All we can do now is look forward to 2012

Debate Night!

Don't forget to watch the 3rd & Final Presidential Debate tonight at 9pm Eastern.

It is hard to believe that there is just over 3 weeks until the big day!

Change We Can't Afford

With his supposedly “soothing tones” (which send this mom into a full-blown panic attack every time I hear him speak) Obama has successfully convinced us that this election is about change. OK, fine. It’s too late to argue the premise at this point. So if this election is about change, let’s look closely at the kind of change we can look forward to if Obama is elected.

To start with, in an ironic display of undemocratic principle, Democrats will force workers to join unions. Of course this isn’t how they spin it, but by doing away with secret ballot, you can bet that workers who don’t join the union will find themselves out of work. With the union rolls swelled, Democrats will be able to extort more votes than ever from people who will no longer be able to afford to vote their true conscience.

Next up, jobs. Obama promises to create them, and in the same breath promises to “tax the wealthy.” Don’t worry, he soothes, it’s only the top 5 percent. No biggie. One problem there. That top five percent create half the jobs in this country. That top five percent have created the vast majority of new jobs over the past difficult economic year. If you work for a small employer, you can thank Obama when your employer decides to "cut back," drops health coverage or tells you he/she can’t afford to give you a raise no matter how much your expenses are rising.

Obama also wants to renegotiate NAFTA. This sounds a little esoteric to those of us who go through a jumbo size bag of chicken nuggets every week, but it amounts to implementing a protectionist trade policy. If I’ve lost you, consider this. The last person who thought it was a good idea to enforce higher taxes and protectionist trade policies in a recession was Herbert Hoover, and that action preceded the Great Depression.

There’s more: killing talk radio so they don’t have to be bothered by legitimate criticism, creating more and more liberal and socialist policies that will gut everything that’s great about America, pimping the First Amendment to serve their sinister means. With Obama in office the sky's the limit. Heck, he may even choose to get rid of our flag, which he finds to be a symbol of divisiveness.

It’s change alright. But it’s not the change this country needs or can afford.

Another Carter? You gotta be kidding.

I was a kid when Jimmy Carter was in office, but I remember a few things. I remember seeing hostages on the news and hearing Walter Cronkite tick off the days they had been in captivity. I didn’t understand much then, but I knew there were people who didn’t like us… and they were winning. I remember my parents constantly telling me what we couldn’t afford. Vacations. Bicycles. New clothes. I remember how excited my father was when Ronald Reagan was elected. I could tell he expected better days. He was right.

So you’ll have to forgive me for being perplexed that our country could so eagerly embrace the latest iteration of Jimmy Carter (that would be Barack Obama for those arriving late to the party.)

In The American Spectator, Jeffrey Lord reminds us of just how closely Obama’s policies and core philosophies mirror Carter's, and he asks a question I doubt many sitting on Obama’s bandwagon have considered:

IS IT POSSIBLE that America really wants to return to those depressing days of gas lines and leisure suits? Of malaise and shock over the aggressiveness of America's enemies? The days when the policies Obama is advocating raised unemployment rates, interest rates and inflation rates into the double digits? When America's enemies looked the President of the United States in the eye -- and found he really wanted to kiss them on the cheek?

Lord also details how many of Obama’s campaign platforms, from windfall profits taxes for oil companies, to taxing the “wealthy,” to an approach of appeasement on foreign policy are based on the astounding failures of the Carter administration.

For an Ivy Leaguer, this doesn’t seem to indicate much in the way of smarts.

View the full article here:

It’s a good read for those of us who remember Carter. And should serve as an eye-opener for those who don’t.