Conservatives and Republicans have been trying to defend the current national economy against the liberal MSM and Democratic Party onslaught.  But regardless of the “numbers” the perception on Main Street is that the economy is doing very badly.  And, compared to the last 7 years of the Bush Administration, they are right.  As well, we may be headed for a recession if it hasn’t already begun.

So my advice to the GOP and conservatives is to stop trying to defend the economy, and start bringing those responsible to account.  Because whether they want to admit it or not, the Democrats and liberals own this economic downturn lock, stock and barrel.

When the Democrats took control of Congress in November of 2006, the economy was fine.  Jobs were increasing.  Housing was booming. The stock market was growing.  But the ship of state began floundering in December of 2007, when the stock market hits its zenith.  Since then, it has been all downhill.  This is right in line with an economic model that places blame on the liberal Democrats running Congress and their partners in the MSM.  That’s because it takes about a year for an economy our size to respond to governmental intervention.

Thus, for the remainder of the 2008 election cycle, from the GOP Presidential nominee, down to each Congressional Race, the Republican theme should be “It’s the Democrat’s economy, stupid”.

Here is the outline of the liberal Democratic policies that have harmed our economy.  Each one standing alone would not have sunk us.  But aggregated together, they have spelled disaster.

1.       Deficit spending has increased not decreased under Democratic control of Congress causing credit issues for the U.S.

2.       Liberal Democrats have failed to address the $56 trillion liability in SS and Medicare. Many international money men consider the U.S. to be on the verge of bankruptcy. World credit markets have noticed which has caused our dollar to become devalued.  This in turn has lead to liquidity problems in the U.S. as investors seek shelter in other currencies.

3.       Minimum wage legislation has had a chilling effect on small business.  Many small businesses have put off hiring, trying to ride out the increased cost of labor, which has exacerbated the unemployment rates.

4.       Global warming alarmism has caused a huge dent in consumer confidence, and has also caused changes in consumer spending.  MSM outlets have done stories on people who are so worried about global warming that they are opting out of our consumer driven economy

5.       Oil prices- Liberal Democrats running Congress have wanted higher prices for decades.   They have refused to allow the alternative clean energy of nuclear power plants which would reduce need for heating oil.  Thus supply problems which have driven up the cost of crude oil, have been enhanced by this liberal policy.

6.       Increased oil prices have driven up cost of goods across the board adding to inflation pressures and a higher cost of living.

7.       Constant pessimism by the liberals in Congress and the MSM, used as a cynical political ploy to increase their chances of retaking the White House has driven consumer confidence to all time lows

8.       Threatened tax increases have caused entrepreneurs and others to curtail activities.

9.       As GM goes, so goes the economy.  The Democrat’s decision to stop new domestic oil production has harmed our Big Three auto makers.  GM stands on the verge of bankruptcy because of high oil prices.  This will have a huge negative short term impact on the rest of the economy.

10.   Congressional Democrat’s regulatory practices have diminished business incentives, and slimmed profit margins.  With profit margins down, hiring suffers, which in turn impacts unemployment rates and harms consumer spending.

11.   Democrats have been investigating businesses and threatening nationalization and other business chilling government oversight, which is harmful to a capitalistic economy.

12.   The threatened use of windfall profits taxes have also harmed business incentives to invest in infrastructure and other economic improvements.  This has contributed to lower employment.

13.   The higher oil prices are contributing to the housing downturn as people can no longer afford to commute. MSM media reports show bedroom communities becoming ghost towns as new homes sit empty with no interested buyers.

14.   Even in the face of the current crisis, liberal Democrats running Congress have steadfastly refused to consider new domestic oil production and have put out false propaganda that it would take ten years to feel the effects.

Conservatives need to press the case.  If the current perception stands, liberals will blame the economy on Bush, the GOP and capitalism.  Normally, that wouldn’t be so bad. But with a socialist close to becoming President, the war which capitalists won in the early 1990’s may be lost from within.

When a liberal MSM organ calls for the end of discusion on a certain issue, you can bet that the issue harms the Democrats.  Such was the case today when the editors of the Washington Postcalled for an end to the discussion of Wesley Clark's attack on John McCain's military record.

