The Left was Right !

I have to admit publicly that my leftist friends are truly able to predict the future. I had no idea until recently how good they really are. They told me in the fall of 2008 several very key events would take place if I voted for John McCain. As a side note - for conservatives - voting for John McCain is like getting a bad tattoo on your face. You never understand why you did it in the first place and everyone winces when they realize what you did. That being said, we didn’t have much of a choice way back in ott-eight.
My friends said that if I voted for John McCain we would end up in an endless series of escalations to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They were right ! I voted for McCain and we have had several large escalations to the wars in the Mideast. Don’t get me wrong. When we engage militarily anywhere in the world, I am completely behind fighting hard and winning that war, even if I don’t agree with the political motives behind it. Our military is clearly the best trained and armed force to ever walk the earth.
My friend’s son is a Marine recon serving in Afghanistan. He told me how the rules of engagement changed dramatically soon after Obama took office. They are sent in to scout out Taliban bad guys and take them out. Oh – except for the new rules of engagement say if the person is not verifiably armed you cannot shoot them.
These recon patrols sit there for two or three days – completely hidden and watching and waiting to see who comes and goes. The Taliban leaders have learned the Obama policies and have adopted them effectively against our troops. If a recon patrol sees a group of Taliban fighters, towing a covered trailer of weapons, unless these weapons are in the hands of the fighters the Marines are only allowed to report them to their command.
They were sent there to kill the Taliban but cannot fire unless the bad guys are visibly armed. Many times they know on sight the Taliban leaders by facial recognition. The bad guys know this but simply parade around not carrying weapons, or dressed in Burka’s, thus triggering the no-kill provisions of the Obama combat doctrine. They can’t shoot or order airstrikes unless they actually see the weapons on the fighters.
This is the Obama dogma. The administrations anti war planners from NYU know that the real war is fought in American courtrooms. These brave lawyers wistfully dream that they can best defeat our enemies by suing them in Federal Court. Take that you man made disasters… Hopefully General Petraeus will reverse this insane engagement model and allow our troops to actually do the dangerous jobs they were sent there to accomplish.
My friends said if I voted for John McCain the big Wall Street banks and investment houses would be propped up and salvaged from the normal cycle of capitalism. They said that big corporations would be protected and small business would be thrown to the wolves. They were right ! I voted for McCain and we declared the huge Wall Street firms too big to fail and bailed them out. We were fleeced by the federal government to support the international bankers’ interests and make sure that it was business as usual at Goldman Sachs et al. Campaign contributions and caviar for you my good Democrat controlled congress.
The Obama administration has consistently done one thing; protect any government or business that is unionized. We nationalized General Motors and Chrysler, putting the American taxpayer in charge of pumping up two companies doomed to fail. These behemoths were dying from being forced to satisfy bloated union pension obligations instead of investing in replacing outdated manufacturing plants.
What businesses are suffering ? The small businesses of America. Fully 70% of all job creation comes from this sector but they cannot afford to hire anyone. They know that come January 1 2011, their taxes are going to skyrocket, so they are preserving capital, or declaring bankruptcy.
My friends said if I voted for John McCain I would have a President who didn’t really understand the economy or how to steer policy towards ending the recession quickly. They were right again ! I voted for McCain and I have a President who thinks that FDR was an economic genius, emulating his every move. Even though historians have documented at length how FDR’s Keynesian economic policies prolonged the depression. Even Henry Morgenthau, the architect of the new deal declared it was an absolute failure in ending the depression. The déjà-vu Obama policies are prolonging the current recession and yet these politicians whistle as we work, to pay the bills of their newest university experiment on our economy.
Lastly, my friends said if I voted for McCain I would end up with an idiot for a Vice President. They were right ! I voted for McCain and now we have one of the dumbest bags of sand ever to occupy the Vice Presidential office.