Dan Maffei “As long as we bring a new direction, even if we don’t accomplish everything at once” the change-hungry masses will be satisfied.

He didn’t specify what direction he and his fellow Democrats plan to take us, but he’s previously mentioned a need to get back to Keynesian economics. That’s not exactly reassuring. This change in direction may well lead to the road to serfdom.

Jonah Goldberg questions the wisdom of change for the sake of change. He also wonders about the push to have the lazy and uninformed vote in great numbers. Read Election Questions No One Asks

Now that the United States of America has elected her first Marxist president, it is time to start hoping.

Let’s hope that Barack Obama’s love of self is greater than his love of radical ideology. It took a lot for him to get where he is. Is he wise enough to throw the far left radicals who helped elect him under the bus?

Let’s hope the 1st Amendment survives this administration. Let’s hope that the Civilian National Security Force doesn’t target those of us who disagree with our new Dear Leader.

If he and the Congress do plunge us into a deep recession, or worse yet a depression, let’s hope the American people will have the wisdom to place the blame where it belongs. Let’s hope the American people won’t be willing to give up their liberty and freedom for false promises of economic security.

Let’s hope that Joe Biden was lying when he said Dear Leader will be tested and will fail that test.

Let’s hope that those of us who don’t want to be wards of the state will teach our children that with freedom comes responsibility. We are just as free to fail as we are to succeed. When we make mistakes we pay for those mistakes and we learn from them.

Let’s hope that the Republicans that survived the slaughter will grow themselves some spines and start standing up for us. They must raise their voices and do whatever they can to put the reigns on Obama, Pelosi and Reid.

And finally, let’s hope that those of you who voted for hope are not too terribly disappointed when your hopes are once again dashed.

I am an American and I want change.
I want to fix the good things that are broken not throw them away.

I am an American and I have hope.
I believe in the future and I don’t believe someone else has the right to tell me what that future should be.

I am an American and I help my fellow man.
I give my time and my money my way to help others regardless of gender, race, religion, or nationality.

I am an American and I stand tall in the world.
I know what America has given the world.

I am an American and I can think for myself.
I can tell the difference between words and actions.

I am an American and I expect to be held accountable.
I don’t expect someone else to pay for my mistakes, raise my family, or pay my bills.

I am an American and I am patriotic.
I pledged an oath to protect my country and I backed it up with my blood and my treasure.

I am an American and I have a choice.
I choose John McCain.

Who said it? Barack Obama, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mossulini, Idi Amin, Fidel Castro or Joseph Stalin?

1-The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.

2-It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

3-Unity is the great need of the hour.

4-Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division;and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

5-Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

6-As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

7-I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here.

8-I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the Almighty Creator.

9-All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Godess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

10-Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

11-This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

12-I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating…because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

13-People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

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If you are an American and you are just so fed up with politics and the economy this year you may be inclined to stay home on November 4^th and rent a movie. I can share your feelings about the state of the nation in many ways. What we should all do is take a deep breath, get out the family album and enjoy a few minutes of fond memories.

Once you’ve had the chance to shake off the hype and spin take stock in the things going on out there that don’t have to do with the candidates and their campaigns directly. Ask yourself what effect the presidential race is having on the country, your workplace, your neighbors and ask what we may have to look forward to in the next four years.

You don’t have to look too far. Just this past week we bore witness to an unrelenting attack on a fellow human being. What did he do? He asked a question. What was so bad about that? You be the judge. Think about it. Could it happen to you? What if you don’t want that new interchange in your neighborhood, or are unhappy with a school board decision? Is it possible that you will get the same treatment? Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve received quite a few comments from people who really believe that wealth re-distribution and government takeover of the economy is a good thing. For the life of me I will never understand why. I do research, trying to find places where socialists have gained control and I only find misery.

And calling yourself a capitalist while spouting socialist rhetoric doesn’t make you any less of a socialist. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks-it’s probably a duck. Read the rest of this entry »

Looking ahead at the effects of a potential Obama presidency it occurred to me that the outcome may be the same for his supporters whether he wins or loses. It is possible that in either case there will be wide scale discontent. 

You might ask, “If he wins wouldn’t there be a general euphoria? Certainly the Democrat’s stars would be in alignment.” Following wins in the House of Representatives and the Senate, a Democrat in the White House would mean that for the first time in a very long the ideology of their party would be on solid legislative footing.  Read the rest of this entry »