After a stellar win last week at Cleveland the Broncos are poised to take on the rest of the season with gusto! Now, I know that a lot of people are saying, “They beat the Browns! Of course they beat the Browns!” But let’s face it, even the worst team in the NFL is still a professional football team. And I don’t think that the Browns are the worst team in the NFL. With that said, it is entirely possible for any team in football to beat any other team on any given Sunday.   So this win against Cleveland wasn’t a gimme. 

What I was impressed with in that game was how the Broncos didn’t just fall backwards into the win. They had to work for it, and eventually got it. We didn’t win because of bad officiating – or especially good for that matter. We simply won. And that is good at this point in the season with all of the injuries that our team has suffered. Of course, every team has injuries and still needs to find a way to get that big W. 

So now it’s on to Atalanta. The A-T-L yo!   I think that this is another one that we can win. The Falcons aren’t the best team in the NFL, nor are they the worst. (Whereas I believe that the Broncos are always the best team in the NFL J) This is another game we will have to work to win, but I think it can be done. Tony Scheffler will be back to his full speed, and with Eddie Royal, and #15 in the field of play, things look good. I’m not worried about our running back situation, because let’s face it, you or I could run for 125 yards a game behind the Broncos offensive line.

So let’s go Broncos! Let’s Go!!

Our government is based upon the idea that the centralized federal government will have as little power as possible to infringe on the rights and liberties of the people. With Obama in the White House, and the Dems in the Congress, that system is in serious jeopardy. There will be almost nothing to check the power of either branch of government, and their liberal agenda will almost certainly be passed.  

The conservative movement has to reorganize itself – especially the younger crowd (20-35 year olds) – and realize that it is up to them to get the job done if the country is to be taken care of with conservative values of individual liberty and responsibility once again. I call on all my peers to get involved, and to be the check and balance to the democrat party’s control of government. 

I say this because it had become plain that Obama’s rhetoric is increasingly empty. This was something that I believe that a lot of us knew – I certainly did – but most of the liberal lemmings and so-called ordinary people seemed unable to see through it. All of this, “Change! Change! Change!” malarkey blinded a lot of people who were unhappy (or at least thought they were unhappy) with the Bush administration. Though, if you asked most of them, they wouldn’t be able to tell you what Bush had done to them that was so egregious that they were this dissatisfied. All they knew for sure was that Obama was black, and seemingly articulate, and seemingly charismatic and to them that was just different enough that they wanted to vote for him. Never mind what his policies might be – do we even know that now? Never mind the fact that he has no experience or record to show his ability to accomplish anything. I guess none of that matters as long as he can sound convincingly non-threatening and can make people believe that he will solve all of their problems.

(NOTE: It is worth mentioning that the democrat controlled congress has been a party to the climate of American politics in the last 2 years, and their approval rating was even lower than Bush’s. Why on Earth didn’t Americans seem to want a change from that kind of stagnant cesspool congress?)  

Now post election, I have heard interviews on the news (CNN, MSNBC, FOX) where the reporters have gone to Obama supporters’ neighborhoods and asked why they voted for him. Inevitably the answer is, “Change, and Hope.” Then when asked whether or not they think that Obama can fix the economy, or help them out personally, the answer comes back, “Well, I hope so.” I’m not so sure that that is the kind of hope that they were thinking of when they voted for him. In this case, hope means the ardent wishing for something to happen that is good while not having to really put any effort in yourself or risk any personal responsibility on your success or failure. Real hope involves personal action and responsibility, not waiting for Obama (or any government for that matter) to maybe do something that might possibly help me but might never happen because of the nature of big government bureaucracy. 

And so much for “change!” Is Obama’s idea of change hiring one of the Clinton’s character assassins? Is his idea of change rolling out the same liberal agenda of tax hikes and government programs his party has been touting for the last 50 years? (They still don’t work!!) It looks like his idea of change is more of the same liberal politics. I can’t believe that this many Americans were duped into believing the that Lord Barak the Most Merciful would descend from on high to distribute (or I should say, re-distribute) loaves of bread and fish to the huddled masses of starving middle class Americans who have no other recourse but the rely on a messiah-like figure who they still really don’t even know anything about to save their homes, cars, and lives. What has America come to when our self sufficiency is more reliant on the government than our own ingenuity and drive. That’s the real American dream!       

So, that’s my post election posting. I still call on all young conservatives to unite! Let’s take our country back! Get all your friends to read Locke, and Paine, and Jefferson. Then they will truly understand the nature of our American Democracy, and will want to save it from the European socialist forces at work in our nation.

I am an American, and as such, I believe in four basic tenets.  One: Life.  Two: Liberty. Three: The pursuit of happiness. And Four: Denver Broncos Football. 

Now, I know that with the election going on right now it may seem a bit trite to discuss the Denver Broncos.  But I remind you all that no matter what the outcome of the election next Tuesday the Broncos will play on Sunday and will still be at the top of the AFC West Division.

I am happy to note that this weekend we will have Tony Scheffler, Selvin Young, and Eddie Royal back in the mix. This is great news for Jay Cutler (the incomparable #6) as he will again have ALL his weapons back on offence and will no longer be relegated to throwing only to Brandon Marshall (the incomparable #15). 

Now we will be coming off of a loss to the Patriots – heck, even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while – and a bye week. But with our record of wins after a bye week being unquestionable, I feel great about this weekend.

