The Failing Economy: A Convenient Truth for Obama

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I am thoroughly convinced that should BO win this election, it will be in large part because of this economy failing like it has in the past several weeks. The timing became the perfect storm for the Obama campaign. Unfortunately, the party occupying the Oval Office gets the blame when the economy falters, undeservingly, and it gets undue credit when it soars. The election was looking pretty tight until the stock market plummeted and these financial institutions began to fail.

Now the media is really trying to play up that Palin is the reason Mac is behind in the polls. If they lose, the media will spend months talking about how religious conservatism is the reason the GOP lost the 2006 elections and this election embodied in the person of Sarah P. They will work to define the loss in this way. They want to try to make religious conservatives look uneducated, unqualified and undeserving of high office. They will seek to convince the powers that be within the GOP that religious conservatives are killing the party, that the GOP needs to move more to the center.

We would not even be talking about an Obama presidency at this point if the economy had not tanked like it did in late September. The fact that the election was neck and neck up to that point did not bode well for the BO campaign. The game changer has been the siesmic quaking on Wall Street.

Sadly the most important issue of our time will be ignored or looked upon as as a secondary matter. The American economy has faltered before and it had rebounded every time. If you view the stock market returns for the past 100+ years you will see that the American economy and its entrepeneurial spirit always recovers in due time. The economy is at the forefront of this campaign season b/c of its proximity while the most important issue of our time gets swept back into the periphery.

The War on Terror is the issue of our time. People may argue how it has been waged, but ultimately there has not been another 9/11 type attack on our soil since. There hasn't even been anything remotely similar to 9/11 that has occured with several potentially disasterous plans of attack foiled by our intelligence services, military, and other government security agencies. You can argue the War in Iraq and the War in Afghanistan all you want, but you can't argue the end result. We have been secure, we have been safe, and we have been able to live our lives uninterrupted since 9/11.

Now imagine an Obama presidency and the track record of recent Democrat administrations and their approach to our intelligence agencies, military, foreign policy, and specifically dealing with terrorism. Unless BO is cut from a different cloth and his advisors espouse a new philosophy from the modern Democrat Party concerning national security and what it takes protect all of us, the economy may take a quick backseat to the issues we will have to deal with under their oversight.

Under Jimmy Carter, the seeds of all that we are dealing with in the Middle East were sown with his inept handling of the Iranian Revolution, the fall of the Shah, the hostage crisis and the bungled rescue attempt.

Under Clinton Al-Qaeda grew in influence and was emboldened as they bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, the African embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the USS Cole in Yemen, killing our ambassador in Jordan, killing our troops in Somalia during the infamous "Black Hawk Down" incident and our response was nothing more than a few cruise missles launched here and there. Bin-Laden admitted publicly that he was convinced America did not have the will or the courage to fight after the Somalia situation and was strengthened in his resolve after the Clinton Administration sought to treat him as an international criminal, seeking to "arrest" him and to handle him through jurisprudence.

Clinton was offered Bin-Laden on a silver platter by the Sudanese government, but Clinton was afraid of violating international law, citing that he did not have the legal means to work out such a deal.

The Clinton Justice Department tinkered with the intelligence agencies building the "wall" between the FBI and CIA so that shared intelligence was difficult to obtain and creating the environment that kept an FBI agent who had leads on Saudis in flight schools in Phoenix from sharing that info with the CIA who had intel that Al-Qaeda had been talking about doing such things.

Clinton attempted to meddle with the military as a social experiment seeking to lift the ban on gays in the military. If not for a huge political reaction from the public, it would be much worse than the "don't ask, don't tell" policy of today. Defense budgets were cut, morale was low and many good men and women bailed out of the military through early retirement or out of sheer frustration because of the changes and alterations employed by these leaders who during the 60s and 70s openly admitted "loathing" the military, encouraged dodging the draft, protested the Vietnam War and labeled our troops and Vietnam veterans as traitors and murderers in the tradition of Ghengis Khan.

How will Obama approach the War on Terror? How will he approach funding the military? How will he approach the most imortant issue of our time? Will he be surrounded by advisors who were 60s radicals? Will he embrace notions that our nation is just as guilty as the terrorists because of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Will he be encouraged by his advisors to experiment with the military? Will they cut the defense budget and weaken our Armed Forces, our intelligence agencies, our Homeland Security and make us more vulnerable? when the Dems have been in power, they have not proven that they are capable commanders-in-chief and handle military issues well.

Biden's speech is an admittance that BO does not have the experience to deal with international crises. He intimated that BO will depend on those he has surrounded himself with to help him navigate through troubled waters.

The sad truth is that many Americans are goiing to vote because of the failing economy, blaming the GOP (which is highly debatable) and voting for BO as a result, overlooking the mosdt important issue of our time. Our enemies want to destroy us. They want to kill every "infidel" in America, every man, woman, boy and girl. Should they only succeed in killing hundreds, thousands or millions, the state of the economy will pale in comparison to the insecurity, the fear and the anguish that will paralyze our nation as a result. And indirectly will even further erode our economy in the process, more than anything Wall Street CEOs and corrupt DC politicians could do.