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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Voter Fraud: A Democrat Way of Life

Voter fraud, shady deals and all kinds of other chicanery are probably as old as politics itself, and probably no party in America has a monopoly on the practice, but when you consider recent history it's hard not to point a finger. The Democrats are still crying that George Bush stole the election in 2000, but what happened there was so obvious that anyone except a mindless liberal knows who really was trying to steal it.

In 1948 Lyndon Johnson was in a very tight race for a Senate seat from Texas. Both sides were accused of stuffing ballot boxes and the race ended in a dead heat. Then late returns from the little town of Alice in south central Texas miraculously showed up (just like some other ballots in Wisconsin a couple years ago). Two hundred three votes appeared, 202 of them votes for Johnson. What made the ballots even more interesting was that the voters had somehow miraculously lined up in alphabetical order to cast their votes. Sheriff deputies were sent to investigate and found that nearly all of the 202 votes were cast by either dead people, or people who were out of town and hadn't actually voted. A subpoena was issued to confiscate the records, but the night before the deputies returned, the courthouse mysteriously burned down and all the records with it. Johnson won the election by 87 votes.

Fast forward to Florida's Dade County in 2000. Florida had gone for Bush by a little over 2,000 votes, low enough that an automatic recount was initiated. The recount finally centered around three south Florida counties, Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach. The controversy developed around "hanging chads" in Miami-Dade where panels inspecting the ballots tried to decide if a ballot with no vote for president was actually intended to be cast for Gore. The ballots were recounted three times, each time coming up with more Gore votes than before. The Democrats then also tried to get all overseas ballots disqualified which would have disallowed military votes which went overwhelmingly for Bush. After the third recount failed to overturn the election, the Supreme Court of the United States finally ruled the election over and Bush won by 574 votes.

Then there was the famous 2008 comedy election in Wisconsin in which Al Franken, a washed up Saturday Night Live comedian, really did steal an election. Having lost by over 700 votes, uncounted ballots began mysteriously appearing in the trunks of Democrat polling officers' cars all over the state. Funny again that none of these late forgotten ballots went for the Republican candidate. Franken finally had a 200 vote lead and the Wisconsin judge, a liberal Democrat appointee, certified Franken the winner. That truly was a stolen election.

But voter fraud in 2008 didn't stop with Franken. Obama's community organizing group, ACORN, drove unregistered, homeless people to polling stations in several counties in several states to cast their votes multiple times. This was the organization from which the man who promised to be the most transparent president in history gained all of the experience that "qualified" him to be president.

And now they're at it again. This last weekend in Yuma, Arizona, the Yuma Recorder's office was checking 3,000 last minute voter registrations turned in by Mi Familia Vota, a SEIU partner organization, and found 65% of them to be fraudulent due to the registrants not being citizens, or having false addresses or signatures. At the same time a judge threw out 6,000 registrations turned in by the same organization in Colorado.

This illustrates precisely why John Adams said, "We have created a government for a religious and moral people. It will work for none else." A religious and moral people will have the self-discipline to be honest and not cheat in an election. This is what the Tea Party activists and other conservatives are wanting the country to get back to; the Godly values and honest living of our Founders. For that liberals call us extremists and every other low-down name in the book.

What a sad commentary on the Democrat way of life, a life characterized by lying, scheming, stealing and voter fraud. What a legacy to leave their children. And what a challenge for us to remain forever vigilant so that we will remain forever free.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Counting Your Chickens

It's a little hard for me to really get a feel for the political atmosphere in the States right now from over here in Kenya. I get a lot of political e-mails and I'm seeing a lot of predictions of a Democrat disaster and Republican takeover of Congress in this coming election. Obama's popularity is tanking as people are fed up with his socialist agenda and the continuing recession and high unemployment. A solid majority of Americans want Obamacare repealed, and an even greater number want the Arizona border closed. Democrats are running scared and trying to distance themselves from Obama. It all sounds great and I hope all this is reflected in the election, but I also hope conservatives aren't counting their chickens too soon.

The Republicans need 39 seats to take over the House and ten to take over the Senate. It seems all but certain that they will get the 39 House seats, and some polls are suggesting possible gains of 54 seats or maybe as many as 63, but the best numbers for the Senate right now can only assure a gain of six seats for the Republicans. There are five Senate seats still too close to predict, and if the Republicans could take those, there is a possibility of as many as 52 seats. To tell you the truth, none of these numbers give me great comfort.

Getting control of the House and replacing Pelosi as Speaker will be in itself a great victory, but if Republicans only gain 39 seats, they will only be able to throw a wrench into Obama's agenda, and without control of the Senate they won't be able to put a stop to anything. If they don't take at the very least all of those 54 or 63 potential gains in the House, it won't be indicative of a great conservative resurgence in the country as much as it will mean the independent middle-of-the-roaders are tired of Obama's view of change and have turned against him. It will mean that liberalism is still strong and it's not going to be easy to bring America back from the brink of destruction. The independents are often easily swayed back and forth.

