First Sunday in Advent!

The beginning of the new liturgical year: a time of joyful hope, anticipation, preparation and prayer; a time of getting ready for the coming of Our Lord in our hearts as we celebrate his coming to earth as a tiny infant.

Some thoughts from Fr. Z at "What Does the Prayer Really Say?":

It is now the season of “the Coming”, Advent. It is a time of muted joy in anticipation of remembering liturgically the First Coming of the Lord as an infant at Bethlehem. Advent is also, more significantly, a reminder that the Lord will have a Second Coming. Like lightning across the heavens Christ will come from the East as just Judge and King of fearful majesty. During Advent Holy Church dons purple vestments, in parallel with Lent before Easter. From ancient times all feasts had penitential vigils. Advent purple is an outward sign of our joy-infused penitential preparation for both Comings, though especially for our sacramental veneration of the Word Incarnate, the Christ Child.

This morning we made some beautiful beeswax Advent Candles (pictures forthcoming here if I get time for it!) and asked our new pastor to bless them after Mass. We set up the Jesse Tree (this one, from the same company that makes the beeswax candle kits, which we made last year). Now that my genius husband has fixed our color printer, I'm going to print out this Liturgical Year Wheel.

So, we're off to a good start. Of course, it's only the first day of Advent.... and it always goes so fast.... but I'm hoping that this year we'll really live the Advent season and appreciate all the Church teaches us about it.

Quick links

Extra busy these days, with homeschooling and preparing for Thanksgiving here. So just a few quick links.

First, the uplifting:

• "What Every Child Should Know About Thanksgiving" by Newt Gingrich. I'm going to print it and read it aloud to my own kids.

• The full text of President Lincoln's Thanksgiving Day Proclamation.

Now, the downers:

• A gripping read that explains the economic collapse. It's a house of cards, folks, and it's only begun to tumble.
  

• More doom and gloom, if you can stand it. But that last part, about Russia taking back Alaska? I don't think so, comrade. Not while Sarah Palin is Governor.
  

Something to think about

Found on a Yahoo list (The History Place):

In the aftermath of this election, let's be reminded of these wise words.

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."

--Rev. William J.H. Beotchker, 1916

Herb Kohl on FOCA

I wrote to Sen. Kohl expressing my opposition to FOCA. I explained that it would undo years of work by citizens who favored reasonable laws regarding abortion, such as parental notification, a waiting period, restrictions on late-term abortions, etc. These restrictions were approved by state legislatures, reflecting the will of the people.

The reply (which I pretty much expected, but which raises my blood pressure nonetheless. Why do I have to have this guy for my senator, especially when our other senator is just as bad?)

Dear Mrs. Swart:

Thank you for taking the time to contact me. I appreciate hearing from you.

As you know, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) reintroduced the "Freedom of Choice Act," S. 1173, on April 19, 2007. This bill would protect a woman's freedom to choose to bear a child or terminate a pregnancy, consistent with the Supreme Court's 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, along with other verdicts that respect a citizen's privacy. It would also prohibit the interference of the government in these decisions.

I recognize that abortion involves difficult and ultimately personal decisions, and with this in mind, I believe that the government should not regulate in this area. While I do not like abortion, I do not believe that it would be wise to return to the days when women who sought abortions were treated as criminals. Instead, I will continue to work to encourage alternatives to abortion. Although we may come to agree on some of the surrounding issues, I'm afraid that we will not agree on the ultimate question of whether women should retain the legal right to make their own decisions about having an abortion.

I appreciate your strong convictions on this issue, and I hope we can communicate about other matters on which we are more likely to find agreement.




Sincerely,


Herb Kohl
U.S. Senator

Public School Series: Part Three

More about Bill Ayers and the radicalization of the public schools, from the City Journal article I'd linked previously.

America’s historical ideal of public schooling as a means of assimilating all children (and particularly the children of new immigrants) into a common civic and democratic culture is already under assault from the multiculturalists and their race- and gender-centered pedagogy. Now Ayers and his social justice movement, by dismissing the civic culture ideal as nothing more than “capitalist hegemony,” subvert the public schools even further—while subsidized by the taxpayers, including the capitalists who supposedly control the schools.

