We stand upon a precipice. As you cast your votes today, remember that this election will have historic outcomes.
If Barack Obama is the victor, we will have elected the first Black man to the Presidency, which is a great step of progress in the long road to true and equal Civil Rights for all. He may also be the first non-citizen to be elected to the Presidency, but that is for the courts to properly ascertain. He may be a naturally born citizen but his citizenship would have been forfeit after becoming an Indonesian citizen and even traveling on an Indonesian passport. Even after going through proper steps to legal citizenship, Mr. Obama-Soetoro-Dunham would only be a naturalized citizen. Now that the Governor of Hawai’i has closed the records, we may be in for a Citizen-gate type situation. If Obama is found to be ineligible for the Presidency does that mean that Joltin’ Joe Biden would ascend in his place?
Nevermind the nationality of the Junior Senator from Illinois right now, if elected Sen. Obama would also be the first openly Marxist President of the United States. Progress? I think not. We would also have the first outright lie of his Presidency on his first day in office. Actually, it would come during his first act as President. When taking the Oath of Office, Barack Obama would be required that he will support and defend the Constitution of the United States, which he has already stated in an NPR interview in Chicago that he does not. That is history in the making.
Let’s examine another historic step that Sen. Obama has been proposing. He would institute a civilian national security force. I, personally, was under the impression that the National Guard already filled this role quite adequately. Perhaps the “us” that will be defended will be fellow Marxists ascending through the ranks of our governing system to tear it down. In history, this has actually been done before. The forces were called the Gestapo and the Checka. They brought national security by squelching the voices of discension.
Let’s move away from Senator Obama to Senator McCain. The election of John McCain to the office of President of the United States would also be historic. We have had war heroes in office before, but I do not think that we have ever had one as counted out as Senator McCain has been so often in this election.
In the matter of nationality, a lot of criticism has been flung right back to the Republican cause because John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone. It appears that no one in the media will bother to report that if you are born on a military installation in a foreign country (John McCain was born in Coco Solo Naval Air Station) then you are a legal citizen of the US. That sews up that argument right there. The longest time that he spent in a foreign country was as a Prisoner of War.
Senator McCain’s idea of a spending freeze is a step in the Right direction. What happens when a mechanic is trying to fix an engine? Do they keep working on it while the engine is working? No. You will hear the following phrase, “alright, shut her down.” This is precisely what we need to do in our government. Freeze spending and start taking out parts that do nothing of value. Eliminate bureaucracies, modernize. The time of preserving government jobs for the sake of government employees needs to come to an end.
If McCain is elected, it would also be a major step forward for the Feminist movement. Although, Marxist Feminists on the Left were hoping that their side would be the first to break the Glass Ceiling. I think that Governor Palin would be a fitting Vice President.
In closing, I would like to tell you about a true American Patriot. My brother would probably never tell this story himself, but I will be his mouthpiece. Lt. Travis Thornton and his lovely wife Hannah have recently moved to Alexandria, Virginia from Norfolk, Virginia. During which time, they have attempted to register to vote absentee in our home county of Liberty County, Texas. At some point, their registration was found to be lacking. Was there an attempt at disenfranchisement of a current member of the military? I wasn’t holding the light, so I cannot tell you for certain. However, after my brother and my father had contacted state and federal legislators as well as the Secretary of State for the State of Texas, the call was made from Austin to Liberty on November 3, 2008 to fully register Travis and Hannah. They had the option of being able to get their ballots in late, but my brother and his wife have chosen to fly down to Liberty, Texas today from Alexandria, Virginia to vote in this election. My father explained that my brother had given the following statement as his reasoning, “In four years my little brother (Jack) could graduate (from the Naval Academy) and be deployed to Iran. I wanted to do everything that I could to prevent that.”
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Robert, before I start I want to begin by saying that I favored niether candidate and wrote in Brian Beene for president. I don’t think either of the candidates were well suited for that highest of offices.
That said, I’m going to play devils advocate and defend Barack just for the hell of it and because you have taken a stance pro-McCain (I would defend McCain if things were flipped).
