Category: 2008 Presidential campaign

Another brilliant post by Vanishing American: conservatives must be brave now

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Last week, I posted here on an article by Vanishing American, and today you must read his post entitled “Nothing to fear…..”    It begins with a discussion about a comment thread at Gates of Vienna, where even ‘our folks’ couch their words in obvious fear (of what? of whom?).    

This is just a small portion near the end:

We have to find ways to get across to our fellow ‘conservatives’ who are still somewhat under the PC spell that this is no time to worry about little niceties like whether we hurt somebody’s feelings — especially when those somebodies have not the least regard for our feelings — or whether we look like ‘bigots’ to someone else, or whether someone calls us a name.

It’s painfully obvious that these ‘conservatives’ absolutely don’t see the direness of our situation; they seem to think that in being polite and fair and considerate and ‘tolerant’, we will somehow deflect what is coming our way. They just don’t see, can’t see, or just plain refuse to see that our house is on fire, and this is not the time to worry about being genteel and inoffensive. It’s not the time to show our magnanimity and our good nature by deferring to the enemies in our midst. Worrying about political incorrectness on our side is absurd at this late hour.

As I argued in a couple of posts before, there is a time for anger and yes, even a time for hate. That last phrase is in the Book of Ecclesiastes. And yet so many people today want to be holier than God himself and disclaim hate or even righteous anger. And what we are talking about does not even fall under the true definition of ‘hate’, a word which by the way has been overused and abused by the left. What is being called ‘hate’ all too often is merely a speaking of unflattering truths, or in some cases, an expression of righteous wrath at the wrongs being inflicted on us. It is an expression of outrage at the injustices which are multiplying every day. It’s a cry of protest against the invasion of our country, the criminalization of free speech, the loss of our rights, and the loss of our homes. Are we to be silenced even in the face of those things?

[….]

To the politically correct among us, what are you afraid of? Us? Yourselves? The Other?
As for me, I’m only afraid that we will go gently and politically correctly into that good night.
I don’t welcome the dying of the light, and as long as there is breath in me, I will rage against it.

Could this be why we are so inspired by Sarah Palin—her fearlessness, her unabashed disregard for political correctness.   Maybe God has granted us a ‘Joan of Arc’ of sorts, a leader we can stand with as she (with our help) rages against the dark.

Read the whole post at Vanishing American.  I wish I could write like that!

Dramatic proposal in the UK to cut immigration

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While I slept Blulitespecial was busy doing my work for me by finding all sorts of important stories to share with you.  Hat tip to him again!

Barack Obama went to Europe and said if he were elected President he would make America more like Europe.   O.K. Barack does that mean you would drastically cut immigration like one country after another is attempting to do in Europe?  We’ve told you about France and Italy and just a couple days ago we heard that Spain is following suit.   And, now the UK.  Wow!

The Telegraph is reporting today that a plan to balance the number of immigrants with the number leaving the country has been proposed.

A cross-party parliamentary group – the first to tackle such a politically divisive issue – says net immigration must be reduced to zero, with the numbers arriving balanced by those leaving.

The group hopes this will stabilise the swelling UK population and reduce pressure on public services at a time when immigrants are entering at the highest rate in recorded history.

“We strongly believe we must ease the pressures that immigration is placing on our public services, environment and, indeed, on the cohesion of our society,” it says in a report, Balanced Migration.

Just like the United States the UK is expecting a population explosion, fueled exclusively by immigration, over the next 30 years putting huge demands on jobs, housing, schools and the environment with the brunt of the pain inflicted on the country’s poor.

In April, the Lords’ economic affairs committee labelled official statistics on migration “seriously inadequate” and concluded immigrants are not needed to fill labour shortages or help fund the state pension for retiring Britons.

Immigrants were found to have an “important economic impact” on public services, with some schools struggling to cope with the number of children who do not speak English as a first language.

Lowly paid Britons are being priced out of work and millions face being unable to afford a house.

Government statistics show in the past decade 2.5 million people have arrived in the UK, while only three quarters of a million have left.

The UK’s population is set to soar from 60 million to close to 80 million by the middle of the century, making it the most populous nation in Europe.

Figures suggest Britain will need seven new cities the size of Birmingham to house the growing population by 2031.

Again, hint to John McCain, it’s time to change your mind on immigration.   We don’t actually know where our statistics are, but I will bet the US numbers would come close to this British poll on the subject of immigration.

A poll released to coincide with the proposal found eighty one per cent of Labour voters and 89 per cent of Conservative voters favoured substantial cuts in immigration.

Immigration is the elephant in the living room.    It is the issue directly related to the environment, jobs, crime, terrorism, poverty, cultural conflicts, and education.    We ignore that elephant every day at our peril.

Arabs and Muslims “chilled” by possible McCain/Palin victory

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There is an intersting article from the Middle East Times posted over at Jihad Watch about how Arabs and Muslims generally are shaking in their boots about McCain and Palin in the White House.   Actually when you read the Times article it’s hard to tell whether McCain or Palin strikes more fear in their hearts.

The first Republican woman to be on a national ticket must especially scare Muslim countries that are trying so hard to keep their women subservient.   A strong independant woman with lots of children has got to be their worst nightmare, especially in light of their goal to outbreed us.  And Palin hasn’t yet succumbed to the politically correct word police as demonstrated by this account in the Times article:

Particularly highlighted in the media Friday were remarks made by Palin in June that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the American troops there were “on a task from God.”

“Our national leaders are sending soldiers out on a task that is from God,” Palin told ministry students at her former church in a video that spread like wildfire across the Internet.

