Religious Litmus Test, cont.

An anonymous reader writes:

Let's see how far you will go to hide the truth...using the carefully placed words: "likely" & "assume" to suggest what is being said is factual, when, as a matter of fact, is pure twisted speculation to slant things your way. My belief is you will "likely" not allow this post for which I "assume" your more interested in forcing your views on others than delivering facts. I myself lean towards the big bang theory but who really cares? I understand your support of Obama and why you overlook that we are in the state we are in with a D-House and D-Senate, of course it's easier to blame the muttering idiot Bush. Of course somebody in finance would lean towards a leader who wants to keep bailing out the greedy profiteers who really put us in this situation with their "carrot" loans knowing there was no way the majority could ever pay it off...who cares they made their commissions, right? Isn't it time time we stop pointing the finger of blame and take action to stop the insanity. If Barak [sic] has his way we will have a socialized government where nobody will ever recover. He has ideas but no real plans, he talks the talk but there's no proof he can walk the walk. If any of his ideas ever make to reality where does the money to support them come from....more taxes??? Who is going to be there to bail the rest of us working stiffs out when we can't pay our bills after taxes? What's that we don't qualify, there's nothing you can do? Oh yes Mr. Obama...that could work

I have always done my best to present views different from my own (whenever they were presented to me). If this reader were a regular reader of this site he/she would know that.

How this reader went from the issue of religion to a "socialized government" is curious, but I'll take that bait. Just what kind of a government do you think we have now? We may not be living in a socialist society, but the creation in our government of various departments to centralize things like education, health and human services, environmental protection, medicare, Social Security -- my friend David Adams likes to argue with me that these things are not allowable under the Constitution. I happen to disagree.

And yet, here we are today, with a president who fashions himself to be a fiscal conservative, and who for the first six years of his regime enjoyed a House and a Senate that were both Republican-led, who presided over the largest government expansion in history, who has presided over the largest expansion of national debt in history, who took a budget surplus and ravaged that into a record-high budget deficit, who mortgaged the futures of our children and grandchildren to the Chinese so that we could buy oil from Arabs who hate us. And now we're facing the socialization of the finance and mortgage industries for the first time in my life.

For God's sake, the federal government now owns Fannie and Freddie, with nearly $5 trillion in mortgages, and just loaned $85 billion to AIG in exchange for an 80% controlling interest in that public company. If that isn't a form of socialism, I don't know what is. I, for one, sure hope it's temporary! We all know how government can fuck things up.

I will not pretend that Obama has the answers to all these serious matters. However, after seeing the way his opponent has run this campaign, based on distortions and lies that eclipse by far any distortions Obama's campaign has put forth; after seeing how cavalierly he voided his own convictions and selected a political lightweight as his running mate just so he could avoid alienating a powerful, theocratic voting bloc; after listening to him all but promise new wars because that's all he fucking knows; I cannot trust that he will successfully lead this nation where it needs to go. I trust that Obama can do that. The end.