HERE'S YOUR SIGN:

The author of this blog does not present himself as an objective observer of the world around him. He also does not pretend to be a man of few opinions. The general views he holds have been shaped by scholarship, study, experience and common sense.

As the author of this blog finds himself on the road very frequently, he has noticed that anytime he sees an Obama bumper sticker, by default, he looks at the driver of that vehicle with disgust and sympathy. The author's disgust is not necessarily directed at the individual driving the car, his sympathy is. The disgust is aimed directly toward Obama, as a political figure, and toward the establishment that has accepted him as a legitimate contender for the most powerful office in the world. The sympathy is for the poor schmucks who are gullible enough to think that he's a new kind of candidate and that he's going to bring any type of worthwhile change.

The reason for the "Here's your sign" reference comes in at this point. As most of this blog's readers may know, Bill Engval of Blue Collar Comedy has a routine wherein he outlines some of the stupidity of the people around him. In his view, stupid people should have a sign that they wear around their necks to warn everyone else just how dumb they are. These people don't only annoy with their lack of intellect or judgment and the resulting conversation and questions, but they are also potentially dangerous to themselves and to the people around them.

As an American first, and everything else second, the author of this blog truly believes that ours is a government of the people, by the people and for the people. By espousing such a belief, the author--out of principle--admits that anyone who loves this country and has any idea for its betterment can legitimately justify holding a place in elected office. Obama may love certain aspects of this country, but he has provided no real evidence that he loves this country. In fact, on the contrary, he and his "high minded" ideals would weaken the United States of America on a daily basis.

The man who, in one of his more popular speeches, claimed that words are not just words is the same man who has said that he's been to "all 57 states, one more to go... except Hawaii and Alaska" [paraphrased, but not misrepresented]. If I do my math correctly, that means that Mr. Words-Count thinks we have 60 states in the Union (For those of you who support Obama: 57 + 1 + 2 = 60). Here's your sign:

He's also the same man who voted for sex ed for kindergartners (Illinois General Assembly Senate Bill 0099), admitted that doing so was the right thing to do in a speech to Planned Parenthood, but now that McCain's campaign has highlighted that vote in a campaign ad he denies it. He's even got folks in the news media accusing McCain of lying about this. Just last week on "The View", Joy Behar confronted John McCain on this very ad and one other that also is factually correct (another "inconvenient truth" for Obama and the Democrats): "Now, we know that those two ads are untrue. They're lies." Joy Behar... Here's your sign:

This wordsmith is also the same man who wants to meet with terrorist organizations and regimes that harbor them without pre-conditions, giving cowardly terrorist who hide among civilians diplomatic recognition and thus fueling the fire of their efforts. He also claims that keeping your tires adequately inflated would be the equivalent of getting America off foreign oil and that it would greatly and positively impact our efforts at turning back man-made global warming (on which there is no scientific consensus, but plenty of the political variety).

Barack Obama has also voted that if an abortion fails and the child is born, that since the original intent of the mother and the doctor was to terminate the pregnancy, it is legally justifiable to execute the infant. This is that same Chicago politician who said that if his daughters make a mistake and mess up, he doesn't want them punished with a baby.

This is the same genius who was the president of the Harvard Law Review, taught at the University of Chicago's Law School and worked as a community organizer, but never actually authored anything of merit or consequence. His campaign doesn't speak about his 12 years at the law school, but everyone knows that he was a community organizer. To this day, the only evidence of what Barack Obama was about during all of those years is what we know of his associates. He worked for ACORN, a non-profit, "non-partisan" organization that has been found guilty of registering deceased persons, the same individuals multiple times, and fictitious persons to vote (which is why the author joked with a few members of his family that he would vote for Obama, the Obama way: 3 times). He was involved in at least one illegal real estate transaction. His pastor of 20+ years, the one who baptized Obama's daughters, and to whom he donated over $21K, is the famous America-hating, race-baiting Jeremiah Wright. His good friend and neighbor, William Ayers bombed the Pentagon and still defends his actions in doing so. His first choice for an adviser to help him find a running mate was a longtime Democrat supporter, fundraiser, and illegal mortgage holder from Countrywide who stepped aside to avoid additional controversy.

Obama is a man who was elected to the Senate in '04, but by the time his presidential campaign was in full-swing, he had only been in the Senate chambers on 143 days. He never held a committee meeting as a Senator. He has argued that he runs his own campaign--and that doing so gives him all the executive experience he needs to be president.

The list of gaffes, lies, historical re-writes, instances in which he shows he has no knowledge of how government works, logical incongruencies, etc. can go on forever. The bottom line is that this candidate is an embarrassment to the United States of America. He has no character, he is empty, he is a prime example of the bad side of Affirmative Action. He is a fraud. To all those who know about the examples to which this author has alluded and still support him, you are worse than the rest of his supporters who are just simply ignorant of reality. But either way, to all Obama supporters, Here's your sign!