The liberal hacks at the WP had the nerve to call Clark's comments a "silly blooper".  Really? A silly blooper? Is that why Clark defended his comments the next day?  How in the name of Webster's Dictionary can anyone call Clark's calculated and subsequently defended comments a "silly blooper"?

Apparently the only ones dumber than President Bush these days are those supporting Barak Obama.  Those guys are idiots.

Posted By:Brian Goettl @ 7/2/2008 9:15:00 PM
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Twenty months ago, in October of 2006, George Bush was in his sixth year as President and the GOP controlled Congress. At that time, the economy was in good to great shape. Jobs were plentiful and the stock market was booming.  Home ownership was at all time highs and gasoline was at reasonable levels.

But since then, the economy has gone to heck in a hand basket.  The Dow Jones went into bear territory today, after falling several thousand points since November of 2006.  Unemployment rates have gone through the roof, as people struggle to find work. Gas and oil prices have doubled.  The dollar has fallen dramatically against foreign currencies.  Banks are needing huge infusions of cash from the federal government to stay solvent, putting pressure on world credit markets.  Foreclosures have sky rocketed.  Consumer confidence has plunged to all time lows.

What has changed since October of 2006?  Democrats took over Congress in November of 2006.  They had been complaining for the better part of the year that the economy was bad, and that they had a plan to improve everything.  But, if they had a plan to make things better, they apparently shelved it for a plan to make things far worse.

The Democratic slogan at the time was "Had enough?".  After nineteen months of the Democrat's plan, I think we all have.

Posted By:Brian Goettl @ 7/2/2008 9:06:00 PM
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An unusual aspect of the Barak Obama candidacy, is that some people actually believe what he says. Even more bizarre is that some also believe that Obama is going to do what he says he will.  However, more than any other political candidate for President in my lifetime, Barak Obama has proven to be an abject, chronic liar.  I would trust Barak Obama less than a quarter of the distance that I could throw a fully grown, African bull elephant.

He has managed to set what must surely be a world record with a baker’s dozen of broken policy stances in just under 30 days.  The following is a breakdown of those reversals.  We’ll keep track of any others that occur as the campaign wears on.  We anticipate being busy.

1. Let’s start with a simple one that has even the left up in arms.  It is Barak Obama’s reversal on FISA.  FISA is the national security act, which the left, including Obama, has decried as an unconstitutional invasion of privacy.  The left, including Obama, wanted FISA to expire.   This year, though,  Obama is supporting a watered down version that will make phone providers exempt from lawsuits.

2. Another shot at the left wing came this week in Obama’s supposed condemnation of Move.org’s attack ad last fall against General Petraeus.  Obama gave a speech in which he obliquely mentioned attacking anyone else’s patriotism.  Move.org had accused General Petraeus of betraying the U.S. in a full page ad in the New York Times the day before he addressed Congress on U.S. progress in Iraq. 

After the disgusting attack, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to condemn the ad.  But Obama was absent the day of the vote.  He was courting Move.org’s cooperation in the primaries.  He won Move’s cooperation and endorsement. 

3. Obama has now left the left wing on welfare reform.  All during the primary, Obama refused to comment on 1996’s land mark legislation that transformed welfare.  However, since winning the general election, Obama has praised the legislation.  Except that in 1997, as an Illinois State Senator, he voted against Illinois adopting the federally mandated state welfare reform.

4. Barak Obama was a fierce supporter of public financing of presidential elections, and vowed unambiguously during the primaries to take public financing if he were the Democratic nominee.  Later, as his nomination seemed more certain, Obama vowed to meet with John McCain to work out a fair system of financing.  But, within a week of synching the nomination, he opted out of public financing with nary a word exchanged between he and McCain

5. Obama had responded to John McCain’s challenge to ten town hall debates with “anytime, anywhere”.  But Obama has now reneged on that statement, and will only agree to one debate at a place and time of his choosing.

6.  Obama gave a speech in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, hailed by the left wing sycophants in the MSM as a speech for the ages on race, in which he vowed that he could not disown his race baiting reverend of twenty years.  Six weeks later, when that reverend said that Obama was a typical politician who would say anything to win, Obama disowned him and quit his church.

