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California would likely continue to block access to its offshore energy resources, for example, and the northeast would likely continue to support liberal and ineffective approaches that other parts of the country would consider preposterous, and one would then see a split in the country. Texas and parts of the South and the Midwest would sever political ties with the West Coast and Northeast, retain its energy resources, including the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, to itself, and go its own way, perhaps in concert with other Southern and some Western states. One could easily see the country come apart at the seams. The extreme liberal ideology of Obama would make it easy for many more conservative states to split from the more liberal states, perhaps along Red/Blue lines. States in the middle (Purple) may find themselves left to their own devices.

He may prove to be more like Abraham Lincoln than Mr. Klein would ever want to envision in terms of eventuating the dissolution of the Union. I doubt that he would have the where-with-all of a Lincoln to keep it together, however. The result would be the end of the American experiment in liberty, permanently. There would no longer exist a super-power that championed liberty. Consequently the world would enter a millennia or two of chaos and darkness, descending further from our current level of civilization than the Western World did after the fall of the Roman Empire, remaining there longer--if the species survived at all (if nuclear weapons proliferation became universal and groups such as those in Darfur possessed them, one could count on a Nuclear Winter). Global warming would be irrelevant. The fondest hopes of the extreme Environmental community, e.g., the elimination of the dangerous Homo sapiens species, would be a fait accompli. The only problem would be that the rest of the biosphere might follow it.

We have already seen the degradation of the U.S. dollar, the rise of complete incompetence in the Air Force to maintain and control our own nuclear weapons, an incompetence that would vastly worsen under Obama as he would likely allow our nuclear arsenal to lapse through neglect. We have already seen the complete collapse of efforts at negotiating global free trade. We have seen the collapse of the effectiveness of the UN, the World Bank, and all of the international institutions set up in the 20th century to stabilize the world in the aftermath of WWII. America has lost its ability to influence and direct the world toward freedom and prosperity, mostly through the efforts of the American Left, which has Cuba as the model for America. We are witnessing the meltdown of our financial and economic system due to federal incompetence and Wall Street stupidity and lack of adult supervision as we speak. Our judicial system is on the way to collapse. Our regulatory systems are on the way to obsolescence and collapse. Our energy sufficiency is in question. Our capacity to manage our own economy and society is slowly collapsing, in terms of healthcare provision, home ownership, affordability of basic necessities, etc. Unfunded entitlements threaten national bankruptcy, if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack don't do the job first. The natives are becoming restless.

Hollywood has already shown us multiple versions of these apocalyptic results, from Mad Max to Escape from New York.

p>Mr. Klein is an inveterate optimist. br> -- Kent J. Lyon br> College Station, Texas /p>

If his messiahship is elected, and if, as many predict, he gets a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and a larger majority for Speaker Pelosi in the House, let me suggest a few for you. I list these in descending order of their effect on sending the former United States of America down the tubes and into historical irrelevancy:

p>We re-impose the "Fairness" doctrine, thus eliminating from the public airways all dissenting opinions and effectively voiding the First Amendment. br> Obamamessiah proposes and the Congress passes his "single payer" health plan, providing health coverage for all Americans and all illegal aliens who want it, thus accomplishing the largest government takeover of a private enterprise in the history of the world. /p>

The Anointed One effects surrender in Iraq, thus snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, emboldening our enemies worldwide and turning Osama Bin Laden into a prophet when he declared, years ago that the United States was and is, in effect, the "weak horse." This will allow the Jihadists, including Iran, to turn their attention from Iraq to attacking first Israel, then the United States directly.

In league with the greenies and Gore led AGW crowd, Obama and Congress attack the "big oil" companies, thus causing them to relocate their operations outside the U. S. Drilling for known reserves on the outercontinental shelf, in ANWR, in the Gulf and recovering the 800 billion to 2 trillion barrels of oil in our western oil shale will continue to be prohibited as "environmentally unsafe." Ditto any new refineries, nuclear reactors, or coal fired utilities facilities. Gas goes from $6 per gallon to $8 per gallon, thus causing major disruption to the entire economy.

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