The following commentary on the last presidential debate, originally posted at Human Events, should appeal to conservatives and traditional (i.e., Truman/Kennedy) liberals. Ms. Meinecke writes a regular column at Human Events but has kindly granted permission to post her articles at Dakota Voice, as well.
The Anti-JFK
by Elisabeth Meinecke
10/09/2008
Praise his charisma, his ability to relate, the supposedly debonair figure he cuts in a suit, but realize Obama emerged Tuesday as the anti-JFK with a refrain that should offend young Americans: ask what your government can do for you, not what you can do for your country.
I’m part of this young vote, an age bracket known for waging daily Wars of Independence. And this dearly-bought trait is exactly what Obama wants to rob me of.
Take his tax plan. As a young voter earning a typical starting salary (which puts me in the 95 percent Obama has decreed “middle class”), I get a tax cut, but at the expense of 5 percent of my fellow workers, who will pick up the slack in the budget.
I know a lot of hard-working Americans -- such as my father -- who fall into that 5 percent. They’ve worked darn hard to get there, often at the expense of their health. They may live comfortably, but they’re not living like Brad Pitt, either. Yet Obama proposes I vote so that I get a tax break which my father will have to pay for. So much for being financially independent. So much for the dreams of my father.
Obama also told me Tuesday night that I had a “right” to health care. There’s a reason the Declaration of Independence does not read life, liberty, and the pursuit of health care. Depending on Uncle Sam for health care isn’t a declaration of independence -- it’s a declaration of dependence. Obama invokes a truly touching story about his mother dying of cancer and having to argue with insurance companies over coverage. But one thing is more certain than death and taxes: increased government oversight always brings more arguing, not less. Any young adult who has stood in line at the DMV to get his or her driver’s license can agree with that.
It’s appalling that a candidate who has reached out to young Americans with the lifeline of hope and change wants to foster a culture of dependence, and, even worse, selfishness. Every sacrifice of independence Obama asks me to make is an appeal to this cardinal sin of youth – the government owes me health care, the government owes me a share of the fiscal prosperity others have worked so hard to gain.
Yes, Obama has encouraged us to serve through his brainchild -- a massive, government-sponsored volunteer program. But even this call involves a deeper dependence on government. Since when did people need a government program to give them opportunities to serve? Charity starts with your neighbor. It does not start in Washington.
To my generation: we can do better. We can -- and should -- set a higher standard for ourselves than Obama is asking. He wants the government to hand us our health care, our education, other people’s money, even our community service. He wants us to be the generation of soup kitchens -- but with the mentality he's fostering in us, we will be the ones standing in line for handouts at the end of his term.
McCain and Palin, meanwhile, have encouraged me to shoulder responsibility, work hard, and enjoy the fruits of my labor, not someone else’s. My country fought a war for this independence. Which ticket really believes in it?
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Miss Meinecke was a member of Hillsdale College's Dow Journalism Program, sports editor and beat reporter for the campus newspaper, and also contributed to Life Times, the newsletter for Southern Indiana Right to Life. She interned at Comcast SportsNet in Washington, D.C. through the National Journalism Center before joining Human Events in August 2008. E-mail her at emeinecke@eaglepub.com.
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Any resident of Alaska gets a "rebate" from the oil industry simply because they are a resident. Wow. Alaska also has the highest earmarks from the U.S. Govt. per capita. Yeah... that's enjoying the fruits of their own labor.
As for "less government"... the same people who have been shouting that for years are now asking "where was the oversight"?
They ask the same question everytime we have a problem with aircraft, food, drugs, roads, buildings, floods, etc.
As for healthcare, you are obviously a person with very little compassion, so I shall not waste any space here trying to change you. Should have saved for that chemo.
Being that your father is in the top 5%, I would guess that he paid for your tuition. So... why give someone else a helping hand?
The widening of the gap between the haves and have-nots has been growing in leaps and bounds. But, do not concern yourself. You, personally, will not be affected.
Your article shows you to be an incompassionate, selfish human being.
~sus
Mr. Anonymous, if you have all the compassion and selflessness that you imply, then by all means, give everything of yours that you wish to the 'have nots.' There is no moral basis for taking from one person and giving to another. The author of this piece demonstartes an understanding of the Constitution and of personal responsibility that apparently is over your head. It is a gutless compassion that insists on helping others with someone else's money. More likely, you are the recipient of government handouts and are salivating over the prospect of getting even more when Obama has his way.
