Curtis Dahlgren
Top 10 dumb questions about Dems; Top 10 reasons they could lose
By Curtis Dahlgren
"A gripping story of character and courage: character passed down from generation to generation by sterling examples of family bonds and devotion to duty; courage that ultimately comes from within . . "— General Colin Powell (on John McCain's book, "Faith of My Fathers; a Family Memoir")
"FAITH OF MY FATHERS" IS A STORY TO INSPIRE AND INSTRUCT, one that shows what fathers give to their sons, and what ultimately endures.'— Conservative Book Club
William Bennett says, "In it we learn much of what matters most. As prisoner (and later Senator) McCain instructs us: Glory is not an end in itself . . "
Senator Obama began a 2-volume autobiography in his twenties, and yet we aren't even allowed to read his college or law school writings (I wonder why?). If Sarah Palin had begun writing her memoirs at the age of 25, she'd be laughed at now as having a Joan-of-Ark complex. And yet she has accomplished more good in a few years in public life than all of Obama's "accomplishments" in his whole life.
The latter likes the words "hope," "change," and "redistribution," but the words Freedom, Faith, and Truth are AWOL in the Obama-Biden campaign propaganda. The Lord's "audacious Truth" (to coin a phrase) is what ENDURES.
Reporters "hit the ground running" to investigate Governor Palin, but when a sole reporter asks Joe Biden what Obama means by "redistribution," her television station gets black-balled (a sign of things to come from an Obama administration?). It isn't surprising that 14 percent of the voters are "undecided" yet, when such issues as illegal immigration, crime, drug wars, and infanticide have essentially been banned from this campaign.
I wasn't born yesterday and I'm no Johnnie-come-lately to presidential elections. My parents took me to hear a primary speech by Governor Stassen in 1948. At the age of six, I was small for my age, and Stassen picked me up and held me like a baby (and I cried like a baby). Stassen was a signer of the U.N. Charter, so maybe I sensed something about the U.N. that I didn't really know yet. Lots of Obama supporters can tell you more than they actually know about him (which is what?).
We haven't been allowed to mention his middle name, his ears, his radical revolutionary friends, his gaffes, "socialism," or his grandfather (who happened to have been a "medicine man" in Kenya — or maybe a "witch doctor"?). Those are verboten topics!
John McCain's grandfather was an admiral who led a fleet of carriers into some of the most critical battles of World War II. His father was another admiral and a submarine commander. The family was the first one in American history to produce two 4-star admirals (and, other than the grandmother who raised Obama, his family has done what?)
As Golda Meir might have said, "Don't be humble. You're not that great."
Lyndon Baines Johnson once said, "Politics is action, but it is not civil war. Civil war only comes when truth is forgotten."
LBJ also once said to a Texas politician: "First, Ah'm gonna give you a 2-minute lecture on integrity, and then Ah'm gonna ruin you."
The first letter-to-the-editor I ever wrote was for Richard Nixon in 1960. I like to say that Nixon was the only man elected President three times (except for voting fraud in Texas and Illinois, he almost certainly beat John Kennedy). But Nixon quickly conceded in 1960, because "we need a President," he said.
Obama's supporters would not be so quick to concede, and police in several cities are on full alert for next week, no matter whether Obama wins OR loses.
By the way, you need a photo-ID to buy a fishing license or cash a check, but one can vote for Leader-of-the-Free-World without one (perhaps several times, in fact). In spite of the vote fraud that has been virtually threatened, McCain and Palin still have a chance to "overcome" as Ronald Reagan did in 1980. Here are the Top Ten reasons I say that:
10) People lie to pollsters (especially about not intending to vote for an African-American).
9) Polls that "weight for party" and don't focus on likely voters are unreliable.
8) We are in uncharted territory with the increase in absentee voting.
7) Last-second doubts in the voting booth will no doubt hurt Obama more than McCain.
6) Last-second doubts about Sen. Biden will hurt a LOT more than doubts about Palin.
5) The record number of "undecided voters" this year.
4) Joe the plumber and the issue he raised ("redistribution" sounds like "Reparations").
3) Women are the largest voting bloc, and people can still change their minds.
2) Reagan Democrats and "verboten' core topics: guns, crime, illegal immigration, etc.
1) A backlash against the obviously biased Old Media — that ignore those issues.
The Top 10 "dumb questions" that should have been asked:
(10) Since the government has screwed up nearly every problem it has touched, why would you think that "national health care" would be any different (and whatever happened to "Ask not what the country [government] can do for you?")?
(9) How many Democratic congresspeople received contributions from Fannie Mae execs,
and how many were invested in oil futures — the price of which they tried to drive up (and how many people lost their homes because of high gas prices?)?
(8) Do you like local public schools being run by the central government and/or the courts (and kids being forced to "pretend" they are Muslims or "gay,' while the Pledge of Allegiance is amended so as not to "offend" anyone?)?
(7) Do you really want more illegal immigration, drug wars, and crime due to a One-party "Democratic" rule (and do you want to be classified a criminal if you own a gun?)?
