there are a lot of fears concerning Obama from Cyn apparently. Chicken little's "The sky is falling' type of attitude when we haven't even seen one hint that Obama is satan as she claims seems really irrational. I voted against raising taxes and I voted for a cool, calm president who might be able to soothe all the messes Bush and his cronies have made.
First of all, there's something about Obama that rings true to me when he talks. He surrounds himself with people across the board and really listens to opposing viewpoints. I feel he is much less 'hot-headed' then McCain, and I think we need someone very cool and calm to erase all the issues Bush created with his 'wars'. It's kind of like listening to someone and the spirit confirms they are genuine. I get such a feeling and confirmation listening to Obama, not McCain. McCain scares the hell out of me in what he'll do with my money. There are two ways to vote: Fear based - such as Cyn keeps on spouting, or hope based - such that I voted. I'm voting on faith that calm heads will prevail and clean up the messes WE made. I think Obama is a realist. He told black fathers to stop being irresponsible, he sees that a lot of the issues of race is internal in the black community. He pissed off the black leaders by saying it as it was. I don't think he's going to be blinded by PC and lobbyists.
I never wanted to go into Iraq. Saddam was a despot, but he was secular and kept Iran from growing it's religious army. Iraq was NOT bin Ladan, and had no weapons. I never believed they had weapons. We should have targeted Afghanistan and the taliban with all our might. Now the taliban is growing again because we were so focused on Bush's war in Iraq. I think Obama recoqnizes how we completely messed everything up. I also feel Obama hates the taliban as much as McCain does, Obama will fight the taliban just as much as McCain. In addition, I frankly don't care how much people in other countries want freedom. If they want it bad enough they will fight for it themselves and have revolution (we did). Just like the Berlin wall, which was not fought with our guns and airships, freedom only comes from internal sources. I'm sick of the far right saying it's our duty to go into soveriegn countries and force them to change to democracies (which they aren't going to do anyway.)
Environmentally, McCain used to be green, then he completely changed during the election (his change and pandering to the far right is what cost him the election.) I liked McCain before 6 months ago. I think Obama will get us off oil and use all those old oil tax breaks and change them to renewable energy tax breaks. Change in energy will only happen when there are enough encentives and it's financially viable for companies to go that way. Bush and unfortunately McCain, were refusing to stop giving tax breaks to oil instead of solar.
Socialism: in the last few months, McCain was sounding just like those pandering to the 'less forunate'. In fact, he wants to give hundreds of millions of my tax dollars to irresponsible homeowners so they can keep their house (and not work for it.) He's rewarding people who are forclosing. Obama hasn't even gone that far. In really reviewing Obama's ideas, the only one that feels socialistist is the healthcare and even that isn't mandatory. People can still 'opt out' if they so choose. Business will be affected as they either have to offer some type of plan or contribute to a government pool, but McCain's plan was just as bad, if not worse in that in five years his plan would cost so much more than Obama's of tax payers money. In the end, I am completely against the healthcare policies of either candidate.
Guns: it may be true that Obama is going to scale back gun laws, but in no way can he remove them. Montana, Wyoming and Idaho would leave the nation (since they signed on only on the condition people can bear arms.) the supreme court just ruled in gun law's favor and it will be years until Obama can put a new justice in, if ever. We're going to stock up now just in case, but I'm just not thinking it's a rational fear.
Money: out of the wealthy (those who make 250K and up) 65% voted for Obama. I think that says something. We need to stop being the bully on the block in the world, we need to be more humble and calm, we need to clean up the environment and get off oil. Once oil isn't a factor, then the middle east loses all their power. We need to get back to focusing on invention and the future - not this bloody war that's stupid because no one (including the majority of the Iraqi people) want us there.
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