Let's talk about what Obama wants and what he represents.
Barack Obama is NOT a New Kind of Politician
Barack Obama is a product of the corrupt Chicago political machine. He did nothing to reform it:http://chicagoagainstobama.wordpress.com/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/26/AR2007022600720_2.html
Barack Obama has the most liberal voting record of any other United States Senator: http://nj.nationaljournal.com/voteratings/
Obama had his first political mentor Alice Palmer, thrown off the ballot in Illinois in order to take her place in the Illinois State Senate. It was Alice Palmer who introduced Obama to the domestic terrorists William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn:
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/5/29/23433/5727
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8630.html
Michelle Obama was appointed vice president at the University Of Chicago hospitals in 2005. In 2006, Obama requested that the University of Chicago receive $1 Million to support its construction of the new hospital pavilion:http://obamaearmarks.com/2008/09/09/university-of-chicago-medical-center/
Citizens Against Government Waste say that Obama has an 18% rating, McCain is rated 88%. Senator Biden is rated the worst with 0%:http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/citizens_against_government_waste_obama_isnt_the_worst_senator_on_waste_bid/
While Obama talks a lot about “crossing the aisle”. His actual record in this regard is very meager:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/15/records-show-mccain-more-bipartisan/
Barack Obama criticized Hillary Clinton for her financial ties to Wal-Mart, while conveniently failing to mention his own wife’s ties to Wal-Mart:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1551441/Obama-called-hypocrite-for-wife
Obama voted “Present” 129 times as a State Senator to avoid taking a stand on controversial votes:http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/679446,CST-NWS-obama04.article
Obama claimed credit for sponsoring legislation that was actually given to him by his mentor Illinois Senate President Emil Jones. Obama repaid Jones with $300 million of earmarks for Illinois, including tens of millions of dollars of earmarks for pet projects in Emil Jones district:http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/3/23/224059/069
Obama claimed to “press the wrong button” six different times when confronted about controversial votes in the Illinois State Senate:http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obamavotes24jan24,1,7079399.story
Obama implied he was poor and grew up on food stamps; Obama grew up mostly with his grandparents, who were upper middle-class bankers in Hawaii. Food stamps weren’t available in Hawaii until the seventies: http://sweetness-light.com/archive/when-was-obamas-mom-on-food-stamps
Obama threw his grandmother who raised him under the bus, comparing her attitudes to Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s racism and later calling her a “typical white person”:http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/01/14/obama_and_the_race_card_1.html
Obama removed his name from the ballot in the Michigan Democratic Primary when early polling showed he would lose by a wide margin:http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/3/9/211753/2995
In 2007, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama signed a pledge to not campaign in Florida. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) was punishing Florida for moving the Primary to January 29. Obama broke his pledge and ran ads in Florida:http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080123/NEWS/801230668/-1/RSS01
Obama who runs as a candidate of change helped keep Chicago politics dirty by supporting the corrupt John Stroger over Forrest Claypool, a progressive reformer, for President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners:http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_16_60/ai_n28028562/pg_2
Obama changed his nuclear regulation bill to favor nuclear companies under pressure from financial supporters at Exelon, a Chicago based company helping to develop a nuclear waste facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/290/
Obama claims to not accept oil money, but in fact he has accepted more than $213,000 from individuals who work for companies in the oil and gas industry and their spouses. Two of
Obama's bundlers are top executives at oil companies and are listed on his Web site as raising between $50,000 and $100,000 for him:http://www.newsweek.com/id/129895
Obama claims to have no ties to lobbyists, but several registered lobbyists have raised over a million dollars for his campaign, sometimes having their wives write the check to conceal his ties to them: http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/bad_americans/hows_that_obama.php
Barack Obama Has Been Less Than Honest With the American Public
Senator Barack H. Obama Jr. repeatedly refused to provide any responses to citizens on the issues through the 2008 Political Courage Test when asked to do so by national leaders of the political parties, prominent members of the media, Project Vote Smart President Richard Kimball, and Project Vote Smart staff:http://www.votesmart.org/npat.php?can_id=9490
Obama claimed, in front of a Jewish audience, that his uncle liberated Auschwitz. American troops did not liberate Auschwitz, the Soviets did:
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/27/whoa-now-thats-a-gaffe/
