Conservative Musings

How to Change a Country (or) Who is Barack Obama?

Think about it.

 

If you are a supporter of Obama and you don’t see there is anything wrong with him, answer these questions. 

 

Question one:  Do you believe in the historic magnificence of the making of the

USA

?  Do you believe that the

US

has been the greatest country and has been a help and support to the rest of the world?

 

Question two:  Do you believe in socialism?  Do you believe that Europe,

China

and

Russia

have a better system than the

US

?

 

If you believe, like me, that the

US

is the greatest country and have helped other countries, then answer this:

 

If you wanted to turn this country into another type of country and wanted to change the way our government works, how would you do it?  Would you come in from another country and take it over through military action?  I don’t think so.  Our military and citizens would never allow it. 

 

The only way to change our government to a radical socialist/Marxist government is from the inside.  You change the minds of people through education and inside the government a little at a time. 

 

Enter Barrack Obama. 

Enter a news media that is so biased they don’t report anything bad on a candidate that could make that change and fool people into complacency.    Remember the media that thought it was important for the public to know about the whereabouts of George W. for two weeks of National Guard time?  Why do they not want to know about Rezco, Flager, Wright, Ayers, Rashid Khalid.  This man has the possibility of making huge changes in the way our country operates.  We deserve to know about the connections to the above people.  It will tell a lot more about who Obama is and how he will lead than speeches to the masses. 

 

Will people across our country be dubbed into thinking they are voting for one person and really voting for someone totally different?  If Obama wins the election, and a gain is realized in the House and Senate along with appointments to the Supreme Court, where will any accountability be?  

-Lady Colonel

U.S. Becoming Europe

Pete Du Pont, at the Wall Street Journal, describes how under Obama America will become more and more like Europe.  His 7 points are as follows:

• The U.S. military will withdraw from Iraq quickly and substantially, regardless of conditions on the ground or the obvious consequence of emboldening terrorists there and around the globe.
• Protectionism will become our national trade policy; free trade agreements with other nations will be reduced and limited.
• Income taxes will rise on middle- and upper-income people and businesses, and individuals will pay much higher Social Security taxes, all to carry out the new president's goals of "spreading the wealth around."
• Federal government spending will substantially increase. The new Obama proposals come to more than $300 billion annually, for education, health care, energy, environmental and many other programs, in addition to whatever is needed to meet our economic challenges. Mr. Obama proposes more than a 10% annual spending growth increase, considerably higher than under the first President Bush (6.7%), Bill Clinton (3.3%) or George W. Bush (6.4%).
• Federal regulation of the economy will expand, on everything from financial management companies to electricity generation and personal energy use.
• The power of labor unions will substantially increase, beginning with repeal of secret ballot voting to decide on union representation.
• Free speech will be curtailed through the reimposition of the Fairness Doctrine to limit the conservative talk radio that so irritates the liberal establishment.

We want to be like Europe for what reason?  So we can be taken care of by the nanny state?  So we can lose our hard earned freedoms, for security?

Those who love Europe so much have a great freedom now, called travel.  Head on over, while the borders are still open.

-Colonel Steve

Why Not Vote for Obama?

Why not vote for Obama, you ask?  I would have to first answer that question with a question: Why vote for Obama?

That said, a great place to start looking at the "Why nots" is the Guy Benson, Mary Katherine Ham, and Ed Morrissey written post entitled "The comprehensive argument against Barack Obama".

Now, to my summarized list:

• Higher Taxes: The Joe the Plumber run-in says it all.  When push comes to shove, even Obama's so called "concern for the middle class guy" is shown not to be true.  In a bad economy, Obama's answer is to yank more money out of the economy so the experts, in government, can use it.  What exactly has big government done right?  Congress at a 10% approval rating, the president in the 20% range....and these are the ones we want to give our hard earned cash to?


