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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Laura Ingraham wants to know

Here are some questions for his Obamaness that will more than likely remain unanswered.
From Laura Ingraham's daily email.(I especially like the "right to privacy and Joe the Plumber" and the "how will BHO fix the Constitution" questions):

For many Americans this campaign season seems to have gone on forever. Yet with only five days until Election Day, there is still much that we don't know about Barack Obama. Among the unresolved questions:

  • Khalidi tape. Here's a compromise, LA Times. How about at least starting by providing a second-by-second transcript of this tape? This way you don't break your supposed agreement with your source and Americans receive the information they need.

  • The Times's initial story DID report Obama saying that his many dinners with Khalidi had been "consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases. For that reason, I'm hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation." Does Obama still speak with Khalidi? What biases is Obama trying to overcome? How is Khalidi helping in that effort?

  • Campaign finance information. Obama has yet to release information on more than 80 percent of his contributors. Could this be because it's really more like 5 percent posing as 80 percent? (Obama's website allows contributors to use phony names, thereby allowing well-off financiers to circumvent contribution limits.)

  • Does Obama support or condemn Ohio state officials using government computers to rifle through Joe the Plumber's personal paperwork in a partisan hit job?

  • If Obama believes the Constitution provides a "right to privacy" that includes aborting babies, does this right not also protect against Joe the Plumber-styled intrusions by the state?

  • What exactly did Obama mean when he compared America to Nazi Germany in a 2001 radio interview?

  • Does Obama still believe America suffers a "fundamental flaw" that is embodied in the Constitution? What is it, exactly? How does he plan on "fixing" the Constitution?

  • Obama has expressed disappointment that the Constitution "imposes restraints" on income redistribution; as president, would he seek to undo these "constraints"?

  • When Obama says he's willing to sit down with leaders of terrorist states like Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who aspires to destroy Israel, just what exactly is Obama willing to negotiate away? Only half of Israel?

  • Obama said that community-organizing groups like ACORN will have a voice in setting the agenda when he's in the White House. In light of revelations over ACORN's massive voter fraud and other criminal activity, does he still plan to give them a seat at his table?

  • Barney Frank is proposing cutting military spending 25 percent, arguing, "We don't need all of these fancy new weapons." Obama has also pledged big cuts to defense, promising that as president he would "slow our development of future combat systems." Just how much is he planning on cutting? What weapons systems? Missile defense?

    • We're waiting.

    posted by Amendment X at 8:03 PM permalink 0 comments

    A timely quote

    From The Patriot Post:

    Founders' Quote Daily
    "    Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it."
    -- Thomas Paine (The Crisis, no. 4, 11 September 1777)
    The Marine Corps motto is "Freedom isn't Free". Neither is it easy. As Jefferson said "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
    Two words in the Founders Quote Daily for today stood out: "fatigues" and "men". Obviously Thomas Paine lived in the time before metrosexuals and whiny girly lefty men who stay married to Code Pink women. Paine is clear, speaking to us from 231 years ago: freedom is a burden. It does however bear fruit that must be labored for. As Walter E. Williams says "The government can not create anything without first destroying something else first. It can not give anything without taking it from someone else, the rightful owner."
    Those who refuse to "undergo the fatigues" of freedom and the labors of freedom are neither men nor are they respectable. They are thieves. As Frederic Bastiat says in "The Law": the government plunders. Call it "legal" plunder, but it is plunder none-the-less.
    As I think of the proverb of the grasshopper and the ant and its modern version (believe it or not, there is an Indian version ), it's no wonder grasshoppers were and are considered a plague. They eat all and produce nothing.
    I'm seeing the left as a plague.



    posted by Amendment X at 9:50 AM permalink 0 comments

    Tuesday, October 28, 2008

    Forseen unintended consequences

    Fifteen years ago, I met a gentleman quite by accident. I had just been hired by a company and went into the training pool for new sale hires. I got a call from this guy (I'll call him Kent, not his name). He had sat at the desk I now occupied with the phone extension that was assigned to that desk. He related how he had sent out a number of letters with that extension as a contact number and asked that if I got any calls would I forward them or give the caller his new number. I said I would do both so his bases were covered.
    I went upstairs to meet with Kent and we became good friends over the months.
    Kent was an Airborne Ranger. And an officer. He had a very impressive resume'. Very impressive! One thing that impressed me greatly was his affiliations and assignments during Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Kent was a Lt. Colonel.

    In 1992, when Bill Clinton was elected, he resigned from active duty Army. His service and acumen was so highly regarded that he was offered the rank of Brigadier General, jumping two grades, if he would re-up for five years. He passed. What he told me was that he wasn't the only officer that resigned. "The resignation letters fell like snowflakes in a winter storm." The Army lost a significant number of officers and sergeants with twenty plus years of experience. And this thought occurred to me last week: what will happen to the experienced officer and sergeant class if Barack Obama is elected President? If there were these resignations sixteen years ago with Bill Clinton coming on board as Commander in Chief, what will happen with a radical left winger as the near term future CinC? Just when we (and believe it or not, his Messiahness) need that experienced officer and non-com class, I believe we will see those resignations come flowing in.
    Just one more item to put on your punchlist before you vote.

    posted by Amendment X at 10:48 AM permalink 0 comments