IN MY SHOES: Call Me Selfish, But I Will Not Vote For Obama
By CQC
Special To The Stiletto Blog
I cannot figure out why The Washington Post puts Colbert King's column in the “A” section rather than the “Metro” section, where it belongs. This week’s column, “A High-Stakes Election for Mid-Term Fenty,” discusses
As is the case with most of his columns, this one focuses on local D.C. issues, not national issues. Only folks in D.C. who believe that venturing outside the Beltway is an adventure could possibly believe that these issues should concern everyone else:
Tuesday's local election results will have a heavy bearing on the political future of an elected official whose name is not on the ballot.
That person, you may think, is at-large D.C. Council member Carol Schwartz, who was defeated in the September Republican primary and is now waging an uphill write-in campaign.
But she is not the D.C. politician with the most riding on Tuesday's voting.
That distinction belongs to first-term Mayor Adrian Fenty.
At stake is Fenty's ability to effectively govern during his next two years in office. …
While their target is Schwartz's seat, their instrument of attack is Michael Brown, a Democrat-turned-independent who is running as an at-large candidate.
They expect Brown, if elected, to align himself with council members Marion Barry (D-Ward 8), Kwame Brown (D-At Large), Harry Thomas Jr. (D-Ward 5), Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7) and council Chairman Vincent Gray (D) -- all of whom, except from Kwame Brown, have endorsed Michael Brown. They also are counting on Phil Mendelson (D-At Large), the Fenty administration's most outspoken critic, to side with the Barry Five on important votes. Should that come to pass, presto: a seven-member majority.
To make matters worse, there's bad blood between the mayor and Brown.
Thanks to Fenty going all the way to the Supreme Court in his ultimately unsuccessful effort to defend D.C.’s handgun ban you probably know who he is. But it’s not likely that you know – or care – who Carol Schwartz, Kwame Brown and the others are. Still, King’s columns can be instructive of D.C. politics, as practiced by liberal Democrats – and the methods and results can be extrapolated to national politics.
In particular, the utopian society “delivered” to residents by Fenty and the D.C. council is an excellent analogy for the fate of
I heard one supporter gush that as president, the Great Barack Obama will enable citizens are to fill gas up their cars, pay their mortgages and get universal health care coverage.
To deliver this utopia, the Great Barack Obama will have to ensure that pesky, selfish Americans financially support those who need help with these basic necessities – you know, the ones who have dropped out of school, use and/or sell drugs, keep having children out of wedlock and can’t seem to get or hold down a job, whose plights King documents week in and week out. (Naturally, this redistributive “economic justice” will, no doubt, be delivered efficiently without waste, corruption, or excess, just as the D.C. Child and Family Services currently performs its tasks (as ably described by King week in and week out).
The Great Barack Obama has achieved success beyond the wildest dream of any community organizer or first-term senator who has ever harbored a secret desire to become president by pandering to people’s desire to get something for nothing. Those of us who believe in the Great Barack Obama’s vision of utopia – which can be realized only by sticking it to the “rich” – will vote for him. Realists like me who believe that utopia exists only in the afterlife will likely vote for John McCain.
The polls are volatile in these final days leading to Election Day, so it remains to be seen whether utopians outnumber realists.
Editorial Note: CQC, a regular reader of this blog, is a husband and father to a teenage daughter and son, who lives in northern VA and works as a scientist for the Department of Defense.
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