Obama claimed he was born due to 1965 Selma marches; Obama was born in 1961: http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/3/5/201426/5656
Obama claimed the Kennedy family funded a program that brought his father over from Kenya. His father came to the United States in 1959 and the Kennedys did not fund his trip:http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/03/obamas_camelot_connection.html
Obama has implied that his father was a poor goat-herder. In fact, Obama’s father was the privileged son of wealthy landowners:http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?perpage=20&threadid=427861
After promising to fund his campaign with only public financing, Barack Obama went back on his pledge because he found he could raise huge amounts of money on his own and exceed the public campaign finance limits: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/06/obama_reneges_on_public_financ.html
Obama has suggested that people who don’t support him are racists:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcfeToczFnM
Barack Obama’s religious beliefs are not a good reason to vote against him, but failure to be honest about them is. Why can’t he tell us the truth? His mother was raised by non-practicing Christians; his father was raised a Muslim, but was an atheist by the time he had married Obama's mother. Obama's step-father was also Muslim, but of an eclectic kind who could make room for animist and Hindu beliefs. The Left apparently felt that Mitt Romney’s religious beliefs were a legitimate issue in the campaign. Why the double standard when it comes to Obama?http://atheism.about.com/od/barackobamareligionfaith/tp/BarackObamaReligionSecularism.htm
Obama as Messiah???
Obama’s followers often compare him to Jesus Christ. MSNBC reporter Chris Matthews said he gets a thrill running up his leg when he hears him speak. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhnynk6XkkU
Many Obama supporters say Jesus was a community organizer just like Obama was: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/09/14/bash-giuliani-brokaw-brandishes-jesus-community-organizer-pilate-g
Here young children sing the praises of their Dear Leader Obama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GExiNDBoifs
Here young men, dressed in military fatigues, praise Obama as if he is a demi-god: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOtGr1JFCnE
This hero worship is disturbing and chilling:http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/obama_as_liberal_messiah.html
Barack Obama Lacks Experience
Obama spent 143 days in the Senate before he started running for President: http://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/rnr/841195538.html
Obama has never authored a piece of major legislation.
Obama has no executive experience. He has never run a business or done a pay roll etc..
He himself has admitted that he does not have the experience to be the President of the United States: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BnLozS-TnM&feature=related
His running mate Senator Biden charged that Obama lacked the experience to be President: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lknTPvH1wSg
Without a teleprompter Obama is hesitant and confused:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJSVPAx8xc
Here is Obama claiming he’s visited 57 States:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
Barack Obama’s Alliances are Highly Questionable
His wife Michelle charged that America was a mean country and said that for the first time in her adult lifetime she is proud of her country because of her husband’s campaign: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYY73RO_egw
His long time friend and mentor is Rev. Jeremiah Wright formerly the Pastor Trinity Church who said instead of God bless America, we should say God damn America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hPR5jnjtLo
Obama claimed he never heard anti-American, anti-White speeches at his church; his own autobiography indicates he did and as he later admitted under pressure: http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-i-never-heard-wright-say-bad-things
Obama is a friend of Father Michael Phleger a radical Catholic priest who has honored Louis Farrakhan at his Church:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWigzBClEk8&feature=related
Barack Obama is a friend of former members of the radical Weather Underground terrorist organization William Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn. They were responsible for several bombings between 1970 and 1974 the Pentagon, the Capitol and a police station in San Francisco. Ayers is quoted in the New York Times on September 11, 2001 as saying "I don't regret setting bombs...I feel we didn't do enough." Ayers helped Obama launch his Illinois State Senate career, held a fund raiser for him and the two served on the board of the Woods Fund together : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxoiZdBSi-g
Obama helped to organize the Million Man March in 1995 sponsored by the racist and anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan:http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/04/wright-obama-helped-organize-march-with.html
Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam support Obama for President: http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/farrakhan_support/2008/01/17/65177.html
