anchorcheck Wrote:
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> No Country for Old Men
>
> The following is my answer to another poster on a
> message board which follows the stock of a small
> wind turbine company. The posters are a long time
> established group, familiar with each other, and
> occasionally they get into political discussions.
> One of the posters told me that I should write as
> a commentator. Well, that’s not going to happen,
> but I thought I would post this on a political
> discussion board, where it might create some
> interest.
>
> The exchange started when I said I might move to
> Iceland or Croatia if Obama gets elected. OK, I
> was half joking. But, who knows?
>
> I have embellished my original post to make a
> fuller case, and I am known as a very lengthy
> writer. So, read this if you have the wherewithal
> to get through a long post.
>
>
> RICHIE:
>
> Anchorcheck, get a grip. It would take a massive
> switch to get McCain elected, now.
>
> You need to quit watching FIX news. Could you
> repeat your claim that you would move to Iceland
> if Obama gets elected, for the record?
>
>
> ANCHORCHECK:
>
> Richie, it may look grim for McCain this past
> week, but I just read an article pointing out that
> there has already been a couple of massive swings
> in the polls over the past many weeks.
>
> Remember the "Bradley Effect", too. Try running
> those interactive electoral maps I posted by
> adding in 3 to 5 points for McCain in the
> battleground states. I have. McCain wins. Maybe
> even big.
>
> And then there is the potential movement back to
> McCain. Americans just might still be having some
> considerable misgivings about Obama, as he still
> remains hopelessly vague and quite a mystery man,
> with little accomplishment.
>
> Is Obama the most hard left candidate to ever run
> for the presidency? I think the answer is easily
> yes. This is why the democrats are insisting that
> looking into Obama’s past is “not fair”, or dirty
> politics. But, they sent a few score of lawyers up
> to Alaska to try to uncover dirt on Palin, yet her
> past has been pretty much an open book. Obama’s
> past is filled with radical activist and socialist
> associations. And that is what is being hidden.
> And the media has simply ignored this glaring
> issue.
>
> The democrat’s mantra is "No more Bush!". We have
> heard that stupid mantra from the Bush haters for
> years and years. It is quite tiresome and silly,
> and maybe, just maybe, voters are not capitulating
> into lockstep with these democrat’s delusions that
> Bush is the devil. Some of the democrats even want
> to try Bush for war crimes! Thus, it appears that
> many of the hard left democrats, even Pelosi,
> suffer from ABDS (Anti-Bush Dysfunction Syndrome).
>
>
> Voters may simply not believe that McCain and Bush
> are linked, or that there is anything really
> relevant about hating Bush. As Sarah Palin pointed
> out in her debate, trying to link McCain to hatred
> of Bush is just looking backwards. We need to move
> on. This election is about the future. The country
> faces big issues, and needs sober leadership.
>
> Iraq is not really an issue anymore. Essentially,
> we have won, you know. The “Surge” accomplished
> this, which McCain bravely pushed, while the
> democrats brayed that Iraq was an American defeat,
> and put it front and center as the issue which
> they would use to win the coming presidential
> election.
>
> Well, that scenario didn’t work the way the
> democrats thought it would.
>
> Now, with Iraq, we just need to ensure that we
> don’t snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, and
> withdraw abruptly and give the terrorists a chance
> to undue what our soldiers sacrificed for. That
> would be a travesty for those brave young men and
> women who fought and some who died.
>
> Then there is the factor of the voter’s tradition
> of not giving one party both the presidency AND
> the legislative branch. And you do recall that the
> Congress has a favorable rating close to that of
> Hitler during the battle of Berlin, don't you? Is
> it in the single digits yet? Pelosi is a dried up
> Wicked Witch of the West compared to our perky
> Sarah Palin. Sarah could be wearing ruby slippers,
> maybe, and just needs to click her heels together
> to make things better.
>
> Pelosi actually turned out the lights in Congress
> on those republican congressmen who wanted to
> debate the issue of drilling for oil and gas right
> here in America! She did this even knowing that,
> clearly, the vast majority of Americans want to
> “drill baby drill!”. I think the democrats are so
> enamored of politically correct ideology, that
> they actually want oil prices to remain high, just
> to make their pet alternative energy projects more
> competitive with oil and gas produced right here
> in America! And, unlike Palin and McCain, the
> democrats just don’t want nuclear energy revived.
> The democrats were the ones who killed the nuclear
> energy industry 30 years ago. Now here we are with
> no nuclear pants being built in the past 30 years,
> and France gets 80% of their energy from nuclear!
