The Final Furlong

The old warhorse and the colt are nearing the finish line. The feedbag of hope and change may overwhelm experience and wisdom. Hope for what and change how? Economies are cyclic and capitalism has served America well. A cascade of redistribution and ever more intrusive regulation will not cure our ills. Rationed care will stifle research and prevent expensive treatment and transplants. A cascade of bureaucracy and hiring of multitudes of government workers to administer it will break small business. The 143 day wonder will crumble if Red China moves against Taiwan and Putin will be able to assert Russian hegemony at will. If Barney Frank's 25% drop in the military budget is adopted (a peace dividend with no peace), reenlistment will dry up and volunteers will shy away. This will necessitate conscription. Jihadism will be redoubled by our precipitous withdrawal from Iraq. Our First and Second Amendment will be compromised with national laws against hate speech, mandating of hiring of homosexuals by religious organizations, silencing of preaching against alternative lifestyles, forced acceptance of homosexual marriage by the various and several states, and enough regulation of guns and ammunition to make protecting one's family next to impossible. Obama will introduce sentencing reform that will release thousands of prisoners and unleash them on the ever more defenseless public. Obama will end free, fair trade, alter NAFTA, and open our borders to hordes of illegal immigrants and inevitably some of those crossing will be terrorists and drug dealers. Fortunately, some of the foreigners will self-deport with America's rapid decline. Companies will move abroad or close, unemployment will skyrocket, and many working Americans will be forced on the dole and the ignominy of government rationing of food which will become more scarce with the mandated production of more ethanol to fight the global warming bogeyman. Our flagging education system will slip further into the realm of leftist indoctrination with charter schools and vouchers ending. On July 4, 1776, our forefathers brought forth our perfect union. On November 4,2008, try not to ruin it.

Calumny and Catastrophe

After last night's debate, Obama was characterized by much of the media as "cool". He was in fact arrogant, unaffected, and without empathy. Here is a millionaire who allows his own half-brother to suffer on a twelve dollar a year income in a mud hut in Kenya. If this is how he treats his flesh and blood, what concern will he show for everyday Americans? America is not a flaw posing as a nation but the country that has liberated more people than every polity on earth (including fifty million Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan). More foreigners wish to enter America than anywhere else. At election time, elitists threaten to leave for France if Republicans are victorious. Few do, but Mexicans, Haitians, Cubans, and Chinese risk their lives every day to try to share our prosperity and freedom. Millions have come here, tens have fled. Even those Americans who are poor today know that they can fufill their aspirations to be rich with the opportunity that capitalist freedom offers. Obama claims our healthcare system is broken, but Jordan's King Hussein, who could have gone anywhere, sought treatment at America's Cleveland Clinics. Democrats claimed Christopher Reeve would walk again if they were elected. Just yesterday a study in Washington state said paralysis might be cured someday. The study was conduted under our fee for service medical system, not under the Obama plan which will result in rationed care as it has in Britain and Canada. After the Tsar was deposed, Mencheviks and Bolsheviks attempted power sharing. Mencheviks brought pens and paper to civic meetings, Bolsheviks brought pistols. America can not countenance Obama having a monopoly on force.