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“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln
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Several articles today reflect the state of our society. Each is indicative of moral decline and the shredded American values of honesty and integrity. Please consider the overall implications of these as you make choices for leadership in the upcoming election. We are living in times of great peril both from without and from within. Our children will forever be affected by the choices we make in the coming months. The preservation of our Constitution, the rule of law, and the hopes and aspirations of us all hang in the balance. I urge those reading Post Scripts to think seriously about what it means to be American and what America means to you as you read.
Setting the stage is an article about the moral decay that fueled the financial crisis. The remaining two address voting practices and funding. I hope you will follow the links to read them in full.
The Great Boomer Comeuppance, by Richard Berry posted in the American Thinker:
* My cohort, the sainted Boomer generation, now rules this country and its institutions. The elite of this generation, graduates of the finest schools, cosmopolitan in taste and sensibility, and left-liberal in political and cultural allegiance — have always been counted the smartest people in the room (just ask them). *** This (financial) crisis is, at bottom, about self government in two senses and the Boomer Elite is against both. On the macro level, they don’t want the American people to govern themselves under the terms of the Constitution of 1789, preferring to rule over us by anti-democratic means wherever possible, and to the full extent possible. On the micro level, being Rousseau’s children, they abjure governing their own appetites, and bid everyone act likewise. The Boomer Elite ideal is a sort of Directorate in the political system and economy, moral anarchy in personal conduct, and a quasi-totalitarian PC regime in societal relations. It is bad character as a manifesto, and tsarism as a mode of governance. *
The next two articles should cause concern for the election process. An electorate lacking in honesty and integrity is an electorate not worthy of freedoms or the gifts this country bestows:
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. Clarence Darrow
* Who is “Will, Good”? *** Mr. Good Will — who lists his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You” — has contributed 1,000 times to the Barack Obama campaign. *** All the contributions have been in amounts of $25 or less. But they add up to $17,375 — far more than the legal limit of $4,600 ($2,300 each for the primary and general election campaigns). *** Mr. Good Will said he was from Austin, Texas. When I called directory assistance, they could find no listing for him. *** Mr. Doodad Pro made 786 contributions for a total of $19,500. Like Mr. Good Will, Mr. Pro lists his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You.” Mr. Pro said he is from Nunda, N.Y. Directory assistance found no listing for him, either. *** Candidates are not required to disclose the names of those who contribute less than $200, and Mr. Obama has not. *
Another concern, overseas doners:
* Mr. Timmerman (the researcher who discovered the irregularities) was particularly curious about 11,500 contributions from overseas totalling $33.8 million. *** Mr. McCain and Hillary Clinton required foreign donors to provide proof of citizenship. Until very recently, Mr. Timmerman said, the Obama campaign did not. *** “More than 1,400 of the overseas entries clearly were U.S. diplomats or military personnel, who gave an APO address,” Mr. Timmerman wrote. But they accounted for only 12 percent of Mr. Obama’s overseas donors, and the aggregate total of their contributions was just $201,680. *** “In July and August, the head of Nigeria’s stock market held a series of pro-Obama fund-raisers in Lagos,” Mr. Timmerman said. “At one event, a table for eight went for $16,800. Nigerian press reports claimed sponsors raked in an estimated $900,000.” *
Obamas campaign has raised $223 million in contributions of less than $200. in what is being called the worst economy since the depression. If we are indeed in the midst of a bad economy, where are these folk finding such vast sums of cash to donate? Perhaps more importantly, does the discovery of these anomalies suggest Obama is willing, along with his supporters, to cheat in order to assure a win? The next article suggests they will do whatever it takes:
Voter Fraud Expected to be Rampant, by John Fund New York Post
* The real battle that could decide this election may be fought by the squadrons of lawyers both sides have hired to prepare Florida-style challenges to the results in any close state. Once again, America’s sloppy, fraud-prone voting system could turn Election Day into an Election Month of court challenges. *** Election lawsuits are already piling up. A new federal mandate requires that all voters be allowed to cast a provisional ballot if their names don’t appear on registration lists. Liberal groups are suing to have such ballots counted even if they are cast in precincts where the voter doesn’t live. If the number of provisional ballots exceeds the margin of victory in the Senate race, you can bet lawyers will argue that “every vote must count,” regardless of eligibility. Candidates may have to hope their vote totals are beyond the “margin of litigation.” *** The issue of photo ID has become symbolic of the clash of values on election standards. Supporters say it is bizarre that most states don’t require a photo ID to vote, at a time when one is needed to buy an airline ticket, rent a video or cash a check. A Rasmussen Research poll found 82% of Americans believed voters should show photo ID, including 70% of Obama voters. But liberal groups insist that even laws that allow voters to use a paycheck or utility bill as ID discriminate against minority voters and could lead to “profiling.” *** But when voters are disfranchised by the counting of improperly cast ballots or outright fraud, their civil rights are violated just as surely as if they were prevented from voting. The integrity of the ballot box is just as important to the credibility of elections as access to it. *** Party machines in Hawaii and south Texas intimidate critics and journalists as they harvest votes from illegal aliens and the dead. A left-wing “community organizing” group called ACORN has seen its employees frequently convicted of voter registration fraud. This year its employees are under active investigation in several states. Perhaps one reason for ACORN’s go-for-broke behavior is that Barack Obama used to be a lawyer and top trainer for the group. In August, the Obama campaign was caught misidentifying an $800,000 payment it had made to an ACORN subsidiary for “election services.” *** Even after Florida 2000, the media tend to downplay or ignore stories of election incompetence, manipulation or theft. Allowing such abuses to vanish into an informational black hole in effect legitimizes them. Should “anything goes” continue to (be) accepted as an election standard, voters may wake up to a crisis even bigger than the 2000 Florida folly.
Low morals and values flavored the recent financial meltdown. This sorry state of affairs will most likely affect our elections with equal measure. Get ready for another bumpy ride…and please, vote with your children and grandchildren, neices and nephews in mind.
“Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.” – D. H. Lawrence