Is Obama the Anti-Christ?
All Saint’s Day Newsletter.
by Michael O’Brien

I’ll save the suspense – he doesn’t believe he is, but he does draw some startling observations – one which can be found in another fascinating article on NRO, (not a group that’s given to over-the-top material), that describes a work of fiction from 1907 in England, that’s uncannily accurate regarding this current election:

The One We Were Waiting For
By Rev. George W. Rutler

With a quick google search I found the book is in the public domain.

If you want you can read the book he describes in it’s entirety:

Lord of the World
- by Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson

I can’t imagine someone who may be called upon to be the President of the World, not devolving into a egotistical megamaniac, and sees himself as ‘god’.

Very plausible, but scary considering that when campaigning in Berlin, Germany (gee – that was the home of another mega-maniac) Obama was called the future President of the World by the narrator, right after his speech!

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3 Reasons

1. Voter registration is out of control.
ACORN anyone? Here’s an alternative:

Voter registration using a state-based photo-id passport-style registered document with an embossed seal for each election.

Once registered with a verified residence as a citizen in any state, registration may only be transfer to another state, with no new registrations allowed, only transfers. Re-registering in any state, while registered in another is against federal law. Moving interstate requires you turn in your prior ID to your origin state prior to obtaining a new ID in your new state.

All votes must be traced to an election official who is liable for the validity of the vote.

When a vote is to be cast, each ballot is embossed sealed, as well as the voter’s ID document for the citizen who has voted. The district clerk will initial inside the seals, tying the ballot and the voter to the district official.

Fraudulent votes found in a district invalidates that entire district for the next election.

Absentee ballots require 2 seals – a designated remote official’s seal, ie military payroll officers etc. and a receipt seal from the election office who embosses the seal on the ballot and then initials at the designated place.
The remote official is to use their seal on the voter’s ID document.

A single optical paper ballot style is required nationwide.

2. Campaign finance is a nightmare.

Requires a financial participation of constituencies, and stop fraudulent financing.

Only registered voters may donate to valid campaigns and all funds are identified with the voter ID.
There is a donation limit on each voter registration ID.
When an ID limit is reached no more funds will be accepted.
That total is to be divided only among campaigns at any level.
City, state and national parties are treated as single generic campaigns for each party.

Your total electoral contributions may only be divided among those various campaigns, and the national campaign contribution portions cannot exceed more than 25% of the dedicated state portions.

3. Money = power & influence, and negates the idea of equality at the polls, because it weights the influence to ‘purchase’ more votes.

National official campaigns (President & VP) must reflect the state’s interest in the campaign, similar to the electoral count.
Individuals donate through state parties for national official campaigns.

National official campaign spending in any one state cannot exceed the amount of money donated from that state, and dedicated towards that purpose.

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2 reasons:

1. It deprives constituents of fully devoted representation
When officials take an oath of office, they are bound to fulfill that oath and dedicate their attention and activities on behalf of their constituency. By campaigning for any office other than for re-election, a politician’s time is spent away from and focused on something other than their present duties. It’s political adultery. If employers do not allow vital employees to work within the same field for another employer, because of inherent conflicts of interest, then why should politicians be exempt from this moral principle of responsibility?

2. It stops political springboarding
Given #1, constituencies may be seen as merely springboard positions to leverage into higher aspirations. For instance, it’s difficult to take Senator Barack Obama seriously as a fully dedicated Senator for the people of Illinois within his district with only 143 working days in office, and with many absent votes.

Legally, there is the question of fulfilling a fiduciary duty, when a politician wanders off to campaign for another office. However, if the office being campaigned for is reelection, then obviously, time spent exploring and discussing the relevant issues is in-line with the duties and responsibilities of the office, because the campaign process both informs the electorate and provides a means for feedback regarding their own concerns.

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Is Obama the Anti-Christ?

Michael O’Brien provides an amazing summary.

