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You have finally landed on the one page on this entire site (and on the entire internet for that matter) that is purely without bullshit... my soapbox page. There are a lot of times during our show that, whether it's because of time constraints and other obligations, I don't always get to address some issues that I feel don't get the attention they deserve. There are even more times when I just don't feel like waiting until the show the next day to get some things off my chest. Thus, I have started the "Rob's Soapbox" page. If you have clicked on this page looking for someone to coddle your fragile sense of self-esteem, or tell you what you want to hear or to reinforce your outdated world view, then exit this page right now and go somewhere else. If you are in search of the last forum for reason and common sense left in the world, then sit back, relax, and enjoy. I make only one promise with this soapbox page... if you read long enough and often enough, you will eventually be offended. So here's my latest soapbox. Listen up, 'cause you just might learn something... |
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October 27th, 2008 GOOD THINGS THAT WOULD COME FROM AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY I have made no secret of my disdain for Barack Hussein Obama. I am convinced based on his history, his record, his stated plans, his associations, his wife and his past writings that he is a left wing socialist the likes of which we have not seen since Jimmy Carter. Obama, however, with his charisma and a heavily lopsided democratic congress, I believe has the ability to do a lot more damage to the American economy than Carter ever dreamed of. I have never liked John McCain and am not voting for him. Rather, I am voting against Barack Hussein Obama. At this point, given the tone of the campaign, the perceived state of the nation and economy after 8 years of a republican presidency and all of the polls, it looks more and more as though Obama will win this election. Saving some last minute surprise or the often talked about racial component of the “Bradley effect,” (people voting against the black candidate), Obama “should” become president elect next week. (Although I unequivocally and emphatically state here and now that is not a prediction of the outcome…I will make my official prediction on Monday, November 3rd’s show). From the beginning, I have made it clear that an Obama presidency will not hurt me personally. I am not that attached to political candidates despite my passion for following the state of current American affairs. If Obama wins, I will make the necessary adjustments to my personal and professional finances and plans and go about my life watching the country from afar, waiting for the next great leader to emerge, for Obama certainly isn’t it. Alas, come Wednesday November 5th, it is very possible that Obama will be president-elect, and I will be anything but depressed. Sorry, but I just can’t take this stuff that seriously. In that vein, I have even devised a list of positive things that could happen under a President Obama: The Government will ease up on censorship: While it is true that the Democrats want to bring back the “fairness doctrine,” which is blight on our first amendment rights, such an atrocity would only hurt the nation, not me personally, thanks to the kind of show we do. In another area of censorship, the Republican Party has long had a raging hard-on over “offensive” speech, an ironic position to take in a nation founded on the freedom of speech. Alas, anything sexual has always been looked down upon by right-wing do-gooder groups like the Parents Television Council. Until Janet Jackson flopped her boob out on national TV, the Democratic Party took a much more “hands-off,” approach to the situation. Under the perceived (and totally fake) public outcry in the wake of Jackson’s Super Bowl antics, both political parties wagged their finger at the entertainment industry and tried to implement stronger standards regulating free speech. In the past few years, however, such issues have taken a back burner, particularly as far as democrats are concerned. Hopefully, an Obama FCC chairman will be told to let broadcasters practice free speech in a nation that doesn’t provide a right to be offended, and focus on far more important issues that the FCC oversees involving cell phones, cable access issues and broadcast licenses. There will be some excellent bargains on the stock market as a result of the “Obama sell-off:” While Pro-Bama folks like to dismiss the recent stock market sell-off as totally unrelated to his impending presidency, those of us who have invested and watched the market all of our lives know better. While there is arguing that much of the stock market’s nose dive in the past 8 weeks is directly related to the credit meltdown, not all of it is. Many investors are selling off their stocks in preparation for Obama’s tax increases, taking advantage of a friendlier economic environment right now than will exist in early 2009. If Obama is elected and does enact his tax plan, including his increase on capital gains, an even bigger sell off will occur and a lot of great stocks will be available for rock bottom prices. Those of us with liquid assets on hand and 5-10 years to wait to see our investments come to fruition will have a great opportunity to take advantage of the economic turmoil Obama will cause. Affirmative action will take another step towards extinction: Let’s be brutally honest, shall we? If Barack Obama wins the election it will not be because he is the better qualified candidate. It will not be because he has accomplished more than John McCain, a decorated war hero and decades-long senator. And despite what many would like you to believe, it will not be because he is not George Bush. Bush isn’t running, Obama is. If Obama is elected, much of the reason for it will be because he is African American. Plenty of people are candidly proud of the fact that they are planning to vote for Obama solely because he is black, not because he is qualified or the better candidate. Whether they simply believe it’s time for a black president, or it’s a form or reparations, their reasoning is of course nothing short of reverse racism. In the end, however, when Obama fails miserably, which he will, for history proves that his policies are dangerous and misguided, more than a few people will privately reassess the validity of handing jobs to unqualified people solely out of some ass-backwards white-guilt form of equality. There are plenty of African Americans capable of being President of the United States and Obama is none of them. Giving him the job as some form of skewered justice will further prove that people, regardless of the color of their skin, should be hired based on qualifications, not guilt. The absurd embargo against Cuba will be lifted: It’s not likely to happen, but it at least stands a chance under Obama that America will finally wake up and realize that Cuba is not a Communist threat any longer to America and that the embargo hasn’t exactly worked. The idea was that cutting off all ties to Cuba would force the Cuban people to rise up and overthrow the Castro regime. Instead, more than 4 decades later, the Castro family is as strong as ever, the Cuban people are still suffering and we have no access as a people to one of the greatest cultures in our hemisphere. If Obama finds a way to lift this embargo, we will have an influx of the two greatest things in Cuba; their food and their cigars (not to mention Cuban women, some of the most beautiful on the planet). Socialist economic policies will once again be proven a failure: For whatever reason, America needs to be reminded every few generations that Socialism and wealth redistribution are un-American and abject failures. Jimmy Carter was the last to try it and left the office of the presidency in disgrace with a top tier tax rate of more than 70% and unemployment in the double digits. Imagine an America where 70% of all of the money you earn goes to the government! We lived it just 30 years ago, along with gas rationing, inflation and malaise, all caused by Carter’s silliness. An Obama presidency, short of the kind of 180 degree shift Clinton made in his first 18 months in office will result in at least the type of devastating environment Carter created, and will remind the current generations of the folly of socialism, thus setting it back yet again for two or three more decades. One of the greatest Americans ever to live was Thomas Jefferson, who recognized as he created America, that this nation would not only amount to the greatest society ever assembled on Earth, but that our greatness would constantly be challenged, not just by foreign threats but also by domestic stupidity similar to the policies that Barack Obama espouses. Now is the time for all of us to refresh the tree of liberty, not in the literal sense that Jefferson spoke of centuries ago through a militant arising, but through an attack of intelligence and insistence on maintaining America in the same light under which she was created; hard work is rewarded, opportunities exist for every one willing to pursue them and nothing is handed, for free, to anyone. An Obama presidency, and its imminent failure, will provide us with such an opportunity.
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