In this presidential election year, our choice is clear, the issues serious and the outcome important. Emotions will be high and it is likely the debate acrimonious. One wishes the opposite would be true; an important election especially should be held with a serious debate based on issues.
In hindsight, the debates in 2008 should have been more meaningful and the choice clearer. That they were not was due to the controversy over the war in Iraq, an inept Republican organization and a Democratic campaign based on vague promises of "hope and change".
After more than three years of the Obama presidency, we now know what "hope and change" really means and where the President wants to lead the country. In this year of 2012, the choice before us is very clear. Are we to have a society headed by a large and powerful central government or are we to have a smaller, limited government with enumerative powers and a meaningful federal system as the Founding Fathers intended?
For make no mistake, the reelection of Barack Obama will put us further down the road to a larger, more powerful national government to the detriment of the Constitution, our liberty and our very future.
In hindsight, the debates in 2008 should have been more meaningful and the choice clearer. That they were not was due to the controversy over the war in Iraq, an inept Republican organization and a Democratic campaign based on vague promises of "hope and change".
After more than three years of the Obama presidency, we now know what "hope and change" really means and where the President wants to lead the country. In this year of 2012, the choice before us is very clear. Are we to have a society headed by a large and powerful central government or are we to have a smaller, limited government with enumerative powers and a meaningful federal system as the Founding Fathers intended?
For make no mistake, the reelection of Barack Obama will put us further down the road to a larger, more powerful national government to the detriment of the Constitution, our liberty and our very future.