The Choice

Today is one day before Election Day, November 6, 2012.  I'm sure everyone living in a swing state will appreciate this as it should mean the end of incessant ads on TV, radio, phone calls, and mailers.  As many (including the candidates, themselves) have said, the choices are clear regarding how you vote for President.

Here is my perspective of what those choices are:

Obama will continue to push expansion of the federal government.  Obama will continually push programs that make decisions for us regarding what and how we should eat, who handles our health care, how and by what means we commute, and how our children should be educated.

Obama believes that the way to solve unemployment is for the government to hire workers to fix and update America's infrastructure.  He will push more stimulus and increase corporate taxes to try to pay for it.  The taxes won't be able to so the deficit and debt will grow.

Obama will not significantly improve the economy.  At best it will stabilize at its current state - leaving 23+ million unemployed.  Obama is not interested in improving the economy at the expense of his other priorities.

Obama will blame the increased deficit and debt on these same corporations and fault them for not agreeing with his "vision". 

Obama wants to severely diminish large and small business in this country.  He wants nationally-run corporations.

Obama will dismiss complaints about high gas prices and high inflation and suggest that this is because we need to embrace "green" technologies.  He will use the bad economy to promote his agenda of taking down the oil companies.  (May I remind you that oil companies hire millions of Americans including geologists, chemists, and other high-end professions.)

Obama will do nothing to alleviate racial tensions in America.  Obama thrives on perpetuating the belief that his opponents are racists.  It gives him a convenient scapegoat whenever he doesn't get his way or if someone disagrees with him.

Obama will continue to allow the U.N. to have more control and diminish America's role in the world.  It is possible that he will allow the U.N. to set policies and laws for United States citizens.

Obama will leave alone any kind of immigration reform as it is too controversial.  Otherwise, he'd have done it the first two years he was in office.

Obama will continue to defend "The Affordable Healthcare Act" and tell you the thousands of dollars more you are paying is not a tax and less than you would have paid if the evil insurance companies had their way.

Romney will bring years of upper-management experience and apply them.  He will start with national energy production and create a significant number of private sector jobs.

Romney's plan of adding private sector jobs will lower unemployment enough to increase the tax revenues needed to start dealing with the deficit and debt.  It will take years to turn this around, though but at least, Romney will address this seriously.

Romney will take a harder line in foreign relations.  Romney believes in "Peace through strength" as opposed to "strength through peace".

Romney, despite what his detractors say, will leave social issues alone for the most part.  He's not some religious-right evangelist as some seem to want to portray him.
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The above is in a nutshell, my perspective.  My economic arguments are based on Obama's record and the pitiful GDP numbers we've gotten and the non-improving unemployment rate.  My foreign policy arguments are based on how Obama's handled Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Russia, and of course, Libya. 

I've heard others stating diametric beliefs.  Let me share a few.

• Romney is a George W. Bush clone.
• Romney will take command of your "female parts"
• Romney will put you all in "chains".
• Romney will put us all in the fields "picking crops".

There are almost no pro-Obama arguments, only anti-Romney arguments.  The only pro-Obama argument I sometimes hear is that the economy is improving and to stick with him.  The economy has shown a sliver of improvement in the past month.  Do you really believe this will continue with the way Obama is?

2012 Round 1 "Four Years Ago..."

I don't have too much to comment about the recent debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.  I do believe Romney won the debate, perhaps not as strongly as some pro-Republican commentators would suggest, but he won it nonetheless.

It was clear right away that Obama was not used to someone looking at him in the eye and holding him accountable for his poor record.  I believe that Obama gets daily doses of comments like "We think you're great, Mr. President!", "You are so smart, Mr. President." and  "I support you wholly, Mr. President."  This explains why he was ill prepared for "Now, I'm concerned that the path that we're on has just been unsuccessful."  Previously, when comments like that were made, Obama had the luxury of  hearing or reading such comments, then mulling it over for a period, and then responding in his usual condescending way.  (He obviously feels he's above all this.)

