Barack Obama - the best snow job going
Several weeks ago, a reader commented that my choosing John McCain is motivated by fear, which in said reader's mind is a nasty way to chose a candidate.
I beg to differ because fear can be healthy. Fear is the thing that keeps you from walking down a dark alley at night; fear is what keeps you from getting the paper in a ratty old bathrobe and fear is what is going to keep me for voting for Barack Obama, who has come up with one of the most compelling snow jobs in modern history.
Reason # 1: You are judged by the company you keep. And let's face it, this man has kept company with some pretty questionable characters, Palestinian activist, Rashid Khalidi and the Reverend Wright, just to name two. One espouses a culture that thinks it is okay to bomb Israeli children and civilians, and anyone else who looks at them cross-eyed; the other is an out-and-out racist. I wouldn't want to meet either one in a dark alley let alone in broad daylight, and as a taxpayer, I wouldn't want either one of them sitting on the upholstery in the White House.
About the only skeleton that John McCain has in his closet is an ex-wife, which is something that almost every man now has.
Reason # 2: His Economic Plan. We are trying to create jobs, not tax the devil out of companies and businesses so that they will cease and desist from creating them. Also, rumor has it that the strata that he is going to tax has changed, which means that he doesn't have a very solid plan or idea what he's doing.
John McCain plans to tax everyone equally, which would then reduce unemployment by allowing employers to create more jobs because they aren't being heavily taxed. Grumble as we may, taxes are a necessary evil because we need them for roads and schools and anything public.
Reason # 4: ACORN, the Nut Falls from the Tree. As a "community organizer" and legal representative with ACORN (Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now), he pressured Chicago-area banks to give home loans to people who did not qualify, and we all know how that worked out.
Although a brilliant strategist and orator, Barack Obama's record and personal choices cast a long, dark shadow as to what may be ahead for this country if we elect him, and it could drive us into a further abyss.
I agree with Gail. I, too, am voting for John McCain out of fear.
I fear that Barack Obama is going to change the culture of America into something that it has never been. I fear that Barack Obama will appoint Supreme Court justices who will read into our Constitution things that were never intended by the Founders.
I fear that there is much about Barack Obama that we don't know and that we should know before electing a President. I fear that Barack Obama is naive and inexperienced and that inexperience will cause many problems for the US during the next four years.
I fear that Barack Obama will decimate our military which will leave us vulnerable to those who want to do us harm. I fear that Barack Obama will inadvertently cause harm to the only democracy in the Middle East, Israel.
I fear that America may not be the same again after an Obama administration.
It is those fears that are the reason I am voting for a great American who has proven himself to his country, John McCain.
Gary wrote: "I fear that America may not be the same again after an Obama administration."
I'm not sure that America may ever be the same again after this past administration. Did you support this one, and do you feel it went well...?
"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
--Edmund Burke, Irish orator, philosopher and politician (1729 - 1797)