Economic Crisis

Leadership: John McCain has it, Barack Obama hasn't.
Economy is in crisis. Midst of it, John McCain calls for Friday's presidential debate to be delayed due to his plan to be at the congress to deal with our economic crisis. He also supended his campaign and he asked Obama to join him to solve the problem. That's a leadership. He puts his country first.

Contrarily, Barack Obama respondid at the news conference saying that he doesn't think why they cannot do both. Another words, he wants to do debate on Friday. In addition, he tells the congress that "....if they need me, they can call me."

Debate on Friday supposed be about foreign policy. We are in economic crisis right now and foreign policy can wait. I guess he has been rehearsing so hard that he doesn't want to delayed the debate. His judgment and leadership again is questionable.

McCain has been asking Obama to have debate together instead of separate interview styles. He refused both times.

McCain has been bagging Obama to do ten townhall meetings together but he refused all of them. He knows that he doesn't have experience and core belief to convince voters at the townhall meetings against John McCain. He knows that he cannot use a teleprompter and he doesn't know which answer to give when people ask questions at the townhall meetings.

Our economic crisis cannot wait and 'we need a serious, pro-growth plan for America's long-term economic health.' (Newt Gingrich)

First of all, Obama received second highest amount of money after Chris Dodd from Fredi Mac, Fanni Mae, and Merril Lynch while he was in senate for four years. During those four years, he has been campaigning for the presidency for one and a half years. You wonder why he hesitated to say anything about their bailout. His top chief advisors were top executives at Fanni Mae and Merril Lynch.

If you think you are voting for a lesser evil for a president, you should consider voting for John McCain. He is willing to do right thing for the country. He is not putting himself first. The fact of the matter is that Obama is a talker and McCain is a doer. Do we need a DOER or a TALKER as a president of the United States?

Time after time, we have seen Obama will do, would do, and say anything for his ambition like Nancy Peloci and Harry Reed. Both are for party first and so is Obama. He is in it for himself like Nancy Peloci and Harry Reed. They don't care about you and me.

Obama failed to prove he is for change for the better. He proved to us however, he has a tendency for corruption and lack of judgment and character.

It will be mistaken if you are thinking of voting for him on November hoping to get free healthcare, college tuition, childcare, and other social welfare. This country will be bankrupt and your job will be gone in return.

If you have a dream of being an entrepreneur, it will be harder to make your dream come true. The American dream that we know will be gone because he will purnish your success and hard work.

If you're thinking of voting Obama, think about Obama's association with Rev. Wright, terrorists William Ayers and Bernadith Dorn, Father Pfleger, and his sweet deal with Chicago Slum Lord Rosco. His early years of study in black theology is based on hatred of white and his social study on Marxism will influence in his policy.

However, as I always believe that Americans are smarter than Obama thinks we are. Americans can see real Obama beyond his words and pretentiousness. At the end of the day, Americans will vote for the right person, John McCain.

WAKE UP AMERICA!

Barack Obama: Black America

A Black America's Perspective on Why Barack Obama is not Good For America

You've read David Freddoso's "The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate"
Then, you read Jerome Corsi's "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality"
NOW you need to read it from a Black American's perspective: William Owens, Jr. "Obama why Black America Should have Doubts"

Author William Owens, Jr. uniquely addresses the devastating "mindset" of Black America, which is to abdicate their core principles and beliefs for the addictive "feel good" words of a politician. And, polls are proving this out.

According to one Gallup Poll, an explosive 91 percent of Black Americans support Obama.

Owens argues that electing Obama as president will not only radically impact our society - in terms culture, traditions, and beliefs - and weaken our national security, but he will also set back Black America for decades to come.

Obama why Black America Should have Doubts analyzes in depth:

• Who is Barack Obama?
• What does he believe? How does this differ with Black America's interests?
• How does Obama stand up in a side-by-side comparison with Martin Luther King, Jr.?
• What has Obama committed to do if elected?
• How will Obama's tax-laden agenda actually hurt Black America? All America?
• Are Black Americans hurting themselves by being too focused on race?
• How can Black America - and all America - preserve our foundation?

