Random Thoughts

Doing whatever it takes to steal, er, win the election.

I keep wondering what it’s like to be an Obama supporter. I mean, what’s it really like to be so enamoured of a politician, that you do not care what it takes to put him in office. You’ll do it, or you’ll turn a blind eye to it, figuring that the end justifies any and all means.

Were I an Obama supporter, I personally would have a very difficult time with this sort of crap going on. It’s no surprise that Obama’s camp will take money from anyone in anyway they can get it, and it’s also no surprise that they’ve found a way to avoid dealing with those pesky donation limits. But to be so in-your-face about it, to have your online credit card system set up to take blatantly fraudulent information, that takes brass ones.

As Mark Steyn points out,

In order to accept financial donations from “John Galt” and “Saddam Hussein”, whoever runs the Obama website would have to modify the default security checks required by their merchant processor…the Obama site appear to have intentionally disabled not only all the address checks (thereby facilitating overseas contributions) but the most basic criterion of all: the card name match (thereby enabling entirely fake contributions).

Of course, the media is too busy figuring out how much Sarah Palin spent at Saks to care about from where Obama gets his campaign funds.

I’m trying really hard not to envision what life in the US will be like under this sort of “leadership.” Honestly, it scares me. I’d feel much better if there were a modicum of humility in Obama, if his campaign reflected something other than an arrogant desire to control the United States, and all the citizens within it. But then, that is socialism, it’s about controlling the masses, and goodness knows the writing has been on the wall about what sort of government Obama intends to run. The “spreading the wealth around” kind.

Obama’s political philosophy is clearly socialist. His tax plan makes that clear.

Socialists mainly share the belief that capitalism unfairly concentrates power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital, and creates an unequal society. All socialists advocate the creation of an egalitarian society, in which wealth and power are distributed more evenly…

Distributed, of course, by Obama’s government. Karl Marx would be so happy. It’s only taken 160 years for his dream to be realized in the United States.

I’m being inordinately pessimistic, but unchecked and unchallenged corruption does that to me. I grew up in Chicago, where dead people vote two or three times. I know how hard it is to win against the Machine.