THE RIGHT CAN BE COUNTED ON TO DEFEND AMERICA AGAINST ITS ENEMIES: TO THE LEFT, AMERICA IS THE ENEMY — THAT’S WHY I’M VOTING FOR JOHN McCAIN
THE RIGHT CAN BE COUNTED ON TO DEFEND AMERICA AGAINST ITS ENEMIES: TO THE LEFT, AMERICA IS THE ENEMY — THAT’S WHY I’M VOTING FOR JOHN McCAIN
By
Ken Eliasberg
The 2008 election is not about John McCain or Barack Obama. What then is it about? It is about you, your children, your grandchildren, and the kind of America in which you want you and yours to live. In my opinion, it is far and away the most important election of my lifetime and yours. Why? Because America — again, in my opinion — has reached a critical crossroads, and taking the wrong turn may set us on a course from which we can neither return nor recover. And it is for this reason that I am voting for John McCain.
Please don’t get me wrong, it is possible that McCain may take us down the wrong road — I have no messianic view of McCain - but I seriously doubt it. On the other hand, I have no doubts with respect to Obama; he would definitely commit us to a course of action — on both a domestic and foreign front — from which there would be no point of return. It is a course of SURRENDER and SOCIALISM, the former probably mooting the relevance of the latter. Why? Because surrender — in this case a form of suicide which you see taking place in Europe — brings with it its own form of governance — SHARIA, a form of governance that treats women as not merely chattel but as useless, sexless incubators who can be either dispensed with or dispatched at the whim of a man. It is a form of governance which does not respect any religion but Islam. Indeed, it is a form of governance that would have no separation between Church and State; the Church is the State, and the State is the Church. It is a form of governance that has not evolved beyond the 7th century and would thereby return us to the Dark Ages. It is a form of governance that is opposed to everything that is both sacred and decent, and, more to the point, it is a form of governance that is fundamentally opposed to the founding principles of America.
So what does this have to do with our election you might say? In response, I would say it has everything to do with the 2008 election. Again, why? Because I believe that a vote for Obama would take us a giant step closer to the edge of the very dangerous precipice on which Western Civilization, in general, and America, in particular, now teeters.
My reasons for opposing Obama or, for that matter, any Democratic candidate are simple — they would destroy our country, or, as Burt Prelutsky summed up in a succinct, but cogent and delightful piece entitled All Kidding Aside, Obama For President?!?!, published at Townhall.com on Jan. 14th:
“Now, my own reasons for hoping that Sen. Obama is not elected president next November are pretty much the same reasons I object to Hillary Clinton and John Edwards. I consider all three of them to be anti-military, tax raising, left-wing flyweights who would bury this country in entitlements while essentially ignoring Islamic fascism. I regard them as three run-of-the-mill hacks who would bring tears to the eyes of John Kennedy if he were around to see what’s happened to his party’s leadership over the past 45 years.”
As my oldest son might say, I couldn’t have said it better, only louder.
Or possibly more directly to the point is the following quote from a Feb. 25, 2008 column in frontpagemag.com by Andrew G. Bostom entitled Islam’s Universal Blasphemy Fatwa:
“More than a decade ago, Samuel Huntington observed appositely, and with a candor that is now exceedingly rare, ‘[T]he underlying problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture.”
During his recent debate with the cultural jihadist Tariq Ramadan, Ibn Warraq elucidated what is at stake should Islamic supremacism prevail:
“The great ideas of the West — rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule of law and equality under the law, freedom of thought and expression, human rights, and liberal democracy — are superior to any others devised by humankind. It was the West that took steps to abolish slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in Africa, where rival tribes sold black prisoners into slavery. The West has secured freedoms for women and racial and other minorities to an extent unimaginable 60 years ago. The West recognizes and defends the rights of the individual: we are free to think what we want, to read what we want, to practice our religion, to live lives of our choosing.