Obama claims not to take money from Washington lobbyists, but he takes money from lobbyists' spouses and holds fundraisers at the offices of law firms that lobby Congress. He happily accepts huge amounts of money from executives of big oil and drug companies and many others. In fact, he's relying on two oil company executives to raise $50,000 apiece for his campaign:http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/04/obamas-claims-o.html
Tony Rezko is a convicted criminal and long time friend and fund-raiser for Obama. Rezko was indicted last fall on federal charges that accuse him of demanding kickbacks from companies seeking state business. Obama claimed Rezko donated only $50,000 to him. Later, under pressure, he revealed Rezko raised more than twice that amount and also sat on his fundraising committee. When asked about his friend, Obama said, “I’ve never done any favors for him.” But evidence proved Obama had written letters to city and state officials praising Rezko’s business practices. Obama helped steer 14 million tax dollars to him:http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/425305,CST-NWS-obama13.article
Tony Rezko helped to buy Obama’s house:http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/757340,CST-NWS-watchdog24.article
His running mate Joe Biden has the third most liberal voting record in the Senate. He dropped out of the race for the Presidency in 1988 after he admitted to plagiarism in law school and in some of his speeches:http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/08/joe_bidens_plagiarism_problem.html
Barack Obama is the cousin and supporter of Raila Odinga, a radical Kenyan socialist:http://jewagainstobama.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/obama-supports-kenyan-islamist-raila-odinga/
Obama has said in speeches “we are our brother’s keeper”. But his brother in Kenya lives in a hut on just $10 a year:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2590614/Barack-Obamas-lost-brother-found-in-Kenya.html
Barack Obama Advocates a Dangerous Foreign Policy
The world is still a dangerous place and Barack Obama has no Foreign Policy no foreign policy experience.
Obama said he would have been against the surge in Iraq anyway, even though he admits it has succeeded beyond our wildest dreams:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hEzGKQLmU4
Obama is constantly changing his position about when troops will be withdrawn from Iraq. Sometimes he favors a precipitous withdrawal. At other times he says conditions on the ground will dictate the time:http://www.ohiogop.org/spread-the-word/articles/2008/03/obamas-iraq-timeline
Obama's inexperience would lead him to grant legitimacy and raise the stature of dictators like Fidel Castro, Kim Jong-il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by granting them a face to face meeting without pre-conditions: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2007-09-24-1364154241_x.htm
Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. Obama has made conflicting statements on Iran which is close to producing atom weaponry. Our allies fear Obama will undercut progress in negotiations due to his offer to engage in face to face talks with Iran’s President:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/21/AR2008062101658.html
Obama would fight terrorism not as a war, but as a criminal problem. This is a pre-9/11 mind set: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTFhZTdmZWZlMGExNDRjOWRlZWUxYzEwNjg0MWEzZDc=
Obama would down-size the American military during a time of war. He has pledged to dismantle our national defense systems, including development of future defense technologies leaving us vulnerable to attack: http://www.rightupfront.org/2008/02/obama-on-military-spending-and-foreign.html
The terrorist group Hamas supports Barack Obama:http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/04/020315.php
Obama is the Chairman of the Senate Europe and NATO subcommittee. He has failed to hold a single hearing:http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/379/
Obama didn’t bother to visit wounded troops on his visit to Germany, instead he went to the gym: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/25/no_troop_visits_for_obama_in_g.html
Barack Obama’s Policies Would Hurt the Economy
Obama’s tax policy that would take the nation back to the effective marginal tax rates of the Carter days. He has called for increases in payroll, capital gains, dividends and death taxes. He claims to only want to raise taxes on the wealthy, but this could have a devastating effect on new investment and small businesses:http://www.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB121391937825890363.html
Obama would increase government spending by possibly one trillion dollars in four years: http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2008/2/14/obamas-trillion-dollar-spending-plan.html
Senator Obama voted against his own economic package. Sen. Wayne Allard (R-CO) Acombed through Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) many campaign promises and compiled a list of 188 new spending proposals that he then packaged together and offered as an amendment to the Fiscal 2009 budget plan. Allard calculated that for the 111 proposals for which cost estimated were possible, Obama’s promises would cost the American taxpayer $300 billion per year and $1.4 trillion over five years. Allard released a floor statement highlighting the size of this spending package, including:
The $300 billion is more than the $294 billion the U.S. spent on imported oil last year.
Obama’s current tax raise proposal would cover only $225 billion over 5 years … far short of the $1.4 trillion in spending.
