Obama has put us off balance with his current statements on many issues and his choice of Clintonites and Washington insiders for his cabinet. Much of his latest talk has moderated from his position during the campaign, making me wonder just exactly is he up to. Many political analysts assume that he simply prostituted himself to left to get elected and then moved to the center to gain the support of moderates and he’s not really a socialist, just a politician.

I have a different take on his reasoning and a couple of other possibilities come to mind, the first thought being that he doesn’t have a clue about running the country. After promising to champion every leftist cause that backed his candidacy and knowing that doing so wouldn’t pass muster with the public, press or even the left leaning congress for that matter, he just doesn’t know where to go to keep his messianic halo intact. He’s so caught up in his God complex that he believes he can pretty much say and do anything.

Another possibility is that he is very smart and knows exactly where he wants to lead the Country. By injecting this imbalance, we are put off guard and he’s free to institute his socialist agenda while we’re trying to figure out what he’s really about.

Both scenarios spell big trouble for this country, we’re either about to have a most dangerous type of leader, one who will bask in his own glory while the country flounders in a rudderless ship, or one cunning enough to institute a socialist regime under our very noses.

Adolph Hitler fooled the Germans with an eerily similar populist feint and my greatest fear is that Barack Obama is ardent student of history and is indeed very smart.

A founder of the Weathermen terror group, Mark Rudd, said “President-elect Barack Obama is feigning a centrist position on some issues so he can ultimately push through a radical agenda,” and “Obama plays basketball. I’m not much of an athlete, barely know the game, but one thing I do know is that you have to be able to look like you’re doing one thing but do another. That’s why all these conservative appointments are important: the strategy is feint to the right, move left. Any other strategy invites sure defeat. It would be stupid to do otherwise in this environment.”

Former Weatherman terrorist Jeff Jones wrote – Obama is “really SMART.” “His centrist appointments are a smokescreen; they co-opt the moderate center, but he’s still the commander in chief. Even Lenin would be impressed!”

Washington Irving said: “Great minds have purpose; little minds have wishes (read hope).Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.”

Conservatives have a purpose rooted in the freedom to pursue personal achievement; the liberals wish and hope for some elusive utopia feeding off misfortune and a subdued public looking for a leader.

The Obamas are educating their children in private schools, while insisting in public education for those who cannot afford a private education, by opposing vouchers. The same labor unions that supported his candidacy are in the forefront of maintaining an education system that is indeed, failed, failed by the the left wing, their union coddling and their socialistic hopes. They brainwash our children into a political correctness and mindset that refuses to allow personal achievement, teaching them wish for a utopia where everyone is equal, except, of course, those who are in charge. The leaders being those who were taught purpose and personal achievement.

Our children have been taught to follow the leader and abandon any purpose. We must fight their brand of socialism with logic and purpose, and dump the PC garbage that is suffocating our youth.

In a recent article by columnist David Broder, arguing in favor of national health care, he states that Barack Obama “could well argue the current plight of the Big Three automakers stems in part from from the burden (they) are carrying for the failures of our employer base health system.” And that the foreign auto makers are “operating in countries where the government and society pay the cost of health care.”

There is a serious credibility issue here; first off there is no proof that our health care system is broken. Ask any Canadian or other country’s citizen, who comes to the United States for treatment. They come here because they can’t get care or treatment in a timely fashion, or at all, in their home country. One Canadian friend of mine told me that Canada has a two tier health care system, the government paid health care and (thankfully) the care available here in the United States. Secondly a large portion of the “foreign companies” are building their cars here in the United States by American workers under our “broken” system. What he also doesn’t say is that the non-union foreign car companies labor costs are half of the Big Three’s labor cost, and the foreign car companies labor costs are still a third higher than the labor cost of the average private sector worker.

The problem is not with the health care system but the with the United Auto Workers Union leveraging the market share the Big Three once had into salaries and benefits unheard of in solvent and competitive industries. Equally to blame are the company managers who agreed to those inflated salaries and benefits while they were fat and happy, now they can no longer compete and want the taxpayer to bail them out.

Mr. Broder expects the government to relieve the Big Three of their burden by nationalizing health care. Will that solve Detroit’s problem, hardly, does anyone even believe that the UAW would give up their “gold-plated” coverage in favor of a national system? Think again.