Owens confesses, "I recognize that I could be branded for the rest of my life for taking an unpopular stand against the first Black American to run for President of the United States. Nevertheless, I willingly accept the mantle that has fallen on me, and I am at peace with my decision because I must speak out."
"Through the writing of this book, my family and I are attempting to speak directly to Black American families. However, let it also be a clarion to all Americans."

"For those who suggest that Barack Obama advances the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, I say look again. His politics are anathema to the dream!"
Dr. Alveda King (Niece to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

"The idea that so many Bible believers would consider choosing their racial ethnicity over their Christian ethics is alarming. William Owens, Jr. candidly brings eternal truths into the election 2008 discussion. 'Obama - Why Black America Should Have Doubts' is thoughtful, bold and refreshing."
Star Parker, Author & Syndicated Columnist

"Dr. King challenged us to judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. William Owens, Jr. is a rare Black American willing to hold Barack Obama to that necessary standard."
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Author of "SCAM: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America"; Founder and President of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny

Article from Human Events.com

Boar War: Unpresidential

Slick Obama
We have been questioning Obama's judgments on a lot of things whether it's about his associations, words, or even on his gestures. I have never seen any candidate acting juvile before. Particularly, someone who is running the campaign as high mighty and above all of Washington politicians. Obama hasn't proved that one bit and he's been worse. Above all, he is very unpresidential.

Obama's recent lipstic comment has been controvertial. "Lipstic on a pic, it's still a pic" is another his slick behavior. Many media referred his comment to Sara Palin's acceptance speech, "What is difference between hockey mom and pitbull? Lipstic."

Barack Obama has been desperate since Sara Palin energized McCain's Campaign and many polls show the results. He is revealing his true temperament.

Some people went out of their ways to say his comment is not referring to Palin. However, I see it as his calculated strategy in a pathetic way. He knew exactly what he was saying.

We've seen his middle finger and brushing off his shoulder gestures in one of his speech about Hillary's comments during the Democratic primary. Again, he got away with it without questions asked.

His comments about racism referring to McCain Campaign might raise a question about his skin color. Even though, no one mentioned about his race other than himself. He got away with it too.

His judgment on relationships with terrorists Bernadith Dorn, William Ayers, Rev. Wright, Father Flagger, and Chicago slum lord Rosco had never been questioned by media. He also got away with it.

Again and again, anyone questions his actions, he responses as everyone lies including questions about his birth certificate and religion background. He got away with it.

Aren't you tired of his whinning, execuse, phoniness, arrogance, pretentiousness and his juvile gestures? It's ironic that he is the worst politician with no qualifications, character, and class, but running his campaign as mighty high and above all attitude. We are seeing 'real Barack Obama' as campaign is closing on him.

No matter how eloquent Obama's speech may be in front of the teleprompter, he hasn't convinced me that he is the right person to be the president of the United States. "A BUSINESS SUIT ON A PIC, IT'S STILL A PIC."

Energy Solution

Drill Here, Drill Now...the Song
By Newt Gingrich

This week I am eager to report to you on how plans for our second annual Solutions Day are coming along and tell you an immediate step you can take to advance the movement for more American energy now.

But first, I have some exciting, fun news! The Drill Here, Drill Now movement has now inspired a song.

Country music star Aaron Tippin has taken the grassroots support for the "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less" movement to a whole new level with his new hit single "Drill Here, Drill Now."

We debuted the song on the Sean Hannity radio show this afternoon. When I first heard the song, I knew it would become the rallying cry for those who support drilling for more American-made energy. The lyrics masterfully capture the many arguments for drilling now for more American oil, and if you're anything like me, you'll immediately want your friends and family to hear it too.

You can download or preview the song here. This catchy tune is destined to become a big hit, so download it today.

