It's Not Good

Here is a letter from a Canadian talking about the healthcare system that our country wants to adopt ( if Obama is elected). I knew all of this before but here is a first hand account. After reading this if you still want this system in the US, I am sure you can move to Canada. I hear it's beautiful and I think there are probably some people up there that would love to switch places with you and move to America to get the medical care they need.

To Whom It May Concern.We have watched with great interest over the past year the on going election process in your beautiful country. We have the social health care system that is being batted around by your Democratic Party and thought you might be interested to hear from someone in British Columbia, Canada ...Our health care system in Canada began under the best of intentions ... "Health Care for All" and we have heard many times that most Americans believe our system is an excellent one. DON'T BELIEVE IT AMERICA!!!! Our health care system is collapsing. We are a country of about 30 million people and have a national debt of 720 billion dollars. The growth of this debt has slowed but only at the expense of our health care system, schools, social programs and our military.In many cases we have to wait up to a year or longer for CAT Scans, up to a year for a specialist appointment and more than a year for surgery. If you are lucky enough to be able to afford it and smart enough to do it you take your problem across the border into the USA and pay for what you need there to ensure you will at least live. Lots of Canadians are doing just that. Our hospitals in British Columbia are dirty, over crowded, understaffed and they can't keep up with the load of patients they have to see. Our Doctors and nurses are worked to the bone and stretched to the limits. You think you are finally going to have that surgery you waited so long for and you get to the hospital only to find out that it was cancelled because the operating rooms could not be staffed. Wards are being closed because of personnel shortages and patients are sleeping in the hallways.We have the finest doctors and nurses in the world but we are losing more and more of them to other countries where they can receive better pay, be appreciated for their work and have a life with their own families. A lot of them are in America. Family doctors are a rarity here in Canada now. Clinics are the only way most of us can get care and we often see a different doctor every time. Choice of doctor? gone ... choice of specialist? .... gone - you take what you get.Our school systems have suffered greatly. If you think you have problems with your public school systems in America just add health care to the list of things that need to be paid for and see what happens. Good programs that we did have are being cut left right and center because of the drain ... our schools are bulging at the seams ... they are overcrowded and under funded ... we simply do not have the money to sustain our social programs. One of our daughters is a special education teachers assistant trained to work in the school systems here. She has four children and is so discouraged by the failing of the system she home schools all of them.When we started hearing about the social health care system that has been suggested to you in America we decided to warn you all about what the cost will be. If you go down the same road we have here in Canada ALL of you will pay and pay dearly no matter what income level you are. Once you are on the road and like us find it is the hugest money pit ever, how do you try and turn around again? Taxes, taxes and more taxes that never work. We are middle class Canadians - your version of "Joe the Plumber" - and because the middle class the the majority population in any country - WE ARE THE ONES WHO PAY THE MOST!No matter who wins your election America, your country has come a long way. It is an exciting time in your history but remember that voting with your heart is going to hit your wallet hard!If you want to go the road of public health care and be one of the highest taxed country in the world we will be more than happy to pass that title on to you but you won't like it. Just a view from a Canadian neighbour!Kindest Regards,Cam and Linda Vallee11372 87A AvenueDelta, British Columbia V4C 3A6

Good One

Some people get it...

http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/081017light.html

The Truth Hurts

I am so sick of people criticizing the McCain campaign for being negative and McCain supporters for being negative. There is a complete double standard going on. You know what. I agree with Sarah Palin, "it is not mean spirited or negative to bring up someone's voting record and associations, the American people deserve to know who they are voting for". I agree, we do. And if you have a lot of negative assocations in your past and you won't tell the truth about them, then it's going to sound negative when someone brings these things up. Does that mean they shouldn't be brought up? Absolutely not! We are electing a President. We are hiring a man to lead this country. We have every right to hear answers to these tough questions. And you know what else, I would bet that if the mainstream media was doing their job at giving us a full, clear and accurate pictures of ALL of the candidates, the McCain campaign would not have to have negative ads. But the reality is, they don't. And it is not "smear tactics" to bring up the truth about one's past. It does bother me that Obama had an ongoing relationship with an unrepentant terrorist ( as well as an anti American pastor for 20 years, a convicted slumlord felon as a friend and real estate "helper", etc.). But I have another point. Some people may say it doesn't matter that Obama had this relationship with Ayers. Well I do. But aside from that sometimes in life our decisions and judgements do have consequences. For example, my husband would not be able to pass the security tests needed to hold the job he holds today if he had a past relationship with William Ayers. It doesn't mean he couldn't get another job but he wouldn't be able to have the job he now holds. Why would the standards be any different for the President of the United States?! It truly baffles me.

But back to the negative press at McCain rallies. The one incidence of "kill him" being yelled out was determined by Secret Service to be unfounded. And I have been to 2 rallies and nothing like that was yelled. They were both very postitive experiences. You will always have some "wackos" that make their way into a crowd that large but it is not a "mob like" atmosphere at these rallies, as some mainstream media would like everyone to believe.

