"Office of the President-Elect" speaks. All hail the Imperious Leader!


Ladies and Gentlemen, your freedom is at stake. Choose liberty or choose to serve.
That phrase in the title is from the podium sign at Obama's press conference. And his spanking new web-site.

The demagoguery is officially beginning. As are the imperious commands.

Obama's service plan is just as troubling.  He wants to mandate 50 hours of community service per year for middle and high school students.  And he's offering a $4,000 federal-funded tuition credit in exchange for 100 hours per year from college students.  For most students, the latter will become a mandatory part of getting a degree, as colleges will merely raise their tuition to compensate for the vouchers.

So who gets to decide what constitutes "community service"?  Who gets to decide which causes and organizations will be credit-worthy, and which ones won't?

And you thought the Faith Based Initiative was bad. Just in case you are wondering where the Imperious Leader stands on faith, he's polite enough to tell you. All hail the Imperious Leader! Emphasis added.

In June of 2006, Senator Obama delivered what was called the most important speech on religion and politics in 40 years. Speaking before an evangelical audience, Senator Obama candidly discussed his own religious conversion and doubts, and the need for a deeper, more substantive discussion about the role of faith in American life.

Senator Obama also laid down principles for how to discuss faith in a pluralistic society, including the need for religious people to translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values during public debate. In December, 2006, Senator Obama discussed the importance of faith in the global battle against AIDS.

You can't be universal and pluralistic at the same time. But maybe the President-elect is wise enough to find a way. He's not showing it yet though. Do you think you will have to have your concerns approved before you can talk about them? It certainly seems that way from the phrasing, doesn't it? What if there is a religious concern that isn't universal? Will you be allowed to talk about that?

Ladies and gentlemen, the President-elect wants to rule by decree.

Liberals pretend that only President Bush is preventing the U.S. from adopting some global warming "solution." But occasionally their mask slips. As Barack Obama's energy adviser has now made clear, the would-be President intends to blackmail -- or rather, greenmail -- Congress into falling in line with his climate agenda.

Jason Grumet is currently executive director of an outfit called the National Commission on Energy Policy and one of Mr. Obama's key policy aides. In an interview last week with Bloomberg, Mr. Grumet said that come January the Environmental Protection Agency "would initiate those rulemakings" that classify carbon as a dangerous pollutant under current clean air laws. That move would impose new regulation and taxes across the entire economy, something that is usually the purview of Congress. Mr. Grumet warned that "in the absence of Congressional action" 18 months after Mr. Obama's inauguration, the EPA would move ahead with its own unilateral carbon crackdown anyway.

Well, well. For years, Democrats -- including Senator Obama -- have been howling about the "politicization" of the EPA, which has nominally been part of the Bush Administration. The complaint has been that the White House blocked EPA bureaucrats from making the so-called "endangerment finding" on carbon. Now it turns out that a President Obama would himself wield such a finding as a political bludgeon. He plans to issue an ultimatum to Congress: Either impose new taxes and limits on carbon that he finds amenable, or the EPA carbon police will be let loose to ravage the countryside.

I couldn't get through the ethics page without laughing, considering Obama's and Biden's history.

If I had told people about this before the election, they wouldn't have believed me.

The alternative wouldn't have been better though.

Ladies and Gentlemen, your freedom is at stake. Choose liberty or choose to serve.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Fri - November 7, 2008 at 01:49 PM  Tag


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