Rather than act like so-called “professional” journalists, I’ll document this a little bit:

Link: President Obama was looking for a dog in November.

Link: Bo the Dog shows up at the White House in April, six months later.

Bonus: Another broken promise, since Barack Obama promised to adopt a shelter dog.

Dog fans: Bo has his own WIkipedia page.

I’ve made it clear I’m against government-run health care. What they’re trying to do now isn’t even about health, care, it’s about control. But regardless of whether you agree or not, don’t you think we could take more time to overhaul one sixth of the US economy than it takes to select your kids’ pet?

If you agree, please download this full size graphic I made and pass it along (without modifying it, please). Let’s put the pressure on before we find ourselves stuck in a system that was forced upon us in haste and which none of us will want!

Me: I think that the people who claim they want “national health care” or “socialized medicine” or “health care for everyone” don’t want socialized medicine. They don’t want nationalized medicine. They want what we have RIGHT NOW, except they want it for free. And that’s not what they’re going to get if the government is put in charge of it!

Activist: Oh, so you think that people who don’t have health care are lazy?

Me: No.

Activist: You don’t?

Me: No. But you accuse me of making assumptions of people, but you are the one making assumptions about me.

Activist: So what do you think?

Me: I think I’m on a cell phone, I don’t know how you got this number, and I don’t want to waste my air time arguing with you. Have a nice day.

It’s always instructive to watch liberals engage in exactly the kind of behavior they attribute to, well, anyone who doesn’t agree with them. Here’s a guy who accuses me of stereotyping “poor people” (when that’s not the sole demographic of America’s uninsured) while blatantly stereotyping me. Simply because I don’t want government health care.

Then there’s the example of the rocket scientist whose window appears in the photo above. I drove past this house this weekend, saw an old couple in the yard, and saw the signs in the window. The two cars outside were smeared with all sorts of bumper stickers for Obama and state & local Democrat candidates. The sign in the window wants “Health Care for America NOW!” but I doubt the old codger has taken even an instant to think of what that means for him.

Look at these nations with “free” socialized/nationalized medicine such as Canada and the UK. They’re rationing care based on “merit”. Who decides the merit? The government, not the patient. That means people who engage in certain behaviors, have certain medical conditions, or are elderly have a good chance of being sent home from the clinic or hospital so someone more likely to have a better outcome can receive medical resources instead.

From the look of the guy who put these signs in his window, he’s past the prime age for any sort of nationalized health care. But obviously a habitual Democrat voter, despite their inability to make good on any promise they’ve made to any of the victim groups to which they pander every election cycle, he’s been brainwashed into toeing the party line. Right now the party line is government interference in health care, and he’s sold on it. The sad truth is, should it be implemented, he’s going to me among the first to be denied care when resources are short.

I knew a guy who went to a hospital in Canada. By the time the months went by and they decided to maybe treat his brain tumor, he was dead. I’ve heard Canadians implore the USA not to enact government health care because, “where will we Canadians go to get treated?” They also pass along their thanks, because we spend all the money to develop new medications, and then they get them for free while we bear the burden!

yes, that’s right: health care and medication costs fund research and development. We pay more for our medicine here because medicine is expensive to invent. Those costs must be recovered. Canada, however, has put into effect price controls on those medicines due to their national health care system. That means the USA must pay more for the same medicines; after all, the drug companies have to pay their bills.

If prices are “controlled” here in the USA, you can expect the research and develpment to STOP. It happened several years ago with the flu vaccine: the Clinton administration forced the prices down so low that companies quit making the vaccine! Then, when there was a breakout of the flu, there were no vaccines. They had to be imported, and there was a shortage. Expect a lot more of that.

Like I told that guy on the phone, people don’t want government health care. Even those who say they do actually want today’s health care system, with its innovation, convenience, and technology…but they want “the government” to provide it. That ain’t gonna happen.

