Election 2008 @ MindSay 
In the Christian tradition, Jesus stayed among his disciples for a time after his resurrection. He stayed long enough to rekindle their passion and to restore their hope. Even so, he did not dwell among them for a long time, and, upon returning to Heaven, He gave them this admonition, 'Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. ... And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.' After this happened, He departed, and the Apostles were left to carry His message to the world.
Brothers and sisters of the Revolution, we are standing on that same mountaintop two thousand years later. Our hero, our leader belongs now to the ages. He will be remembered as a hero if we are successful, but he will not be the president. The Republican Party has bypassed a great man and teacher for a charlatan. This does not change our calling, however.
We have felt the fire of displeasure from the establishment. We have felt the fire of their wrath. We have been called traitors, anarchists, and worse. We have driven the demons of elitism and power-madness back into their bulwarks of party power, and they tremble at our approach. Through it all, we have retained our honor and our conviction, and, if we have been beaten, it has never been done fairly. Why should we let this cause die in a moment of confusion now that our leader has been removed?
Ron's fight continues, but it continues from the floor of the St. Paul GOP Convention and on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Our fight goes on unabated. Consider the evidence:
- The War Continues
- The Interventionism Continues
- Frivolous spending remains alive and well
- Our Dollar's Value Keeps Dropping
- Federal Surveillance Increases
- The REAL ID Act is upon us
- The North American Union is near
- Our border is still wide open
- Corporations are picking our bones clean
First, you can do nothing. This is the road some will choose, but it does not fulfill the obligations of conscience. This option negates all of our efforts to date.
Second, you can write in 'Ron Paul' in November. Unfortunately, the deck is stacked against you. Lest you be deceived, this is not a Constitutional Republic. Your voice will not be heard, and such a vote will be counted as an 'error' or will not be counted at all. It isn't fair, nor is it just, but it is how things work as of today. Thus, option two reverts to being option one under a different guise, an exercise in futility.
Third, you can choose another course. Right now, there are two freedom candidates from whom to choose: Bob Barr, the Libertarian, and Chuck Baldwin, of the Constitution Party. Your voice will be counted in this third option, and you will make a difference.
The Good Doctor told us that this day would come. He left us with no illusions about the importance of this struggle, and he knew that it must outlive his campaign. It is time to take his words and put them into action. We stand on the mountain now, but the time for standing here in pain and confusion is over. The next move is our own, and none but ourselves can continue this fight.
I am a Libertarian, but I do not care which side you choose, only that you retain your fire and passion and put it to good use. It's what Ron told us to do mere months ago, and it is time to make our move. We have been frozen, mocked, and reviled together. Let it not have been in vain.
We have just over 160 days until that fateful day in November. That is not a lot of time, friends. Whether or not we make our voices heard, America will go to the polls. Whether we keep Ron's fire alive or let it die, we will inaugurate a new president in just a few short months.
If we desire to have an impact, we must plot our own destiny. There are two candidates who embody the elements of the Ron Paul platform, and we would do well to shed the trappings of mourning and return to the trenches. This is not a time to weep over the loss; it is now the hour in which we must begin the next battle. Be cognizant of your losses and pain, but relish, for a moment, the glory of our shared victory: We bested the establishment in their own house under our own power, underfunded, undermanned, and outgunned; now, let us do the same thing in the electorate at large.
I call on you each to pick up your political arms once more, that the cause of liberty may not fade with this campaign. Dr. Paul was not the cause: his platform was. Yet, his platform was a mere mortal document comprised of ideas, but the ideas are timeless and potent, an unquenchable fire that can only be extinguished by our own inaction. Those ideas still hold a special enchantment for each of us, for our own beautiful and unique reasons. Let those reasons guide you now in this moment.
In the annals of history, we need not stand in shame for our defeat here. When others folded in weakness, we remained true to each other, ourselves, and our cause. Each of us stood boldly under persecution, discouragement, and defeat, and they could not break our spirit with all their weapons. Our ideas continue unabated, and no mere party structure can contain them, nor can it halt their advance.
