the scam. They are the ones being used by the scamsters. And I think you know who those scamsters really are.

Susan, you usually seem to have a level head, but the above statements make me wonder.... as you've managed democratic campaigns through the years, have you known about the fraud all along?

You know, when half the country was so angry about Gore's loss eight years ago, I remember thinking, "Of course they are angry. They paid good money to win this election." In fact, I believed that but for the prayers of many, Gore would have won it. I know that it had been fraud had been discovered in LA, Florida and Michigan, (I knew a man whose Maimi ballot might have been used by someone else.) but I was never sure to what extent the fraud went. Has this been a huge thing going on at high levels for a long time?

But it's not over yet. Remember how the polls showed Clinton losing in New Hampshire? Remember that you were one of the few that hung in there, refusing to believe the polls?

We still have time to pray, Susan. I won't pray that one man or the other win, because I don't know what the Lord knows about the next few years. (who would have guessed 911 was going to happen?) It might be that the Lord has a plan for Obama. If that is the case, great. I'm all for whatever the Lord knows to be right. So - Lord Jesus, we pray for God's hand and choice in this election. May the right man - the man of Your choice - win this election. No matter how much money is spent, what accusations are made, what other countries think, or what kind of fraud is attempted, we pray for Your Will - and Your will alone - as to who will be president of our United States of America. May the power of God be felt right now in our country. Amen.

Gateway Pundit: McCain Slams Radical "ACORN" Community Organizer in New Ad

Gateway Pundit: McCain Slams Radical "ACORN" Community Organizer in New Ad

Obama, Voter Fraud, & Acorn

- "Oct 7, 2008, CLEVELAND — Volunteers supporting Barack Obama picked up hundreds of people at homeless shelters, soup kitchens and drug-rehab centers and drove them to a polling place yesterday on the last day that Ohioans could register and vote on the same day, almost no questions asked." As in Michigan during the last presidential election, some were promised that Obama will further entitlements (an empty campaign promise at this time of economic collapse) cigarettes or other things for their votes. (These were not necessarily Acorn employees. Voter Fraud extends further than just Acorn.)

- Sept. 24, 2008, James Terry, Chief Public Advocate for the Consumers Rights League, testified at a hearing by the joint House Administration and House Judiciary Committee that, "ACORN routinely says it will clean up its act. Yet, given its decade-long history of voter fraud, embezzlement, and misuses of taxpayer funds, ACORN’s pattern of fraud can no longer be dismissed as a series of ‘unfortunate events.’ We know about the thousands of potentially fraudulent voter registration cards turned in by ACORN and caught by officials. But given the size of ACORN’s efforts and the fact that the abuses appear to be systemic, we believe it is fair to question how many more fraudulent registrations have not been discovered, Furthermore, as this mega organization with a decades long history of violating the law is turned to get out the vote efforts, we believe it is fair to question how many fraudulent registrations may lead to fraudulent votes or what other activities they are willing to undertake to influence the election."

- He detailed:

- In April 2008, federal prosecutors announced guilty pleas for federal election fraud by eight former ACORN employees in Missouri, based on their activities in the 2006 election. They submitted false addresses and names, as well as forged signatures. At least one former ACORN employee was sentenced to 15 months in prison.

- In 2008 alone, ACORN’s activities have prompted calls for investigations in nearly a dozen states: Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina, with new investigations developing regularly.

- Complaints include not only incomplete, incorrect, or improperly filed forms, but employees had felony criminal records including child rape (gathering personal information on voters), registering underage and dead people, re-registering people innumberable times, using the phone book to register people without their knowledge, and bribing citizens with pre-paid gasoline cards or restaurant gift cards to induce them to register.

- Acorn has a "decades long history of violating the law is turned to get out the vote efforts, we believe it is fair to question how many fraudulent registrations may lead to fraudulent votes."

To read the complete transcript (pdf) of the committee hearing, detailing the exact nature of the fraud, click here.To read a detailed CRL report (pdf) on ACORN, click here

- A 2006 report by Jonathan Bechtle, “Voter Turnout or Voter Fraud?” included a discussion of the nexus between Obama's "Project Vote" and Acorn. According to Bechtle, “It’s clear that groups that claimed to be nonpartisan wanted a partisan outcome.”

