(A friend of mine sent me a great commentary on how extreme Obama is when it comes to abortion. The following piece was published in the National Catholic Register.)

Barack Obama is the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever to seek the office of president of the United States.

Sen. Obama would repeal the Hyde Amendment, which protects pro-life citizens from having to pay for abortions that are not necessary to save the life of the mother and are not the result of rape or incest.

He has promised that “the first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act” (known as FOCA). This proposed legislation would create a federally guaranteed “fundamental right” to abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, including, as Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia has noted in a statement condemning the proposed act, “a right to abort a fully developed child in the final weeks for undefined ‘health’ reasons.” In essence, FOCA would abolish virtually every existing state and federal limitation on abortion, including parental consent and notification laws for minors, state and federal funding restrictions on abortion, and conscience protections for pro-life citizens working in the health-care industry — protections against being forced to participate in the practice of abortion or else lose their jobs. The pro-abortion National Organization for Women has proclaimed with approval that FOCA would “sweep away hundreds of anti-abortion laws [and] policies.”

As an Illinois state senator Obama opposed legislation to protect children who are born alive, either as a result of an abortionist’s unsuccessful effort to kill them in the womb, or by the deliberate delivery of the baby prior to viability. The federal version of the bill passed unanimously in the United States Senate. But Barack Obama opposed it and worked to defeat it. For him, a child marked for abortion gets no protection — even ordinary medical or comfort care — even if she is born alive and entirely separated from her mother. So Obama has favored protecting what is literally a form of infanticide.

Barack Obama’s America is one in which being human just isn’t enough to warrant care and protection. It is an America where the unborn may legitimately be killed without legal restriction, even by the grisly practice of partial-birth abortion. It is an America where a baby who survives abortion is not even entitled to comfort care as she dies on a stainless steel table or in a soiled linen bin.

When asked by Rick Warren when a baby gets human rights, Obama replied: “that question is above my pay grade.” But his record reveals his true answer: Human beings have no rights until infancy — and if they are unwanted survivors of attempted abortions, not even then.

(Obama is a radical when it comes to abortion. Do take time to read the whole commentary Obama’s Abortion Extremism. Then explain to me how any pro life soul could vote for this man.)

With only hours before election day, coal has become a major topic of Decision 2008. (   Obama Called Out for Comments about Bankrupting Coal Industry)

Sunday an audiotape surfaced from an interview Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama did with the San Francisco Chronicle in January.

In the interview, Obama talks about the importance of coal. He went on to talk about his cap and trade proposal to help curb global warming.

"If somebody wants to build a coal power plant they can, it's just that it will bankrupt them because they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted," Barack Obama said to the San Francisco Chronicle in January.

(So Obama doesn't like some kind of  industry  so he will get rid of it. What else will he get rid in the White House well not taxes and spending.)

 The meteorologists tell us that Wednesday morning in southwestern Pennsylvania's largest city will be crisp and sunny with a high of 64. That's about all we know. Being a weather forecast, it offers nothing about the political climate that will have been created by the election the day before.

The outlook is obvious but often overlooked: In a deeply divided nation, on the first dawn after we choose a new leader, every ray of victory's sunshine brings a corresponding thundercloud of defeat and bitterness.

"There are going to be a whole bunch of people who are distraught and who won't know what to do - no matter which side wins," says Chris Ivey, 36, a Pittsburgh filmmaker and ardent Barack Obama supporter. "People will try to go back to their routine, but there's going to be a lot of soul-searching to do."

 

(So not everyone will be happy Wednesday morning. Could that be because for too long we have put our hope in the kings of this world instead of in God and what we believe in. If McCain does get beat I will be concern for our nation and what is ahead  the next four years and possible eight years however my faith, values, and conserative principals won't change or be shaken. Read more of the above story here.)

 The October surprise may turn out to be a 7-year-old interview with Barack Obama in which he strongly suggests that the U.S. Constitution is an impediment to his desire to redistribute the nation's wealth. How does Obama credibly take the oath of office to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" when he thinks it impedes his socialist agenda?

(The above is from a column written by  my friend  Cal Thomas.   More of what Cal wrote is below.)

Is socialism too strong a word? Consider one of its definitions from dictionary.com and tell me it is something other than Obama's economic philosophy: "A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor."

