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The Obama Files (evil sounding music plays in the background)
Sunday 10-12-2008 5:14pm ET
I wanted something that sounded kind of sinister...The Obama Files...ooooh...If you think of something better, drop me a note at preston@wlfafm.com. Sen. Barack Obama wants the key to the front door of the White House. He wants the authority to run our country - from economic to foreign policy. He wants, along with a liberal, Democratic controlled Congress, to advance his agenda. That's what Presidents do. But, there are just so many lies Obama has told, questions that he will not answer, and policies that are radical and dangerous. So, this weekend I am going to take some time and provide some links. Consider this a one stop place to educate yourself and, perhaps, change some minds and influence others. So, check back this weekend as I expand the list of links and make limited comments about each link. What will emerge here will be relationships, issues, and policies that will vary in importance to each of you, but when taken together paints a portrait of a man who should never have been nominated by his party. He should not even hold an elected office - anywhere. I'll whet your appetite with this latest story about the Obama website that has flat out lied about his involvement with ACORN. This story takes an investigative piece by the Cleveland Leader. http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/10/busted-obama-fight-smears-website.htmlWhat follows are a pretty lengthy, but informative list of links. The link is followed by a short explanation of the topic. http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/senator-barack-obama-in-kenya-obama-and-odinga-the-true-story/ This is real troubling…while serving as a U.S. Senator, Obama campaigned for an anti-U.S. Marxist in Kenya. http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/10/obama-sought-to-sway-iraqis-on-bush-deal/ And what about working behind the back of President Bush in Iraq just months ago? http://www.khow.com/pages/caplisreport.html Information from Obama’s own books on his view of race http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/08/media-ignores-obamas-communist-mentor.html Obama’s first mentor was a member of the Communist Party http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2EVd9WDio0&eurl=http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/search?q=jeremiah+wright%2C+g-damn You Tube on Rev. Wright and his unbelievable claims. http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-file-22-barack-obama-danny-k.html Notice the groups that endorsed Obama in his run for the Illinois legislature. http://whoistherealbarackobama.com/blog/2008/10/obama-signed-contract-with-the-socialist-new-party/ Obama actually was a candidate of the “New Party” which was the political party of the Democratic Socialists of America. http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2008/10/11/the_coming_obama_thugocracy Tactics used by Obama supporters at the urging of Obama http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon1006ss.html Ayers and Obama’s school vision. http://www.rightwingnews.com/mt331/2008/10/barack_obama_in_quotes_version_2.php Just quotes from, mostly, Obama and a few others…remember, if the quotes are not true it’s called libel. http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/09/what-does-obama-know-about-acorn-fraud/ What does Sen. Obama know about ACORN and its fraudulent actions registering voters? Free campaign wisdom for the McCain campaign
Thursday 10-09-2008 7:19pm ET
Below is a column by Rod Dreher of the Dallas Morning News and it offers the McCain campaign some free advice on exaclty what needs to happen.
The Speech John McCain should give
John McCain is probably going to lose this election. The economic crisis, which he is ill equipped by training and interests to handle, threatens to wipe out his campaign. Though Barack Obama has shown no greater insight or skill in handling the looming disaster, McCain's personal deficit on economic policy redounds to his opponent's benefit.
But McCain has gifts that Obama does not, convictions and leadership traits that the country could very soon need more desperately than a policy expertise. McCain should risk that Americans don't want to be mollycoddled and manipulated. He would do well to buy commercial time on national television and deliver a speech that goes something like this:
My friends, I am neither young nor eloquent, handsome nor smooth. But I have lived a long life, much of it in service to America in war and in peace. And I have always stood for straight talk. There has been no time in our nation's recent history when the American people more needed to hear the plain truth from their leaders. A fundamental reason our country faces economic catastrophe is that we have built our lives around running from truths about the American way of life.
Washington has run from the truth. Wall Street has run from the truth. And if we're honest with ourselves, all of us have, in one way or another, run from the truth.
We have accepted the lie that we can live exactly as we want to live, with no concern for the consequences. We have taken the blessings of liberty and prosperity and turned them into a curse of debt slavery — bondage that will be visited on our children, and our children's children, if we don't change.
Everybody has a theory about how we got into this mess, and it's usually one that absolves them and their party from blame. My friends, I'm here to tell you that this crisis is the Republicans' fault. It's the Democrats' fault. It's the fault of every one of us who believed in the fairy tale of a free lunch.
It's time for all Americans to take responsibility for what we've done. It's time for all Americans to pull together to help our families, our neighbors and our country through hard times.
I am a patriot. I believe we are a nation of patriots, of men and women who are ready and willing to put country first. But over the years, our leaders, Republican and Democratic, have asked us to do little more than to go shopping, to vote for them and to blame other people for what's wrong with America. Anything to keep us from facing the truth and changing our ways.
As your president, I will ask you to do hard things. I, too, will do hard things for the good of this great nation. Serious times call for serious leadership. In his first speech as prime minister, with his free nation facing the might of Nazi Germany, Winston Churchill refused to mislead the British people about the gravity of their situation. We remember today his words to them: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
Churchill did not give cheap optimism. He, too, had fought and suffered for his nation, both on the battlefield and in Parliament. He had known the joy of victory and the humiliation of defeat. What Churchill, from his incomparable experience, could offer his people was the gold standard of hope. Hope is the conviction that whatever suffering we must go through, goodness and right shall prevail.
