Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Libertarians vs. Obama
One delicious aspect of an Obama Administration is the predictable training of the Libertarian intellectual community's guns on his policies. Libertarians are wholly unable to govern; they are however, very capable of shaping policy by pointing out inconvenient facts, such as those contained in the Constitution. Here's a taste of a possible future.
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The president proposes and congress disposes. Our faint hope is that the 90% disapproval rate of congress will result in the electorate serving a mass eviction notice to the incumbents and the even fainter hope that their replacements will have learned from the mistakes of their predecessors and work toward improving America rather than toward re-election while simultaneously keeping a tight rein on the president.
Years ago, there was an old tale in the Marine Corps about a lieutenant who inspected his marines and told the 'gunny' that they smelled bad.The lieutenant suggested that they change their underwear.
The Gunny responded, 'Yes, sir, I'll see to it immediately'.
He went into the tent and said, 'The lieutenant thinks you guys smell bad, and wants you to change your underwear. Smith, you change with Jones, McCarthy, you change with Witkowskie, Brown, you change with Schultz. Get to it'.
The moral: A candidate may promise change in Washington, but don't count on things smelling any better.
Neal Boortz missive TO THE UNDECIDED VOTER
http://boortz.com/nuze/undecided.html
This Boortz missive is impressive.
When intelligent Libertarians examine Barack Obama, they see his high intelligence and intellect as an asset, conducive to rational [libertarian-style] thinking.
Combined with his background as a civil rights lawyer and a constitutional law professor who is favorable to voluntary, free community organization, and who as a Senator, took a daring stand against the Iraq War — it becomes easy to see that Barack Obama is more “libertarian” than not.
McCain is highly “pro-war” which would mean at least another four “Bush Years” of endless billion dollar [war] occupations, plus more BIG GOVERNMENT SPENDING, “taxes-from-the-middle-class-to-finance-wealthy-tax-cuts” and “socialized” corporate profits/bailouts with little, if any “trickle down” effect of job growth which, by the way, has NOT happened in spite of Bush’s tax cuts provided to big corporations and the Warren Buffet wealthy.
Just as bad, is voting for Bob Barr, who would be a dangerous “wasted vote” this year. After all he’s NOT going to win.
“Wasted Votes” and [conservative] Libertarians who voted for G. W. Bush, helped Bush win two terms — and those “Neo-Con Libs” helped enable an incompetant religious conservative G. W. Bush take us from a “Democratic Budget Surplus/Thriving Economy” to a “Republican Record Deficit/Expensive War/Economic Meltdown.
Obama is the best [major] candidate to work on these top libertarian reforms:
1) Iraq withdrawal
2) restoring the separation of church and state
3) easing off victimless crimes such as drug use
4) curtailing the Patriot Act.
...and favoring
5) a ban on torture
6) gay rights
7) privacy
8) free speech
9) pro-choice
but also...
10) against a ban on flag burning
Libertarians living in the real world know that only Obama or McCain can actually win.
And in that real world, Bob Barr is an ex-CIA Republican -- and on that basis he is questionable as being truly “Libertarian”. Because Bob Barr spend most of his political career as a rather right-wing conservative Republican, many long-time Libertarians don’t see him as a “true” Libertarian but some sort of right-wing conservative Republican infiltrator.
With a history of hostile right-wing conservative Republicans infiltrating the Libertarian Party over the years, they have pushed out long-time, true Libertarians and founders.
This hostile LP take-over by conservative Republicans is not easily forgotten — and well, as a backlash — I can see a lot of Libertarians wanting to get Republicans out of power.
And the best way to do this is by voting for Obama and a straight Democratic ticket.
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