- “Case Study: Chicago — The Barack Obama Campaign,” by Toni Foulkes, a Chicago Acorn leader and a member of Acorn’s National Association Board. Foulkes, who was inside the organization, confirms;

• Obama worked with Acorn leader Madeleine Talbot, training her staff.
• Acorn also specifically sought out Obama’s representation in the motor voter case.
• Obama’s post-law school “Project VOTE” was undertaken in direct partnership with Acorn.
• Obama was a key figure in Acorn’s annual leadership-training seminars.
• Obama’s years in the Illinois State Senate indicate strong concern with Acorn’s signature issues, as well as meetings with Acorn and the introduction by Obama of Acorn-friendly legislation on the living wage and banking practices. (Note - These are banking practices that included forcing bankers to give loans to people that couldn't afford them.)
  
  Quote from Toni Foulkes, "we have invited Obama to our leadership training sessions to run the session on power every year, and, as a result, many of our newly developing leaders got to know him before he ever ran for office. Thus it was natural for many of us to be active volunteers in his first campaign for State Senate and then his failed bid for U.S. Congress in 1996. By the time he ran for U.S. Senate, we were old friends."

This article was originally posted at socialpolicy.org/index.php?id=838. It has since been pulled.


- Obama accepted Acorn’s endorsement for the presidency, in pursuit of which he reminded Acorn officials of his long-standing ties to the group.

Did Obama to sit on a foundation board and direct money to an organization that openly served as his key get-out-the-vote volunteers on Election Day? According to Stanely Kurtz, May 2008, "Obama may have been able to direct substantial foundation money to his organized political supporters."

Please help others to know the facts. It appears that the 2008 presidential election has already been compromised - there isn't any way to know how many fraudulent votes have already been cast. Please follow this link to watch "ACORN."

Let us Pray

A forum comment from a man named Bill, today, stated, "I am a Christian and I dont agree with a lot of what Obama says, but (mudslinging is a waste of time) ...When can we look at the issues? And for other christians, have you even prayed about who you are going to vote for or do you just kind of you know already know the mind of God and who He wants to put in office. My nose is bloody and scabbed because I am face down praying for this election. And I truly feel regardless of who it is we need to be praying for our president, even if we don’t want him to be, because it’s not about us."

This is a very good point. We need to pray for God's hand in this election, trust that God is working His plan according to His will, and - if we are trusting God's hand - accept who He places and pray continually for that president.

Lord I bring this country before you. Thy will be done. And I pray now for all the very, very angry people on both sides of the debate. Lord, in Jesus' name, help our country to turn to You and trust You. Bring peace and understanding where there is none, and Your righteous discipline and response to sin where it is required. Lord, I pray this country will turn to You on bended knee and know You are God. And I pray for all the Candidates, McCain, Obama, Palin and Biden. In Jesus' name, Thy will be done. Amen.

Gateway Pundit: 20,000 Greet Sarah Palin in Florida-- Liberals Upset She Said "God" While On Stage

Gateway Pundit: 20,000 Greet Sarah Palin in Florida-- Liberals Upset She Said "God" While On Stage

20,000 attend Palin Rally

A good 20,000 came to hear Governor Palin at a Florida Rally yesterday, October 6, where she told voters that, according to the New York Times, Obama friend William Ayers was a member of a group that planned to bomb the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol.
"And then there's even more to the story," she said, "Barack Obama says that Ayers was just someone in the neighborhood, but that's less than truthful. His own advisers said they were quote certainly friendly. In fact Obama held one of his first meetings of his political career in Bill Ayers' living room and they worked together on various projects in Chicago."

Palin did not say, as is claimed, that Obama is a terrorist or "pals around" with a terrorist, but that Obama "sees America as imperfect enough to work with a domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country."

The point is the company that Obama has continually chosen to keep. Governor Palin also told New York Times columnist William Kristol that she doesn't know why Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. is off limits for discussion. Kristol added that he thinks it could be useful to discuss Obama's relationships. He thinks "character and judgment for a presidential choice in a time of crisis remains awfully important."

Dishing the Dirt at each other

I haven't trusted Obama because his political career was birthed and nurtured in Chicago, where corruption has long been inherent to the political culture. That's just the way it is, and the evidence is that Obama rose to the top with that as a factor.

But that's not all there is to why a person chooses one candidate or the other. They all have dirt on them - in that, other than the degree of dirt, there are no differences. I believe that the muckrakers have been searching for real skeletons in Sarah Palin closet and have thrown around lots of exaggerated rumors, but have yet to find anything factually corrupt. But she has normal weaknesses and errors, too, just like the rest of America. There is no such thing as a perfect human being. How many of the general public can honestly claim they have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of in their life? I know I'm not immune.

What is different about the candidates is the issues. And face it, that's what the majority of the people - (all but the undecided's) - are actually voting on. The mudslinging is a waste of time and money, because once people have decided the issues they stand for, they tune out the background noise. And I believe the undecided's aren't looking to see which candidate has the least mud on them, either. I think most are really trying to decide which of the many important issues are their personal priority.

