moveon.org ... recent history presents a clearer story

I have forever been confused about the purpose of moveon.org since Bush is no longer president. In fact, while the people closest to Al Gore claim he was the first to get over having flat out lost the presidential election of his life, his perspectives on moveon.org were quite telling with regard to the erroneous nature of such a claim. But that is neither here nor there. The inevitable nature of cyclical presidential elections coupled with term limits requires that the nation "move on" regardless of all of the ego-stoking and back-patting that went on with that group once Obama became president. They seemed to forget the fact that the country had to move on. In a similar vein I was thinking about demanding a new election in four years and claiming a victory when it inevitably happens. Anyway, I digress... but into the topic of this email:

The new history of the so far short lived regime of President Barack Obama has proved out that some of the very accusations leveraged against John McCain have become policies under the new president.

Let's quickly go through a couple examples:

McCain will escalate Iraq. "We think it's time to hold John McCain accountable for his support of escalation," says Moveon. Remarkably, they are fine with war mongering and escalation under President Obama.

McCain wants six more months to focus on Iraq to bring it toward closure. MoveOn said this was six months more than we should be there. Interestingly enough, Pres. Obama has decided to bring an end to the conflict in Iraq... in 18 months... AND THEN... leave around 50,000 troops there for at least 12 more months, but rebranding that period of the war, calling it "anti-terrorism."

So what is MoveOn up to now, you ask? Well, they are promoting public opinion that President Obama's budget is helpful in a number of ways and they are focusing their "MoveOn" power to ...make people feel good about spending all that money. That's right... "Hey everybody... we need to MOVE ON to feeling good about spending federal money. It is critical you pass the word in this major issue of social injustice! Quick! We need this campaign to be a success and we will measure that success when... the government spends that money?"

I think MoveOn is basically proving that they are not about defending Americans against injustice inside the borders, or providing a ballanced perspective, but that they are simply fanboys for a particular political agenda. And that agenda is the worst kind of agenda. An agenda that criminalizes certain behavior in one demonized person only to forgive it and accept it in another is simply unreasonable.

I have to believe that folks who read my blog would agree. If we should feel bad about McCain's association with certain decisions and behavior and as a result TAKE ACTION, then why are we not being told to TAKE ACTION against Pres. Obama for associating himself with those same decisions and behavior. Get ready to be sick:

If you thought that you were following after a higher ideal only to be bate-and-switched, then understand that you were just a sucker for marketing that rebranded the win-at-all-costs mentality.

Seriously... do the math:

The strictly Democrat plans that are being set into motion in the country under Pres. Obama are (1) incredibly costly, (2) putting more power into the hands of the federal government, (3) putting American healthcare into the hands of the people who nearly destroyed Social Security and these are considered Democrat party successes? The other stuff: National Security, war in Iraq, war in Afghanistan, handling Iran are all under a lot of public scrutinty simply because the new administration is adopting staff and perspectives that they campaigned against!

Here is my four your prediction:

• We will be in Iraq doing "war" for at least 30 months (that's 18 months of war + 12 months of war re-branded),
  
  
• Guantanemo Bay will be closed (and most of those being held in Guantanemo will be moved to other prisons in an effort to "re-brand" the effort... seeing a common thread),
  
  
• National security will grow ( working with government in DC affords me the ability to see the increase in military spending from the inside...what Bush set into motion was a good thing and the investment continues)
  
  
• Increased power to the Federal Government through Federal Programming will be nearly impossible to reverse and so will set us on a schedule and pattern of increased national endebtedness (rather than encouraging Americans to "live within their means," the Federal Government will throw in the towel and make it impossible to do so as a country)
  
  
• People will grow weary of the new administrations policy of more open information disclosure as they realize it is inpenitrably mixed with political agenda and propoganda.