> That’s what aligning yourself with the
> environmental extremists got them…...and,
> unfortunately, us too!
>
> Everyone is for SANE alternative energy. But the
> logical response to our energy crisis is to use
> true science to find the best methods to
> transition to them, not politically correct
> ideology which seeks to jettison oil, gas, coal
> and nuclear energy. That is just insane.
>
> I am hoping that some type of "Swift Boat"
> campaign will soon be launched to bring out the
> exceedingly strange background of your hero,
> Obama. The media certainly is not doing their job
> in examining Obama’s past. You do realize that he
> has actually had very little experience in
> governance, quite a bit less than Palin, who the
> democrats decry as being woefully
> unqualified…..for the VICE presidency!
>
> Go look up and compare Palin’s political career
> and Obama’s on Wikipedia. Palin started her
> governmental career in 1992 on the Wasila City
> counsel board. Obama was a leftist political
> activist in Chicago at that time. Palin then
> became mayor of Wasila for two terms, while it
> wasn’t until 1997 that Obama became a state
> legislator in Springfield, the Illinois capital.
> Obama served as a state legislator to 2004, then
> ran for US senator. He won that race when his
> campaign successfully got the divorce records of
> his opponent released publicly, and it was
> revealed that his opponent had asked his wife to
> accompany him to a sex club. Obama’s opponent had
> to withdraw from the race over the embarrassment,
> and Obama won easily in the disarray of his
> opponent’s candidacy.
>
> Obama began his senate term in January 2005. In
> February of 2007 he began his campaign for the
> presidency.
>
> Palin’s record is pretty well known, by now, with
> all the scrutiny. Her record has been quite
> transparent, I think. When she won her campaign
> for governor of Alaska on a reform ticket, she
> beat the incumbent republican governor in the
> primary, and then went on to beat a former
> democratic governor of Alaska, even though she was
> greatly outspent by him. Early in her
> governorship, her favorable ratings were polled as
> high as 93%, and she still remains the most
> popular governor in the US, by far.
>
> Here is a question for you. Has there ever been a
> less qualified candidate for president as Obama?
> Has there ever been a candidate which even
> remotely approaches Obama's apparent extreme
> radical background?
>
> You democrats are trying to sabotage Governor
> Palin across the internet and the media as being a
> stupid hick from Alaska. But, she clearly has more
> practical, as well as executive experience, than
> Obama.
>
> Obama's main experience appears to be a very fluid
> familiarity with all things radical, leftist,
> politically correct, and blackly militant.
> Somehow, I don't view that type of background as
> being useful or relevant. In fact, I, and I am
> sure most Americans, view that type of a
> background as being a DISQUALIFICATION to be
> president.
>
> That 20 year dalliance in the Black Liberation,
> "hate whitey" church fits very neatly within
> Obama's history. I am looking for the "swift boat"
> to properly "out" this arrogant leftist in sheep's
> clothing. Then lets do the polls.
>
> The media has simply had a “hands off” approach to
> reporting Obama’s disturbing background. But, you
> can find plenty about it on the internet. Here’s
> two links:
>
> An "Obama Timeline" at:
> [url]http:///id41.html[/url]
>
> A sobering list of "What Obama would do..." at:
> [url]http:///id35.html[/url]
>
>
> There has been very little of an expose of Obama
> which has not been "swiftly" minimalized by the
> Obama fawning media. Take Obama’s association with
> the former Weatherman terrorist, Bill Ayers. The
> media has just dismissed Obama’s quite extensive
> history with this man. From my reading, Obama was
> heavily involved with Bill Ayers in giving tens of
> millions of dollars to schools through a
> foundation which had been set up to improve
> education for kids in Chicago. I’m sure it was
> never the donor’s intent to do this, but Obama and
> Ayers and their colleagues set it up so that all
> that money was channeled to schools ONLY through a
> filter of radical leftist organizations, which the
> schools were forced to associate with, and
> programs were set up to use the funds to teach
> kids about leftist community organizing tactics,
> and America’s supposed racial and social
> injustices. Requests for funds by schools to this
> foundation to teach math and science were ignored
> by Obama and Ayers and the foundation they ran
> together.
>
> Go look this up on the internet yourself. Maybe I
> got some of the details wrong, but this was the
> gist of what I recall. It was called the Annenberg
> Foundation, I believe.
>
> Another point is that we have just had the worst
> run of economic news since the depression, and its
> conceivable that things will quiet down for a few
> weeks before more shoes drop. But, make no mistake
> that we are facing big challenges in the economic
> system.
