If we elect an admitted socialist president, we'll deserve what we get

[when] asked why Obama would raise capital-gains taxes even if the result were decreased collections for the government, he replied, "What I've said is that I would look at raising the capital-gains tax for purposes of fairness."

Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher, questioned Obama's tax plans got this reply: "It's not that I want to punish your success ... I think that when you spread the wealth around, it is good for everyone."

Obama's answers to those questions made it crystal-clear that he sees taxation as a tool not only to pay for government, but as a tool to reassign the wealth of individual Americans directly to other individual Americans as government sees fit. If he doesn't believe in trickle-down economics, fine. But having government decide precisely how full each American's glass should be - and then making the necessary adjustments - would be a whole new ballgame. [snip]

... Obama's election "would front the fourth great wave of liberal annexation - the first being FDR's New Deal, the second LBJ's Great Society, and the third the incremental but remorseless cultural advance when Reagan conservatives began winning victories at the ballot box and liberals turned their attention to the other levers of the society, from grade school up. . . . All three liberal waves have transformed American expectations of the state. The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it."

After 70-plus years of ascendant socialism, this country today would be recognizable to Thomas Jefferson only as the realization of his worst fears. That Obama wants to make a final and irreversible hard-left turn is apparent not only from his few unguarded utterances this year, but from much of what he said and wrote before his presidential campaign. Now consider the likely possibility of an Obama presidency, a filibuster-proof Senate and two or three openings on the Supreme Court that he can fill with fellow redistributionists.

Forget birth certificate technicalities. Obama should lose this election because Americans wake from their trance, look over the precipice to which he has ushered them, and recoil. If Americans take the monumental risk Obama poses, they will deserve the government they get.

More to the point, they will have proved undeserving of the government left to them by far greater, far wiser men.

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