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Newsweek's latest issue contains a felcherously drizzling article proclaiming "We Are All Socialists Now".

Does "We Won" really translate to "We Can Now Destroy This Country!"?

"Yes We Can!"

Hmmmph....but, no, you will not get me to go along with you.

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Be sure to watch this... Jon Stewart brings teh funny, finally, to President Urkel.

Dan Collins posted this pshop at Protein Wisdom. Thanks, Dan!

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Kyle-Anne Shiver writes an excellent essay, "The Repugnance of Socialism", available today in American Thinker.

There also, Andrew Walden's timely and well-written "Barack Obama: Red Diaper Baby". That essay's title alone should give pause to any American, to wonder how and why we've managed to allow this serpent to come so close to the reigns of power. Does Barack Obama's candidacy and possible election represent the result of a necessary, but ultimately reversible, swing of the political pendulum, or is this candidate the One who will bring about the permanent destruction of our political balance?

We've cycled back and forth, now, for decades. During my lifetime, JFK/LBJ to Nixon/Ford to Carter to Reagan/Bush to Clinton/Clinton to Bash/Bush. During that time we've managed to stay pretty much a Representative Republic, with our three branches of government, none with more power than the other (although the Executive is most visible and the Legislative most strident). With the possibility of Barack Obama, and two houses of Congress, we may see a flaw, or a major breakdown of the system.

Especially with the fear-based catalyst that the economic crisis represents. If Obama assumes office and starts changing things willy-nilly, sends questionable hopey-changey bills that are immediately and without viable opposition rubber-stamped by the Legislative branch, supported by and opposition to silenced by a clingy media, then this entire nation may become unhinged and eventually unrecognizable.

I laughed when the leftys spoke that 'Bush will seize power, take over the nation, not allow elections, and become dictator for life!' Obviously, that didn't happen. President Bush succeeded in keeping America safe from further attacks during his watch.

An Obaminable administration bent on injecting a social platform the likes of which we've never seen before will undermine the very fabric of our nation. And without any opposition, may cause unrepairable harm. A veritable attack on our nation.

Tell me that's not frightening.

Jeff G at protein wisdom links to this article...

Obama Affinity to Marxists Dates Back to College Days

Barack Obama shrugs off charges of socialism, but noted in his own memoir that he carefully chose Marxist professors as friends in college.

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, a skinhead full of hate, it seems, for our Capitalist economic system. Hatred for the rich; a hatred based on envy. Now, he's ready to take charge of America and sell out his country, to CHANGE.

With his amorphous and undefined desire to CHANGE the nation's entire economic fabric because he's spent his entire adult life hating. Hating whites, for their capitalism. Hate he sought out and to learned in school, and hate he nurtured...in Church.

In his sermon that day, Wright tore into America, referring to the “United States of White America” and lacing his sermon with expletives as Obama listened. Hearing Wright’s attacks on his own country, Obama had the opportunity to walk out, but Davis said the senator sat in his pew and nodded in agreement.

Addressing the Iraq war, Wright thundered, “Young African-American men” were “dying for nothing.” The “illegal war,” he shouted, was “based on Bush’s lies” and is being “fought for oil money.”

Obama’s most famous celebrity backer, Oprah Winfrey began attending Wright’s church in 1984. Last year, Newsmax magazine reported that Winfrey abruptly stopped attending years ago, and suggested that she did so to distance herself from Wright’s inflammatory rhetoric. She soon found herself a target of Wright, who
excoriated her for having broken with “traditional faith.”

The Reverend Wright’s anti-white theology that Senator Obama expressed surprise over is evident on the church’s website. The site says the congregation subscribes to what it calls the Black Value System, which is described as a disavowal of “our racist competitive society” and the pursuit of “middle-classness.” That is defined as a way for American society to “snare” blacks rather than “killing them off directly” or placing them in concentration camps,” just as the country structures “an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.”

“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01,” Wright wrote in the church-affiliated magazine Trumpet four years after the attacks. “White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.”

That troublesome Black Liberation Theology. White-hating theology, that's the bottom line.

Socialism as "public control of the means of production" is not the definition that we apply to Barack Obama, tgirsch. The meaning for Barack Obama's sort of socialism is Webster's third in line..

3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done.

Giving goods taken from someone who works (confiscatory taxes), and 'redistributing the wealth' (Obama's own words!) to those who do not work is Obama's definition of socialism. Allowing non-productive members of society to get a share of the fruits of another person's labor. Undeservedly so? I think so. But then, I'm a capitalist, as would be most Americans if they would take the time to realize that Capitalism is responsible for their very way of life, responsible for the excellent health care system enjoyed by Americans, responsible for the advanced technology and devices we enjoy. Capitalism made our way of life possible. Socialism drags a society down; instead of requiring people to reach their potential by expending a bit of effort, it 'trickles up' the poverty. All are equally treated, when none are allowed to succeed without the punishment of unfair taxation.

But that taxation just seems Wright to some.

We don't need no stinkin' socialism, not here in America.

(Oh...third in line...now, that rings a bell, doesn't it?)

The most socialist state in the nation, as far left as you can get and still be called a United States State, is dropping the nation's only state-funded universal child health care program.

The 'birth' state of one Barack Hussein Obama.

Keiki Insurance, an ambitious plan to cover health care for kids, dropped after only a few months. Reminiscent of our own state's failed TennCare program; a preview of what's coming if our Federal government tries to implement some sort of Universal health care.

State cuts for keiki insurance stun officials

Reasons cited include "limited success" of helping kids in an income "gap group"

What's not mentioned in the Honolulu O!fficial Press is the truth of the matter: people were taking advantage of a 'freebie', dropping private coverage so as to get something for nothing. Stressing the system, crowding out the truly needy because of personal greed. Wow, sounds so much like TennCare that shivers are running down Bunker Boy Bredesen's back just thinking about it, I'll warrant.

"People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free," said Dr. Kenny Fink, the administrator for Med-QUEST at the Department of Human Services. "I don't believe that was the intent of the program."

Why can't we just raise taxes on people who live in, and visit Hawaii, to pay for this program? Only on the richest, mind you. Just so it's fair.

Hawaii is a heavily-taxed (not as progressively taxed as some, but I'm sure it's fairly taxed!) state. Most of Hawaii's revenue comes from a general excise tax (taxing businesses for the privilege of doing business in the State, instead of that oh-so-unfair sales tax..don't we know that exise tax is absorbed by the offending businesses, and never passed on to the consumer..right?) and personal income taxes. Hawaii is ranked 24th in TaxFoundation dot org's annual state-by-state tax comparison (Tennessee is ranked 17th; the best states are 1. Wyoming, then South Dakota, Nevada and Alaska; the worst states for businesses include the most liberal states, the three bottom-feeders being California, New York and New Jersey).

There must be room for to raise taxes in Hawaii. Seems raising taxes on businesses and the overly wealthy is only fair.

And, it'd be for the children!