(6) What's in Obama's college writings that is keeping them locked up (they probably make Hillary's college writings sound like the Vast Right-wing Conspiracy)?
(5) Do you really want Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers in the Lincoln bedroom (if so, maybe you should vote for Louis Farakhan's favorite candidate)?
(4) Would this One-party rule "flush Rush" in the first "100 days" (and will "hate-speech" laws ban the Bible from your pastor's pulpit?)?
(3) Will this One-party rule "major in the minors" (concentrating on such issues as getting cigarettes out of bars, but allowing terrorists to walk across the border)?
(2) Will this One-party rule expand Nazi-style medical experiments such as human cloning and embryo farming?
(1) With One-party rule, and legal infanticide "no big deal," can forced euthanasia of the elderly and "handicapped" be far behind?
AS FOR THE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS, WHICH ARE YOU — CURIOUS OR YELLOW? If you don't ask these questions NOW, you may as well forever hold your "peace.' You know, most Americans;
That's what rank-and-file conservatives have been trying to tell the Republican elitists, but of course the Old Media misinterprets "right-wing anger" as something other than it is. The fate of the New Media hangs by a thread, so this election is no joke!
Speaking of jokes, I heard an Obama ad on the radio today in which he was preaching "self-reliance" and his "Heartland Kansas" family background (that after spending years preaching reliance on organizing the street, redistribution of income by judicial fiat, and all the other liberal holy sacraments?).
Tonight he's spending millions on half-hour "info-mercials." I don't care if he spent a billion dollars on public relations spin, there's still an old Native American (or Arab) proverb that applies to all of this:
"If you can't improve upon the wind in the desert, keep your mouth shut!'
P.S. I realize that economic paranoia may trump all of the logical attempts to stop the Pied Piper, but the economic news isn't all bad. The value of the stock of Playboy Enterprises has fallen from almost $12.50 to less than $3.50 a share. Playboy has lost so much money that Hugh Hefner may have to "lay off" his bunnies. He may lose the mansion and can't afford the Viagra anymore.
Rumor has it that Hefner is looking for some other growth industry for a possible merger. Maybe he should investigate the Pentecostal or Mormon churches, or other evangelicals. It worked for Larry Flynt and Jimmie Carter's sister didn't it?
But seriously folks, "Are you better off today than two years ago when the Democrats siezed control of Congress?"
[Only serious replies need be made.]
© Curtis Dahlgren
"A gripping story of character and courage: character passed down from generation to generation by sterling examples of family bonds and devotion to duty; courage that ultimately comes from within . . "
"FAITH OF MY FATHERS" IS A STORY TO INSPIRE AND INSTRUCT, one that shows what fathers give to their sons, and what ultimately endures.'
William Bennett says, "In it we learn much of what matters most. As prisoner (and later Senator) McCain instructs us: Glory is not an end in itself . . "
Senator Obama began a 2-volume autobiography in his twenties, and yet we aren't even allowed to read his college or law school writings (I wonder why?). If Sarah Palin had begun writing her memoirs at the age of 25, she'd be laughed at now as having a Joan-of-Ark complex. And yet she has accomplished more good in a few years in public life than all of Obama's "accomplishments" in his whole life.
The latter likes the words "hope," "change," and "redistribution," but the words Freedom, Faith, and Truth are AWOL in the Obama-Biden campaign propaganda. The Lord's "audacious Truth" (to coin a phrase) is what ENDURES.
Reporters "hit the ground running" to investigate Governor Palin, but when a sole reporter asks Joe Biden what Obama means by "redistribution," her television station gets black-balled (a sign of things to come from an Obama administration?). It isn't surprising that 14 percent of the voters are "undecided" yet, when such issues as illegal immigration, crime, drug wars, and infanticide have essentially been banned from this campaign.
I wasn't born yesterday and I'm no Johnnie-come-lately to presidential elections. My parents took me to hear a primary speech by Governor Stassen in 1948. At the age of six, I was small for my age, and Stassen picked me up and held me like a baby (and I cried like a baby). Stassen was a signer of the U.N. Charter, so maybe I sensed something about the U.N. that I didn't really know yet. Lots of Obama supporters can tell you more than they actually know about him (which is what?).
We haven't been allowed to mention his middle name, his ears, his radical revolutionary friends, his gaffes, "socialism," or his grandfather (who happened to have been a "medicine man" in Kenya — or maybe a "witch doctor"?). Those are verboten topics!
John McCain's grandfather was an admiral who led a fleet of carriers into some of the most critical battles of World War II. His father was another admiral and a submarine commander. The family was the first one in American history to produce two 4-star admirals (and, other than the grandmother who raised Obama, his family has done what?)
As Golda Meir might have said, "Don't be humble. You're not that great."
Lyndon Baines Johnson once said, "Politics is action, but it is not civil war. Civil war only comes when truth is forgotten."
LBJ also once said to a Texas politician: "First, Ah'm gonna give you a 2-minute lecture on integrity, and then Ah'm gonna ruin you."
