Notes on candidates

I have been studying a lot lately on the various candidates running for President of the United States. To me they are mostly losers, but two of them will eventually come out on top. Hilary and Obama are apparently all that is left of the Democratic hopefuls. Hilary is a megalomaniac of the first water, out for power for herself and is probably the greatest threat to our republic. She is totally lacking in dignity and self control, and I simply cannot for the life of me figure out how she has managed to bamboozle (or is it blackmail) so many people. I know she is to the left of Lenin, but I have heard Obama described as left of Hilary based on voting records. I don’t know much about Obama’s overall voting record, but on abortion alone, I cannot in good conscience vote for him or recommend that anyone else do so.

Case in point: Obama, as an Illinois State Senator opposed a bill to define as “a person,” a fully born baby who survived an abortion. Before I go on, picture a fully formed and breathing infant who was caused to be born via labor induction. Should it then be murdered under the definition of legal “abortion”? Better yet, all you mothers, visualize your own sweet newborn lying on a gurnery alive, fully developed, and breathing. Can you imagine allowing it to be killed, because some law did not define it as a human being? Obama was Chairman of the Health and Human Services Committee of the Illinois State Senate. He did bring up the bill for a vote, but voted against it.

The so called “born alive” bill came up in three successive years. In 2001 three bills were proposed to help babies who survived induced-labor abortions. (This obviously happened only because the little baby was born too fast for the doctor to bash its brains out before his whole self emerged from the vagina.) One of the bills defined a living homo sapiens “wholly emerged from his mother” should be treated as a “person, human being , child, individual.” On all three bills, Obama voted “present.” In 2002 he voted “no.” Gutless and heartless would be my labels for such behavior.

Obama is one of those who is an eloquent speaker who at the same time says nothing substantial. He speaks in great sounding phrases with buzz words like “change” and “hope” and “forward” and so forth but does not connect any of these high sounding phrases to any concrete program or plan. Besides the above described situation, I see him as an empty helmet, possibly with some vague good intentions but nothing to back up his vagueries. We need to look deeper into his voting record. I admit I do not plan to bother, as I have nor ever have had the intention of voting for him. This abortion issue just cemented my decision.

I feel sorry for the Democrats who have only two lousy candidates to choose from for the nomination. But if McCain wins the Republican nomination, we are guaranteed a liberal no matter who wins in November. Obama and Clinton are just to the left of Lenin, but it is a given that the Dems will always choose a liberal. I find it hard to believe that McCain has garnered so much Republican support. And I have noticed that even the Democrats like McCain, and would prefer for him to be the Republican nominee because even if they lose to him they still have someone of their own ilk. McCain has demonstrated time and again that he can out-lib the Dems. For example, there is the McCain Feingold bill that severely limits political speech, in direct violation of the Constitution. Bush wimped out on that one and actually signed it rather than vetoing it as he knew he should. I guess he thought he could pass that buck to the Supreme Court. Big Surprise, it didn’t work. That still dumbfounds me.

McCain would give the war criminals, or enemy combatants, access to our justice system with all its rights and privileges, which I find outrageous. He was also strongly supportive of the disastrous immigration bill that was defeated only because of the great and concentrated groundswell of opposition from the American voters last summer.

McCain is another of the gullible politicitians who have been suckered into the Global Warming Hoax and who have caved to the Enviros who are out to regulate us out of using our own resources. For example, he has 4 times voted against drilling for oil in ANWR. (In case you are of the persuasion that this would destroy the “pristine beauty” of the Arctic or destroy the caribou and polar bears, you need to know a few things that apparently either he doesn’t know or doesn’t want you to know. First of all, ANWR is a totally uninhabitable place and will Never be developed for human habitation or become a desired destination to visit and admire, It is millions of square miles of desolation, below zero freezing cold and dark most of the year. When the temperature does rise above 40º, the mosquitoes come alive and make life even more miserable for man and beast. They have been known to be so numerous and vicious that they can even kill a young caribou. It should also be pointed out that the caribou herds have actually increased since the construction of the Alaskan Pipe Line. They find warmth and shelter beside it. Furthermore, the area that is proposed for drilling is about the size of Dulles Airport. Think postage stamp compared to a football field. Tiny little spot it is that the enviros are so concerned about. As for damage to the tundra, there would be none possible, because the trucks that would be necessary for overland transport would only drive over layers of ice and only in the winter. These roads then thaw and leave no trace. But what if they did need a summer road? I have ridden over the 400 miles of “haul road” that was built for that purpose between Fairbanks and Deadhorse, Mile Zero of the existing pipeline, and it can hardly be held to have destroyed the entire region between those two points. A road is just a line on a map. It is not the whole territory. Believe me, even Dead Horse is not a tourist attraction except for the only thing there, the oil company’s operational headquarters, barracks type housing and general store, and windswept dirt streets). But ANWR is just one factor in McCain’s faulty energy policy.

I suspect he is also on the side of all those who would prevent our access to our own oil in other places such as the Gulf and other off shore areas. China and Mexico can drill in those waters, but we cannot, thanks to the likes of McCain. He consistently teams up with other liberals as Left as Senator Kennedy out to destroy our way of life, our liberties, and increase our taxes and regulate so as to prevent any solution to our energy problems.

I don’t trust him to keep taxes in line. He admits he is not knowledgeable about economics, an absolute requirement for the job. He has never worked in or directed or managed any part of private industry, which is definitely far far different from military, which has been his life long profession.

His lack of experience outside of military and government is also the flaw most evident in at least two others running for resident, Clinton and Obama . I don’t know about Huckabee (who, by the way is another one that the Dems hope to see as the Republican candidate because they see him as most beatable).

To sum up a few more of his unacceptable positions in my view: He opposed the Bush Tax cuts in 2001 and 2003, which resulted in greatly increased revenue, more jobs and a healthy economic growth. He is against repeal of the death tax, would raise Social Security taxes, favors embryonic stem cell research, even though it is not necessary since adult stem cells have produced treatments and cures of over 80 diseases and ailments and show much promise in the future.

Finally, consider one more thing, his temper. He definitely lacks self control and the dignity befitting a president, another trait he shares with Hillary the harridan. I think of McCain as Hilary in drag. But whatever happens in this election, I hope we will not let the media pick for us.

Looks like the field is narrowing down to Romney, Huckabee or Ron Paul as far as I am concerned. Huckabee can't beat Obama or Hilary, so no point there, Romney looks good, but I may have to vote for Ron Paul as a protest. I am with him all the way except for foreign policy, and that is a big item. Toughest election I have faced in my lifetime.....

Sorry about the mixture of fonts. These are a conglomeration of word documents I have put together, and I am too tired to go back and adjust 'em. I would appreciate feedback, though.

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