So remember, even if the outcome of the election stifles your joy, and your cup is less than full, the Broncos will still play, the Broncos will still win, and Mile High Magic will still be magical. 

The only argument I have heard the Obama campaign use to counter any of this is, “It’s not socialist to take money from the rich to give someone a chance.” Or, “We’re trying to build this economy from the bottom up.” So really what’s happening here is that they are disagreeing with the definition of socialism rather than our characterization of what it is that they are actually doing. Ok. Let’s define socialism then.

Webster’s dictionary defines socialism as “a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done.”

That is exactly what Obama is proposing! His campaign says that they have refuted these claims that he is a socialist. Well, they have disagreed with them, but that’s not the same thing as refuting. They have offered up no adequate alternate definition for what it is they are trying to do. They have run away from the hard questions like, “How is your plan not Marxist?” – Even refusing to do future interviews with news organizations who ask those tough questions. So if to ‘disagree’ now means to ‘refute’, McCain has refuted all of Obama’s assertions about him. And the next time someone tells me that Obama will be a good president and offers no evidence to support their claim, I will say respectfully, “I disagree.”     

In the past few weeks and months I have been shocked to discover how many republicans are admitting defeat, and if not that, are bemoaning their state of being. If you listen to a lot of talk radio like I do, I am sure that you have heard the same. This phenomenon displays two things to me. First, that the republican party isn’t doing enough to make its members feel actively engaged in victory, and two, that the conservative movement is not as closely tied with the republican party as it used to be. 

It certainly isn’t used anymore to thrash your opponent’s positions, or to disqualify someone else’s arguments. This trend was typified in last night’s second presidential debate. 

The problem can be traced to a couple of key components in the structure of the so-called Debate. First, we have the moderator. Now Tom Brokaw is a seasoned professional for whom we should have much respect, but last night’s moderation was abysmal. The grand thing about a town hall style debate is that the questions that get asked are generally off the beaten path, and they tend to engender responses in the candidates that lead to more personality and poise being displayed. When Brokaw stated that he had chosen the questions to be asked personally, it became clear that it was going to be just another policy vs. policy debate without much substantive argument either for or against one candidate or the other. And that is exactly what we got. 

It seems clear that McCain won’t attack Obama on his character and his associations. And it seems clear that Obama doesn’t have a leg to stand on to finish McCain off. He couldn’t finish Hillary off in the primary season without the Super Delegates, and he can’t finish McCain off with his “eloquent’ speech skills, and his “calm” demeanor. 

McCain needs to bring out all of the questionable character flaws in Obama; beginning with his association with a known domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, then moving on to his ties to the ACORN organization – the organization that is close to the heart of our current economic woes, and more recently at the heart of an FBI voter fraud investigation. But McCain won’t do that. He wants his campaign to be as non-partisan as possible. The problem with this is that the Democrats aren’t non-partisan. How can McCain hope to defeat an opponent who he tries so hard not to annoy or make angry? McCain’s hero Ronald Regan was always partisan. He disagreed with almost everything that the opposing party believed in, and when he told them and the American public so, he won hands down. I am mystified by McCain’s tactics here.     

In the debate last night we had a moderator who negated the possible benefits to the format, and then couldn’t keep the format together. And then we had two candidates who refused to throw actual punches and simply slapped each other with limp hands. I guess that if I had to pick a winner, I would pick McCain. He definitely had more substance in his answers than Obama did, he just didn’t take the opportunities he had to smash Obama’s arguments the way he should have. I loved the way that Obama skillfully skirted around answering many of the questions that he was asked. It really showed how once he is off the teleprompter how awful he is at speaking. He would simply divert his answer back to one of his stump speeches, and go from there, hoping all the while that we would forget that he hadn’t answered the question. McCain called him on it once, but then didn’t press the issue as he should have done.

I can’t say how much the debate changes things in the election, if at all. Only time will tell. Looking to the past, candidates who have had many points’ lead in the polls with 3 weeks to go ended up losing the election in the end – Gore, Kerry and Dukakis to name a few. I think that the margin will be much closer whatever the polls say. In any case, polls have a way of being created to make the news, rather than being taken to see what the news is or will be. 

Until next time… I’m going fishing – I just need to remember to bring De-Bate!      

That is the most important question I can think of today. I watched the Senate pass a “Rescue Bill” on Wednesday that they claimed was better than the first version when it was no different than the first version at all except that it had $150 Billion in extra pork attached to it. And if that was all that was keeping the house from passing it – which it did today – then we can only form one conclusion. The vast majority of congressmen and women have little interest in “Doing what is best for the people of this country,” and instead are more focused on getting money for their own pet projects. 

How anyone who voted ‘no’ prior to today could vote ‘yes’ now on a bill that is for all intents and purposes, the same, is mystifying. There is all sorts of audio out there where senators and congressmen are saying that they didn’t want to vote for it, but they had to because something had to be done now to fix this supposed crisis. That’s like saying, “I didn’t want to sew up this gaping wound in my chest with this rusty barbed wire, but because there isn’t any thread handy I’ll go ahead and use it.” When all it would take is time to go find some thread. 

Now, I am of the mind that government should have very little to do with this economic situation’s resolution outside of getting out of the way completely. The market will correct itself. It may not be pretty, but that is what happens in a free market. Bankruptcy happens, and gradually new business comes in to fill the gap and strength is renewed in the market. That strength is stymied by the intrusion of the government. Anyone who has a safety net will be willing to take more risk than in necessary. 

May fortune favor the foolish!