Polls show Obama's popularity down around 41 to 45%, but his polls have been at that level since last March and they aren't dropping any lower. There are a lot of mindless socialists out there who still support big government and the welfare state. Polls also show so much dissatisfaction with the current leadership in Congress that you would think Harry Reid would already have been blown out of the water in the Nevada Senate race, yet numbers show him in a statistical dead heat with his opponent, Sharron Angle. Other races are similarly tight, all of which suggests to me this election isn't a done deal.

I hope I'm wrong and I'm praying it turns into a Republican landslide, but my feeling is that in order for a Republican victory to have a real impact, they need to take a hundred seats in the House and no less than ten in the Senate. That would be a total rejection of Obama and give the Republicans a solid hold on power, the ability to start repealing Obama's agenda and a mandate to hold him accountable to the Constitution.

The question then will be, what will the Republicans do? Under Newt Gingrich's leadership in the 90's the Republican majority forced Clinton to give up tax and spend in favor of Reaganomics and produced four years of budget surpluses. But even after his repudiation in the 94 congressional elections when everybody thought Clinton was toast, he came back and managed to take credit for the economic recovery and rode it to reelection. I'm not sure Obama is as savvy as Clinton was, but if Republicans aren't careful they could throw away the next presidential election if Obama can repackage himself and ride an economic recovery to victory.

The battle for America's founding Christian values does not stop with just getting control of Congress and overturning Obamacare. The conservative movement is in a life-long battle against the liberal, socialist, anti-Christian and anti-God ideas of the left. Whether we win this election or not, the struggle has to continue. Freedom is never free. Whether the fight is on a battlefield or in the political arena we must be constantly vigilant if we are to remain free.

That means, keep talking up conservative values, keep debating the issues, and keep pointing out to people the greatness of America and why we don't want to or need to change it. Encourage all your conservative and Republican friends not to sit idly by, not to assume this is in the bag, and not to count their chickens before they hatch, but to get involved. We have already voted and sent in our absentee ballots. Now it's up to you. On November 2, by all means go to your polling station and participate in the constitutional process and VOTE!

Friday, October 22, 2010

Do We Have a Godless President?

For the third time in a month Obama has quoted the Declaration of Independence and left out "endowed by our Creator." After the first incident at a hispanic caucus many of the president's defenders brushed it off saying it was a paraphrase or slip of the tongue. But then at a fundraiser in New York City he repeated his performance, and this last week at a fundraiser in Maryland he did the same. It can no longer be denied that the president's denial of the Creator is deliberate.

Obama claims to be a Christian, but everywhere he goes and everything he says belies the claim. He has publicly said he prefers Islam, he had to be corrected in an interview when he referred to his "Muslim faith," he covers up Christian symbols when he speaks at universities, he cancels Christian days of prayer but honors Muslim clerics in the White House during Ramadan, but his supporters, including the lapdog sold out liberal media, still insist he's a Christian, and even many conservative pundits seem to be unwilling to face this inconvenient truth. They'll say he's a socialist, a communist, or a Marxist, but not a Muslim. Could they be right?

The president's "Christian faith" was gained from twenty years of sitting under the ministry of Reverend Jeremiah Wright and his liberation theology. Liberation theology is an aberrant doctrine that interprets Christ's Sermon on the Mount about the poor to mean liberty from unjust economic, social, or political conditions. The movement began within the Catholic church in Latin America in the 1950's and 60's and grew into an international movement and took on the Marxist principles of class struggle and conflict between the poor and the hierarchy. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, stated in the 1980's that it is a flawed theology that teaches "Marxist myths."

Liberation theology has been used in the African-American community by such stalwart preachers as Jesse Jackson to stir up class envy and demand socialist reparations for the white man's past "racist crimes." This is the theology that would allow Wright to preach his hatred and shamelessly curse America rather than teach the love of Christ. This is where Obama, raised as a Muslim in Indonesia memorizing much of the Koran, learned his Christianity as an adult.

It would be no wonder that he would be afraid to show that kind of belief publicly, but denying the Creator in the Declaration of Independence is indicative of a far greater problem. The president has also publicly stated (with the endorsement of that great theologian Oprah Winfrey) that there are many ways to heaven and Christianity is only one. That, of course, is in direct contradiction to a very basic Christian doctrine that Jesus is the only way (John 14:6; Acts 4:12), but it exposes an even greater lack of understanding by the president not only of Christianity, but also of Islam.

One of the great criticisms of Christianity is that it is intolerant of other religions, but the same people that condemn Christians for this belief, overlook the fact that Islam is even more intolerant than Christianity. In practice, Christianity does insist that Jesus is the only way of salvation, but it tolerates all other religions because one's faith is a free choice to be made by every individual. Islam, on the other hand, teaches that allah is the only way to heaven and ultimately Islam will kill you if you don't submit. And who do they say is less tolerant?

