I don’t like to be lied to. I think that’s a trait I share with just about 100% of all Americans. We like to be in the know, we don’t like it when people patronize us or pull the wool over our eyes, and when others lie, we typically get angry. There was that Clinton fallatio business, accusations over Bush’s WMD statements, and that whole Watergate thing. Presidents lie. And we don’t like it.

But usually the lies come post-election. Seldom are lies told during campaign season, because we’d never voluntarily elect a liar, right?

Yeah, if that were the case, McCain would be creaming B.O. instead of clawing his way to a tie. America has been bamboozled into electing a man who is engaging in blatant lies before even being inaugurated.

I’m not talking about the birth certificate rumors or the “Muslim” school accusations or even his ridiculously shady campaign finance (although I can’t promise I won’t harp on that some other time). I’m talking about his economic plan.

You make less than $250,000 a year, right? So you’re among that 95% Obama keeps talking
about, right? The 95% that he promises won’t see any increase whatsoever in taxes? The only people getting taxed are those evil corporate executives, the ones who have the audacity to employ millions of people and stimulate the economy and donate exorbitant amounts to charity. The tax hikes are just for the multi-millionaire professional athletes and movie stars and talk show hosts. And they all seem to be ready and willing to redistribute their wealth. So for the Left and the middle class, Obama’s tax plan is utopian.

If only. Here’s the truth: Obama is not going to raise taxes. Technically. But he is going to allow Bush’s tax cuts to lapse, returning everyone’s tax rates to their 2000 levels, an increase on all 100% of the American people, no matter the income. And that’s an increase you’ll see, even if you’re in that 95% he keeps babbling about. It’s a flat out lie.

Small business owner and political analyst Ned Barnett* did the math for us by taking his 2007 income figures and plugging them into the pre-Bush tax plan, the same state Obama would allow us to return to under his economic “wisdom.” The difference? An increase of $3,824. And he’s a regular, middle-class guy making way under $250k.

So how much will your taxes go up? How much will the single mother’s taxes go up? The schoolteacher’s? The just plain poor? Everyone’s taxes are going up with Barack Obama’s plan, and that’s the truth. While the Obama campaign keeps harping on McCain for his tax cuts for the wealthy, a larger scope reveals that McCain is cutting taxes for everyone. Not a single person will see an increase in their taxes, including the 5% that Obama wants to tax into bitterness. McCain will make Bush’s tax cuts permanent as well as instate his own. He’s going to cut taxes and cut spending, whereas Obama is secretly going to increase both. Do you really think this is the kind of economic irresponsibility we need at the brink of a recession?

ATTENTION HALF OF AMERICA: YOU’RE BEING LIED TO. Wake up and vote for John.

* Check my sources at: http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/senator_obamas_four_tax_increa.html

It’s not over yet.

I thought it was a done deal. I thought Obama had it in the bag, I thought McCain WAS an old bag, and I thought I’d have to move overseas. But a Republican victory could still happen, and I’m going to do everything in my power to assist it.

It took the comment of the stranger to alert me as to how negative and embittered I’ve become in my posts lately. (S)He said something about how I couldn’t be surprised that people in my dorm were lashing out against me when I was sending out so much anger myself. While I am still angry, and very much afraid, I’m starting to see the light at the end of a formerly closed tunnel, and from here on out, my message will be one of hope. Not in the smarmy Barack way, but in a genuine, starry-eyed youth sort of way. If elementary school fluff taught me anything, it’s that dreams are possible, and I can be and do whatever my heart desires. And what I desire now is a McCain triumph, an Obama annihilation, and proof that our country still has two brain cells to bang together.

But Kelly, you might say, I thought you’d given up! After all, the polls show Obama leading, you’re surrounded by his followers everywhere you go, and there’s less than two weeks left ‘til election day!