And since the mainstream media won't show you what's going on on the other side, I'll give you a few examples. Maybe these supporters for just listening when Obama said " go out and argue with your neighbors, get in their faces and tell them why they should vote for me".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeVBaM2lQsg

let's look to Obama's official website for some examples of good, clean politics:

http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/obama-supporters-wearing-sarah-palin-is-a-c-tee-shirts/

these shirts also showed up at an Obama rally. I didn't hear anything coming from Obama's mouth condeming these types of things.

But I did see John McCain setting some supporters straight...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c-Ijky95dc

I Couldn't Have Said It Better

I found a letter from Laura Ingraham regarding the media's treatment of Joe the Plumber. I couldn't have said it better myself. But I might add that what inferiorates me more than the media's treatment of Joe is Senator Obama and Senator Biden's treatment of Joe. It was extrememly disturbing to see them mocking Joe. You don't mock American citizens! They kept saying " I don't know any plumbers that make a quarter grand". Well Senator Obama, if you had listened to Joe you would have heard that he never claimed he did. He asked you a question. You answered it. You shot yourself in the foot. And all you know how to do is ridicule the American citizen that you were talking to. Yeah Mr. Obama, the same guy you claimed you were "fighting for". But he saw through your rhetoric and asked a tough question. It's not his fault that you messed up. Well actaully you didn't mess up, you just finally told the truth. All I can say is I am glad that their true colors are coming through. Wake up America! These guys are not going to work for you, they are going to work for them! And if you don't agree with them, you are going down too! Just ask Joe.

Wise words from Laura:

October 20, 2008Congratulations, Team Obama, we've still got two-plus weeks until Election Day and you're already destroying jobs. After last week's now-notorious encounter with Joe the Plumber, Obama's media foot soldiers were dispatched with a simple mission: destroy Joe. On Sunday's Fox and Friends, Joe announced their success; his business has been shut down.Thanks to the intrepid reporting of journalists who've obviously lost all sense of perspective, it turns out Joe has been fixing Ohioans' plumbing without a government-issued license. Talk about irony. Joe came under fire for humiliating Obama by noting his tax plans interfere with Joe's American Dream. He wanted to buy his plumbing company and expand it, but higher taxes on small businesses threaten to turn that dream into a nightmare. The left, in other words, used Big Government to silence Joe Citizen for speaking ill of Big Government.In turn, Americans have offered financial support to Joe - offers he's politely declined.Americans have taken to Joe for his willingness to go where the media refuses - that is, for actually speaking truth to power. Nothing's more infuriating than reporters allowing themselves to be used by politicians, yet that's exactly what's being done on a daily basis at CBS, NBC, CNN, etc. Joe got the opportunity to tell Obama directly that his tax plans - which penalize hard work while claiming to further America's best interests - were an insult to his intelligence.Meanwhile, conservative websites are left to do the real reporting on Obama. NewsMax's Ken Timmerman reports that as much as $63 million of Obama's $150 million September haul may originate from illegal foreign donations. (Conveniently, the campaign refuses to release the names of more than 80% of its 2.5 million contributors. ) Obama's tax returns also indicate that in 2000 and 2002, he violated Illinois state law by accepting speaking fees while serving as a state senator.The press is supposed to hold politicians accountable on behalf of the people. Yet while Obama collects millions in dubious donations and ACORN registers phantom voters in battleground states by the thousands, today's media is doing the Democrats' heavy lifting with its slash-and-smear campaign against people like Joe.Never before in our history has the media establishment been so derelict in its responsibilities, so one-sided in its coverage, that today it is nothing more than a cheerleader for the Obama campaign. Never with so much at stake for America's security and our way of life, has the media worked with such single-minded? zealousness? to elect a dilettante with so little experience and such faulty judgment.Is the type of bullying and intimidation that Joe's endured what Americans can expect from an Obama administration in response to serious criticism?? Will the media closest to the people - talk radio and the blogosphere - be the next targets?May God help us

Wrong About Columbia

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122445952046648609.html?mod=todays_us_opinion

Interesting

Some interesting words from Michelle Obama. Appently she decided to take things into her own hands. She was caught making some pretty bad comments and then bribing the African Press International if they would stop saying things that might make her husband look bad. Of course the Obama campaign denied this call ever happened. But then the API informed them they had actaully recorded the call. ooops. the recordings are going to be released soon. I think her words are very telling.

http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/shocking-development-mrs-obama-decides-enough-is-enough-my-husband-was-born-in-hawaii-and-adopted-by-his-step-father-does-that-make-him-unpatriotic-she-asks-on-a-direct-telephone-to-api/

Really?

I thought Senator Obama just said the other night that ACORN has not and would not advise him or influence his policy decisions. Well, this video doesn't sound that way. Oh, right. The ACORN that is tampering with our democracy, being investigated and has been convicted on accounts of voter fraud over the last several years is not the ACORN that Obama once knew. I guess they got thrown under the bus too. Interesting.

