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2.27.08 @ 12:01AM

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No case involved, that's what he said he would do and he took the money.
-- Joe Mahoney

What comes around goes around, Johnny Mac!

-- Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas

OBAMANATION
Re: Jeffrey Lord's Obama's Society of Beggars:

Mr. Lord's article is a very good one, but it only confirms what anyone familiar with doctrinaire socialism already knows. That Mr. Obama would make us a society of government largesse recipients goes without saying, or, should I say goes without caring for many of our friends on the left. I believe that, given time, time that we may or may not have, the nation may be able to repair itself after the passionate affair with socialism into which Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton are tempting us. How easy it is to salve one's conscience and smooth over the rough thoughts of poverty, inequality, and discrimination. We pay taxes and those taxes relieve us of the obligation to help the less fortunate. After all, it is the job of government to see to it that no one goes hungry, homeless, or abortion-less. As disturbing as these people's hunger for government to be the solution to all of the age old problems of mankind is, there is a danger out there that they ignore.

As I pointed out, we may be able, as a nation, to recover from Socialism/Communism as did East Germany, the Czech Republic, and several other eastern European countries. What we will not be able to recover from is our surrender in Iraq and in the War on Terror. East Germany and the others did not have a scimitar at their throats as they climbed back aboard the Capitalist Express. We will have. When the U.S. surrendered to the North Vietnamese, there was no threat that the ARVN would strike us in our homeland. They had gotten what they wanted from us -- victory. They were uninterested in attacking us here and converting us to Buddhism thus changing our very way of life. Such is not the case today. The left's pollyanna-ish belief that if we leave Iraq, the Islamists will leave us alone is not just foolish and stupid, it is rashly dangerous.

Mr. Obama has shown us that he knows how to "work the system" for all it is worth. Mrs. Clinton has shown us that she knows how to make one hundred thousand dollars out of one thousand dollars in a very short period of time. Neither has shown us that they understand, care about, or are competent to deal with the threat of jihad. This, above all, makes them too dangerous to hold any kind of office, even the ones that they now occupy.
-- Joseph Baum
Garrettsville, Ohio

Mr. Lord suggests the driving force behind Mr. Obama's vision is captured by Oliver Twist's famous words, "Please, sir, I want more." Seeing a communist under rock and socialist behind every tree, Mr. Lord continues by outlining Mr. Obama's work as a community organizer. I urge everyone to read David Brooks's column in the New York Times (2/26/08) in which he discusses John McCain's long and consistent battle against the "Please, sir, I want more" pleas of corporate America. I find it interesting that Mr. Lord is unable to detect even the slightest hint any "ism" in the "military-industrial complex" Dwight Eisenhower so presciently warned us about.

Sometimes when people ask a slum-lord for heat they are not trying to remake the United States in the image of Cuba; they are simply asking for heat. All too often, the request for heat is met by the attitude best captured in the words of Mr. Scrooge. "Bah, humbug!"
-- Mike Roush
North Carolina

It is no coincidence that the housing market and stock market slumped once the Democrats seized Congress in 2006. The markets instinctively know that the worst thing for the economy is Democrats. Even Democrat Bill Clinton recognized this fact when he acquiesced to Republicans and allowed them to save the country and his irrelevant administration from his liberal schemes.

Thus, the man who didn't believe in balanced budgets is now able to claim "he" balanced the budget and produced a surplus -- good for Willie. Tragically, the "Obamanation" lacks even the rudimentary instincts of Bill Clinton to let Republicans save Democrat's bacon. Obama seems to truly believe in his own "messianic" diatribes. Thus, he is unlikely to accept the help of unbelievers (i.e., Republicans). As a politician his record is one of rabid partisanship regardless of his current disingenuous rhetoric or media spin.

Unlike Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, John McCain and even Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama has never had a job. He's lived off the taxpayer dole and at the trough of government pork his entire life. If his disciples were reasonable and practical this would disqualify him from his party's nomination, but as a Democrat his non-resume is the epitome of do "nothingism" that appeals to the base of the welfare party. It is possible that the true believers of "Obamanation" even regard this as a secular "miracle." That the "chosen one" has gone from a "community organizer (leach)" or professional "beggar" to potential Presidential nominee of the Democrat party without being sullied by work much less capitalism (Note: I did not include greed, because like many Democrats Obama has benefited from shady business deals with alleged criminals and foreign donations from nation's linked to genocide and terrorism).

To glean some idea about what motivates the "messiah" (he's slippery than Bill Clinton when it comes to honesty and candor) one can look at his early life to get a glimpse of how his "secular theology" was shaped -- a single-parent mother, a madrassa in Indonesia and a culture of entitlement based on self shaped the adult Obama.

As a "man" (Bonnie Erbe of PBS has defined him as an honorary "female" like Bill Clinton was the first "black" President) his life has evolved around how he could get ahead without working. Like many liberals he determined the best chance for success without over extending his meager abilities was to become a professional welfare grifter and lackluster politician without accomplishments. As a welfare "organizer" he became addicted to praise for failures. Now his full blown ego demands greater adulation that only the Presidency can fulfill. Lucky us!

Unfortunately, for his devotees and possibly the United States, like the emperor who had no clothes Barack Obama, the "secular messiah" has NO ability to perform the miracles he promises. The best we can hope from an Obama Presidency is that Republicans gain huge Congressional majorities in the off year elections (unlikely based on historic trends) and stop him from destroying the economy like he pledges to do with national security.

Letter to the Editor

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