We must take the fight to the streets once more. This is an honor worthy of Dr. Paul's legacy, accorded to us, his worthy supporters. Do you see the followers of the 'has-beens' summoned by their souls to such a great struggle that it transcends the fortunes of their respective candidates? Indeed, you do not! Take this gift as a badge of honor: you still have a cause, and it didn't begin or end with one campaign. It began when the first man threw down the yoke of slavery to a tyrant, and it will never end.
In the fight to come, we may struggle under the banner of Barr or Baldwin, but we fight with the courage of Ron Paul, in the memory of the Good Doctor, and in the Spirit of '76. To arms, brave warriors. Your nation needs your resolve this summer. As we speak, the forces of totalitarianism are in disarray, and we may yet strike them a fatal blow if we have the clear vision to do so. May we never have cause to sound 'retreat' when the enemy is in such a state!
Our victorious moment will come, and, when it does, Dr. Paul will be among us and in our hearts. Let us be worthy messengers in his cause until that day, and let us make him the Founding Father of a great movement among men and women who, bereft of one leader, chose their own course to freedom and restored their liberties for themselves, their posterity, and the world. Rally, once more, to the flag, and we will carry the day.
Now I know John Kerry is not in the Presidential hunt in 2008; however when I read an interview of a fellow captive with John McCain in North Vietnam’s torture prison camp known as Hanoi Hilton, I immediately thought of the difference of what a Dem thinks of decorated hero and what real Americans think decorated heroes are.
Supporters of Kerry’s war record are those that directly served on his boat and the reports given and written by Kerry himself in which top brass read then awarded citations of valor and medals. So there are documented facts yet different interpretations of those facts exist. There is a mystery of Kerry’s discharge from the Navy itself. The thing is serious some dispute of the validity of the documentation. So even after the long delay of Kerry allowing his war record to be released, doubters of Kerry’s war record have a good foundation to doubt. Besides a true American hero does not trash his fellow military comrades directly after leaving the Service if he indeed performed the acts the disputable documentation portrays.
It is no wonder that Kerry is part of the cut-n-run crowd which is actually a disappointing huge amount of people, not just Democratic Party politicians.
So I have taken one more shot at Senator Kerry for this reason. There is man running for President in 2008 who also is Vietnam Vet and there is little mystery of his heroism during the war or after. That candidate is Republican John McCain.
There are Leftists that are trying to debunk McCain’s war record attempting to do a Left Wing version of Swift Boating. However there is little mystery in facts and the conclusions that follow as with John Kerry. After the Vietnam War, McCain did NOT jump on the “I HATE AMERICA” Left Wing gravy train to infamy as Kerry did.
I found this website that is blatantly stinging toward John McCain record as a POW throwing doubt on the veracity of McCain’s medals. It reads like the words of vets in the John Kerry mold; i.e. veterans that hate their nation and their Service. Then the site links to another person who offers his negative opinion.
The site unwittingly mentions that Colonel George “Bud” Day nursed McCain back to health after being taken as a POW.
Oops! Bud Day does NOT corroborate the website’s disdain for McCain’s heroism. READ HERE. (McCain’s military records – HERE.)
Last night and early this morning, America witnessed the beginning of the end of the Clinton dynasty. Clinton supporters may deny it, they may still make the arguments about superdelegates and how the votes of the people don't actually matter; but the truth is a cold, cruel mistress, and it's invaded the Clinton campaign.
All eyes were on Indiana's Lake county, which contains Gary as well as other Chicago suburbs, close to Obama's home base. The county withheld all election results until the 11,000+ absentee ballots were counted, drawing out the contest into the late night and early morning. When it was all over, Clinton, the heavy favorite to win the state, squeaked out a bittersweet 2-point victory. Obama swept the other primary in North Carolina by 14 points.
Despite the slight loss in Indiana, Barack Obama won the night, increasing his overall delegate lead, even making up for his delegate loss in Pennsylvania, and making it more unlikely for his opponent to overcome it. Hillary Clinton failed to "close the deal" and keep her momentum from the Pennsylvania primary. She needed a big win in Indiana last night, and she didn't deliver.
It's interesting to look at the Indiana primary county-by-county. While Clinton won the rural, sparsely populated areas, Obama was the favorite in urban counties. While Clinton may have won some of the "big states," Obama won the "big counties" in Indiana.
