Senator Obama has consistently expounded a deeply held belief in the equality of results over the equality of opportunities. He is committed to the idea that the state, should be responsible not just to create an environment where individuals can control their own destiny but that the state should guaranty a certain destiny which is largely uniform. His allegiance is not so much to the middle class as it is to a single class the boundaries of which are defined and controlled by the State. By any but the most narrow of definitions that is the sum and substance of Socialism, even if John McCain can’t bring himself to say it to the MSM.
That is a radical change for America although it is certainly not a new idea. If that idea worked there would be no social discord in Europe. To read the MSM, there is nothing but love at home in the EU. Those who have spent time in Europe know this is not the case.
How many times have you heard the “man on the street” manifest his intention to vote for Barack Obama because, well, he just sounds Presidential. They get a kind of vacant glassy eyed look and mumble something about how he looks the part of a President.
There is a lot more to Barack Obama than meets the eye and apparently, the mind, of the swing voter who estimates the duties of the president to be somewhere between Game Show host and News Anchor.
Senator Obama and the DNC have a well articulated plan and it looks something like this . . .
Liberals on CNN and MSNBC are foaming because Sarah Palin asked the congregation of her Pentocostal Church in Wasila, Alaska, to pray for US Soldiers in harms way.
For liberals this constitutes a logical argument to the effect that Palin is unfit to govern. In liberal speak, praying for the men and women who leave the comforts of home and family and risk their lives to protect our freedoms and our way of life is “controversial.”
This thinking betrays two fundamental misunderstandings about the Christian philosophy, expounded in the Bible and deeply held by a majority of Americans. First, there is a God and it is not in harmony with His teaching that a strong people should stand by and watch as a weaker people are victimized. Second it is incumbent upon God’s children to learn His will and follow it.
Agree or disagree with Palin’s religious point of view but knowing she holds these two assertions to be true, her request to the Wasila Church of God represents integrity not kookiness. Liberal’s blind fear of anything like overt Christianity continues to separate them from mainstream America.
Rachel Maddow borrowed some lines from her old Air America buddy Al Franken, calling McCain and Palin Lying liars with their pants ( and skirt ) on fire .
With Keith out, Rachel was compeltely unplugged. It’s hard, watching this tirade, not to remember Wolf Blitzer, Campbell Brown and company licking their wounds the night of Palin’s speech and talking about how mean the Republicans were.
McCain has put himself in an impossible situation and reminded the conservative base, again, why he makes them so uncomfortable.
Today he introduced his Vice Presidential Candidate as an affirmative action play targeted at disaffected female Hillary supporters reluctant to embrace the Obama-Biden ticket. Since when was the Republican party the party of affirmative action?
Sarah Palin will resonate with Republicans. She typifies government of the people, by the people and for the people. She sincerely believes in principles and ideals that are dearly held by bedrock conservatives such as the value of human life, the perils of expansive government and common-sense energy policy.
However, conservatives and McCain supporters who have for some time been pointing to Senator Obama’s lack of experience are now in the awkward position of having to argue that Govenor Palin’s lack of experience is not an issue, which it obviously is. It demands explanation. Why not select a more tenured partner with so much at stake? Because she is a woman? That would bring us very close to being just like liberals who say that we should elect Barack Obama because he is black, as though that will prove something. The logical extension of these arguments is farcical. It’s like the breathless announcements we hear that so and so is the first latino woman with double jointed thumbs to swim the English Channel or the first black man to summit Everst in June wearing no socks.
Liberals like to talk about conservatives lack of sensitivity to the opinions of our neighbors around the world. They are usually desperate to impress the French but as long as we are talking about the issue, what message does this send to enlightened foreigners like Vladimir Putin, Hugo Chavez, Hu Jintao and Mahmud Ahmaddinejad? This is not Margaret Thatcher.
As a conservative I appreciate having an actual conservative on the Republican ticket but we are still the party of pragmatism and realism. This is not who we would have picked as the second in command. What if McCain wins, will the RNC be supporting and Sarah Palin presidential bid?
Republicans have been quick to crticize Obama’s accceptance speech in Denver and rightly so. It was style and spectacle over substance. It was marketing to the lowest common denominator. It was MTV and Pop Tart commercials. Unfortunately McCain’s selection partakes of the same strategy. There are some cracks in the argument.
A week ago the Democrats were exultant about the selection of Senator Joe Biden as Barack Obama’s running mate and potentially the next Vice President of the United States. Senator Obama had exercised wisdom and judgment by selecting someone with experience, wisdom and judgment, someone with the all important gravitas that Democrats crave. Biden’s selection was yet one more reason the well informed should vote for Obama.
Today, the same pundits are now twisting in the other direction saying the election is all about the top of the ticket. The VP was momentous for Obama but it’s irrelevant for McCain? Liberals are way too comfortable delivering and accepting these kinds of intellectual contradictions wheh it’s politically expedient.
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