Romney was polite, respectful, and relentless.  It was very clear he is not the uncaring, clueless, racist, idiot that the Democrats, much of Hollywood, and much of the mainstream media portrayed him to be. Now they're the ones who look bad and they deserve it.

Obama seemed to start every answer with "Four years ago..."  He is still blaming Bush.

I'm looking forward to the Vice-Presidential debate this Thursday.  This should be another huge win for the Romney/Ryan campaign as I seriously doubt Joe Biden has the tools to stand toe-to-toe with Paul Ryan.

Why is this on Thursday when the Presidential debate was on a Wednesday?  There's football on Thursday and much of America probably won't watch this debate for that reason.  What were they thinking?  They didn't choose Thursday on purpose for this very reason, did they?

Did they?

How many times did Obama say "Four years ago"?

"You know, four years ago we went through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression."

"Now, four years ago, when I stood on this stage..."

"Well, four years ago, when I was running for office, I was traveling around and having those same conversations that Governor Romney talks about."

"You know, four years ago, we were going through a major crisis."

"You know, four years ago, I said that I'm not a perfect man and I wouldn't be a perfect president."

Hate Speech 2

Hate Speech 1

““We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that. - Chick-fil-A President and COO Dan Cathy 2012


“I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian -- for me -- for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God's in the mix…. I am not somebody who promotes same-sex marriage.” - Barack Obama 2008


One of the above statements is considered "hate speech" by many and has caused a major public furor.  The other was publicly applauded.   Enough said.

An Afternoon with the Great Elderski (Part 5)

(Here's the final part.)

Wrapping up the Race Issue

17 black youths detained in Palmdale for beating Latino.  This has hardly been reported.

Obama can stop the racial nonsense by saying “Al, knock it off!” and “Jesse, knock it off”
Obama is all about race.  He says Trayvon could have been his son.  He accused the Cambridge police of acting stupidly without knowledge of the facts.

The Chicago Tribune endorsed Obama.  It was the first time in years that they endorsed a Democrat.  The Tribune stated that “However this election turns out, it will dramatically advance America’s slow progress towards equality and inclusion. On November the 4^th, we’re going to elect a President to lead us through a perilous time and restore us a common sense of national purpose.”
Do you think he’s done that?

Larry goes on about the Tribune faulting McCain about a poor choice for his Vice President.

Why is Sarah Palin considered such an inferior running mate when you have Joe Biden?

Biden

He plagiarized somebody’s speech while running for President.  He was caught and embarrassed and dropped out.  He told people he graduated at the top half of his law school when he was at the bottom.  He has taken the wrong position about every major issue while in the Senate.  One of the first things he did as a Senator was vote to cut off funding to the South Vietnamese.   This lead to millions being killed and millions of refugees.  Biden threatened to divulge national security secrets because he disapproved of Reagan’s policies.  He voted against the first Iraqi War and was in favor of the second one only to denounce it months later when things weren’t going well.  He’s the one who said Iraq should be broken up into three parts, something the Iraqis did not want.  He was wrong about the duties of what the VP are while Palin was correct.  Of course, Biden thinks j-o-b-s is a three letter word and urged a man in a wheel chair to stand up.

What was that about Sarah Palin again?

Miscellany

Paul Ryan has a new plan which the Chicago Tribune compliments as real leadership.  Buyer’s remorse on endorsing Obama?

Caller Jason has a challenge.  He’ll give Larry a hundred dollars on any case of black on white crime where the black was able to use the “Stand Your Ground” law.  Larry asks what that proves.  Jason goes on to say 1 in 4 GOP members believe Obama’s parents have an illegal marriage because they are not of the same race.  Jason may have a point in his first challenge but that second one is a flat out lie.  He’s making stuff up.

Larry Elder Show from Reagan Library 5