Truth in Advertising:
How do patriotic Americans define it compared to Mr. Obama?

Truth is an interesting concept. Politically speaking, Americans have come to accept truth as synonymous with compromise. We regularly elect representatives and presidents fully expecting them to do the bidding of their constituents in Washington D.C. and yet seldom are constituents represented well or are those representations truthfully reported. I am confused by the lack of understanding in the electorate regarding this issue. It is as if we stumble along blindly allowing our legislative and executive branches to mislead us with no consequences for their actions. No place is this more apparent than during the election process.

During the election process major swings in position occur and never challenged. Many in the electorate blame this on the reporting of the main stream media and while it is true that the media is corrupt and pathetic, it is actually the fault of every voter in this country. Every person in this country has a responsibility to critically examine the candidates and their records. One cannot accept at face value the reporting of any news source as legitimate without reviewing it for oneself through optional sources. Take the responsibility and be accountable for digging out the facts and then make an informed decision. Here are some reasons why it is important to do so:

- There is a major difference in the way a politician campaigns between attempting to secure his or her parties nomination and the way he or she will campaign during the general election. No value add coverage has been offered regarding the positions of Barack Obama during his run against Hillary Clinton and how he is running against John McCain and the positions during each timeframe have changed.

- There is also a major difference in the way someone campaigns and the way they govern. Bill Clinton ran as a moderate and then after election raised taxes and even implemented a retro-active tax hike (the first one in history).

- Each candidate actually has a record of voting activity to review. In a quote from Barack Obama himself he said, "I am new enough on the national political stage to serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views. As such I am bound to disappoint some, if not all of them." In a response to the Australian News an online newspaper Shelby Steele said of the quote, “Yes, he is a blank screen, he's mastered that. But again, that makes my point. As a sort of nice black fellow, well-spoken, articulate, clearly intelligent, but yet undefined. No one really knows who he is, no one knows what his deep convictions are, what his passions are. No one knows what direction he'll really go in when power comes to him. As I say, he's guaranteed to disappoint people.” The fact is however, that we do know much about him if we take time to search out the truth and facts of his associations and voting record. Let’s look at the positions this man has held on important issues.

What positions has Obama held on the important issues of the day? Reported by news organizations like Fox News, but ignored by all other major print and television media, Barack Obama has managed to be untruthful to the American people. He has been unchallenged and when challenged has shrugged off the challenges knowing full well the issue will either not be reported or will be reported as right-wing ranting from extremists. So let’s take a look and see how truthful Mr. Obama has been:

- Barack Obama with the help of Planned Parenthood has voted for infanticide twice in the Illinois Legislature. IT is reported as voting present, but what most do not know is voting present in the Illinois Legislature is a no vote because only yes votes are counted. Mr. Obama worked with Planned Parenthood to vote in a way that would allow him to skirt the issue and be untruthful with the American people regarding his true position regarding abortion.

- According to World Net Daily: Seven years before Barack Obama's "spread the wealth" comment to Joe the Plumber became a GOP campaign theme, the Democratic presidential candidate said in a radio interview the U.S. has suffered from a fundamentally flawed Constitution that does not mandate or allow for redistribution of wealth. In a newly unearthed tape, Obama is heard telling Chicago's public station WBEZ-FM in 2001 that "redistributive change" is needed, pointing to what he regarded as a failure of the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren in its rulings on civil rights issues in the 1960s. The Warren court, he said, failed to "break free from the essential constraints" in the U.S. Constitution and launch a major redistribution of wealth. But Obama, then an Illinois state lawmaker, said the legislative branch of government, rather than the courts, probably was the ideal avenue for accomplishing that goal. So according to Mr. Obama the Constitution of the United States is fundamentally flawed? Socialism and the redistribution of wealth is the direction we should take?

- Taxes are another critical issue where Mr. Obama has a record that can be examined. The facts are while Mr. Obama campaigns on tax reduction, he has voted over 90 times either against tax relief or in favor of increasing taxes. That is his record as of yet unchallenged by those who flock to vote him into office or the mainstream media. (http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Barack_Obama.htm)

- Drilling for oil and natural gas here in the United States to assist with reducing America’s dependency on foreign oil is another area where Mr. Obama said in the debates, “We can look into drilling as an option”, but the fact is Mr. Obama has voted in the senate to prevent drilling in ANWR in Mar 2005 and in Nov 2007 voted to designate ANWR as a wildlife refuge. How committed to energy independence is Mr. Obama? Again Mr. Obama’s voting record reveals him to be the exact opposite of the man he is campaigning as! (http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Barack_Obama.htm)

- So now we come to his associations. Associations that those that support him say are irrelevant, but how is Mr. Blank Screen supposed to be judged if we have no information specific to the type of man he really is? Father Pfleger, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers and his wife Miss Dorn, Luis Farakhan, Tony Resko, and now Rhashid Khalidi, are all of these relationships simply described as having been chance alone? I would argue that Mr. Obama has used these relationships for two reasons, even though now as the general election approaches he must distance himself from them to seem like a moderate, and the reasons are that he needed them to have a radical Chicago foundation for his political career as well as the fact that through his actions he has demonstrated a desire to follow in radical left-wing political tracks. He has lied about his relationships and no one in this electorate has bothered to call him out or pursue him to a legitimate response. Joe the Plummer has been vetted more by voters and main stream media than has Mr. Obama! So what are the truths we know will impact us after the liberals buy themselves the presidency (Mr. Obama is into it to the tune almost 1 Billion unaccounted for dollars).

