The summations of reality:

Barack Obama: During the presidential campaign, and immediately after winning the election, Barack Obama was declared urbane… super cool… IQ off the charts… probably the smartest guy ever to become president… the cerebral president… too intelligent for the job, and boundless tantamount protestations of the like.

One year later, the evidence and aftermath have painted a different picture of a man whose intelligence and general competence were prejudicially manufactured by the media and the demagogues of the Left. The only existing evidence supporting Obama’s formidable intelligence and heightened IQ were, and are still, sequestered from public perusal, as his actual accomplishments present a garden variety philistine intellect. His academic record, for all practical purposes, does not exist. Not one of the myopic windbags who championed his intelligence has ever been afforded the luxury of admiring his Punahou School records, his SAT scores, his Occidental College records, his Columbia College records, his Harvard College records, and his nonexistent Harvard Law Review articles as the editor.

Obama’s record of a man possessing such an impressive IQ and academic foundation seems to run counter to his manufactured super-human perspicacity. Obama has demonstrated this past year an astonishing ignorance of constitutional law, American history, world history, basic fundamental economics, and a primary school grasp of the structure of the federal government, including each branch’s role.

Obama’s brief tenure has been plagued by a battle between his alleged super-intelligence and his doubtless super-arrogance, with the latter generally prevailing at the end of each round.

This past year, we have learned that Obama’s penchant for lying is not wielded for political expediency, as are plenty of political prevarications, but rather appears founded in a pathological affliction. Only 65% of Americans did not believe the substance of Obama’s State of the Union Address, which is low considering that almost the entirety of the speech, when weighed against substantiated facts, was one misrepresentation of the truth after another. Only 6% of Americans believe his $800 billion debacle of a stimulus package has created any jobs. To put this number in bleak perspective, 8% of Americans believe Elvis is still alive, and 83% believe Tupac Shakur is still alive.

Obama told a group of Republicans that he was not an ideologue. But this past year, the evidence has convicted Obama as the embodiment of Leftist ideology. A cursory perusal of his appointments and cabinet members’ pasts and recent affiliations with Leftist organizations, Communist organizations, and Fascist organizations, would substantiate his ideology beyond any reasonable doubt, regardless of his disputes.

Currently, only 22% of voters strongly approve of Barack Obama’s performance as president, while 41% strongly disapprove. This gives Obama a presidential approval index of -19.

So what have we learned this past year about Barack Obama? When Barack Obama ran for president, he possessed no leadership experience. When a man in his late 40′s is void of leadership roles, he is not a leader. A natural leader leads. Whatever the situation or circumstances, a leader always emerges as a leader. And to lead, you need followers, and Obama has divided this nation asunder. Continuing to divide and lead a minority of Left-Wing ideologues down a path of destruction does not a leader make. Obama was not qualified when he was a candidate, and has proven that he is not qualified one year later.

If Obama could be summarized in one act, it would be his speech earlier at the National Prayer Breakfast. He stood erect, jaw jutted out in arrogance, shrouded by teleprompters, reading words someone else wrote, and pronouncing the word “corpsman” by accentuating the “p.” This speech was embarrassing, pathetic, pregnant with fabrications, ignorant, and disrespectful, and summed up the first year of Barack Obama.

Sarah Palin: I like Sarah Palin. She, out of Obama, McCain, and Biden, was the most qualified to be president. Yet, she is not qualified to be president at this juncture, and being a celebrity is not advancing her qualifications for the job, but it is advancing conservatism. Palin does possess one trait that eludes the other three, and this trait is essential as a leader: common sense. She has values, and those values resonate with the majority of Americans. She possesses and projects a morality that eludes the majority of politicians in this country, and frustrates the Left into spasms of exasperation. Palin seems to possess the fundamental knowledge of the principles upon which this country was founded, which would make her a far better leader than our current president. I believe Sarah Palin is a very smart woman, but when pressed for specifics about the Constitution, she uses talking points that rarely penetrate into a deeper understanding. Her lack of previous intellectual curiosity regarding U.S. history and the Constitution has cost her a foundational knowledge. That can be corrected. A reading of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, studying legitimate American history from 1766-1790, reading the Federalist Papers, and reading the debates and personal writings of the Founders regarding the Constitution, would give Sarah Palin a much better understanding of the Constitution than most Ivy League Constitution Law graduates. But, with that said, she still has a better understanding of the meaning and intentions of the Constitution in the aggregate than the majority of the congress, Barack Obama, and four unnamed Supreme Court Justices whose initials start with Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Sonia Sotomayor, John Paul Stevens, and Stephen Breyer.

