Two Major Issues Remain
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Wednesday, 10 December 08 - 11:22 AM (GMT -06:00) By John Hull in Election 2008 |
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The election has been over for more than a month now, and two issues (one new, one old) are still to be resolved. Both could have devastating consequences for the country.
First, and most important, is the question of Barack Obama's eligibility to be president. There are still a couple of dozen law suites in the pipeline in various states, but the real meat is the second suit set for conference this Friday at the US Supreme Court. The first suit that they looked at didn't meet the criteria they required to move forward. According to sources that have seen the second suit, however, say that it is much better written from a legal standpoint, and goes into much more detail. They say it has a better chance of progressing. Only four justices have to agree to move onto the docket. Even if they do not move it along, the question of Obama's eligibility will still be unanswered, leaving an increasingly hostile percentage of the voters demanding answers.
The second issue is the stunning FBI arrest of Illinois governor Rod Blagojavich on corruption charges. Two weeks ago the Justice Dept. announced that they had taped conversations of the governor and people in his office, and potential beneficiaries discussing brides in exchange for jobs and other political payback. Then, yesterday, came the extraordinary disclosure and subsequent arrest of the governor and his chief of staff for conspiring to sell the vacant senatorial seat of Barack Obama to the highest bidder. Illinois officials are scrambling to prevent Blagojavich from excercising the powers of his office until he can be forced to resign or be otherwise removed from office. There are also a bunch of questions about the extent of the relationship between Blagojavich and Obama, and how much he knew about what was going on and when he knew it. Obama, Tony Rezco, the governor, and a number of other Illinois politicians and fat cats have been involved with each other for years if one can believe what is now coming out from all sorts of players.
The bottom line here, the 900 pound gorilla, the elephant on the living room sofa that nobody wants to talk about is that all of this exposes the utterly corrupt underbelly of Chicago's political machine. The people of Illinois have been ill used by the ward healers and corrupt officials in Chicago for decades. It isn't just the infamous Daly Machine, because this problem has been ongoing for over one hundred years. It has gotten to the point where Chicago's corrupt political atmosphere has reached cliche status. One cannot get through a national election cycle, for example, without hearing jokes about how many dead voters will show up at the polls on election day.
As an Illinois resident, I am ashamed of my state, and mad as hell that we can't seem to get an honest deal from the people we elect to public office. I hope the Feds fall on Blagojavich and his cronies like ten tons of red Chicago brick, but the way things usually go they will weasel out with a minimum sentence and it will be business as usual once the dust settles. Shame on us all.
Who Really Is the President?
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Friday, 28 November 08 - 05:13 PM (GMT -06:00) By John Hull in Politically Incorrect |
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The election is over, except for a couple of hotly contested senate seats, and by all conventional wisdom Barack Obama is the president-elect. And, by all accounts in the press, he is proceeding as the president-elect with the task of transition and picking a new cabinate and new department heads for the Washington political machine.
But IS he the president-elect? Oh, to be sure, he won the popular vote, and the electoral college votes will go his way, but that doesn't necessarily mean he won. In order to win the election, he has to be eligible to run in the first place. At this point in time, we don't know that he is eligible. That's right, he may not be eligible to serve as the president and commander in chief.
There are at least 15 lawsuits -- and probably more -- claiming that Obama does not meet the requirements under the Constitution of being a natural born citizen. The Constitution is very clear on this requirement and the reason is obvious. The Founders wanted to ensure that the person leading the United States was a natural born citizen of those states and there was no possibility of divided loyalty if the president might have some other birth place.
If you listen to the mainstream press, you will have heard precious little of this crisis reported. It is only now that they are starting to do so, because thousands of American citizens are signing an on-line petition demanding that Obama produce a valid birth certificate that proves he is natural born.
Earlier I mentioned those 15 suits demanding something be done. Most of them have been dismissed by bought and paid for federal judges who have ruled that the plaintiffs "have no standing" to file such a suit. Well, one of them does have standing. Alan Keyes, himself a candidate for president -- and two California electors, have filed one of the suits. The Supreme Court has agreed to schedule a Discussion among justices on that fileing on Dec. 5. If 5 Justices agree that there is sufficient merit to the case then they will schedule a hearing on it.
