Sister's Wedding

Ashley and I were out to Spokane this last weekend for Elise's wedding. Not much to tell, the wedding was nice, my sister is all married off. The weather was gorgeous, except for the one day of snow, but that was gone again the next day. I did walk my sister down the aisle, and they made me wear my Air Force tuxedo. We had a lot of fun at the reception, caught up with family members, and met a couple new ones (adopted).

Soccer game last night was a slaughter, we won 8-1. Good game considering our disappointing games last week, where we lost our playoff game and got eliminated, and the first game of the new season a player from the opposing team got hurt, ambulance called, etc.; game was never finished, but we were down 3-1.

More indications the surge is working.

Obama, change, or the same old thing?

Obama's message is change, but is that what he really stands for? From what I've seen, he looks like a typical far left Democrat, with integrity issues. In October of 2006, he admitted he was beholden to unions. He's taken money from Tony Rezko. He wants to distance himself from his anti-American, racist pastor, yet he's been a member of the church for 20 some years. He can give a rousing speech, there's no denying that. But do you know what his policies are? He doesn't talk much about them.

If by change he means "not Bush", well we're going to get that no matter who is voted in. If by change he means changing America to match his radical left vision, I'm not sure that "we the people" are ready for that. He says that we need to fix the damage from the last 7 years of the Bush administration. But I would argue that the Bush administration has barely addressed the serious damage left by the Clinton White House.

He claims he has the experience and ability to lead our country, but his resume doesn't show it. What organization has he led? He hasn't even finished his first term as Senator, before that he was an congressman in the Illinois State House. His credentials are severely lacking.

Lets review his record (scratching the surface): He's rated 89% by the HRC, indicating a pro-gay-rights stance. Rated 100% by the NAACP, indicating a pro-affirmative-action stance. Rated 100% by the AU, indicating support of church-state separation. According to factcheck he's ranked most liberal in Senate, based on 99 votes.

He's for partial birth abortions, government sponsored embryonic stem cell research, meeting with Fidel Castro, Kim Jung Il, & Hugo Chavez, the death tax, reversing the Bush tax cuts, allowing illegal aliens to participate in social security, a national smoking ban, local gun bans, giving foreign terrorists the same legal rights as US citizens, and fighting global warming (which isn't even proven yet).

He's against fixing social security, tax cuts for those "who don't need them", banning flag desecration, and against a Constitutional ban of same-sex marriage.

He says he's for political unity, yet he has the most liberal voting record. If he were a moderate he might have a chance at unity, McCain is a moderate. To me, he seems beholden to the far left and their Utopian socialist ideals that fail wherever they are implemented. A vote for Barack Obama is not a vote for a better America.

Watching the Democrats combust.

I never thought I'd be quoting Keith Olberman, but in regards to the Clinton camp's comment about Obama, he says "their words and your own are now slowly killing the chances for any Democrat to become president". I couldn't agree more, and I love it. While Obama and Clinton hack away at each other McCain and Romney are mending fences and getting their message out there. We may have Romney on the ticket as VP, who knows? Either way, it looks good for McCain and the Republicans.