Focus on the Family Action’s Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America. This hilarious letter basically takes every major problem that could happen short of the apocalypse and blames all of it on Barack Obama. Here are some of the more interesting nuggets:
The Supreme Court in 2011 nullified all Federal Communications Commission restrictions on obscene speech or visual content in radio and television broadcasts. As a result, television programs at all hours of the day contain explicit portrayals of sexual acts.
I didn’t know that the only thing holding back hard-core pornography on the television was the FCC. I guess we all really want to watch porn all day – as this is what these people think the market would ask for, if left to it’s own devices. Thank goodness for the wise, powerful and all-moral FCC.
A Taliban-like oppression has taken over in Iraq, and hundreds of thousands of “American sympathizers” have been labeled as traitors, imprisoned, tortured, and killed. The number put to death may soon reach the millions.
Leaving Iraq of course will lead to a new holocaust in the country.
President Obama directed U.S. intelligence services to cease all wiretapping of alleged terrorist phone calls unless they first obtained a warrant for each case… Since 2009, terrorist bombs have exploded in two large and two small U.S. cities, killing hundreds, and the entire country is fearful, for no place seems safe.
Oh no! Now government has to get a warrant for wiretaps! Because of this four bombs have gone off – if only we had given the government more of our civil liberties!
In mid-2010, Iran launched a nuclear bomb that exploded in the middle of Tel Aviv, destroying much of that city
Which of these countries will have nukes in 2012: Iran or Israel? Hint: one of them already has them, and has made multiple threats to use them against ther other? Hint: it’s not Iran.
As a result, those evangelical publishers could no longer distribute any of their books through any of these bookstore chains. Any Christian publisher that dares to print works critical of homosexual behavior faces the same fate. As a result, several Christian publishers have gone out of business.
Ahh! Christian publishers, many of which publish heresy anyway, are out of business? How is the church going to make money? Next we’ll find out that president Obama was stealing from the collection plate too?
A coming scandal?
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Socialism, Sarah Palin style:
For her part, Sarah Palin, who has lately taken to calling Obama “Barack the Wealth Spreader,” seems to be something of a suspect character herself.
She is, at the very least, a fellow-traveller of what might be called socialism with an Alaskan face. The state that she governs has no income or sales tax. Instead, it imposes huge levies on the oil companies that lease its oil fields. The proceeds finance the government’s activities and enable it to issue a four-figure annual check to every man, woman, and child in the state. One of the reasons Palin has been a popular governor is that she added an extra twelve hundred dollars to this year’s check, bringing the per-person total to $3,269.
A few weeks before she was nominated for Vice-President, she told a visiting journalist—Philip Gourevitch, of this magazine—that “we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.”
Perhaps there is some meaningful distinction between spreading the wealth and sharing it (“collectively,” no less), but finding it would require the analytic skills of Karl the Marxist.
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Not only has this party belittled working people in this campaign from Joe the Plumber to the bitter comments, it has also been part of tearing down two female candidates. At first, certain Democrats and the press called Senator Clinton “dishonest.” They went after her cleavage. They said her experience as First Lady consisted of having tea parties. There was no outrage over “Bros before Hoes” or “Iron My Shirt.” Did Senator Clinton make mistakes? Of course. She’s human.
But here we are about a week out and it’s déjà vu all over again… Governor Palin and I don’t agree on a lot of things, mostly social issues. But I have grown to appreciate the Governor…
I was dead wrong about the surge and thought it would be a disaster. Senator John McCain led when many of us were ready to quit. Yet we march on as if nothing has changed, wedded to an old plan, and that too is a long way from the Democratic Party.
I can no longer justify what this party has done and can’t dismiss the treatment of women and working people as just part of the new kind of politics. It’s wrong and someone has to say that…
“Leaving Iraq of course will lead to a new holocaust in the country.”
While this letter is absurd, the part about genocide/holocaust in Iraq is quite possible. Anyone who honestly looks at history knows that this is a real possibility, just look at Vietnam and the destruction our retreat caused.
“Any Christian publisher that dares to print works critical of homosexual behavior faces the same fate. As a result, several Christian publishers have gone out of business.”
This is a very real threat, but it has nothing to do with Obama. It’s already happening in Canada and elsewhere.
“While this letter is absurd, the part about genocide/holocaust in Iraq is quite possible. Anyone who honestly looks at history knows that this is a real possibility, just look at Vietnam and the destruction our retreat caused.”
Was it really our retreat that caused this destruction? Couldn’t we just as easily say that destruction would have taken place even if we had never gone in the first place?
The Iraq situation is different, of course, in that the U.S. did initiate conflict in the beginning. So as far as cause and effect go, the U.S. cannot be divorced from anything that happens as a result of the provocation and occupation. So whether a “holocaust” takes place while the U.S. remains an occupier or after occupation, the U.S. government must take at least some responsibility.
My favorite part was Russia conquering Eastern Europe with no opposition…
Hey, some of Tom Clancy’s plotlines were more ridiculous than this, and I didn’t see anyone complaining about those! Of course, he doesn’t really name specific political candidates in his works of pure fiction, but maybe focus on the family wrote this before they’d ever heard that there really WAS a guy named “Obama” running for office and it was just too late to edit it before publication. I’m sure this is all just a big mixup…
Oh, and Alaska is without question the most socialist state in the nation. No other state so completely mirrors Obama’s plan of negative taxes for the lower and middle classes. This is actually such an obvious point I’m surprised it needs mentioning. Isn’t everyone aware that both candidates this year are strongly socialist? McCain just has fewer socialist programs he wants to implement at present, but fundamentally there aren’t a lot of differences.
Obama used to take the ridiculous position that he could quickly pull out of Iraq, but now has retreated to a saner position. Both candidates want to implement universal health care, though Obama’s program is likely more expensive and more universal. McCain wants to cut taxes when we have a deficit, and Obama wants to raise taxes on those making over $250k and have negative taxes for the poor. A lot of studies suggest that negative taxes are actually a cheaper form of welfare than what government normally does, though arguably that’s because there’s less oversight.
The main difference comes down to the fact that McCain wants to cut taxes on corporations and the wealthy, while Obama has said he want to raise them even if doing so reduces tax revenues and hurts the economy (for fairness). I also like McCain’s support for nuclear power and his opposition of abortion. What I’d really like is either candidate to manage foreign policy, and for Ron Paul to manage domestic policy. Maybe its time we broke the executive powers down so that we can get best of breed for each cabinent posting. (It would also be cool if we could vote to dissolve extraneous government departments.)
The US war in Vietnam and support of dictatorships for the years before was much more horrendous, atrocious and led to more casualties than “leaving” ever did. In fact, I would suggest that the US at least shares blame for the post-war deaths as we (along with the French) completely screwed up that country.
The war alone led to 3-4 million deaths.