The Presidential Race is over. Twenty-one months of around the clock political news domination has ended. There were days, my friends, I thought it would never end.
The entire world loves two things and two things only, and that’s a winner and a parade. I stayed up last night and listened to the results until I heard that it looked like Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio were going for Obama. I thought to myself, I might as well go to bed and wake up to a new African American President-Elect. Sure enough, I woke up at 3 a.m., turned on the TV and the first thing I heard was mention of Barack Obama as the President-Elect, then news of more than 100,000 people in Grant Park, Illinois, to hear his speech.
Barack Obama can definitely draw a crowd and make an eloquent speech. He most certainly generated a lot of enthusiasm over his campaign and inspired a lot of hope in a generation of Americans. Now the question is, what is he going to deliver?
According to reports about his voting record, he is very liberal. And out of his own rhetoric came the admission he believes in “redistribution of wealth.” According to news reports, his campaign spent more than $600 million to get him elected . . . that’s a lot of do-re-me!
Between now and his inauguration in January, there will be a ‘honeymoon’ period over the fact a Democratic, African American has been elected to the highest office in the land . . . President of the United States. It’s a historical event. I’m wondering where we will be in January 2010, after one year with Obama in office. As things stand today, we are already on the fast track down the road of socialism. And I did not hear Obama or McCain talk about individual freedom and personal property rights during their many campaign speeches.
The first presidential election I recall was Franklin Roosevelt in the 30s, and even remember him saying, “The tempo of the United States government is never far ahead of, nor very far behind, the tempo of the American people.” In this connection, it is obvious that the majority of voters cast their stamp of approval on more socialism, which according to Karl Marx, is a system that takes from “one according to his ability and gives to one according to his need.” A “redistribution of wealth” . . .
A few days ago, I was asked what I thought of President Bush. After eight years, we are definitely further down the road of socialism then when he took office. We are much deeper in debt and the erosion of individual freedom has taken place at an alarming rate, in addition to the fact that one only has to look at the housing market to know there is definitely a decline in private ownership of property . . . a huge slash into those very foundational principles upon which this country was founded. It’s appalling that he has done this to us.
I thought after the 9/11 crisis that he was a president who stepped up to the plate with compassion and determination to lead this country out of that crisis. But then he jumped into a war with Iraq, which in my opinion was a very bad judgment and has been a long, very costly one that has proved to be detrimental to this country, compounded by a stubborn determination to keep us in it all these years.
I think the history of events has shown Iraq was not enough of a threat to this country to justify the decision Bush made to lead us into this costly war and to continue it. And this country and its citizens, for the most part, are worse off now than eight years ago.
We are going to hear a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking about the election and how and why Obama won and McCain Lost. I personally think McCain lost because after being in a seat of power for more than 20 years in Congress, he pretty much rubber-stamped everything Bush did. While 85 percent of the American people, according to the polls, think this country is headed in the wrong direction, McCain did not convince enough people that he would do anything very different.
I’m just saddened by what I perceive as the intentions of both political candidates—a plan for more centralized political government powers, and less individual freedom and fewer personal ownership of property rights. I know it’s not the nature of political government to reduce itself, yet instead, expand its powers over the governed. It’s its nature to “take” and “redistribute.” That’s not only its nature, but also its history throughout the history of mankind.
The third president who drafted The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, said, “I would think no worse example abroad, who for the first time we’re trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.”
Let Freedom Ring!
JUST ME,
AC