A complete restructuring of society is what Obama advocated in a 2001 interview on a Chicago public radio station. According to Politico.com, in that interview, Obama, "reflecting on the Warren Court's successes and failures in helping to usher-in civil rights, said, "I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples." He has it backward. The Creator already endowed African-American people with these rights, which is precisely the argument powerfully made by Martin Luther King Jr. Any rights that are "vested" in people by other people may be removed by the same or future people. Endowed rights are "unalienable" and what America did was to finally recognize those rights. The distinction is crucial because it also relates to abortion and many other social issues. If a court can take away the right to life, then no endowed right is safe.
Obama continues with a comment that the "Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of the redistribution of wealth and sort of basic issues of political and economic justice in this society, and to that extent as radical as people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical." Does he mean that for real "justice" to have been achieved, the Warren Court should have taken from the rich and given to the black poor? Obama never said what would happen once the redistributed money ran out. Perhaps this was not to be a one-time event, but a lifetime of "reparations" for slavery, as some other left-wing black leaders have proposed.

Barack Obama thinks the Constitution and the country it helped create should be remade in his image. He wants to be a founding father of a different America, one that would bear little resemblance to the country we have known.

 

(Yes, this is scaring stuff. Obama wants to change the nation many of us love and many others have given their souls and lives for. If the polls are right ,many American voters are about give him that chance. Those of you on the right who don't plan to vote just think about this and stop all of your complaining and vote for the man (McCain)  who will keep our nation going the right way. Do read all of the column by Cal Thomas right here.) 

With Election Day just around the corner, Omaha, Nebraska  Archbishop Elden Curtiss is weighing in on the battle for the Catholic vote with a letter that implies Catholics should not vote for Barack Obama.

Curtiss' letter, to be read at Masses or inserted in church bulletins at parishes this weekend, does not mention Obama, John McCain or any other candidate by name.

The Rev. Joseph Taphorn, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Omaha, said the letter is not an endorsement of any candidate or meant to tell parishioners how to vote; rather, it is guidance to local Catholics on the principles of their faith as they apply to voting.

Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, supports a woman's right to make reproductive decisions and supports keeping abortion legal. McCain, the Republican nominee, opposes allowing abortions except in cases of rape, incest or a threat to the life of the mother and believes that Roe v. Wade — the 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal — should be overturned, though he opposed overturning Roe v. Wade during the 2000 primary campaign.

Curtiss' letter says "the very first right we must protect, if all human rights are to be protected, is the right to life for the unborn. Those who do not understand or accept this basic human right are unworthy of our trust."

 

(While for the most part I want election stuff to stay  out of the churches I do believe Catholic People and all of us of faith and those who care about the right to life should look at these issues before we  vote. Read more of the above story right here
and read the whole letter ArchbishopsVotingStatement.pdf.)

According to the  polls (if they are correct which I am not sure about) Obama is about to be elected President of the United States of America. I believe our nation is about to make a big mistake. We are headed for four and possible eight hard  years.

So why has this happened since America is still a right nation. I don't put these things in any one order.

 

1. People want a change and are looking to Obama as a god. They are not studying the issues and how Obama stands.

 

2. People are so upset by what is happening with the nation's  finances that they aren't caring about the moral issues of our times. (I recall when our nation did that once before and we got eight years of Bill Clinton. I am not saying Obama will act like President Clinton in his moral behavior but he is very much on the politcal  left just like Clinton was.)

 

3. The media has not reported on this election in a fair and balence way. Excluding Fox News and  a few other media outlets they have been backing Obama. If not explain to me why the LA Times won't  allow a tape to be released in which Obama is at a dinner with a man who is anti Israel. Why didn't the media report more on Obama relationships with Pastors who preach hate of America, and a man who blew up buildings in our nation and has never said he is truly sorry for it.

 

4. John McCain was too nice and started to focus too late in the campaign on how Obama is from the radical left on almost every issue. When it comes to taxes he will raise them, he is very much pro abortion including voting against the born a live act which would have required babies who were born after failed abortion to be given medical care. He will give us judges that will make laws instead of following the rule of law.

 

5. The American people are so used to getting help from the government that they want a man who will keep doing that instead of a man who will do his best to cut spending. You know everyone wants government to cut something until it is their program.

 

6. The American people have forgotten we are in a war with those who want to destroy our nation   and the media has helped along the way .

