by Clay Barham

Isn't it great to watch TV every day and see one or both of the major party salesmen on the stump, promising Americans everything, except that given us over 200 years ago. The media, citing extremism, will properly dress down the first one mentioning the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights.  It's OK, however, to stand for the Marxists liberation theology and the Marxists environmental theology, but never for individual freedom.  Neither major party candidate has seen fit to recognize the interests of individuals over those of the community.

Barack has his feet firmly rooted in Marxist thinking and his church's liberation theology, but he can depart from it long and far enough to attract voters from the uncaring, uneducated middle.  McCain is also trying to attract votes from the middle, but has a difficult time of it because he is not firmly rooted in anything resembling a political thought process.  His votes and positions in Congress have proven it, as well as his stand on global warming.  It might be proper to say McCain is a "Gorist."

They are both like snake oil salesmen offering promises and pledges of one gift or another to whomever goes their way.  In American politics, however, it was always the norm for candidates to pledge to keep Americans and America free, as a nation, as states and as individuals.  It was never the purpose of candidates, at least before the 20th century, to promise gifts taken from the treasury, of bringing one kind of person down to satisfy the envy of another with more communal clout.  What makes it even more absurd is that the problems they promise to cure; they created, along with their grubby compatriots from both political parties.

The only thing that would attract me is a candidate who says, I'll push government back to the Constitution, back to the state and local levels, back to the control of the people being governed.  I'll vote for him or her if they say they'll vote against any law that takes control of my property and bank accounts from me, and vote yes for any law that gives them back, once taken. Ill vote for any politician supporting how great I am, not that he or she is greater. 

Is that extremist?

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