This is obviously NOT what the left wants to have happen. Their entire agenda is invested in Barack Obama being sworn in as the next president. If the USSC finds that Obama is not legally able to serve as president, then McCain wins the election by default.
There is no doubt in my mind that if that happens, there will be what amounts to a civil war erupting in this country. I don't think the American people have the will to resist taking up arms in such a scenario. I don't think the American people are willing to let a usurper sit as president in the Oval Office behind a fixed election.
I hope that the Supreme Court demands
Clinton Redux? ...and then some!
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Saturday, 15 November 08 - 09:11 AM (GMT -06:00) By John Hull in Politically Incorrect |
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Alarm bells are going off all around me, it seems, and every day since the election more and more are clanging. This morning, I rose to news of Secretary of State Condileeza Rice ladling praise on Barack Obama like gravy. Why? Once again, it appears that race trumps everything. It apparently isn't enough that history has been made by electing a black man president; it seems like every prominent black official and politician has to jump on the band wagon of how this event is going to change America forever (for the better, of course!), and a new day is dawning, blah, blah, blah.
Condi Rice did a good job as SoS by all accounts and is an accomplished educator and administrator at Stanford University, but is it necessary for her and every other black or white politician (suffering from white guilt) to start acting as if Barack Obama was the Messiah returned to Earth?
Far from being the Messiah, Obama is nothing more than Clinton Redux. To date, nearly three quarters of the appointments he has made to his staff and transition team are former Clintonistas. As a group, they represent one of the most biased and partisan bunch of professional politicians ever to occupy Washington. Obama made a big deal about "change" during the campaign, and apparently people bought that line of hoodoo. From where I sit, however, damn little has changed.
We've got a new president who slickered everybody with his rhetoric and attacks on Bush. We've got the same set of policy wonks and suck-ups who swarmed around Bill Clinton like a cloud of flies around carrion, we've got the prospect of reinstatement of all the failed left-wing scams of the past, plus this time we get a financial meltdown created by some of those same liberal sycophants in the House and Senate.
That isn't even the beginning, though. Mayor Daley of Chicago said yesterday that we were on the edge of a full blown depression. Pelosi and Reid are pulling out the stops to force the FCC Fairness Doctrine down our throats once again, because after all, free speech isn't fair and balanced when conservatives are doing it. That's just the tip of the iceberg if Pelosi and Reid get even partway to their goals.
Obama is going to find himself backed into a corner in short order, I think. On one hand, he has the traditional problems of dealing with the minority party (which I think he will find the least vexing). Then he has the ultra left-wing liberals led by Pelosi and Reid who are chomping at the bit to create a socialist paradise; plus a majority of the black population feeling righteously vindicated and expecting payback for what they perceive as a hundred and fifty years of white oppession.
Yeah, we got change, alright! Tons of it! Welcome to the jungle, folks.
Rebirth of the Brown Shirts?
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Tuesday, 11 November 08 - 06:28 AM (GMT -06:00) By John Hull in Politically Incorrect |
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Amid all the angst and confusion and hand-wringing involving the financial bailout, something Barack Obama said during the campaign has gone largely unnoticed. Not by everyone, but certainly by the majority of voters who sent Obama to the White House.
It seems that Mr. Obama wants to establish a civilian security force with the same equipment, training, and authority as the military so as to relieve the actual military of duties here at home. A national police force with heavy weapons and tactical training if you will.
I don't suppose many people today think about the history of pre-WWII as a matter of course, but this isn't the first time this idea has been tried. Adolf Hitler established such a force in the early days of his rise to power. That force later became the SS, one of the most feared organizations in human history. Benito Mussolini did the same thing in Italy with the Brown Shirts, and Stalin had the KGB and NKVD. Even the poorest student of history knows what sort of things were perpetrated on innocent victims by those outfits.
We've already seen during the campaign that many of Obama's followers are perfectly willing to use fear and intimidation to squelch any questions or protests or criticisms of Obama. Police and district attorneys in the St. Louis area, under color of their official offices, to intimidate and harass anyone who spoke out against Obama! Of course, when they got caught and were called on it, they protested that it was all a big misunderstanding and they would never do such a thing, but it still went on.