• Abortion: Obama is known to think that a having a baby is punishment for teens.  We do know that the thoughts on abortion are above his pay grade (while all along running for a position that requires tough decisions). These thing said, Barack Obama action's have shown he is even more of an abortion supporter than NARAL.  NARAL is ok with the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, Barack Obama is not.


• Defense Cut Backs: At a time we need to show strength to the rest of the world, Barack Obama wants to severely cut back our defensive capabilities.  History shows that things like the Berlin Wall coming down did not occur because of negotiations but from a show of strength. 


• Broken Promises:  Barack Obama promised to use public financing for his campaign.  He also promised to negotiate with John McCain, should he decide not to use public financing.  He then waffled away from it.  What other promises are he going to run away from?


• Free Speech (Fairness Doctrine): Both Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have come out in favor of the Fairness Doctrine.  This, known as the Hush Rush movement, would take us back to the past in terms of regulations.  Individual radio stations would be required to have an exact match of conservative and liberal viewpoints.  No longer could we have a pure liberal (Air America) or a pure conservative channel.  If it gets past the House and the Senate, a president Obama would surely sign it.


• Not Qualified: Even in his own words, he's not qualified.  Like the broken promises part above, this guy is all over the map in terms of the things he says.  No consistency. 

-Colonel Steve

Quote of the Day

"It actually upsets me.  I am a plumber, and just a plumber, and here Barack Obama or John McCain, I mean these guys are going to deal with some serious issues coming up shortly. The media's worried about whether I paid my taxes, they're worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America. They really don't. I asked a question. When you can't ask a question to your leaders anymore, that gets scary. That bothers me." - "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbache, on Fox New Channel's Huckabee show.

Reminds me of a story....maybe you've heard it.  A candidate for president goes campaigning door-to-door.  He stops by one house, where the owner is out front.  He starts up a conversation with the homeowner.  The homeowner asks a question.  The candidate answers it.

That, simply put, is the whole story here.  Nothing earth shattering here.  Happens in every election across America, in any year.  But because of the specifics of the question and the answer, now the liberal side of America is demonizing the questioner. 

The important thing to get out of this dialogue is the candidate's answer:

Mr. Obama said, "It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody that is behind you, that they have a chance for success, too. I think that when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

Any thoughts as to how that is going to happen?  Can you say "higher taxes"?  Consider, also, that this makes not the American people but the American government as the referee as to how much income is too much.  A whole new beauracracy dedicated to channeling money from one group of people to another.

So just how much income is too much?  If this is put in place, what incentive does anyone have to go out and work harder to make more money?  Just sit back in your recliner and let "the one" take care of you.

-Colonel Steve

William Ayers, a fine professor?

In a recent article about William Ayers, it is proposed that he is an upstanding professor now.  There is no apology for what he did.  There is no taking it back.  As a matter of fact, he wears articles about the Weather Underground on the door of his office at the University.  I ask one question - If you were a terrorist and felt that America was evil, where could you make the most changes to the country? 

-Lady Colonel

Alfred E Smith Dinner

Got a chance to see both candidates tonight doing their comedy routines at the Alfred E Smith Dinner in New York.  Two comments:

1) McCain Rocked!  Even if someone else wrote it (and I'm sure they did), he presented it very well. 

2) Should Obama lose the election, there's no doubt he'd be staying in the U.S. Senate.  Stand up comedy IS NOT his talent.  I'm also glad to hear his middle name IS NOT "Steve".

-Colonel Steve

Not The Shock Some Think

Drudgreport has this headline tonight (so far unlinked):

GALLUP SHOCK:  49 OBAMA, 47 MCCAIN WITH LIKELY VOTERS

Some of us aren't so shocked.  I mean, considering all the organizations who are in-the-tank for the Obiden ticket, it's amazing this statistic even made any headlines.

