What Does Obama Bring?
Posted in: What's Shakin'?, Government/Politics, OpinioNation, 2008 Presidential Election on October 31st, 2008 by Dan Kenitz
Happy Halloween! It’s my job to scare you today. And what could be scarier than the prospect of an Obama presidency?
Elections are coming up, and people who are voting for Barack Obama need to think about what he’ll actually bring. Not that people who plan on voting for Barack Obama can be trusted to do any independent thinking, but hey, I’m blogging here.
What would an Obama presidency bring?
He’s already given “first act” status to signing the Freedom of Choice act. (link)
Here’s how Wikipedia describes the act:
The Freedom of Choice Act (H.R. 3719/S. 2020) is a bill in the United States Congress which, if enacted, would abolish all restrictions and limitations on the right of women in the United States to have an abortion, whether at the State or Federal level.
What does that tell you about Barack Obama - that his supposed first act will be to support the liberal notion that murdering your own children is actually about “personal choice”?
Not only is he 100% in support of the liberal sacred cow of killing unborn children, he thinks it’s so important he wants to make it his first act. If he’s not the most liberal candidate ever (and he might be anyway), he’s up there.
How about taxes and government spending? Take it away, Thomas Sowell.
Politicians telling businesses how to operate? That’s been tried in countries around the world, especially during the second half of the 20th century. It has failed so often and so badly that even socialist and communist governments were freeing up their markets by the end of the century.
The economies of China and India began their take-off into high rates of growth when they got rid of precisely the kinds of policies that Obama is advocating for the United States under the magic mantra of “change.”
Putting restrictions on international trade in order to save jobs at home? That was tried here with the Hawley-Smoot tariff during the Great Depression.
Unemployment was 9 percent when that tariff was passed to save jobs, but unemployment went up instead of down, and reached 25 percent before the decade was over.
Higher taxes to “spread the wealth around,” as Obama puts it? The idea of redistributing wealth has turned into the reality of redistributing poverty, in countries where wealth has fled and the production of new wealth has been stifled by a lack of incentives.
Obama also wants to slow down American business under the pretext of saving it. Oh, he claims to be for the middle class, but he wants to take money away from the people who employ the middle class - the upper class.
How about foreign policy? After all, we do live in a world in which crazy, non-life-valuing terrorists want to get nuclear bombs.
Economic disasters, however, may pale by comparison with the catastrophe of Iran with nuclear weapons. Glib rhetoric about Iran being “a small country,” as Obama called it, will be a bitter irony for Americans who will have to live in the shadow of a nuclear threat that cannot be deterred, as that of the Soviet Union could be, by the threat of a nuclear counter-attack.
Suicidal fanatics cannot be deterred. If they are willing to die and we are not, then we are at their mercy — and they have no mercy. Moreover, once they get nuclear weapons, that is a situation which cannot be reversed, either in this generation or in generations to come.
Is this the legacy we wish to leave our children and grandchildren, by voting on the basis of style and symbolism, rather than substance?
If Barack Obama thinks that such a catastrophe can be avoided by sitting down and talking with the leaders of Iran, then he is repeating a fallacy that helped bring on World War II.
In a nuclear age, one country does not have to send troops to occupy another country in order to conquer it. A country is conquered if another country can dictate who rules it, as the Mongols once did with Russia, and as Osama bin Laden tried to do when he threatened retaliation against places in the United States that voted for George W. Bush. But he didn’t have nuclear weapons to back up that threat — yet.
America has never been a conquered country, so it may be very hard for most Americans even to conceive what that can mean. After France was conquered in 1940, it was reduced to turning over some of its own innocent citizens to the Nazis to kill, just because those citizens were Jewish.
Do you think our leaders wouldn’t do that? Not even if the alternative was to see New York and Los Angeles go up in mushroom clouds? If I were Jewish, I wouldn’t bet my life on that.
What the Middle East fanatics want is not just our resources or even our lives, but our humiliation first, in whatever sadistic ways they can think of. Their lust for humiliation has already been repeatedly demonstrated in their videotaped beheadings that find such an eager market in the Middle East.
None of this can be prevented by glib talk, but only by character, courage and decisive actions — none of which Barack Obama has ever demonstrated.
Scared yet?
In the words of Yoda…
You should be.


First of all this article gives an extremely bias and inaccurate portrayal of Barack Obama and his beliefs. To say that Obama “supports the sacred cow killing of unborn children” is absolutely ridiculous this author needs to learn to get past an issue that was decided over 30 yrs ago and not by Barack Obama. This article also talks about liberal views as is they were some terrible sin when being “liberal” actually means you care about reform and progress. Since when are either of these things bad especially in a country that is worse off than it has been in a long time because of a “conservative” president.
The article bashes Obama’s tax plan saying he is going to raise the taxes for the middle and poor classes. When in reality Barack Obama plans to give tax relief to the lower and Middle classes. He also plans to cut taxes for small businesses in order to create more jobs and restore fiscal responsibility to our country.
The article does a fabulous job of trashing Barack’s ideas such as foreign policy, the war in Iraq, and the economy yet he fails to actually inform the readers what Obama’s position actually is. My hope is that when people go to the polls to vote they ignore ignorant articles like this one and do a substantial amount of research for themselves. I think it is extremely important to think about the issues that are important to you and figure out which candidate aligns with your beliefs the best. Then make a vote based on this not the random and inaccurate article.