Whatever your political persuasion, keep a close eye on the Obama administration. If there is something you don't like -- if something just doesn't pass the smell test -- speak up, and speak up loudly. Make sure that everybody knows something is going on that isn't right. The people that do this sort of thing are like cockroaches -- they can't stand the harsh glare of daylight. If you value your freedom, keep that bright light focused on them to the best of your ability.
Are You Ready for a 1930 Style Depression?
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Monday, 03 November 08 - 07:01 AM (GMT -06:00) By John Hull in Election 2008 |
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Well, tomorrow is the big day. It's fourth and long at the goal line. According to polls, the race has tightened up to within the statistical margins of error. That's the spin being put on things by the media, who now seem to be trying to redeem themselves after nearly two years of cheerleading for the Obama campaign.
But what has come to light in these last couple of weeks? Obama wants to "spread the wealth" according to his answer to Joe the Plumber. Other statements he has made over the last 18 months show me he leans toward socialism, his protestations notwithstanding. We find that he has proposed such high tariffs on coal producers that it would virtually bankrupt the coal industry in this country. Never mind that we now have the technology to make coal a clean alternative to oil for running our power plants, and that we have 200 years worth of low sulfur "sweet" coal readily accessible to mining.
He wants to restrict off-shore oil drilling under the premise of "weaning" us off the use of oil, and further sees no problem with high gas prices as a way of "spiking" prices to keep consumption low. He ignores the fact that with adequate refining capability and US sources of crude oil, we could get ourselves almost entirely off foreign oil for at least 60 years, giving us more than enough time to do the technology research required to bring alternative energy sources on line. Don't forget that high gas prices go hand in hand with higher prices on food, clothing, transportation costs for raw materials, chemicals, and even medicines.
His tax programs are a joke. He keeps saying 95% of the taxpayers will get a tax reduction. Total bunk! 15% of the taxpayers pay 85% of the taxes, and they're the ones who start the small businesses that employ the vast majority of US workers and create the new jobs that we need to stay competitive. More than half of those who file tax returns every year end up paying no tax at all! Under Obama's plan, nearly 50% of taxpayers would get what amounts to a welfare check, paid for by pillaging the wealth of the rest of the people and handing it out to other people, all in the name of "fairness."
He also wants to do away with tax breaks on capital gains (which would wipe out a big chunk of the money businesses use to innovate and expand, creating more jobs), and let the Bush rate reductions expire, thereby pushes everyone's tax bills higher. Herbert Hoover tried to end the recession in 1932 by doing those very same things. The result was a full blown, world wide depression. Millions of people lost everything they had, right down to the clothes on their backs. Only getting into World War II saved us from that financial debacle. Though the war brought us back from total collapse economically, the side effects of the Depression were still felt as late as 1954 in some areas.
Is that what you want for yourselves and your posterity? We have made tremendous progress since WWII in almost every area, despite some wrenching and nasty episodes like Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf Wars, etc. Is that all to be for nothing? I don't care if you don't like McCain, but Obama is far worse, and he WILL bring this country to its knees if he wins this election. Vote against Obama -- if only for selfish interest of your own well being. WE SIMPLY CANNOT AFFORD BARACK OBAMA, AND A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS, IF WE WANT THIS COUNTRY TO SURVIVE!
Somebody Who Gets It
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Thursday, 23 October 08 - 02:53 PM (GMT -06:00) By John Hull in Election 2008 |
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The following letter appeared today in the Editorial section of my local paper. It was written by the grandson of a good friend of mine. Andrew is 18 years old, and studying to be a political lawyer. I think he's got a great future.
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Voter Ignorance Sinks to New Low
Wow! I knew voter ignorance was a big problem, but this absolutely astounds me.
I was aware that lots of people vote for candidates just because they are good looking or are from a certain party or a certain race, but this passes all bounds. Howard Stern and his team had heard that lots of black people were voting for Obama just because he was black, not because of his policies, so they decided to do an experiment of their own.
Just to see if anyone voting for Obama really knew anything about his policies, they switched up McCain's policies with Obama's and went and interviewed people. So, they're walking around asking Obama voters stuff like, "Which of Obama's policies do you like better, his pro-life stance or that he wants to keep the troops in Iraq until the war is finished?", two things which Obama definately does not stand for.