Today, when I survey the gathering storm, I am certain that if we, the people, stand together without fear or favor, victory will be ours. I ask you to give me the privilege of leading this great nation in a time when heroes will be made, and all good men and women must come to the aid of their country.
Thank you, and God bless America.
Rod Dreher is a Dallas Morning News editorial columnist. Readers may write him via e-mail: rdreher@dallasnews.com.
The Debate 2 Scorecard
Thursday 10-09-2008 7:18pm ET
Basically, I agree with former head of the Reagan speechwriting department Aram Bakshian who stated on TMS that McCain won on points; Obama on presentation.
The fact is that TV is not kind to Sen. John McCain. I would love to think that our culture is deeper than that, but it isn't.
Add to that the reality that Sen. McCain literally blew numerous opportunities to:
1. "Teach" America about capitalism and why taxes kill an economy and how corporations never pay tax; consumers do. But, DO NOT offer a plan to fix our housing problem that rewards irresponsibility and crushes the backbone of capitalism.
2. Explain how the minimum wage hurt small businesses and hurt the middle class by keeping their wages depressed.
3. Call Obama out on the concept of "fairness" and talk about personal responsibility.
4. Call out Obama for not prioritizing his "plan", but explaining how he would continue to spend money and explain that there is only one source...taxation.
5. Point out that the tax code already protects low wage earners by giving them their taxes back, and even more than is paid in in many cases.
6. Challenge Obama to explain his heartfelt sympathy for Israel and Rawanda and his correct position of defending against another holocaust, yet supporting the position of allow millions of babies to be aborted each year, including children that survive abortions and are left to die.
7. Point out the "Clinton surplus" was due to the GOP control of Congress and point to a time when conservatives acted like conservatives.
8. Give America a plan for the future and explain why we must confront brutally tough issues like Social Security, Medicare, and entitlements. Then merge the two and show how capitalism with appropriate oversight and regulation (at a minimum) is the only answer. Show how cutting corporate taxes and killing (or at least suspended) the capital gains tax will flood money into Wall Street, including foreign money, thus stimulating our economy without the need of taxpayer help.
9. And lastly, but not least...go after Obama's relationships. From Ayers to Odinga; ACORN to Kenya. The future of our country is at stake. Obama is dangerous and he has evil intentions for this country. Every single association of any substance shows a man who leans toward not just socialism, but communism.
The race is not over. Gov. Sarah Palin his carrying her share of water; it's time for Senator McCain to do the same.
- PRS
One explanation...The Obama Craze
Thursday 10-09-2008 7:17pm ET
There is nothing logical about supporting Sen. Barack Obama, but have you been perplexed by normally rational people being completely snowed by the man? Here's an e-mail I received addressing the subject. I am sharing it because I received requests to do so... Preston,
Please bear with me as I try and as succinctly as possible try to explain the Senator Barrack Obama-mania that seems to be sweeping the nation. And I'll use my family as an example.
My family, actually, it's my wife's family, are all (12 of them to include spouses) voting for Senator Obama. I am not.
And try as I might, there is nothing, and I mean nothing, that sways them. They don't care about anything but one thing: He isn't tied to President George Bush, nor is he a Republican or conservative. They don't care about his policies, his associations or anything else. They don't care that he was involved in shady doings in Chicago or the current financial challenges. They think Republicans are more at fault irregardless of the evidence in front of them.
He is different from Senator McCain and President Bush. And by the way, they can't stand President Bush.
And I can somewhat trace this back to 1976. That's the year I voted for Jimmy Carter over President Gerald Ford. The reason? Jimmy Carter wasn't a Republican and I was sooooo ticked at the Republicans and President Ford over Watergate and President Ford's pardon of President Nixon. And I think most of America thought the same way.
I'm quick to add that my vote was a mistake. We fixed that in 1980. But I didn't see it at the time. I was blinded by Watergate so much so that I would vote for anybody BUT the Republican candidate. And we paid for it.
Fast forward to today. My family (and I just assume a good deal of the country) is sooooo ticked off at Republicans and President Bush that they can't see beyond their noses so to speak and they'll vote for anybody but the Republican candidate. That bodes well for Senator Obama. Maybe not so well for the country.
Based on my experience, it will be a mistake that we'll fix in 2012.
Just my 2-cents and don't even know if it makes sense.
I applaud you for your efforts.
The Jags are now 1-and-3
Monday 10-06-2008 9:09am ET
Well, it was a good news, bad news kind of thing on Saturday morning.
The good news was that we finally won a football game. The 11-13 yrs. team I coach in the City Parks and Rec. program won our Saturday opener, 21-to-13. However, we had to play again an hour later and it showed as we went down to defeat by a score of 27-to-14. The kids just looked tired and we were missing a few players which forced us to play some kids both ways and when it's a second game it's tough to find the energy.
However, I am not sure it would have mattered. The other team had one player that was really good, clearly the best player in the league. Of course, I am not sure how the other parents feel that everything revolves around this very talented and gifted young man and the rest of the other team's players are kind of bystanders (yes, he was that good).
But, still it was great learning experience. I learned (as I find I am doing every, single game) and I hope our kids learned.
Our league schedule now gives us a bye week and we get to play this same team in our next game. That means we'll have a chance to focus our practice time and see if we get a little better. My hunch is that we will. The kids I am coaching are making this a very rewarding experience (other than a couple of parents struggling with getting kids to games on time).
So, with four games left...we are 1-and-3 and while winning is always fun, I could not be much happier.
- PRS
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