Why I continue to support Barack Obama?
I was asked by one of my commenters, why I am supporting Barack Obama? Although I have discussed this several times both on my radio show and here, in this forum. I thought it was important for me to restate my position.
Approximately 4 years ago, I wrote a book called A Letter to America: Is President Bush Leading Us in the Right Direction? I discussed many issues and which I thought President Bush and the Republican Party were clearly leading the country away from our roots and away from our best interest. There are many examples which include, but are not limited to No Child Left Behind, the War in Iraq, our lack of focus in Afghanistan, tax cuts for the rich, tax giveaways for energy companies and using religion as a political weapon.
Therefore, I was looking for candidate who would fix many of the issues that I raised in my book. I’ve been talking to Americans about politics for over four years. Once you get past the clichés and the rhetoric, most Americans want basically the same things. We want a job in which they can put in a good day’s work and get paid a reasonable wage. We want to be able to make their bills at the end of the month. We would like to be able to have a little after over to save for college. We would like not to have to worry about health care and possibly getting wiped out by an illness. We would all like our children to grow up and safe neighborhoods. We would like our children to go to schools in which the teachers want to teach. We want the educators to create an environment for our children to learn. We don’t want to have to worry about drugs, school shootings and sexual or racial harassment in our schools.
It is my opinion that Barack Obama will come closer to delivering the America that we all want. I have problems with Hillary Clinton and her candidacy. It seems to me that Bill Clinton is circumventing our Constitution. He is really getting a third term if Hillary Clinton wins the presidential race. They have already talked about a co-presidency. Also, solutions that work yesterday are not necessarily to work today.
Anonymous Liberal, several months ago, announced that he was supporting Barack Obama. One of his main reasons was the positive press that he seems to get. He pointed out that John Edwards and Hillary Clinton never seemed to get a break from the press. He thought that some positive press about liberal ideas would help push the country forward. I agree with this reasoning.
Finally, I believe your position on the war is critically important. The most important decision that was made in the last 10 years was the decision to go to war. Anyone who did not do their due diligence does not deserve to be president, in my opinion. Did you read the National Intelligence Estimate? The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, at that time, was Senator Bob Graham. He argued against the war. Many Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, did not read the national intelligence estimate and did not listen to someone who actually read the report. No matter what the reason, this is not forgivable. Following the same logic, I have been unable to find a viable Republican who has seriously oppose the war and wants to bring our troops home… now!
For these reasons and more, I’m a strong supporter of Barack Obama.
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I think that Barack Hussein Obama will get people to vote who has not prior to this. It will be a percent of African Americans who have never voted before and vote only because he is black and Oprah loves him. Not on his policies or experience or what he says he wants to do for this county, by the way a county his wife was only proud of after he started to run for president. It also bothers me that according to the president’s own campaign spokesperson says that Barack Hussein Obama is friendly with an infamous terrorist Bill Ayers, a former me member of the violent,anti American group the Weatherman, who boasts of his role in bombing the Capital in 71 and the Pentagon in 72 and his wife Bernardine Dohrn. Although the charges were dismissed, in his book he says that he would not dismiss the idea of using bombs against US in the future. Robert Maley,Barack Hussein Obama`s policy advisor blames Israel for everything bad and suggests doing business with Hamas the radical Palestinian militants dedicated to Israel’s destruction. Barack Hussein Obama`s, Rev. seen in tapes of his sermons since Sept 11 has preached that US is the one who are the terrorists and after sept 11 the that US shouldn’t be upset that we were getting back what we did to other counties. What about his relationship to Tony Rezko who is facing federal charges of extortion, money laundering and fraud;? Rezko has raised money for Barack Hussein Obama and on the same day bought adjoining homes in 2005, although the Obama team has said that the money he received from Rezko was given to charity why was he raising money for Barack Hussein Obama in the first place. Hillary Clinton and her scandals aren’t much better but I think between the two the lesser of two evils.
Candy -
I go out of my way not to bash folks who take the time to comment on my blog. But… I’m thinking that I need to make an exception.
Your are arguments make NO sense. Blacks are going to vote for him because Oprah loves him? Get real. More Whites than Blacks view Oprah. So, how does this work again?
Please send me some of Robert Maley’s speeches or position papers. I have looking for any references outside of a couple of posts to some Tn newspaper’s blog.
I find it interesting that you mention a lot of peripheral players but never mention any of Obama’s personal positions or accomplishments. How interesting.
Even the Chicago Tribute who broke the Rezko story clearly stated that Barack Obama was not involved in Rezko matter. So, this argument goes up in smoke.