Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell is a syndicated columnist and Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in Stanford, California, , a black man who wrote this past week in a column titled "Random Thoughts" and published in newspapers nationally, the following:

"Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.

"After long and serious thought, I have decided to endorse Senator John McCain for President.
I have always voted for the person, and have not voted for anyone because some political party was telling me who I should vote for.

"We all know the choices by now and, that said, I do believe that the process of selecting a chief executive is deeply flawed. The words money and special interests come to mind, amongst many others.

"Here's the way I see it:

"Barack Obama, you are a fine public speaker. You are also an extremely liberal Senator from the State of Illinois, which has a long and rich history of political corruption of the first magnitude. You are indeed a child of that system.
You have finally insulted my intelligence far beyond my capacity to tolerate your insults. It has nothing at all to do with your skin color. As a matter of fact, it would be so COOL to finally have an African-American for President. What a great statement that would be to the entire world, that we are indeed the greatest country on earth!

"But, unfortunately, General Colin Powell is not running, and YOU are NOT the man for this job !

"Barack baby, you want me to believe that you have never heard the sermons of your own pastor, the Right Reverend 'God Damn America', Jeremiah Wright. It is a matter of record that this has been your church for over 20 years. It is a matter of record that you were married there by this very pastor, and that your children were baptized there.

"The good reverend saw fit to visit Khadafy in Libya with you, and to give a life-time achievement award to Louis Farrakhan, of all people.

"We have all now seen excerpts of his sermons all over the airwaves by now. And you have publicly stated that this man is your 'spiritual mentor.'

"BUT, your pastor is NOT the reason I am NOT voting for you. His words were disturbing enough, but it is your own HUGE church congregation, seen jumping, hooting, and howling to his words in the background that disturb me the most. And, please don't tell me you attended church there and never once heard a 'discouraging word' in the 20 years you attended there. Don't tell me, that in addition to the good reverend, that you are now not having anything to do with all those other people seen hooting and howling in the audience in the background of his fiery tirades. Even Oprah Winfrey got disgusted, and walked out on your campaign. I am no Oprah fan, but still she did the right thing.

"Now you look me in the eye and ask me to believe that you never heard such language in all the years you attended there! This is like my telling you that I attended dozens of Klan rallies and never once heard the 'N' word. Yep. And Bill Clinton 'did not inhale'.

"Yes, Mr. Obama, we all have friends who have said stupid things that embarrassed us, but NOW you have asked me to believe something that is so incredibly stupid that you are telling me that I am just stupid enough to believe you. THAT is the main reason that I will never vote for you. I am deeply sorry, that in a country teeming with enormously talented African-Americans, who would make a good President, that the political system has chosen YOU. You are a pathetic and plastic excuse for an American, who will not even salute the flag during the Pledge of Allegiance. God forbid you ever get near the Oval Office.
"Now, did I mention Bill Clinton ?

"AH YES! This brings us to MRS. WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, who this candidate really is, in spite of all the other names she may care to call herself. This 'feminist' piece of work, of course, would like to be referred to as MS. And we all know who wears the pant-suit in that family.

"MS. Clinton, it is just as depressing to realize that there are dozens of women who would also make great Presidents. But, fortunately, the horrible state of the selection process has selected YOU. Ms. Clinton, I'm sorry, but you could not tell the truth if we water-boarded your worthless ass!

"Still, you play the role of the 'embarrassed but dignified noble wife'. What utter malarkey! I am not voting for you for a world of reasons, but the main one is the same as my not voting for Senator Obama. You persistently insult my intelligence. It COULD be conceivably possible that you did not know about Monica Lewinsky, extremely remote , but possible, if we stretch our imaginations a bit. But you turn around and then ask me to believe that you also did not know about Paula Jones, and the legion of other women who were chewed-up and spit out by your lecherous excuse for a husband. Puleese, turn off this broken record!!!

"But, let's set aside your hubby's flagrant peccadilloes. The real reason I will never vote for you is that I don't think the country can survive EIGHT MORE YEARS of Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, Sandy Berger stuffing his socks with classified intelligence, Janet Reno's goon squad, and the myriad other corruptions that seem to stick to you. So, our former President can't keep his thingy in his pants. The REAL issue is that he committed perjury under oath when he lied about it and the pathetically-attem pted cover-up that followed.

"Like you, he is totally incapable of telling the truth. He could not do it if you tortured him, and in voting for you, we would get the BOTH of you, all over again. You are the same folks who could have taken out Osama Bin Laden over 4,000-dead- Americans ago!

"And, please stop telling me that you have 'eight years of experience' to lead us. You were the freakin' first lady already, not the Commander in Chief. Jeez! The sum of your 'experience' is that of the most worrisome and incompetent meddling in the history of the White House. You even cursed your pitiful staff, and the Secret Service agents, who were, and still are, unfortunately charged with risking their lives to protect your worthless, thieving hide; and, all at the expense of other people who have to work for a living.

