Earlier I wrote I would rather Obama win.  On Thursday, Dan Jones polled me.  I chose Bob Barr.  Friday morning I searched my conscious.  That afternoon I voted for John McCain.  Living in Utah my presidential vote does affect the electoral count.  I can afford to protest vote for Barr.  But I cannot ask others to do what I am not willing to do.  I must ask all lovers of liberty to vote down Socialism.

Okay, this is incredible.  It starts getting good at 1:10 into the video and climaxes about minute 2.  This is freakin incredible.

Watch the video on YouTube: Barbara West asks Joe Biden if Barrack Obama is a Marxist

Since Joe Biden and his leftist friends don’t seem to think a woman can be president (Hillary) or vice-president (Sarah), it’s nice to see a strong woman take it to Joey.  And in typical elist form, Joe scoffs at the question and asks “Is that a real question?”  Yes, Joe, that is a strong woma0n asking you a hard question.  Barack and you are running to be president and vice-president of the United States.  It’s not as though she asked you if you really support infanticide (because we all know, liberals only want to protect the poor, that is unless they are still in the uterus).  Then it’s okay to kill them, right Barack?

*******Update*********

BarackObama.com hosts the following page,

Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need  |  Marxists/Socialists/Communists for Obama

Distilling the campaign to a few salient points, Charles Krauthammer succinctly makes the case for John McCain.  Granted, he’s not as succinct as Obama… “Change” or “Yes We Can”.  But then again, Charles injects substance into his communication.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102302867_pf.html

Excerpt:

Who do you want answering that phone at 3 a.m.? A man who’s been cramming on these issues for the past year, who’s never had to make an executive decision affecting so much as a city, let alone the world? A foreign policy novice instinctively inclined to the flabbiest, most vaporous multilateralism (e.g., the Berlin Wall came down because of “a world that stands as one“), and who refers to the most deliberate act of war since Pearl Harbor as “the tragedy of 9/11,” a term more appropriate for a bus accident?

Let’s not forget, Senator Obama’s political career started in the home of William Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist. A man who openly bragged, “Guilty as hell, Free as a Bird, What a Great Country.” If you really don’t have a problem, consider this…

If McCain was friends and political allies with a terrorist who bombed abortion clinics 30 years ago, would that be a problem?

The real issue here is Obama will dance with the devil to be president.

Just cruised by Drudge and saw:

“WASH TIMES Friday: Obama secretly tried to sway Iraqi government to ignore Bush deal on keeping troops in Iraq… Developing…”

When this blog thing all started I lacked focus.  Today, I lack focus, but I now understand that lack of focus to be part of my plan.  Let me explain…

I listen to a lot of talk radio.  Friends joke that I remove the FM from my car radios.  I read drudge several times a day and chase the articles of interest.  Through all that crap, i occassionally have an original thought.  Where to share it?  The wife long ago grew sick of my tirades.  Co-workers would understandably be put off by it.  So you, my good reader, are the anonymous victim of my bolt of arrows that fly like so many scuds from my keyboard.

What do I talk about on this blog?  First, what I don’t talk about… family, what i do for fun, the minutia of my day to day activities.  Now, I may have put some of that crap on here in the past, but i doubt you’ll see much of it in the future.  What moves me is politics.  Not because the candidates or their message is so inspired.  What moves me is the ideals that brought the earliest europeans to this nation.  From them, what motivated inspired men of God to risk their lives and their families lives their home, their career, in short, their all, to chase liberty.  The American Experiment.  What seperated us from so many nations/empires/worlds gone by?  The ideals set forth in the Declaration of INdependence, the US Constitution are pearls from God.  Given to man as an endowment from which to build a world where his son’s work could flourish.  Only in America could Christianity thrive and go forth to the rest of the world in righteous power.  Further, in this nation, man is free to choose liberty and eternal life, or death and destruction.  The government is limited by the constitution from choosing for us.  So don’t let anyone tell you we should empower the government to insure our home loans, give health care, student loans, daycare, tax breaks for kids, or any other social program because it is “good” or because it “helps people”.  ANy nation powerful enough to give those things in earnest will necessarily be powerful enough to take them away and more.  THough it is true, a powerful central government centered in God would have the ability to accomplish the most good, all it takes is one evil successor to create tyranny.  And power once given to a government is rarely rescinded.  Hasnt history taught the democrats yet that a strong central government only leads to death and destruction via tyranny.  How many wars have been fought to unseat a leader empowered by a nation hungry for change?