The contrived “sky is falling” outcry from the politicians to rush through the “bailout” package was nothing more than another way to move us to the left. When government takes even a part ownership in a business, that business will be directed, at least in part, by the government, and socialist governments run the businesses. It was the government’s demand to lenders, directing them to write loans to those who couldn’t afford it, which led to the downfall of Freddie and Fannie. The “sky is falling, world is ending”, crisis has given the government opportunity to overtly interfere in private enterprise. As of now, dozens of private businesses are asking for help and they will surely get it. According to USA Today “Barack Obama has made it clear that he favors supporting the auto industry and more economic stimulus”. More stimuli being “giving” money to whoever comes asking for help. It’s no coincidence that a socialist politician wants to make private businesses beholden to government largess.

It’s kind of like when the federal government takes our taxes, skims off a portion, and “gives” it back to the states, it always comes with strings attached. This is an overt way of abridging states rights. Like if you want federal highway funds you have to have a 55-mph speed limit. First they made the states dependent on Federal money then told them you can have a 65-mph speed limit if you want, but you won’t receive Federal highway funds if you do. Private business, watch out, your turn is coming. Goldman Sachs said in a note to clients. “It’s conceivable use of the remaining funds could come with more congressional strings attached,”

In a brazen twist, USA Today wrote; “Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Wednesday that the government will no longer buy troubled assets from bank balance sheets, the original intent of the (bailout sic.) legislation, and will mainly focus on injecting money into the financial sector”. Remember, if you want to find out who is in control, “follow the money” once the government has it’s paws on the financial markets bureaucrats will control the money!

Barack Obama rode to election on the backs of taxpayers whose “patriotic” contributions have been used to create a large bloc of voters hooked on government dependency and social programs. Such dependency is designed to favor big government social reformers like President elect Obama, and relect like minded legislators.

Now that these legislators have created enough voter dependency on government handouts to render the opposition nearly powerless, they are planning to do the same to private enterprise and replace Capitalism with Socialism once and for all.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck – It is a duck! I believe that Obama will not, in fact he can not, govern from the center as the media hacks from CNN, CBS, AP and etc. who along with left wing nut case Pelosi claim he will have to do. They are beginning to worry (finally) about the politics of the man they did all in their power to elect.

They ought to be running scared. Look at his history, the legislation he voted for both in Illinois and in Washington, listen to his speeches, read his books and understand who the people are that he has surrounded himself with and look at what causes he has supported. Any one of these would be a showstopper for me and these are only the beliefs Obama and his handlers have ALLOWED the public to see and hear! what more don’t we know? I don’t believe it’s racist or any other liberal mud they so love to sling, to speak the truth about Obama. On the contrary by sticking our heads in the sand and hoping he is not what HE SAYS HE IS, diminishes us and leaves us wide open to his form of socialism. God knows how deep his racism and anti-American, socialist beliefs run as he is so far to the left publicly!

I have outlined a plan to counter Obama and those who will support his beliefs and agenda. It is posted on this blog at, http://www.gray-morass.4info4.com/?p=230. I invite everyone to comment that post and add his or her suggestions and lets get to work. The time for hope is past, the time for action is now, make your voices heard until they start listening. Our fate rests with the PEOPLE not the politicians or media hacks.

“Do, or do not. There is no try.” Yoda

“Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.” Tom Landry

Our Goal is to foil their socialist agenda now, and unseat Obama and the “progressives, liberals, socialists”, both state and federal, in elections 2010 and 2012. What we need to focus on is a plan to achieve that end. The time to start is now, before they do so much damage to our constitution, freedoms and livelihoods that it would take generations to undo. Here is our plan so far, I will keep adding to this list, feel free to comment with your suggestion.

Write!

• Let your views be known.
• Write your representatives often.
• Write your representatives PROACTIVELY not reactively. Let them know before legislation is introduced that we are watching and will not support any (insert liberal garbage) legislation or the legislators who back it.
• Write your newspaper(s) letters to the editor column. Many papers have forms on their web-sites to submit a letter for publication, most others will accept e-mail. Read their submission policies carefully, as any excuse not to publish letters at odds with their view will be used. Note that many liberal rags accept few submissions that express conservative viewpoints, keep writing them anyway let them know you will not buy a paper that is biased.

Reply!