Drill Here, Drill Now: Urgent Action Needed to Advance Offshore Drilling
In light of President Bush's July announcement to eliminate the executive ban on offshore drilling, the U.S. Minerals Management Service has decided to initiate a new plan to increase energy production on the outer continental shelf (OCS). As part of the regulatory process, the agency is calling for public comments on offshore oil and gas development through September 15, 2008.

In the meantime, unfortunately, the Democratic Congress is planning votes on bills that would actually make all or part of the offshore drilling ban permanent. Now is the time to let the federal government know we need full and unfettered access to America's offshore energy resources.

Take immediate action by clicking here. Let your voice be heard in favor of expanding American offshore energy production.

• The OCS contains 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. However, 85% of the OCS surrounding the lower 48 states is off-limits to energy exploration and production.
• Increasing access to these offshore resources is critical to America's economic and energy security.

As taxpayers, American citizens own these offshore federal lands and the energy resources that lie beneath them.

I urge you to click here for a quick and easy way to register your support for expanded offshore drilling.

Another Failed Stimulus Package or An Energy Jobs Investment Act?
Congress has a golden opportunity to boost the economy and lower energy prices at the same time if they make the right choices now. But instead of taking advantage of the movement to lower energy prices by producing more American energy, Congressional leaders are talking about spending more money on a phony stimulus package.

The same people who put us $152 billion further in debt for no economic gain earlier this year now want to waste another $50 billion to $70 billion on short term spending that simply won't work.

The Democrats in Congress want to pile a second stimulus package on top of February's failed $152 billion stimulus package. To pay for it they will either raise taxes (which will further hurt the economy), or they will borrow the money.

I warned back in January that a "stimulus" package would not create real growth.

There is a much better alternative. Instead of a debt-and-tax-raising short-term spending solution, we need a long-term, jobs-producing, energy-cost-lowering solution: An Energy Jobs Investment Act.

Using Additional Revenue from Energy Exploration to Pay for Energy Investment
An Energy Jobs Investment Act would permit exploration for oil and gas on federal land and set aside the federal revenue from that bill to pay for energy investment.

There are estimates that the "All of the Above" energy bill Congressman John Boehner has introduced would produce at least $25 billion a year in new leasing revenue. That would be $250 billion to $300 billion over ten years.

But there are two additional federal revenue increases from increasing domestic energy production.

First there would be a rise in tax revenue from the companies and individuals directly engaged in energy production.

Second, there is an increase in the general domestic economy created by keeping the money at home. For every $100 billion spent on American energy instead of foreign energy, there is a multiplier effect of a bigger domestic economy. After all, if the construction boom in Dubai were occurring in St Louis, it would be good for the American economy and therefore for federal government revenues.

Energy Investment Jobs Bill Would Also Save Federal Taxpayers Money
And there is another positive effect for the federal government from increased energy production: The federal government is the largest purchaser of energy in the United States (consider the Air Force and Navy purchase of jet fuel for example). If increased energy production brings down fuel and electricity prices the federal budget is helped substantially.

All of these factors are real and calculable. The problem is none of them are factored into the current budget process.

The current federal budget process cannot distinguish between a cost and an investment, and it cannot contemplate a time horizon longer than a year.

The Budget Act in its current form favors short-term spending with no feed back and no return on the investment. It is the opposite of sound business practices. It should be amended to provide that investments can be repaid over time just as they would be in the private sector.

Create a Federal Energy Trust Fund
The Energy Jobs Investment Act would create a Federal Energy Trust Fund into which would flow all federal revenue from new leasing. Then the fund could be used to either repay existing obligations or to pay for new energy activities.

Since it will take two or three years to generate enough leasing revenue, the Trust should borrow the initial funds and then be paid back with both interest and principal so there would be no new net debt by the end of the decade.

