Begin rant.

I never, in my wildest dreams, thought I would write an article with a headline like the one on this article. I even have a McCain-Palin sign sitting on my front lawn! For many years I’ve considered McCain to be a flake. I still do. He’s bought into the man-made global warming hoax, to the point of mentioning Al Gore as a potential cabinet appointment. He helped manufacture the first breach of the First Amendment in our nation’s history under the guise of “campaign finance reform.” He wants to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. The list goes on.

But McCain, for all of his shortcomings, is FAR preferable to the socialist Barack Hussein Obama. Case in point: In Tuesday night’s second Presidential Debate, Obama flatly said that “health care is a right.” Did you fall out of your chair as I did? A right?? No sir–it’s NOT a right. Rights for citizens are enumerated in our Constitution. There are those recognized as coming from God (and not conferred by the state), like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And there are rights specifically spelled out to prevent citizens from harming other citizens. Most of the Constitution is a leash to keep the federal government in check and prevent a massive central power bureaucracy. The Constitution is there to prevent a single person (like the President) or a small group (like the Congress) from assuming dictatorial powers. The intent is that the government should serve the people, not the other way around.

The Constitution grants you and everyone else the right to be free–to pursue your dreams, which is why the United States is the best country on earth. However, it does not guarantee the outcome of your dreams and pursuits. It only guarantees that you get a shot. If you blow it, that’s your business. It’s not your neighbor’s fault, it’s not the government’s job to pick up your slack–not anyone else. You. You succeed or fail on your own. With the help of family and friends and God (or without).

Nowhere in the Constitution do I see a “right” to health care as guaranteed by the federal government. The founders of our country, and their legacy in the form of the Constitution, specifically prohibit such “rights” from being established. They knew that citizens, if given the opportunity (because of fallen human nature), would vote themselves money from the public treasury. That’s why the founders set up a representative democracy–what we call a republic–and not a straight democracy. We elect people who make the laws and decide how much of, and how, to spend OUR money. There’s meant to be a layer, a speed bump, a firewall between citizens and the public treasury. And the plan was that over time the representatives who make the laws and spend the money would leave government and live under the very laws they had made. When those who we elect ignore the Constitution and pacify enough citizens–essentially “buy them off” with their neighbors’ money through confiscatory taxes, and when those representatives stay in in power for decades–the system breaks down. It becomes unfair. Such is our lot today.

Obama is a raging, lunatic socialist. He speaks well and looks nice–but deep down he has an ax to grind and it’s with America. He wants to massively redistribute wealth. He wants to take YOUR money and decide–for you–how you’ll spend it. How? By huge tax increases in which he will take money from you and your company and give it to other people and other companies–as he and the socialist left deem best.

The latest outrage from the socialist left is the current economic crisis–which is a direct result of the actions of Democrats, including Obama. Think I’m exaggerating? Read this article in The American Thinker: The Crime of the Century: The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. Please…read it! Although Obama is a late-comer to the table, people who work in his campaign (from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae), along with his fellow Senators and Congressman, including Chuck Shumer, Chris Dodd, and Barney Frank, should all, right now, be sitting in jail. They manufactured this crisis, intentionally. And now the Democrats are profiting from it. They put their own sick and twisted desire for power and money ahead of the good of our country, and now the U.S. and the rest of the world will pay the price with a recession (maybe even a depression) that will last for years. Are you really, really mad about the bailout? Be mad at the Democrats. They caused it!

Let me be crystal clear, in case you’ve missed my point. If you’re voting for Obama, you’re voting to hasten the end of democracy in our country. When these socialists finally seize power across all branches, as they are close to doing, your freedoms will start to disappear. And it will happen quickly. First to go with be the First Amendment. Look for blogs like this one–and radio talk shows–to be ended by introducing and passing the “fairness doctrine” (sponsored and promoted by Congressman Maurice Hinchey). You can also kiss your money goodbye. And socialized medicine will arrive quickly. It will be the end of our country as we’ve known it for more than 200 years.

You must not vote for Obama. Nor Maurice Hinchey. He’s nothing but a factotum for Pelosi and gang–a minion who does her majesty’s bidding. Vote him out! And please, if you pull the lever for Obama (or Hinchey), don’t tell me.

Vote for Obama=vote to end democracy in our country.
Vote for McCain=live to fight another day.

End of rant.

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