What have we learned this year about Sarah Palin? Sarah Palin is currently in her most suitable and accommodating role to advance the values of true conservatism. She continues to cause the loathsome and reprehensible essence of contemporary liberals to expose itself through their reactions to her. As Palin has gained her footing on the national stage, increased her knowledge base of national issues, and mastered a compelling authority to communicate her message, with each incremental step she has advanced, the Left has incrementally increased their thrashing about in the throes of their confounded agony. It would be a great loss to the conservative movement if Palin were to run for office in the near future, and abandon the power she wields in her current endeavor. Sarah Palin has settled into a position of much greater power and influence than if she held public office. Sarah Palin is good for conservatives, and good for this country.

Joe Biden: What can be said about Joe Biden one year later? Joe Biden possesses the same picayune spirit and values that were responsible for his getting caught plagiarizing a paper in law school, and graduating at the bottom of his class. His intellectual and moral evolution since becoming a senator and subsequently vice-president has been somewhat of a disappointment, as he is still the same little dimwit he was in law school.

What have we learned this year about Joe Biden? The same thing Joe has learned: nothing.

John McCain: John McCain, politics aside, is a true American hero, a man who possesses a type of courage that only a handful of Americans can claim, and as much as a lifetime of politics will corrode and decay a person’s honor and integrity, McCain has been able to keep most of his intact. John McCain, on his best day, is a run of the mill progressive, which conflicts with some of his conservative values. Most of what ails this country today can be directly tied to policies that John McCain supports. McCain, throughout his political career, and especially in the past ten years or so, has been an erratically moving contradiction, which does not characterize a maverick as much as it characterizes an indefinable entity, and what this country does not need as president is an indefinable entity.

John McCain and Joe Biden do share one thing in common: they both were sponsors of bills that had portions ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, Biden’s Violence Against Women Act and McCain’s McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Act.

What have we learned this year about John McCain? Nothing. McCain is what he was ten years ago: an inconsistent and indefinable entity.

In conclusion, one year later, the only person of the four to advance to a level of genuine and functional relevance is Sarah Palin. McCain and Biden are still McCain and Biden. Barack Obama has proven that when a president is elected whose only demonstrable skill is reading from a teleprompter, then after one year, his only discernible skill is still only reading from a teleprompter.

John McCain’s patriotism has been tested, and tested hard. There is no unknown as to how McCain would handle a crisis. He would not be found under his desk curled up in the fetal position. Politics aside, it would be intellectually disingenuous for someone to either state, or believe, he would have the capacity to fold under pressure.

Barack Obama on the other hand wants to be the Commander in Chief of these United States, when in actuality, and sans his position as a U.S. Senator, had he applied for a job that required the highest level security clearance, it is plausible that he would be denied due to his radical alliances with terrorists, felons, and anti-American pulpiteers. Obama has never been tested, never lead, and it would be intellectually disingenuous to state with authority that he would not curl up in the fetal position, metaphorically speaking, in a time of crisis.

This election cycle presents not only an American economy, but a world economy, that is teetering on the brink of a recession, rogue nations in possession of, or rapidly acquiring or manufacturing nuclear weapons, possible four Supreme Court appointments in the next four years, and another assault on the United States and its allies by Islamic terrorists. These are the issues the next President will face. The next President’s leadership, and the Congress, will determine the dénouement in regard to these issues in the ensuing next four years. Come November the fourth, this, whether the voter is aware of the aggregate of the issues listed above, is what the vote is about. Not the redundant and ridiculous mantra of change, or the same ridiculous mantra of four more years of Bush. Those are irrelevant, sophomoric, and dangerously inept reasons to cast a vote for Obama on November the fourth.

Sometimes a vote is a vote to salvage the soul of a country. A soul that has been chipped away for the past thirty years by the ever increasing radical left’s influence in politics and the courts. Europe has lost its soul. It was not taken in war, sold on the market, or wrenched away in some Machiavellian conspirative, but just given up with the same defeatist modus that Obama, Pelosi, and Reid espouse. For the sake of salvaging the soul of this country, I am voting for John McCain for four reasons only: The economy, national security, judgment, and the Supreme Court. The arguments are as follows:

The Economy: If elected to the presidency, and if the Democrats in Congress increase their position to a super-majority, an all out assault against capitalism in this country can be expected. Some variation of the economy from 1929-1945 can also be expected. Obama will increase taxes on the very entities that create the jobs in this country, which will in turn result in a significant loss of jobs and benefits. Obama’s statement to Joe the Plumber: “It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success too. My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody … I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” This should give even the most casual observer an idea of where the economy will be headed.