What the Energy Jobs Investment Act Would Do
The Energy Jobs Investment Act would create a Manhattan Project for energy development designed to leverage the private sector and the market to create a dramatic increase in American energy production and American energy self sufficiency. It would:

1. Allow offshore drilling for oil and gas.

2. Share the lease revenue 50-50 with the states.

3. Allow development of oil shale in the Rocky Mountains.

4. Put all the federal revenue into an Energy Trust Fund.

5. Increase and extend the solar power tax credit for 20 years.

6. Create a clean coal development project with the following
four parallel experiments each contracted on a crash basis
along the lines of the Wilson-Leavitt-Schwarzenegger
incentivized highway projects (see my book Real Change):

• The Future Gen project at Mattoon Illinois;
• The Post Combustion Recapture Project;
• The Oxycombustion project; and
• The Coal CO2 capture and enhanced oil recovery project.

These four projects create the possibility for a wide range of experimental breakthroughs for America's most abundant and lowest cost energy to be environmentally acceptable. They could be built on a 25% cost share with electric generating companies and with an agreement that any profit from their success would be split evenly with the federal government until the taxpayers were repaid for the investment. Coal is the most abundant energy source on the planet, and the Chinese are about to have the clean coal technology to license worldwide because of the Energy Department Bureaucracy. These four fast-track projects would enable America to recapture the lead and liberate our most abundant energy resource.

7. Create a new licensing and inspection regime for nuclear
power to accelerate the construction of new nuclear plants.

8. Extend the wind tax credit on a compatible basis with
other technologies to develop a competitive market for
new breakthroughs.

9. Create a prize for a major breakthrough in battery technology.

10. Create a refundable tax credit for the retooling necessary
to create flex fuel cars on the same scale as Brazil
(our goal should be 80 to 90% of all new cars by 2011).

11. Make energy production investments subject to 100%
expensing so they can be written off in one year (if this
includes drilling, the explosion in new sources of natural
gas and oil will dwarf our current problems).

This kind of dynamic energy jobs investment program would meet America's national security needs and create permanent jobs with a permanent increase in the economy.

This is a much better future than another failed stimulus package which will accomplish nothing while increasing our indebtedness and weakening our long-term economy.

Combine an Energy Jobs Investment Act with Real Tax and Social Security Reform To Create an Explosion of Economic Growth
In addition to developing more American energy to strengthen our economy, Peter Ferrara and I outlined last week in the Weekly Standard how an agenda of real tax and social security reforms would benefit middle America. Developing more American energy combined with real tax reform would lead to a revolution in the personal prosperity of working people.

Solutions Day 2.0: September 27, 2008
It is exactly these sorts of innovative solutions to America's public problems that inspired American Solutions to host our first annual Solutions Day in 2007. Over 100,000 people participated in person, via the web or on television and our second annual Solutions Day is shaping up to be even bigger and better.

Anyone interested in finding real solutions to our energy crisis as well as our economic, education and health challenges should sign up today for this year's Solutions Day on September 27.

Visit SolutionsDay2008.com to register and find out how to participate.

Solutions Day will feature presentations of real solutions for energy, the economy, education and health by both Democrats and Republicans.

Michael Williams of Texas (R) (the Texas Railroad Commissioner) and Roy Romer of Colorado (D) (the former head of the Los Angeles School District) will participate as well as pollster KellyAnne Conway, and representing the Center for Health Transformation, former Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro and former NBA star Dominique Wilkins.

September 27 is Also the 14th Anniversary of the Contract with America
It's appropriate that we hold Solutions Day on September 27 because it is the 14th anniversary of the Contract with America.

Fourteen years ago we pledged to reform welfare, cut taxes, and balance the federal budget.

We delivered on our promises. Sixty five percent of welfare recipients went to work or to school. Taxes were cut for the first time in 16 years, the federal budget was balanced for four straight years (the first time since the 1920s) and $405 billion in federal debt was paid off.

Now we need fundamental, real solutions once again.

Join us for Solutions Day and tell your friends to do the same. SolutionsDay2008.com.

