I've had some fun with this blog, but this will be my last post. It's getting out of hand and I guess that's normal for an election, but for me, it's not worth loosing any friends over. I read an article yesterday that stated that if Obama looses it's because he is black, basically stating that some people will NOT vote for him because he is black. Do I think that's true, yes, 100%, SOME people might not vote for him because of this. I also believe there are SOME people who ARE voting for him because he's black. I don't know percentages and don't believe in polls either. I don't know how accurate these numbers are, but I do know the media will hype this up for their own benefit, with no regard what it might do to our country. It has no benefit to the outcome of the election, it provides no useful information to the public.
Some last thoughts.
Hollywood:
I think these people are really hurting, seriously, they have deep down issues. Regardless of whether a person is running for office or not, imagine if you were a 17 year old girl and somebody joked with you and said you were pregnant from your own dad. Would that be funny? Put yourself in her shoes. That would seriously hurt you, but the Comedians on SNL think it's funny. I understand that the Hollywood crowd are a bunch of nerdy drama kids who still hold a grudge against the jocks in high school and are still trying to get back at them. It's blatantly obvious how insecure they are and out of touch they are with reality. They have to hate Republicans it's in their contract! The problem is that kids and teens watch TV, and unfortunately they form their opinions from this stuff.
In the end, I think these Hollywoodians are hurting Obama's chances. They think they are freely expressing themselves and they have every right to do that. However, most TV viewers are middle America, the folks who watch American Idol. Is it a coincidence that the most successful "Idols" after the show are country or rock singers? The only people who agree with the actors are other actors, not the voters who actually watch TV. So the more they degrade McCain because of his age or inability to lift his arm or the more they call Alaskans incestuous, so they can get a high five the next morning over a mocha latte' with their jaded friends, the more they push voters away from Obama.
The media is a double edged sword. It helps Obama because he gets all the good press, but it hurts Obama because all the idiot actors are negating all his gains with middle America. In the end, I think that Hollywood will do more harm than good.
As for me, John McCain is not the perfect candidate. But he'll get my vote based on these issues:
*I consider myself a social conservative
*I don't want a national health care system that will force employers to pay into the "national insurance pool". When employers have to start paying into the pool, they won't be able to contribute to employees insurance directly anymore, thus making it more expensive for employees, forcing them to use the National System, which will undoubtedly be horrendous. I've been treated under a socialized health care system while living in England. It's the absolute worst.
*I don't believe in the Robin Hood tax principal. It's unfair to tax the successful people of the world more than anyone else. Everyone should be taxed equally. Those big oil tycoons that the Dems would lead you to believe we are going after are not gonna be hurt by this. It's the small business owners and those who have worked twice as hard to get ahead who will be hurt. The extra taxes are not going towards the National debt, they are going towards more social programs and middle-lower income tax supplements. The "rich" already produce over 90% of the tax revenue our government takes in, now you want to tax them an additional 20% overall. This is a good way to motivate them to find other ways to invest their money for sure, thus ensuring the government brings in less revenue. I, myself, am in the lower-middle class category, so under Obama's plan I wouldn't be affected, but I still think this is terrible for the economy and it's unfair to punish success.
*I believe a lot of people want to eradicate us from the earth. Call me crazy, you won't be the first. Radical Muslims have been going at us for over 30 years and I don't think they will stop. I know Russia and China want to take us down too. I don't know if McCain is too "unstable" to handle this job or not, but I've seen that he has shown good experience thus far in how to fix what the world says "Bush screwed up". I think in general, having a hard line Republican in the Oval office will, at worst, keep the enemies at bay, just out of shear fear of what he might do. I think even if Obama has good intentions, when crazy people like Mahmoud Ajjlakdiwjoejdfajdljdghaijod in Iran see him elected it shows a weakness as a people and he will jump on that opportunity as will other "bad guys".
It's all image. Everyone hates Bush, I get that, but the "bad guys" know that if they do anything stupid, there WILL be repercussions from Bush, so they attack US territories abroad, not CONUS. I do think the next president does need to work more with the other leaders of the world, but do it as a show of comradery, not as a sign of dependence.
All in all, I'm not an economy major, so I have limited knowledge in that area. I know a good deal about World Militaries and how they feel about us, based on my background as an Intelligence Analyst. I'm a social conservative based on my beliefs. So these issues and how I feel about them is why I will vote for John McCain. It's not because Obama's black. I really hope that people will NOT vote for him because he's black or that people WILL vote for him because he's black.