But a more ominous problem faces the economy if Obama is elected and the Democrats can muster up a filibuster-proof majority, The world economic crisis, the very one that can be attributed to a handful of Democrats in the Congress and their defective ideology, the very ones who have the most blood on their hands from their culpability in the current crisis, will be in charge of the banks, Wall Street, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, etc. To calculate the consequences of that scenario, one would only need to possess a modicum of common sense.

John McCain cannot fix the economy. The economy, other than the proper dispensing of the seven hundred billion dollars by Paulson, is at a point where it can only sort itself out. But Obama, and Congress, can significantly magnify and perpetuate a painfully prolonged experience.

The Supreme Court: Obama has made it very clear that he does not like the disposition of the United States, and has a rabid disdain for the U.S. Constitution that is the foundation of this country, and was the driving force behind making it the greatest, most prosperous, and the most powerful country on this planet. He believes ,as did FDR, that the Supreme Court is a tool to be manipulated by the Executive Branch to recast the foundation of this country in a mold of how he perceives it should have been to start with. When speaking of the Supreme Court, and especially the Warren Court, the most radical court in U.S. history, Obama had this to say about the role of the Supreme Court:

“The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. What the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.”

As I have stated many times before, for someone who has a law degree, and taught Constitutional Law, Barack Obama has continually displayed an unparalleled and profound ignorance of the Constitution and U.S. history. He also does not understand the role of the Supreme Court, as set up by the Founding Fathers, as witnessed in this statement by him as to what he believes the role of the Supreme Court should be:

“I taught constitutional law for 10 years, and . . . when you look at what makes a great Supreme Court justice, it’s not just the particular issue and how they rule, but it’s their conception of the Court. And part of the role of the Court is that it is going to protect people who may be vulnerable in the political process, the outsider, the minority, those who are vulnerable, those who don’t have a lot of clout.

“Sometimes we’re only looking at academics or people who’ve been in the lower court. If we can find people who have life experience and they understand what it means to be on the outside, what it means to have the system not work for them, that’s the kind of person I want on the Supreme Court.”

“We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that’s the criteria by which I’m going to be selecting my judges.”

Obama’s ignorance of the Supreme Court is absolutely astounding.

Even though John McCain did bruise the tenets of the 1st Amendment with the McCain-Fiengold Act, an act that I hold to be unconstitutional, yet an appointment of a constructionist to the bench can be expected if he is elected . But if left unchecked, with a Democrat controlled Congress, Obama will put in motion a chain reaction that will systematically dismantle the very Constitution that made this country what it is. Can you live with that? Will you live with that? Can the country survive that?

National Security: The dissection of national security, in regard to the two candidates, needs to be broken down into two factions, first being the threat of terrorism domestically, and second being the general security of this nation.

Concerning domestic terrorism, such as 9/11, as with George Bush, McCain will be a failure. McCain is a reckless illiterate in regard to his advocating open borders and amnesty for illegals. It can’t be made any clearer than that. On September 11th we were attacked on our soil by terrorists that were in our country illegally. Seven years later, our borders are as porous as they were on that day and there are still 15-25 million people in this country that the government does not know the identity of. There are, at any given time, 600,000 unaccounted for criminal and visa violating aliens in this country–just as the terrorists were who flew the planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Pennsylvania. Seven years and nothing has changed. A very comforting feeling and the possibility of either candidate changing it is nil.

General National Security with Obama as Commander in Chief leaves no room for his voting “present”, ducking the issue, playing coy by being nuanced, or hiding behind the media’s protective coattails. Obama has zero record of leadership and has demonstrated no quantifiable skills in leadership. A person is either a leader or not and it is apparent in any endeavor they pursue. Obama has never risen to any occasion, not once. Obama has a very dangerous and naive view of the world we live in.

Joe Biden summed it up best:

“Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking.”

“Remember I said it standing here. if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. And he’s gonna have to make some really tough — I don’t know what the decision’s gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it’s gonna happen.”