On politicizing science, rather than actually teaching science:

Teaching science for social justice? Let Teachers College professor Angela Calabrese Barton, the volume’s [Teaching Science for Social Justice] principal author, try to explain: “The marriages between capitalism and education and capitalism and science have created a foundation for science education that emphasizes corporate values at the expense of social justice and human dignity.” The alternative? “Science pedagogy framed around social justice concerns can become a medium to transform individuals, schools, communities, the environment, and science itself, in ways that promote equity and social justice. Creating a science education that is transformative implies not only how science is a political activity but also the ways in which students might see and use science and science education in ways transformative of the institutional and interpersonal power structures that play a role in their lives.” If you still can’t appreciate why it’s necessary for your child’s chemistry teacher to teach for social justice, you are probably hopelessly wedded to reason, empiricism, individual merit, and other capitalist and post-colonialist deformities.

What about math?

Accordingly, Gutstein has relentlessly politicized his math classes for years, claiming that this approach has improved his students’ math skills while making them more aware of the injustices built in to capitalist society. One lesson, for example, presents charts showing the U.S. income distribution, aiming to get the students to understand the concept of percentages and fractions, while simultaneously showing them how much wealth is concentrated at the top in an economic system that mainly benefits the superrich. After the class does the mathematical calculations, Gutstein asks: “How does all this make you feel?” He triumphantly reports that 19 of 21 students described wealth distribution in America as “bad,” “unfair,” or “shocking,” and he proudly quotes the comments of a child named Rosa: “Well I see that all the wealth in the United States is mostly the wealth of a couple people not the whole nation.”

No wonder that so many people have fallen for the hoax of man-made global warming, or can't do enough basic math to realize that they can't afford the mortgage they just signed.

Bracing words for Catholics

Fr. Dwight Longenecker doesn't mince words, or make nice, or beat around the bush. At all. So his essay today on InsideCatholic.com is a little hard to read; it speaks the truth more forcefully than we're used to hearing.

Here's one paragraph that I believe to be prophetic:

In the next 20 years, this sort of Catholic [read the whole article for an explanation] will become extinct. As America descends further into decadence and decline, the lines will be drawn between the forces of darkness and the forces of light. People will have to choose whether to serve God and His Church or the dark side. Catholics will have to choose to be fully committed or not. If they choose to be Catholic, let them be informed and involved and integrated. If they choose to leave the Church, then they should be honest and stop referring to themselves as Catholic.

Go read the whole thing. And pray that you will always choose the right side in the battles to come.

Prophetic words from Spes Salvi

I picked up my copy of Spes Salvi this morning and it fell open to this section:

Action and suffering as settings for learning hope

35. All serious and upright human conduct is hope in action. This is so first of all in the sense that we thereby strive to realize our lesser and greater hopes, to complete this or that task which is important for our onward journey, or we work towards a brighter and more humane world so as to open doors into the future. Yet our daily efforts in pursuing our own lives and in working for the world's future either tire us or turn into fanaticism, unless we are enlightened by the radiance of the great hope that cannot be destroyed even by small-scale failures or by a breakdown in matters of historic importance. If we cannot hope for more than is effectively attainable at any given time, or more than is promised by political or economic authorities, our lives will soon be without hope. It is important to know that I can always continue to hope, even if in my own life, or the historical period in which I am living, there seems to be nothing left to hope for. Only the great certitude of hope that my own life and history in general, despite all failures, are held firm by the indestructible power of Love, and that this gives them their meaning and importance, only this kind of hope can then give the courage to act and to persevere.

Prophetic words: "a breakdown in matters of historic importance." I believe we are on the verge of such a breakdown. But since my hope is not in this earth - not in governments, or politicians (thank goodness), or in the stock market (ditto) - I have reason for real hope, which gives reason for true joy.

Public Schools: Part Two

In a previous post, I said that the public schools are controlled by the ultra-leftists in the NEA and the universities.

Here, in an article by Sol Stern, is just one bit of evidence for that claim:

As I have shown elsewhere in City Journal, [William] Ayers’s politics have hardly changed since his Weatherman days. He still boasts about working full-time to bring down American capitalism and imperialism. This time, however, he does it from his tenured perch as Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Instead of planting bombs in public buildings, Ayers now works to indoctrinate America’s future teachers in the revolutionary cause, urging them to pass on the lessons to their public school students.