- First the Fairness Doctrine which will limit free speech guaranteed by the 1st Amendment and the liberals are already starting the process to remove talk radio from the airwaves

- Limiting Americans right to keep and bear arms guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment. Gun legislation is coming fats and furious. Purchase now before we become Europe.

- No secret union balloting (The Employee Free Choice Act – a very deceptive name indeed or The Card Check Bill), let’s see what it actually does according to uschamber.com:

What Is the Card Check Bill?
The principle purpose of the Card Check Bill is to make it easier for unions to organize. Under current law, if union organizers collect signatures from at least 30 percent of the employees in a bargaining unit, the federal National Labor Relations Board will hold an election to determine whether to certify the union. This process, established and refined through decades of experience, carefully balances the interests of employees, unions, and employers in order to ensure that workers can hear all sides and then make up their minds and vote in private, without intimidation or coercion. Today a majority of elections are held within 39 days and a majority of union elections are won by organized labor.

Because union density has dropped so low (to about 7.5 percent in the private sector), organized labor is seeking to change the rules and make it easier to organize. The card check bill would do just that. Instead of determining whether a union would be certified through a federally-supervised secret ballot election, the union would be certified the moment it collected a majority of signed authorization cards. The Card Check Bill would therefore eliminate the campaign period and the legal requirements that regulate it, not to mention eliminating the ability of employees to make an informed decision in private. Instead, employee decisions on unionization would be made in front of union organizers greatly increasing the opportunity for coercion and pressure in the union organizing process.

A secondary, and less well known, purpose of the bill is to amend collective bargaining law so that when a union is recognized for the first time government arbitrators will set all the terms and conditions of the union contract unless the union and the employer can meet unrealistic timelines. Today, the law requires that the parties bargain in good faith and recognizes that the union, representing workers, and the employer are in the best position to determine whether an agreement is acceptable and whether compromising on one goal in order to achieve another is acceptable. The Card Check Bill's mandatory interest arbitration provisions would remove any incentive for the employer or the union to adopt realistic bargaining positions, as each would be posturing for the arbitrator, and would give the arbitrator control of the most basic business decisions. It would also deny employees the right to vote on ratification of the contract.
Finally, the Card Check Bill would increase penalties for employers, but not for unions or others, who violate union organizing laws.

For a more detailed description of what the Card Check Bill would do, please see:
>> U.S. Chamber Card Check 2008 Policy Paper (PDF)
>> U.S. Chamber congressional testimony
So America will become Western Europe, fully unionized, because we all know how good union products are.

It is apparent to me that we have abandoned principles that good Americans have fought so hard to secure. The electorate in the United States is filled with pathetic, entitlement driven people of weak character or those that support them. No critical thought is performed to arrive at the truth and most turn from the truth because they are afraid to face the reality that they are actually the problem. From college age children (and that is what they are, children) to illegal immigrants, and everyone in between that live off the backs of the 54% of Americans that shoulder the tax burden shame on you for not recognizing Barack Obama for what he really is, a domestic enemy of the U.S. Constitution. The truth hurts, but in the end to patriotic Americans the truth is the truth and a lie is a lie. There is no gray area, but to politicians like Barack Obama. Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid there is always something that can be compromised. There is nothing worth standing strong for unless it benefits them politically. Let’s also be fair and say that there are Republicans that are cut from the same cloth and all of them regardless of party affiliation should be ashamed at how they manipulate circumstances in their favor and then present it as the truth to Americans that are guilty of not taking the time to educate themselves on how this government and economy actually work. Many of the everyday people in the electorate are uneducated buffoons that will gobble up everything presented to them by mainstream media as fact with no regard for how their selfish behavior will adversely affect this country.

So in conclusion, what is the truth regarding the policies of the left and Mr. Obama? Where will this election take this once great nation? Are any parts of the electorate prepared to stand up and make a pro-individual rights statement or will we stand by and be lied to and just accept it as compromise that must be made? Just the other day, I told a friend of mine that was joining the armed services that after all my time in service; I could not in good faith recommend he make the same sacrifice. Why not was the response? I then responded with the saddest words I have ever said, “Because this country and the people who live here simply are not worth it.” In the end we all get exactly what we deserve. I can only hope now that a miracle will occur to keep our country out of the hands of those who would destroy it.