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OBAMANATION br> Re: Jeffrey Lord's Obama's Society of Beggars : /p>

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.

p>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. br> -- Joseph Baum br> Garrettsville, Ohio /p>

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.

p>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!" br> --

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