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

Don't Judge too Quickly

Ok so I am still trying to figure this whole "let''s hate Sarah Palin" phenomenon. The previous article i posted I think did a good job of explaining at least one theory. But I am still truly baffled. What I have come to realize is that she is a threat to Obama supporters ( which includes all mainstream media) and they have to do whatever they can to tear her down, to make her look stupid, to convince people that she is not prepared. They put her under a microscope to try to find any and all imperfections and even to make some things that aren't' even there. That's fine I guess but if you are going to do that to one candidate then you need to do it to all of them including Obama and Biden. I am amazed by the true findings about Obama that bounce off the mainstream media to cover up things about Obama. They have actually told lies to cover up for Obama. They don't question Obama on anything. " oh Bill Ayers, he was just a guy in my neighborhood". They say "ok Obama". " oh Rev Wright who I listened to for 20 years, considered my spiritual advisor, had baptize my children, and marry my wife and I, Umm yeah i don't really like him anymore and I never heard any of those offensive comments during the 20 years I knew him, I missed those sundays". They say " Oh ok Obama". The list goes on and on, Rezco, ACORN, Saul Alinsky, Raila Odinga. I am surprised the media isn't saying " poor Obama, he used to have a lot of friends, now he doesn't, what a strong man he is". Oh and don't even get me started on gaffe a day Joe. " Oh that Joe, he makes stupid comments all of the time, that silly Joe". I'm sorry if Sarah Palin couldn't count to 4, she would be done. And you would think that she really couldn't count to 4 by the way she is characterized.

The thing that bothers me is that people never gave her a chance. As soon as she was chosen, the left had already decided McCain picked her because she was a woman. Then they decided that her only qualification was that "she hadn't had an abortion". There were facebook groups such as " Intelligent Women Against Sarah Palin" up and running within minutes. I kind of wanted to know what this group meant. Are you intelligent if you are against Sarah Palin? Are you unintelligent if you aren't against Sarah Palin? Or it is just that you know Sarah Palin isn't intelligent, even though you don't even have any proof of that. It couldn't be that that a lot of Americans are elitist snobs, or could it. Unfortunately that is the conclusion I have come to. I had always thought that in America, anyone could do anything they wanted if they worked hard enough. Yes women can become the President! Well apparently I didn't get the memo that women can do anything like become President as long as they have an Ivy League education or at the very least a law degree. Oh ok. I gotcha! Apparently I am one of those "unintelligent" people. Maybe that was on the same memo that all of those "code words" were on.

Well I did know about Sarah Palin before she came onto the national scene. Conservatives have been scouting her out for some time, even devoting blogs to making the case for her to be the VP pick. I liked what I saw. But I have to admit I was still shocked yet thrilled when McCain chose her. Not becuase I thought she wouldn't be great, but because I thought he would end up giving into the pressure of choosing a Washington insider.

I have had many people give me their theories on why McCain picked her. I have been told, he picked her because she is a woman, that he picked her because she is an "Evangelical" Christian, oh yeah that he picked her because "she is hot". Well I am not saying that these things didn't help but he really did pick her because of her history as a reformer, her perspective as an "everyday American", and her status as a Washington outsider. And I might add that she has tremendous political instincts and talent. I just finished reading a book that was written about her (written and published BEFORE she become the VP pick) and her story truly is remarkable. She got into politics because she wanted to fight corruption. She became mayor at age 32 through grassroots efforts. She had no money like the other candidates did and she still won. She was given a position on the energy board and while she was there she witnessed a lot of corruption and saw that the people of Wasilla were mad. She gave her bosses a choice, either you correct this corruption or I am resigning. She resigned. People were disappointed because they saw her as such a talented politician and said she had thrown her career away.She said she didn't care, she wasn't going to stand for corruption. So she went back to being a hockey mom. She was asked to run for a senate position but declined after her son at that time told her he didn't want her to. People criticized her again and she said " my family comes first and this is a family decision". Shortly afterwards a democrat in Alaska approached her and asked her if she would run for Governor. He was a democrat but he believed in her and in her style of politics. He knew she was the type of leader they needed in Alaska to take the corruption head on and get rid of it. This time her family all agreed she should run and with the help of that democrat ( who switched parties in order to back her) she became the first female governor of Alaska. And has maintained an 80-90% approval rating- the highest in the country.

I guess my point of all of this is to encourage those of you who have bought into the idea that she is "unintelligent", "unprepared", "unqualified". I challenge you to think about why you really feel that way. You can disagree with her policies, her beliefs, her past times, or even the way she talks. But don't underestimate her. Don't be an elitist. This is America.

I believe Sarah Palin is exactly what we need in Washington. I like it that she shares my values. But I like it even more that if she gets in, she will work for me. Our current elected officials don't have a very good track record of that. I think we have all seen that in the past couple of months.

