I think I want to read Passages by Gail Sheey and see if I’m in a midlife crisis although I don’t know if I have the energy for it.

“A divine mystery, or sacrament, is a reality which you cannot see it. It is the opposite of magic, which an unreality that appears real. With magic, you see something that isn’t there, with sacrament you don’t see something that is.” – Fr. Benedict Groeschel

Maybe in my lifetime there will be a president who runs his presidency from the same place in the political spectrum from which he ran his campaign.

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BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

Obama is different…uh…uh…mmm…uh…where’s my teleprompter.

Obama promises to use only public money for financing…say what?…I can make THAT MUCH campaign money from shady internet financing schemes? Oh, I’ve decided to forego the public financing and let the McCain sucker die by his own sword.

Obama blames the Bush Administration saying he “inherited” this mess when historical fact shows that the economy began to tank right around the time the Democrats took over both houses of Congress in November 2006. In any event, the Democrats and Bush “spent like Democrats” since then and Barack Obama voted for nearly every spending bill (even the ones Bush eventually vetoed). So to use an Obamaism, he’s going to try to “fix the problems using the same failed policies of the past that he voted for before he was President.”

Obama promised no lobbyists in his administration…until he got an administration and then the lure (and his lie) was too hard to resist.

Obama promised to end the war in Iraq (which was effectively won without his help and in spite of his opposition) but, here we are, coming up on 2 months and we are still in Iraq. And Obama’s got religion: he’s listening to his generals. (I remember when, under Bush, that was considered an “evil” thing. n.b., Gen. Betrayus)

Obama’s a great judge of character, but he has a blind spot when it comes to tax cheats. And tax cheating has to be one of the most egregious of Democratic hypocrisies: imagine a politician who votes to tax cigs, and soda pop, and mileage, and the number of hairs on my butt, and anything that farts whether of two legs or four, imagine that person not being willing, and not just willing, but EAGER to pay their fair share.

Democrats like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, the Lay and Skilling of Liberal Policy Inc., resisted over a dozen efforts by the Bush Administration to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Here’s the brilliant Frank in his own words back on September 10th, 2003, in a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee, as the GOP-led Congress was proposing adding regulation over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac(http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/hearings/108h/92231.txt):

“I want to begin by saying that I am glad to consider the
legislation, but I do not think we are facing any kind of a
crisis. That is, in my view, the two government sponsored
enterprises we are talking about here, Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac, are not in a crisis. We have recently had an accounting
problem with Freddie Mac that has led to people being
dismissed, as appears to be appropriate. I do not think at this
point there is a problem with a threat to the Treasury.
I must say we have an interesting example of self-
fulfilling prophecy. Some of the critics of Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac say that the problem is that the Federal Government
is obligated to bail out people who might lose money in
connection with them. I do not believe that we have any such
obligation. And as I said, it is a self-fulfilling prophecy by
some people.
So let me make it clear, I am a strong supporter of the
role that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac play in housing, but
nobody who invests in them should come looking to me for a
nickel–nor anybody else in the Federal Government. And if
investors take some comfort and want to lend them a little
money and less interest rates, because they like this set of
affiliations, good, because housing will benefit. But there is
no guarantee, there is no explicit guarantee, there is no
implicit guarantee, there is no wink-and-nod guarantee. Invest,
and you are on your own.
Now, we have got a system that I think has worked very well
to help housing. The high cost of housing is one of the great
social bombs of this country. I would rank it second to the
inadequacy of our health delivery system as a problem that
afflicts many, many Americans. We have gotten recent reports
about the difficulty here.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have played a very useful role
in helping make housing more affordable, both in general
through leveraging the mortgage market, and in particular, they
have a mission that this Congress has given them in return for
some of the arrangements which are of some benefit to them to
focus on affordable housing, and that is what I am concerned
about here. I believe that we, as the Federal Government, have
probably done too little rather than too much to push them to
meet the goals of affordable housing and to set reasonable
goals. I worry frankly that there is a tension here.
The more people, in my judgment, exaggerate a threat of
safety and soundness, the more people conjure up the
possibility of serious financial losses to the Treasury, which
I do not see. I think we see entities that are fundamentally
sound financially and withstand some of the disastrous
scenarios. And even if there were a problem, the Federal
Government doesn’t bail them out. But the more pressure there
is there, then the less I think we see in terms of affordable
housing.”

Obama promised to end the mis-named liberal shiboleth known as “Bush’s Domestic Spying Program.” But…oh well, he’s so shmart and he’s a Democrat after all so he won’t abuse his power.

Obama promised to shut down Gitmo on day 1; instead, he’s given it a lifeline and who knows what a year might bring. He might get religion here as well. Meanwhile, Obama has ramped up the Clinton era of renditioning again…I wonder if Hollywood will make some movies about it.

Oh, and let’s not forget the unborn – all of them evil GOP voters if they were allowed to live. He defied the Catholic Church and all life-affirming citizens by signing executive orders to allow public funding for overseas abortions. Such a critical order had to be completed ASAP.

I could go on and on, Dute, but in spite of its appearance, my comment is not meant to be an anti-Obama rant as much as it is a rant against Big Government. A Big Government that neither Repukes or Dumbocrats seem to be able to reign in. If citizens do not vote for candidates who believe in limited government, we are in deep Constitutional trouble.

Peace.

I finally got around to reading your posts…and MAN, you need to keep writing. I love your tone and style…I feel as though I am reading the words of someone very wise…seriously.

This blog was definitely LONG overdue. Nicely done, my friend. Mind if I link to you from TNR?

See you tonight!