7. During the primaries, Obama was pro Hamas and Hezbollah, calling the military factions, miss- understood political parties.  But, Obama reversed course after becoming the presumptive nominee, and vowed to protect Israel, and called for an undivided Jerusalem in a speech to a leading Jewish group.  The next day, Obama flipped again, and retracted his stance on an undivided Jerusalem.

8. On gun rights, Obama issued an enigmatic statement on the recent Supreme Court decision upholding the right for individuals to keep and bear arms.  But as a legislator, he either abstained from or voted against measures allowing Illinois residents gun rights.  The NRA is preparing to slam Obama on his gun rights hypocrisy.

9. One of the more famous Obama flip flops occurred regarding his position that he would hold talks without pre-condition with leaders of enemy states.  The left defended this position for the better part of a year, only to have Obama renounce the position once he was the Democrats choice.

10. Obama blasted NAFTA as an unmitigated disaster to bolster his union credentials during the primaries, going so far as to threaten to unilaterally opt out of the treaty to gain leverage to renegotiate with Canada and Mexico.  Now, Obama supports NAFTA and makes policy speeches about the new world economy.

11. As a state senator, Barak Obama opposed capital punishment for gang members.  But last week, Barak  Obama took exception to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that outlawed the death penalty in the case of child rape.  He called capital punishment for child rapists “…at least potentially applicable and does not violate our constitution”.  So, the death penalty is not okay if you murder a child, but is okay if you rape a child.

12.  Going back to gun rights, Obama told a gathering of San Francisco liberal elitists that people in flyover country clung to guns out of bitterness and desperation.   Now, Obama claims that he has always supported the right to keep arms for self defense.  I guess he thinks that allowing bitter people to own guns is a good thing.

13. After claiming that he wanted a campaign focused on issues, Obama sent his surrogate out to attack John McCain’s military record.  When the attacks went astray, Obama left his surrogate to twist in the wind.

The far left fringe in American politics has begun to question John McCain’s military experience, as a qualification to be commander in chief.  The left seems to have formed a circular firing squad for the attack, with some humourous results. 

For instance, Jay Rockefeller slammed McCain for being out of touch with the reality of war because he launched laser guided missiles from 35,000 feet and was gone before the bombs hit the ground.  Except that there was no such thing as a lazer guided ground missiles in McCain’s day in the cockpit.  But Rockefeller unwittingly condemned Obama’s top military adviser, Wesley Clark, who commanded the first video game war.  Namely, the bombing of civilian targets, by aircraft flying at roughly 35,000 feet, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.  Affectionately known as the Kosovo War to the liberals. Under Rockefeller’s theory, Obama’s top military adviser has no concern for the life of civilians.

Clark for his part, delivered the most politically inept attack in recent Amereican history on John McCain. Clark managed to simultanesouly admit that Obama had no executive experience to be the nations chief executive, no military experience to be the commander in chief and opening up Obama’s character and judgment as legitimate campaign issues.  Clark was operating in several theaters of war.  Each as unsucceful as the other.  This is the type of performance that got him fired at NATO.

Unable to enjoy their lead, the far left nutroots joined in their own carnage.  First, they adopted a “why not swift boat a former POW” attitude.  Then they defended the indefensible position of Wesley Clark. 

One had to laugh when a leading left wing blog argued that Clark was correct in his assertions.  Apparently these guys didn’t have the mental wattage to understand that Clark’s statements were a far larger indictment of Obama than McCain.

Were it a level playing field, with honest referees, Obama would have no chance of winning.  As it stands, at least conservatives have the consolation of knowing that most on the left are as dumb or dumber than they have portrayed George Bush over the years.

Few people may know that former General Wesley Clark is the top military adviser to Barak Obama, and is being considered as a potential V.P. because of his military experience.  Even less may know that General Clark was the Supreme Commander of NATO when the Kosovo War to end ethnic cleansing in that region started .  (Clark was later fired). Even fewer still are probably aware that the Kosovo War consisted of NATO bombing Belgrade, Yugoslavia from the air.  And finally, it may only a handful of people who know that the bombing started after the ethnic cleansing had ended and that no NATO forces entered Kosovo except as peacekeepers.

