Politics and Culture

Mick Wright has a great post on Jimmy Carter.  Check it out HERE.

Barack Obama (B.O.) keeps talking about change (lately, he is wanting to Change the subject as his relationship with his racist pastor has been the hot topic). But exactly what kind of change would we get if B.O. is elected President?

• He will undo (through executive order) all the restrictions on abortion that President Bush put in place.
• He will work with congress to pass the law doing away with secret ballots when workers vote on union representation.
• He will raise taxes.
• He will increase government regulation, red tape, and bureaucracy.
• He will do his best to emasculate our military.
• He will appoint liberal activist judges to the Supreme Court who will seek to write new laws instead of simply interpret the constitution.
• He will raise taxes.
• He will increase the size of government.
• He will do his best to create more of a “nanny state” (meaning more things like seat belt laws, smoking bans, and other laws to protect us from ourselves).
• He will give legitimacy to fringe groups like moveon.org.
• He will raise taxes.
• He will seek to “understand” terrorists instead of killing them.

Need I say more? This is the kind of change we don’t need. Yes We Can? No You Don’t!

It seems that Senator Obama needs a remedial course in economics.

We’re hearing lots of political ads here in Ohio, running up to our primary on March 4th.  There’s an Obama ad they keep playing over and over, which says something like this:  “Barack Obama will close corporate tax loopholes so he can give tax breaks to the middle class and help companies create jobs.”

Huh?  Either he doesn’t understand how things work, or (more likely) he assumes that the citizens of Ohio are ignorant of such things.  If you raise taxes on corporations and give tax breaks to the middle class, it will not help companies create more jobs.  It will have the opposite effect.  Companies will do more outsourcing and lay off more workers in an effort to pay the higher taxes.

The ad also points out that corporate C.E.O.s make more in 10 minutes than the average worker makes in a year.  OK.  So what?  What are you going to do Mr. Obama?  Limit how much corporate C.E.O.s can be paid?  Sorry, that’s not the President’s job.

It seems he’s running on the tired old theme of class warfare.  Let’s all hope and pray that he’s as successful with it as Michael Dukakis and John Kerry.

Jason over at “out here in the middle” has a great post regarding a stupid statement by Michelle Obama.

Read it HERE.

Have you heard about Adam Shepard?  He is the author of the book Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream, which chronicles his attempt to pull himself up out of self-imposed poverty and live the American Dream.  He did this, in part, to disprove Barbara Ehrenreich’s thesis in her book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, that the American Dream is dead.  He believes that Ehrenreich went into the project with the end in mind — that it’s impossible to pull yourself up out of poverty.  And of course, she “proved” her point.

Adam also went into the project with the end in mind — that the American Dream is still alive and well.  And he succeeded.  He started by living in a homeless shelter with only $25 in his pocket, with the goal of having a car, an apartment and $2,500 saved at the end of a year.  After 10 months, he had a car, an apartment and $5,000 saved.

Check out more about Adam (including an interview) HERE.

I (almost) always enjoy reading Camille Paglia.  I found today’s column to be especially good.  Here’s a great quote about John McCain:  “Who needs a weird old coot with a short fuse in the White House?”

Read the entire column HERE.

Yes, I stole one of B.O.’s campaign lines for the title of this post…

This blog is changing!  Instead of a one man show, it is becoming a consortium of Conservative thinkers and writers.  Here is the new description:

“We are a fellowship of bloggers with a bit of interest in Politics & Culture. We are Pastors, Businessmen (and women), Educators, Engineers, Factory Workers, Administrative Assistants, and Students.  We have some strong opinions, but we try to stay open-minded.”

There you have it!  Stay Tuned!

Check out this Drew Carey video on America’s middle class.

h/t: Mick Wright

h/t to Greg.

Lee Wilson has an interesting post on Barack Obama and abortion.  You can read the entire post HERE.

Here’s an excerpt:

“Take Barack Obama for example. According to a recent story by Terence Jeffrey of the Cybercast News Service, Barack Obama “is so pro-abortion that he refused as an Illinois state senator to support legislation to protect babies who survived late-term abortions,” Jeffrey writes. He said Obama “did not want to concede — as he explained in a cold-blooded speech on the Illinois Senate floor — that these babies, fully outside their mothers’ wombs, with their hearts beating and lungs heaving, were in fact ‘persons.’

On the Illinois Senate floor, Obama was the only senator of either party to speak against the baby-protecting bills, Jeffrey reported.

Obama was so cold hearted that he sat through the testimony of Jill Stanek, a nurse who shared a terrible story of a botched abortion where the baby’s cries could be heard down the hall. The “parents” did not want to hold their mortally-wounded child because they did not want him in the first place. Another nurse placed the dying child in a soiled utility room to die. These are Jill’s words about those moments:

“I couldn’t bear the thought of this suffering child lying alone in a Soiled Utility Room, so I cradled and rocked him for the 45 minutes that he lived.”

What have we become?! What has Barack Obama become that he listened to that and was the only senator, Republican or Democrat, that was opposed to there being any kind of value assigned to a baby who survived an abortion. No pain killers, no attempt to save that young life, he wanted the status quo to remain in tact where those crying children would be left to die — and he got his way in Illinois.”

Interesting.  I wonder how he reconciles this with his faith in Jesus?  I wish someone in the mainstream media would ask him some hard questions about this.  But they won’t.  How about the so-called Faithful Democrats or Democrats for Life?  Why don’t they call him on this?  Are they blinded by their Obamagasms?