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I saw this comparison on a blog, but at this point I can’t remember where (I’ve poured over so many lately). This election is about two dichotomous views:

Man is evil and free markets are good.
vs
Man is good and free markets are evil.

On the morality of man: the Holy Bible unequivocally declares man is evil.
On the second issue of prosperity: God commands us to be fruitful and multiply, and to invest in the kingdom of God.

In case it hasn’t been apparent – the Cold War is being voted on here:

American Dream vs National Socialism.

If you’ve been raised in America, and you can’t explain why the American Dream deserves your vote, then obviously you don’t know the Holy Bible or Jesus Christ.

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Three reasons:

1. Exit polling is intimidating.
Anonymous voting frees you to vote your conscience. No one would like a gang outside a polling station ready to find out how you anonymously voted. What’s the point of anonymous voting if anyone is asking you how you voted, immediately after you did?

2. Exit polling is inaccurate.
Those declining to answer an exit poll cannot be shown to be more in favor of one candidate or the other. Yet exit polls must accurately reflect how all voted. Because of reason #1, it’s likely a percentage of exit poll results will be not be true. So it can potentially introduce a falsehood into the results. Results must be both logically and mathematically valid. Here’s an example – suppose you’re trying to solve an equation: x = 2+2. Suppose the first 2 is not really a “2″ but “1″. Do you think the result “x=4″ is going to be accurate?

3. Exit polling skews decisions.
Publishing exit polling results encourages a mob mentality – go along to get along. It encourages both intimidation and inaccuracies, making it possible to sway some portion of the electorate to vote based on immediate self-preservation reasons. Given the possibility it may skew the decision, it creates a feedback loop. Anyone who’s ever heard the high-pitched squeal when a live microphone comes near an amplified speaker that’s playing that input understands how a feedback loop is problematic.

At it’s least intrusive, exit polling is misleading, at it’s worst, it’s a potentially distorting device that should be eliminated.

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Thoughout the day, I’ll be posting individual articles – one per idea on reforms that would need to be placed and why.

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A nurse entered and seemed surprised to find anyone there, and it wasn’t long before I found out why: Almost no one visits anymore. In his time, which was not very long ago, Mo Udall was one of the most-sought-after men in the Democratic Party. Yet as he dies in a veterans hospital a few miles from the Capitol, he is visited regularly only by a single old political friend, John McCain. “He’s not going to wake up this time,” McCain said.

…McCain spoke of how it affected him when Udall took him in hand. It was a simple act of affection and admiration, and for that reason it meant all the more to McCain. It was one man saying to another, We disagree in politics but not in life. It was one man saying to another, party political differences cut only so deep. Having made that step, they found much to agree upon and many useful ways to work together. This is the reason McCain keeps coming to see Udall even after Udall has lost his last shred of political influence. The politics were never all that important.

- The Great McCain Story You’ve Probably Forgotten
By Michael Lewis
Posted Wednesday, April 9, 2008, at 6:47 AM ET

[HT: Instapundit]

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Once more from the heart of the liberal side of the country here’s something zombie provides for our consideration.

at ZombieTime: Osawatamie:the Weather Underground Newspaper.

[HT: LGF]

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Jill Stanek gave me the audio for Obama’s Senate floor argument against Born Alive Legislation.

Here’s the recording – the commentary is mine alone.

After it was posted I realized I should have indicated that in the video, although Jill did so in her article.

There were two other pieces of legislation spoken of in the full recording I received – SB 1661, and SB 1662 which had minimal discussion, and passed without a problem, so I edited them out.

Given time constraints, I removed the audio at the end of the 1663, which covers the actual voting, and then a request for verification and an additional request for a Roll Call, which reset the vote because State Senator Klemm was missing. It appears Klemm voted for passage of the Bill, then left the chamber – causing the total yeas to drop by one and thus nullifying passage.

What caused Klemm to leave or whether he was even present is currently an unknown.

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