And yet, Wesley Clark had the audacity to criticize John McCain for being a fighter pilot, which, according to Clark, gave McCain no real executive experience and no war experience because all he did was bomb people.  Exactly the same thing that Clark did in commanding the Kosovo war.  Clark told Bob Schieffer of CBS News that McCain hadn't been there to give the order when the bombs started dropping.  Of course, Clark never gave the order to bomb Belgrade either.  Those orders came from the commander in chief.

But, an even more scathing indictment  of Clark came from Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller.  Although Rockefeller's remarks had been directed at John McCain.  Here's an excerpt from an on line story:

In April, Democratic West Virginia Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV cut a bit closer, suggesting that McCain's days as a fighter pilot were themselves a critique of his character.

"What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground?" he asked. "He doesn't know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues." 

Wesley Clark lead a war that consisted of bombing Belgrade, Yugoslavia from an altitude that was so high, the planes were out of reach of enemy fire.  And Clark wasn't even flying the missions.  It was and is the first video game war.

And, Belgrade, Yugoslavia isn't in the Kosovo region.  In fact, Wesley Clark commanded a military that bombed civilian targets in an effort to stop military units from attacking in another part of the country. Clark did not know what happened when the missiles got to the ground.

According to the standard set out by John Rockefeller, Obama's top military adviser doesn't care about the lives of people.  How else to explain the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, that killed scores of Innocent Chinese diplomats and their families?

The liberals like to make fun of the intelligence of George W. Bush.  Judging from what is coming from the Obama camp, these guys make Bush look like Albert Einstein.




Posted By:Brian Goettl @ 6/30/2008 7:33:00 PM
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In one of the more stunningly inept political appearances in recent memory, former General Wesley Clark, a top Obama adviser and potential V.P. candidate brought the Illinois Senator's character and judgment into play for the fall campaign.  And, to make matters worse for Obama, Clark tacitly admitted that Obama has no executive experience to speak of that qualifies him to be this nation's chief executive.  Here is the exchange on the CBS morning political talk show yesterday, as quoted by the International Herald:

When Schieffer then asked what executive responsibility Obama had held - the Democrat's résumé includes work as a community organizer in Chicago and eight years in the Illinois legislature - Clark said that Obama was running on the strength of his character and good judgment.

This bungle by Clark has opened the door for an intense scrutiny of Obama's character and judgment for the remainder of the campaign.  It will be fair game for the GOP to talk about Barak Obama's own assessment that he had poor judgment just two years ago when he entered into a business deal with a now convicted felon whom Obama knew at the time was being investigated for felony political corruption.  Obama called his decision a "bonehead move".  Other decisions by Obama will also be subject to scrutiny.  Things like his relationship to Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers.  His decision to abstain from numerous votes while in the Illinois Senate.  His decision to oppose the surge in Iraq. All of it is now legitimate campaign fodder, because as Clark admits, Obama doesn't have executive experience.

Now, it is also fair game to question Obama's character.  Virtually every flip flop he has made on a veritable cornucopia of issues now redounds to the issue of his character.  Is Obama a man of integrity, or will he sell out his position for cash?  Will he hold true to his values or sell out for the presidency?  If he is willing to sellout so quickly on so many key issues, now, what would he do as President? Can he be trusted to keep his word on anything, because he has kept his word on nothing in the last 18 months?

All of these become legitimate questions for the press to ask Obama.  

Finally, with Obama taking advice from a nit wit like Clark, does he have the judgment to bring qualified people to the executive branch of government?  Seriously, it's hard to imagine more political damage being done so quickly, as what Clark pulled off yesterday.  We'll see if McCain has the ability to turn this monster gaffe into  political capital.

If you want to know what our Obama Nation would look like, just go to Canada.  Read the Washington Time's story making the connection here.

Posted By:Brian Goettl @ 6/29/2008 8:14:00 PM
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At last night's GOP fundraiser in Louisville, John McCain took the gloves off against Barak Obama.  Using the forum to blast Obama on the issue of trust.

According to McCain, Obama has broken his word in recent weeks on two fairly simple issues.  On one issue, campaign finance,  Obama's reneging on taking public financing is well known.  