If tested, and tested hard, do you, first, want to take a chance on someone with such a perception of weakness as to guarantee a test for this country, and second, if tested hard, there will be one winner and one loser–is that a chance you are willing to take by voting for Obama? Do you want to play that game?

Barack Obama will emaciate the military of this country. He has stated he will dismantle the Missile Defense Shield at a time when Russia, who, incidentally, has approximately twice the nuclear arsenal of the U.S., is flexing its imperialistic muscle. North Korea is continually working on becoming nuclear; Iran, while thumbing its nose at the world, is steadfastly working towards nuclear weaponry; and Communist China is continually increasing its military budget to front a very formidable nuclear military. While Obama wants to regressively shift this country’s national security, Barney Frank, D-Mass., and Congress have stated they will accommodate Obama by contributing to the emaciating process via a 25 percent cut in military spending,saying the Pentagon has to start choosing from its many weapons programs.

Judgment: Obama, if elected, will have the opportunity to make over 1000 appointments from the Supreme Court on down. He has a long history of making very poor judgments in regard to his associations. To exercise sound judgment, one must have a balance of intelligence and virtue. Aristotle, in his work, Nicomachean Ethics, speaks about the five intellectual virtues of knowledge, art, prudence, intuition, and wisdom. Counter to what Obama apologists want to believe, Obama has not demonstrated the possession of any of the five virtues of knowledge beyond a rudimentary level, though having myriad opportunities in his life to do so, thus making his past and future decision making anemically problematic.

Aristotle takes the position that friends can be viewed as second selves. Obama has surrounded himself with the likes of William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, Rashid Khalidi, Samantha Powers, and Acorn, etc. According to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, there exists three types of friends. Friendships of utility, friendships of pleasure, and friendships of the good. Utility friendships are of convenience and gain, and are terminated when the usefulness of the friendship has run its course. This seems to be the type of friendships that Obama has cultivated throughout his life. Such was the ease that Obama discarded Rezko, Wright, et al, and has tried to downplay his relationship with Ayers.

The friendship of the good is a combination of like character and a mutual affection for each other’s company. This would be true friendship. This is a void that is apparent with Obama. There has not been a person of the stature of a true time tested friend to stand up for Obama–no one from his childhood, university, or early career had appeared beside him for support. He has only been flanked by supporters and people of a utility nature in his life. He also does not seem to have developed any friendships of pleasure where there would be a general accommodating attraction. Contrast this to McCain, who has a very long list of distinguished true friends dating back to the time of his imprisonment in Viet Nam while serving his country. As there was not a lot of time to be doing community organizing and associating with radicals while lying in a prison cell with broken limbs and refusing to be released until soldiers with a longer tenure in the prison were released first, he forged time tested friendships based upon mutual respect.

The Democrat Party has de-evolved into an uncivilized, and feral cult with an inordinate amount of political clout to possess such a destructive ideology. If you truly believe that the dismantling of the Constitution, a long and painful recession, and being vulnerable to any one of the above enumerated rogue countries is the change this country needs, then by all means vote for Obama, but I will vote for McCain–which will be a vote for America’s soul.

John McCain is not a traditional conservative, nor should he be taken seriously as one, he is what we, the conservative voters, were presented with. But he will be the only one of the two candidates that will preserve the principles this country was founded upon. Sadly, this is a vote for preservation rather than a vote for direction.

Sarah Palin is an unknown. She is more conservative than John McCain, and seems, according to her record, less likely to stray from conservative principles than McCain. Of the four candidates on the ticket, she is the only one with a proven, albeit short, track record of actually implementing change, rather than just using it as a political talking point. The voters who fear her ascending to the presidency cannot articulate one reasonable example of what she is capable of doing that would frighten them–unless the voter is on the left, and fears morality and principles in a Commander in Chief –then they should shake with fear.

As with Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, below you will be presented with the Ghost of Obama Past, the Ghost of Obama Present, and the Ghost of Obama Yet to Come.

ACORN and all the voter fraud and Mafioso tactics they have used to undermine our elections processes, and their part in the collapse of the financial markets.

William Ayers a domestic terrorist and Obama’s friend.

Timothy McVeigh a domestic terrorist with the only difference between him and Ayers being he was more successful at terrorism.

Jeremiah Wright the anti-American, hate mongering pastor who stated, among other things, “God Damn America”, that is/was Obama and his wife’s pastor for 15 years.