 

7.  Some GOP leaders in Washington didn't act like GOP leaders. They spent too much.

 

8. McCain did not use the media like Fox News the way  he should have. Why didn't Gov. Palin go more on Fox News and the talk radio shows.

Still not sure who to vote for or  have  some last day questions about those who will be on Tuesday's  ballot.

Below  are some links to check out.

If  you live in my home state of Nebraska Voters Information for political election and ballot information.

If you live in Washington State  http://www.votersinformation.org.

For all 50 states and to read about the people running for President  Project Vote Smart - American Government, Elections, Candidates and Voting.

Most Saturday and Sundays  I do very little if any posting on my blog. However since the  most important election of my lifetime will be taking place this coming Tuesday, I am going to do as much blogging as possible in the next 24 hours. So check back many times the next few days.

 (So what are the differences between Sen. Obama and  Gov. Palin who Democrats keep telling us isn't ready to be the Chief  Executive if McCain should win Tuesday and  then if something should happen to him. Well read the column below and you might see she is ready but you might question after reading it if Mr. Obama is ready to lead us. I know there is someone I am close to who I am told is thinking about voting for Obama because she doesn't think Gov. Palin is ready to lead the nation. )
Obama: Worked his way to the top by cultivating, pandering to and stroking the most powerful interest groups in the all-pervasive Chicago political machine, ensuring his views were aligned with the power brokers there.

Palin: Worked her way to the top by challenging, attacking and actively undermining the Republican party establishment in her native Alaska. She ran against incumbent Republicans as a candidate willing and able to clean the Augean Stables of her state's government.

Obama: A classic, if unusually talented, greasy-pole climber. Held a succession of jobs that constitute the standard route to the top in his party's internal politics: "community organizer", law professor, state senator.

Palin:A woman with a wide range of interests in a well-variegated life. Held a succession of jobs - sports journalist, commercial fisherwoman, state oil and gas commissioner, before entering local politics. A resume that suggests something other than burning political ambition from the cradle but rather the sort of experience that enables her to understand the concerns of most Americans..

Obama: Elected to statewide office only after a disastrous first run for a congressional seat and after his Republican opponent was exposed in a sexual scandal. Won seat eventually in contest against a candidate who didn't even live in the state.

Palin: Elected to statewide office by challenging a long-serving Republican incumbent governor despite intense opposition from the party.

Obama: Speaks movingly of the bipartisanship needed to end the destructive politics of "Red America" and "Blue America", but votes in the Senate as a down-the-line Democrat, with one of the most liberal voting records in congress.

 

Palin: Ridiculed by liberals such as John Kerry as a crazed, barely human, Dick Cheney-type conservative but worked wit Democrats in the state legislature to secure landmark anti-corruption legislation.

Former state Rep. Ethan Berkowitz - a Democrat - said. "Gov. Palin has made her name fighting corruption within her own party, and I was honored when she stepped across party lines and asked me to co-author her ethics white paper."

On Human Life

Obama: Devoutly pro-choice. Voted against a bill in the Illinois state senate that would have required doctors to save the lives of babies who survived abortion procedures. The implication of this position is that babies born prematurely during abortions would be left alone, unnourished and unmedicated, until they died.

Palin: Devoutly pro-life. Exercised the choice proclaimed by liberals to bring to full term a baby that had been diagnosed in utero with Down Syndrome.

(If you like to read more of the above story  go here.)

  Below is something a friend sent me on why he is voting for McCain. I think he has some great points and some of them are the same reasons I plan on Tuesday to vote for McCain.

 

 

 

reasons vote for McCain

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a great post to forward to all your friends, and family. Mona Charen's Top Ten Reasons to Vote for McCain/Palin.
Just look at the end of this post and click  the envelope-looking" button at the end of this post that's marked "E-Mail This."

Use it for this post and other ones too. Get the word out and encourage those you know to be informed voters.

I am getting tired of all these poll people telling us McCain has no chance.  I just got done watching a poll taker  for Fox News who said for the most part the election is over. I don't know what will happen but polls have been wrong before. Carter was ahead of Reagan with nine days to go. We also were told that was going to be close election which  it wasn't.  Reagan gave Carter a Southern whipping.

People who run the polls should remind the voters that the only poll that matters is the one to be done on Tuesday. It is the only one which will matter.

So Please Stop Telling the Voters McCain Doesn't Have A Chance! McCain could end up getting beat but it is not over until the Fat Lady Sings!