Pasadena Politics

There was this article I spotted yesterday which, compared to thisother article from today makes me go: hmmm. 

A lot of people seem enamoured with Obama.   Honestly, I am not certain why.  Sure, he is good looking, but the content of his character?  Looking at what he proposes, who his influences are, I can only say that he is unattractive.   He believes that Government is the solution to societal problems.   After all, he left community building because he thought it was not as effective when compared to politics:

“In truth, however, if you examine carefully how Obama conducted himself as an organizer and how he has conducted himself as a politician, if you consider what he said about organizing to his fellow organizers, and if you look at the reasons he gave friends and colleagues for abandoning organizing, then a very different picture emerges: that of a disillusioned activist who fashioned his political identity not as an extension of community organizing but as a wholesale rejection of it. Indeed, the most important thing to know about Barack Obama’s time as a community organizer in Chicago may not be what he gained from the experience–but rather why, in late 1987, he decided to quit.” [source]

Take, for example, the $250,000 floor on higher taxation he is proposing.    “Joe the plumber” – yes, that is his name as it is derived from his middle name (I too have gone by my middle name: James), put an appropriate spotlight on this matter: what does this mean for the average American looking to rise above their current financial state.   Is that $250,000 net or gross?   A staffer mentioned it was net, but Obama, similar to Clinton a decade before him, could easily claim it was not something he said and thus promised.  Given the proclivity for the current Congress to want to spend more and more, grant voting rights to people who are breaking the immigration laws of this nation, and desire to impose government on all aspects of the Citizenry’s lives (except when it may interfere with their ability to raise money from big donors) do we really want a member from the same party keen on More, Bigger, and, may I laugh, Better Government in the executive seat?  

 Let alone the two or more Supreme Court Vacancies which will be coming up?

The citizens of America are poised on the brink of a cliff.   On one hand is a steep climb up towards liberating ourselves from Government and on the other is the steep drop into the grinding maw of Government.   The tough part is convincing fellow Americans that the tougher road of self-reliance apart from Government giving you a hand at every turn is better than letting the Government control your life in exchange for being coddled by it.   The real disapointment is that McCain only offers to keep us on that brink, yet it is still better to lie there than roll off.  RINO.