One of our young partners wrote to me this morning asking some good questions about what an Obama Presidency will look like. Nobody can predict with 100% accuracy. It will depend on how the weight of the Presidency hits this young and inexperienced guy. During the election we saw Obama change his positions from radical left to more of a centrist point of view. Instead of pulling out of Iraq immediately he said he would consider the opinion of the Generals on the ground. He was slammed by Code Pink and Move On for these shifting positions. They would allow defeat to be snatched from the jaws of victory. I believe Obama and his staff will see the necessity to complete the process now that it is 99.9% won. Any miscalculation at this point could cost many American lives and inflame the Middle East. Keep your eyes on Israel for sure.
As Joe Biden pointed out Obama will be tested by ruthless foreign leaders. How Obama reacts to the test will create a tone for the next 4 years or more. If you are my age and recall the Jimmy Carter Presidency you know what I’m talking about. Iran held American’s hostage until Ronald Reagan became President. I was a young child when Kennedy was tested and failed. It almost led to nuclear war according to the programs I’ve watched on the History Channel. Even if Obama turns out to be a weak President few countries will challenge us. After all, you wouldn’t test a sissy if they had a gun pointed at your head and America still has the biggest guns in the world.
I had to wait until the market closed today to see how it would react. Apparently the market does not like the Presidential pick or some of his early cabinet pick announcements. Quote from FBN Floored: Dow Dives 486 Points
Wall Street’s election euphoria disappeared as the Dow took its worst post-Election Day plunge in modern history! We do hope this is not a sign of things to come.
On economics I expect a down turn. Another of our partners (a Democrat) can’t stand the thought that Republicans did anything right. To hear him it has been the Republicans fault for EVERYTHING. We know that is not true when we have Bill Clinton admitting on video that his administration stood in the way of Republicans trying to avoid this market crash and warning him and other Democrats during his Presidency. Most pendants point out there is plenty of blame to go around. Democrats wanted to loan money to folks for houses that they knew could not afford it. Republicans did not fight the Democrats hard enough. Both are to blame.
Foreign affairs may take a turn for the worse from our enemies. On the upside the governments of Europe will probably favor Obama’s Socialist agenda since Europe leans heavily towards Socialism.
Health care will not improve and will get much worse under any kind of universal health care plan. There is no successful model for this in the world. Sure, many countries have free health care but their citizens come here for anything serious when they can afford it. Who wants to wait months to get a simple broken bone fixed or months for biopsy results? By the time you are diagnosed you’ll be dead. But fear not if you have money. There will always be good treatment for those making lots of money (about 5 percent of the population). We can buy our own personal specialists on the black market.
Government secrecy is not in danger with the Dems in charge. You saw how they handled the press who dared to ask hard questions. They black listed them and in some cases called for legal investigations. We may be entering a time of great intimidation from our new Government. We will have to wait to see if the people will take it or show signs of revolt and demand transparency. Admittedly we did not get transparency from Bush. I fear we haven’t seen anything yet!
On the issue of our courts the future is bleak. Rather than nominating Constitutional interpreters Obama will appoint Law Makers to our courts and Liberal ones at that. Gay marriage, abortion on demand and open trials for war criminals is just the beginning.
Our only real hope is if Obama and the Democrat Triad backs off their agenda for the sake of the country. After all, they will want to stay in power. If they get too radical all at once we have one elections cycle to get rid of them too. After they become entrenched and the country becomes numb we could end up just like Europe or worse yet, just like South America.
That’s one opinion. Time will tell if conservatives fear is valid.
New Obama interview where he says he will put in place things that will bankrupt the coal industry. Pennsylvania, we can’t afford Obama. If you want to skip forward go to 2 minute mark on the YouTube video.
When it comes to Pennsylvania, clean coal could turn our entire economy around. If you live in PA and vote on economic issues McCain is the one to vote for this year!
Obama’s campaign was so upset over this interview they cancelled all future interviews with this TV station according to the Orlando Sentinel. OK, I understand if someone is handled unfairly. However, this was not unfair. These are the questions on many American’s minds. Does this mean the Obama administration will simply cancel press conferences when they face tough questions? You watch and you be the judge.
Biden is Obama’s worst night mare. Nobody can believe this guy really wants to help get Obama elected, can they? Here it is in Biden’s own words at a fund raiser where he did not expect to be recorded. This is not a joke or a spoof. It really happened. Let’s take Biden at his word and elect McCain to avoid an international crisis. It is a bit hard to hear so you can either read or turn up your volume a bit.
Dear Friends, A few months ago I was asked for my perspective on Obama, I sent out an email with a few points. With the election just around the corner I decided to complete my perspective. Those of you on my e-list have seen some of this before but it’s worth repeating…
First I must say whoever wins the election will have my prayer support. Obama needs to be commended for his accomplishments but I need to explain why I will not be voting for him.
Many of my friends process their identity through their blackness. I process my identity through Christ. Being a Christian (a Christ follower) means He leads I follow. I can’t dictate the terms He does because He is the leader.