The first letter-to-the-editor I ever wrote was for Richard Nixon in 1960. I like to say that Nixon was the only man elected President three times (except for voting fraud in Texas and Illinois, he almost certainly beat John Kennedy). But Nixon quickly conceded in 1960, because "we need a President," he said.
Obama's supporters would not be so quick to concede, and police in several cities are on full alert for next week, no matter whether Obama wins OR loses.
By the way, you need a photo-ID to buy a fishing license or cash a check, but one can vote for Leader-of-the-Free-World without one (perhaps several times, in fact). In spite of the vote fraud that has been virtually threatened, McCain and Palin still have a chance to "overcome" as Ronald Reagan did in 1980. Here are the Top Ten reasons I say that:
10) People lie to pollsters (especially about not intending to vote for an African-American).
9) Polls that "weight for party" and don't focus on likely voters are unreliable.
8) We are in uncharted territory with the increase in absentee voting.
7) Last-second doubts in the voting booth will no doubt hurt Obama more than McCain.
6) Last-second doubts about Sen. Biden will hurt a LOT more than doubts about Palin.
5) The record number of "undecided voters" this year.
4) Joe the plumber and the issue he raised ("redistribution" sounds like "Reparations").
3) Women are the largest voting bloc, and people can still change their minds.
2) Reagan Democrats and "verboten' core topics: guns, crime, illegal immigration, etc.
1) A backlash against the obviously biased Old Media — that ignore those issues.
The Top 10 "dumb questions" that should have been asked:
(10) Since the government has screwed up nearly every problem it has touched, why would you think that "national health care" would be any different (and whatever happened to "Ask not what the country [government] can do for you?")?
(9) How many Democratic congresspeople received contributions from Fannie Mae execs,
and how many were invested in oil futures — the price of which they tried to drive up (and how many people lost their homes because of high gas prices?)?
(8) Do you like local public schools being run by the central government and/or the courts (and kids being forced to "pretend" they are Muslims or "gay,' while the Pledge of Allegiance is amended so as not to "offend" anyone?)?
(7) Do you really want more illegal immigration, drug wars, and crime due to a One-party "Democratic" rule (and do you want to be classified a criminal if you own a gun?)?
(6) What's in Obama's college writings that is keeping them locked up (they probably make Hillary's college writings sound like the Vast Right-wing Conspiracy)?
(5) Do you really want Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers in the Lincoln bedroom (if so, maybe you should vote for Louis Farakhan's favorite candidate)?
(4) Would this One-party rule "flush Rush" in the first "100 days" (and will "hate-speech" laws ban the Bible from your pastor's pulpit?)?
(3) Will this One-party rule "major in the minors" (concentrating on such issues as getting cigarettes out of bars, but allowing terrorists to walk across the border)?
(2) Will this One-party rule expand Nazi-style medical experiments such as human cloning and embryo farming?
(1) With One-party rule, and legal infanticide "no big deal," can forced euthanasia of the elderly and "handicapped" be far behind?
AS FOR THE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS, WHICH ARE YOU — CURIOUS OR YELLOW? If you don't ask these questions NOW, you may as well forever hold your "peace.' You know, most Americans;
- Do not favor "government of the judges, by the judges, and for the judges."
- Do not favor blanket amnesty for illegal immigration.
- Do not favor "same-sex marriage."
- Do not favor forcing Darwinism on every school-child in America, carte blanche.
- Do not favor forced use of union dues in support of One-party rule (and they do favor secret ballots on unionizing efforts, not to mention honest national elections).
That's what rank-and-file conservatives have been trying to tell the Republican elitists, but of course the Old Media misinterprets "right-wing anger" as something other than it is. The fate of the New Media hangs by a thread, so this election is no joke!
Speaking of jokes, I heard an Obama ad on the radio today in which he was preaching "self-reliance" and his "Heartland Kansas" family background (that after spending years preaching reliance on organizing the street, redistribution of income by judicial fiat, and all the other liberal holy sacraments?).
Tonight he's spending millions on half-hour "info-mercials." I don't care if he spent a billion dollars on public relations spin, there's still an old Native American (or Arab) proverb that applies to all of this:
"If you can't improve upon the wind in the desert, keep your mouth shut!'
P.S. I realize that economic paranoia may trump all of the logical attempts to stop the Pied Piper, but the economic news isn't all bad. The value of the stock of Playboy Enterprises has fallen from almost $12.50 to less than $3.50 a share. Playboy has lost so much money that Hugh Hefner may have to "lay off" his bunnies. He may lose the mansion and can't afford the Viagra anymore.
Rumor has it that Hefner is looking for some other growth industry for a possible merger. Maybe he should investigate the Pentecostal or Mormon churches, or other evangelicals. It worked for Larry Flynt and Jimmie Carter's sister didn't it?
But seriously folks, "Are you better off today than two years ago when the Democrats siezed control of Congress?"
[Only serious replies need be made.]
© Curtis Dahlgren
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