Regardless of whatever sort of term you want to apply to it, government-run health care is a horrible idea. If people such as the guy calling from his home phone or the fella with his sticker collection and signs in his window would realize what’s going to happen… heck, what has happened when socialized medicine has been enacted, they’d change their minds. We don’t need to follow Canada’s or Europe’s horrible example.

Had Barack Obama been judged by his character, he wouldn’t have made it out of Chicago. Well, the cult of personality, propped up by the house organ media, actually got this fella elected. Now we’re all going to have to deal with the result. This isn’t sour grapes, folks: this guy’s policies, and the agendas of the people who have surrounded him his entire life, spell the end of the United States of America if allowed to come to fruition.

Here’s your “change” by the way: an administration full of recycled Clinton administration hacks, many of whom are already caught up in scandal; avowed socialists, communists, terrorists, and other anti-American associates; and a President who has done nothing but run for office for the past few years. Well, he’s won it. Now what? Gun control, abortion, and the term “hate speech” to label anyone audacious enough to point out that homosexuality is wrong. That’s without even getting to the fiscal part of things!

Well, here comes all that Hope™ and Change™ that the vacuous masses of Obama voters wanted, despite the fact that few of them could summon a tangible idea of the policies embodied by those two buzz words. Who knows, maybe they’ll be too enthralled by American Idol to even notice the path down which an Obama presidency takes us.

My hope and prayer for President Obama is that he never gets anywhere near his socialist goals. I pray that once the real world sets in on Wednesday, and he actually has to commit to a policy decision, that he finds himself unable to go down the path he’s espoused throughout his short political career. I pray he’s able to keep our nation safe, and I certainly wish him no ill will, but I hope his policies die on the drawing board. With the help he’ll receive from the Legislative branch and the bedazzled mainstream media, however, I am have my doubts.

Do you like being able to select a doctor from among the finest in the nation, and not wait for months to see them? Well, here comes the change. Do you believe in the sanctity of life, even in the womb? Well, here comes the change. Do you believe in the right to own a gun to protect yourself and your family? Well, here comes the change. Do you strive to better yourself without having a union telling you what to do? Well, here comes the change. Do you believe in the right to speak freely about what the Bible says? Well, here comes the change. And do you enjoy the right to be able to cry out with the voice of political dissent? Well, here comes the change.

The Bible says we’re to abide by the government under which we live, and I certainly plan to do that. I also plan to continue to be involved in political matters, and implore everyone else to do so as well. As far as the Bible verse I would best love to apply (albeit out of context) to an Obama presidency, I suppose it would be Psalms 109, verse 8:

Of course it’s only the days of his Presidency that I would like to be few, not “his days” of course. Be that as it may, we’ve got at least four years of trying to hang onto the freedoms we have left. Let’s stand up for what we believe in. In the mean time, have a sip of that crazy Kool-Aid and hang on. Hopey Changemas, everybody!

UPDATE: I’m fully prepared to be called a “racist” for disagreeing with President Obama, as they started that little game during the campaign. They sure set the tone early, however, as evidenced by the benediction “prayer” by Rev. Joseph Lowery: “Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around… when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen. Say Amen…”

In other words, if you’re white, you’re a bigot. Hope! Change!

Punch One: Oprah declined to have Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on her show. Not the first black Supreme Court Justice in our nation’s history, but a qualified man who rose from impoverished roots. He’s a conservative. A Republican appointee. Oprah decided she was a liberal before a black person.

Punch Two: Oprah declined to have VP candidate Sarah Palin on her show. Not the first female VP candidate, mind you, but by far the most popular…a regular superstar, if you will. She’s a conservative. A Republican candidate. Oprah decided she was a liberal before a woman.

For a bunch that needs to “group-ify” everybody into factions in order to appropriately pander to, and make victims of, everyone they see…Oprah has just shown that her allegiance belongs to neither of the two most prominent demographics to which she belongs: black Americans and women.