• If you receive an unsatisfactory response let them know you will not accept it.

Remind!

• Keep the pressure on, remind them often that (insert liberal garbage) is a vote deciding issue.

Educate!

• Educate others about (insert liberal garbage).
• Educate your self to intelligently counter any argument.
• Be credible, get your facts first.

Feel no Fear!

• The liberals are great for telling us what we should believe and how we should act, but they don’t practice what they preach. They call their own agendas and their opponents view the exact opposite of the truth. (such as the “Fairness Doctrine” and that we are the racists.)
• Turn the tables and show how they or their view is actually (insert liberal BS).
• Do not be silenced by fear of being called an (insert liberal BS).
• Do not be afraid to speak your mind.

If we stick to this plan it will be much harder for them to ramrod their agenda and pass stealth legislation.

The clock is ticking!

No surprises as we enter the second week following Obama’s election, though the concerns keep mounting. Obama believes he has a mandate because he won more than 50% of the vote. According to American University political scientist Curtis Gans, an authority on voter turnout, 2008 Voter turnout is estimated at 60.7% – 61.7% of eligible voters vs. 60.6% in 2004. The percentages remain substantially the same even though 4 million more people are estimated to have cast a ballot this year as there are 6.5 million more voters registered than were in 2004. The figures also show that Republican turnout DECLINED 1.3% and Democratic turnout increased by 2.6%. African American voter turnout increased by 2% to 13% of the electorate.

What does this all mean?

• More Republicans stayed home, unhappy with John McCain and were willing to let people “get what they ask for”. More would have stayed home but for Sarah Palin.
• More Democrats turned out. Due in large part to the vote getting effort of Obama’s supporters, ACORN being none the least.
• More African Americans voted – No Comment.
• A quote by a *Democratic strategist who did not want to be named as criticizing Obama’s campaign. – “It sort of calls into question some of the vaunted ground game discussion, the whole turnout machine,..” “The GOTV effort was redoubled in 2008 compared to 2004, but it did not seem to make that big of a difference.”
• Obama garnered approximately 65.97 million votes and McCain 57.77 million, lets see, of all the eligible voters in the United States 33% supported Obama 27.7% supported McCain and 39.3% didn’t vote!

To sum it up, If there was a mandate it was that most people didn’t care who won and neither candidate has taken the pulse of the Nation! However Obama believes he has a “real mandate for change” and is planning to use “EXECUTIVE ORDERS” to “ACT QUICKLY” to undo the previous administration’s policies, without waiting for congressional action. According to John Podesta, Obama’s transition chief, a good bet is that Obama will ban offshore drilling, among other priorities! As Obama has already predicted our energy bills “WILL SKYROCKET”, just when home heating and transportation costs have reached an acceptable level, an insane attempt to force feed us an energy policy that is technologically impossible appears to be his priority. Obama is in effect promising us $5 a gallon gasoline and home heating oil again!

Now that the 2008 presidential election is behind us my thoughts go to what the future has in store and whom will conservative folks unhappy with both candidates look to. Though it’s too early to tell, amid all the finger pointing of the defeated McCain camp, if Sarah Palin will lead us out of the desert, I’m here to say RHINOS (republicans in name only) like John McCain should be banished to the pages of history. McCain has no one but himself to blame for his defeat, he refused to challenge Obama on a myriad of real concerns like;

• Who is Obama, really? We only were fed the Hollywood version by the worshiping media who suddenly are asking themselves what did we do, we knew we were campaigning for his election but did we ask the right questions to find out who he really is or what he believes in? Too little too late.
• Tax issues that any economics 101 student knows are wrong for today’s economy and are anti business, anti investment and anti growth. Stagnation waiting to happen.
• Obama pals and mentors like Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers, both America hating firebrands. Yet he clung to their defense, finally and begrudgingly trying to distance himself.
• His association with ACORN and his $800,000 “donation” to sign up new (many several times or unqualified) voters and actively tell them to vote for Obama. His role in training ACORN recruiters, did Obama teach them how to inflate the voting rolls, where did they learn to commit the fraud that is being prosecuted in several states?
• Here’s one for you lib’s. How about Obama’s stand on Abortion to vote AGAINST lifesaving treatment for BABIES that survived late term abortions! That’s insane, what are we becoming!