I had a similar experience to Sarah Palin. It was on a much smaller scale but very much related. My first job after becoming a dietitian, I was hired as a food service manager for a nursing home. I had never managed anything before but they decided to give me a shot. They told me I would have plenty of training. Well I got into that facility and realized that politics takes place even in places like nursing homes. The facility didn't like the person who was training me so they told her to leave. So i was on my own. Things were a mess. They were constantly in trouble with the health department because things weren't getting done mostly due to the political games going on ( that doesn't sound at all like DC now, does it?). Well I just started working. I started organizing, hiring, firing, cleaning things up and doing things the right way. Amazingly in a months time, we had another health department survey and this time we got 100%. People were amazed at what I had done. I had VP's from my company flying in to see what I had done. They asked me how I did it and I just reponded, I just took care of what needed to be taken care of. Now I don't say this to toot my own horn. I really don't think I did anything special, I just didn't let polticis get in the way of me doing my job. But I say it to show that even someone with little or no experience can use common sense and a fight against corruption to get major things accomplished and accomplished fast. I would like to contend that just like blood is thicker than water, that common sense is thicker than an Ivy League college diploma. Much thicker.

After finishing the book I turned it over to the back cover and happened to notice a comment/review by the Huffington Post ( which tends to be pretty liberal). They said about Sarah Palin " Govenor Palin is a tough executive who has demonstrated during her time in office that she is ready to be President". hmmm, I wonder why they are not saying that now? Well of course, it's not politically expedient to tell the truth about her now.

Why Palin Drives Dems Crazy

here is another good op eds about Sarah Palin:

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/16/opposing-views-palins-authenticity-drives-democrats-distraction/

The Playbook

If any of you reading this blog do not know who Saul Alinksy is, I beg you to please find out before you cast your vote on Nov. 4th. Why? you may ask. Because I believe it may change your mind. If you don't know Saul Alinksy than you don't know Barack Obama. Saul Alinksy was a radical person who wrote a book entitled "Rules for Radicals" which by the way was dedicated to Lucifer. "Rules for Radicals" has been Obama's playbook throughout his political career and especially during this election. I came across his teachings when I started looking up what a community organizer is and what I found was shocking, disturbing and enlightening. I have know about Saul Alinksy for a while now and it has become so clear that Obama is clearly a follower of his. I found an article http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=303605575673142 that does a good job at summarizing what I am describing.

If you don't believe me when I say that Obama is following Alinksy's playbook than you might like to read about Michelle Obama quoting Saul Alinksy in her speech at the convention.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=73533

Or you may like to read a letter from Saul Alinsky's son praising Obama for carrying on his fathers mission.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2008/08/31/son_sees_fathers_handiwork_in_convention/

Here is a link to a pod cast to Mark Levin talking about Rules for Radicals ( he tends to be a little harsh and outspoken at times but he gives very clear insight into the comparision of Obama and Saul Alinksy, so please consider listening for this reason).
http://marklevinshow.com/wp-content/themes/levin/player/?url=http://podloc.andomedia.com/dloadTrack.mp3?prm=2824xhttp://abcrad.vo.llnwd.net/o1/levin/rss/levin10142008.mp3

Here are a couple other articles talking about the same topic:
http://www.goldtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34253
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2008/09/obama_his_mento.php

I urge you to not stop here. Look it up for yourself. Look up with Saul Alinsky stood for and then try to look at Obama's campaign with an open mind. I think you will see the puzzle coming together. Obama's past assocations with Ayers, Rev Wright, Father Fleger, Tony Rezco, ACORN, Raila Odinga, et al. do indeed matter and when you put all of the pieces together it paints a pretty clear picture of the kind of change Obama is truly talking about. I know that it's not the kind of change that I can ever believe in and hope that I never have to see. I believe there is still a need for morals. I don't believe that the "means" to an "end " don't matter if they violate morality. If we don't work on readusting the moral compass of this country than I don't care how much money people have, it is only going to get much, much worse.

Sarah Live

Yesterday our little family had the opportunity to go see Sarah Palin at rally in Richmond. It was a long day of waiting in line and then waiting for the rally to start. But we had fun talking with people around us and meeting other McCain/Palin supporters. What really stood out to me was that everyone there just really seemed to have a love for this country and a desire to keep God in this country. I am not the only one that sees this election as being a threat to our rights, freedoms and country as it was founded.

But anyway. The rally was really cool. We got a place right near the stage and there were people extending out of the stadium as far as the eye could see. After the rally Sarah Palin came around the ropeline signing autographs. I was right near the fence and I got a chance to talk to her for a few minutes. I gave her a teddy bear that I wanted her to give to her son Trig and I told her that I was praying for her. She looked at me and took my hand and thanked me. Then Josh handed Raegan over to me and soon as Sarah saw her she said "how cute!" and took her from me for a minute. She asked how old she was and she said "Todd, look how cute she is!". We got a couple of really great pictures of Raegan holding her. And then she clasped my hand and said "thanks again". She took at least 2 or 3 minutes to spend talking to me, which is a very long time in that sort of arena. I know I have heard people who have met her talk about how nice and sincere she is but now after meeting her I can defintely say the same. She is one of us. She is not an ivy league graduate. She didn't always aspire to be a poltiitan. She just likes to fight for what she believes is right. And when I met her I could tell that she is just one of us. She is very sincere, friendly and grateful. It was very nice meeting her. Here are some pictures from the rally.

Do I need to say it anymore?