The 14th amendment clearly states that, “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” Barack was born in the U.S., therefore he is a U.S. citizen by default. His becoming an Indonesian citizen does not forgeit his U.S. citizenship. According to the U.S. State Department, “. . .a person who acquires a foreign citizenship by applying for it may lose U.S. citizenship. In order to lose U.S. citizenship, the law requires that the person must apply for the foreign citizenship voluntarily, by free choice, and with the intention to give up U.S. citizenship” (http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1753.html). Barack was a child when he and his mother moved to Indonesia, thus his becoming a citizen of that state was not voluntary since he was a dependent. In addition, he did not apply for Indonesian citizenship with the intent of giving up his U.S. citizenship.
On to the Marxist argument. When has Barack ever said he is a Marxist? What Marxist policies has he proposed? I’m a bit confused on this one. I can’t find an adequate transcript at the moment of that NPR interview you mentioned so I’m going to skip over that, but I’ll get back to it when I find a full transcript.
As for his proposal to create a CNSF, you are jumping the gun on that one. Sen. Obama never really clarified what this CNSF would mean and what it would do, what powers it would have, etc. It’s kind of odd that the McCain campaign never pushed this or questioned Obama about it. To suggest that it would be anything like the Gestapo, the Checka, et. al. is pretty extreme since we have so little information on this policy proposal to work with.
I don’t have a critique of your analysis of McCain other than I think it is pretty much spot on. Palin, however, is a complete joke, but we’ll get into that another time.
Mad props to Travis and his wife for flying across the country to vote. It says a lot about their character and you should be very proud of them both.
I would beg to differ that his becoming an Indonesian citizen does make him a Naturalized Citizen and therefore negates the Natural Born stipulation for the Presidency. At the time of his Indonesian citizenship, The US and Indonesia had no agreement for dual citizenship, and even if his citizenship changed due to a dependent status, President-Elect Obama still travelled under an Indonesian passport in the 1980s, so his twenties, which would indicate a willingness to be recognized as an Indonesian.
Marxism, “Spread the wealth around”. Now certainly, he has not opined to the fact that he supports a revolution of the Proletariat, but the implications of a dependent Welfare Society will only increase the size of the Federal Government and that government’s scope in private lives.
You can acquire transcript or audio of Obama telling the NPR station in Chicago that during the Civil Rights Movement (which I believe was one of the greater steps that our nation has ever taken to secure Civil Liberties for all, though work towards a free society is still needed) that he felt the Supreme Court was unable to redistribute to African American minorities because of the flaws of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights being a ledger of negative rights instead of positive rights. In his own words, “It says what the Government can’t do to you, not what the Government should do for you.” In this sphere, he found the Constitution lacking. The reason the Constitution contained these negative rights is because when defining negative rights, you also restrict the role of the Federal Government in the everyday life of the citizen, which was the Founders’ wish after throwing off the “Oppressive Tyrant” in England that taxed 3% of their income.
The Civilian National Security Force comment was intentially overexagerrated. On election day, I don’t think that you can expect any less from a political commentator. However, the scope of the proposed force remains unclarified. Additionally, it would add further bureaucracies. We have a standing military, a national guard, the Homeland Security Agency, the FBI, the NSA, the CIA… how many more agencies do we need. Perhaps, if the plan was to merge some agencies together, streamline, and eliminate said internal bureaucracies, I would be all for it.
Palin is a State Governor. No one else in the race had statewide executive experience. Was it Alaska? Yes, but Alaska’s economy is no small thing. Was she as versed in foreign policy? No, but as Vice-President, she doesn’t have to be. The former Sen. Edwards had just about as much foreign policy experience as she did back in 2004 and he was still seen as a fitting candidate. Truth be told, I was disappointed that McCain did not choose a female Senator, say Kay Bailey Hutchinson. The reason being is that the Vice-President’s primary job is to preside over the Senate. I would always choose a Senator for the post, and if you want to break the Glass Ceiling, why not choose Sen. Hutchinson? I think because she wants to run for the Governorship of Texas in 2010.
The main flaw of McCain’s campaign? It just didn’t have an established ground game. The working class Republicans rallied behind him when Sarah Palin was placed on the ticket because they identified themselves with her. The Blue Blood’s and Country Club Republicans have always been his backers. However, he did not sway the demographic capable of solidifying the Republican base, the Small Business Owner. They may have given them their vote, but when excited about a candidate, they have the potential for campaign organization on a local level that you just did not see. I also think that there is still some bad blood between the Bush/Cheney Machine and the McCain faction of the party which has remained since 2000.
My thoughts in a nutshell…