One Obama supporter goes, I'm really with him on keeping the troops in Iraq. Guess he never watches the news. He has given his vote to someone he knows nothing about. But the jaw dropping question was "Do you think Obama made a good choice in picking Sarah Palin to run with him for VP, do you think she will be able to do a good job?" I'm thinking, surely they will catch this, but every single one said Obama made a good pick in Palin and she would do great in the White House.
I was astaounded! It sounds so ridiculous, but it's true. Are people so stupid or lazy that they can't spend five minutes to learn a little about someone they are voting into public office? Is all they care about, he has a lot of money, he looks good, he's black, or he's a good speaker? Don't you think issues like economy, abortion, etc., are more important?
Andrew G.
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Well, sorry to say, Andrew, that the answer is YES, people are exactly that stupid! I have a McCain For President button on my jacket. I have had a large number of black people actually ask me if I'm voting for McCain, and when I say yes, they get indignant and want to know "how can you not vote for Obama?" My response is, and has been, "why are YOU voting for Obama? Which of his policies do you think will benefit the American people most?" As Andrew discovered, most of them have no idea what those policies are, and couldn't enunciate them in any case. I sincerely hope everybody goes to the polls who is eligible to vote in order to exercise their constitutional right, but I hope they have the sense to vote based on the facts and not on sheer emotion, and especially not simply because of race. Based on what I'm seeing so far, however, while this election may break records for voter turnout, it will also break records for voter stupidity.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, a Metaphor
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Monday, 20 October 08 - 01:54 PM (GMT -06:00) By John Hull in Election 2008 |
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Over the weekend, I watched Jimmy Stewart in 1939's "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" for the umpteenth time. Aside from the fact that 1939 is the greatest year in the golden age of Hollywood (Gone With the Wind, Stagecoach, etc.), it is a great movie that won Mr. Stewart an Academy Award nomination. I think he should have won, but that isn't the reason for this piece.
What struck like a bolt of lightning out of the blue while watching that great movie, was that our current campaign is remarkably like the plot of that movie in many ways. It starts out with the senior senator from some unnamed western state dying on the job in Washington, and the dilemma the party bosses coming up with someone to replace him. The political machine boss has his own choice (a well-trained yes man), while the governor has his own choice. But family and friends put so much pressure on the governor to nominate a local hero that he finally caves in and nominates Jimmy Stewart's character, one Jefferson Smith. Smith is the quintessential patriotic citizen, all wide-eyed and innocent, totally unready for the sleazy backroom deals that are routine in the smoke filled rooms of power in Washington.
In order to keep him quiet and in line, the other senator from his state (one of his father's closest friends and a boyhood hero) has him propose a bill to create a boy's camp in his home district, unaware that the area he wants is already slated for a monster pork project that will line the pockets of the party bosses back home. When Smith won't back down and go along with the fix, the ruthless bosses set out to destroy him any way possible.
But, with the help of a jaded staffer and a cynical reporter friend of hers, Smith takes on the political machine like David against Goliath in a spectacular filibuster scene on the floor of the Senate. In the end, Smith prevails and the bosses are laid low, vindicating the common man and his idealistic views of how things ought to be in politics.
While this movie is like most Frank Capra films, in that it is often cliched and over the top in many ways, it is also idealistic and makes you root for the underdog and what we all know deep in our bones is the right thing to do. And that is what made me think of the current campaign.
John McCain and Sarah Palin are the honest, down home, patriotic Jeff Smith character, while Barack Obama and is the political boss, with Joe Biden as the corrupt senior senator. Just as the machine tried to destroy Smith with lies and character assassination, so has Obama and the Democrat Party sought to do the same to McCain and Palin. In the beginning, McCain surged when he picked Palin, just as everyone cheered Jeff Smith when he was picked to fill out the dead senator's term. Then he became persona non grata, and everyone tried to destroy him. But, like Smith, McCain battled back and has returned the race to within the margin of error in the polls -- just like Smith's fillibuster of the good ole boy network in the senate.
Our fillibuster isn't over yet, and we don't know the outcome of this race, but if there is any justice and right in this world, we will prevail over the slick political machine of Obama and the Democrats and give the people a president and vice president who are there to throw the bums out and clean the corruption and trash out of the hallowed halls of government.
No doubt many will think I sound like an idealist, and overly optimistic. But, I can't help myself when I think of what this country means to me and to the history and future of liberty for all men, not just here in America.
