The Canoe of State
John McCain wants you to give him the oar to the canoe. He plans to use it to fend off some of the big rocks along the way, but he’s not really going to paddle, and we’re going to continue to drift downstream towards the roaring waterfall of socialism.
B. Hussein Obama also wants the oar. He plans to paddle like mad for the waterfall, because, he says, that will get us away from those rocks as quickly as possible.
The idea that anybody should paddle us towards the shore, so that we can get out and buy our own canoes from that canoe store and paddle them ourselves, or stand in the shallows and fish, or open up our own store, or go to the lodge for a hot shower and a nice steak, or go hiking or god forbid hunting, is apparently totally out of the question.
[Moved to its own post from the entry below.]
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:02 am
I view it more like; we’re floating in a river of social programs, heading towards the waterfall of communism. We keep bringing more and more of the social programs into the boat (for the thirsty). For better or worse, it’s quite possible that the canoe will sink to the bottom before getting to the waterfall! The solution is the same though - paddle to shore!