Continue reading »]]> Later this week, HBO launches the latest season of their hit series Entourage, which chronicles the life and times of a Hollywood star and his posse. While I’m sure the writers take some liberties, for entertainment’s sake, in presenting the story lines, I’m convinced that Entourage paints a fairly accurate picture of Hollywood life. Everything I read regarding Hollywood, seems to back-up what the show points out, while Hollywood stars may be idealistic and eager for the “feel good” story at the “feel good” time, they lack the understanding of the real world and the responsibility that goes along with it.

Yet, even so, the elite of Hollywood feel they understand the everyday American citizen. They feel obligated to inject themselves into the middle of political discourse, without the slightest understanding of the policies they seek to debate, and tell us to vote like them. The media loves it; the left-wing blogs love it and they try to convince us that we too should love it and embrace the Hollywood lifestyle and support the Hollywood candidate.

Indeed, Barack Obama represents the values of the Hollywood elite, a value-system rooted in fascism, born of naïve idealism and completely out-of-touch with mainstream America. Throughout his campaign, Obama has referenced that he works for “Main Street” and not “Wall Street”, implying that he cares for the common man. However, his words ring hollow. What proof do we have of this?

Is it not more accurate to say that Mr. Obama works more for Hollywood Boulevard and Sunset Strip than Main Street, U.S.A.? Every time I see this candidate, he’s surrounded by some no-talent ass clown (see Sheryl “One Ply-One Square-For-My-Poo Poo” Crow) or some pretentious prick that might actually have talent, but is even more out of touch with American society (see Sean Penn). Yet I’m supposed to believe that Obama cares about the middle class?

This is what Ann Hathaway would have you believe. In an inteview with MSNBC.com, during the Democratic National Convention, Hathaway talks of the need to “build-up the middle class” and eliminate the disparity between the super rich and the poor.  Hathaway never has experienced middle-class lifestyle, so she can’t really speak on the issue; however, this is a typical Democratic tatic–talk down to the common and try to impress them with the ability to relate.  Perhaps next time Hathaway can focus more on the qualities of her potential male suitors and focus less on politics she can’t comprehend.

Obama tells us that his is the story of America, but he continues to mingle with an ultra-leftist, highly elitist, fringe element of society that functions on their own terms. They lack structure and discipline in their own lives and need a strong paternal force in their lives, so they look towards the government and/or drugs, alcohol, women, because they could never make it alone. They assume that all Americans are co-dependant as well and try to force us to accept their newest vice–big government. Just as the cocaine they snort will destroy their private relationships and personal lives, the big government they yearn for will also destroy lives, but this time the destruction will include the freedoms and liberties of every American.

Simply put, Hollywood needs Barack Obama and his socialism–America does not.

Continue reading »]]> Four years ago, I sat glued to the television as a then state senator, Barrack Obama, addressed the 2004 Democratic National Convention. I’ve written extensively on how Obama’s speech moved me to tears and the way it charged me to join the campaign for John Kerry. As a young, self-styled intellectual, Obama’s nuanced world view spoke directly to my progressive values system.

At that time, I felt that Obama represented a branch of political theory that would lead to a more just and equitable society, one based on freedom and liberty. Eventually, I realized that his ideology was the antithesis of these ideas.

You see, both parties are filled with idiots. The “Rapture Right” theocrats that occupy the Republican Party represent a threat as great as the socialists that dominate the Democratic Party. Both sides get it wrong, attempting to use government as a tool to further their own agendas. Without a doubt, I agree with more of the Democratic Party’s platform, especially on social issues, but it’s the foundation of the Democratic Party—government is a tool that should be used to better society—that prohibits anything good ever coming from the Party or its’ candidates.

Obama’s previous area of expertise, “community organizing,” should tell you all you need to know about the man and his principles—a general contempt for free-market capitalism and those who choose to participate in it, which at its’ very core is a rejection of the just and equitable society, based on freedom and liberty, I spoke about earlier.

The government that prevents a citizen from maximizing the profits of his or her business, or the government that looks at a certain economic class and says, “you’re not paying your fair share; we’re going to take more from you,” tramples on the Constitution just as much as the government that seeks to limit the rights of minorities, discriminates against homosexuals, limits the reproductive rights of women, censors books, music and/or movies, etc. Likewise, the government that tells you how many miles per gallon your car must get, what temperature to set your thermostat, how your restaurant must prepare its’ food or whether or not the patrons of your bar can enjoy a cigarette with their cocktails, respects the ideas of “freedom” and “liberty” no more than the government that limits free speech, religious expression or gun ownership rights.

All across the board—capital gains tax, dividend tax, income tax, inheritance tax—Mr. Obama seeks to raise the rate of taxation. Indeed, Obama and his cohorts feel so strongly about their agenda for the government and their would-be administration that they feel they need to institute new taxes based on the size of your home, how much natural gas and other natural resources you use, taxes on your retirement accounts and even new taxes on the already obscene price of gasoline—the audacity of this man and his fucking taxes!

More taxes mean more government; more government means more problems. As Ronald Reagan said, the eight most frightening words in the English language are, “we’re the government and we’re here to help!”

Inevitably, I would raise hell at a gathering of modern day Republicans. I’m pro-choice, pro-gay rights, anti-Patriot Act, against capital punishment and I believe the “war on drugs” is a joke, but I have a solid belief in the foundation of the Republican Party, that is a political philosophy based on a limited government and of free market capitalism.

You see, we achieve justice when we achieve equality. Equality can only be achieved absent the heavy hand of a paternal government. Equality begins with each individual recognizing no person is entitled to anything outside the realm of the Constitution and accepts the responsibility for his or her own actions. Equality begins with the individual recognizing that responsibility extends beyond the individual and into the community. Equality cannot be legislated, for once the government gets involved, one party will be held above another and justice becomes an impossibility.

Four years ago, Barack Obama came before the Democratic National Convention to share with us his story. It was a poignant, well-crafted story, delivered to lay the ground work for an agent of change. Tonight, Obama took the stage at the Democratic National Convention, as his story came full circle, and I now see it as a “tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”