So maybe something I write motivates you to read the constitution again, or cherish your freedom just a little more.  Or maybe I just feel better for remembering it myself.

The Road to Serfdom
This is a book I am reading. The focus of the book is an economics approach to socialism. That is the book states that any political shift towards a larger central government will inevitably lead to less individual freedom and tyranny. The book is a tough read but very well thought through.

Oprah, where is Sarah Palin?  Why wouldn’t your women viewers be interested in the first woman nominated for GOP VP?  I hope your viewers boycott your socialist platform.  Oprah enjoyed the fruits of capitalism to become a billionaire, but now she favors Barack Obama, a man that would roll back the free market and give power to Washington to decide what’s best.  Let the free market rule, Oprah.  It was good enough for you, why not for me?

Boycott US Weekly.  Again, a platform for socialism.

There is only one group of people I exempt from this boycott: socialists.

Editors Note: I have included both conservative and democratic responses in this blog.  Special thanks to Arnold T Buxmire, guest blogger.

Liberal Response - Arnold T Buxmire

“John McCain’s Blunder”

That’s your big move, Senator McCain, a woman?  She’s young, she has no experience with foreign policy and she is one pacemaker-assisted heartbeat away from the presidency.  But yes, she is a woman.  How long did it take your genius team of online graduates from the Karl Rove School for the Ruthless to come up with that?  I can see them now in their smoke filled room pushing photos of Romney, Pawlenty, and Mussolini across the table.   “Wait!”, says the new guy, “Obama has pissed off the Clinton voters.  What if we pick a woman…?  We could bring them to our side.”   The truth is, this election has more to do with race and sex than a beer-fueled NASCAR singles mingler at the local trailer park.  (Wanna see my 1:15 scale Tony Stewart tatoo?)  But back to the beltway for a minute.  If you Republicans really wanted to make a splash with Democrats, you would have selected an ugly woman.  Sorry, John, so close, yet so far away.

Conservative view -

Well done, John McCain.  Just when the Dems thought it was safe to go back to Starbucks and open their laptops you plunge a 5′10″ bombshell wedge right through the middle of them.  What next?  Are you going to reveal that she sings Cher cover songs at the local Moose Meat Club in Juneau?  But I am sure Barack is regrouping right now inside the Temple at Olympus.  Go ahead, Barack, reach back into that vast experience of community organizing.  What to do?  What to do???? you ask yourselves.  Unfortunately, your only answer then won’t work now.  Jeremiah Wright cant (and probably wouldnt) help you now.  And William Ayers is a coward who hides behind stoned college kids.  He doesnt have the influence to push you over the top.  Sorry, Barack, to quote Mr. Lebowski, “The bums lost.  Your revoultion is over.  I suggest you go and do what your parents did.  Get a job!”  By the way, I wonder how Barack’s grandparents (you know, the typical white people) feel about having their grandson be the first (sorta) black man be nominated president?  I would guess they fell pretty embarassed for the world to see what a wormy, freak little Barry Hussein has turned out to be.  Why can’t you be more like your brother, Barack, you know, George?  The brother you left in Kenya to live off a dollar a month and fend for his life?  Or would helping your brother be to go against the spirit of your dad?  you know, the guy who left little care packages of joy littered across two continents.  How many more Barry Hussein’s are hiding in remote villages of the world?  Too bad daddy didnt love Barack.