Less well known is that McCain challenged Obama to meet with him in a series of ten town hall forums.  Obama initially told McCain that he would debate him any time, any where.  But after it became apparent to Obama's handlers that their candidate was a ticking time bomb of verbal gaffes, indefensible positions popping off like roman candles on the Fourth of July, and arrogance and snobbery that don't go over well with Joe Six pack, Obama broke his word and agreed to only one town hall debate.

The McCain attack may be the most significant development in his campaign to date.  Obama has had the advantage over McCain since he took the Democratic nomination in the abstract.  McCain has been struggling to get traction in today's pop culture that rewards celebrity over substance. 

If McCain ends up winning the election,  Kentucky will probably have been the birth place of his resurgence.  Mark Saturday, June 28th, 2008 down on your calendars.  It may be the start date of not only a McCain resurgence but a GOP resurgence as well.

ABC News had the story while the Herald-Leader was asleep at the wheel.

Posted By:Brian Goettl @ 6/29/2008 7:35:00 PM
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A British paper's website is reporting that Bill Clinton is bitter towards Barak Obama.  People close to the former President are surprised at just how angry he is.  According to the papers sources, Clinton is upset with the way the Obama campaign ruined his reputation by making him out to be a racist.  Clinton is quoted as saying that if Obama wants his help he will have to "...kiss my a--".

Posted By:Brian Goettl @ 6/28/2008 10:44:00 PM
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The last time the U.S. economy went into recession was the final quarter of 2000.  News of the impending down turn was found in business magazines and hiddden on the inside pages of MSM print outlets.

When the recession materialized for certain in the first quarter of 2001, the liberals and the MSM tried to pin the blame on President Bush.  (A recession is defined as at least two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth). Their rationale?  Bush, as President-elect, had made remarks about a slowing economy in December of 2000.  According to the liberals, Bush's gloomy pronouncement was enough to have pushed the economy over the edge.  

Fast forward to 2007.  The liberals, including all the Democrats  running for president and in the MSM began sounding a constant drum beat of gloomy economic news.  From mortgage meltdowns, to housing downturns, to rising gasoline prices, the liberals were talking down the economy with constant shrillness.  News that would have been buried in 2000, was suddenly front page banner headlines.  While the MSM video outlets dutifully regaled their viewers with heartfelt stories of "average Americans" harmed by Bush's tax cuts.

Liebrals remembered that Bill Clinton won the White House in 1992 by falsely claiming that the economy was in trouble.  (In fact, the U.S. economy had suffered a slight recession in 1991, but had already recovered by 1992). Clinton's slogan "It's the economy, stupid" , was the catch phrase of the year, if not the entire new millenium to date.

Yet, despite the current liberal doom and gloom and pessimism the Bush economy has been resilient.  Even in the first quarter of 2008, the U.S. gross domestic product grew by 1%.  But the toll of the false economic premise of the liberals may have finally caught up with the country.  On Thursday, the DOw dropped 258 points to its lowest mark in 21 months.

But, what would our economy look like if the liberals hadn't driven down consumer confidence?  Would housing prices already started to rebound if people hadn't been shoveled bad news for almost a year?  is it possible that the credit markets could have stabilized by now with less unfounded criticism. 

Today though, it looks like the MSM and Barak Obama may have gotten their wish.   Except that sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for.  Stephen Pearlstein, a business writer for the liberal Washington Post, was positively ecstatic that the recession has finally arrived in his column today. Almost boasting that this recession would not be a short one, despite all the effortts of Bush and the Federal Reserve Bank.

With a recession, Barak Obama is almost a certain lock for President.  But the liberals and the MSM may have pushed to hard.  As the AP reported, Americans think that the country is spinning out of control.  No doubt from all the negative articles about the world that the AP and other liberal news outlets have been peddling for a year or longer. Liberal BS may have created a monster of a self fulfilling prophecy.  They said a brief statement from a President-elect caused a mild economic recession.  What will twelve months of daily negativity do to us this time around?

Will the liberals have ushered in a depression or will we luck out with only a another brief dip?  If it's the latter, we can thank the Bush economic stimulus package.  If it's the former consider me among the many who will blame the liberals.