When the president's track record is considered, his refusal to acknowledge the Creator in the Declaration indicates more than anything else his unbelief in the Creator. And it's not just the Christian God he doesn't believe in. He doesn't believe in allah either. His bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia and quoting the Koran notwithstanding, if he truly believed in allah he would at some point have to confess his belief. No, I think the only god the president really believes in is the Marxist, humanist god, man. No matter what he says, Obama's actions betray a man who has no submissive spirit to nor belief in the true God that America was founded upon, Jesus Christ. In other words, he is godless.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

An Effective Energy Policy

A few months ago the president told Republicans to put their money where their mouth is because next year he's going to tackle the deficit. Now we are again hearing of his plans for next year. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine for its October 15, 2010 issue, the president said the following:

One of my top priorities next year is to have an energy policy that begins to address all facets of our overreliance on fossil fuels. We may end up having to do it in chunks, as opposed to some sort of comprehensive omnibus legislation. But we're going to stay on this because it is good for our economy, it's good for our national security, and, ultimately, it's good for our environment.

I'm getting a little tired of hearing about what he intends to do "next year" when we have an economic disaster all around us right now, but actually, this statement is scary. What is it he intends to do "in chunks?" Is he going to try and do something by executive order because he can't get Congress to pass a comprehensive omnibus bill?

In August 1977 the Carter Administration created the Department of Energy in order to lessen America's dependence on foreign oil. According to Carter the world was going to run out of fossil fuels in less than a hundred years so we needed to come up with alternative forms of energy. The Department of Energy has proceeded to spend over a trillion dollars since its inception and has yet to produce one useful alternative fuel. But standards have been passed to reduce carbon emissions and make the air cleaner. I'll concede those might have been good standards to set, but we didn't need to spend a trillion dollars just to set standards, and the end result has been to drive the price of automobiles sky high, making life more difficult for many people economically.

The DOE has been a spectacular failure. It's purpose was to reduce imports of foreign oil, but thirty-three years after its inception we are importing more foreign oil by far than when we began. According to the DOE's own report the United States imported 57% of it's crude and refined oil in 2008. It seems to me that the real threat to our nation is not our reliance on fossil fuels, but our reliance on OPEC nations to provide the fossil fuels.

Obama says reducing our reliance on oil will be good for the economy. How? We've already wasted a trillion dollars trying for nothing. His and the Democrat's refusal to allow oil companies to drill for our own oil on our own land is costing thousands of jobs in many different sectors and driving the cost of our fuel higher, hurting everyone economically.

Obama says reducing our reliance on oil is good for our national security. How? By refusing to let us drill for our own oil we have necessarily become more reliant on foreign oil produced by OPEC nations that are hostile to us and routinely jack up the prices for no other reason than to punish Americans and make our lives difficult. Until we have a reliable alternate source the only way to increase our security is to drill for our own oil and stop importing it.

Obama says reducing our reliance on oil is good for our environment. How is oil bad for our environment in the first place? Air pollution? We've cleaned it up. Forests? Spotted owls? Oil companies have gone to great lengths to protect the environment everywhere they've been allowed to drill, but nothing will satisfy environmentalists until we're all living in the Garden of Eden. Fat chance that's going to happen.

Can you imagine what our economy would be like if we had no DOE and a trillion dollars back in the Treasury? How about no Great Society, no welfare state, and seven or eight trillion more dollars back in the Treasury? How about George Bush and only a 450 billion dollar deficit instead of Obama's 1.85 trillion? These gargantuan wastes of our tax dollars all came about under liberal, Democrat controlled administrations. People who have no clue how to live within their means have destroyed America's wealth and have us facing trillion dollar deficits until 2020 by the White House's own projections. We won't survive that.

The answer for an effective energy policy is to get the government out of it. The free enterprise system where individuals have liberty to experiment, explore and create uninhibited by government intrusion has always produced more jobs, more products, and a more robust economy. Reaganomics worked, and Bill Clinton knows it!

The answer to our security is to drill our own oil and stop buying from Muslim OPEC nations that are using oil as a weapon against us. Oil money is the only reason most of the Middle East nations survive. If we didn't buy their oil their power and influence in the world would decline. The threat of terrorists trying to overthrow America by building victory mosques and infiltrating our society with sharia law would cease. When their oil economies collapse Muslim nations will be on their knees begging us for help rather than trying to destroy us. Furthermore, until the president secures the border with Mexico there is nothing he can say about security that can be taken seriously.

The answer to the environment is to stop kowtowing to the environmentalists who have hijacked our nation. If oil companies were allowed to drill in shallow waters in the Gulf rather than where it is 5,000 feet deep the recent oil crisis could have been ended in days instead of months. When a community's progress can be delayed or stopped to save a snail darter or a spotted owl, or a pipeline can be ended in order to save the pristine Alaskan wilderness where no one lives in a thousand square miles and nobody goes to visit anyway, environmentalists have gotten too much power. If they were really concerned about the environment they should have gone to Washington on October 2, and cleaned up the mess left by the socialist One Nation March. Until they stop driving cars and flying in airplanes they can't be taken seriously either.

Actually, now that I think about it, I'm glad the energy policy is Obama's plan for next year. By then conservatives will have control of Congress and be able to stop this foolishness. But that will only happen if we do one thing:

GET OUT AND VOTE. November 2 is coming.