I think this article speaks for itself

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77946

you have to watch this!

here is a great video to watch. it has a couple of crude comments but overall it's clean and it's a great dipiction of what i see that's happening in politics today with regard to our political parties. it's hard to argue his points! good job machosauceproductions!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imQSuJVFUSU&feature=related

Why It is Important

another great article:

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Y2JlODdmNmFiMDE3MDdlZjVkZWJiN2M0NDg1ZTMwZmE=

I ask again

I ask again. Why is this ok? Someone please tell me why!

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?secid=1501&status=article&id=308358130652174&secure=1&show=1&rss=1

Great Article

A great article about our "rights".

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OTg0M2RjYjRlMGU0MTRjNWUxZTkwODQ1NWE3OTc2Yjg=

Why?

Please tell me why, Obama's radical connections to Ayers, et al. are ok? Why is it ok to be friends with a terrorist and involved in a tangled web of radical, Anti American schemes? Why would this man who wants to be President not even be allowed to obtain a clearance to work on some defense jobs in the US and yet he could very likely become the Commander in Chief. Please tell me why this is ok? I just don't get it. I'm sorry. I am being honest here. America is not a perfect place and it never will be. But America is by far greater than any other country. Our country has deteriorated not becuase we are a bad country but because we have continued down a slope of removing God from the equation. Why do we think that removing God completely is going to make things better? It's not. Obama's tangled web of radical associations all have one thing in common, they want God out of the picture. Why do we think that it's ok to elect this guy. He claims he is not one of these people with these views. He claims he never agreed with what they did. But this time is his life is not revealed. If he didn't agree with them, if he didn't run in the same circles and participate in the same radical agendas, then I would like to know what he did do. Why is Obama trying to cover up his past so much? Why does he not talk about his executive experience while serving on a board? Why don't we know who his friends were, if he claims none of these people were truly his friends? I don't agree with Obama's current views and policies so I wouldn't vote for him anyway but why is it ok for him to leave these questions unanswered? Don't we all deserve to know who this man really is? We all make mistakes and misjudgements. If indeed Obama has made mistakes and misjudgements, I would feel a whole lot better if he would just come out and be honest. How can we learn from mistakes if we don't acknowledge them? We can't. So right now my judgement is that Obama doesn't see that he has made mistakes. Honestly I am scared to think about what the future looks like.


http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjY4YzdhMDBkZGQ3ZmU2MTUzYjdkMzc5ZjUzYmViZWM=

The Palin Effect

Here is a great response by Camille Paglia to a letter written about the "Palin Effect". She is an Obama supporter but refuses to underestimate Palin like most liberals and mainstream media have. It was a good read. ..

Question:
As I see it, the Palin Effect is a double-headed hydra. On one side you have Todd Palin, who is clearly a vibrant, macho force in his family’s life. Just as clearly, he has effectively embraced the role as a primary caregiver. What does it say that he and Sarah have a mutually aggrandizing partnership/marriage? A successful professional woman who embraces a masculine male rather than castrate him? Heaven forfend! Personally I see it as the benign (and noble) conclusion of the feminist movement. I guess fish don’t need bicycles, but some of them want one. And they’d rather it come with some cojones.
Discussing the Sarah Palin effect is quickly becoming a national psychosis, to which I doubt I could add much. The only thing I haven’t seen discussed is a comparison between her popularity and what Rush Limbaugh hilariously and intuitively called Bill Clinton’s “Arousal Gap." I think we’re seeing that Todd Palin isn’t the only man’s man out there who has a healthy appreciation for a strong member of the opposite sex. Here is another benign and admirable consequence of the feminist movement.
Steve GurneyNiceville, Florida


Answer from Camille Paglia (salon.com):