As for me and my house - we like the Palins. They are as conservative on the issues as we are. Further, Dr William Allen, professor of political science and former Chairman of the US Civil Rights Council, has said that he's laying aside his previous dissatisfaction with McCain and supporting him for president because "He's the only candidate that can properly manage Iraq." And this, when all is said and done, has to be one of my priorities.

This is what’s great about America. We all have one vote.

Why so much rage?

We received a couple of pretty nasty comments last night, filled with foul language, name calling and left-field accusations. Wow, is that type of thing supposed to make me rethink my position?

I didn't bother to do anything but skim them, then delete. They added nothing to a debate. However, it really draws the question of why there is so much rage from some of our opponents concerning Sarah Palin. The amount of rage is unreal and over-the-top.

So I ask believing people to please pray for Joseph and David, in Jesus' name, concerning their anger. Joseph especially -as I have seen things he's written on other sites. And please pray for all of those in the media that are expressing such unexplainable anger. Thank you and Bless you -

A Democrat visits a Palin Rally -

Palin in LA - A First Hand Report from Lynette Long's blog via http://www.liberalrapture.com/2008/10/palin-today.html

A PUMA pointed me toward a ticket to a Palin rally in LA today. USC did not start until five so I went. Or rather I lolly gagged my way to the Home Depot Center - how big could this rally be??? - this is LA - ???Bad idea. She packed the tennis stadium (10,000) and the over flow sat and watched the jumbo tron where the LA Galaxy Soccer team plays. But I got in.

...It was fascinating. 2 immediate thoughts:
1. She was introduced by a President of a NOW chapter - wow.
2. She brought up Bill Ayres.

I have not decided who I will vote for. I did not go as a supporter of this ticket. I went to see Palin. Anyone who has every been in the same room as Bill Clinton - however big - knows what a "star" is. I wanted to see if she was a "star". I can say without question she is a "new star". The idea of her is clearly electric to her party. She owns the stage like Bill Clinton does. She has not quite mastered the relationship between herself and the crowd. 2 pods made themselves known. One she dropped the house on with a line about fighting for the first amendment. The other she handled by ignoring - which I rarely think works.

A few important take aways for me:
1. The difference between the role of women in the circa 1988 GOP and the 2008 version is something to behold. To say I was flabbergasted that former President of a NOW chapter, talking about equal pay and Geraldine Ferarro, introduced Palin at a large GOP rally is an understatement. This is not the GOP I remember - the one with shrinking, smiling wives off to the side. Think Nancy Reagan. Women were front and center. The code words were "working moms" - but what they were talking about was "robust women as equal partners." "Family Values" as a sledge hammer is out - "Women as a very valuable and equal partner in a family" is in.
2. If she wants it, Palin has a future in her party regardless of the outcome in November. They LOVE this woman - like they LOVED Reagen.
3. The crowd was younger and more racially diverse than I expected it to be. Including more than a few Black Americans.
4. A group of about 40 Obama people demonstrated outside. The chant was "Hey, hey ho, ho Sarah Palin has got to go." This is the most tired chant one can imagine. It is like hippies have taken a page from civil war re-enactors. Dress up as if it is 40 years ago and do a historical play.
5. Of the four people on the ticket, Palin is the only one who is not a member of the "elite." This is true even during her stump speech. When she talked about her father growing up in North Hollywood is feels entirely sincere and middle class. Even Clinton's talk of being from Hope, Arkansas had the sheen of being canned. It is not that "I want to have a beer" with her. It's that I would not be surprised in the least if I saw her in line at the grocery store. The closest antecedent I can conjure is Harry Truman. Still, even Truman doesn't quite work. She is a mom, not a dad. This feels entirely new in American politics.
6. Having been to Democratic rallies over the years I must say: Republicans are nicer and more respectful. At least the ones I saw today. Everyone picked up their trash. A small, but telling, fact. Plus, is was organized. People stood in line and waited their turn to get in. I know that only an old school Democrat would find this worthy of note.
7. Based on the number of Hilary stickers in the parking lot - PUMA's were represented.

All in all - it is clear to me that the GOP is not my party. But it was a compelling afternoon. Palin is a fascinating figure. Whatever McCain's motives were in choosing her - the choice changed the game. Whether she wins or loses, Palin will be around for a while.

Democrats for McCain?