[snip]

Ayers’s influence on what is taught in the nation’s public schools is likely to grow in the future. Last month, he was elected vice president for curriculum of the 25,000-member American Educational Research Association (AERA), the nation’s largest organization of education-school professors and researchers. Ayers won the election handily, and there is no doubt that his fellow education professors knew whom they were voting for. In the short biographical statement distributed to prospective voters beforehand, Ayers listed among his scholarly books Fugitive Days, an unapologetic memoir about his ten years in the Weather Underground. The book includes dramatic accounts of how he bombed the Pentagon and other public buildings. (emphasis added)

More to come.

Public Schools: "Take your kids out immediately"

In a prior post, I made some off-the-cuff suggestions about what we (meaning, we conservatives) should do next.

One of my suggestions was this:

If you still have your kids in public school, take them out immediately. We simply cannot have any more children brainwashed by the leftists in charge of government schools and textbooks. Send them to private schools, or better yet, homeschool them. You can do it, trust me. You certainly won't do any worse than most of the public schools, and you'll probably do much better at teaching your children the truths of faith and freedom. More about this later.

Of course, this was a rhetorical statement. I certainly don't expect everyone to pull their kids out of public schools. But I do believe that conservative parents, especially Catholics, should do everything possible to keep their children out of government schools.

That post attracted some attention from a nephew on my husband's side who left a comment.

Here, slightly edited, is my emailed reply to him:

I'm really sorry you were hurt and saddened by my post, as it wasn't directed at you or any teacher personally. And I'm very aware of all the teachers in the family, including my own mother, aunt, and several friends, besides all the teachers on your side of the family! :)

If you read my post again, you'll see I said nothing about teachers, at all. That's because my complaint is not with the teachers, but with the curriculum, which has been driven by the leftist agenda. I didn't have time to fully develop this idea on the blog, however, which is why I said "more to come later" in that post.

In a nutshell, my concerns about curriculum include anti-American propaganda, historical revisionism, and the neglect of civics and economics. Maybe not in every school, but in far too many.

As I'm sure you can tell if you've read any other posts, we were really discouraged by the outcome of this election. I believe that 40 years of left-leaning curriculum in the public schools is a big part of the problem.

I'm well aware of the good that many teachers do, and of the great sacrifices that many of them make and how much they care for their students. I know many teachers who put in long hours, spend their own money for supplies, and make a wonderful difference in the lives of children.

I just wish those same wonderful teachers had a much different curriculum to use. But since the schools and textbook publishers aren't about to change any time soon, then the next best thing is for conservative parents to pull their kids out and exercise their right to choose a different form of education. That's what I was getting at.

One other point: The NEA is a liberal organization, always supporting candidates I'm opposed to, and annually issuing a resolution condemning homeschooling. I believe that the liberal agenda of the NEA and their opposition to school choice is also a part of the problem with public schools.

More to come.

"Obama is apocalyptic"

Here's an article about the Cardinal's talk.

"Catholics weep over these words; we weep over the violence concealed behind the rhetoric... For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden."

h/t Standing On My Head.

An inspiring story of conversion: from abortionist to pro-life activist

A friend emailed me this link. It's an amazing story; click below to watch the video and follow the link above for more.

Pray for the parish in South Carolina

You may have heard about the brave parish priest in South Carolina, who said that Catholics who voted for Obama ought to go to confession before receiving Holy Communion. (Here's the AP story about it, but remember, it's AP: no guarantee of accuracy.)

I received the following email from a friend today. It was sent from a member of the parish (whose name I'm withholding) to a group of her friends, who then passed it on to my friend.

Please pray for my parish priest, Fr. Jay Scott Newman, and for Catholics everywhere. In Sunday's bulletin column [it's been taken down from the website], Fr. Newman wrote that Catholics who voted for Obama should not receive Communion until they have gone to confession and done penance. The letter is actually very good--he urges us to pray and support the new president in all that is moral. He is not going to refuse communion to anyone, but he says that it is his duty as our shepherd to speak the truth.

This has made national news, and he is being persecuted for it. Many of the comments on the news sites have been downright demonic. I myself have been contacted through the parish web site with messages of protest and mild threats.

[snipped to remove some identifying information]

Even some of my family members, who are not Catholic, are angry about this and have let me know so. There is even talk about possible violence at Mass this Sunday. I have to take my children to the church for youth choir practice this afternoon, and I'm a little nervous because I'm sure there will be protesters.

