August 15, 2012           GOP and Tea Party candidates made a strong showing in Republican primaries across the country. It’s looking promising for the Republicans to pick up the seats needed to gain a majority in the Senate. And, surprisingly, upon hearing Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) was Gov. Romney’s chosen running mate, Vice President Biden and President Obama were cordial.
          Both Joe and "O” had nothing but kind words for the "decent guys,” the "good guys” Ryan and Romney were. Nice words, especially for Romney who last week was being touted by Priorities USA Action, Obama’s designated SuperPAC, as the man responsible for the death of Joe Soptic’s wife.
          "He is a decent man, he is a family man,” the president said of Ryan at a fundraiser in Chicago. But despite the initial Marquess of Queensberry, no hitting below the belt rules -- it didn’t last long.
          The president’s nose seemed out of joint by the success the Romney-Ryan team was enjoying. And you can see why.
          On Monday, for instance, Vice President Biden’s campaign swing through Durham, North Carolina attracted a crowd of only 660 people, while in the same state the Romney-Ryan team attracted an overflow crowd of 15,000 with lines around the block on Sunday.
          When in his home town last week for a fundraiser, Obama played to a half-empty (called "half-full” by the Obama campaign) room in Chicago even though admission was only $51.
          And on Saturday, after news that Ryan was on the ticket, online contributions to the Romney-Ryan Campaign poured in to the tune of $2 million.
          Liberals and the mainstream media moved quickly to distract and attack. What emerged was a plan to concentrate on scaring elderly people to death by focusing on Paul Ryan and Medifear.
          They can’t talk about Obama’s record so the Democrats decided Medicare is it. It’s an emotional issue and a good distraction. And perhaps it will take the focus off Obamacare.
          Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd that Medicare reform would hurt Gibbs’ father.
          "You’re going to hand out vouchers to seniors…you’re going to hand one to my father who is 83, who is a lung cancer survivor and has far different medical needs than his former White House staffing son does at 41.”
          But Chuck Todd corrected him.
          Ryan’s Medicare reform proposal doesn’t change Medicare for anyone 55 or older. If younger people decide they want to stay in the current system of Medicare or move to a voucher supported system, they will have that choice.
          But Gibbs wasn’t listening. He insisted he didn’t believe Ryan’s intentions for Medicare.
          "I wouldn’t trust Republicans on Medicare as far as I could throw them,” Gibbs said.
          On "CBS This Morning,” Obama’s Senior Campaign Adviser David Axelrod said he liked Ryan personally, then gave Ryan the "Palin kiss of death.”
          Ryan, Axelrod pointed out, who is popular with Tea Party figures like Sarah Palin "is not going to be a plus for Mr. Romney.” He finished by labeling Ryan "a certifiable right-wing ideologue.”
          "He is a genial fellow, but his views are quite harsh,” Axelrod said. "These Republicans don’t like Medicare.”
           Bob Schieffer on CBS "60 Minutes” did his part by airing a final cut of his Romney-Ryan interview with a huge chunk left on the cutting room floor. If he’d included it, this is the quote you would have heard.
          "My mom is a Medicare senior in Florida. Our point is we need to preserve their benefits, because government made promises to them that they’ve organized their retirements around.
           "In order to make sure we can do that, you must reform it for those of us who are younger. And we think these reforms are good reforms that have bipartisan origins. They started from the Clinton commission in the late ‘90s.”
           In point of fact, Obamacare has already put an end to Medicare as we know it. The president’s Affordable Healthcare Bill raided Medicare and "borrowed” $700 billion from Medicare to pay for Obamacare. It’s part of the bill.
           So it is the Democrats not the Republicans who now plan to cut seniors’ benefits, access to care while not solving the fiscal dilemma Medicare faces.
          The left realizes that Paul Ryan is smart. The Congressman knows his policies and his numbers, and the Democrats are fit to be tied to have all this out in the open, by people who can explain it to people who can vote.
          Paul Ryan’s Medicare proposal will allow more control by seniors over the quality and type of health care they want. More options mean more competition and that results in a better product.
          But Obama and the Democrats don’t like facts or options or letting the people decide and the marketplace provide.
