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David Govett br> Davis, California /p> p> KEVORKIAN CARE br> Re: George Neumayr's No Obama Care for Terri Schiavo : /p>

While I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Neumayr and await Obama Care with fear and dismay, I would have to say that among Mr. Obama's plans for this nation, Obama Care has to fall in behind a number of his other pronouncements about how he will rule (what his administration will do, sorry!) While driving to work I was listening to a syndicated radio morning show and heard from his own mouth the savior say that when he became president, he would: Bring the war in Iraq to conclusion (read surrender), Work for a nuclear free world by curtailing U.S. research and development of weapons (read unilateral disarmament), Make space a nuclear free zone (read curtail space exploration), Discontinue production of defensive weapons that function in space ( read forget about missiles such as the one that just destroyed the satellite falling to earth), Negotiate with Russia to remove US missiles in Europe, Establish a civilian review board to do the quadrennial review of the Pentagon's military budget (read put our defense needs into the realm of civilian politics). He further promised to use the money saved by these cuts in defense to give the nation free health care.

p>I am not writing about something I heard from Rush Limbaugh, or Sean Hannity. These pronouncements came from the mouth of Obama. They were NOT the words of commentators, prognosticators, or Republican opponents of the candidate. In all my years of following politics and presidential campaigns, including the McGovern campaign, I have never heard a political speech, or for that matter, a speech of any kind, that frightened me as did this one. The world has experienced all manner of demagogue, charlatan, poseur and scoundrel and has survived them, not always intact, but survived them nevertheless. In this day and age, in this world fraught with the most barbaric yet modern dangers, electing a man with this type of blindness to reality is tantamount to playing Russian roulette with a six shooter loaded with not one, but five bullets. I have often said that liberals scare me and Mr. Neumayr is right to be leery of government funded health care (re P. J. O'Rourke's remark " If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it is free") and several other of the ridiculous schemes of the liberal mind, however, health care paid for by our tax money is a bottomless pit into which we would throw money. Mr. Obama's ideas on defense, or should I say no defense, represent a pit into which we would be throwing our dead. He is definitely not the messiah. Unfortunately, he more closely resembles the anti-christ. br> -- Joseph Baum br> Garrettsville, Ohio /p>

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