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Forget McCain, this Election is About Obama [Reader Post]

Posted by: Dan @ 8:15 am in Barack Obama, John McCain

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John McCain lost my vote along time ago. He still makes me angry and I will not be happy to vote for him in November. There is only one thing that will make me vote for McCain and that is his opponent.

Initially, when McCain was handed the Republican nomination by a coalition of Democrat/Independent crossover voters and squishy Republicans, I decided not to vote for him in November. At that point I knew I was dooming the country to another 4 years of a Clinton in the White House. As bad as that would have been it may have been worth it to teach the GOP a lesson.

Then came Obama. He didn’t seem so bad at first but the more you get to know him the more dangerous he becomes. At first we did not know how naive this guy was and then he told us he would negotiate with our enemies without pre-conditions. He tells us that he wants to surrender in Iraq even though we are winning.

That was just the tip of the iceberg, we had not yet found out about his friends. They fall into three main categories; racists pastors, criminal financiers and former terrorists. Obama doesn’t think it is fair for us to play “the politics of association” which brings me to another issue I have with him. Obama is a huge hypocrite, he was happy to attack Cheney and Bush over their associations but think himself beyond criticism. Don’t forget his arrogance and his elitism. I still think that his comments in San Francisco about Americans clinging to guns and religion will hurt him in the fall.

With all of his mini-scandals, gaffes and mis-statements the main reasons to oppose Obama are still his policy views. This man is dangerously naive when it comes to foreign policy. He wants to strip our military and spend the money on health care. Maybe that is why nearly every enemy of the United States has either endorsed him or said they didn’t want to hurt his chances by endorsing him.

Domestically his policies are just as bad. His policies will destroy our economy, he has vowed to raise all of our taxes by eliminating the Bush tax cuts. He opposes more oil production to bring down the price of gasoline because he has bought into the global warming hoax.

What scares me most about Obama is that he wants to use the federal government to investigate his political enemies. Obama has stated that the first thing he will instruct his Attorney General to do is to investigate potential crimes in the Bush administration. It sounds to me like he wants to implement a police state.

For these reasons I encourage you to forget about McCain and vote against Obama.

Cross posted at The Hinge of Fate

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Gail

I don’t think Obama is naive, I think he is socialist. Our enemies are socialists, of course he wants to talk to them! They don’t argue with or criticize him, which he apparently cannot tolerate…you know like all liberal socialists. He can’t debate because he is wrong (he is naive about that). He thinks that becoming more socialist will help America. He wasn’t making misstatements, he was telling the truth, but since all of his friends and associates are socialists, racists and criminals, he really didn’t know he would offend the rest of America. Now he is pandering to his perception of what the rest of America thinks (clinging to guns and religion) and he will say anything to get elected, so he can fix our souls by converting us to socialists.

Don’t ver analyze this guy, he’s not that bright. Haven’t you ever heard him speak without a speech written by someone with a high IQ? He is a good sock puppet for George Soros and that is about it. Ummm…and yes, that is dangerous.

Best regards,

June 26th, 2008 at 8:27 am

Gail

Oops…never mind…I made a correction here, then saw that I could just correct the original post. Very nice comments feature…I hate seeing typos after I publish a comment.

June 26th, 2008 at 8:28 am

Dan

I think he is naive like Chamberlain was naive. He seems to think that he can talk Iran out of hating us and Isreal. You are right, he is a socialist and he wants the government to control our economy and us for that matter. All good reasons to vote against him, but I still think he is naive when it comes to foriegn policy.

June 26th, 2008 at 9:49 am

ZachJonesIsHome

On the lighter side:
If some of the other Obama scandals come out, he may not get the nomination.
Consider this parody: Sen. Clinton may still have a chance.
Senator McCain in a Time Rift!
Is John McCain Really Harry Potter?
http://zachjonesishome.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/mccain-harry-potter-lord-voldemort-obama-dark-magic-in-time-rift/

June 26th, 2008 at 10:00 am

BarbaraS

Obama is not so naive about foreign as much as he is ignorant about it. The only people he has discussed this subject with are fellow liberals/socialists/communists who think to pull the wool over our eyes. And as we have seen they have a distorted view of this subject. They are the naive ones if they think they can talk terrorists out of their goals even though these same terrorists have said over and over again that they want to destroy this country and its people. I don’t beleive the dimwits. I think this is just a way to get elected by the stupid left. But notice how Obama is veering right. He knows the left cannot elect him. That’s why he is deserting them. He needs independents and he is courting them now.

June 26th, 2008 at 11:53 am

SoCal Chris

[At that point I knew I was dooming the country to another 4 years of a Clinton in the White House. As bad as that would have been it may have been worth it to teach the GOP a lesson.]

While I totally respect your opinion on this, I also have to say that maybe just ONE year (actually, 1 1/2 yrs.) of the Democrats controlling congress has done enough damage to the country to “teach the GOP a lesson”, which I guess was the idea many Republicans had in Nov. of ‘06 and why they (allegedly) stayed home on election day. I just think there are better ways of getting the message across, but that’s just me being the perpetual idealist. (Think Ross Perot and 8 years of Clinton).

Having said that, I AM glad to hear that you will at least vote against Obama!

June 26th, 2008 at 11:56 am

Dan

I think the nomination of McCain argues against the GOP understanding the message. The GOP could win a huge victory in November on the strength of two issues, energy exploration and illegal immigration. They are starting to get it right on energy exploration but because of McCain they are avoiding the illegal immigration issue.

I really think in the end Obama will be the doom of the Democrat party this year. He is way out of the mainstream and even the average American that doesn’t pay attention can see that, even with all the fawning praise from the drive bys.

June 26th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

SoCal Chris

I understand, and I’ve said here that Fred Thompson was my first pick, but I will be voting for and supporting McCain. Something that really invigorated my belief in John McCain even more was a conversation I heard yesterday between Mark Levin and Bruce Herschensohn who authored a novel entitled ‘Above Empyrean: A Novel of the Final Days of the War Against Islamist Terrorism’. Something Mr. Herschensohn emphasized about the current election is that the MOST important thing right now is winning the war. Domestic issues can be dealt with, he said, after that crisis is resolved. And that, he said, is what John McCain will do really well at accomplishing. He said we’ll know when that is accomplished when acts of terrorism are reduced to isolated acts of crime vs. an organized, large scale attack.

June 26th, 2008 at 5:47 pm

Mike's America

At this point it would be grossly irresponsible for any conservative to sit out this election because he wants to “teach the GOP a lesson.” I hope people rethink that.

I too was having a real problem supporting McCain. He told me to my face that if I disagreed with him on a range of issues which I brought up (gang of 14, immigration and “torture” of detainees) that I should not vote for him. “I’m not your candidate” he said.

Well, he’s not my candidate. I didn’t vote for him in the primary. But I can’t risk the damage that Obama would do to the country by not voting for McCain.

I hope McCain figures out that he can’t win without conservatives and chooses a decent running mate. But even if he doesn’t, I am going to have to hold my nose and vote for him.

However, I’m not going to donate any money to his campaign. Let all the squishy moderates and Independents pull their share in that dept. this time around.

June 26th, 2008 at 10:08 pm