Tony Rezko the recently convicted felon who used millions of dollars of taxpayer’s money, given to him by Obama, to build sub-standard housing for the poor that had to be condemned after just a few years. And who also just so happened to be involved in finding Obama’s mansion at a very reduced price across the street from him, and helping Obama procure part of the lot next door that his wife just so happened to own.

Karl Marx author of the Communist Manifesto, and an like Obama was, against capitalism.

Michelle Obama and her heavily documented anti-American, not being proud of this country, deportment–and a separatist ideology in the stead of the droning mantra of “a uniter” by Obama.

Morality will be supplanted by immorality at the executive level, reinforced at the Congressional level, and quite possible a majority at the Supreme Court.

Honor will be replaced with dishonor.

Socialism and all the harm it can do to a capitalist society.

Defeatism would be the United States disposition in regard to foreign policy.

Defenseless against a nuclear missile attack from foreign powers with Obama’s cutting off of funding and dismantling of the Missile Defense Shield.

Weak Military during an ever evolving nuclear world by cutting spending to the military.

Hate being the fuel of the left in their opposition to the other side.

Far Left Radicals of any group or organization.

Exodus of Businesses leaving the U.S. due to an increasingly hostile environment.

Wall Street Financial Crisis perpetuated by the very Democrats that caused it.

Guaranteed Recession

Louis Farrakhan

Nancy Pelosi

Harry Reid

Racism

Infanticide

Divisiveness

Higher Taxes

Higher unemployment

Incessant Lying becoming the new dialog for America.

Constitution no longer relevant.

Bill of Rights no longer relevant.

Congress and its continued spiral into the abyss if the Democrats maintain their majority coupled with an unmitigated Socialist in the White House.

This is the package you are voting for when you vote for Obama. You can’t vote for him for one reason and not vote for the entire list. You would be choosing to support it all, and possibly other unnamed aberrations that come as the Obama package.

The historical and original definition of evangelical is to live Sola scripture. With the Bible, being the inerrant word of God, evangelicals followed its tenets and doctrines. The term evangelical has become one of the most maligned words in the English language and has been stripped of its original representation by the media and self serving politicians.

All one has to do is profess a Christian faith to be considered an evangelical today. To collectively place all Christians under the evangelical umbrella, would be as accurate as equating any two animals within the animal kingdom–it is intellectual anemia. There is a colossal chasm between a fundamental Christian and opposite end of the evangelical spectrum, the theological liberals. The primary difference being a sizable sum of evangelicals have embraced God, Jesus, and the Bible on their terms, as opposed to fundamentalists who embrace God, Jesus and the Bible on God’s terms. The heretical factions choose their terms concerning gay marriage sanctioned by the church, gay lifestyle supported by the church, abortion, etc. These are evangelicals that would support Obama on the basis of one of the aforementioned issues, and this would be the sect of evangelicals he would be reaching out to–assuming he has the discernment to know the difference. McCain on the other hand would be reaching out to evangelicals of a more fundamental character. Neither candidate would necessarily be reaching out with their personal philosophy, but rather how they would conduct themselves as a President in regard to these issues.

The use of the term fundamental Christianity in this article is meant in the literal sense, rather than the Fundamentalist Christian movement during the 19th and 20th century.

The question and answer forum was lead off with a one on one between Obama and Rick Warren, with McCain sequestered in a manner so as not to be aware of the questions asked Obama or his answers. McCain would receive the same set of questions as Obama at the completion of Obama’s session.

For brevity’s sake, the focus will be on a few of the more significant questions posed to each candidate that would have a direct impact on Christian issues, and a contrast of their answers.

Supreme Court Judges

Obama was asked who on the Supreme Court he would not have nominated. Clarence Thomas was his answer. Obama stated, “I don’t think he was a strong enough jurist or a legal thinker at the time for that. I profoundly disagree with his interpretation of the Constitution.” Obama also alluded to his displeasure of Scalia, Roberts, and Alito adhering to the Constitution. Considering that Thomas’ resume consisted of: Missouri Attorney General’s office, Assistant Secretary of Education, head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and a justice on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Thomas, when nominated, had more experience than Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and his whole band of miscreants combined. Since being on the Supreme Court, Thomas has prevailed as a consistent constructionist of the Constitution, and has ruled accordingly, which is the bane of an unprincipled liberal such as Obama, which would explain Obama’s disdain for Thomas, and the other constructionists on the court. Barack Obama, contrary to Christian fundamentalism, does not believe in moral absolutes.

