Posted by
Bert Chapman on Friday, October 17, 2008 7:32:19 PM
I've not given up hope that the American people may awaken from the seductive embrace so many have made of Barack Obama and realize the horrific consequences of an Obama presidency. Such a calamity will have deleterious consequences in areas such as taxes, national security, judicial appointments, economics, foreign policy, social policy, and in national living standards. I'd like to place particular emphasis on the individuals he may choose for his Cabinet. Obama has hinted he may make Warren Buffet his Treasury Secretary. The reputed oracle from Omaha is reported to be hostile to Christianity and recently "married" his three decade long mistress. With behavior like that, he's would have been ethically qualified to work in Bill Clinton's Administration. Buffet has no experience with domestic and international economic policymaking. The way he's glorified by the liberal media and Obama should make us all uneasy.
Here's another vision from hell. John Edwards as Attorney General! Placing the mother of all ambulance chasing trial lawyers in a position of real power should scare the cojones off of any rational person. Edwards will spend more time clogging the courts with trivial lawsuits against political opponents instead of fighting real crime and aggressively fighting and pursuing Islamist terrorists. He'll be more interested in pursuing hate crime vendettas against critics of him and Obama than in working constructively to promote law abiding behavior by Americans.
For Secretary of Defense, Obama could pick Iraq defeatist and corrupt Pennsylvania congressman Jack Murtha. Democrats regard him as some sage on national security matters, when his actual experience with national security issues has been funneling defense spending to his district because of his long-time service and chairmanship on the House Appropriations Committee's Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. Murtha is so hung up over Vietnam and his anti-Bush tirades, that he'd probably try to ask Al Qaida and Taliban commanders for permission to bomb their forces.
Obama's Secretary of State will probably someone committed to "repairing the damage" allegedly caused to the U.S. by the Bush Administration's foreign and national security policies. What this will involve will be hiring a Foggy Bottom frump who will genuflect before the United Nations and seek to "apologize" every chance he or she can to international leftist and secularist public opinion that is appalled by our taking decisive action against Islamist terror. Instead of forcefully stating our legitimate case against international terrorism and educating a supine international public opinion about the dangers Islamist extremism poses to democratic freedoms, we could see the next four years of our diplomacy being characterized by spineless cowardly curs who want to engage in ritual self-flagellation instead of asserting our geopolitical and strategic interests. This may also involve pressuring Israel to make unwise concessions to sadistic terrorist extremists, cutting a "deal" with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, allowing Russia to retake portions of the former Soviet Union, acquiescing in Iranian nuclear weapons development, and numerous other examples of appeasement in areas such as China and North Korea.
Our next Energy Secretary will tell us that we have to get used to a lower standard of living, travel less, and pay more in taxes for less energy access and delivery. This individual will tell us we need to remain dependent on uncertain markets and petroleum suppliers who are hostile to our national interest. This same individual, possibly Ralph Nader, will launch repeated public jeremiads against nuclear energy which is the most environmentally friendly and technologically proven energy source available.
Ask any of your friends and relatives who have been seduced by "the one" whether they like any of these policy scenarios I've described. I highly doubt most Obama supports have the intellectual capacity to understand the role of cabinet governance let alone any intellectual understanding of the reality that the policies Obama supports have proven miserable failures when they were implemented by presidential administrations such as Lyndon Johnson's, Jimmy Carter's, and Bill Clinton's.