Interesting - a new blogsite for Democrats voting Republican. Quoting from the site, tominpaine.blogspot.com, "Many Democrats seem to be going through a period of conflict over this election. They see Obama for what he is, a dishonest, snake oil salesman, unfit and unqualified to be President, throwing out one sweet talking lie after another at the political Mr. Goodbar, trying to pick up as many votes as he can get. And while most reject him, they also are recoiling over the idea of having a one night stand with a Republican, any Republican, though the guilty pleasure of having Obama lose and cheating on the cheater is too good to resist.But what they worry about the most is , how will they feel in the morning?

"Aside from Obama's unfitness for the job ( which is reason enough) the other compelling reason for an Obama defeat is to reform and fumigate the Democratic Party which Dean, Pelosi, Brazile, Chuck Schumer and others has turned into the Obamacratic Party which becomes more and more of an embarrassment every day as Pelosi's disastrous performance with the bailout bill proved.Obama is the nominee because of a dishonest primary in which these same people, along with the press did everything possible to sell Obama as the nominee and do it dishonestly as they knew how including rigging the roll call vote violating every Democratic Party rule and procedure in the process."

The Hollywood types actually think that they have the ability to "lead" us. That is why they throw themselves into the political circle, believing that their opinions will have impact.

Most celebrities don't get it. They are not average Americans. They don't live like most of the rest of us. Sure we might enjoy them in the movies. We especially like it when the characters they are playing are just like us - when what they are saying and acting out on the screen reflects what life is really like for us - those outside their loop. We like that, but we also know that those living in Malibu or a New York penthouse, partying at the nightclubs, leaving their children with nannies, enjoying frequent holidays on foreign islands, and employing secretaries and bodyguards to get them through the day, are nothing like us.

It's actually these types of people that are pushing to keep the right to abortions, because these are the people who have lives that they don't want a baby to interere with. These are the people that have wanted to keep their own lives uncluttered, and now want to make sure their daughters have no interference on the way up, either. As Obama himself once said, he would support his daughters in aborting his grandchildren rather than have his daughters endure the "punishment" of being mothers.

Sure lower income women have had abortions, but although the elite talk on and on about how abortions are a necessary option for lower income women, it's not as big an issue for us. Babies don't interfere with our lives the way they do for the elite. We go ahead and have our babies - and love them.

Sarah Palin IS us. As Paul Newman (a one-woman man and one of the likeable, although liberal, celebrities) once said, when faced with steak, why settle for hamburger.

Sarah is our Princess Di.

The Obama campaign continues to profess to represent the middle class, as Biden stated again and again during the debate, while at the same time condemning and belittling Sarah for being middle class. Don't they understand that when they cut her down - they’re cutting down everyone just like her? Do they honestly not realize how many of us are just like her? Sarah Speaks for Us! Obama does not.

First, I didn't hear an overly "folksy" speech as some have complained. The over-the-top condemnation of her vernacular is unmerited. What I heard coming from Sarah is a friend across the kitchen table. The elite apparently had a problem with that. But the only politician whose speaking ever made me cringe was John Kerry - when recordings of his decades old testimony before a Senate committee surfaced during his run for the presidency. That New England elitist tone, so different than the way he speaks today, gave me the creeps. "Phony" is the word that immediately came to mind. If it was a real speech pattern and not just a "put on" act to appear distinguished, why does he not have that same tone today?

Do you honestly think I would condemn someone for using the "gonna?" Give me a break. The middle class has just as much right to speak and vote as the elite do. Do I care if foreign dignitaries wouldn't like it? No. She represents me - who I am. I also doubt that foreign dignitaries are going to care. As a matter-of-fact, I think they just might embrace her as much as we do; they'll remember how well condescending attitudes toward Princess Di went over.

Secondly, Sarah's replies during the debate had substance and were intelligent. Some people didn't think so. But again, her reply's reflected the world view of a large part of the country. Simply because the elite don't agree and don't understand them doesn't mean she lacked substance. They're just being nasty. Sarah is a wonderful woman and I would love to see someone who honestly represents the middle class in the White House. Politicians have been saying for years that they represent middle class values. Now we have someone that actually does, and left-leaning politicians and hollywood types are all over themselves to condemn her for it.

Thirdly, I appreciated how confidently Sarah confronted Senator Biden. She told him that the McCain team supports domestic solutions to the oil crisis and is not willing to put up the white flag of surrender in Iraq. She made clear that the Democrats had regulated the banking industry to the point that banks were forced to make bad loans and are largely responsible for the current economic crisis. She also pointedly clarified Senator Biden's misstatement of her beliefs concerning same-sex marriage.

What I appreciated most? Her statement that the McCain team, as a team of mavericks, is "not gonna agree on everything." I so much appreciate that McCain has given her the freedom to be who she is and neither of them are afraid of it. Thank you, John.