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p>Sorry, Mr. Klein, but I'm not ready to drink the defeatist kool-aid. What's the worst that could happen if Obama is elected? To paraphrase John Lennon, "Just imagine...It's easy if you try." br> -- Gavin Valle br> Peapack, New Jersey /p>

I must admit I was staggered by Philip Klein's article. Despite the evidence that Obama is a doctrinaire leftist Klein seems disposed to believe there is positive news coming out of his camp for conservatives. Unless one is an Obamacon or paleocon (both seeking to destroy the Reagan/Bush coalition of neocons, traditional conservatives and evangelicals) there is nothing good coming out of the Obama camp for conservatives. Wishful thinking that a liberal won't be as bad as feared has empowered the left for generations. The Obama candidacy, like the blue dogs of 2006, offers conservatives absolutely nothing. Based on his history with the election stealing ACORN, minuscule resume and policy positions Obama will be worse than we can imagine.

p>So what's the worst that could happen with an Obama Presidency? Since he's an amalgam of all that's bad in liberals it would not be straining one's intellect to see him morphing into a hybrid of a feminized LBJ and feckless Jimmy Carter -- vitriolic rhetoric without gonads and a bigger, more intrusive and expensive Federal government. If that's not bad enough for Klein and other conservatives then heaven help our movement and country, because God can only save us from our own stupidity. br> -- Chaplain Michael Tomlinson br> Jacksonville, North Carolina /p>

Mr. Klein falls far short of conceiving the worst case scenario under an Obama administration. The worst case scenario of course is that America would cease to exist as America, e.g., our Constitutional Republic would dissolve, along with civilization as we know it. This would be a not unlikely possibility. An Obama administration would be perceived as an extraordinarily weak one internationally, leading to all sorts of mischief around the world, with the Zimbabwe model predominating. Further, an Obama administration would be perceived as arrogant, insular, and unilateral, far more so than the Bush administration has been. He has already discomfited our European allies by stating that he would act unilaterally to pursue diplomacy with Iran, cutting Europe out of the process. He indicates that he would under no circumstances use nuclear weapons, and it is almost certain that Iran, for one, and North Korea for another, not having been cowed by previous more aggressive administrations, such as the Clinton and Bush administrations, not to mention the GHW Bush, Reagan, or Carter administrations (after all, Hezbollah car-bombed the Marine Barracks in Lebanon under the Reagan administration with no retaliation -- apparently Weinberger feared Soviet retaliation at the time for any assault on Iran), would certainly not be cowed by an Obama administration, and there is little reason to believe that the entire Middle East would not go up in smoke during an Obama administration, while he orated about the events. Undoubtedly he would not pursue missile defenses, further alienating Europe, particularly Eastern Europe.

His naivete would embolden Russia to support Iran, pursue adventurism in Eastern Europe, align with China against European interests, and hamstring Europe, perhaps even dominate Europe entirely, and Europe would be unprotected with any missile defense, completely vulnerable to a mad Iranian regime incensed at Israel and the West and bound on destruction of the West even if it means suicide for them. Russia would foolishly support Iran right up until Chechnyan terrorists detonated a nuclear device in Moscow. If Obama pulled US troops out of Iraq entirely, a likely possibility, Iran would dominate the region unchecked and war against Israel would be inevitable. The supply of oil would plummet, the price would sky-rocket, and global recession would ensue. Pakistan is already offended by his statements that he would invade that country, and would likely come under the control of the Taliban anyway, and probably attack India with Nuclear weapons, while India would retaliate.

Internationally, protectionism would run rampant and the globe would be plunged into a long depression; war and famine would prevail around the world; the US would do nothing, could do nothing, to stop any of the above. International institutions would be fully discredited and prove to be completely ineffectual, as they already have been shown to be in Oil for Food and numerous other events, yet would be the institutions through which problems would be addressed, with complete failure.

Then it would require but one domestic terror event of catastrophic proportions, to which Obama would react about the way the Bush administration reacted to Katrina (Obama confuses the response to terrorism with a response to a natural disaster), to plunge the nation into economic chaos. With no effective national response (Obama, with his political correctness, desire not to offend voters, inability to make effective decisions in crisis--he's never had to do that, and would likely function far worse than Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis--would completely botch a response to a major terrorist event), Wall Street would crumble, financial institutions would collapse, shortages of commodities would become staggering, and one would begin to see complete societal chaos in America. In this situation, states or regions would start to fill the vacuum of leadership and lack of response, and areas of the country actually interested in their own survival would severe national bonds with other regions of the country for simple survival purposes (the US would collapse like the Soviet Union did -- something Ahmadinejad is anticipating).

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