Yes, both Todd and Sarah Palin, whom most people in the U.S. and abroad had never even heard of until six weeks ago, have emerged as powerful new symbols of a revived contemporary feminism. That the macho Todd, with his champion athleticism and working-class cred, can so amiably cradle babies and care for children is a huge step forward in American sexual symbolism.
Although nothing will sway my vote for Obama, I continue to enjoy Sarah Palin's performance on the national stage. During her vice-presidential debate last week with Joe Biden (whose conspiratorial smiles with moderator Gwen Ifill were outrageous and condescending toward his opponent), I laughed heartily at Palin's digs and slams and marveled at the way she slowly took over the entire event. I was sorry when it ended! But Biden wasn't -- judging by his Gore-like sighs and his slow sinking like a punctured blimp. Of course Biden won on points, but TV (a visual medium) never cares about that.
The mountain of rubbish poured out about Palin over the past month would rival Everest. What a disgrace for our jabbering army of liberal journalists and commentators, too many of whom behaved like snippy jackasses. The bourgeois conventionalism and rank snobbery of these alleged humanitarians stank up the place. As for Palin's brutally edited interviews with Charlie Gibson and that viper, Katie Couric, don't we all know that the best bits ended up on the cutting-room floor? Something has gone seriously wrong with Democratic ideology, which seems to have become a candied set of holier-than-thou bromides attached like tutti-frutti to a quivering green Jell-O mold of adolescent sentimentality.
And where is all that lurid sexual fantasy coming from? When I watch Sarah Palin, I don't think sex -- I think Amazon warrior! I admire her competitive spirit and her exuberant vitality, which borders on the supernormal. The question that keeps popping up for me is whether Palin, who was born in Idaho, could possibly be part Native American (as we know her husband is), which sometimes seems suggested by her strong facial contours. I have felt that same extraordinary energy and hyper-alertness billowing out from other women with Native American ancestry -- including two overpowering celebrity icons with whom I have worked.
One of the most idiotic allegations batting around out there among urban media insiders is that Palin is "dumb." Are they kidding? What level of stupidity is now par for the course in those musty circles? (The value of Ivy League degrees, like sub-prime mortgages, has certainly been plummeting. As a Yale Ph.D., I have a perfect right to my scorn.) People who can't see how smart Palin is are trapped in their own narrow parochialism -- the tedious, hackneyed forms of their upper-middle-class syntax and vocabulary.
As someone whose first seven years were spent among Italian-American immigrants (I never met an elderly person who spoke English until we moved from Endicott to rural Oxford, New York, when I was in first grade), I am very used to understanding meaning through what might seem to others to be outlandish or fractured variations on standard English. Furthermore, I have spent virtually my entire teaching career (nearly four decades) in arts colleges, where the expressiveness of highly talented students in dance, music and the visual arts takes a hundred different forms. Finally, as a lover of poetry (my last book was about that), I savor every kind of experimentation with standard English -- beginning with Shakespeare, who was the greatest improviser of them all at a time when there were no grammar rules.


Many others listening to Sarah Palin at her debate went into conniptions about what they assailed as her incoherence or incompetence. But I was never in doubt about what she intended at any given moment. On the contrary, I was admiring not only her always shapely and syncopated syllables but the innate structures of her discourse -- which did seem to fly by in fragments at times but are plainly ready to be filled with deeper policy knowledge, as she gains it (hopefully over the next eight years of the Obama presidencies). This is a tremendously talented politician whose moment has not yet come. That she holds views completely opposed to mine is irrelevant.
Even if she disappears from the scene forever after a McCain defeat, Palin will still have made an enormous and lasting contribution to feminism. As I said in my last column, Palin has made the biggest step forward in reshaping the persona of female authority since Madonna danced her dominatrix way through the shattered puritan barricades of the feminist establishment. In 1990, in a highly controversial New York Times op-ed that attacked old-guard feminist ideology, I declared that "Madonna is the future of feminism" -- a prophecy that was ridiculed at the time but that turned out to be quite true. Madonna put pro-sex feminism on the international map.
But it is now 18 years later -- the span of an entire generation. The instabilities and diminishments for young women raised in an increasingly shallow media environment have become all too obvious. I had grown up in a vibrant pop culture with glorious women stars of voluptuous sensuality -- above all Elizabeth Taylor, sewn into that silky white slip as the vixen Manhattan call girl of "Butterfield 8." In college, I feasted on foreign films starring sexual sophisticates like Jeanne Moreau, Anouk Aimée and Catherine Deneuve. Sex today, however, has become brittle and superficial. Except for the occasional diverting flash of Lindsay Lohan's borrowed bosom, I see nothing whatever that is worth a second glance. Pro-sex feminism has worked itself out and, like all movements, has degenerated into clichés. And even Madonna, with her skeletal megalomania, looks like a refugee from a horror movie.
The next phase of feminism must circle back and reappropriate the ancient persona of the mother -- without losing career ambition or power of assertion. Betty Friedan, who had first attacked the cult of postwar domesticity, had long warned second-wave feminists such as Gloria Steinem about the damaging exclusion of homemakers from their value system. The animus of liberal feminists toward religion must also end (I am speaking as an atheist). Feminism must reexamine all of its assumptions, including its death grip on abortion, if it wishes to survive.
The hysterical emotionalism and eruptions of amoral malice at the arrival of Sarah Palin exposed the weaknesses and limitations of current feminism. But I am convinced that Palin's bracing mix of male and female voices, as well as her grounding in frontier grit and audacity, will prove to be a galvanizing influence on aspiring Democratic women politicians too, from the municipal level on up. Palin has shown a brand-new way of defining female ambition -- without losing femininity, spontaneity or humor. She's no pre-programmed wonk of the backstage Hillary Clinton school; she's pugnacious and self-created, the product of no educational or political elite -- which is why her outsider style has been so hard for media lemmings to comprehend. And by the way, I think Tina Fey's witty impersonations of Palin have been fabulous. But while Fey has nailed Palin's cadences and charm, she can't capture the energy, which is a force of nature

Another One

Here is another article about Obama's abortion stance written by a lawyer.

http://dontdrinkthekingswine.com/2008/10/07/know-obama-a-pro-life-lawyers-perspective-part-1-voting-records/

Not Buying It

I am not ( and have never really) buying the idea that Obama although is pro-choice is actually "pro life" because he will work to reduce abortions. Here is an article that points out where he really stands and what he has really voted for. I'm sorry I don't care what anyone says the Freedom of Choice Act is not going to be enacted to lower abortions. That just doesn't make sense. I wish Obama would just be honest about where he really stands on this issue.

http://nrlcomm.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/release100708/

Imagine Hope? Nope, I already have it.