To finance just the first year of $300 billion in spending, Congress would have to raise taxes on the top 1% of tax payers by 57%.
Obama voted against his own platform and the measure was defeated 97-0.
http://blog.heritage.org/2008/03/14/obama-votes-against-his-own-platform/
Obama proposes nothing new in terms of an economic plan. It’s just the old-fashioned solutions proposed by liberals for years –tax, spend and regulate that lead to economic stagnation.:http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MGYxYWM4NjkxMjUwMzBhZDAwNTg2NjZmYmU5MWU2ZmQ=
http://blog.heritage.org/2008/03/14/obama-votes-against-his-own-platform/
Franklin Raines is one of Senator Obama’s advisors on economic issues. Raines was the head of Fannie Mae which has now collapsed. Under Raines Fannie Mae committed extensive financial fraud. Raines made 25 million dollars. Now taxpayers are stuck with the bill:http://countusout.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/obama-housing-adviser-franklin-raines-perpetrated-an-enron-like-accounting-scandal-as-chief-executive-officer-of-fannie-mae/
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/09/obamas_fannie_mae_connection.html
Jim Johnson, former Fannie Mae CEO was a top advisor, chosen to vet potential vice presidential nominees. In 1998, Fannie Mae’s earnings were manipulated, which resulted in "maximum payouts" to executives including Johnson who earned $1.9 Million when he otherwise would not have earned a bonus. Johnson received special loans from Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo. Property records show Mr. Johnson has received more than $7 Million in loans from Countrywide since 1998, the first coming in the waning days of his Fannie Mae tenure. Johnson also received fees and compensation from Fannie Mae worth $3.3 Million between 2001 and 2006. He resigned, but he's now back on Obama’s campaign :http://www.barackbook.com/Profiles/JimJohnson.htm
In his campaign speeches he has claimed to want to renegotiate NAFTA. At the same time he sent an advisor to Canada to reassure Canadians that this was just politics and wasn’t true:http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0338038720080303
Obama will increase the capital gains tax which will discourage investment:http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/obama-clarifies.html
Obama is opposed to renewing President Bush’s tax cuts which actually succeeded in bring more revenue into the Federal Treasury. Effectively, this will be a tax increase on all American who pay taxes. On June 28, 2007 in a Democratic Primary debate Obama said “There’s no doubt that the tax system has been skewed. And the Bush tax cuts -- people didn’t need them, and they weren’t even asking for them, and that’s why they need to be less…”:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/28/us/politics/29transcript.html?pagewanted=all
Obama proposes a Windfall Profits tax. Jimmy Carter tried it and it failed miserably. It raised the cost of gas and led to drop in domestic oil production:http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/readings.nsf/cf7c9c870b600b9585256df80075b9dd/edf8de04e58e4b14852570ba0048848b?OpenDocument
During his campaign Obama has criticized the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), blaming it for the loss of jobs in the United States. But he sent a senior member of his campaign team to Canada to tell officials there not to take his criticisms seriously:http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080227/dems_nafta_080227/20080227/
Obama lied when he told Social Security recipients that their money would now be in the stock market under McCain's plan:http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/obamas_social_security_whopper.html
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/09/obama_misleads_on_social_secur.html
Barack Obama’s Policies on Energy Would Keep Us Dependent on Foreign Oil
Barack Obama opposes drilling on and offshore to reduce gas and oil prices.
While Barack Obama has opposed off-shore drilling and a gas-tax holiday (as supported by John McCain or Hillary Clinton), his solution to our energy crisis does include additional tax burdens on oil company profits, taxes we can only imagine will be passed on to the consumer, thus causing an even more expensive trip to the gas station.
