Should America Care About Obama's Associations?

Suppose you don't care about Obama's associations with Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, et. al.

A commenter in the McCain and Obama: their choices post at Dan Phillips' Blog asks:

I don’t know if America cares. But they should. And you should.
Suppose John McCain spent most of his life under the pastoral care and mentorship of Fred Phelps and gave him the honors and high praises that Obama has given Wright? Suppose McCain had decades of friendship with an unrepentant abortion clinic bombing criminal organizer. Suppose McCain [had] attended campaign parties at the abortion clinic bomber's house and evidenced decades of partnership with this proud vocal terrorist?

I guess you have to say 'I wouldn't care' to feign consistency.

Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America

This is scary!

Expiring Tax Cuts Will Be Obama’s Tax Increase

Mr. Obama has talked about tax cuts…

The reality is that the tax cuts of 2000 will expire in 2010. The tax cuts that increased the child tax credit from $500 to $1,000. In 2011, a family with two children will see a cost increase of $1,000 JUST on the child tax credit. You would have to find nearly $100/month just to make up that difference. Under the tax cuts of 2000, the lowest tax rate went from 15% to 10% and the middle bracket went from 28% to 15%. Most of us will fall in that 10-15% bracket. If your tax rate goes up by 13%, how will it affect you? I encourage everyone to pull out their tax returns, go to: http://www.heritage.org/research/features/taxcalculator/ and see what you will pay in 2011 BEFORE voting. Mr. Obama has said that he will not renew these tax cuts. We WILL see taxes go up without action.

Truth: Mr. Obama has voted to raise taxes multiple times. The number put out by the McCain campaign of 94 times he voted for either tax increases or against tax cuts is accurate. In Mr. Obama’s defense, some of those votes were multiple votes on the same bill. However, he has voted far too many times for tax increases and against tax cuts to take him seriously when he talks about tax cuts, for those he calls the middle class. The reality is taxes will increase AUTOMATICALLY in 2011. Under a democrat-controlled congress and a potential Obama presidency, would the tax cuts of 2000 be continued? If not, how will you be affected?

Brutal reading, but necessary

The following is plagiarized directly from Dan Phillips' blog:

This is hard to read.

Justin Taylor's blog Between Two Worlds — one of the few I commend in the sidebar — consistently has some of the most exceptional material of any Christian blog. Anyone who tries to dig up good stuff will agree: Justin's skill in finding excellent resources is nothing short of scary.

For months, Justin has done yeoman's work in keeping the abortion issue foremost, and he's kept at it — in spite of being afflicted with some of the most committedly clueless and disruptive meta-trolls in the blogiverse.

Again and again, Justin has linked to excellent resources, admirably banging the drum on the fact that Barack Obama is the most virulently pro-infanticide Presidental candidate ever, and he will instantly drop America's complicity in this abomination to unprecedented Hellish depths.

To underscore this point, today he puts up Ballot Box Blues. Be warned: it is absolutely brutal. (Even so, it is relatively mild compared to the full measure of abortion's horrors.) If you can watch it without tears... well, people have different emotional makeups, I understand that. But I'd fear that something is very wrong, if you can watch this video dry-eyed and unmoved.

And you need to understand: every person who even toys with voting for Obama is considering not only locking these abominations into law for decades to come, not only re-radicalizing abortion laws in our country, not only forcing all Americans to pay for these abominations, but putting judiciary appointments in the hands of a man who's fine with leaving babies who manage to survive abortions squirming, suffering, and dying on hospital tables. (Obama's dodge on this issue has been proven to be a lie.)

That's the heart of the man you are thinking of rewarding with top office, Obama voters.

That's who you want to represent America, and shape the judiciary, Obama voters.

These are not regrettable instances of unintentional, "collateral damage." These are children targeted for murder. And Obama's fine with it.

Now you can't say, "But I didn't know." You know. You vote for Obama, you're fine with it, too.

A Contrast

This is how we used to vacation - in a nice, spacious conversion van.

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This is how we vacation now -- in a cramped minivan because gasoline costs so much more now.

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Thanks, Democrats, for consistently opposing any proposal that would allow us to use our own country's natural energy resources. Now, because we are dependent (you Donkeys like us people being dependent, don't you?) on foreign energy producers, who don't really like us very much and demand vast sums of wealth in exchange for their energy that runs our country, we have to pay exorbitant prices, due to world-wide demand.

Energy would be so much cheaper if we produced our own, and revenues from it would go a long way toward improving our economy instead of those of the OPEC countries.

Obama's Abortion Extremism

So, a lot of bloggers are referring to this essay written by Robert P. George of Princeton University. Might as well do it here too. In this essay, Mr. George asserts that candidate Obama

... is the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever to seek the office of President of the United States. He is the most extreme pro-abortion member of the United States Senate. Indeed, he is the most extreme pro-abortion legislator ever to serve in either house of the United States Congress.

This is an extraordinary claim, but it is argued convincingly.

Furthermore,

... there are Catholics and Evangelicals-even self-identified pro-life Catholics and Evangelicals - who aggressively promote Obama's candidacy and even declare him the preferred candidate from the pro-life point of view.

What's going on here?
Read the whole essay.