Are we really going to do this? (Vanity)

[swmopatriot]

We have sadly reached the point where a British columnist must raise critical points about our election which are being ignored by the mainstream media in our country.

In an article on The Spectator website entitled "Is America Really Going to Do This?", Melanie Phillips correctly observes that only McCain will defend American interests:

"Here's why. McCain believes in protecting and defending America as it is. Obama tells the world he is ashamed of America and wants to change it into something else. McCain stands for American exceptionalism, the belief that American values are superior to tyrannies. Obama stands for the expiation of America's original sin in oppressing black people, the third world and the poor."

She concludes, after detailing Obama's radical foreign policy approaches:

"There are, alas, many in the west for whom all this is music to their ears. Whether through wickedness, ideology, stupidity or derangement, they firmly believe that the ultimate source of conflict in the world derives at root from America and Israel, whose societies, culture and values they want to see emasculated or destroyed altogether. They are drooling at the prospect that an Obama presidency will bring that about. The rest of us can't sleep at night."

Her title is a question that has been persistently in my mind and I am sure in the minds of others who fall into the restless crowd: Is America really going to do this?

Are we really going to elect a President whose political career started at his friends Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn's house? Friends who are unrepentant of their domestic terrorist activities; activities which included bombing the U.S. Capitol Building and attempting (unsuccessfully, thank God) to kill U.S. servicemen during a dance at Fort Dix.

Are we really going to elect a President who is comfortable with Jeremiah Wright's hate filled sermons? Comfortable enough to attend Wright's Trinity United Church for twenty years.

Are we really going to elect a President who has radical anti-Israel friends and associates like Rashid Khalidi?

Are we really going to elect a President who practiced Chicago politics and traded political favors to convicted felon Tony Rezko for a deal on his mansion? I could continue with these questions regarding the individuals he chooses to associate with, but the key question is:

Are we really going to elect a President who seems most comfortable around anti-American radicals and criminals?

Are we really going to elect a President who believes the appropriate role of government is to "spread the wealth"? Have we really reached a point in America where we are willing to embrace class warfare as a successful campaign strategy?

Are we really going to elect a President who is going to expand the federal budget by almost one-trillion dollars in a time of financial crisis and growing deficits?

Are we really going to elect a President who has requested almost one million dollars a day in earmarks during his short Senate tenure (totaling $932 million dollars) and receives a 22 lifetime rating (out of 100) from Citizens Against Government Waste?

Are we really going to elect a President who is going to raise taxes during a recession? He would be following Herbert Hoover's example in this respect, please see the period after the Hoover presidency for evidence on the efficacy of this approach.

Are we really going to elect a President who believes that the question of life is "above his paygrade"? Catholic scholar Robert Geroge accurately descirbes Obama as "the most extreme pro-abortion candidate to have ever run on a major party ticket."

Are we really going to elect a President who is supported by only by only 23 percent of our servicemen and women versus hisopponent, a veteran, who is supported by 68 percent?

Are we really going to elect a President who has shown a shocking and consistent disregard for the free speech rights of those who dare to oppose him? This link goes to a great article which I highly recommend reading.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, are we really going to elect a President in this time of crisis and international turmoil who has less than one term experience in the Senate (most of that time spent running for President)? If we do so, according even to Obama's own running made, we are inviting an international crisis. We invite Russia to reinvade Georgia and fulfill their ambitions to retake the Ukraine and Poland. We invite Iran to continue pursuing nuclear weapons, the consequence of which will be a second Holocaust. We invite the Iranians also to fill the power vacuum left by our surrender in Iraq. We invite Islamic radicals in Pakistan, a country which already has a nuclear arsenal, to challenge their current leadership given Obama's willingness to disregard them. We invite left wing despots in Latin America like Hugo Chavez to continue expanding their power in their region and undermining our democratic ally Colombia through their support of FARC terrorists.

When you cast your ballot for President I hope you will ask yourself if soaring rhetoric is enough to convince you to ignore these concerns and disregard basic principles which has made this country great. To return to Ms. Phillips title: "Is America Really Going to Do This?"

It is still possible for use to answer that question with a resounding "No!"

If you think that this raises some important questions, please feel free to share it with friends and family.

At the risk of offending Reverend Wright and Senator Obama, I'll conclude with the prayer that God continue to bless the United States of America.

"But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer."

J.R.R. Tolkien

[swmopatriot]

I wanted to write a detailed e-mail that might cause any reasonable voter who is still undecided or leaning towards Obama to really consider the implications of their vote. This is what I came up with. If you think it is effective please feel more than free to use it and add additional questions if you have them.