These and a myriad of other concerns to an informed citizen were left mostly unchallenged by the McCain Camp. His problem was that he believes much like Obama and couldn’t challenge him, given the choices, the voters went with the young, suave and sophisticated guy. I believe McCain would have been the lesser evil and a good slice of the country did also, a sharper distinction could have tipped the scales.

Now some in the McCain camp are attempting to cast the blame on Sarah Palin for his defeat. Get real, in a Rasmussen exit poll 69% of Republicans said Sarah Palin HELPED McCain, while only 20% said she hurt him. Read this, according to Rasmussen, 91% of Republicans have a favorable view of her while only 8% see her unfavorably. When asked for their choice for the party’s 2012 presidential nominee, 64% said Palin, the next closest contenders garnered 12% and 11% respectively.

Read the news! now that Sarah Palin is back in Alaska and Oil, which provides the bulk of state revenue, has fallen below $60 a barrel and are below the level needed to balance the state budget. What does Sarah say to that? Quote “Now we kick in that fiscal conservativeness that needs to be engaged, and we progress this state with $57-a-barrel oil,” and said the state would have to “be prudent with public dollars and provide services more efficiently than have ever been provided in the state of Alaska before.” ! The Palin smear campaign continues because the opposition sees Ms. Palin as being a real conservative, and wants her to go away, now the McCain camp is helping them out. Shame!

Sarah Palin displays the kind of leadership that the Republican Party wants, needs! Can Sarah beat Obama in 2012, will she run? I don’t know what the next four years will bring, but I do know you can’t beat the Democrats by becoming more like them. John, are you listening, George?

So much for change – Obama is staffing his cabinet with former Clintonites, he couldn’t wait for inaguration to start breaking his promises! I for one don’t want him to keep ANY!

To borrow a line “This man carries more baggage than a 747!”

Too tired to write more, spent it all getting my “Countdown to election 2012” clock going.

Just called for Obama.

With November 4th behind us our country will take a new direction, a hard left turn with a murky future. Barack Obama favors bigger government and more social spending as an integral part of his personal utopian vision. But the larger issue is how fast and how far is he prepared to take us. His stated beliefs are a good indication that we won’t come to like it.

We now must be ever vigilant and offer no quarter when the legislation, judicial appointments, domestic and foreign policy decisions, sure to follow, are at odds with the rights and freedoms guaranteed by our constitution. Our new President elect has already pronounced our constitution “flawed” especially by the separation of power constraints. This is the most dangerous thinking of all, should these constraints be lifted our heretofore democracy will succumb to autocratic fiat by appointed judges who would be free to make a rule of law based solely on his or her political belief, bias and agenda.

Make no mistake, it has happened before, we all know the results of Hitler’s Germany, Castro’s Cuba and even now rearing it’s ugly head in Chavez’s Venezuela. The time for silence and “it can’t happen here” thought is over. IT CAN HAPPEN HERE! We must all speak up and let our representatives know that we the people will not tolerate anyone, any decree or legislation that will turn our constitution inside out and lead us down the path of destruction. If we are to be government of the people we MUST be prepared to TELL our government exactly what to do, not the other way around.

There is a movement curently under way in the legislature to abridge our rights and freedoms. Two such attempts are; eliminating the requirement of a secret ballot when voting on union organization. The secret ballot is a cornerstone of democracy designed to free us from intimidation, how in God’s name will eliminating the secret ballot improve the election process! Are we all idiots! By the way, whether you believe it or not the new voting system has already made inroads into abridging that freedom in our general election process, as there is now a “paper trail” that without much added design can identify YOUR VOTE! How easy is would be to correlate your place in the voting line with a particular ballot, and how about the ease of altering the computer programming to favor one selection over the other? Secondly there is a planned revival of the (un) “fairness doctrine” it’s intent being the exact opposite of it’s name in that it is designed to silence the voice of opposition to leftist politics, specifically conservative talk radio. Whether you think it can or can’t happen here or if you think that it won’t go any further, watch carefully and be prepared to make your voice heard. Remember, “God helps those that help themselves”.

“”First they came…” is a poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group(wikipedia).” He was an early supporter of Hitler who was later imprisoned himself for opposing state controlled churches.

“When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist

When they locked up the social democrats
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews
I remained silent;
I was not a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.”

Would we like it to read? – When they came for the conseratives ……