Election (Primary) Day

Today is election day. You absolutely must get out and vote today!

Don't know where to vote? Indianapolis residents, click below to find your polling location. Residents elsewhere, click here.



Send me your comments. Joe

AJA Press

My Predictions for the Next Four Years

Should Barack Obama fulfill four years as President of the United States, I believe we're going to see some interesting and some very troubling things throughout his Presidency. These are my predictions:

• Republicans will regain control of the Senate in a huge landslide in 2010. The Democratic majority in the House of Representatives will narrow so much (in 2010) as to make it an insignificant majority.
  
• Barack Obama will make several token appointments (or offers of appointments) to Republicans and/or Independents in an attempt to cross party lines (thinking of the 2012 re-election campaign). Most (if not all) of those bi-partisan appointments will resign before the midterm elections.
• Barack Obama will speak about making amendments to the Constitution early in his Presidency. Congress might even concur and support prior to midterms, but the states will not vote to ratify.
• Barack Obama's first budget proposal will include federal funding for stem cell research, federal funding to help unwed mothers pay for abortion procedures, federal funding to schools for sex education programs and contraception programs (he'll describe it as a program intended to reduce teen pregnancy) as well as contraception programs for low income women.
• Obama's tax cut plan for the middle class will be lost among tax increases to fund increased spending and his plan to increase taxes on the wealthy to provide credits to the poor. The middle class will never see a tax cut under an Obama Presidency.
• We will find ourselves in an energy crisis similar to the Carter years, as Obama will refuse to drill offshore, will tax coal companies into near oblivion, and the country's reliance upon foreign oil will become crippling.
• America will return to an Affirmative Action state, with preferential employment for blacks and hispanics mandated and enforced through tax credits and penalties. Whites will begin to become the oppressed class.
• Obama will push legislation providing even more protection to the credit unworthy than the Community Reinvestment Act. This plan will include protection for credit card borrowers, added mortgage protection for struggling homeowners, and socialized medicine. If acted upon before the midterm election, the bill will see several rewrites in both houses of Congress and the final version will include protection from credit card debt, mortgage debt, and medical debt, but will fall short of instituting socialized medicine.
• Early in an Obama administration, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will announce her resignation. With a Democrat controlled Congress, Obama will nominate an extreme liberal to replace her on the bench, and Congress will confirm her nomination (yes, a woman, and likely a black or hispanic woman) quickly. Justice John Paul Stevens will either die or fall seriously ill and be forced to retire from the bench, resulting in a second speedily confirmed Obama liberal to the bench. The repercussions will be felt for decades.
• The now liberal government will attempt to prosecute President Bush and Vice President Cheney for war crimes.
• As more states enact legislation legalizing gay marriage, the Supreme Court will refuse to hear suits to ban it, resulting in gay marriage sweeping the nation on the state level. I would expect to see additional vacancies to the Supreme Court result in more liberal appointments and further Court action to legalize gay marriage on a national level.
• Private schools and home schooling will suffer greatly under the weight of mandated sex education, to include mandated education that homosexuality is normal and okay. Home schoolers will go underground and faith based private schools will be forced to comply or be shut down. Public education will become over-crowded due to the lack of private schools and home schooling issues, resulting in poor education across the country.
• Obama will attempt to fulfill his campaign promise on the Iraq war and will attempt to withdraw troops within 17 months. The progress of redeployment will be halted as terrorist elements will stage a dual attack on American troops in Iraq and on American soil. Obama will be forced to return redeployed troops to the region to restabilize Iraq and the middle east, and will order National Guard units to deploy on American soil in response to the attacks here. Martial Law will be all but officially declared in the new ground zero.
• I do have a prediction about Obama's promise to meet without preconditions with leaders of Iran, North Korea, etc., but I think it prudent to exclude that prediction from this article for now.

I could go on and on, but it will only begin to sound more spectacular. I think we will see much more than we can even imagine at this point in American history. Most importantly, after the Republicans resume some parity (and possibly control) in Congress, we will see a Republican President returned to the White House in 2012. Much of the damage caused by an Obama administration will take several decades to reverse as a liberal Supreme Court will continue to legislate their liberal agenda from the bench.