[nuconvert]

bump

[swmopatriot]

The title should of course be “Are we really going to do this?”

Is there any way I can change my initial post to correct my typo?

[nuconvert]

ask the admin. moderator to change it

[Dick Bachert]

I wanted to write something, too — and did.

· As concerned as I am that America, the PLACE, is in danger, I am far more concerned that America, the IDEA, is on the verge of being devastated in ways the Founders could never have imagined.

My great-great grandfather fought with the 80th Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Chickamauga, Vicksburg and marched to the sea with Sherman. My wife’s great-great grandfather also fought on the Union side. Given the quasi-tyrannical nature of the current central government, we’re both sad that they fought in a struggle to secure Washington’s grip on the states in violation of the VOLUNTARY compact between those states to create that central government in the first instance, the Declaration of Independence.

Now that central government — and the power it has usurped from the states and the people — may be about to fall into the hands of a group of men and women who care even less for those principles than Mr. Lincoln did when he launched one of the deadliest wars in history.

I admit to having many problems with Mr. Lincoln. Forensic historians now view him to have been more motivated by his own internal demons and depression than by a desire to keep together by force a union some voluntary members of which chose to “...alter and to abolish..., and to institute (a) new Government...”

Inasmuch as history is always written by the victor, I recognize this will be totally foreign to those who have not spent time examining that history in detail. But I said all that to lay the basis for this, one of the few things on which a younger, pre-presidency Lincoln and I might agree:

“At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic giant to step the ocean and crush us at one blow Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years.

“At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
Abraham Lincoln, 1837

America, the IDEA, may soon suffer a blow which will render it a small footnote in world history. Given that history IS written by the victors, it might not even be mentioned at all.

I tremble for our grandchildren.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Hit self abuse and ask title to be corrected!

[I see my hands]

"consider the implications of their vote"

People on the right need to consider the implications of providing financial, social, emotional, and familial support to those on the Left.

TO:

[freeangel]

I don’t know about the WE part—but apparently 90% of black voters will.

[mysterio]

Ping the Admin Mod or Jim Robinson. They should be able to fix the title typo for you.

[swmopatriot]

Thanks for your help! I have contacted the mod so hopefully my typo will be corrected soon.

[bayliving]

It may sound cold, but I now hold in disdain any democRAT that may be friend or family.

They are a party to treason and the destruction of our Constitution. Period.

[kingu]

I wish you the best of luck with the e-mail. In my family, my sister is suffering McCain derangement syndrome. Like many Californians, she’s a long memory of how much he’s backstabbed us, and while she’ll roll off the litany of liberal talking points (Palin’s inexperienced, etc), it all boils down to she’ll do whatever she can as a voter to not see McCain as president.

It’s kinda sad, and no one else in the family has fallen for it, but it doesn’t matter to her. If challenged on any of her statements, such as the simple question: What experience does Obama or Biden have that Palin’s lacking? She will simply just fall back to the core truth, she doesn’t want McCain as president.

Finger pointing can commence, of course, but the conservatives split their vote, so McCain slipped in. Excellent choice as VP, but too many years of ticking off too many of the party faithful - I still hold out hope that Obama will lose, but would dearly love someone else as our own nominee, as I very much understand her viewpoint

[I see my hands]

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[swmopatriot]

Thanks.

McCain was never my first choice either and I wasn’t really enthused until his selection of Palin.

I can’t understand, however, anyone voting for Obama just because they aren’t happy with McCain. McCain may not be as conservative as I or others would like, but Obama is so far left-wing that and the consequences of his election are so dire that I just don’t see how he could even be considered by a conservative voter.

Additionally, whatever his political shortcomings (and there are many) McCain is at least an honorable person and has demonstrated his love for country in ways most of us can’t imagine. The same can not be said for Obama.

[hershey]

Millions of Americans stand with you, and we’ll crawl over broken glass to vote for McCain/Palin.

[wku man]

Another question is, if Obamanation is elected and his campaign to tranform America into some Neo-African Socialist state goes forward, what are "we" gonna do about it?

Wring our hands, hoping we can make to 2012, while the Obama Youth Regiment and the "civilian national security force" knocks on our doors to round up our guns?

Or make our Founding Fathers proud?

Every citizen needs to answer this for himself.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[midwyf]

If only one and all would stop and think, but they won’t, I’m afraid. The blacks are so thrilled that a black man would be president, they totally forget that black heritage came from another country plus he is half white. The easily entranced Dems also forget that black heritage is not American black, plus his multicultrual back ground of education in other countries.

[GulfWar1Vet]

Amen to what you said.

Obama is my enemy.

(I may be sent to the secret detention camps in Georgia, but let it be so!)