I can’t vote black because I am black; I have to vote Christian because that’s who I am. Christian first, black second. Neither should anyone from the other ethnic groups vote because of ethnicity. 200 years from now I won’t be asked if I was black or white. I will be asked if I knew Jesus and accepted Him as Lord and Savior.
In an election there are many issues to consider but when a society gets abortion, same-sex marriage, embryonic stem-cell research, human cloning to name a few, wrong economic concerns will soon not matter.
We need to follow Martin Luther King’s words, don’t judge someone by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I don’t know Obama so all I can go off is his voting record. His voting record earned him the title of the most liberal senator in the US Senate in 2007.
NATIONAL JOURNAL: Obama: Most Liberal Senator in 2007 (01/31/2008)
To beat Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton as the most liberal senator, takes some doing. Obama accomplished this feat in 2 short years. I wonder what would happen to America if he had four years to work with.
There is a reason Planned Parenthood gives him a 100 % rating. There is a reason the homosexual community supports him. There is a reason Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Castro, Hamas etc. love him.. There is a reason he said he would nominate liberal judges to the Supreme Court. There is a reason he voted against the infanticide bill. There is a reason he voted No on the constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. There is a reason he voted No on banning partial birth abortion. There is a reason he voted No on confirming Justices Roberts and Alito. These two judges are conservatives and they have since overturned partial birth abortion. The same practice Obama wanted to continue.
Let’s take a look at the practice he wanted to continue
The 5 Step Partial Birth Abortion procedures:
A. Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby’s leg with forceps. (Remember this is a live baby)
B. The baby’s leg is pulled out into the birth canal.
C. The abortionist delivers the baby’s entire body, except for the head.
D. The abortionist jams scissors into the baby’s skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole.
E. The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child’s brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed..
God help him. There is a reason Obama opposed the parental notification law.
Think about this: You can’t give a kid an aspirin without parental notification but that same kid can have an abortion without parental notification. This is insane.
There is a reason he went to Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 years.
Obama tells us he has good judgment but he sat under Jeremiah Wright teaching for 20 years. Now he is condemning Wright’s sermons. I wonder why now?
Obama said Jeremiah Wright led him to the Lord and discipled him. A disciple is one in training. Jesus told us in Matthew 28:19 - 20 “Go and make disciples of all nations.” This means reproduce yourself. Teach people to think like you, walk like you; talk like you believe what you believe etc. The question I have is what did Jeremiah Wright teach him?
Would you support a White President who went to a church which has tenets that said they have a ...
1. Commitment to the White Community
2. Commitment to the White Family
3. Adherence to the White Work Ethic
4. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community.
5. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting White Institutions
6. Pledge allegiance to all White leadership who espouse and embrace the White Value System
7. Personal commitment to embracement of the White Value System.
Would you support a President who went to a church like that?
Just change the word from white to black and you have the tenets of Obama’s former church. If President Bush was a member of a church like this, he would be called a racist. Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton would have been marching outside.
This kind of church is a racist church. Obama did not wake up after 20 years and just discovered he went to a racist church. The church can’t be about race. Jesus did not come for any particular race. He came for the whole world.
A church can’t have a value system based on race. The churches value system has to be based on biblical mandate. It does not matter if it’s a white church or a black church it’s still wrong. Anyone from either race that attends a church like this would never get my vote.
Obama’s former Pastor Jeremiah Wright is a disciple of liberal theologian James Cone, author of the 1970 book A Black Theology of Liberation. Cone once wrote: “Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him.
Cone is the man Obama’s mentor looks up to. Does Obama believe this?
So what does all this mean for the nation?
In the past when the Lord brought someone with the beliefs of Obama to lead a nation it meant one thing - judgment..
Read 1 Samuel 8 when Israel asked for a king. First God says in 1 Samuel 1:9 “Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do.”
Then God says
1 Samuel 1:18 “ When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day.” 19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want a king over us. 20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.” 21 When Samuel heard all that the people said, he repeated it before the LORD. 22 The LORD answered, “Listen to them and give them a king.”
Here is what we know for sure.
God is not schizophrenic
He would not tell one person to vote for Obama and one to vote for McCain. As the scripture says, a city divided against itself cannot stand, so obviously many people are not hearing from God.
Maybe I am the one not hearing but I know God does not change and Obama contradicts many things I read in scripture so I doubt it.
For all my friends who are voting for Obama can you really look God in the face and say; Father based on your word, I am voting for Obama even though I know he will continue the genocidal practice of partial birth abortion. He might have to nominate three or four Supreme Court justices, and I am sure he will be nominating liberal judges who will be making laws that are against you. I also know he will continue to push for homosexual rights, even though you destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for this.. I know I can look the other way because of the economy.
I could not see Jesus agreeing with many of Obama’s positions.. Finally I have two questions for all my liberal friends.