McCain, when posed the same question, immediately enumerated Ginsberg, Souter, Stevens, and Breyer. Four of the most liberal justices to sit on that court. Obama has lauded these four constitutional anarchists, and has stated that they are emblematic of the judges he would nominate to the court.

Obama’s willingness to nominate like judges, is antithetical to fundamental Christianity and the Constitution. This would appeal to fringe evangelicals who support abortion–especially late term abortion–as these four justices have voted in favor of late term abortion in defiance of the Constitution. Clarence Thomas, et al, or a nomination by McCain, would be the cessation of this constitutional anarchy.

Abortion

Obama was asked, “at what point does a baby get human rights in your view?” He stated, “I think that whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade.” He also elaborated that he is pro-choice and supports Roe v. Wade. After giving a non-answer, Obama began meandering down various paths about supporting civil unions for gay partners, but he would not support a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage because it should be handled by the states. For someone who taught constitutional law, his constitutional hypocrisy appears unrestricted. Roe v. Wade did not legalize abortion, it only prevented states from making their own laws concerning abortion by making it a constitutional right. Yet Obama believes gay marriage should be left up to the states and not the Federal Government. What is the difference? There is no difference between the two. But at some point, with different states having gay marriage laws and other states having laws against gay marriage, when they collide, the issue will end up in the Supreme Court because of Article lV Section 2 of the Constitution (The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States). With the ever emerging manifestation of Obama’s lack of qualifications, he appears to be perpetually ensconced by the Peter Principle, and has spent his entire adult life above his pay grade.

Obama has a storied history of supporting infanticide. In 2002, while serving in the Illinois Senate, he voted against the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act, and killed it in committee. His took this action after being directly given information by a nurse who testified before the Senate, and had witnessed at the hospital where she worked that when late term abortions were performed, and if the baby was alive after the procedure, the pre-mature babies were left to die in a utility room. The act would have given infants who survived late term abortion life saving treatment rather being left to die from dereliction. His reasoning was that it would undermine Roe v. Wade, and create “one more burden on a woman and, I can’t support that.”

When posed the same question, McCain answered, “At the moment of conception.” He elaborated by reiterating his 25 year pro-life record in Congress. He said that as President he would continue his pro-life policies.

Gut-Wrenching Decision

When Obama was asked “What’s the most gut-wrenching decision you’ve ever had to make?” He replied, “Opposing the war in Iraq was as tough a decision that I’ve had to make, not only because there were political consequences but also because Saddam Hussein was a bad person and there was no doubt he meant America ill.” This was an unadulterated lie, or perhaps Obama was having a Hillary Clinton Bosnian sniper-fire moment. The Iraq war was voted on by Congress March 2003. Obama was in the Illinois state Senate in 2003 committing infanticide. He was not elected to the U.S. Senate until November of 2004. Ten months before he officially took office, the Iraq war decision was made, an undoubtedly gut-wrenching decision for those who actually voted on it. The deciding of campaign issues for his Senate campaign was obviously a more gut-wrenching decision for Obama than defeating a law that would have prevented the killing of babies.

McCain’s’ answer to the same question: “It was long ago and far away in a prison camp in North Vietnam. My father was a high ranking admiral. The Vietnamese came and said that I could leave prison early. And we had a code of conduct that said you only leave by order of capture. I also had a dear and beloved friend who was from California by the name of Ed Alvarez who had been shot down and captured a couple years before me. But I wasn’t in good physical shape. In fact I was in rather bad physical shape.”

“So I said no. Now, in interest of full disclosure, I’m very happy I didn’t know the war was going to last for another three years or so. But I said no. And I’ll never forget. The high-ranking officer who offered it slammed the door and the interrogator said go back to your cell, it’s going to be very tough on you now. And it was. But [it was] not only the toughest decision I ever made but I’m most happy about that decision than any decision I’ve ever made in my life. It took a lot of prayer. It took a lot of prayer.”

This one question, and the answers it provided, encapsulated the basal differences between McCain and Obama, and illuminates the deficiency that comes with no authentic life experience, and possessing licentious morals.