Your friend,

Newt Gingrich

John McCain and Sara Palin

Choice is Clear For The Next President of the United States

I watched both Democratic and Republican National Convention(DNC & RNC) with open mind to see what both candidates had to say about their vision for the country as a president of the United States. Even though, I had a reservation about Barack Obama on his past before DNC. Particularly about his judgements on his association one after anoter such as under ground terrorist William Ayers and Rev. Wright but I still watched DNC wanting to hear something new.

After watching both conventions, I concluded that there is no doubt that my choice is clear for the next president of the United States should be John McCain. More than anything, I have growing uncertainty and uneasiness about Obama's policy on entitlement and income redistribution which I believe it's completely against the foundation of this country is built on.

We know that McCain has integrity, character, wisdom, and experience that we can trust but Obama failed to demonstrate to me that he has all those qualities.

His past showed me time after time he is not the person who he is trying hard to portrait to be. To Obama, everything seems evolves around him including his campaign for the presidency not for the people, all about him.

His change is dangerous to the United States according to his belief and vision that he spoke of; income redistribution, universal healthcare, universal college tuition, and other social programs. His belief on black theology and Marxism are based on hatred and social rebellion.

His social program will cost billions of billions of dollars of tax payers. His tax program will not help no one, not for small businesses, not for working people, nor for corporations. America will be no longer economically the strongest country on earth. It will be hard for anyone who has an American dream to make it come true on his presidency.

He promises that 95% of income earners will get tax cuts. However, he will raise taxes for everything else such as capital, dividends, and businesses. Consquently, consumers will pay much higher cost for everything and less jobs will be available. American businesses will lose its edge in the global competition.

Obama can say all day long 'Change he can belive in' but no one else can. I'd rather be 'Change I can trust' with a person whom we already know about such as John McCain. Ironically, John McCain is the one that has the agent for change by appointing Sara Palin as a running mate unlike Obama.

John McCain recognizes his limitation and he knows his running mate can compromise it.

Under obama's policy, Washington will be filled with more lobbiests ever and businesses will be as usual as before even become worse. The government bureucrats will run our lives and the government will control everything.

The government already proved that the government controled programs don't work time after time. I cannot imagine all the programs that Obama tried to make universal, there is no way the government can run anything effectively.

I disagree in some issues with McCain such as immigration and others but there is no doubt that he has all the qualitis, experience, and characteristics of a person to be a president. Most of all, we can trust him.

Choice is clear. At the end of the day, I know our Americans are smarter than Obama thinks we are. They can see the difference between McCain and Obama and they will choose the right person as our president of the United States.

Change We Can Trust

McCain and Sarah Palin Ticket

Since Sarah Palin was appointed as a vice presidential running mate by Senator John MaCain, there has been excitement around republican campaign and a reason to vote for him. However, she has been media's prey and frange to tear apart her credentials and her character.

It's an ironic that Obama campaign diminished Palin's experience as a major and discredited her experience as a governor in Alaska. Meanwhile, he has no experience in executive level at all. He has been a community organizer before he became a senator in Illinois three years ago. Most of his time in senate, he spent campaigning for his own presidency.

No one including Obama himself can even name one his accomplishment. No wonder he only could say his executive experience as running his own campaign. Even though, others are running it for him, he tried to take the credit as his own experience.

Ann Coulter explains the best about whole thing.

The Best Man Turned Out To Be A Woman
By Ann Coulter

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, as his running mate finally gave Republicans a reason to vote for him -- a reason, that is, other than B. Hussein Obama.

The media are hopping mad about McCain's vice presidential selection, but they're really furious over at MSNBC. After drawing "Keith (plus) Obama" hearts on their denim notebooks, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews stayed up all night last Thursday, writing jokes about Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, the presumed vice presidential pick. Now they can't use any of them.

So the media are taking it out on our brave Sarah and her 17-year-old daughter.

They claimed Palin was chosen only because she's a woman. In fact, Palin was chosen because she's pro-life, pro-gun, pro-drilling and pro-tax cuts. She's fought both Republicans and Democrats on public corruption and does not have hair plugs like some other vice presidential candidate I could mention. In other words, she's a "Republican."