I have some new thoughts today. This morning in church I believe God revealed a lot to me. I have been struggling a lot this election. Struggling to see why so many people are following Obama in flocks of people. Saying that they believe he will change the world. Obama himself stating that he believes he can "remake the world" as it should be. Telling people to Imagine Hope. And all the while claiming he is a Christian. I don't understand. I am a Christian and and I already have hope. As a Christian shouldn't Obama be telling people the same thing? I would hope so. But he is not he is telling people that he is their hope. He is telling people that America has failed them and that he is going to change that if they give him their vote. The sad thing, people are believing it. The God that I serve teaches me to put my hope in Him. He is the only one I need and He is the only one I will worship. I think I have realized why this populist, hope, change, imagine message works. It does wonders to win you votes. It does nothing to win souls. Our society has become so entangled with material possessions that we are seeing God disappear out of the picture. People believe their life will be better if they have a house, if they have health insurance, if they have enough money to be able to do this or do that. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying there are not people in need in the U.S. I know there are. And as a Christian I know it I am called to serve and minister to those people. God tells us in the Bible " there will always be the poor amoung you". And I believe he has a purpose for this. But I also believe that when God talks about the poor in the Bible and commands us ( not the government) to care for them, He is referring more to their spiritual poorness than physical poorness. God made it clear that He wants us all to be poor in possessions because possessions distract us. He wants us to be free and He knows that earthly things do not free us but take us captive. But I see our society becoming slaves again. We are becoming slaves to possessions, to earthly securities, to insurance policies. We are being told we do not have enough. I fall into this trap as well. I think it's hard not to. But I strive every day to know and believe with my whole heart that God is all I ever need. I have never been physically poor. I had a good upbringing God has blessed me with generous parents who have always worked hard to make sure I was taken care of. But even though I have never been physically poor, my life has not always been easy. In fact I have had times in my life where I have wanted to give up and there was not one thing on earth that could have changed my situations. We all have earthly burdens to bear. And thank God we do because without them I never would have come to know the One who bears my burdens for me. I would contend that stirring up discontentment does a lot of win you votes but it does nothing to win souls and that is what as a Christian I know really matters.

got sarah?

I know I am biased but I have to say that this country and this world even could use a lot more sarahs. Many people never even gave her a chance, most of them being liberals. For a group of people who claim to be for equality, fairness and woman's rights, I think the treatment of her has been proof that they don't really believe what they claim to believe. Again actions speak louder than words. I don't care if you are voting for McCain/Palin or Obama/Biden but you have to admit that she is a strong, intelligent, capable and yes very inspiring woman. If you don't I believe that you are doing yourself a great disservice. And for those of you who call me your friend you are also insulting me. Why? Because despite what liberals/democrats/Obama supporters may try to convince Americans and especially women, she represents me. She represents my views. And she gives me hope that this country can tap back into our foundations and fundamentals. I heard a commentator say the other night that Sarah Palin is like a dog whistle to liberals. I think they are right. And I think a dog whistle went off last night. I am just glad that finally there is someone out there who does really get it. The day after the convention speech my mom called me and told me that she felt like she was watching me when she was watching Sarah Palin. I consider that a great compliment. Thanks mom. I know what it is like to live your values, to have conviction and to stand on that conviction. I know what it is like to be attacked my mainstream media on your views and I know what it is like to be attacked by friends on your views too. I will never waiver in my convictions. I will take all of the attacks of the world before I give up my convictions. I hope that McCain/Palin pull this election off but if they don't I still believe Sarah was raised up as a leader for a reason. Her life in my opinion speaks much louder by her actions than any words ever could. But her words last night did a pretty "doggone" good job, if you ask me.

More Proof

Obama claims he will work hard at reducing abortions and he claims that programs he will put into place will do that but he also advocates the Freedom of Choice Act which essentially would remove all bans on abortion at the federal and state level. I don't know how anybody can tell me that by making abortion easier it will make the numbers go down. I don't care what other programs you have out there. Here are 2 articles I came across that are written about it. The second article actually has statistics of where abortion numbers declined. It just so happens in states with stricter abortion laws have lower numbers of abortions.

http://www.lifenews.com/nat4393.html

http://www.lifenews.com/state3492.html

False Compassion

I just discovered a book out there entitled, "Obama, Why Black Americans Should Have Doubts". It is by Williams Owens, Jr. It sounds like a really good book and I also came across the following article : http://www.congoo.com/news/2008August11/Barack-Obama-Plays-False-Compassion that really puts into words what I have been thinking and feeling. His speeches may sound great and inspiring but in looking into what he actually does is a completely different story. There are many problems with America today. But despite what many say and believe, I firmly do not believe that Obama's supposed policies are what America needs. America needs to once again embrace family values. I see Obama's policies as being those that undermine the family and I believe that is asking for more disaster than we already see in our broken society. William Owens touches on this in the following excerpt from his book and goes into at length in his book. I believe these are the ideals we need to be tapping into.