Let's hope that we as a nation have enough to have overcome what appears to be the unscrupulous, coordinated political attack on the economy, for partisan political gain.  Liberals should be ashamed of themselves.

Read Justice Scalia's brilliant opinion here. 

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has a prime spot in the Insipid Drivel Hall of Fame.  No one even comes close to having written as many stunningly stupid columns with such alarming regularity as this mid western transplant to the east coast.

But today, Dowd out did herself with an epic ode to stupidity.  In this article entitled "GOP Smears Won't Work This Time" Dowd tries to take Karl Rove to task.  It's the political equivalent of a kindergartner attempting the socratic method on Socrates himself.

Dowd's beef with Rove is his characterization of Barak Obama as an elitist liberal.  This to Dowd is a "smear job".  Then comes the staggering Dowd intellect.   After saying that Rove is wrong and the Obama is not an liberal elitist, she writes this:

Obama can be aloof and dismissive at times, and he’s certainly self-regarding, carrying the aura of the Ivy faculty club. But isn’t that better than the aura of the country clubs that tried to keep out blacks? It’s ironic, and maybe inevitable, that the first African-American nominee comes across as a prince of privilege. He is, as Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic wrote, not the seed but the flower of the civil rights movement.

Huh?  I thought Obama wasn't a liberal elitist.  Let's make Dowd a deal, we won't call Obama a liberal elitist and she won't call herself a columnist.  We'll just refer to him as the "Prince of Priviledge", the Sultan of Smarminess the Wizzard of  Whooooooopi .  (I had to throw in a little Gong Show for the proletariats).That should end the accusations of another GOP smear job.

Democratic President Harry S. Truman ended World War II with his decision to launch the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  In much the same way, President Bush ended Al-Queada's threat to the U.S. mainland.

Yet, when Harry Truman left office, his approval ratings were as low as current President Bush's ratings are right now.  American troops had fought for three and a half bloody years on the Korean peninsula in an undeclared war that Truman started.  To this day, American troops and nuclear weapons still stand guard at the DMZ on that same peninsula.

Even so, Republicans never treated Truman with anything but the respect that should be accorded to a former President.  Compare that with the scorn, ridicule and contempt with which even mainstream liberals treat President Bush.  All of which is nothing compared to the vile outrage hurled Bush by the far left fringe.

I have previously asserted that liberals in general and those on the far left fringe in particular have the emotional maturity of pubescent teenage boys.  Today, there is incontrovertible evidence.

A group in San Fransisco is proposing to rename a sewage plant after President Bush.  It is mind numbingly disrespectful.  Whether you agree with the Iraq War or not, the rationale and consequences of that war are far more reasonable and logical than the 3 1/2 year Korean "conflict".  N. Korea did not pose a threat of any kind to the U.S. in 1950.

I'd like to see the far left fringe insisting that we "bring our troops" home from the 39th parallel.  There is also a long list of Presidents in U.S. history who were less than immediately successful in the prosecution of their wars.  

Considering that the liberals run our public schools, I probably shouldn't be surprised at their lack of historical knowledge.  But would it be to much to ask that they just "grow up".


Posted By:Brian Goettl @ 6/25/2008 9:36:00 PM
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Conservatives invented the ladder, which suited their purposes well enough (They weren't greedy). The liberals, afraid to try the ladder because it required individual effort decided to tax the ladder and distribute the money so they wouldn't have to climb it like the conservatives did.

But the conservatives kept climbing despite the tax. This really aggravated the liberals. Then they had an idea. Approaching the conservatives working their way up the ladder and needing a way to stay on equal footing with them they offered a contract to the conservatives to come up with a new "energy efficient and earth friendly" form of economic transportation. The conservatives responded in typical "can do" fashion by accepting the contract after negotiating a slightly higher price to do the job. (The liberals were using their parent's trust funds for payment so they didn't mind paying a little more - besides they had plans to tax the profit on the elevator contract.)

Once the conservatives were done creating the elevator the liberals took over and began enjoying the benefits. At first the elevators were very clean, efficient and delivered everyone to their destination quickly in the order in which they got on the elevator - each according to his turn. People riding the elevators chatted cheerily with one another as they sped to their desired floor.

