Predictions

Once again we face a Presidential election of extreme importance. Re-electing Bush in 2004 only pushed the critical decision forward 4 years. The last similar election was in 1964, an election that resulted in the Vietnam War and a huge increase in the welfare state that is still with us.

If Obama is elected, the risk of North Korea and especially Iran becoming nuclear powers will increase enormously. In fact, the risk from Iran will be so great that Israel might well launch a pre-emptive strike BEFORE Obama takes office.

If Obama is elected, appeasement of terrorists will become the policy of the United States. The subsequent increase of terrorist activity will lead to the inevitable use of a nuclear device by the terrorists. The target of that attack will be either the United States or Israel. If Israel, they will retaliate against Arab capitals that very day. If the US, it will take a little longer, but the public will demand and get a nuclear response as well.

If Obama is elected, his Iraq policy will undermine the government there to the extent that in the end a militant Islamic government will be installed in Baghdad. The Saudi royals will see the writing on the wall or be toppled from power. Other gulf states will fall one by one, until all are in the hands of the radical mullahs. Result: control of the world oil supply in militant hands. Obama (or his successor) will be forced to send US forces back to the region. This time the war will be about oil, and we may not win.

If Obama is elected, the politics of hate and fear will be emboldened to the point that any remaining civil discourse will be drowned out. We are already past the point where the important issues - Social Security, Crime, Medical care, immigration, even the war on terror - can be discussed without scare tactics and personal attacks. It will get much worse.

If Obama is elected, the MSM bias will win an enormous victory. They will have successfully promoted a man who otherwise would still be a very junior Senator to the highest office in the land. All pretense of an unbiased press will be abandoned. The government will then press to eliminate the ‘new media’ and talk radio through regulation, leaving the far left in total control of information in this country.

If Obama is elected, every American taxpayer will pay more taxes, both directly and in the higher costs of goods and services. The democrats will not be able to resist the opportunity to enact their long held wish to ‘sock it to the rich’ and reinstitute the welfare state, even in the face of the coming recession. The economic result will be devastating.

If Obama is elected, the federal government will take control of health care in this country. Now imagine an organization with all the skill of the Postal Service and the Transportation Safety Administration in control of doctors and hospitals. Imagine airport like lines at doctor’s offices. Imagine Nurses all members of the government workers union. Imagine lab reports with the same accuracy as mail delivery.

If Obama is elected, the activist judges he appoints will move the country further away from traditional values. They will find constitutional mandates for everything from gay 'marriage' to taxing churches. At the very least, the older liberal members of the court will depart, allowing Obama to replace them with others who will prolong the current madness many years into the future. If for some reason one of the conservative judges should leave, the court would move far to the left.

You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

Ever since 9/11 we have heard accusations that the Bush Administration would use the powers of the government to spy on and intimidate Americans. So far I have not seen a single credible report that something like that has actually happened.

But if there is a Obama Administration there will be no such accusations. But there will be actual spying and intimidation - because 'Joe the Plumber' has already been spied on and attempts made to intimidate him - and they aren't even in office yet. But their cohorts in Ohio state government have already searched privileged databases to dig up dirt on this private citizen.

"Just you wait, Henry Higgins! Just you wait!"

Hello! READ A BOOK media!

Stephen Spruiell on Mark Foley & Media on National Review Online has it right. I'm so sick and tired of the media not distinguishing from the admittedly creepy and wierd but NOT sexual emails that Foley sent pages and that the leadership knew about and did something about and the sick twisted and evil Instant Messages that they found out about last week. Doesn't the AP have at least one person who knows the difference? Hastert didn't know about the im's - how could he? They disappear into the ether when you log off, unlike emails which last forever. To save an IM actually takes a little effort (or so I remember - I haven't IM'd in forever - I go old school and use the "phone"). Which begs the question - who had these, and why haven't they released them before now. Shouldn't a predator like Foley been removed immediately by whoever had these and not when it was politically best for the Democrats?

Day by Day

You may not realize it, but we have a "funnies" section at the bottom of the site featuring "Day by Day" a great political strip. Anyway, today's is great, so check it out. You can also go to the Day by Day site and back track to today if you are reading this after the strip has changed.

Hello, media, he's the POPE

This stuff always cracks me up :Pope statement not enough: Muslim Brotherhood��International News��Reuters.com. First off, the moral equivalency between the POPE and the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD is lunacy, but second of all, do the MSM folks realize that the Pope CAN'T apologize, because he can't admit he did anything wrong. HE'S INFALLIBLE! HE'S THE POPE! It's sort of a definition thing, guys. This is like them taking a poll and saying "65% of Americans think you should have lesbian priests, why not change to that?"

I'm not catholic, but you have to give them credit for standing firm in the face of a gale of conformity.

About time!

Well, here it is, the first Dem I've seen to blast the Bush snuff film, Death of a President: Sen. Hillary Clinton blasts Bush assassination film.

Now just wait for the left wing bloggers to annihilate her for it.

I'm a bad blogger

I can admit it - I am a terrible blogger, having violated one of the cardinal rules, which is to post something fairly often. I hope to start up with regular posts again, I've just been very busy with "real life". Hope to have something new up soon.

RMR

The turning of the tide

This article - Steele gaining blacks' support highlights one of the problems that I see with the current media coverage of the fall election - they are telling the story based on old assumptions. They act like this will be 1994, that "all the same indicators are there".

Pardon me, but did they catch all of these "obvious indicators" the first time? I don't remember that - they called it a "temper tantrum" (Peter Jennings said that) and a fluke. 12 years later it's an obvious thing that everyone saw coming. 12 years ago, the contract with America didn't matter because noone really knew what it said - now the Dem's have to have one and there are articles written about it.

This trend of Republican African American candidates is a big story that people will start to look back at this first decade of the 21st century and say that's when it started. The problem for the Dem's is that there is no way to go for them with African Americans but down - how do you go up from 90%. And the fact is, all the ideas for moving minorities forward in our economy, etc. are on the Republican side. From Welfare Reform to Educational options to Empowerment zones in the inner city, like or not, we at least have a plan. The Welfare reform plan was even tried and it worked liked crazy - and had to be passed three times to get Clinton to sign it (now he takes credit for it of course).

The Democrat ideas are to complain and spend more on keeping minorities in poverty. Republicans are pushing programs for minorities to own their own homes - Dems are building new and prettier housing projects "now with yoga!". I think that many African Americans are waking up to realize that the Dem's shouldn't own their vote - the civil rights era is over and now they want to know that their kids are in good schools and that their 401k is going to be ok.

Watch out, Dem's. You might have to actually EARN the African American vote pretty soon.

Gee, I wish I had written this...

Andrew C. McCarthy on War on National Review Online

David