MEDIA MATTERS

It's amazing the way the media has moved from their historic position as watch dog to their current position as Barrack Obama's lap dog.

ACORN AND VOTING

The current ongoing registration and voting problem with ACORN is enough to make one want to throw up. Though he denies it, Obama's hand is evident in this blatant attempt to influence the election by nasty subterfuge. It reinforces my feeling that voting should be reserved to those who contribute in some way possibly taxes, property ownership, etc. I realize that this is the way it once was, but the current system of everyone being able to vote is what makes it possible for Obama to get votes by making all sorts of promises to the societal leeches who contribute nothing, but have their hands deep into the till. I believe voting to be a privilege and
if people have to suffer a certain amount of inconveniance to register and travel to the polling places, so be it. The idea of groups like ACORN badgering, promising, and paying -people to register and vote is not beneficial to the nation. In those states that they have operated, all of the registrations and votes should be discarded, and assume it never happened. If this is not done, and the election is close, there is bound to be challenges that could tie up the government
far past mid-January 2009

WHY TAKE THE CHANCE?

Do people really stop to think? Are they ready to turn the Presidency of the United States, perhaps the most important leadership position in the world, over to a man who carries a suspicious amount of negative baggage? Consider the following: His father was a Muslim and Barrack spent a part of his youth in Muslim surroundings and was evidently a Muslim until converting to Christianity under the auspices of the nation hating Jeremiah Wright. His close association with 1960's unrepentant members of the militant weathermen. His friendship with some of the corrupt Chicago wheeler and dealers. It's possible that none of this has affected Obama, but are we really ready to take the chance? Once he occupies the Oval Office, it will be difficult to correct the mistake, so why take the chance?

HEALTH INSURANCE

Over and over I hear various talking heads state that there are 46 milliuon Americans without
health insurance. Where did this figure come from? Is it an actual figure, or is it a figure dreamed up by someone in the past, and constant repetition has given it credibility? If it is an actual, legitimate figure, how was it arrived at? How does one go about determining how many
people are without health insurance? I suppose one way would be to add up all the people with such insurance and subtract them from the total population. Anyway, the 46 million figure has been kicking around long enough that the figure is suspect. How does it manage to remain constant, when everything else changes for one reason or another?

PROPER BUSINESS OF A UNIVERSITY

The philosopher, John Stuart Mill, writing in the 19th Century, provided a statement on university education, that should be required reading, and absorption by all of today's college
professors. It is as follows:
"The proper business of a university," Mill wrote, "is to give us information and training, and help us to form our own belief in a manner worthy of intelligent beings, who seek for truth at all hazards, and demand to know all the difficulties, in order that they may be better qualified to find, or recognize the most satisfactory mode of resolving them."

THE NON BELIEVERS

As I recall it has been said that we could not operate under a parliamentary system because our political parties are not strong enough. The recent problems with the Democratic Party belie
this as people who should know better throw their support to Barack Obama even when it is
obvious that they don't really believe in him. The most glaring example of this are the Clintons,
husband and wife, who when push comes to shove, put their recent glaring criticisms of Obama
aside in the interest of the party, even though I'm sure they do not believe it's in the national
interest.

WHOSE IN WHOSE POCKET?

The Obama camp has accused McCain of being in the pocket of Big Oil, but when it comes to campaign contributions the employees of Exxon have contributed $42, 100 to Obama and to
McCain $35, 166. In addition the 2005 Energy act which among other things, gave Big Oil
large tax breaks, was supported by Senator Barack Obama, while Senator John McCain voted
against it.