Thanks to an anonymous friend for this excellent summary.

The Economic Change We Need?

Higher government spending fueled by higher taxes is not the change we need.

A tax policy that chokes the engine of job creation is not the change we need.

An inefficient Government-mandated health care system that limits choice and places a crushing financial burden on small business is not the change we need.

Increased capital gains taxes that stifle new investment and risk-taking and encourage removal of capital from the system is not the change we need.

Removing capital from the corporate sector and using it instead as just a few more drops in the bucket to fund dubious social programs is not the change we need.

Spreading the wealth of people who've earned it to those who government decides could use it is not the change we need.

Redistributing wealth to pursue civil rights grievances is not the change we need.
Ignoring the role of government social engineering in the housing-bust precipitated economic crisis is not the change we need.

Giving driver's licenses and wholesale granting of government benefits to illegal aliens is not the change we need.

[Editor's note: For another article on the subject "Economic Illiteracy Is Not the Change We Need", click HERE.]

The Change in Integrity and Ethics, and Values That We Need?

Ending secret ballots in union elections is not the change we need.

Removing any and all restrictions on abortions under any circumstances, through the Freedom of Choice Act is not the change we need.

Establishing government controls over political programming content in radio is not the change we need.

Saying you don't support gay marriage while speaking out against a California ballot proposition that would prohibit gay marriage is not the change we need.

Lying about your relationship with unrepentant terrorists is not the kind of change we need.

Lying about your campaign's ties to ACORN is not the kind of change we need.

Lying about your relationship with America's favorite wrong reverend—Reverend Jeremiah Wright—is not the change we need.

Running as a centrist while holding the most liberal voting record in the Senate is not the change we need.

Saying one thing to big-dollar donors in San Francisco and another to the "bitter" folks in Scranton is not the change we need.

A campaign theme "the failed policies of the Bush administration" that uses anger over the past to energize its base is not the change we need.

Being informed by a "world view" that's garnered the endorsement of Louis Farrakhan, the PLO, Hugo Chavez, and the frothing-at-the-mouth Hollywood left is not the change we need.

A first lady who's only reason to take pride in America is her husband's candidacy is not the kind of change we need.

A president whose candidacy was so supported by the dominant media that they can likely not be honest critics of his presidency is not the change we need.

An executive and legislative branch controlled by the same party is not the change we need.

The Change in Energy Policy That We Need?

Policies that discourage domestic exploration, drilling, and refining are not the change we need.

Ignoring our own energy resources while we spend billions on pie-in-the sky alternative technologies, that might pay off in decades hence, is not the change we need.

A "cap and trade" system to tax carbon fuel usage is not the kind of change we need.
Enacting policies that would take nuclear power off the table as a source of clean energy is not the change we need.

Rendering clean coal technology economically unfeasible is not the change we need.

The Change in Foreign Policy That We Need?

Lending credibility to the likes of Hugo Chavez and Ahmed Ahmadinijad through entering into direct negotiations is not the kind of change we need.

A leader who, through a surrogate tells the Canadian Trade minister that his protectionist trade rhetoric is just campaign rhetoric is not the kind of change we need.

Prematurely withdrawing from Iraq and squandering the gains we have made at great sacrifice is not the change we need.

Worrying about who likes us while enacting policies that make us easy prey to those who hate us is not the change we need.

Enacting protectionist trade policies pandering to unions will stifle our exports. It's not the change we need.

A leader with no military experience is not the kind of change we need.

A leader who is so arrogant that he refuses to acknowledge the success of the Iraq surge is not the change we need.

An inexperienced, untested leader, who, in the words of his Vice-presidential candidate will invite a "generated" foreign policy crisis is not the change we need.

Obama. Not The Change We Need.

-A Soldier in the War of Ideas. November 3, 2008.