>
> Putting a radical like Obama in the presidency
> combined with Pelosi in control of the Congress,
> and Biden in control of the Senate, could just
> give them a once in a hundred year opportunity to
> use the country’s worrisome economic straights to
> permanently change the free enterprise system to a
> hard left socialist system, which is what Russia,
> China, and Eastern Europe only recently rejected.
> Socialism and communism just doesn’t work, and the
> Chinese, Russians and Poles know this through
> bitter experience, and finally kicked socialism to
> the curb.
>
> How Ironic if Reagan and Thatcher finally gave the
> knock out blow to communism, only to have a new
> drive towards socialism emerge here a few decades
> later! It is said that the only place where one
> can still find Marxists is on the campuses of
> America and Europe. Most of them are sporting grey
> pony tails.
>
> I admit, it looks grim for McCain at present, but
> it ain't over yet. I am very worried, though.
>
> It does look as though Obama will breeze through
> the election, with essentially no serious
> background check having been done on him by the
> media. And, it is amazing that the media is doing
> such a hatchet job on Alaskan Governor Sarah
> Palin, while giving a total pass to Obama on even
> glancing at his strange past.
>
> Eventually, you won't like what you get with an
> Obama presidency, if Obama breezes to his victory,
> and gets to have his personalized presidential
> seal painted on air force one. (Frankly, I find
> this just as disturbing as Obama’s radical past,
> that he would take the time to design his own,
> personalized, presidential seal. This smacks of
> some kind of extreme egotism or arrogance).
>
> Finally, Obama has one other factor going against
> him. The democrats have a bunch of little lunatic
> bloggers and activists who are constantly being
> mobilized to haunt the call in shows, or to
> literally SHOUT DOWN the opposition. This happened
> to the Milt Rosenberg radio show in Chicago when
> he interviewed an author who has carefully
> researched Obama’s past. And Milt Rosenberg is a
> gracious, extraordinarily gifted intellect, and is
> regarded as one of the smartest men living on the
> planet today. I have listened to him for a few
> decades. He is a retired University of Chicago
> professor of sociology, and a true gift to our
> country. He has interviewed the likes of Henry
> Kissenger, Margaret Thatcher, and a myriad of
> noted authors and intellectuals, and other people
> of note over the past 30 years he has been on the
> radio. He even had Obama on his program a few
> years ago.
>
> Obama’s operatives were instructed to shut down
> Milt’s interview with this author, and they
> literally flooded the Tribune’s radio station,
> WGN, with demands to not carry the interview, and
> then flooded this call in show with callers when
> WGN went ahead with it anyway. You can go to
> wgnradio.com, and click on the Milt Rosenberg
> show, and look up the archived program where this
> occurred. Milt archives most of his shows. They
> are very good.
>
> Milt was aghast at the activity which was swirling
> around his broadcast, and the episode made the
> national news. But, Milt didn’t cave in to the
> Obamabots, as some have nicknamed them.
>
> People see through these type of stalinist
> tactics. It is not attractive, and people get fed
> up quickly with it. Who would want to be governed
> by these pests, anyway? Legions of them would
> infest our government in an Obama presidency.
>
> Maybe Obama was one of these agitators when he
> started out his career as a ‘community organizer’,
> using the tactics invented by the communist
> activist Saul Alinsky. I think this was the case
> if you dig into Obama’s past on the internet.
>
> If McCain wins yet, there will be a massive sigh
> of relief across this nation. You simply do not
> realize how people purposefully hide their more
> traditionalist views from public view. They have
> been conditioned to hide, and only whisper their
> true views to people that they feel are safe to
> expose themselves to. Things may be becoming
> somewhat like living in East Germany when people
> were careful not to reveal themselves to potential
> Stassi informants. I think it could get worse;
> much, much worse under an Obama presidency
> combined with the democrat party in control of
> most other institutions.
>
> Remember, when Obama takes the presidency, the
> hard left democrats will also control the
> following:
>
> Congress
> Senate
> Judiciary
> TV Media
> Most "Talking Head" commentators
> Newspapers and magazines
> Environmental Cause Organizations
> Women's Lib Organizations
> Gay Rights Organizations
> ACLU
> Other Activist Organizations
> Hollywood
> Kindergarten schools
> Grade Schools
> High Schools
> Universities
> Teachers Unions
> Government Workers Unions
> General Unions
> Some Liberal Churches
> National Public Radio
> Public TV
> Most Charitable Organizations
> The United Nations
> Many European National Governments
> The European Union
> Most Actors, Comics, and Musician Celebrities
> etc.....add your own…
>
>
> The only institution that the conservatives have
> is talk radio, and Nancy Pelosi has vowed to shut
> that down once Obama takes the presidency.