Soon the liberals realized it was unfair to some people with an aversion to high speed and a propensity for motion sickness to be on a fast moving elevator, so they regulated the speed at which the elevator could travel. Then they realized that it wouldn't be fair if there were too many conservatives earning money by making elevators everywhere so they regulated the number of permits that could be given out for the opration of the elevator. Then they realized it would be unfair for the first person on the elevator to actually arrive at his prescribed destination ahead of everyone else so they made sure that the elevator stopped in the order of the floor number rather than the order of people who came onto the elevator in turn. Then they realized that too many other liberals were getting on the elevator and taking advantage of the conservatives' creation and putting the elevators under undue stress so they regulated the amount of weight the elevator could carry. Then they realized the amount of self conciousness shy people were experiencing when on an elevator with other people so they created the "sense" that we should all just quietly stare at the floor or the ceiling while riding the elevator - and if anyone passes gas, everyone must keep quiet and just grin and bear it.

Soon the elevator broke. The liberals passed legislation to make the elevator work again, but that was unsuccessful. So they got together on a committee and discussed this. Then, they decided to "Socialize" the elevator by having the government seize control of it. Still the elevator did not move. Finally, they realized that their only hope was to ask the conservatives to come and repair it. But the conservatives were gone. They had finished their work on the building and had moved their ladder across town where there were no taxes on ladders.

By clicking this link, you can see a picture of the Great Seal of the President of the Obama Nation.  The link is to an online story by Michael Graham of the Boston Herald, who provides his own opinion of the new Obama symbol.

The Obama campaign rolled out their goods last Friday for a Governor’s conference,  much to the derision and scorn of friend and foe alike.  No less than far left fringe writer, Mickey Kaus of Slate.com, called the seal a bit arrogant.  Of course, calling the Obama campaign a bit arrogant for having their own presidential seal at this stage of the game is like calling Santa Claus a bit chubby  on Christmas eve.

However, we may have seen the last of the great seal of the President of the Obama Nation.  By Monday, of this week, less than four full days after its introduction, our trusted leader, a man of principle, and new kind of politician, who will stand up to our greatest enemies and convince them of the error of the ways by shear force of his "Rodney King why can't we all just get along?" foreign policy, yielded to the criticism of a few pundits and dumped the image.

Obama’s people said they had planned to use the seal for the Friday event only, and that their decision to nix the seal had nothing to do with the reaction from the pundits.  They went on to explain that Obama had never intended to negotiate with terrorist leaders without pre-conditions, that he really did think that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard was a terrorist organization all along, that he has always said that NAFTA is a swell idea that has worked well for the country and that public financing of his campaign was never on his agenda.

It’s getting difficult to read an article about Barak Obama, where he is not quoted saying something completely stupid.  Each day brings a new remark that had it been made by George Bush, would have provided 10 minutes of material for John Stewart.  But Bush only mangles words, Obama mangles entire concepts.

For instance, I was reading a Fortune Magazine article by Nina Easton about Barak’s sudden infatuation with business, when I came across this Obamanism: “In America, prosperity has always risen from the bottom up”.  Really?  Prosperity has always risen from the bottom up in America?

So, late in the 18^th century, poor Americans, with no money and no assets, began buying the non-existent products of various American companies which theretofore did not exist, which in turn reinvested the profits from the sales of non-existent products into non existent factories which then employed the poor people in non-existent jobs and provided them  non-existent income with which to buy the non existent products, which then enriched the owners of the non-existent companies, who in turn oppressed the poor Americans?

Or was it the hard scarbble pioneers,who without money or assets, forged their way across the prairies and settled on the land and built condominiums and skyscrapers which they then sold to Russian and Japanese emigres?

Perhaps it occurred in our first cities.  There, poor Americans without income or assets, began buying the products imported by foreign nations and countries, which in turn allowed the poor Americans to buy land from the Indians, which in turn allowed them to build the ports in the cities where the foreign companies docked their ships and unloaded the imports that the poor Americans were buying.

Is that how prosperity in America rose from the bottom up?