Pray, pray, pray....I'm afraid Catholics are not going to have it easy in America from here on out.


God bless,
*****

Fr. Dwight Longenecker has more here about the new anti-Catholicism, as well as a sample of some of the vicious hate mail he's been getting about this issue.

Price of a barrel of light, sweet crude fell again today

Gas is $1.99 a gallon here; saw it for the first time today.

That is definitely sweet.

Of course, it's not going to save me the same amount of money we've lost in our 401K's and elsewhere.

But I'll take whatever silver lining I can find these days.

Or whatever light, sweet crude lining I can find.

A "heated debate", or an angry mob?

The following is a video of a pro-gay-marriage protest in Palm Springs on November 9.

Ihave a few problems with the narrative: One of the reporters called it a "heated debate" (hardly a debate), and toward the end, one says there's a lot of anger and hate "quite honestly, on both sides". I only see anger and hate on one side. Watch it and see for yourself.

Fascinating conversation today

Stopped in at my neighborhood gas station this morning, and instead of paying at the pump, I went inside to try to use the last $8 on a Visa travel card that we'd purchased for our daughter's trip to Korea this summer.

So, as I attempted to get the card to work, I explained to the Middle-Eastern-looking gentleman at the counter all the trouble we'd had with it.

That led to a lively discussion about travel (he's been all around the world and this country, and was happy to talk about it), which led me to ask, if he didn't mind, where he was from? Pakistan, he said.

And that led to what was, hands-down, the most fascinating conversation I've ever had in a gas station. (Sure, the list of conversations in gas stations is pretty short, but this also ranked among the most interesting conversations I've ever had with strangers, and there have been lots of those.)

He told me he came here 20 years ago, sponsored by his brother who was already here. His family in Pakistan was very poor, just scraping by. He started working in convenience stores when he got here because, he explained abashedly, "that's how my family always got started here in America: convenience stores."

Being part of a stereotype seemed to cause him some discomfort, but in my view, what does it matter? As I told him, immigrants come here for opportunity; what does it matter how you get a foothold? What matters it that you do it.

(And that you come legally and start off by respecting our laws; I just had to put a plug in for that.)

Now, he told me, he owns six gas stations.

"I've worked hard," he said. "I didn't put money in the stock market; I took a different approach. I'm working on paying off my mortgage and saving money. We cut corners on expenses; we don't spend a lot of money on stuff we really don't need. I have no other debt. I am saving my money to help my four kids go to college. That's what I want for them: education. I don't want them to work in convenience stores.

"Nothing wrong with that", he continued as he reached for a pack of cigarettes for the customer who'd just walked in, "but I want them to get an education, get a good job, a better job than I have. It's not just about making money; I want them to get a job where they can really help people.

"My nephew is going to Marquette," he continued. "My two brothers and I are helping him; he's my sister's son, and we all saw that he was smart, he had potential. He wants to be an engineer. So, we help him, $10, $20, whatever we can. He's not my kid, but I want to help him, too. It's good for a kid with potential to get an education. It's good for America."

Wow: "It's good for America". To hear someone say that, to think far beyond himself and his family and think about what's good for America, well, that's a beautiful thing. I guess it shouldn't surprise me to hear that sentiment from an immigrant.

Sarah Palin

We all should be appalled at what was done to Sarah Palin.

Mainstream media carried out a character assassination on a decent, honorable American citizen who had the courage to run for national office.

She's smart, but was made to appear stupid; a savvy conservative, made to appear a backwoods hick; an experienced and extremely popular Governor, made to appear just a "housewife" with nothing to qualify her for the office of Vice President.

This woman ought to be praised to the heavens for the amazingly classy, composed way she behaved while subjected to unrelenting hate during the entire campaign, and even now.

As my husband said, dozens of reporters in Alaska, tearing through dumpsters, trying to pay people to dish the dirt... and they got nothing. Nothing! It was all nothing more than petty jealousy, liberal elite snobbery, and worse: the unmasked hatred of the Party of Death for anyone who so clearly personifies a Culture of Life.

First words out of my mouth when she was selected for Veep were "Wow! That's fantastic!" I still believe I was right about her.

A good friend told me that she just wasn't ready for the national stage. I disagree.

She was ready for us. The liberals weren't ready for her.

h/t The Other McCain

I am post-racial

I judge candidates not on the color of their skin, but on the quality of their ideas.