          But here’s the thing. We can talk about Medicare and what Ryan’s plan is or isn’t– and everyone will. That’s what Obama wants.
          Or we can wonder about Joe Biden’s health and why he says the things he does in that "Joe” way.
          But why bother. While we talk and talk, Obama is busy frying bigger fish.
          And all the while no one has asked him what plans he has for America in his second term.
          Actually it’s all been in the works for years and is already being implemented, he’s just not telling you about it.
          Global in nature, hiding in plain sight, Obama’s plan isn’t anything good for our country. And it’s all in Stanley Kurtz’ fascinating book "Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities.”
          Now we know what it is President Obama will do when he has "more flexibility,” once he gets this election out of the way, as he told Russian President Medvedev in Seoul this March.
          It’s called Agenda 21. Look it up on the internet. You’ll be surprised how much can happen in our country that we as American citizens can miss.
          According to Kurtz, "As many Americans do not know, in the eyes of the leftist community organizers who trained Obama, suburbs are instruments of bigotry and greed – a way of selfishly refusing to share tax money with the urban poor. Obama adopted this view early on, and he has never wavered from this ideological commitment, as a review of his actions in office goes to show. President Obama’s plans for a second term include an initiative to systematically redistribute the wealth of American’s suburbs to the cities.
          "But like a lot of his major progressive policy innovations, Obama has advanced this one stealthily – mostly through rule-making, appointment and vague directives.
          "Obama has worked on this project in collaboration with Mike Kruglik, one of his original community organizing mentors. Kruglik’s new group, Building One America, advocates regional tax-base sharing, a practice by which suburban tax money is directly redistributed to nearby cities and less-well-off ‘inner-ring’ suburbs. Kruglik’s group also favors a raft of policies designed to coerce people out of their cars and force suburbanites (with their tax money) back into densely packed cities."
           Consolidate and control. Suddenly the puzzling things Obama has done start to make sense: the high speed trains that Americans never use; his disdain for oil and coal; his disregard of America’s energy needs.
           Agenda 21 is a United Nations initiative that 178 government officials adopted at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 designed to save the environment under the label of "sustainability.”
           It is a UN-Soros backed plan that has gone unnoticed by most, disguised as "environmental initiatives,” but in a nutshell it is really an international plan to override personal property rights all in the name of the environment and "sustainability.”
           It’s already happening in California, foreclosed houses being taken by eminent domain, laws passed to mitigate car use, policies that mandate up to 30 homes be built on a single acre of land.
           It evolved from a report written in 1987 by Gro Harlem Brundtland, the former vice president of the Socialist International and a good friend of Hillary Clinton. And it grew from there.
           The body that drafted the U.N. initiative made no secret of the fact that Agenda 21 openly opposed property rights.
           "Land…cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice: if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes. The provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interest of society as a whole.”
           Like a Bruce Willis futuristic movie, isn’t it?
          Alabama opposed Agenda 21 so strongly that it hastened to pass Senate Bill 477 unanimously in both its houses, to bar the taking of private property in Alabama without due process.
          It shouldn’t come as any surprise that the United Nations would favor something like this. The rest of the world does not have the standard of living that the U.S. does. We have already accomplished in this country what other nations can only dream of.
          It is not surprising that the UN is critical of the United States of America, it has consistently been so, or that our own president, with his background, would apologize to the UN for America’s "human rights violations.”
          Or that the UN would be happy to see America crash and burn.
          The fact is we are not one of the nations in need of the UN’s help, nor it looks like, Obama’s. We help the rest of the world and always have. We have the best standard of living in the world, our people and forefathers worked hard to create a country that is an admirable example of compassion and freedom.
          People resent that. The UN does. Our president does.
          So when people wonder, like Dinesh D’Souza in his movie "2016: Obama’s America,” why President Obama can let his brother George live in a hut in third world slum conditions and why he doesn’t extend a helping hand, it is because that standard of living is Obama’s father’s future vision for us.
         And while we’re at it, loud and clear to the UN: We don't need you to show us how to provide decent dwellings. We already have those – in the suburbs.
         Hold the line, America.