(Washington) Fox News has learned that President-Elect Barack Obama will introduce a emergency bill into Congress that will rid the country of all disaffected voters who have stated that they would leave the United States if he was elected.  If passed the bill would immediately strip the citizenship of those affected subjecting them to immediate deportation.  We have  learned that the U.S State Department is already in negotiations with France to accept all those whose names  appear on the “Obamalist”.  While refusing comment , Obama was heard in a “hot mike” stating:

“I am simply fulfilling the will of those Americans who expressed a desire to no longer live in this country if I am elected.  We will send them to France where they can get a true taste of socialism.”

It is rumored that once on the list, the person would have 30 days prior to being deported  to sell his home  or let it go back to the government for re-sale and  monetary redistribution under his new economic stimulus plan.

French president Nicolas Sarkozy stated that his country welcomed all dissatisfied Americans.  France would be happy to indoctrinate all interested in the true nature of Socialism. He went on to state that  his hot former model wife  Carla Bruni,in the true French socialist tradition and loving thy neighbor would redistribute her “assets” as a welcome to the first American male to arrive.

Details to follow….

I voted for John McCain.  Not because  I did not think Barack Obama could run our country but because I really did not know Barack Obama. I could not get a good feel for what his foreign policy was. That worried me. I was not concerned about his economic policies (save his health insurance proposals which I still feel will close many a small business if implemented as stated). I frankly did not think either he or John McCain would have a significant impact on the economy over the next four years.  New ideas, invention and the entrepreneurial spirit will drive economic change, not vague policies and tax base shifts.  I was however  worried about and still am concerned about his foreign policy.  A lot has been written in the  Jewish community that his is no friend of Israel.  Not because of any animus towards Israel or Jews but because of a rhetorically soft approach to enemies of the United States who are also enemies of Israel.  This is something that concerned me. I knew what John McCain’s Middle East policies were. I was comfortable with them.

John McCain will not be our next President.  The rhetoric is for the history books.  I am ready to give Barack Obama the chance to show that he will continue strong U.S support of Israel’s security and borders as well as all other foreign allies we have long vowed to support in time of need in addition to defending our country against enemies foreign and domestic.  All Jews and Americans everywhere should give him that chance as well.

A lot is being made of the recent hanging of Sarah Palin in effigy.  Fox News is arguing that if the same thing was done with Senator Barack Obama it would be a hate crime.  Senator Obama was hanged in effigy not long ago.  It generated publicity but nowhere near what we are seeing on the Palin hanging.  Interestingly it was done at a private Quaker founded college. It was investigated by the Secret Service, FBI and local authorities.  While many found it offensive no criminal wrongdoing was found.   Here is how  hate crimes are generally defined in states that have laws against them:

Hate crimes are criminal acts or attempted criminal acts against an individual or group of individuals because of their actual or perceived race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, or disability.

Without the intent required to be a hate crime and everything else being equal, I have no problem with effigy hangings for Palin,  Obama, or any other political candidate as long as the intent is political expression.  Hanging in effigy has been a part of political expression and dissent in America pre-dating the Revolutionary war.  I feel safe in stating that the late King George has been hung in effigy more times than George Bush, Barack Obama or Sarah Palin will ever be.  Effigies of President Bush  and other presidents including Abraham Lincoln have been hung and burned throughout history. You have to look at the circumstances and context of the act.  In Palin’s case  the motivation may have been simple Halloween art.  For a effigy hanging to be a hate crime you generally have to prove that the underlying act was criminal AND that the motivation behind it was the person’s race or other protected minority status. This can be very difficult to prove without an clear criminal act attached. There are countless instances throughout history when effigy hangings and similar activities were clearly race and hate related.  Most recently we witnesses the noose hangings surrounding the Jena 6. Those were not political statements. They were statement of racial hatred.

With regards to the Holloween Sarah hanging and any future hangings of political expression, if local officials are able to pull up some local statute relating to community asthetics etc. as a pretext to meet the underlying criminal act requirement I believe that if challenged, they would lose on First Amendment Grounds. The First Amendment potects the offensive as well as the offended.  Just ask Larry Flynt and Jerry Falwell. Let Sarah hang!

A lot is being made of presidential candidate Barack Obama’s connections to ACORN as well as admitted terrorist William Ayers.   The version of the story you get varies widely depending on the media outlet you get your news from.  If you listen to Fox News, you are waiting to hear that Obama wrote the Unibomber Manifiesto for Ted Kaczynksi.   If you listen to MSNBC he is so pure of motive as to be almost oblivious to the world around him.  I have no idea where the truth lies in that black hole void between the two.

Was it a judgment error on Barack Obama’s part to associate with this guy?  On some level you have to say yes.  Is the Ayers connection an error in judgment so catastrophic as to disqualify Barack from the presidency?  I do not think so and I am a McCain supporter.  Where does that leave us?   John McCain has not made serious judgment errors?  Neither will not make a  serious judgment error in 4 years as president?   I expect either one of them to make  at least one much more serious judgment error as President than the Ayers connection.  It is part of making the best decision you can with the information you have at the time.  It is part of being human.

Unless someone shows me evidence that Obama endorses Ayer’s views through words or action past or present or that he has engaged in a  systematic cover-up of his relationship  it is a non-issue to me as to his overall ability to make good decisions as president.  I am much more worried about his lack of experience in foreign policy than his connections to William Ayers.  If he is elected hopefully he will put some great people around him experienced in foreign affairs and listen to them.

ACORN is a different story.  Their tactics in various areas have long been criticized.  We know that Obama represented ACORN in a 1995 lawsuit against the State of Illinois.  No big deal there. That is what lawyers do.  They are now accused of facilitating voter fraud. This is serious business and must be dealt with swiftly and severely.  It appears the federal government agrees.  A Las Vegas ACORN office was raided by the FBI.   ACORN’s position is that they are also a victim and deal with fraud on behalf by their workers as they are made aware.  My response to that is that you only get one ignorance pass.  Once you are put on notice that  fraud is occurring and you continue to do nothing about it your action or inaction is raised to the level of intentionally facilitating the fraud.  I expect to see  Acorn indictments within the next year.

I frankly couldn’t care less about these back and forth accusations. I am waiting for that Tuesday after the first Monday in November where I can wake, up head down to the local 7-11 , get my cup of coffee, get my apple fritter,  head over to the all purpose machine, take out a 100 bucks, buy a roll of stamps, high speed download the latest blockbuster to my iPod, cast my vote, see if I got any dates on Match.com (I was rejected by E-Harmony) and  check my outstanding arrest warrants.