Thursday, October 30, 2008
A Perfect Storm by Thomas Sowell Some elections are routine, some are important and some are historic. If Senator John McCain wins this election, it will probably go down in history as routine. But if Senator Barack Obama wins, it is more likely to be historic-- and catastrophic. Once the election is over, the glittering generalities of rhetoric and style will mean nothing. Everything will depend on performance in facing huge challenges, domestic and foreign. Performance is where Barack Obama has nothing to show for his political career, either in Illinois or in Washington. Policies that he proposes under the banner of "change" are almost all policies that have been tried repeatedly in other countries-- and failed repeatedly in other countries. 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 well 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. 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 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:10:21 -0700From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Let's listen to Chauvre Bury to become a millionaire!To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It’s easy to get rich. Come on, let’s bet all your money on the Republican, e.g. for US$100000 you’ll get US$800000! Elections -2008 US Presidential Election More Match Bets: 2008 Winning Party Tuesday 4 November, 2008 2008 Winning Party ? 2008 US Presidential Election 10:00PM GMT +11:00 Selection Win Democratic Party 1.10 Republican Party 7.00 http://www.canbet.com.au/Sport/BetTypeContainer.aspx?SportId=33&CompetitionId=19531&BetTypeId=979&FutureFlag=False From: Bury Chau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:57:54 PMSubject: I . US POLITICS : Obama's Affinity to Marxists ad vs Palin fresh talk Cambodia needs Independence from Vietnam and the Vietnamese invaders. MARXIST STYLE.Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama released a 30 minute campaign video. Washington, DC : 30 min. The cost amounts to over $ 3 millions dollar to pay the TV for the Ad. Gov. Palin (R-AK) Rally in Jeffersonville, Indiana (October 29, 2008) FRESH TALK STYLE Republican VP Nominee Sarah Palin spoke at a campaign rally held in River Ridge Center Two, a new building under construction at the River Ridge Commerce Center in Jeffersonville, Indiana Jeffersonville, IN : 36 min. DO NOT FOLLOW THE CAMBODIA'S MARXIST MODEL, AMERICA VOTE REPUBLICAN Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Barack Obama Admits: " I Chose My Friends Carefully... Marxist Professors and Structural Feminists" (Audio) Barack Obama admitted that he was drawn to Marxists during his college days.He wrote about it: "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists."He even talked about it:(17 seconds)Audio via Dan Caplis ReportsBill Sammon wrote about Obama's Affinity to Marxists today at Americans Election HQ: Barack Obama laughs off charges of socialism. Joe Biden scoffs at references to Marxism.. Both men shrug off accusations of liberalism.But Obama himself acknowledges that he was drawn to socialists and even Marxists as a college student. He continued to associate with Marxists later in life, even choosing to launch his political career in the living room of a self-described Marxist, William Ayers, in 1995, when Obama was 34.Obama's affinity for Marxists began when he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles."To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully," the Democratic presidential candidate wrote in his memoir, "Dreams From My Father." "The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists."Obama's interest in leftist politics continued after he transferred to Columbia University in New York. He lived on Manhattan's Upper East Side, venturing to the East Village for what he called "the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union."After graduating from Columbia in 1983, Obama spent a year working for a consulting firm and then went to work for what he described as "a Ralph Nader offshoot" in Harlem."In search of some inspiration, I went to hear Kwame Toure, formerly Stokely Carmichael of …Black Panther fame, speak at Columbia," Obama wrote in "Dreams," which he published in 1995. "At the entrance to the auditorium, two women, one black, one Asian, were selling Marxist literature."Obama supporters point out that plenty of Americans flirt with radical ideologies in college, only to join the political mainstream later in life. But Obama, who made a point of noting how "carefully" he chose his friends in college, also chose to launch his political career in the Chicago living room of Ayers, a domestic terrorist who in 2002 proclaimed: "I am a Marxist." America calls Vietnam to restore Cambodia Independence. Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia. President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York,September 26, 1988. "Mr. Secretary-General, there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose freedom and independence we seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and independence of Afghanistan. We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops ...." As of today,Cambodia is still occupied by the Vietnamese troops despite the call from the US president to Vietnam to cease her occupation of Cambodia since 1988. Cambodia needs Independence from Vietnam and the Vietnamese invaders. Bury Want to read Hotmail messages in Outlook? The Wordsmiths show you how. 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