O, Scary

During the recently concluded Presidential campaigns, I was asked several times my opinion of the two candidates.

With my Republican history, most questioners likely knew which way I "leaned" already, but I may have surprised some by responding: "Frankly, Obama SCARES me!"

He did during the campaign, in spite of the lack of "vetting" by the mainstream news media. I don't know what most voters do, but one thing I do is actually to listen when candidates speak.

I know. I know. What a concept!!

It is sometimes surprising just how much candidates reveal of their views and personal guiding values when they make speeches. Even more revelations usually slip out during one-on-one interviews.

Perhaps others did too, but early on, I perceived that Barak Hussein Obama is at least a socialist -- perhaps even a communist.

Witness only two events, though there are numerous others.

In his conversation with "Joe, The Plumber", Obama expressed his desire to "redistribute wealth" - a scary socialistic idea. Actually the very words come from Karl Marx himself. Taking the hard-earned income of those who work to support themselves and their families, or even to build some weath of their own, and arbitrarily re-distrubute it to others who've not earned it, is communistic socialism . . . actually . . . the epitome of their economic views.

The other happened this week, less than one full week since the election. Obama, in a very "underreported" event, apparently directly contacted the Russian Prime Minister, Putin. We don't know the entire conversation, of course, and may never be privy to all of it, but the part reported today is really scary to me, and IMO SHOULD scare the pants off every security conscious American.

Obama promised the Russian leader that he would not deploy the defensive missile shield in eastern Europe, planned and negotiated by President George Bush. The placement of missiles in eastern Europe is designed to protect former member nations of the Soviet Union, as well as NATO nations from potential attacks from rogue nations - including Russia - though Russia has been left unstated.

Putin has opposed this anti-missile deployment as an "agression" against the Russians, which it clearly is not!

Even if we give him the benefit of the doubt, Obama is misguided in making this promise, for more than one reason.

Foremost is that those nations will now be unprotected from Russian agression, practically inviting Putin to roll his tanks back into Georgia, and the other nations who left the Soviet Union, killing thousands of innocents. Russia has been looking with greedy eyes on those oil-rich countries ever since they lost control of them when the Iron Curtain came down on their final act.

Almost as important is the fact that Obama has begun performing "presidential acts" before he actually is in office.

This is an affront to the Office of President, and unprecedented in my memory. Often, incoming Presidents-elect express their views or things that they plan to do when they've actually assumed office, but never do I recall their taking action as though they were already President.

This is the height of arrogance and ill manners. It borders on treason, undermining years of careful planning and delicate negotiations by President Bush and his foreign ministers.

Sadly, innocent people will pay the price. Perhaps even for generations to come.