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By Nikitas3 Posted in 2008 — Comments (8) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

With most of the Democrat primaries in the rear-view mirror and Hillary Clinton trailing by 167 delgates as of May 11, calls are coming for her to quit the presidential race. She also is behind in the popular vote and cannot make that gap up unless she wins big in the remaining primaries, which is unlikely.

So where does this leave us?

Unless Clinton can convince Democrat superdelegates that Obama is incapable of winning white vote in numbers sufficient to win the general election – which she is attempting to do, much to the anger of blacks and many liberal whites who are charging racism -- we are going to see the Clintons and their cabal out of power, at least temporarily, and we will see Angry Bill taking out his frustrations in more ways than we can imagine.

What this primary battle has taught us is that the Democrat party is not a unified bloc, as conservatives always have maintained. It is an agglomeration of special-interest groups (blacks, feminists, environmentalists, homosexuals etc.) who do not have any intrinsic interests in common. Blacks and environmentalists do not come together and agree on pollution limits or fuel standards. Feminists and gays have nothing much to discuss. But their interests always converge in one significant way: They see government as the answer to their individual needs.

Blacks think government is necessary to enforce civil equality and to redistribute wealth; environmentalists know that legislation is necessary to making anti-pollution laws and directing energy development; feminists view the courts as necessary to insuring that ‘women’ get their equal rights.

The Clintons, of course, are among the many people who have used government as their own ticket to power. They do not grow food or cut timber or drill oil wells. They are bureaucratic people by nature, Yale intellectuals who use political power as a way to increase their own wealth and prestige. They have become rich since Bill left the presidency, earning $109 million over the last 8 years by writing books and giving speeches. Bill’s Global Initiative has garnered more than $500 million in contributions for one reason only: because he is famous as an ex-president, and people give him money to buy access to his power.

Were the Clintons intent on using all their accumulated wealth to better mankind, that would be one thing. That they will use it primarily to promote their own interests is quite another.

This is the conduct of the Democrat party that has made it popular among some, and unpopular with rational people. Democrats see wealth as something that is not created by hard work, but that is taken, garnered, appropriated and manipulated for their own interest, and for the interest of their party.

In her 2000 race for US Senate from New York State, Hillary promised the people of struggling, rural Upstate New York that she would use her “contacts” to help their economies.

“Contacts”?

This is the way that liberals think: That to do well for other people you make some phone calls and have jobs magically delivered… or a pile of cash... that life is just a political/economic construct based on electoral power. And despite the fact that she has done nothing, and that Upstate economies are worse off than ever, Hillary remains popular even among rural people who traditionally have voted Republican.

Why? Because the pro-Democrat American media have pumped up the ideals of socialism and torn down conservative capitalism ever since World War II, and the cumulative effect of these attacks is going to play well for Democrats this election cycle. With more than 30 US House Republicans resigning, with 3 key Republican congressional seats already gone Democrat in the last few years, and with a sagging housing market and high energy prices, the Democrats look like they are going to be swept into power in 2008, continuing the trend of 2006.

This should be of great concern to the GOP. That Barack Obama can come out of nowhere and give feelgood speeches to rapt audiences, that he and other Democrats can endlessly play the emotion card by ticking off examples of high gas prices and food prices, is a troubling sign of the times.

Liberals always have ruled by emotion, and 2008 is no different. Obama then proposes ‘change’ without ever explaining how, for instance, renewable energy is somehow going to magically solve our gasoline price problems when experience shows that most of these renewable technologies do not even work.

How are the Democrats explaining their ‘change’ agenda?

They are being selective, that is how.

Obama says he will make college affordable, bring gas prices down and create millions of jobs for anybody who wants one. But the fact is that there are 'two Americas' today, and the northern part of the nation, ruled by big-government Democrats, is suffering badly, leading to many of the economic pathologies that are widely reported today. Meanwhile, the low-tax, non-union conservative South is booming economically.

All along the Northern Tier from Oregon to Maine, economies are struggling. Labor unions have driven businesses out, taxation and regulation are strangling companies that remain, and extremist enviro regulations are thwarting economic development everywhere, particularly in rural areas. And Democrats are increasing their hold on this Northern Tier to the detriment of the people, cheered on by the media who blame any economic problems on Bush.

Come to Massachusetts and you will see the result. The Democrat party has controlled this state for 50 years, and the state of the state is disastrous. Massachusetts, once part of the economic heart of America, today is losing population by the thousands every year. Businesses are closing up or moving away. Yet the Democrats continue to hold on to power.

Why?

It is called the culture of decay in which Democrats push business and productive people away, while other Democrats, always hungry for power, take over the political structure. Then, backed up by the media, they blame Bush for everything and hand out just enough government assistance to help the remaining population to survive.

All Americans should visit the Northern Tier before the coming November election. They should go to Upstate New York, where Hillary Clinton has done zero for the people. They should look at the disastrous state-run health care system in Massachusetts before deciding to make the nation’s system the same. They should go to once-wealthy Michigan, with its far-left Canadian-born governor Jennifer Granholm, and see a state reeling under economic decay and 7%+ unemployment while at the same time the automaker unions are throttling the remaining sectors of General Motors, Chrysler and Ford with more and more demands, ultimately making car making unprofitable.

It appears that the GOP is going to take a bath in the 2008 elections. The only hope of conservatives is that Obama is less palatable than McCain to the general population. Many white Americans have turned against Obama because of his connections to his radical pastor Jeremiah Wright. But voters should be much more concerned about his far-left Chicago-style political views, the kind that rule today in places like Massachusetts and Michigan.

Obama’s message of ‘change’ does not address taxation and regulation, which are strangling economies all over. He is not addressing extremist environmentalist regulation and energy obstruction. He does not even mention the mess in Social Securityy, Medicare and Medicaid, which currently owe more than $80 TRILLION dollars. He will never touch the issue of the abysmal state of our educational system because he is supported by the teacher unions.

No, Obama wants ‘change’ alright, but not the kind America needs.

Come to Massachusetts before November and see what he has planned for our nation.

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