Note the "Virtue" Obama Is Peddling

Americans would do well to note and think seriously about what Barack Obama has in mind for us if he ascends to the presidency. Remember:

1. He has said we cannot continue to drive SUVs or maintain the temperature of our homes at 72 degrees.

2. He wants to reduce our standard of living by diluting it to share our prosperity with the rest of world and to eliminate poverty worldwide -- something we haven't been able to do even in our own country despite enormous and prodigiously costly (and wasteful) efforts to do so.

3. Most recently, he in Europe called for "shared sacrifices" to further such efforts.

Before succumbing to the Obama blandishments, it behooves us to note the relationship of what he is promoting to an observation of Winston Churchill, a somewhat older, more experienced, and wiser man, who said:

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."