>
> If there is some type of modern day "Bradley
> Effect", I suspect it will have more to do with an
> aversion to political correctness than it does
> with not being willing to vote for a black
> candidate.
>
> Finally, regarding my saying I would move to
> Iceland if Obama is elected, that will not be
> easily accomplished. So, no promises. But, if I
> were a young man, and Obama were elected, I would
> absolutely be making every effort to leave this
> country. You democrats have simply destroyed it.
> Your party leaders and a large contingent of its
> voters are simply viscous, malcontent zealots, who
> will stop at NOTHING to get your way of
> transforming this country into your foggy notion
> of a socialist nirvana.
>
> A young man can build a new life in some other
> country where sanity prevails, and political
> zealots don't patrol the airwaves, streets, and
> halls of government power.
>
> If by some miracle, Americans wake up before they
> elect this charlatan Obama to the presidency, I am
> sure that there will be epithets of racism hissed
> through clenched teeth, and a massive screaming
> wail of protest from the democrats, like a spoiled
> brat, red faced, jumping up and down, who didn't
> get her way, despite using her wiliest schemes and
> tactics. Eight years of vilifying Bush, wishing
> for the worst in Iraq, bashing the USA, etc,
> etc.......and all for naught!!
>
> Then, the nightmare beast of the democratic party
> and the political correctness goons will soon gear
> up for the next political Armageddon, plotting
> more voter fraud, and enfranchising more voters
> from the ranks of the felons, illegal aliens and
> what not. They NEVER stop. They are indefatigable.
> They are like a hideous pink bunny, constantly on
> the march. They keep going, and going, and
> going…….
>
> One very key difference between the republicans
> and the democrats is that republicans are just a
> political party, and if they win an election, they
> step into govern the country. The democrats, on
> the other hand, are a true political movement and
> machine. They view themselves as a PROFESSIONAL
> governing class and a mighty, unstoppable cause
> that is destined, by right, to govern the country,
> and to impose their vision of a perfected state of
> governance.
>
> This is a deadly serious cause for democrats, and
> few democratic party operatives have any desire
> for anything other than a political career. They
> are apparatchiks, and have no desire for a life
> outside of political governance. This is the
> reason that the democrats behave the way they do,
> and will literally stop at nothing to achieve
> power. And once they are in power, they will use
> every lever of government to retain power, to
> cement their rule. This is why voter fraud, which
> I think most Americans look upon as anathema, is
> viewed as simply a necessary tactic by democrats.
> It is one means to what they regard as an
> absolutely critical end; their ascension to power.
>
>
> Republicans, if they lose an election, just go
> home and go back to their families and the private
> sector. It is not the end of the world for them,
> at all.
>
> This country has been transformed by the democrats
> and the massive political correctness mania which
> has ensnared every institution I listed above.
>
> The movie "No Country for Old Men" said it all.
> The main character in the movie, an old Texas
> lawman nearing the end of his career, finds that
> he can barely recognize the country he knew as a
> young man. The movie focused on the drug trade
> along the Texas-Mexican border as the evil he
> confronted, along with the broader degradation of
> society.
>
> But, to me, beyond the obvious disintegration of
> civic society in all manner which has occurred ,
> another evil which has transformed the nation is
> the ruthless drive to political power which the
> democrats have exhibited over the past few
> decades, increasing in its ferocity with each
> election cycle. It seems that the democrats will
> literally stop at nothing to gain power. Whether
> it is a war in Iraq which they seemed to have
> taken a “see I told you so” glee when they assumed
> that we would lose, or the current economic dire
> circumstances we face, some of which can
> reasonably be laid at their feet, they never miss
> the chance to turn events into propaganda for
> their cause. It is truly despicable.
>
>
> I have only one conclusion:
>
> An Obama presidency will be a launching pad to
> cement the democratic party into a virtual
> monopoly on political power over the American
> nation which might likely last for generations.
> And, such a monopoly could likely, permanently
> change the nature of the American nation,
> overturning it’s traditions which transformed a
> wilderness continent into the strongest, most
> vibrant nation on earth, and the saving grace of
> the world for the past two centuries.
>
> Truly, it will be “No Country for Old Men”. Or
> young men, either.
Why such a loooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggg posting when at least I,
skip over them??????