A few months ago, Barrack Obama stated in regard to Republican attacks, “If they bring a knife to a fight, we bring a gun.” It became apparent early in the question and answer forum at the Saddleback Church, that Obama clearly brought, in purely allegorical terms, the moral and intellectual equivalent of a stick to a gun fight. Not being able to read a prepared speech or use a teleprompter, and having to speak unfettered, Obama stammered through his non-answers with a nauseating speech cadence, his oration was overwhelmed with ums and uhs, all the while making eye contact with the ground in search of the appropriate answers. He was blatantly trying to walk a political tightrope to inveigle evangelicals that would be sympathetic to his answers, and at the same time, veil his more radical ideology, but he failed miserably with his discretion.

Obama has had myriad opportunities to excel and shine that are not appropriated to most people. He was President of the Harvard Law School Review, yet published nothing. He was a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, his only accomplishment there, other than being remembered as disengaged, aloof, not willing to commit to any legal ideology of substance, was to write his memoir, “Dreams of My Father.” He was in the Illinois State Senate and left no trail of significance. He voted “present” on dynamic issues that would be politically controversial. He has done nothing of any significance in the U.S. Senate other than fill a seat. He is a man 47 years of age with no credible track record, yet has spent the entirety of his adult life in positions that would leave a long and detailed trail of records for a mortal.

Barack Obama, when the dust had cleared, seemed to have steered himself to the left of the more moderately liberal evangelicals he had hoped to lure over. The deafening silence of the audience at some of his more critical answers concerning morality attested to that. But there are still one-issue evangelical voters who were singing his praises afterwards along with the usual liberal sycophants.

McCain on the other hand was McCain. He is what he has been for 25 years in Congress. No surprises and nothing new to discuss. Nothing veiled. Just McCain.

A few days after Obama’s moral cataclysm at the Saddleback Church, at a fundraiser in California, Nancy Pelosi called Obama, “A leader that God has blessed us with at this time.” Anyone with limited theological cognizance would realize that Pelosi’s statement could be, in fact, true, but, considering her perverted theology along with Obama’s, she obviously was not be referring to the God of the Bible.

McCain has entered an arena in which he is overwhelmingly outclassed, in skills, competing with an Anarchist like Obama regarding illegal immigration. McCain came to the convention clutching the decayed remnants of his failed Kennedy-McCain amnesty bill in one hand, and in the other hand, his rapidly dissipating disposition of Caesar’s Veni, Vidi, Vici approach to the Hispanic vote. The problem McCain found prior, and during the La Raza convention, was that by competing with Obama for any segment of the left is that: if you wrestle with pigs you both get dirty, the difference being, the pig likes it. McCain, by alienating unknown quantities of independents and conservatives wrestling with Obama over immigration, has hopefully become acutely aware and uncomfortable with the dirt that has covered him.

Obama has shown more cards with his courting the Hispanic vote. The jeopardous consequences for either Obama or McCain, are the unknown variables of assuming all Hispanics will vote the same. The first perilous variable is to assume that all Hispanics are in favor of legalizing the ten to twenty million illegals in this country; the variable is to presume that Hispanics, like lemmings, will all be motivated by the same stimulus, and will vote the same ticket depending on promises made to Hispanics on a wholesale level; the third is the unknown position of the large independent voting block and their stance on mass amnesty without security. To believe that Hispanics only care about immigration, rather than possess the intelligence to care about taxes, education, housing, retirement, etc., and will only vote a Democrat and liberal position, is stereotypical and grossly prejudiced on a mass scale.

The gulf between Obama and McCain commenced prior to the convention with Obama’s indignant remarks regarding the American citizenry and their foreign language inadequacies. Obama’s slanderous remarks, “It’s embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe, and all we can say is, merci beaucoup. I don’t understand when people say ‘We want English only.’ Instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English, they’ll learn English, you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.”

Obama’s boundless arrogance toward American citizens has now been broadcasted beyond the parameters of his gun clinging, praying citizens remarks, and has encompassed anyone deficient in the linguistic skills of Spanish.

This speaks clearly of his ignorance of diplomatic matters altogether. Failing to realize that the world speaks English because it is the official diplomatic language is disgraceful. I am certain that in his current “Grand Tour” of the Middle East and Europe, he has not dignified himself to learn: Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, French, and German. He will expect to be spoken to and to speak in English. He is scheduled to give a speech in Germany, hoping to ride on the coat tails of a speech made by a fellow democrat, John F. Kennedy. I am certain that the speech will also be… in English. This shows not only Obama’s ignorance, but his bountiful hypocrisy.