Democrats Set to Steal Election
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Monday, 13 October 08 - 08:29 PM (GMT -06:00) By John Hull in Election 2008 |
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Much has been happening over the last week with the stock market in free fall, and the candidates trying to find their footing with an economic program that will resonate with voters who are understandably scared as hell. A developing situation, however, bears increased scrutiny not only from voters, but from election officials and the FBI across the country.
Voter fraud has been exploding all over the news the last several days. ACORN has been accused of illegal voter registrations in at least 12 states. The FBI has been called in to seize ACORN records in Nevada and other states, and Registrars of Voters are under increasing pressure to turn over any and all voter registrations to authorities.
In many states, such as Ohio, Democrat registrars have been stonewalling attempts to determine which ballot applications are legit and which are bogus. Former Ohio representative John Kasich says that the situation in Ohio is so bad that it may be weeks after the election before anyone knows what the "real" vote count is in Ohio.
All of this begs the question: How much of this is ACORN acting on its own accord, and how much of it is deliberately engineered by Democrat operatives willing to do anything to ensure an Obama win, even if it means compromising the Constitution to do so. It totally bends credulity to think that such tactics in 12 to 14 states simultaneously is mere coincidence. Something is going on here that needs to be exposed if we wish to have any hope of an honest election on November 4.
Obama using Political Hit Squads to Silence Opponents
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Monday, 29 September 08 - 01:45 PM (GMT -06:00) By John Hull in Election 2008 |
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Governor Blunt of Missouri has issued a strongly worded statement today accusing the Obama campaign of using the power and authority of the Sheriff's Office and the County Prosecutor's Office to intimidate and silence anyone who has voiced opposition to Obama.
The Obama campaign lawyers have also sent letters to broadcasters in televison and radio who have aired political ads by the NRA and the NRA-PVF (National Rifle Assoc. Political Victory Fund) telling them to cease and desist airing such ads. They claim that the ads are false and misleading and threaten legal action if broadcasters do not comply. The NRA has responded by sending letters to those media outlets containing sources that prove their ads are in fact, accurate.
When did it become legal in this country to muzzle anyone for speaking their mind on political issues? This isn't England with its Alien and Sedition Acts, nor is it Russia with its state controlled media. The First Amendment guarantees the right of all citizens to speak out and express their opinions in a public forum. How dare the Democrats resort to such draconian and tyrannical behavior?
If this is a sampling of what we can expect from Obama and the Democrats if he wins this election, then this nation is doomed to the dustbin of history.
Repairing the Financial System
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Saturday, 27 September 08 - 07:53 AM (GMT -06:00) By John Hull in Election 2008 |
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The last week has not been a happy one for me, nor was it likely very happy for a LOT of people. It's bad enough that the housing market is in the tank; but now a bunch of the biggest banks in the world have gone under in a paroxysm of corruption and greed that takes one's breath away. And then along comes Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi to put frosting on the cake by blaming it all on the Bush administration.
Sorry, folks, but that just ain't gonna cut it! Bush had nothing to do with changing the banking laws to allow banks to issue all that bad paper to people who had no means to service the loans they got. Bush had nothing to do with Barney Frank and his cronies pushing Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to buy up 11 billion worth of that bad paper and giving those people the full faith and credit of government safety nets. Bush didn't have anything to do with the poor stewardship of those big banks and mortgage companies that are now dropping like flies because their liquidity has turned to dust.
No, all those things can be laid at the feet of the left-wing, socialist idiots who sheparded those things through and continued to enable them by pressuring examiners to turn a blind eye, and putting a dust storm to obscure things whenever the loyal opposition tried to pass bills that would have corrected the problem. Make no mistake, this didn't happen by accident. Newt Gingrich sounded alarms during the Clinton era, and President Bush called for reforms as early as 2002. John McCain tried in 2003 and again in 2005 to pass bills to fix things, but was stymied at every turn by the Democrats across the aisle.
Now, all the while decrying their innocence, the Democrats are trying to push us into a 700 billion dollar bailout that will likely push us the rest of the way over the cliff. They would rather see it all burn down around their ears than resolve the crisis, because that is how they retain their power. They divide and marginalize anyone who opposes their whims, and never, ever take responsibility for the messes they create that will end up destroying this country.
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