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Election 2008 — The Greatest Of Divides

Posted By: 'Okie' | 9:35 am — 10/14/2008 | 1 Comment See comments below:

And to think that I thought the last two presidential election cycles were the epitome of divided cultures ramming heads together. From here, it looks like they were only preambles to the big title match of McCain/Palin vs. Obama/Biden. The biggest addition to the mix is race. With an estimated 90% of black Americans going to cast their vote for Barack Obama, one has to acknowledge that for many they will vote for Barack simply because the man is half black. Sure, the Democratic Party has been the safe-haven, (at least that is what they try to project), for blacks, but especially for religious blacks, the Southern Baptists and Catholics for example, the policies of Barack Obama on abortion rights, including letting live-birth-abortion-survivors die, should be appalling. But hey, the man is black — evidently identity politics trumps religious convictions.

And then, there’s socialism. Although there is no argument that can be made dismissing the huge expansion of the Federal Government under President George Bush, if you look at the proposals of John McCain and Barack Obama, the future that Obama visions for America is for even more Federal control of our everyday lives. With programs like mandatory volunteerism, (what on earth is that supposed to mean?), his intention to tax you and your business more to pay for universal health insurance, his plan for the federalization of pre-school on the back of NASA’s budget which will relinquish our dominance in space, and his plan to pay for other welfare programs by gutting military spending; a Barack Obama/Nancy Pelosi/Harry Reid run America will be a very different place indeed.

John McCain sees tax CUTS as the way to jump start our ailing economy. He believes that the American people know best how to spend their hard-earned dollars, not a very-remote nanny-state Federal bureaucracy. John McCain believes that some version of a private-owned health care system is vastly preferable to another Federal-bureaucratically run behemoth. Whereas Barack Obama wants ever more Federal control of education, John McCain wants to put parental choice into play on a wide scale, so that competition among schools will lead to better education opportunities. McCain believes that you, the parents, know better what your child needs than some bureaucrat in Washington.

Like I wrote at the top, there is a deep, virtually-unbridgeable divide in this election. It’s between the Obama folk, who see the chance to finally implement a cradle-to-grave socialism in America that the Left has dreamed of for decades and the McCain camp, who believe that personal initiative, personal responsibility and a government that exists to foster and support those ideals is the better path to American freedom and prosperity.

On November 4th, we get to choose which America we’ll get. An Obama/Pelosi/Reid new-social-order nanny-state-control of our entire lives or a McCain/Palin lead return to rugged individualism and personal freedom. The choice can’t possibly get any clearer than this one.

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  • http://grandmasfiresidechat.blogspot.com/ Grandma Morris

    The stakes are huge and the chance that we might lose is evident. Fraud is already occuring at the polls, and we have less than three weeks to go. We sincerely need to pray for God’s help.

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