"Your single pathetic platform is to finance the illegal drugs, alcoholism, and bad habits of the very lowest and most irresponsible free-loaders in America, and to then 'garnish the wages' (your own words) of every law-abiding and hard-working American, to pay for it. This disaster you refer to as 'Universal Health Care.' Where have you been the last thirty years? Did you not see that socialism is a failure wherever it has been tried? Did you not notice that the Soviet Union has collapsed, since it gave no reward to those who worked the hardest for the fruits of their own labors, to pay for those who will not?

"It is interesting to see all the dead bodies that you and your hubby have left in your wake. Suicides, mysterious deaths, and cover-ups that make Richard Nixon look like a r ank amateur. The utter contempt and unbelievable arrogance of some of your strongest supporters, most notably the recently resigned and disgraced Governor Eliot Spitzer, the epitome of hypocritical and malevolent arrogance gone wild, one of your most ardent, wealthy and powerful political supporters. A man the news media refuses to admit is a 'super delegate' in your own political machine, a fine example of your own 'adopted' state of New York. No wonder you moved there to run for Senator! The environment there is perfect for the likes of you!

"Yes, I would vote for a woman; but, I will NOT vote for YOU!

"Which leaves us with Senator John McCain.

"John, you are a flawed man. Y ou are a bit old, a bit looney, and you have a notoriously bad temper. This perfectly qualifies you, in my humble opinion, to lead us for the next eight years. I WANT your trembling hand on the nuclear button.
Think about it.

"We have Kim Jong IL, Chavez, and Ahmadenijad all running around like lunatics, threatening America, and threatening to plunge the world into nuclear Armageddon. We have Putin and the Chinese blustering and rattling their sabres at us. I want John McCain in the Oval Office, and I want him to be really pissed-off at all these other nut-jobs around the planet.

"John, once you are elected, I want you to go into the Oval Office, and throw one of your perfect FITS. Jump up and down and throw something through a plate glass window. Rip the drapes down, and foam at the mouth a bit. And, I want the whole thing on camera so that Ahmadinejad can see it. I want a ll of these 'world leaders' to lay awake at night, and to break out in a cold sweat every time they think of messing with the United States of America .

"I want the nuclear button sitting right next to the alarm clock on your night stand. I want pictures of this to be sent to Iran, Russia, China, Venezuela, Cuba, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, and those other freaks in the sheets, the Saudis. On the domestic front, poor John did try and reach ac ross the aisle to the opposition in a desperate effort to compromise, and to get the Congress to do something. You may not agree with his efforts, but at least he TRIED. For all his efforts, all he got handed to him was his head in a basket. The liberals are pissed at him, and the conservatives are pissed at him. Just my kinda guy.

"I predict that John will select Senator Joe Lieberman as his running mate. Good choice. I want a Jew whose memory of the Holocaust is still fresh in his mind, and who is royally pissed-off at all of these towel-headed morons in the Middle East to be the next in line if something should happen to John. Shalom, Vice President Joe. One heart-beat from the Oval Office.

"Finally: John McCain knows, on a most personal level, what it i s to suffer horrible torture for years, and to see others die, right in front of you, for their love of America. When you ask him about it, he will tell you that what he did was 'nothing special.'Even more incredibly, he states that ANY American, who truly loves his country, would do exactly the same as he did in that situation. You and I will have a hard time believing that; but, the real point is that John McCain believes that about the 'average American,' and that, dear friends and neighbors, is why I will cast my one poor ballot on election day for John McCain ----- warts and all."

 

The Audacity Of Socialism - Obama Wants You
Excerpt from: IBD - Obama Wants You

In a commencement speech at Wesleyan University, Obama advised graduates not to pursue the American dream of success, but to serve others.

"You can take your diploma, walk off this stage and chase only after the big house and the nice suits and all the other things that our money culture says you should," he told the graduates. "But I hope you don't."

Don't be another Bill Gates and amass a fortune making people more productive and successful in their daily lives and giving your countrymen a standard of living the world will envy. Exchange your cap and gown for sackcloth and ashes. Leave your possessions behind and come and follow Obama.

"Fulfilling your immediate wants and needs betrays a poverty of ambition," he opined. Shame on us for being selfish and buying that SUV built by an autoworker trying to fulfill his family's immediate wants and needs.

"Our collective service can shape the destiny of this generation," Obama said. "Individual salvation depends on collective salvation."

We already have a Salvation Army that is truly a volunteer organization. Collective service and salvation is not a classic definition of voluntarism. What Obama has in mind is to turn America into a socialist version of the old Soviet collectives.

And if your idea of service is to join the military and keep others alive and free, forget about it. And never mind about ROTC on campus.

Obama has no place for those who are willing to abandon fame and fortune to lay down their lives for their friends and ours. "At a time of war," Obama says, "we need you to work for peace."

"We left corporate America, which is a lot of what we're asking young people to do," Obama's wife, Michelle, told a group of women in Zanesville, Ohio, during the primaries. "Don't go into corporate America. . . . Become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers we need, and we're encouraging people to do just that."