-Colonel Steve

Senator "Spread the Wealth Around" Obama

By now, you've seen the Youtube videos catching Barack Obama's tax plan.  Just a little of the transcript:

"Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?" the plumber asked, complaining that he was being taxed "more and more for fulfilling the American dream."

"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," Obama responded. "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."

"not that I want to punish your success"????  He may not want to, but that is effectively what his tax plan would do.

Does anyone reading this WANT to succeed?  Maybe seriously want to succeed?  How does it feel, knowing that more of your money gets taken away as you make more?

Barack is NOT saying, by his comment, that he's trying to help people out necessarily.  What he is saying is that he's trying to level everyone out.  If this were grade school, why have some with A's and B's and some with D's and F's?  Why not give them all C's?

If we're all gonna get money from the government anyway, why try to succeed?  Just kick back and be a couch potato.  Let the taxed fat cats take care of you.

Sadly, after awhile, the fat cats would all be gone to somewhere less taxing.  Leaving us with a wrecked economy and a welfare state.  Exactly the type of thing happening now in Denmark.

Not exactly the thing to mirror from a European country.

-Colonel Steve

Another swell idea of Obama's

Also in that speech, he said:
"That's why I'm proposing to give our businesses a new American jobs tax credit for each new employee they hire here in the United States over the next two years."  ]

How many businesses would create a job to get a tax credit?  That's just like big government...spend $40,000 to get a tax credit of a few thousand. 

Sounds like the argument I give Colonel Steve when I go shopping.  "But I saved $10.00!"  Of course his answer is "But think how much you would have saved if you didn't buy it at all." 

How many of you employers that are struggling will hire new employees to get a tax credit?

-Lady Colonel

Obama means spending!

Today, Obama gave a speech in which he said:

"Over the course of this campaign, I've laid out a set of policies that will grow our middle-class and strengthen our economy in the long-term. I'll reform our tax code so that 95% of workers and their families get a tax cut, and eliminate income taxes for seniors making under $50,000. I'll bring down the cost of health care for families and businesses by investing in preventative care, new technology, and giving every American the chance to get the same kind of health insurance that members of Congress give themselves. We'll ensure every child can compete in the global economy by recruiting an army of new teachers and making college affordable for anyone who wants to go. We'll create five million new, high-wage jobs by investing in the renewable sources of energy that will eliminate the oil we currently import from the Middle East in ten years, and we'll create two million jobs by rebuilding our crumbling roads, schools and bridges."

and also:

"To fuel the real engine of job creation in this country, I've also proposed eliminating all capital gains taxes on investments in small businesses and start-up companies, and I've proposed an additional tax incentive through next year to encourage new small business investment. It is time to protect the jobs we have and to create the jobs of tomorrow by unlocking the drive, and ingenuity, and innovation of the American people. And we should fast track the loan guarantees we passed for our auto industry and provide more as needed so that they can build the energy-efficient cars America needs to end our dependence on foreign oil."

I have lots of thoughts here.  We have just spent $700 billion in a bail-out plan.  We spent over $600 billion in a budget.  There is talk about giving the families who can't pay their home loans money to do that.  Now, Obama says he will give 95% of American's a tax cut.  He will eliminate taxes on seniors that make under $50,000.  (Remember, seniors are growing in number every day since the baby boomers are arriving.)  The comment on health care is rather vague but it appears that he is going to bring down the cost of health care?  How does that work?  Dictate what doctors are allowed to charge?   The government is going to invest in preventive care...how much is that going to cost?  We will have the chance to get the same health care that Congress has?  I assume that means free since theirs is free.  An army of new teachers, at a cost of what?  How do you make college affordable?  I thought that is what grants and scholarships were for along with student loans.  Is he proposing something new?  Another cost?  We're going to rebuild our roads.  How many of these things do you really think will occur? 

The second paragraph is where it gets really weird.  Since when did small businesses and start up companies have capital gains?  Can anyone explain this one?  Does Obama know what a capital gain is and how that works on tax forms?

-Lady Colonel