Also commonly known as “groupthink” or “brainwashing.”

That’s funny, but the idea of Barack Obama as President isn’t funny. I got the following via email and it sums up neatly why Barack Obama is WRONG FOR AMERICA, and the agenda for which he’s using his “Jedi Mind Tricks.”

Policy wise, Obama will push us gleefully towards socialism, which cannot be good to the average blue collar worker, teacher or trucker, much less business owner or corporation. His policies will cause gas prices to skyrocket even higher and faster than they currently are. He is opposed to drilling for more oil. He is in favor of more regulation, and even thinks he is smart enough to determine the salaries of CEO’s.

On abortion he has a 100% National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) rating. He is in favor of partial birth abortion, supports transporting minors across state lines for abortions, and is against holding accountable doctors who fail to provide treatment for babies born live after botched abortions.

On taxes he wants to eliminate the Bush tax cuts and will be happy as a clam to raise them. He is so far out of touch with reality that he doesn’t even think “we the people” want our taxes reduced.

On crime, he is against stiffer penalties against gang members, supports needle exchanges and is soft on sex predators.

On health care, he is a Hillary clone, and wants to create universal health care, which is just another term for socialized medicine…which hasn’t worked anywhere its been tried.

On education he supports sex education for grade schoolers and thinks anyone with a B average or above should get free college.

On guns, Barack is so extreme he doesn’t even put his position up on his campaign website. He proclaims his support for the Second Amendment, but is working hard to turn America into a “gun free” zone, where self defense is outlawed. Naturally, he is against concealed weapons.

Most politicians would be sunk with friends like Barack’s.

His associations with his pals are amazing — Jeremiah Wright, his spiritual mentor thinks God should damn America. Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, now a college professor stomps on the American flag and declares he wished he would have set off more bombs.

Barack’s pal Frank Marshall Davis who he looked upon as “father” is an anti-Christian radical and member of the Communist Party USA, while his official campaign blogger’s work appeared in a socialist magazine and he had a communist flag at his home.

Tony Rezko, of course is still in trouble with the law. Code Pink founder Jodie Evans not only raised money for Barack, but also for Islamic radicals in Iraq.

Is this guy actually qualified to be President?

Of course not, in the traditional sense. He got educated, has no business experience, cut his teeth as a community activist, breezed through a stint in the Illinois state legislature, and spent two years as a U.S. Senator.

“Qualification” when it comes to politics is different than the real world. Qualified to run for office merely means that you have connections, you have a fundraising base and you have supporters. That’s it. Many of us don’t, nor do we necessarily have the desire. But he does, and he has it all in a major way.

Is he actually ready to be Commander in Chief, to be the leader of the free world, to be the true hope of those living under oppression? Well, if you put it that way, the answer is no. His solution to Iran, radical Islam and the terrorists running rampant in Iraq and Afghanistan is to sit down and talk with them. He doesn’t get it. They are done talking.

Barack is a liberal forged from the same molten fire deep within the same mountain as Hillary Clinton. And since he is, and since she is so prominent, you’d think the Democrats would want a Hillary/Barack ticket, and not Barack at the top of the heap. After all, that would be the safest bet.

But no, Democrats are jumping ship on Hillary and swimming over to the S.S. Obama. Why? Almost nothing can explain it. . . except one thing.

And I am telling you it is not the obvious. It is not Barack’s message of Hope and Change that has struck a chord. No, just about every Democrat has been selling that same old swill for years.

Everyone knows that “Hope” to a Democrat means more money from you going to the government.

Everyone also knows that “Change” to a Democrat means jettisoning the Free Enterprise system and exchanging it for socialism.

Remember that.

(Cross-posted at MVRWC)

Wouldn’t it be great if we really could have everything the democrats are promising us in their campaigns? Free college tuition for everyone. Free health care for everyone. Tax Cuts! Help with your mortgage. They might even come out and mow your lawn for you!

The list of promises from both democratic candidates is very long. The National Taxpayers Union has a very rough estimate of $287 billion for Obama’s promises and $218 billion for Clinton’s promises. Even at those staggering costs, neither candidate have much to say about how they will fund this utopia they promise. They say something about repealing Bush’s tax cuts (note that to them this isn’t the same thing as raising taxes because they are simultaneously promising tax cuts) and they say that ending the war in Iraq will help pay for it. As USA Today these vague statements about how to pay for billions of dollars of new and improved social services just isn’t going to cut it.

A rollback of Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans could generate perhaps $75 billion next year. The Iraq war savings are much harder to figure. The war has been costing about $100 billion per year. But a Democratic president, once in office, might decide that national security demands a gradual withdrawal, or a redeployment to Afghanistan. Health care for Iraq war veterans will run into the billions for decades. It’s unlikely that winding down the war will produce a large, quick peace dividend capable of supporting a host of new programs.

To make matters worse, any tax increases and military reductions might be needed just to cover the government’s existing shortfalls caused principally by rising health care costs and the pending baby boomer retirement.

The two democratic candidates don’t seem too concerned about benefiting in the short run from enticing votes by promising almost limitless gifts from the government to everyone. The thing is, I’m worried about the long run and I’m not the only one.

With the exception of the limp wristed sushi and latte learjet liberal set, most tax payers look at the promises made by these two with a suspicious eye. Most of us see our paychecks flying out the window in upwards of 50% taxes on our incomes and everything we buy. People start losing their incentive to work when their income is taken to pay for everything for people who don’t work. Most people in our society feel responsible for and don’t mind paying for people who can’t take care of themselves. Most people mind very much paying for people who can and just don’t or won’t pay for themselves. When the money is redistributed people start to give up hope knowing they can never get ahead of what is allotted them by a government out of control.

Its not that this form of government is something new that Clinton and Obama thought up. Its been tried before. I really don’t know why Clinton and Obama are so far behind the curb because it was tried a generation ago by other governments. Russia, Cuba, Venezuela have all tried socialism and/or communism. Its bankrupted and corrupted every society it has been tried in. We’d have to suspend disbelief to think it’d be any different here than it has been in every other government that has tried it.