There have been a lot of Obama posts on here lately, and they really get heated. I thought I'd start a thread for people who won't vote for Obama not because we dislike him, as many of his supporters suggest (how in the world can you dislike someone you don't know?) but because his potential presidency scares the heck out of us.
Here's why I'm scared of Obama:
1) He has no leadership experience at all. He has never run anything, never been responsible for anything. I think of the bosses I've had with zero (or very little) leadership experience, and it was always a disaster. Leader of the free world takes some leadership skills, and he just doesn't have any at all. I've never heard a word from anyone he's ever worked for about him, and I'm sorry, but work as a "community organizer" is just plain phony. If you got a resume for an important, high-level job with that listed as the applicant's chief "work" experience, you'd throw it in the garbage and have a good laugh. Even when he worked a short time as an attorney, I've heard not one word ever about a case he handled, a case he won, etc. And as to his being a "law professor," he's never written a single scholarly article about the law. That is unheard of in academe. Even as an Illinois State Senator he voted "present" on bill after bill, meaning he had no commitment to it one way or the other. And his time in the U.S. Senate (under 200 days) was simply too brief to be considered as any kind of meaningful experience. He simply has no track record as an employee of any kind, so his potential presidency scares me.
2) Susan Estrich a staunch Democrat and former campaign chief of the Dukakis presidential run reminded us today that only 8 years ago Barack Obama's credit card was denied when he tried rent a car at the Democratic National Convention. Here's the link:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/arrogance_wont_win_the_electio.html
Now, 8 years ago Barack Obama was a father and nearly 40 years old, yet his own financial house was in such disarray that his credit cards were being denied. That suggests to me a man who had not yet reached full adulthood in his late 30s. We need a president who has been a full-fledged adult for at least a decade or so. Again, leader of the free world is an important job.
3) I know his supporters will go insane when I say this, but Sen. Obama is deeply conflicted about whether or not he loves his country. Please don't tell me that "dissent is the highest form of patriotism." I and many others believe that recognizing and embracing the profound greatness that is the American experiment is the highest form of patriotism. Is it a perfect country? Of course not, but name one better. Sen. Obama can speak very eloquently about America's faults, but he has very little to say about her virtues. He went to Germany and apologized for his own nation, for God's sake.
To Germany! If anyone owes the world an apology, well
you get it. I was struck, watching Obama with French President Sarkozy yesterday how easy and genuine it was for Sarkozy to gush about American freedom and liberty, and how I've never heard similar sentiments expressed from Sen. Obama. It's old news, I know, but he sat in a church for 20 years while anti-American venom was spewed from the pulpit, and
it didn't bother him. It bothered Oprah Winfrey, by the way, who resigned her membership in that church years ago, but it didn't bother Sen. Obama. I believe it didn't bother him because he agrees that this is an evil nation, and he is wrong. I don't want to vote for someone who wants to "fix" an evil nation; I want to vote for someone who wants to lead a great one.
4) Sen. Obama has close friendships with people who when they disagreed with their government during the Vietnam War committed acts of domestic terrorism with the group Weather Underground. Link here:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8630.html
This friendship is more than casual as Obama insists but even if it were casual, how many terrorists do you have as
casual friends? Again, I am astonished that Sen. Obama wasn't repelled by these peoples' violent past, but I think he wasn't because he believes what they did was acceptable. Again, this reinforces #3 above. Some of our greatest Democratic presidents would have been repelled by these awful people Kennedy, Roosevelt but not Obama. He is so conflicted about his own nation that he can't recognize the inherent evil in domestic terrorists. He's either terribly immature, lacks the judgment of an adult, or sees my country so radically different than I do that I simply could never support him to be its leader.
5) Sen. Obama does not believe we are at war with worldwide jihadists who want to destroy the Western world. As a matter of philosophy, he believes we have caused Islamic radicals to hate us, and if we just talk to them and give them some of what they want, they won't ever attack us again. In short, he believes such radicals can be reasoned with. Well, they don't call them radicals for no reason. Radicalism is the opposite of reason. I believe the global jihadists want worldwide dominion and submission of all non-believers and I believe it because that is what they've said they want. Such aggression must be met with superior firepower and the willingness to destroy that which seeks to destroy you. Sen. Obama is not willing to do that. He has never spoken out against the human rights abuses in the Arab world, only the alleged human rights abuses by the US in fighting this war on terror. Quite simply, he seems to be on the wrong side of this war, so his presidency scares the heck out of me. As the mother of daughters, anyone who would defend a group that subjugates women to chattel will never, ever get my vote.
6) Obama believes that it is appropriate for government to redistribute the nation's wealth through grossly unfair taxation. Such schemes tend to destroy capitalist economies, and since capitalism is the only economy that has ever lifted so many out of poverty (check out data on our "poor" compared to the poor in developing socialist/marxist countries), I anticipate an Obama presidency would do a great deal of damage to our economy and Wall Street agrees (see link:
http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2008/02/obama_stirs_ill_wind_on_wall_s.html). Moreover, my money is
my money. I earned it. I want to keep it. If you want more money, go earn it yourself. An Obama presidency may well destroy the pension funds of countless Americans, making them utterly dependent on government, which is exactly where I'm afraid Sen. Obama would like them.
Okay, there's a few to chew on. So, why are
you scared to death of an Obama presidency?