Thus, I condemned Obama for his radical ideas on abortion, the economy, and national security.

And I praise Alfonzo for his excellent ideas on the same.

Besides, he's hilarious!

(h/t for this particular video to Anchoress, check out his other stuff here.)

You really have to watch this video: Shariah law & Shariah finance

This is the next great attack on our country. Watch this and pass it along to absolutely everyone you know. (There's a plug at the end for donating to Act for America, but that's only a few seconds at the end.) This needs to get into the mainstream media.

h/t an email I received today from Act for America.

Sharia law in our banking system?

To me, this is terrifying.

The U.S. Treasury Department is submitting to Shariah - the seditious religio-political-legal code authoritative Islam seeks to impose worldwide under a global theocracy.

As reported in this space last week, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Robert Kimmitt set the stage with his recent visit to Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich Persian Gulf states. His stated purpose was to promote the recycling of petrodollars in the form of foreign investment here.

Evidently, the price demanded by his hosts is that the U.S. government get with the Islamist financial program. While in Riyadh, Mr. Kimmitt announced: "The U.S. government is currently studying the salient features of Islamic banking to ascertain how far it could be useful in fighting the ongoing world economic crisis."

Read the whole thing. And remember, if this is what's happening under the Bush administration, just imagine what we'll get under the Barack Obama administration.

To a "useful idiot for the demon of this age"

Barbara R. Nicolosi tells it, with righteous wrath, some very plain language, and a graphic, but truthful, photo, so please only go there if you're 16 or older and can handle it.

She writes in response to someone who was encouraging her to vote for Obama:

I have received your heartfelt appeal for me to consider voting for Barack Obama. As a Christian, I find your message way beyond galling, and into the realm of the surreal.

[snip]

I guess it takes an intellectual of Obama's stature to render the above image obscure and subject to debate. Above your pay grade to say what that is, IS IT?! Above your pay grade??!!! A flipping five year old can tell you what that is, you gutless hypocrite. It's a little dead person.... Looking out for the little guy, huh, Obama? Gonna take care of the poor? It's not quite going to be UNIVERSAL health care is it, Senator?

[snip]

And don't you effing dare try and convince yourself that Jesus is somehow indifferent to your lukewarmness about abortion or that the war in Iraq somehow balances out the Democrat party's obsession with abortion rights. Don't you dare try and duck the ramifications of your vote in this matter. You must own the screams of the unborn echoing back to heaven in the way that the German people had to own the stench of the burning flesh of the death camps. Own it. Because you are a useful idiot for the demon of this age.

"Useful idiots", indeed.

(h/t my friend Michele)

Today

So last night I wasn't ashamed to admit I cried. Well, today, of course, I'm embarrassed that I admitted it! Oh well. Chalk it up to the 1/4 Irish in my blood, along with a glass of red wine which helped drown my sorrows.

I still believe what I said, however: America is lost. We've lost our understanding of freedom and what it means to be an American. We've lost our moral bearings completely (well, not completely, as gay "marriage" bans passed in California and Florida). We've lost our economic freedom because we're indebted to the tune of trillions of dollars.

Today, it's time to figure out what we're doing next.

Michele Malkin says "gird your loins, conservatives".

Feminine-Genius says "God's will in all things", and also encourages us to:

• Pray and work to defend the marriage bond;
• Pray and work to defend the sanctity of all human life;
• Pray and work to restore life-giving collaboration between men and women;
• Pray and work to restore cherished devotions and a Catholic culture.
• Stay close to the sacraments and allow God to use use you as He will.

The Anchoress has a huge round-up of reactions.

My thoughts:

• I'm thankful that we had a peaceful election (though I can't say I'm sure it would have been that way had the outcome been reversed, based on the attacks, bullying, and intimidation that happened during the campaign).
  

• Since we might not always have talk radio or conservative blogs, we should start planning other ways for conservatives to stay connected to each other.

• If you still have your kids in public school, take them out immediately. We simply cannot have any more children brainwashed by the leftists in charge of government schools and textbooks. Send them to private schools, or better yet, homeschool them. You can do it, trust me. You certainly won't do any worse than most of the public schools, and you'll probably do much better at teaching your children the truths of faith and freedom. More about this later.

• Figure out what you personally can do to build a culture of love and life. More about this later, too.
  