One thing is for sure, the media will take whatever the outcome is and make it into a terrible mess and paint as bleak a picture as possible to sell newspapers. When McCain wins, he'll get the same disrespectful treatment that Bush gets from Hollywood, and Tina Fey will gripe and complain about America as she collects her million dollar pay checks that come from mocking leaders of the country that has given her opportunities beyond imagination.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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Well, I'm sorry to see you go, even if this blog was a little one sided. I thought I would post some of the reasons that I will not vote for Obama.
First, do I even need to go into the inconsistency of his campaign, or even his entire career? He claims that he will reform Washington, but he has no record of being a reformer even in the Illinois senate. The only bill that was close to reform that I found was the Illinois Health Care Reform bill. That bill was changed dramatically within days of it originally going to the Senate floor by Obama himself after pharmaceutical lobbyists persuaded (or paid?) him to change it. Oh wait, Obama claims to not deal with lobbyists.
He claims to be "in touch" with the middle class, yet lives in a $2 million dollar mansion that he could only afford thanks to some questionable money dealings with someone who, while not being a lobbyist directly, expected political favors. It seems he only got the deal because the lady who bought the $500,000 lot next to him paid full price. She claims to only make about $34,000 a year and sold some of that lot to Obama at quite a discount. That lady is the wife of the aforementioned political activist who is facing felony charges now. Oh, wait, Obama doesn't give political favors and is a reformer.
He bashes McCain for not fully vetting Sarah Palin, but maybe he should have fully vetted Biden. It seems that Biden delights in contradicting Obama on every turn. Biden said "no coal in America", but clean coal has apparently been one of Obama's planks. Biden said "no bailout of AIG", but Obama supported it from the start (and with campaign contributions from the CEO of Goldman Sachs, he had better). Biden called an attack ad put out by Obama as "Terrible", but Obama claimed to have approved the message (which is a requirement of Presidential candidates as set forth by the McCain-Fiengold Act for Campaign Contribution Reform). McCain, hmm, I've heard that name before. That couldn't be Sen. John McCain, because Obama said that McCain has never passed any reform acts.
Obama decries that McCain has lobbyists for advisors and takes money from lobbyists for his campaign (a fact that I have not heard McCain deny), but Obama himself has lobbyists on his side. One is the premier lobbyist in the state of Delaware another is a state lobbyist in Illinois and whose boss is the largest nuclear concern in the US, a company that also employs federal lobbyists. Obama brags that he doesn't take money from federal lobbyists, but he does take money from state lobbyists and directly from the heads of companies that employ federal lobbyists, such as the aforementioned Goldman Sachs. I wouldn't consider streamlining the lobbying effort to cut out the middle-man of political favors "reform".
This has yet to touch on his economic policies. Obama seems to be using the second theorem of welfare economics which relies on wealth redistribution (although Obama himself said he doesn't like to call it wealth redistribution) either as a lump sum or progressive taxation. He has backed this plan up by saying things like, the economy only works when everyone in America prospers. This idea may have sounded good in a liberal college setting (apparently Obama's only economic experience), but so did Communism. One of the things that would have to be true for this idea work is that everyone would have to altruistic and only think of putting others first, or as Biden put it "patriotic". The regulation he wants to put into place cannot be good for the US either. He claims that because McCain is for deregulation, he is to blame for the financial crisis today. Maybe he doesn't remember what life was like before some of the government regulations were lifted. Remember your POTS (plain ol' telephone service) line before deregulation. Yep, it was serviceable and exactly the same as the telephone service your grandparents had. There was no incentive to improve, no competition to drive innovation. Currently the utility companies say that unless government regulations are lifted, they will not be able to provide power to everyone within the next 10 years. With regulation, they claim they will either have rolling blackouts as the norm or electricity prices will be so high that they will more than your mortgage. Yet, Obama clings to more regulation. France has not had the same financial market trouble that we have since there markets are heavily regulated. With his health plan, it looks like Obama wants to turn the US into France. You know, there are reasons I don't live in France.
I would like to think that Obama is very intelligent, but it seems the more he talks, the less I think this is true. I also fear that the more unscrupulous leaders of the world are waiting for him to be elected, so they can run roughshod over him. Ahmedijidad (sp?) of Iran is already trying to do that. China, Russia, France (well, maybe not France) all will eat him alive at the expense of the American people, I fear.
"Government is why everything is screwed up, so I bring you ... more Government" - I have just summed up Obama's campaign.
There are more reasons, but I am tired of typing and these are the few that were on the top of my head.
Tony, say it ain't so.
It would be nice to not lose friends over our differences. But on too many of these issues we can't both be right. And all we've known is increasingly in jeopardy for not being able to figure out the difference.
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