Election '08: Buying the Election

Barack Obama is openly trying to buy this election. After pledging to abide by spending limits in exchange for federal matching funds, the Illinois senator is opting out of his promise, raising record amounts of cash, much of which cannot be traced, and carpet-bombing the American people with ads and informercials. That's not a smear. It's a fact.

And he's promising everyone making less than $250,000 a tax cut-even the millions of people who pay no taxes. Oops! Make that those who make less than $200,000. Or is it $150,000? And the promised goodies just keep coming, including free health care for all.

Of course, Sen. Obama doesn't mention the fact that his numbers don't add up or that he will be using your money to "spread the wealth around." How's he going to get all that revenue to give away to those he deems are more deserving than the people who actually earned it? That's right; he's going to raise taxes.

And whatever the liberal President Obama giveth, he will more than taketh away in lost jobs, slower economic growth, and wealthy people deciding to opt out of risk-taking, thereby driving tax revenues for all these programs lower and lower.

Let's hope the American people decide that the White House isn't for sale. That's one real estate deal we must avoid.