Not even Michigan and Florida can save Clinton now. Even if they were counted, Obama would still lead in delegates and the popular vote. It's over, it's simply over for Hillary Clinton. I think I share many peoples' sentiments when I say "good riddance to bad rubbish." We no longer have the threat of a Bush or a Clinton in the White House, a shared dynasty that's been going on since 1981, longer than I've been alive. That gives me more hope than any Obama speech ever could.
I first heard on FOX News yesterday that Condi Rice may be looking to coax a VP nomination out of McCain. Then I ran into an April 6 post of an ABC blog called Political Radar which reports Secretary Rice is ACTIVELY seeking the Republican nomination for Vice President.
Here are my brief thoughts on that prospect.
The Condi Rice that was GW’s National Security Advisor was a person I saw with admiral skill and eloquence. I toyed with the concept of a Black Female Republican Presidential nomination of that Condi Rice. I even thought of it more when her National Security Advisor skills found her moving upward to Secretary of State.
Then there is the Secretary of State Condi Rice.
Since becoming head of the State Department Rice seems to have been overwhelmed by State Department bureaucrats that fought the Bush Doctrine from its inception as a concept to promote America’s National Interests.
If it was not for a strong Israel lobby these old dog bureaucrats view of America’s National Interests lay in placating Arab nations that are friendlier (not necessarily friendly) to America at the expense of the Middle East’s only successful Western Style Democratic Nation – Israel.
Since Rice has become Secretary of State the Global War on Terror only exists in Iraq and Afghanistan even though ALL of the PLO and Hamas in particular have committed acts of aggression against America.
Divorcing the Palestinian Terrorists from the Global War on Terror has moved the Bush Administration into forcing the issue of a Two-State solution of the existence to the Land of Israel and a sovereign nation of Palestine. This drive to force the existence of Palestine is occurring even though the concerted goal of Palestinian Terrorists is the elimination of Israel as a nation with the giddy dream of wiping Jews out in the Middle East.
Secretary Rice’s push for a Two-State solution indirectly aid’s the Palestinian goal of the destruction of Israel.
So do I think Condi Rice should be a VP consideration for McCain? NO.
JRH (Hat tip PoliPundit.com)
I continue to wonder how Obama can condemn racist statements and support a church that supports terrorism (viz. Hamas) and can still say he is above the racist anti-American beliefs of those associated with for years.
In the midst of all the Obama denials and condemnations of past and present associates, there is an amazing amount of evidence emerging that the eloquent Barack Obama is merely just another two-faced fringe Leftist trying to deceive his way into the White House.
JRH 3/22/08
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Obamacide – Obama’s Church Reprinted Hamas Manifesto
March 18, 2008
If this isn’t Obamacide then we may have to start calling him Teflon Barry.
From BizzyBlog comes evidence that Obama’s church not only has anti-white, anti-American feelings, but may also have a pro-Hamas bias. The July 22, 2007 Trinity United Church of Christ bulletin reprinted an article written by Mousa Abu Marzook, deputy of the political bureau of Hamas. Originally printed in the LA Times as “Hamas’ stand“, Pastor Wright added a new title, “A Fresh View of the Palestinian Struggle”. The Times was criticized for giving a “Platform To Genocidal Terrorist.” Where does that leave Obama’s church? Marzook is a known terrorist and created an extensive Hamas network in the United States.
The smoking gun is here in Obama’s church bulletin. Was Obama there? Does he support Hamas? Expect Obama and his supporters to simply ignore this tacit if not direct support of a terrorist organization.
Update: Obama Foreign Policy Advisor Robert Malley an Avid Hamas Supporter - Father was Confidante of Yasser Arafat.
Update from BizzyBlog – 3/22/08
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“Creeping Sharia” is a phenomenon occurring across the free world. We’ll define it as “the slow, deliberate, and methodical advance of Islamic law (sharia) in non-Muslim countries” (literal definitions below).
To the general public, justifiably pre-occupied with work, family, pleasure, dreams, hopes, goals, and the stresses of each, “creeping sharia” goes mostly unnoticed. Until, that is, a particular event generates enough concern from those who focus on the “creep” that the general public takes notice. These singular events are sometimes less worrisome, but taken in whole, the uncoordinated yet explicit goal of the ummah and worldwide caliphate become obvious and alarming.
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