Back to work here ... a house to clean, kids to take to various things, and supper to cook... the beauty of quotidian activities.

Tonight

Not ashamed to admit I cried. I've never done that before over an election. Ever.

It's not because "my side" lost; it's because America is lost.

God have mercy on us.

Even better clip of Ronald Reagan's great speech

Thanks to Rich for this one; he got it from the Weekly Standard.



May he rest in peace.

Election Day, at last

A gorgeous day here in Wisconsin: warm, sunny, with brilliant red, orange and yellow still on the trees and bushes.

I've had a beautiful day enjoying my rights as a free American. I went to Mass with the kids to pray for the country, as is my First Amendment right.

We came home and had a great morning homeschooling, as is my God-given right and duty as a parent, using my own choice of curriculum without state interference, as I may lawfully do in my Wisconsin.

After lunch with the kids, I went to pick up our college daughter her Catholic University to go to a doctor's appointment in our state-of-the art, envy-of-the-world, non-socialized health care system.

Then we went to vote, as is our right as women under the Nineteenth Amendment. Breeze in, breeze out; there were people voting, but nobody in line. It was peaceful and orderly, as it always should be in America, and as I pray it always will be, today and forever.

Now, I'm sitting here for a few minutes blogging, once again exercising my First Amendment rights.

I'm staying very calm today: not too much coffee this morning, no Fox news AT ALL, just occasionally checking Drudge for any flashing red and blue lights (nothing yet, but a big red headline saying exit polls show Obama big... well, surprise, surprise, but I don't trust the exit polls, I'll wait for the actual poll results, thank you), and mostly just waiting till this evening when I'll break my fast from wine and spirits and indulge in a nice glass of something or other, either to celebrate, or to drown my sorrows.

And I'm still praying! I hope you are, too. If McCain wins, it truly will be a miracle. If he doesn't, well, that means that our prayers will be answered in other ways, but never for one minute do I believe that our prayers went unanswered or that they were in vain.

Keep praying, everyone. "Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!"

Prayer for today

O Virgin of Guadalupe,

Your appearance in Mexico changed the course of human history.
Human sacrifice ceased and millions were converted to Jesus Christ.
Pray for our nation now.
Guide our elections through your gracious intercession.
Change hearts and minds to uphold the dignity of all human life.
Stem the tide of moral degeneration and defend the sanctity of marriage.
Protect our nation from terrorism, war and natural disaster.
May goodness triumph over evil.
May candidates committed to God's truth be elected and re-elected
And may our nation prosper, though Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

"A rendezvous with destiny"

Pray tonight, begging for God's mercy on our country.

And take heart from the words of Ronald Reagan, perhaps our greatest president:

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.

So why didn't we hear about this during the campaign? "Electricity rates will skyrocket!"

h/t Maureen, though I first heard about it somewhere else yesterday... sorry, can't remember where!

Electrifying

It got me when I first heard it the night of the convention, and it gets to me now. It starts at about 2:26 on the counter.

Another good video

h/t Billbuzz. Which, by the way, is a great blog, and if you're getting depressed by the Obamamania, go read it! If I get more time, I'll post a little bit of their stuff.

Adorable, you-betcha!

Priceless, indeed

File under "Hope"

Good article, especially the part about how the Obamanists have skewed the polls. h/t Isn't It Rich

A spirited campaign has been made to infiltrate many pro-Hillary sites and discredit them. A more disorganized, but genuine effort has also been made to sow doubts among the unapologetically right wing sites such as redstate.com. Don’t you guys get it? This has been the Obama campaign’s sole strategy from the very beginning! The only way he wins is over a dispirited, disorganized, and demobilized opposition. This is how it has been for all of his campaigns. What surprises me is that everyone has fallen for it. You may point to the polls as proof of the inevitability of all of this. If so, you have fallen for the oldest trick in the book. How did we skew these polls, you might ask? It all starts with the media “buzz” which has been generated over the campaign. Many stories are generated on the powerful Obama ground game, and how many new voters were registered. None of this happens by coincidence. It is all part of the poll-skewing process. This makes pollsters change their mixes to reflect these new voters and tilt the mix more towards Democratic voters. What is not mentioned or reported on is not the “under-reported cell phone users or young voters” we hear so much about. What is underreported is you.

[emphasis mine]