Or was it the wealthy English King who invested in cotton plantations and other agricultural ventures and ceded land (i.e. wealth) to newly arrived favored immigrants which established our first industry that created America’s prosperity?  Perhaps it was other moneyed entrepreneurs from across the waves that constructed manufacturing facilities, ports for the loading and unloading goods, or began lucrative export and import businesses  that employed Americans that created our prosperity. 

I think that I read something, somewhere, sometime about America being rich in natural resources that were exploited by capitalists which created America’s prosperity.  Yes, I am sure that I read that somewhere, sometime.  Please excuse the sarcasm, but I couldn’t help it.

All of which doesn’t even touch on the issue raised by Easton’s article.  Namely, that Obama has flip flopped yet again.  This time on his stance on business.  During the primaries, Obama was the champion of the down trodden and the oppressed.  Now, he is the pro-growth champion of the business class that keeps everyone employed. 

Perhaps the only thing that can rival the frequency of Barak’s stupid statements are his flip flops on policy positions. It’s hard to determine which happens more, the number of stupid things Obama says in a given week or how many policy reversals he makes.

Late last week, the internet was abuzz with the news that Barak Obama was launching his first campaign ad of the general election.  There were several MSM spins to the story. 

First, Obama was widening the battlefield because the ads were run in 18 states.  Second, Obama had so much money that he could afford to run the big ad campaign.  Third, Obama was going to introduce himself to the public that had not been paying attention during the primary.

Unfortunately for the Obama campaign, the ad contained a lie about his record in the Senate.  According to Yuval Levin of the National Review Online, in the 46^th second of the 60 second ad, Obama claims to have “passed laws” that extended healthcare for wounded troops who’d been neglected.

The ad cited “Public Law 110-181 1/28/08, as proof of the assertion.  Except that Barak Obama never even voted on that law.  He was one of six Senators absent that day. 

As well, even though he did offer some amendments to the legislation, none were adopted.  He couldn’t even pass amendments to legislation that he now claims that he “passed”.  The only thing it looks like Obama passed was gas on this legislation.

So now, we have Obama’s introduction to the nation as nothing short of a political liar.  Levin calls it “padding the resume”. But that is just a euphemism for lying.  To boot, it shows that Obama wasn’t even a leader in the Senate.  

How in good conscience can we ask him to lead the free world?  

I have not seen the video referred to in this column.  It’s the video of Barak Obama explaining his decision to break his word on public financing and opt out of the system.

But Mark Shields of PBS has seen the video.  He claims that Obama was so unconvincing that he looked like someone who was being kept hostage somewhere.  Did you get that? Obama was described as looking like a hostage.

As well, Dorothy Wickenden, writing for The New Yorker claims that Obama was dissatisfied with his campaign slogan of “Change We Can Believe In”.  If he didn’t like his slogan, why was it his slogan?  Couldn’t Obama simply told his campaign staff, I don’t like this slogan,  change it?

It’s getting harder to believe that Barak Obama is his own man.  Each day the evidence mounts that he is the talking head for the radical, left wing fringe in this country.

Now that I have returned to writing for CE, I have promised to focus on national and international issues.  As some may have noticed, most of my writing has been about Barak Obama and precious little else.

That’s because at the moment, all conservative roads lead to the junior Senator from Illinois.  On every national and international issue, Barak Obama presents the anti-thesis of conservative thought.

Obama wants a windfall profit’s tax on oil companies.  Conservatives want smaller government.  Obama is against domestic drilling.  Conservatives want to open ANWR.  Obama wants government to regulate the pay of CEO’s.  Conservatives believe that is an issue between the shareholders and the Board of Directors.

Obama wants to tax “the rich”.  Conservatives want fair taxes.  Obama wants the government running health care.  Conservatives want the free market to prevail.  Obama wants to increase spending on government run schools.  Conservatives favor vouchers.

Obama wants to abandon Iraq.  Conservatives want victory in Iraq.  Obama thinks we should react to terrorism with jury trials. Conservatives think that we should take the fight to terrorists before they can act. 

In every area, Obama is out in front, leading the far left wing agenda.  It will be difficult to address an issue between now and Novemeber that doesn’t involve Obama.  He is the central figure. Conservatives must take the offensive.

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