Ethanol subsidies are a major plank in Barack Obama's view of energy independence and national security. He favors ethanol subsidies, some of which end up in the hands of the same oil companies he says should be subjected to a windfall profits tax:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/us/politics/23ethanol.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&oref=slogin
Obama is opposed to drilling in ANWAR, in a desolate tundra area the size of Minnesota. The oil industry says it would need to use only 2,000 acres-an area no bigger than Dulles Airport, outside D.C.-to get that oil. This footprint would be 50 times smaller than the Montana ranch owned by Ted Turner:http://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/goldberg200503180758.asp
While Obama attacks American automakers for not making enough environmental friendly automobiles, he drives a V-8 hemi-powered Chrysler 300:http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/05/more_obama_hypocrisy.html
Obama claims that the oil savings from inflating our tires properly would equal new production plans:http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=71044
Barack Obama Would Not Support Badly Needed Education Reform
Obama would block true education reform because he too beholden to the teacher’s unions:http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/08/07/clinton_obama_go_easy_on_school_reform_talk/
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=Y2E1MTFkZTVjZTlkOTBiYWFlYWUyM2RjYTRjNjhkMmM=
When speaking before Planned Parenthood Barack Obama defended his proposal of providing sex education to children in kindergarten. Hear him say it in his own words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ6vZRy62KY
Obama sends his children to private schools, but he opposes school choice which would especially help poor parents send their children to better schools: http://www.nysun.com/editorials/obama-and-vouchers/71798/
Barack Obama’s Poilicies on Health Care Would be a Bureaucratic Nightmare
Obama’s health care plan would not lower the premiums of current payers as he claims.
His health care proposal will not create universal health care. It will be bureaucratic debacle and lead to wasteful government spending:http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/obamas_health_care_plan.html
Barack Obama Supports Open Borders. Legal Immigration is a Great Blessing to the United States, Illegal Immigration Poses a Threat.
Obama Voted for continuing federal funds for declared "sanctuary cities". These cities will not enforce federal laws against illegal immigration.http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Immigration.htm
Obama Voted for allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security.http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Immigration.htm
He supports health care for illegal immigrants. This is crushing the health care system in some states:http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Immigration.htm
Obama scores 8% by USBC on immigration issues.
OnTheIssues.org interprets the 2005-2006 USBC scores as follows:
0%-30%: open-border stance (approx. 197 members)
30%-70%: mixed record on open borders (approx. 70 members)
70%-100%: sealed-border stance (approx. 202 members)
http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Immigration.htm
Barack Obama is Weak on the Second Amendment
He is unclear about his support for the Second Amendment to the Constitution. Americans should not relinquish their legitimate right to self-defense: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/06/AR2008040601652.html
At a fundraiser before rich, elite Democrats he mocked people who live in rural areas as bitter people who cling to guns and religion:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTxXUufI3jA
Barack Obama Effectively Supports Same-Sex Marriage
Obama would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) which would force other states to recognize same-sex marriages recognized in other states like Massachusetts. So much for the idea of federalism!http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=4018
Obama supports strong civil unions for homosexuals. In practice, this is not much different than supporting same-sex marriage:http://www.insidesocal.com/outinhollywood/2008/04/barack_obama_on_gay_marriage.html
Obama supports adoption for same-sex couples:http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid58998.asp
Obama voted against a Federal Marriage amendment to define marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman:http://obama.senate.gov/press/060607-obama_statement_26/index.php
Obama is opposed to California’s Marriage amendment to define marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman:http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08073005.html
Barack Obama Would Appoint Activist Judges and Oppose Legal Reform
Obama would appoint activist judges to the Supreme Court and appellate courts who would legislate from the bench:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/05/mccain-criticiz.html
Obama opposes necessary TORT reform legislation:http://www.pointoflaw.com/archives/003354.php
Obama believes in a “living Constitution”. So a judge can change it arbitrarily without having to bother with the amendment process:http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/849oyckg.asp?pg=1
Obama voted against the highly qualified Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23276453/
Barack Obama is an Extremist on Abortion
Barack Obama So Extreme on Abortion He Would Let Babies Die Who Survive Them
Obama voted against requiring medical treatment to be given to babies born alive after surviving a botched abortion. Jill Stanek is a nurse who uncovered the fact that Christ Hospital in Illinois was performing induced labor abortions. Some of these babies are actually born alive. Jill Stanek saw one who was discarded in a utility closet and rocked the baby for about 50 minutes before he died. Barack Obama voted against giving medical treatment to these babies.
