Can't be said any better...

....than by my friend Robert Holland, who has been unfailingly on-point throughout 40 years in journalism. His take on the election:


It is hard to believe that the voters of the USA may be about to elect an arrogant, self-centered redistributionist who may well have not even been born in the U.S. and reject a centrist war hero who has given his whole life to service to this country and whose family is synonymous with military valor.We really are pretty far gone, aren't we?

R.G.

Disable the System

In case you don't know, disability payments have become the new welfare. The standards to qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance are so broad that the only real deficiency needed is shamelessness.

While reasonable people define "disabled" as the inability to work, the Social Security Administration defines an individual as disabled if they are unable to do work they once did -- i.e., the work of their choice. So a flight attendant who claims to have developed a fear of flying (anxiety disorders are included in SSDI's list of medical conditions) can qualify as disabled and live the rest of her life off taxpayers, even though she is perfectly able to do other work.

One of my neighbors chose to quit her job last year and take advantage of this system. Although completely able-bodied and of Mensa-level intelligence, she draws a disability check on the claim that she sometimes gets confused. When I saw her leaving the building this morning before sun-up and asked where she was headed so early, she said she was going to the Metro stop to hand out literature for the Obama campaign. She could just as easily have been going off to a job, but she chooses to let the rest of us support her -- giving her the time to work to elect someone who will ensure that her checks keeps coming.

So here's what I propose: If Obama is elected, those of us who didn't vote for him should quit our jobs and go on disability. Our fellow citizens so enamored of Socialism surely won't object. Don't worry about your health insurance; as a disabled person, you also qualify for Medicaid.

To pick your disability, check out the list of qualifying conditions. http://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/AdultListings.htm
Dermatitis -- a/k/a dishpan hands -- should be easy enough to develop. But to spare yourself even that mild discomfort, choose one of the mental conditions. My favorite is the disorder defined as "oddities of thought, perception, speech, or behavior." Who knew there was money in being offbeat?

The Obama voters say it's time for a change? Let's give them one: They can support us...for a change.

'Nuff said?

So Barack Obama's own running mate, Joe Biden, warns that if Obama is elected, the United States can expect to be attacked. "Mark my words," the wannabe veep told voters in Seattle on Sunday. "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy....Watch. We're going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."

Uh, isn't that sufficient reason not to elect Obama? Why take a chance that history will repeat itself? John F. Kennedy was a callow young Senator whose charisma blinded voters -- but not our enemies. Dismissing JFK as "the boy," Soviet Chairman Nikita Kruschev was sufficiently emboldened to begin constructing an intermediate-range ballistic missile site in Cuba. Having no choice but to stand down Kruschev, Kennedy brought the world closer to nuclear annihilation than at any time in history.

With Biden assuring us a President Obama would invite similar provocation, why should Americans take the chance?

And there's this: What does it say about Biden's judgment that he would make such a remark? He obviously does not understand how his prediction undermines Obama, making it fair to wonder whether Biden's two brain aneurysms have affected his judgment.

Just what we need: an inexperienced president, whose election will invite an attack, and a vice president with diminished capacity. Yet Americans seem poised to elect both to the most powerful positions on Earth. If Biden is right and our nation is attacked, we will have no one to blame but ourselves.