It will be at least a generation before we see one party control of the Executive and Legislative branches again.

God Bless America (please). We are going to need it!

Don't believe me? Bookmark this page and check my accuracy over the next four years.

Your comments?

Joe

podsafe music network | ioda promonet | magnatune | airplay direct
ariel publicity | kennedy resource development | populuxe records | indie heaven
miles high productions | iris distribution | chavis records | after hours music

Early Results Favor Obama

Early results in the Presidential race do not look good. It is still very early, and just an hour ago CNN projections had John McCain in the lead, so things can change any way at any time. It's far too early to call the entire race, and it's too early to call most of the states. 

The map above shows projected wins and leads as of 8:30 PM on Election Day. The dark red and blue are projected wins by CNN, while the light red and blue are current leads based on precincts reporting.

Polls are still open in most west coast states, Alaska and Hawaii. Now is the time for Republican voters who haven't voted to get out to the polls and cast their votes for John McCain. If you haven't voted yet, please don't hesitate any longer. I'll be posting an article later of my predictions of what the country can expect to see over the next four years should Barack Obama win the Presidency. I can tell you now, it isn't pretty. In fact, it's pretty scary.

Get out there and vote West Coast states! John McCain needs you! America needs you!

Your comments?

Joe

podsafe music network | ioda promonet | magnatune | airplay direct
ariel publicity | kennedy resource development | populuxe records | indie heaven
miles high productions | iris distribution | chavis records | after hours music

The Case Against Early Voting

Now that the first polls will be closing in less than an hour, here are my thoughts on early voting. It isn't smart voting. It isn't a wise program. Why?

Imagine casting your vote for the candidate of your choice roughly a month before election day. Let's say that neither candidate is quite what you would choose, but you choose the lesser of what you consider to be two evils. I'm not saying that's the case this election cycle, just an example. So you've made your choice based on who you think will do the least harm to the country. Faced with reports of expected record turnout and long lines at the polls, and quite possibly the prospect that your employer won't afford you the time off to vote on election day, you decide to cast your vote early.

Then, two weeks before election day, two weeks after you cast your early vote, an "October surpise" comes out -- serious allegations of misconduct committed by your candidate. Documented evidence is uncovered that the candidate you cast an early ballot for very likely is guilty of something that you find extremely offensive.

Now what? It's too late for you to change your vote. It's too late for you to decide that your "lesser of two evils" was actually the greater of two evils. Even though election day is still two weeks away, it's too late for you to make a fully informed voting decision.

This has no bearing at this point on today's election. And I admit that the scenario above is quite extreme. However, it is not at all implausible. Stranger things have happened (remember 2000?).

It is for this reason that I think early voting should be eliminated. I am fully in favor of the original system of absentee ballots, which allowed any citizen to request a ballot and cast their vote in advance of election day if they were not able to be in their precinct to cast a ballot in person on election day. In fact, the first ballot I ever cast was by absentee while serving in the U.S. Army. Absentee ballots are essential, and used to be controlled and used only for verifiable absentee reasons.

Early voting? It's a sham! Why do you think Barack Obama invested so much time and energy in encouraging voters to vote early for him? Because once cast, an early ballot cannot be undone. Should we have actually learned the truth (as I suspect it) about Barack Obama, or identified his culpability in ACORN voter fraud, or discovered that his birth certificate was indeed a forgery, it would be too late for you to change your vote. What then? You either voted for a criminal in the White House, or should he have been removed from the ballot, you voted for Joe Biden. Neither option, to me, is attractive.

I encourage you, fellow Americans, not to fall prey to the sham of early voting in future elections. Your vote is a valuable asset that should not be taken lightly. Don't take the chance of throwing it away by casting it early.

Your comments?

Joe

podsafe music network | ioda promonet | magnatune | airplay direct
ariel publicity | kennedy resource development | populuxe records | indie heaven
miles high productions | iris distribution | chavis records | after hours music