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Well, This Makes Me Feel Better About Obama

By Janet Evans
Monday, Jun 2 2008, 07:38 PM




At least I know he has will power. 

It only took him two years.



"Following the release of a doctor’s comments last week about Barack Obama’s struggle to quit smoking, the Democratic presidential candidate told The Daily Republic Sunday that he has finally kicked the habit."


Read the story here à

Obama tells Daily Republic he's no longer a smoker





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Kelly Sazczeipanski   

Smoker or not, he is still trying to blow smoke up our skirts!

Many people seem to regard elections as occasions for venting emotions, like cheering for your favorite team or choosing a Homecoming Queen.

The three leading candidates for their party's nomination are being discussed in terms of their demographics -- race, sex and age -- as if that is what the job is about.

One of the painful aspects of studying great catastrophes of the past is discovering how many times people were preoccupied with trivialities when they were teetering on the edge of doom. The demographics of the presidency are far less important than the momentous weight of responsibility that office carries.

Just the power to nominate federal judges to trial courts and appellate courts across the country, including the Supreme Court, can have an enormous impact for decades to come. There is no point feeling outraged by things done by federal judges, if you vote on the basis of emotion for those who appoint them.

Barack Obama has already indicated that he wants judges who make social policy instead of just applying the law. He has already tried to stop young violent criminals from being tried as adults.

Although Senator Obama has presented himself as the candidate of new things -- using the mantra of 'change' endlessly -- the cold fact is that virtually everything he has said about domestic policy is straight out of the 1960s and virtually everything he says about foreign policy is straight out of the 1930s.

Protecting criminals, attacking business, increasing government spending, promoting a sense of envy and grievance, raising taxes on people who are productive and subsidizing those who are not -- all this is a re-run of the 1960s.

We paid a terrible price for such 1960s notions in the years that followed, in the form of soaring crime rates, double-digit inflation and double-digit unemployment. During the 1960s, ghettoes across the countries were ravaged by riots from which many have not fully recovered to this day.

The violence and destruction were concentrated not where there was the greatest poverty or injustice but where there were the most liberal politicians, promoting grievances and hamstringing the police.

Internationally, the approach that Senator Obama proposes -- including the media magic of meetings between heads of state -- was tried during the 1930s. That approach, in the name of peace, is what led to the most catastrophic war in human history.

Everything seems new to those too young to remember the old and too ignorant of history to have heard about it.

June 3, 2008 12:04 AM

Janet Evans   

Kelly,

I'm on your side.  Well said - everything rings true.

What makes me the most uneasy about Obama is that he is weak.  Those stars he puts in people's eyes are just visions that could lead our country into disaster.

June 3, 2008 12:28 AM

Fred Keller   

"Smoker or not, he is still trying to blow smoke up our skirts!"

My vote for quote of the day.

June 3, 2008 8:01 AM

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