Bobby Deaton
Barbara and I frequently drive up to Natural Bridge State Park at Slade and dine at the huge buffet dinner at Hemlock Lodge. The food is usually sumptuous and the atmosphere is good. Often the dining hall is packed on the weekends.
Over the past several years Natural Bridge State Park and the Red River Gorge area has begun to attract increasing numbers of people to their campgrounds and to their rental cabins. Many of these cabins are privately owned. 
Liberal politicians keep raising the threshold of poverty and continually admonish working Americans to be willing to pay higher taxes? Their bleeding hearts and taxing policies belie the fact that increased giving to individuals often diminishes personal iniative and responsibility and moves the hard-working taxpayer and retiree even closer to the threshold of poverty themselves. History has repeatedly demonstrated in America that those who work hard and plan wisely have almost invariably defeated poverty and become successful.
In Economics 101 on the study of the American economy, we learned that businesses and corporations directly or indirectly create all the wealth, provide all the jobs and pay all of the taxes in America. We also learned that the government and all of its programs are parasites of those hard working businesses, corporations and their employees. Obama and Hillary need to review this course on the American economy. Then perhaps they would stop promising that the government can solve all of your problems and provide for your every need. Their attempt to purchase the White House at the expense of taxpaying Americans must be obvious to all.
If you have only an elementary understanding of our Constitution you must know the President doesn’t have the authority to unilaterally declare war, he can’t control or fire the Supreme Court, regulate the price of gasoline, groceries or any other attributes of commerce. Some have even alledged that the President is responsible for global warming. They surely must know that every major decision the President makes must be preceded by the approval of Congress and meet the approval of the Supreme Court if constitutional issues are raised.
Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have criticized deficit spending, yet their campaign promises would require for each of them to spend about 300 billion dollars more of the taxpayers money then is being presently spent. If they are elected how would they raise this large additional amount?
Many candidates, particularly liberal ones, often attempt to expedite their chances of winning by using the hard-working taxpayers money by promising something for everyone. This seems to be the case with the above candidates.
Many black agitators as well as some liberal politicians have a vested interest in keeping racism in the forefront of political discussions; many of the black agitators have never had a real job whereas some liberal politicians attempt to keep black Americans polarized around their candidacy.
The terminology of the Old West in describing a newly-arrived eastern tenderfoot pretended cowboy clad in a flashy western cowboy suit and a large ten gallon hat could well be applied to the Presidential candidacy of Barack Hussein Obama.
Obama’s repetitive, well-rehearsed and simplistic rhetoric advocating change, hope and bringing Americans together is reminiscent of that tender-footed cowboy. Where are the specifics? What changes is he advocating? Change can be good or bad.
My good friend, James Fugate’s recent article indicates that he has fully recovered from his recent surgery. His article continues the liberal efforts to talk us into an economic recession. This ongoing rhetoric on the U.S. economy has been unceasing now for over seven years. All of this negativism belies the facts that the U.S. economy remains strong however, as in all free economic systems that are based on demand and supply, there will always be economic ups and downs.
My article this week has been suspended due to the death of my beloved nephew, Jerry Granville Deaton (1975-2008). Jerry died suddenly Saturday due to complications from lupus.
Bobby Deaton
75 Parson Drive
Jackson, KY 41339
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
The Clintons, who have spent their entire political career cultivating the idea among blacks that they are victimized by the white establishment, find today that blacks have virtually deserted Hillary’s campaign for President. Bill’s attempt in South Carolina to label Barack Obama as only a black candidate whose campaign would falter in states that had few blacks, was considered racist by most blacks causing millions of them to switch their allegiance to Obama.
