Obama - nothing to be scared of?

We all saw McCain yesterday trying to throttle back his supporters anger and fear, saying Obama was a decent sort he happened to disagree with and nothing to fear as President.

Obama may well be a decent person, as an individual. The sort of guy you know is wrong-headed, but is so darned charming that you enjoy sitting at the local coffee shop bs'ing with as the afternoon passes, and that you can agree to disagree with - unfortunately, that lasts in Obama's case until right about the time he gets somewhere near the levers of power, at which point fear and anger are utterly appropriate.

The increasingly apparent widespread voter registration fraud perpetrated by Obama's old friends at ACORN in the finest style of cemetary-voting ballot-purchasing Chicago politics is just cause for quiet - or perhaps rather demonstrative - fury. The sheer hypocrisy, alone, of after two rounds of the liberal left crying wolf about "stolen elections' that a left-wing group such as ACORN should systematically go about corrupting multiple states voter registries is, by itself, infuriating.

The Obama historic position on guns - barring concealed carry nationwide, supporting every anti-gun bit of legislative nonsense to pass his desk - should inspire fear in not only every gun owner about to be nominated for a bright shiny new set of Federal felonies in an Obama presidency with a co-conspiring Democrat-held Congress, but in any other student of history. "First they came for , then they came for me..."

Proceeding onwards, implementing a bunch of exciting new taxes on the group of folks (investors and the moneyed types) who, at the end of the day, we're going to end up needing to save our economy is downright madness, creating active disincentives to investment and the flow of capital from investors to entrepreneurs. That "makes more than 250,000/yr" crowd is where an awful lot of the capital that drives our economy comes from - taxing the bejabbers out of them is unlikely to much affect the day to day lives of the target group...but it will tend to divert their spending from investment and economic growth to maintaining the life they have collectively come to enjoy.

Under Obama, again with the co-conspiracy of a Democrat-dominated Congress held in messianic thrawl by the "Great One", we can expect vast new regulatory adventures making our nation less competitive in world markets, growing an ever larger black market as the risk:profit ratio is distorted beyond recognition and folks are motivated by desperation and greed to go "around" much of the bright shiny new regulation and become economic criminals.

Then we have Obama's associates, folks who, however distasteful, Obama has shown an astonishing willingness to cold-bloodedly throw under the bus as quickly as they cease to be immediately useful to him. Rezco, Wright, and Ayers leap to mind as the highest profile folks introduced to the low-riding option on the Obama Express...but they are far from the only ones...

Which leads to the question - when was the last time you heard of a Chicago Mayor or elected official who wasn't a Democrat? (Or, for that matter, not a Daley or someone who'd cut a deal with the Daleys?) If Obama is elected, with the corruption ACORN has already apparently introduced, then perhaps we should ask when or if we'll see an honest election again?

Moving right along, we have our chasuble-clad pseudo-minister and bigot du jour, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright (Obama's pastor for twenty-some years - you'd think Obama'd have noticed and distanced himself rather sooner than mid-campaign if he had any substantial disagreement...), convicted felon Tony Rezco with home Obama cut some rather questionable real estate deals, and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers (yes, it does matter if you hang out with someone who tried to blow up the Pentagon, Capitol Building, killed police officers, and generally was very naughty).

Obama's support for our troops abroad has been tepid, at best, and as far as I can tell the man never studied the beginnings of WWII in the European Theatre - or he'd have wrapped his head around the notion that "better living through appeasement" is long disproven as an effective tactic.

The list goes on, however...

Yes. There is every reason to fear an Obama Presidency; but that I could accept and join the political resistance, so long as it was honestly won. With the treachery of ACORN and it's merry voter registering activities, I'm not prepared to be nearly as accepting.

Throttle back? Hell, let's get the fire going - if the response of various overwrought Democrats is any indication, that may just be what it takes to win this one...