As a right-winger, Palin will appeal to the narrow 59 percent of Americans who voted for another former small-market sportscaster: Ronald Reagan. Our motto: Sarah Palin is only a heartbeat away! If you're going to say Palin was chosen because she's a woman, you're going to have to demonstrate that the runners-up were more qualified. Gov. Tim Pawlenty seems like a terrific fellow and fine governor, but he is not obviously more qualified than Palin.

As for former governor of Pennsylvania Tom Ridge and Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman, the other also-rans, I can think of at least 40 million unborn reasons she's better than either of them.

Within the first few hours after Palin's name was announced, McCain raised $4 million in campaign donations online, reaching $10 million within the next two days. Which shortlist vice presidential pick could have beaten that?

The media hysterically denounced Palin as "inexperienced." But then people started to notice that she has more executive experience than B. Hussein Obama -- the guy at the top of the Democrats' ticket.

They tried to create a "Troopergate" for Palin, indignantly demanding to know why she wanted to get her ex-brother-in-law removed as a state trooper. Again, public corruption is not a good issue for someone like Obama, Chicago pol and noted friend of Syrian National/convicted felon Antoin Rezko.

For the cherry on top, then we found out Palin's ex-brother-in-law had Tasered his own 10-year-old stepson. Defend that, Democrats.

The bien-pensant criticized Palin, saying it's irresponsible for a woman with five children to run for vice president. Liberals' new talking point: Sarah Palin: Only five abortions away from the presidency.

They claimed her newborn wasn't her child, but the child of her 17-year-old daughter. That turned out to be a lie.

Then they attacked her daughter, who actually is pregnant now, for being unmarried. When liberals start acting like they're opposed to pre-marital sex and mothers having careers, you know McCain's vice presidential choice has knocked them back on their heels.

But at least liberal reporters had finally found someone their own size to pick on: a 17-year-old girl.

Speaking of Democrats with newborn children, the media weren't particularly concerned about John Edwards running for president despite his having a mistress with a newborn child.

While the difficult circumstances of Palin's pregnant daughter are being covered like a terrorist attack on the nation, with leering accounts of the 18-year-old father, the media remain resolutely uninterested in the parentage of Edwards' mistress's love child. Except, that is, the hardworking reporters at the National Enquirer, who say Edwards is the father.

As this goes to press, the latest media-invented scandal about Palin is that McCain didn't know her well before choosing her as his running mate. He knew her well enough, though admittedly, not as well as Obama knows William Ayers.

John F. Kennedy, who was -- from what the media tell me -- America's most beloved president, detested his vice president, Lyndon Johnson.

Until Clinton interviewed Al Gore one time before choosing him as his vice presidential candidate, he had met Gore only one other time: when Gore was running for president in 1988 and flew to Little Rock seeking Clinton's endorsement. Clinton turned him down.

To this day, there's no proof that Bill Clinton ever met one-on-one with his CIA director, James Woolsey, other than a brief chat after midnight the night before Woolsey's nomination was announced.

Barring some all-new, trivial and probably false story about Palin -- her former hairdresser got a parking ticket in 1978! -- the media apparently intend to keep being hysterical about McCain's alleged failure to "vet" Palin properly. The problem with this argument is that it presupposes that everyone is asking: "HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?"

No one's saying that.

Attacks on McCain's "vetting" process require the media to keep claiming that Palin has a lot of problems. But she doesn't have any problems. Remember? Those were all blind alleys.

Unfortunately, for the ordinary TV viewer hearing nonstop hysteria about nonspecific "problems," it takes a lot of effort to figure out that every attack liberals have launched against Palin turned out to be a lie.

It's as if a basketball player made the winning shot in the last three seconds of the game and liberals demand that we have a week-long discussion about whether the player should have taken that shot. WHAT IF HE MISSED?

