Acolytes of Obama

The press corps travelling with Obama are his acolytes as are the retinue of journalists shadowing McCain. They are Obama's true believers who have protected him from scrutiny and criticism. When Nancy Reagan purchased the White House new china (with private contributions if memory serves), national networks and local editorial boards castigated the callous Republicans who could have fed a thousand homeless, housed dispossessed families, or sent poor scholars through university with the lucre wasted on the extravagant porcelain. When Obama's wife spends a fortune on an afternoon snack of lobster, caviar, and Champagne at the Waldorf using campaign funds, there is hardly a peep. More investigation is devoted to a plumber who Obama visited canvassing on a p.r. plunge than has been done on the Democratic ticket with Obama's questionable associations and Biden's evident nepotism. The media practitioners of malpractice include the major networks with entertainers joining the one-sided sport. These execrable flacks can not hide their bias. Offal Olbermann even injects invective into sportscasts. Bill Maher praised the courage of the September 11 mass murderers with a backhanded slap to our own military. Charlie Gibson said a 14 year old girl who aspired to be a suicide bomber was "brave" instead of warped, deluded, and brainwashed. Even the network morning shows have been proclaiming tough economic times and recession helping create self-fulfilling prophecy for years to try to do fatal damage to the Republican brand. These people mock normal values, religious traditions, and they think they are better than you. Prove them wrong on November 4.

Power to Destroy

Obama has promised to spread the wealth by raising taxes (but only on those earning $250,000 per annum-a fiction). This measure will only spread the misery by punishing productivity and thwarting job creation. Even in the Soviet Union, there was a privileged class, politboro members, high ranking military and KGB officers, and their cronies who had ready access to luxuries unknown to other Soviet citizens. In an Obama administration, the poor will not be lifted up, but pain will be spread to everyone but his graft partners (like Tony Rezko who Obama will surely pardon) as added revenue flowing into the Treasury and massive New Deal-like projects enable the Obama cadre to dip into the til in the Daley machine tradition. These enormous new expenditures by government and Obama's voracious tax policy will not raise the economy out of recession but could cause a worldwide depression. So who will benefit from Obama? His immediate circle-those corrupt Illinois Democratic politicians, questionable money men like Rezko, and Obama allies like the terrorist Ayres who aided Obama's rise. Democratic politicians such as Tennessee's notorious John Ford will almost surely receive pardons. In pre-Obama America, anyone could rise-not because of our diversity or abundance of natural resources but because of our freedom.In Obama's America, that "City on a Hill" will be lost.