With election day looming, I have come to the conclusion that Barack Hussein Obama will be elected.  For the good of the country, I sincerely hope I am wrong about him.  I hope he turns out to be a good president who will defend the Constitution and the liberties it guarantees.  That is what I hope.  However, I fear that he'll be just what I think he is -- a socialist who will try to remake the nation into something the Founding Fathers never envisioned; that he will, with the aid of a Democrat congress and a reconfigured Supreme Court with only a couple of new justices who share his views, trample on the First Amendment and bury the Second Amendment.  His universal health care funded by tax dollars will mean that we will be like Canada and much of Europe in that we will end up waiting weeks or months for diagnostic tests like MRIs and perhaps waiting months for surgeries.  I believe he will further open the borders and welcome with open arms anyone who decides to come regardless of U.S. law.  I believe he will offer those who come here illegally the right to vote which will further ensure not only his re-election in four years, but after that the election of more people who believe as he does.  I am glad that I'm 60 years old and probably won't live to see the complete destruction of what has been for more than two centuries the greatest nation ever created on the face of the earth.  I have never been more glad that I don't have children who would have to contend with the changed nation.  While I sincerely hope for the best, I sincerely fear the worst.

Imagine my surprise when I learned that the Constitution is flawed because it describes what the government may not do to citizens but fails to describe what the government should do FOR citizens.  Let's see, government may not interfere with our rights to free speech and press and to protest.  It may not interfere with our freedom to practice (or not practice) religion as we see fit.  It says that if the government takes our property it must pay us fairly for it.  It may not prohibit citizens from owning firearms and using them to protect our property.  There's lots of other stuff the Constitution says government cannot do. 

Let's see what government must do for us.  It is required to coin money, deliver the mail and maintain the roads over which the mail is delivered, and it must maintain the military.  Only the government is allowed to enter into treaties with other nations.  And government is supposed to control immigration -- they've sorta been messing up on that one lately.  Beyond that, government SHOULD be expected to stay the hell out of the lives of citizens.  It should allow us to succeed or fail on our own merits.  There is NOTHING in the constitution about redistributing wealth; taking it from those who have it and giving it to to who don't. 

Of the two men with a chance to win the election, one, the jug-eared socialist, wants to do just that.  He wants to take money, by force of law, from people who have worked for it and give it to people who haven't so he can get their votes.  I'm afraid he will win the election and his promise of changes will come all too true.  I don't think we'll be able to recognize the country four years from now. 

Barack Hussein Obama should have been looking for open microphones.  He was recorded telling Joe Wurzelbacher, owner of a plumbing business, in Toledo, "It's not that I want to punish your success.  I want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success, too.  My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's good for everybody.  I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

Now, that's not as elegant as Marx's philosophy, "In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between nemtal and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the produtive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly -- only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners:  'FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITY, TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS NEEDS.' " 

Now, will some supporter of Barack Hussein Obama please explain how his philosophy is different from that of Karl Marx?  The United States fought the cold war to prevent Marxism from taking over the planet and now the United States has a candidate for President, who seems to have a very good shot at winning, who espouses the EXACT SAME THING as Marx.  If Barack Hussein Obama is elected, we can kiss our liberty and our ability to earn a living and create wealth for ourselves and our children goodby.  Four years of Barack Hussein Obama in the White House and this will be a very different country indeed.  He preaches change, and pardner, we'll see more change than most of us bargained for if Barack Hussein Obama is elected.

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I'm not a democrat, but the vatican has gone way too far in telling people of America how they should behave.  Calling one of the two major political parties of a soverign nation the "party of death" is something another soverign nation -- as the vatican is -- has no business talking about.  We wouldn't stand for it from any other nation.  We'd politely tell them to shut the hell up and stay out of our politics and how we run our country.  We should do the same with the vatican. 

The Catholic Church certainly has the right to deny the rites of the church to any of its members whom they believe to be acting at variance with the rules, but for a bunch of celebate batchelors to tell people NOT of their faith how they should live their lives is not acceptable.  If the minister of justice of France dared to tell American citizens how they should live their lives, we'd be perfectly justified to tell him to stuff his advice where the sun doesn't shine.  We should tell the vatican the same thing.  They have no business trying to force their religious AND political beliefs onto citizens of the United States.