Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! The solution to all our problems!

“I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car, I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage! You know, if I help him, he’s gonna help me.”

David Harsanyi, in his piece If It Redistributes Like a Duck,

Now, I’m not suggesting Obama intends to transform this nation into 1950s-era Soviet tyranny or that he will possess the power to do so. I’m suggesting Obama is praising and mainstreaming an economic philosophy that has failed to produce a scintilla of fairness or prosperity anywhere on earth. Ever.

And there it is. If you could bear to think rationally and get past all the warm, fuzzy hope for change that will hopefully change us — buffered of course by the pointedly objective sense of fairness the government has time and again proven to embody —  the thought may have occurred to you that the kind of change Obama is proposing is certainly a departure… a departure from a system that works remarkably well to a system that has yet to ever prove itself. And believe me, it’s had the opportunity.

It’s not that we don’t have room for improvement economically, but why this ignorant push to throw out the baby with the bath water?

This is the kind of genius that I wish I could churn out. Hmm… maybe if I got more sleep…

I do admit I am a little worried about Ahmedwhatshisname getting nukes and Putin rolling into Europe, with only Obama’s charisma to stop them.  I had never really thought of let’s all play nicely together as a foreign policy since it doesn’t even work with kids.  But hey, is that really my problem?  He has like a zillion brilliant foreign policy advisers and I’m sure they’ll figure something clever out.  I can no longer afford a trip to Israel anyway and I assume pictures of it will be archived on the internet.

I think Obama will probably take the Presidency here in a week, but the disparate polls should bring us pause. How is it that consistently over the past few weeks there have been some polls with Obama up by as much as 12 points and other that put the two candidates firmly within the margin of error of each other? Obivously, there are discrepancies in the way that different polling organizations present the data, but what I want to look at is the undecideds. My hypothesis is simple, short, and may prove to be completely right or way off base here in a week. 

With all the media coverage and fawning over Obama that we’ve seen, my guess is that if someone hasn’t made up their mind about Obama yet, they probably won’t now.

They’ve certainly had ample opportunity. Why are they still undecided? Are they holding out for more information on Obama or are they waiting to see if McCain loses all his marbles? I suspect the latter, and so if McCain proves sane over the next week, I think you’ll see the vast majority of undecided voters break for McCain. The big difference maker will be this: are the polls giving Obama a huge margin right or are the ones showing a dead-heat correct? Only one of the scenarios will have my theory giving McCain the presidency. It’s quite an uphill battle for him.

The best thing we can do for these fine upstanding youths is let them think about what they’ve done for a very long, long time.

You’ve no doubt been hearing the argument that Obama’s Redistribution of Wealth comment to Joe the Plumber was just a slip. (Even so, a Freudian slip is still quite revealing.) But now, new startling evidence is surfacing that it wasn’t a slip. Rather, it was revealing of an ideology that has been reasoned out by Obama. After the fold, hear the 2001 interview with Obama concerning not if Redistribution of Wealth is right or wrong but how our activist might best achieve it. It’s a foregone conclusion for Obama that it must be done.

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Now, I’m going to ask a question or two here, and I’m very sincere in doing so. All I ask is that commenters answer all parts to the questions and please refrain from grandiose assumptions or visceral reaction regardless of your position. Are we clear?

1. Do you find hope in Obama? Why or why not?
2. What kind of change do we need, and what is it about Obama that allows us to believe in it?

I wonder if Obama will write a glowing endorsement on this one as well.

This blog is a response to a post on Facebook that simply grew too large to continue there. The original message, which was not made by me, touched on the hints of Socialism in Obama’s refundable tax credits. From there, a back-and-forth occurred with several different people, and the applicable portion of the latest comment is quoted below.

I definitely understand that Obama is not infallible and that some criticism of him is not baseless. In this case the criticism is misleading at best. All of the tax credits proposed are to go to people who work. For one, “welfare check” implies money from the government for those who don’t work. Those that do work still pay social security taxes and medicare taxes, as well as excise taxes on the gas you use or your telephone bill. These tax credits are designed to somewhat offset these taxes in particular. Currently, according to http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/813/, the government is giving nearly $53 billion in the same type of tax credits to some 57 million people who fall into the zero or negative income tax category. This has been supported strongly by republicans in the past because it helps to keep lower income people who work off of welfare and gives them more of an incentive to work.

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