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So the big theme in this year's presidential race is "Change." Wow! Who is getting paid the big bucks for that brilliant idea? I can just see middle-aged men, bleary-eyed, in rumpled suits, with shadows cast over their faces like an eclipse sitting in a circle trying to find the winning theme. Finally, a plucky partisan pops up and shouts:

"Change!"

The collective heads nod in agreement like a set of bobble head dolls given out on a Summer's Night at Shea. There is glad-handing and back-slapping, as atta boys are traded about. It is so simple, it is obvious. It so silly, it is profound. It is so passé, it is revolutionary. It is so stale, it is fresh. It is so cliché, it is substantive. Change in a political campaign works.

In 2008, no matter which of the three ways you cut it, change will happen. Before we peasants rush to the polls to toss out the Royals, let's ask ourselves what change means.

Most of us would like more control of our lives. That individual accountability can be assured by strong security, from our streets to the seas. Ironically, the candidate who has thrust change upon the National Dialogue like a pop artist’s one hit wonder, wants to change the posture of U. S. Foreign Policy from that of in your face to face in the pillow.

Senator O, The Secular Messiah, wants to bring peace. He will bring change in the form of capitulation. He wants troops out of Iraq within his first thirty days. Why thirty days? Why not proclaim it in his Inaugural Address? If we’re going to bring them back from Iraq, then we better pull the reins on Armed Forces Horses throughout the world. The troops sitting on the 38th Parallel would serve our interests much better on our southern border. Even though the Germans hold responsibility for two world wars, I think we can end our presence in Eastern Europe.

Change on the security front takes away our considerable leverage on the world stage. Maybe that’s the change people want. America’s leadership role in the world is a heavy burden. To change in this arena would indeed bring the dawning of a new day throughout the world. That day would be celebrated from the Horn of Africa to the Dragon’s Lair of Beijing to the Den of Moscow. The Serpent of the Sands that is Islamofascism will continue to slither its way throughout the world. Its venom will know no antidote

Another area where we would want more change is in our wallets. The eternal question is whether we can spend our own money better than the government, or anyone else. We have to be honest with ourselves. Will our dollars go for doughnuts on our own plate, or steak on someone else's? American individualism will continue to suffer at the hands of the Socialist State. While it dies in Europe, Collectivism is rising to new heights here. The fires of the American Spirit are subdued by the cool tentacles of the government machine.

The change in fiscal policy will put more money into government. That money will be doled into more programs which continue to fail. Day after day, year after year, generation after generation the policies of the New Deal are growing older and the Great Society has crippled cities. Is this the change people are cheering for in throngs? To surrender all personal accountability, in exchange for the plunging personality purge which consumes us all.

If The Left is successful, there will be change. It will be a change for fools.

-Heroes don’t die, they live within us.

Nero

© EMH, 2008