Suicide Pact?
So I’m sure we all listened to the speech by Barack Obama Thursday evening.
The man can give a speech of that there is no doubt. Apparently someone on MSNBC even described the speech as being a symphony.
Beyond the style, the theater of the speech… did we pay attention to the content?
Some heard a beautiful Utopian score playing ever so softly in the back ground, some heard a chorus of angelic beings.
I heard a promise of a rush to Socialism. I heard a speech that would have made FDR and Johnson rise from their resting places and cheer.
I heard money being pulled right out of my wallet and yours. I heard even more companies shutting their doors.
I heard government choosing curriculum for all levels of education. I in fact heard the promise of ‘re-education’.
Do you think government is going to provide higher education for all citizens and not dictate the curriculum…
don’t fool yourself.
Do not fool yourself into thinking that once ‘universal’ health care is provided that government will not then also hold your very health in it’s hands.
Too old or too sick for this surgery… etc.
Let’s not forget how he intends to make us a “green” nation (the Republicans have reportedly added a “green” plank to their platform btw..).
A Kyoto treaty and those similar have within them the ability to turn modern nations into third world countries in short order.
I found myself in this same place when Gore ran, I did not like George Bush but was very worried about what Gore would do were he elected.
So, while I voted for Alan Keyes in the primaries I had felt I no choice but to vote for Bush in the general.
Again I found myself in the same place next time around, didn’t want Bush but didn’t want Kerry.
Here I am again, I like McCain even less than Bush, but what to do?
I truely believe that Obama is more than capable and more than willing to transform this nation into something it should not be.
Something it was never intended to be.
He not only can but I believe likely will destroy this nation.
If I do like so many conservatives and party Republicans are planning to do (not vote for McCain to teach the party and the nation a lesson), then I may well loose my country.
If I do vote for McCain then I have also voted for a person I do not agree with (though I am more inline with McCain than with Obama) and who I also think is bad for this country.
Either way am I entering a suicide pact with others?
If I vote do not vote for McCain then I do my part to assure the nation is socialized. If I do vote for McCain then I do my part to assure the nation is socialized… at a slower pace.
Am I really doing anything to protect my nation by not voting for McCain? Am I doing anything to protect my nation by voting for him?
Back At The Keyboard
So after about a two year break I am back blogging again.
I am out of practice and am not finding the smart aleck remarks coming as easily as I once did.
But, I still have a big fat mouth and like to shoot it off. I’m just not going to shoot it off as much as I did with my original blog (which was of the same name). It was not rare for me to post four or five times a day, I expect three to four times a week to be the norm here.
Because I will not be posting as much I don’t expect to generate the same amount of traffic as I once did either, I just want a respectable little blog.
Charles Barkley Doesn’t Trust Me
Charles Barkley is one of my all time favorite sports figures. I think he was a fantastic basketball player. I loved watching him play, he gave me goose bumps the way Jordan gave others goose bumps.
One of the things I really like about him was his big mouth. The things that would come out of this guy’s mouth very often rang true and would crack me up.
Yesterday though, out of the blue Barkley insulted me for no reason. Heck I don’t even know the guy.
Okay maybe I’ve taken his comments more personal then they were intended, but I still find his remarks insulting.
What remarks?
These remarks:
(Barkley) says the big question is whether or not white voters will trust a black man. “Once you’re inside that little voting booth, try and see Obama as a man, not a black man.”
Earlier in the same interview he had said the following:
“I want to make it clear that if I didn’t think he could do the job, I wouldn’t vote for him. I think Obama would make a fantastic president.”
So let me understand.
Charles is 100 percent able to choose to vote for Mr. Obama because he believes Obama would make a fantastic president rahter than because of the color of Mr. Obamas skin; I however (because I am pasty white) may well be unable to look past skin color and may well vote against Obama because I may be unable to trust a black man.
I do not trust Obama not because of his skin color, I do not trust Obama because of his world-view his ideology. I will not vote for Obama for the very same reasons I did not vote for Gore and Kerry.
For the record I have in fact twice voted in the general election for a black man for president.
I know, I know, he is an “Uncle Tom”… heard it one hundred times. I however think that Alan Keyes is a brilliant human being, color of that human being playing no part what so ever.
The overall point being I am not an idiot and I know that his comment was simply a not so well veiled way of calling whites who will not vote for Obama racists.
Nice that Barkley knows he will do the right thing in the voting booth for the right reasons while he also suspects I will do the wrong thing in the voting booth for the wrong reasons.