Say Anything Blog

I’ve decided I’m going to try (and it will be hard) to not be bitter about the results.

I’m going to strive to measure President Obama (the first time I’ve put those two words together on my own) by his actions, and not by his past.

- how he arranges his cabinet
- how he works with Congress
- whether or not he “reigns in” the far left segment of his party
- etc

Despite my misgivings, we are a Democracy and he was elected.  I think the process was flawed, I think he raised money illegally, and I think that ACORN and other such organizations may have introduced illegal votes intro the process.  But the outcome is the outcome.

I went through 8 years of the Clinton administration hating our President.  And I don’t use that word lightly - I thought he was the Devil incarnate at the time.

Although I may still feel that way about Obama, I refuse to dwell upon it.  Let’s see what happens.

With the left’s push for universal health care and socialized medicine would come related decisions like this case.

A German doctor and his family, desiring to become permanent residents of Australia, rejected because his 13-year old son has Down syndrome.

“A medical officer of the Commonwealth assessed that his son’s existing medical condition was likely to result in a significant and ongoing cost to the Australian community,” a departmental spokesman said in a statement issued Thursday by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship.

REF: Australia: No residency for boy with Down syndrome

Further in the article, they explain how the health requirement, a restriction on immigration, is based on affordability.

“If we did not have a health requirement, the costs to the community and health system would not be sustainable,” the statement said.

Well, if the government did not have to provide the health care, then it would not be a problem, would it?

Expect situations like this to occur if we end up with a universal, federally managed health care system.

The Democrats in key swing states are splitting for McCain in big numbers. This effect has either not been noted, or has been ignored, by most pundits.

Democrats are beaming that their party is outperforming the Republicans in early voting, releasing numbers Wednesday that show registrants of their party ahead 54 percent to 30 percent among the 1.4 million voters who have gone to the polls early.
Poll gives McCain lead in Florida early voting

Yet, a poll of early voters in Florida provides a curious anomaly.

A Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll gave McCain a 49-45 lead over Democrat Barack Obama among Floridians who have already voted.

Then we have all the Hillary Democrats, at sites like HillBuzz, reporting on potential McCain victories in Pennsylvania, Florida, Iowa, New Hampshire and even Maine!

In Pennsylvania, Democrats hard at work not just voting, but campaigning for McCain!

DEMOCRATS are staffing McCain offices across the state. DEMOCRATS are phone banking and canvassing for McCain. DEMOCRATS are raising large sums to fund this last week of campaigning.
HillBuzz on Pennsylvania

As mentioned above, key indicators that Democrats in Florida are voting for McCain.

analysis indicates Democrats voting early in Florida are voting for John McCain in huge numbers
HillBuzz on Florida

Disenfranchised Hillary Democrats in Iowa, New Hampshire and Maine also shifting to McCain.

And all of us agree that on election night, the media will be spinning and sputtering and trying to explain things that those of us on the ground have seen coming for months now.
HillBuzz on New Hampshire, Iowa and Maine