Don't be the engineers who will figure out better ways to extract shale oil from the porous rock that holds it. Figure out how to extract more money from taxpayers' wallets.

But the Obamas are doing more than "encouraging" or "asking." In a speech in California, Michelle, who has made a small fortune in the "helping industry," said: "Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zone. . . . Barack Obama will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual — uninvolved, uninformed."

 

Thank You Letter

 

From the presumptive president of the United States of America.

 

My fellow Americans: 

 

As your future President I want to thank my supporters, for your mindless support of me, despite my complete lack of any legislative achievement, my pastor's relations with Louis Farrakhan and Libyan dictator Moamar Quadafi, or my blatantly leftist voting record while I present myself as some sort of bi-partisan agent of change. 

  

I also like how my supporters claim my youthful drug use and criminal behavior somehow qualifies me for the Presidency after 8 years of claiming Bush's youthful drinking disqualifies him. Your hypocrisy is a beacon of hope shining over a sea of political posing. 

 

I would also like to thank the Kennedys for coming out in support of me. There's a lot of glamour behind the Kennedy name, even though JFK started the Vietnam War, his brother Robert illegally wiretapped Martin Luther King, Jr. and Teddy killed a female employee with whom he was having an extra marital affair and who was pregnant with his child. And I'm not going anywhere near the cousins, both literally and figuratively. And I'd like to thank Oprah Winfrey for her support.  Her love of meaningless empty platitudes will be the force that propels me to the White House. 

  

Americans should vote for me, not because of my lack of experience or achievement , but because I make people feel good.  Voting for me causes some white folk to feel relieved of their imagined, racist guilt.   I say things that sound meaningful, but don't really mean anything because Americans are tired of things having meaning.  If things have meaning, then that means you have to think about them.  Americans are tired of thinking. It's time to shut down the brain, and open up the heart.  So when you go to vote, remember don't think, just do.  And do it for me.   

    

Thank You. 

Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.

 

 

July 09, 2008

Obama Would, In Fact, Govern From Left

By Dick Morris

The list of issues on which Barack Obama has flipped now that the primaries are over is long and growing rapidly.

 

• He says he believes in a Second Amendment right to bear arms.
• He now opposes late-term abortion.
• He suddenly is a devotee of using faith-based institutions to deliver public services.
• He now says that he won't raise Social Security taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year. In the primary, he said he'd eliminate the threshold entirely, including on people making as little as $100,000.
• He recently opposed the Fairness Doctrine for talk radio.
• Now he says he's going to consult with the military before pulling out of Iraq.

 

But so extensive a list of flip-flops, all in the past few weeks, begs the basic question: Was he lying before when he was a liberal, or is he prevaricating now?

 

Even if Obama means what he is saying as he moves to the center trying to win the general election, the fact is that he will be forced to move very far to the left should he become president, forced by the liberals in his own party.

 

If Obama wins, it's more than likely that he will take office with a Congress filled with Democrats and liberals. Most probably, the Senate will have at least 55 Democrats (including pickups in Colorado, New Mexico, Virginia, New Hampshire and Alaska). And there might be as many as 62 (possible Democratic pickups include Maine, Minnesota, Oregon, Kentucky, Texas, Kansas and North Carolina). The House will, of course, be solidly in Democratic control.

 

Faced with the same situation in 1993, as he took office as president, Bill Clinton found no alternative but to move dramatically to the left, shelving for the moment his promises of a middle-class tax cut and welfare reform. He had no choice. The Democratic majorities in both Houses served him with notice: Either you stay within the caucus and not cross the aisle in search of support for centrist policies, or we will do unto you what we did to Jimmy Carter when Tip O'Neill turned on him and made his life miserable. Clinton was forced to emphasize healthcare reform over welfare changes and to go with a liberal economic stimulus package capped by big tax increases. The liberal stain sank so deeply into the fabric of his presidency that it caused him to lose Congress in 1994, and almost to lose the 1996 election.

 

It will be the same with Obama. On all of his basic issues, the Democrats in Congress will hold his feet to the fire and make him govern to the left. On his signature issue of Iraq, he may find himself with a war already won, a democracy already stable and a problem already solved. Nevertheless, he will be forced to rip the scab from the wound and set it bleeding again by bringing our troops home prematurely. His healthcare proposals will be forced far to the left until they amount to a government takeover of the healthcare system. Obama will not be able to govern from the center. His party won't let him do it.

 

Ultimately, Bill Clinton's congressional supporters became his jailers and he morphed from their leader into their hostage. Dependent on every last Democrat to pass legislation in the House and to prevail over a filibuster in the Senate, he found himself pushed further and further to the left until, he told me, "I don't even recognize myself." He had to lade his economic and anti-crime package with pork to satisfy urban congressmen and to win their support of a bill that included a federal death penalty.

 

Obama will not be able to help himself. The Democratic majority in Congress won't settle for triangulation. They will make the Obama of November into a liar and the Obama of the primaries into an honest man.

 

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