Since we know someone’s value system has to be placed on the nation,
1. Whose value system should be placed on the nation.
2. Who should determine that this is the right value system for the nation?
I’m sure that Congressmen do not have security clearances. Some who are part of certain committees must have them. Nor is it found anywhere that a President has to pass some kind of security clearance check. However, they certainly should change this rule. I suppose the assumption is if there is anything that significant in your background it would come out during the vetting process. However, now that we see how far Barack Obama has gotten it is clear that the American press no longer does its job or he would have never made it to the Democratic Primaries. As a retired Special Ops guy I can absolutely guarantee you that Barack Obama would not qualify for a Secret, let alone Top Secret or TS Cosmic security clearance.
I found an article from Nov 2001 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_42_17/ai_80851957 “Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) has responded with a proposal that would require all members of the House of Representatives to go through security-clearance procedures such as those applied to members of the House Intelligence Committee.”
It absolutely amazes me as a retired Special Ops guy. Hell, I was grilled by the FBI for just taking a vacation with my wife, step-daughter and grandson to Curacao. Not that a vacation to Curacao is odd since it is part of the Netherland Antilles (next to Aruba). It was that I had recently been there on a mission. Imagine if I had associated with someone like Rev. Wright, distributed money for and worked with Bill Ayers ( a self confessed terrorist), or received sweet heart deals from a convicted Felon like Tony Rezko. Hell, if you simply become a Christian after not being one for years they put you on a “watch list” to see if you exhibit any peculiar behaviors (and for good reason). Imagine if in coming to new found faith in Christ you decided you could no longer lie to conceal the secrets you knew. There are actually some people who just don’t get the whole thing. If a pastor did some weird thing like the laying on of hands it is one thing. If the pastor screams GD America and the government gave blacks AIDS to destroy them and you sat in that church for 20 years you would not go without very deep scrutiny. If you tired to dismiss your associations with a known terrorist and they found out you were as close as Barack and Ayers were you would never get clearance. If you associated with a known Felon and received favors from that Felon you would never get a security clearance. That’s the bottom line folks.
From JohnMcCain.com - What did John mean about 300 Billion for the purchase of defaulted home loans in last nights debate?
“John McCain will direct his Treasury Secretary to implement an American Homeownership Resurgence Plan (McCain Resurgence Plan) to keep families in their homes, avoid foreclosures, save failing neighborhoods, stabilize the housing market and attack the roots of our financial crisis. America’s families are bearing a heavy burden from falling housing prices, mortgage delinquencies, foreclosures, and a weak economy. It is important that those families who have worked hard enough to finance homeownership not have that dream crushed under the weight of the wrong mortgage. The existing debts are too large compared to the value of housing. For those that cannot make payments, mortgages must be re-structured to put losses on the books and put homeowners in manageable mortgages. Lenders in these cases must recognize the loss that they’ve already suffered.
The McCain Resurgence Plan would purchase mortgages directly from homeowners and mortgage servicers, and replace them with manageable, fixed-rate mortgages that will keep families in their homes. By purchasing the existing, failing mortgages the McCain resurgence plan will eliminate uncertainty over defaults, support the value of mortgage-backed derivatives and alleviate risks that are freezing financial markets.
The McCain resurgence plan would be available to mortgage holders that:
Live in the home (primary residence only)
Can prove their creditworthiness at the time of the original loan (no falsifications and provided a down payment).
The new mortgage would be an FHA-guaranteed fixed-rate mortgage at terms manageable for the homeowner. The direct cost of this plan would be roughly $300 billion because the purchase of mortgages would relieve homeowners of “negative equity” in some homes. Funds provided by Congress in recent financial market stabilization bill can be used for this purpose; indeed by stabilizing mortgages it will likely be possible to avoid some purposes previously assumed needed in that bill.
The plan could be implemented quickly as a result of the authorities provided in the stabilization bill, the recent housing bill, and the U.S. government’s conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It may be necessary for Congress to raise the overall borrowing limit.”
I’ve been reflecting on the election. OK, I’ve been obsessing over it. What if I told you the next CEO of PAontheweb LLC was going to be one of our interns? Not 20 years from now. What if I told you he was taking over right now? We’ve bypassed a 48 year old person with tons more experience and maturity who knows our systems inside and out. We’ve passed over a 30 year old who has a good grip on the way the company works but no ability to handle the billing, server security, payroll and all the other intricacies. We’re bringing on a guy with no experience running a company who doesn’t know SEO from SEM.
Yes, he is only 20 years old but he’s been playing with computers since he was 7 years old. He also has a great personality. He can talk to just about anyone on their level and make them understand what he’s saying (even if it wouldn’t work in reality). No, he’s never done the billing. He doesn’t have a clue about server security. No, he doesn’t understand how to set up a hosting platform using the WHM let alone what a WHM is. But… we’ve decided he’s the right man for the job!
OK, this is all hypothetical rhetoric. It is not going to happen to PAontheweb. Your websites will still run. Your service will still be what you expect. Your billing will not change and the company will continue to grow and prosper through difficult times.
BUT, that is EXACTLY what America intends to do by electing a novice.
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Mike Kelly
PAontheweb.com LLC
LetUsBeYourGuide.com
President and CEO