Maybe this is what the news media, a source that has been unashamedly vocal in their one-sided support, would like everyone to believe, because if our competitiveness gets choked, we’ll give up and hand the crown over to their golden boy. Their sneaky tactics worked well, even fooling me into a temporary, premature defeat. But let us not forget that polls have lied before. If polls were always right, Carter would’ve beaten Reagan, and both Kerry and Gore would’ve beaten Bush Jr. The Electoral College predictions are too close to call right now, and the polls are slowly but surely swaying away from Obama, even if it’s only a percent or two. The race isn’t over.

So to my fellow McCain supporters: don’t shut up and don’t lose faith. Keep campaigning and spreading the word, and don’t you dare stay home and opt out of voting because you think it’ll do no good. And heck, even if we lose, we’ll still know we were right. We’ll all get those bumper stickers that say, “don’t blame me, I voted for McCain,” and everyone else will watch us drive by as they’re waiting in line at public hospitals for hours upon hours or pawning off their jewelry to pay exorbitant taxes or holding their breaths for that first time Obama gets “tested.” We’ll probably be miserable, sure, but we’ll have been right, and that might be all it takes to get us through four years of hell.

Stay strong. I’ll see you at the booths.

Usually when I write about my politics, it comes out a place of agitation or fire or frustration. Today, it’s because I’m scared. I’m starting to get genuinely terrified for the future of our country, and it’s making me sick to my stomach. I’ve got a lump in my throat like I swallowed a tennis ball, I’m shivering under my fleece hoodie, and my hands are almost too cold to type. Physiological fear over US politics. Maybe I’m just obsessing too much over this election, or maybe, just maybe, it really is this bad.

I think it’s really this bad.

I just looked up the current poll numbers from Gallup, and Obama is leading McCain overall by 50 to 42%, well outside the 4% margin of error. Right after McCain announced Palin as his running mate, I felt a surge of confidence that he had victory in the bag, but her freshness wore off far too quickly, and now, as the McCain ticket continues to run an unaggressive campaign, I’m starting to think it’s too late. We’re going to lose. And I feel utterly helpless.

I don’t know what else to do. I’ve been screaming at the top of my lungs for months, but the world has gone deaf, and I am going hoarse. Why doesn’t anyone get it? He’s bad. He’s dangerous. He’s going to be our demise.

It’s not enough that he refuses to salute our flag or wear its pin. It’s not enough that he is the least experienced presidential candidate ever put up for office. It’s not enough that, in a time when I thought we all agreed we needed to start working across the aisle, that he’s the most liberal member of Senate we’ve got. It’s not enough that his long-time mentor repeatedly expressed anti-American and racist, Black Supremacist views. It’s not enough that his very campaign began at a backyard barbeque at the home of a radical 1960s terrorist who still stands by his murderous actions. It’s not enough that he’s gotten generous campaign contributions from a prominent Chicago business criminal. It’s not enough that he vocally supports the banning and censorship of television advertisements and radio programs, solely on the grounds that he disagrees with them. It’s not enough that his economic plan closely resembles one that, less than thirty years ago, proved to be detrimental to America and its citizens. It’s not enough that he openly supports socialist ideals over democratic fundamentals, and it’s certainly not enough that he shares circumstances, slogans, and character traits with the same kinds of men who came to power in places like Germany, fascist Italy, and Cuba.

To those who support this man: what is enough? What else could I possibly tell you to open your eyes? Obama leads 2 to 1 among young voters, and I feel that as a young voter, I’m at liberty to say that this is because, as a whole, we’re naïve and impressionable. We’re jumping on his bandwagon because he’s got hype, he’s got excitement, and he’s got the media’s blessing. But if our generation is the one looking toward the future, trying to make sure things are still good for our children and grandchildren, claiming to be informed and intellectual, then this man is not the one to represent us.

I know I’m just one voice. And I know that I’ve been using my one voice this whole election season and changed a grand total of 5 minds. But I can’t stop trying. My fear won’t let me. So if you’re with me, pass it on. If the McCain campaign won’t get aggressive, we have to. There’s still a solid 28 days until the votes are counted, and until then, I will be writing, talking, and, most of all, praying for a shift in the wind.

Don’t let me do it by myself.