Here is an excerpt of this book by William Owens, Jr if you are interested:

Introduction: I say it unabashedly. I love my country. And I have taught my children to love it as well. As an informed citizen, I can discuss with you our imperfections as a nation. We have our warts and our weaknesses. But the fact remains, America is unique and I believe we are exceptional. We are a powerful yet compassionate country that has been the great stabilizer in the world. Indeed, America is a coveted land made up of resilient people from every tongue, tone, and temperament. It makes us who we are and despite our faults, – and we surely have them – we remain a country that I believe God has blessed and set forth as a beacon of hope and freedom for the entire world. It is not my intent here to attack Barack Obama personally. Let that be emphatically understood. However, any discussion, in order to be meaningful, must draw attention to Barack Obama’s character as well as his agenda and how both will impact the lives of Black Americans and our country as a whole. My purpose is to challenge you to look deeper at Barack Obama. If you are honest, I think you will conclude – as have I and so many others – that Obama’s agenda is both wicked from a Christian perspective and highly manipulative when it comes to Black Americans. Perhaps Obama knows this. Then again, perhaps he does not realize what he is doing. I say this because powerful and influential advisers can easily manipulate inexperienced politicians. Newcomers to the national political arena like freshly-minted Senator Barack Obama can become deluded into thinking they are doing right when they are really doing wrong. Throughout our nation’s history there have been those with an evil agenda who have sought to weaken and ultimately destroy the United States. Terrorism is but the latest manifestation of this. The difference this time is that weapons of mass destruction are in play. A dirty bomb or biological attack would be calamitous. Moreover, all wars have a psychological component whereby the enemy and its surrogates seek to divide and conquer by playing on the prejudices and fears of the citizenry. I confess that at times I wonder if there are organized efforts underway to destabilize our nation from within. Our common defense rests, in my view, on our ability to create and maintain strong families.Ultimately, it is we, the people, who must preserve our homes, our way of life, and our country. Strong families translate into a strong nation of free people. In a sense, today our backs are to the wall. Where else can we go? Is there another country on earth that offers its people greater freedom and more opportunity to be and do better? We must as Black Americans work hard and work smart to preserve what we have gained. And this leads me to the current Presidential election and the reason for this book. As a Black American, I have developed serious doubts about Senator Barack Obama. Based on what I have seen, read and heard, I have come to view him as potentially dangerous – for our country and in particular for us as Black Americans. Obama’s handsome features, physical stature, and eloquence combine to make him a charismatic politician. You must admit this can be a deadly combination for us as Black Americans. In my view, we tend to have an addiction to “feeling good” and are easily satisfied with goose bumps that go no deeper than our first layer of skin. Moreover, we are often afraid to look deeper — beyond the obvious — because then we would have to be responsible for our choices and refute the belief that a person who looks like us will automatically “take care of us.” It is the Black mindset that presses upon us to say, “Give the brother a chance.” On one level I confess I understand this tendency. And yet I submit that we as Black Americans must move beyond this. Would you let someone you did not know enter your family circle to date your daughter in order to “give him a chance?” I doubt you would. Therefore, does it make sense to vote for Barack Obama for the same reason? Do you really want to vote someone into the highest office in the land just to “give the brother a chance?” The purpose of this book is to challenge you as a Black American to look deeper at Barack Obama the man, his voting record, and his position on the important issues facing our country, which unfortunately seem to change with the next newscast.I believe when you take time to look closely and dispassionately – and if you are truly honest with yourself – you will see a politician who is charismatic but seriously devoid of the kind of experience that qualifies him to be President of the United States. I think you will see a young man who is anything but candid about who he is, what he really believes, and who his associates are. Under real scrutiny Barack Obama emerges as a continuously morphing, media-made cyborg candidate. One is left asking “Who or what is behind the Barack Obama phenomenon?” I’m not alone in this assessment. I cannot tell you how many discussions I have had with both prominent and ordinary Black Americans who have expressed serious doubts about Barack Obama and where he will take us as a society and as a nation.I urge you: don’t put your race before your principles, before the truth, before your family, and before your own country.As human beings our principles are but the sum total of what we are when no one is watching and what we really believe when we have our eyes closed and are listening to that still small voice within. I choose to believe this is God’s presence in our lives helping us to seek and ultimately find wisdom. Think hard and look within as you take the measure of Barack Obama. When a candidate for the presidency of the United States wants to seriously weaken his country in a time of war with fanatical enemies intent on acquiring weapons of mass destruction; when a candidate wants to legalize homosexual marriage and thereby damage our vital family structure; when this candidate seeks to implement drastic socialistic economic policies that will undercut our free-market economy, I say we as a nation of FREE families need to carefully consider just who this person is – Black or not! Through the writing of this book my family and I are attempting to speak directly to Black American families. However, let it also be a clarion call to all Americans. I ask that you carefully and prayerfully weigh my perceptions as well as the facts as they are laid before you in this book. When you do – and you look deep into your heart — I believe you will agree with me that we must defeat Senator Barack Obama in his quest to become President of this powerful country and its special people.