She asked her audience to pray for the troops in Iraq. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God’s plan,” she said.

The article also takes a swipe at our western values in a segment about the pregnancy of Palin’s 17-year-old daughter.  Imagine the nerve of people who sanction female genital mutilation, forced marriages of children to old men (see Jihad Watch for one such girl murdered this week when she tried to get out of the marriage), and honor killings.

Check out the lively comments at Jihad Watch while you are there.

Last off-topic post

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I didn’t want to end with a negative report, so here, belatedly is more:

RNC report from Minneapolis-St. Paul

 

Wednesday morning we went to the Nebraska breakfast. The scene was like the other two breakfasts. We hung out at the Hilton with campaign staff afterwards and talked to people. We didn’t stay long enough to see John McCain, who stopped in after we left.  

 

Tonight was the complete opposite of last night. After the first hour or so of the parade of speeches by unknown people there was one star after another – Romney, Huckabee, Giuliani – with rousing and pointed speeches. Tonight the theme of the unknowns was prosperity. I hadn’t realized each night had a theme, and last night’s was service. There were the same Hershey-bar signs, but this time they said “Prosperity.” So the unknowns were mostly small-business owners, I think. We were trying to find out where we were supposed to be. Last night we were in general seats. Tonight we were in a box, but it took a while for our handlers to figure out which one. Being in a box helped my mood too. The arena is used for ice hockey, and I think the people in charge forgot this wasn’t an ice hockey game. Last night I froze. The box was free of drafts and full of people, with food and drinks, and very comfortable.

 

But what can I say about Sarah Palin’s speech? You must have seen it. When she walked onto the stage, people leaped to their feet and cheered, and kept clapping for what I was later told was two and a half minutes. It was brilliant, and at the end too it seemed natural to clap and clap and clap, kind of like breathing. There was so much pent-up anger at the media, and joy at Sarah’s presence, that people just exploded.

 

The speeches leading up to her were powerful, and gave the audience the red meat we’d been waiting for. I wonder if Romney, Huckabee and Giuliani gave such good speeches during their campaigns. I don’t think Giuliani did. Somehow Sarah Palin energized everything and everyone.

 

I don’t know if this was shown on TV — Linda Lingle, Governor of Hawaii, giving a speech on Sarah Palin’s qualifications. At one point she said, in relation to executive experience: “What’s Obama’s experience? Zero!” A part of the audience started chanting “Zero, zero, zero,” and others picked it up. They chanted it again later on when Obama was mentioned. We thought of a bumper sticker: “The hero, not the zero.”

 

The next day we had to leave. Jim had been asked to speak at a rally in Sterling Heights, Michigan — the campaign’s second rally after the convention. We were driving, so we had to leave Thursday to get there in time. So we missed the McCain speech. But Jim thought he could contribute more by speaking at the rally, and I think he was right. There were supposed to be about 10,000 people there, but people were sitting on the grass at the back and around the sides, standing everywhere they could fit. People were excited. Some local people spoke, they had some music and the National Anthem, and then Jim spoke just before McCain and Palin came in. He was a huge hit, and after the stars spoke and left we could hardly get out of the place for people wanting to talk to him. Other family members were sitting on the grass at the back, and some people took pictures of them just because they were related to Jim.  This kind of thing always makes me laugh. Of course Jim is a hero, but he’s my husband so I’m used to him. I mean, he doesn’t fly off the roof every day and vanquish villains. But I never tire of hearing his POW stories.

 

We were sitting at the side of the stage and couldn’t see the speakers, but it was okay, because McCain and Palin came right by us on their way in and out. I shook Sarah’s hand. On their way out, Jim stopped John McCain, who seemed startled to see him and exclaimed “Jimmy!” When Jim introduced me, John told me Jim is a hero and one of the funniest guys he knows. His wife Cindy and daughter Bridget were there too, and stood on the stage while the candidates spoke, but I couldn’t see them. 

 

Okay, back to refugees now.

Somali immigrant story (Part 1)—from refugee to community organizer

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Update:  Part II is here.

Here is an article, thanks again to Blulitespecial, that interestingly pulls together many points we have made in recent posts.  (I’m splitting this post into two parts because there is so much to say.)  Perhaps the most instructive part of this article from New America Media about Somali refugee, Asha Mohamed, is that she is a “community organizer”.  Her story is a window into identity politics and the community organizing business.

I encourage readers to read the whole thing, but this is one section that caught my interest:

Now a mother of three, Mohamed is a counselor for the Seattle Housing Authority. She is also a community organizer, and a fervent immigrants’ and human rights activist at CURE – Coalition to Undo Racism Everywhere. She is looking forward to her role as a delegate to the Equal Voice for America’s Families town hall meeting in Los Angeles on Sept. 6. “We’re bringing 400 people from Seattle, 600 from the state,” she said energetically, prayerful that from within her group will emerge some who will help comprise “the next generation of critical thinkers.” Underwritten by the Marguerite Casey Foundation, there will be two other concurrent town halls in Birmingham and Chicago, respectively. The three-city event is expected to attract nearly 15,000 people, many of whom will have attended local and regional town halls 2007-2008.

Mohamed participated in an Equal Voice policy platform meeting in Chicago earlier this year where attendees spent four days to produce a working agenda for low-income families. That agenda will be submitted for approval on Sept. 6.

You gotta laugh, notice she went to another famous “community organizers” home town of Chicago.  I would love to see both group’s (CURE and Equal Voices) financial documents because based on my previous research most of these types of groups get government grants in addition to foundation (tax subsidized by you) support.   Now which Presidential candidate’s name do you think will be on everyone’s lips tomorrow?