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Entry: We're obsessed with Power -- but the real issue is Obama Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/were_obsessed_with_power_but_the_real_issue_is_obama#19458 Post contents: Until we see a front-running candidate actually possess the fortitude to talk about the counter-productivity of Statism and it's departure from the intent of the Framers, which was, to put it short and sweet: To keep government out of the way of the people... ....I will be disinclined to support a single one of them because the uniting theme of these Champions of Empathy has been to surmount a Mount Pisgah of the American Imagination and tell one and all of the paradise within their reach if they only vote...for , eh...hmmm, "me". One could make a case that it is better to vote for Obama than either ultra-interventionists McCain and Clinton but Conservatives tried the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" routine and had their political force punctured like a Bolsheviki balloon. Obama sounds impressive from a political perspective but it is politics, aka bul**** that has put us all on the ropes. 8 years of "I can Feel Yer Pain" Bubba and 8 more years of "yer gonna feel my pain" Shrub and we do not so much have a Republic as we do a god damnable Pain Clinic Writ Large. The Bubbashrub Motto: Stupid is as stupid does. Government Empathy is like a Sub Prime Mortgage, one's immediate desires are fulfilled but the interest rate goes up like a rocket and then there is alot of excess product standing empty. If we got government out of the way of the people and dismantled leviathan, prosperity would immediately follow, despite the dislocations and adjustments of talking ourselves in from the ledge we inhabit. I have no reason, whatsoever, to believe that Obama has even a simple clue of the defining challenge of the age:Ourselves and Our Lapsed Republic. He wants to shape the current government, not dismantle it to it's Constitutional limits and this fact should remain uppermost in everyone's minds. We keep choosing "lesser of evils" and the destination remains evil, no matter how much Prozac and Darvon one consumes during our orgy of Empathy. Sent at: 2008 09 07