Why I Won't Vote For Obama

I have voted across party lines more than once in my lifetime.  The last time was for Pennsylvania Governor Rendell, as a matter of fact. I vote for the candidate and not the party.  However, not everybody sees politics are I do. There are Republicans who would not vote for a democrat if their lives depended on it and there are democrats who would sooner stick a hot poker in their eyes than vote Republican.  I can appreciate that.  But it's not me.  I am not voting for Obama because he is not the better candidate and there are many reasons why I feel this way.

A friend of mine saw my McCain bumper sticker the other day and asked me why I wasn't voting for Obama. First, I warned her about getting into it with me and she said she really wanted to know.  So, I told her.

I'll keep it nice and simple, just like I did for her.  At this point, his gross lack of experience is at the bottom of my list of reasons. Here are just some of the things that don't add up to me.

1) The fact that the Governor of Hawaii has sealed Obama's official birth certificate bothers me.  If there were no issues with where he was born (possibly Kenya which makes him not a natural-born citizen; his mother is said to have been enrolled school in Washington state when he was born) then why is it sealed?  John McCain forked his over when asked.

2) His relationship with terrorist cum professor William Ayers.  He is not a casual acquaintance, nor was he just a guy he worked with a dozen times-Ayers is so significant to Obama that he hosted Obama's political coming out party in his home. Obama wrote a blurb for Ayers' book and they worked together on the failed school reform effort, The Chicago Annenberg Challenge. "Fact"check.org (Factcheck.org is a web site run by the Annenberg Public Policy Center) states that despite the newly released records, there's still no evidence of a deep or strong "friendship" with Ayers.  Wow, to me, having someone host a monumental event for someone, writing a blurb in someone's book (as Obama did for Ayers on his book's dust jacket) and putting someone in charge of millions of dollars (as Ayers did to Obama when he entrusted the new director Obama with Annenberg's millions) demonstrates a little more than a casual business relationship.  

3) His contributions ($800,000) to ACORN, the voter registration group that has had multitudes of problems with phony registrations this year.

4) His lies about his mother's religion- namely that his mother attended a Baptist church when she really attended a UCC church in Bellevue Washington- one that was so left-leaning that is was nicknamed "The little red church"  because of its communist leanings.  Is this a big deal? Yes- baptist churches are very conservative while UCC is probably the most liberal of the big churches. Why lie about that?

5) His relationships with people who would be happy to see Israel wiped off the map.  Louis Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright (the latter a subscriber to the Black Liberation Theology, based on Marxism) and the former, the head of the Nation of Islam, which spreads the message of Black separatism and anti-gay, anti-Catholic, racist and anti-Semitic bigotry throughout the United States and the world." (source- Anti-Defamation League in statement to Senator Joe Lieberman.)  Obama has since publicly distanced himself from these two people in a move of political expediency, but the fact that it took him so long gives me pause.

6) He has stated that it was his mother who formed his political idealogy.  His mother, an anthropologist, was a Marxist. William Ayers is a self-described Marxist.  In his book, Obama says he sought out the Marxist professors.  Do I want a Marxist for president? No.

7) Reports of his campaign ordering/threatening/intimidating radio stations and tv stations who run negative ads about Obama disturb me.  Here's one story: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Obama_camp_blasts_National_Review_writer_as_slimy_character_assassin.html?showall

8)  His whole "share the wealth" notion, whether he gets away with it or not, scares me.

9) Other things that make my spidey senses perk up:

• He has the support of fidel castro, who stated that Obama "is the most-advanced candidate."

• Terrorist group Hamas endorses Obama.

• In March 2007, Sen. Obama stated that "Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinians."  

So, if you are undecided, if you are a friend of Israel, if you think Obama will save the country, ask yourself if any of the reasons I'm not going to vote for him bother you at all.  If they do, cast your vote for McCain.

 

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[Universal Spectator]

Couldn't have said it better myself...