Some have accused me of being a single-issue voter because of our first post questioning how pro-life voters can justify voting for Obama, who is a pro-abortion (not pro-choice) candidate. I do think you can justify a single-issue vote when the candidate is so extreme in his position. After all, do we really think God will bless a country, no matter how strong its economic and defense policies, when its laws encourage the killing of so many of the unborn?

But (you knew that was coming) there are other areas where an Obama presidency would negatively impact our freedoms. There is a troubling connection of education and communist ideology that we could expect based on his past work. Please read this column by Andrew McCarthy at National Review Online titled "Another Communist in Obama's Orb".

Some key portions:

"The mainstream press steadfastly refuses to delve into Barack Obama’s radicalism, his Leftist revolutionary collaboration with self-identified communists...With what little media oxygen there has been sucked out by the largely uninformative discussion of Ayers (and his wife and Weather Underground ally, Bernadine Dohrn) — in which the mantra “unrepentant terrorist” has been a pale substitute for the critical matter of the Ayers’s ideology that Obama plainly shares — much has been missed. Significantly, that includes another key Obama contact, Mike Klonsky.

Here’s what you need to know. Klonsky is an unabashed communist whose current mission is to spread Marxist ideology in the American classroom. Obama funded him to the tune of nearly $2 million. Obama, moreover, gave Klonsky a broad platform to broadcast his ideas: a “social justice” blog on the official Obama campaign website.

To be clear, as it seems always necessary to repeat when Obamaniacs, in their best Saul Alinsky tradition, shout down the opposition: This is not about guilt by association. The issue is not that Obama knows Klonsky … or Ayers … or Dohrn … or Wright … or Rashid Khalidi …
The issue is that Obama promoted and collaborated with these anti-American radicals. The issue is that he shared their ideology. ...

After getting his doctorate, Klonsky eventually made his way to Chicago and hooked up with his old SDS comrade (and self-professed “small ‘c’ communist”) Bill Ayers. Together, they co-founded the Small Schools Workshop in 1991. The goal — as Ayers has repeatedly made clear, most prominently in a 2006 speech before Hugo Chavez at an education forum in Caracas — is to bring the same Leftist revolution that has always galvanized them into the classroom.

When Obama and Ayers collaborated together on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) education-reform project, with Obama chairing the board that oversaw funding decisions, CAC underwrote the Klonsky/Ayers Small Schools Workshop with a whopping $1,056,162. And that’s not all. Nearly another million dollars was steered to the Small Schools Workshop by the Joyce and Woods Funds when Obama sat on their boards. The grand total comes to $1,968,718.

Furthermore, as education remains one of Obama’s core areas of concern — a fact that should frighten you — he gave Klonsky a microphone during the campaign. On the Obama campaign’s official website, Klonsky ran a blog for the candidate, as Klonsky put it, on “education politics and teaching for social justice.” He ran it, that is, until blogger Steve Diamond called attention to it back in June. A that point, the campaign scrubbed the site of all Klonsky traces — a fitting Stalinesque purge, described by Diamond here (and reminiscent of similar efforts to erase the campaign’s false claims about Obama’s relationship with ACORN).

So get ready for Klonsky’s “social justice.” It’s what Barack Obama calls “change.”

Read the entire article, it goes into much more detail.

Why should we be concerned about these communist leanings? They threaten the freedoms given us by God and guaranteed by the Constitution. The government should not be in the business of telling us how we should be distributing our money; that is up to the individual as he is led by God to help others. The protection of private property provided by the founders has allowed the freedom and creativity this great country is known for.

Redistribution of wealth, as Obama promised Joe the Plumber, should not be taught to our children