With Palin, McCain didn't miss.

If Obama Loses...

And If Obama Loses?
By Patrick J. Buchanan

DENVER -- After the phony roll call vote was taken here to formally nominate Barack Obama -- a roll call that did not remotely reflect the true delegate strength of Hillary -- the media exploded in an orgy of celebration about the historic character of the moment to which they had just been privileged to be witness.

"The first black presidential nominee ever of a major party in history!" was proclaimed. Coming on the 45th anniversary of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech, Barack's nomination is being hailed as the last great step forward in the long march to equality and justice in America.
The moral pressure to join the march of history is enormous.

Nor is it unfair to say that some journalists here are obsessed with the issue of race in this campaign. There may be wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, rising tensions with Russia, a falling regime in Pakistan, and reports of U.S. and NATO warships headed for the Persian Gulf, but here it is all about the first black ever nominated for president.

During the primaries, Bill Clinton was charged with racism by liberal Democrats for saying that Barack's claim to being consistent on Iraq was a "fairy tale" and for implying that Barack's victory in South Carolina was no big deal because Jesse Jackson had carried the state twice.

Here at the convention, the media watched Hillary and Bill's speeches with a commissar's care -- to ensure they not only embraced Barack but "validated" his credentials to be president. Should they not go all out for Obama, we are told, the Clintons are dead in the party.

The psychic investment in Barack's candidacy is immense.

So great is the moral pressure to conform that John Lewis, the young hero of Selma Bridge, buckled and recanted his endorsement of Hillary. And that act of disloyalty and betrayal, a capitulation to race solidarity, is regarded as praiseworthy.

Black radio has become a cheering section for Obama. Every GOP ad mocking Obama is inspected for racial motives. Campaign books that portray Obama as a radical or phony are denounced by people who have not even seen them. The thought police are out in force.

Michelle Obama's speech about her upbringing and beliefs -- crafted by Barack's hires -- is said to be the last word on what a mainstream patriotic woman she is. But why, then, would she have taken her two lovely daughters to be baptized by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and to listen on Sundays to his racist rants against America?

Abroad, we are told, Europe and the Third World are awaiting the moment when America turns her back on her racist past and elevates this black man to the presidency. The subtext is that this is not just a political contest, but a moral test for America.

Indeed, many have begun to see this election in solely racial terms, an issue of whether racism once again triumphs in America, or racism is buried one and for all.

Questions arise. With this immense moral and emotional investment in a Barack victory -- by 94 to 1 in one poll black America is behind him -- what happens if the nation decides he is too radical, too inexperienced, too callow, too risky to be president?

What happens if the American people reject their marching orders and say no to Barack and black America? What happens if all the hopes and dreams, hype and hoopla, end in disillusionment?

Would the defeat of Barack Obama be taken as an affront to black America? Could we be in for a time of deepening racial division rather than healing? Could we be in for a long, hot autumn like the long, hot summers some of us recall from 40 years ago?

One black preacher here suggested as much to me.

Should that happen, the people who have framed this election as a contest between morality and racial justice on one side, and the clammy hand of America's racist past on the other, will bear the same moral responsibility as did the advocates of mass civil obedience for the racial riots of the 1960s that followed.

Barack has just shot 6 points ahead of McCain. But he has not yet closed the sale. And to prevent his closing of the sale, the GOP must raise doubts in the public mind as to whether he is really a man of Middle America or the closet radical of the Rev. Wright's congregation who said of Pennsylvanians that they are bitter folks, who cling to their Bibles, bigotries and guns because the world has left them behind.

No candidate has ever been nominated by a major party with fewer credentials or a weaker claim to the presidency, or more doubts as to his core beliefs. If Obama wins, the country could be in real trouble. And if he loses, the country could be in real trouble.

What the media celebrate today, they may rue tomorrow.

Mr. Buchanan is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, "The Death of the West,", "The Great Betrayal," "A Republic, Not an Empire" and "Where the Right Went Wrong."