"Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely"
Disillusioned by the hijacking of the Democratic Primary by ultra-liberal party leaders with the aid of the NBC, CNN, and MSNBC news organizations, I've moved from a long time docile moderate Democratic to an Independent with a twinge of activism.
I hope - like Obama, I have hope too - in some small way to marginalize the EXTREMISTS in both parties, and stop the incidious and destructive shifts in our Government from Left to Right and back again. Through the expression of recorded facts, practical versus emotional reasoning and outreach, I hope to encourage a virtual coalition of moderates to vote in the best interests of this great Nation and not the interests of their party. The Nation's interests are not always served by their party's thirst for power to better serve their special interest groups; and their gain is often at the expense of the Nation and those of us in the middle who ultimately get to carry the load. Because each political party's interests are at extreme with each other, it is the moderate voters who must ensure that neither party, unless the candidate is a confirmed moderate and leader, gains concurrent control of both the Legislative and Executive Branches of the Government. Make no mistake about it, absolute power results in either a far right, Georg Bush Government or far left, Jimmy Carter Government, neither of which best serves this Nation. On the other hand, equal power results in a more unified Nation (isn't unity Obama's pitch?) because both extremes must negotiate, and the compromise never favors either extreme. When both parties are part of the negotiation, while neither party is fully satisfied, it's also true that neither party is fully disatisfied. And only when both parties are somewhat satisfied, is the Nation's best interests served, along with those of us in the middle. Following this logic McCain should get your vote whether you lean Democrat or you lean Republican. Think about it!
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"Barack Obama is a fraud. " says Greg Sheridan, top foreign affairs analyst and Australian journalist, in an article published, August 30, 2008 in the The Austrailian: http://tinyurl.com/68bfy5
Now that's real Breaking News! Most of us who've read the Chicago newspapers or have heard Obama explain his relationships with his criminal, terrorist, and cleric friends and supporters, already knew that.
Sheridan goes on to make his case saying Obama's "a traditional left-liberal, obsessed, at least in his public life, with race."
Speaking of Volume 1 of his autobiography, Dreams from My Father, Sheridan writes:
The memoir works at lots of different levels but is best seen as a campaign document. One of the most notable things about it is how obsessed Obama is with the question of race.
He has built the momentum of his campaign on the most dubious basis that can exist in a democracy for garnering political support, racial identity.
He favoured racial gerrymandering, commenting to a Chicago newspaper: "An incumbent African-American legislator with a 90 per cent district may feel good about his re-election chances, but we as a community would probably be better off if we had two African-American legislators with 60 per cent each."
Sheridan also adds,
"It is important to emphasise there is nothing inherently wicked in the positions Obama was arguing. They are legitimate positions within the democratic debate. But they are a million miles from the post-racial, post-partisan figure that he wants to project. Fair enough. No doubt he's changed. But the Obama narrative doesn't say he's changed, it just ignores all his previous positions. "
I guess it is frightening for foreigners to think that the US elecotorate could elect a fraud, but then it certainly won't be the first time. It will however, be the first time they've done so already knowing the facts....he confounded all the smartest judges of American politics, whether liberal or conservative.
...the very cynicism and skill of this exercise that suggests to me Obama could yet make an effective president.
All data points to an enormous Obama win.
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