There has been a lot of mud-slinging (*gasp* huge shock) in this election and much of what has been said against Obama is in my mind irrelevant. I wouldn't care if he was a Muslim (but no, he's not, and the slip-up the other day about his Muslim faith was just a meaningless slip of the tongue such as all of us are prone to).
I do care that his mother supposedly renounced her citizenship, and that his father is a radical, and that his wife had a job working at a hospital trying to shift poor patients away to other hospitals (for which she made a 6-figure salary), but none of those are significant enough to make me not vote for him. His mother, father, and wife and not candidates in this election.
There are however, more pertinent and serious issues with HIM, both on policy and also with his personal associations.
Wait...I just said his mom and dad weren't huge issues, but these upcoming people are? Well, yes. He didn't get to choose his mom and dad, but he did choose these other associations. And although no candidate can be responsible for all of the words and deeds of everyone they've ever known, it is perfectly legitimate to question long-time, chosen associations with and defense of hateful, anti-patriotic racists and unapologetic terrorists. That's right, terrorists. Read the next post for details. I've broken this down into separate posts for each issue, because they're rather long.
1. Obama and William Ayres
2. Obama and Jeremiah Wright
3. Obama and the Iraq delay
4. Obama and the Born Alive bill
3 comments:
I am intrigued so far.
I am impressed at the amount of thought you have put into these posts. I am unsure who I will be voting for in November - possibly a third party. I have problems with Obama's spending policies, but otherwise think he is a solid candidate. I can't bring myself to vote for McCain because 1) he has shifted positions so many times, 2) the economic policies he supported have proved disastrous, and 3) his hawkish foreign policy is practically guaranteed to lead us into another war.
In addition, I think your objections to Obama are less "legitimate" than you think. Indeed, I notice that there is very little reasons based on policy, and most of them are based on right-wing exaggerations of his prior contacts. I will post a reply to each of your objections under the relevant post over the next few days.
-S-
Thank you for making this blog Sarah. I wasn't planning on voting for Obama, but now I know I am definately not voting for Obama.
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