http://www.lifenews.com/nat4034.html
http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/obama-links-to/
http://www.bornalivetruth.org/
Obama called Gianna Jessen, an abortion survivor, a despicable liar after being presented with the truth about his failure to protect babies born alive: http://www.lifenews.com/nat4366.html
Obama voted against banning the brutal practice of partial-birth abortion: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080208070510AAmIod2
Michelle Obama defended partial-birth abortions in a 2004 letter:http://www.lifenews.com/nat4034.html
Barack Obama supports the extreme Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). If enacted, FOCA would obliterate hundreds of state laws that protect women, parents, children, and health care workers, while forcing taxpayers to foot the bill for millions of abortions. It would overturn commonsense laws like parental notification, conscience protections, abortion waiting periods, informed consent, and regulations for women's health: http://www.lifenews.com/nat4056.html
Estimates are that if Obama becomes President and signs FOCA it will lead to 125,000 more abortions each year:http://www.lifenews.com/nat4359.html
Obama is the most pro-abortion Presidential candidate ever:http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24354
Obama would recommend abortion for his daughters if they got pregnant because he wouldn’t want them to be punished with a baby:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbZJYWjkAPo
http://www.lifenews.com/nat3827.html
When asked when a baby is entitled to human rights. Obama responded that the question was above his pay grade:http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28151
Obama supports the killing of human embryos to obtain their stem calls, even though, stem cells can be obtained from other sources that don’t involve killing: http://www.lifenews.com/bio2548.html
Obama co-sponsored a bill which purports to ban human cloning, but allows for Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer. The bill allows for human clones created and experimented on, but forbids allowing them to be place in a woman’s womb and be born:http://peasandjustice.blogspot.com/2008/02/sb-1520-2005-and-closed-minds.html
Obama supports federal funding of abortion. He opposes the Hyde Amendment which prevents federal tax dollars from being used to pay for abortion: http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2007/12/21/sen-barack-obamas-reproductive-health-questionnaire
Obama’s only Harvard Law Review article took a pro-abortion stance:http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12705.html
Obama wrongly claimed that abortions "have not gone down" under President Bush. In fact, the abortion rate has gone down 9 percent, and the annual total has declined by more than 100,000:http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/saddleback_bloopers.html
Obama is undecided on whether life begins at conception:http://www.ontheissues.org/2008_Dems_Compassion_Forum.htm
Obama is rated 100% by NARAL on pro-choice votes in 2005, 2006 & 2007:http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/elections/statements/obama.html
Obama voted NO on defining unborn child as eligible for SCHIP. (Mar 2008) http://www.ontheissues.org/Barack_Obama.htm
Obama voted NO on prohibiting minors crossing state lines for abortion. (Mar 2008)http://www.ontheissues.org/Barack_Obama.htm
Obama voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Apr 2007) http://www.ontheissues.org/Barack_Obama.htm
Obama voted NO on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. (Jul 2006)http://www.ontheissues.org/Barack_Obama.htm
Obama is rated 0% by the The National Right to Life Committee (Dec 2006) http://www.ontheissues.org/Barack_Obama.htm
Barack Obama Supports the Death Penalty
Tell all your liberal friends that Barack Obama supports the death penalty:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/06/26/in-support-of-obama-s-death-penatly-stand.aspx
Sus, something to consider: this is the United States, not Cuba.
A wise and frugal government...shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. – Thomas Jefferson
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. – James Madison
Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government. – James Madison
We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. — Congressman Davy Crockett
In short, the U.S. government has no constitutional authority to steal from one person and give the booty to another person.
Obama has not been forthright in telling Americans who he is, who he has been associated with, or what he will do if elected. If the media had done its job in vetting Obama from the beginning ... and if 18 months ago Americans knew what they know today about Obama, he would never have made it this far. I would be willing to bet that there are still volumes that we don't know about Obama, and even more Obama is not telling us about what he would do once elected. We also don't know where much of his 600 million dollars in campaign contributions came from ... possibly foreign nationals. Obama's donations are literally enabling him to buy the Presidency of the United States. And then there's Acorn, and voter fraud, which all seems to be favoring Obama. A socialistic agenda will ruin America ... whose 200+ year capitalistic ideology has made us the country where everyone wants to live ... even at risk of life and limb! It's pretty obvious that McCain loves America, not just in words, but in deeds that cost him dearly. I don't mind some changes, but changing our entire free enterprise system for socialism is NOT change I can believe in. I don't trust Obama. I think he will say or do anything to get elected. These are just some of the reasons I'm voting for McCain/Palin on November 4th.
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