During his pandering at the La Raza convention, Obama took an avenue that John McCain could not follow without committing political suicide. He labeled the American Immigration Control and Enforcement Agency (ICE), and any law enforcement organization, as terrorists, if they enforce the laws they are sworn and mandated to uphold. Obama’s comments to the agog gallery about ICE were, “When communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids, when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel, when all that is happening, the system just isn’t working, and we need to change it.” Obama’s alleged intelligence continues to remain in hibernation, for by labeling someone, or an organization, as terrorists, they are being equated to the 9/11 hijackers; they are being equated to the Taliban; they are being equated with Al Quada; they are being equated with the insurgents who plant the road side bombs that kill this country’s troops.

After Obama’s speech, Los Angeles’ Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told the crowd that 12 million illegal immigrants can be brought out of the shadows and into the light and onto the tax rolls, but only if Barack Obama is elected. If the 12 million illegals are brought out, then perhaps another 12 million can skulk into the shadows, and be brought out at some future point in time, and so on and so on.

John McCain tried defending his immigration policies against Obama, but Obama had drawn a line in the sand that McCain, even with his farcical immigration history, could not cross. McCain anemically asserted that Obama had voted for amendments that would have killed the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill. In one heated exchange with an audience member, McCain was asked if he would make immigration reform a top priority as president and provide a pathway to citizenship for the 12 million undocumented workers living illegally in the U.S. as part of a single immigration bill. McCain retorted, “When it comes to immigration, it’s my top priority today and it will be my top priority tomorrow.” He continued with clarification, and not what this audience wanted to hear, that border enforcement should come first before addressing amnesty for the illegals. He continued, “One single, comprehensive bill, but first we have to assure the American people that the borders are secure, and if politicians fail to do that, then we don’t pass the legislation.” This was the lesson McCain learned during the stunning grassroots rebellion to the Kennedy-McCain amnesty plan.

In reply to a statement, concerning ICE and their raids on illegals (whom Obama previously labeled as terrorists), that the US should stop the militarization of its border, McCain stated, “The United States has to have secure borders sir, and that’s necessary, even if you disagree.”

McCain demonstrated how outclassed he was by Obama with this lawless crowd–but, hopefully it will cause him to abandon his barren attempts for their embrace with its exorbitant cost to his campaign.

Be not fooled as to what Obama, his campaign, the media, or his minions choose to label him as. He is not a progressive. He is the cold, hard personification of socialism combined with a healthy mix of anarchism . Neither Obama, nor his sycophants, believe in the fundamentals upon which this country was founded. Obama, given his druthers, would form a fundamentally different foundation than what this country currently rests upon. Obama is a gimmick created by the left, and the media. The last time this country elected a gimmick as Commander in Chief, it elected Jimmy Carter (with his aw shucks, country boy buffoonery) with the promise of completely reorganizing the government, or as Obama calls it now–”change”. This country should still be acutely aware of the condition in which this country was left by Carter and his change, when Reagan won the 1980 election in an unprecedented drubbing of Carter by a margin of 489-49 electoral votes.

It is marginal, at best, that McCain has moved away from his stance on immigration, but rather Obama has moved markedly to the left to create the recent chasm. McCain, being the military man he is, it would be best to heed the advice of Sun Tzu’s rules of battle, “if weaker numerically, be capable of withdrawing.” McCain should withdraw from his divisive immigration stance while he is capable. Obama has serendipitously dropped into McCain’s lap the ammunition to withdraw, with credibility, and launch a blistering counter attack. McCain cannot compete with the benchmarks Obama has set by calling ICE a terrorist organization and chiding the nation for not learning to speak Spanish. The voters who will listen and agree with that rhetoric, are unattainable for a conservative, or a patriot for that matter. McCain needs to abandon his unpopular and misguided immigration policies so as not to continue to alienate an unknown quantity of the conservative base, and an unknown quantity of independents. His first step would be to announce a new direction that can be reconciled with what the majority of the American citizens expect from an immigration policy. Then attack Obama’s anarchical position. Then, to show that he is serious, he needs to press the support of Jerry Perenchio and Juan Hernandez from his campaign staff. Although firing them would be the prudent thing to do, at this point that would more than likely alienate some Hispanic voters. Perenchio and Hernandez are as radical on immigration as La Raza and have no value to McCain, or any other conservative, but if they are amendable, could be of valuable service.

Listen not to your polls and staff, McCain, but to the many millions of American citizens who flooded the congressional phone lines that killed your immigration bill.