Why Obama?

[tongodeon]

I'm driving to Nevada this weekend to canvass for Obama. Unlike get-out-the-vote phone banking this means talking with swing voters and trying to convince them to change their vote. To get myself prepared I've had to ask myself why I'm voting the way I am. These are my reasons.
Why Obama:

1. The primary thing that's impressed me from the very

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[pacotelic]

Very nice. I have more misgivings than that, but this is poker, after all. I've got to get to work on some pieces I hope become relevant in 2 weeks

[tongodeon]

What misgivings? (That's not an exhaustive list, and I'm fishing for ideas.)

[pacotelic]

• What will Obama do with the caliphate of executive powers collected under 8 years of Bush?
• Will Obama think of the War on Terror as a battle for hearts and minds, and not a military campaign?
• Will Obama show some spine in standing up to the majority democraic congress he's going to get? I don't think the democrats have a lock on good ideas, in fact, many of their radical ideas are very bad, IMHO
• Will Obama show any more dedication to environmental quality than Clinton/ Gore, who represented the contrarian view against Global Warming very well during the 1998 Kyoto talks
• Will Obamam eveolve educaion beyond no child left behind, to understand it has a lot to do with our job market and global competitiveness?

[pjammer]

My misgivings about Obama

In particular, the infanticide, shady/racist allies he's deep in bed with and the corrupt fund raising shenanigans that the leftwing mainstream media refuses to cover.

[pacotelic]

So along with his J.D. he's also got an M.D. and has actually performed D&C operations??!

What a talented guy. I'm so proud to be voting for him now.

[tongodeon]

Your comment reminded me of a misgiving about taxes that I've edited the post to include.

For the infanticide point, "Obama's critics are free to speculate on his motives for voting against the bills, and postulate a lack of concern for babies' welfare. But his stated reasons for opposing "born-alive" bills have to do with preserving abortion rights, a position he is known to support and has never hidden." I do not have misgivings about this.

The "shady/racist allies" charge honestly seems like the pot calling a dump truck full of charcoal black. McCain has been publicly endorsed by the KKK and the amount of race-baiting fabrications coming out of the RNC (officially) and his staffers (unofficially) warrants its own post.

The fund raising shenanigans charge seems totally legit and is worth adding. FECA limits individual contributors to $2,300 per election cycle, and I know people who have exceeded this amount through regular $100-$200 donations every paycheck or so. (They're new to the political process and didn't realize there

[pjammer]

With [1] we'll have to agree to disagree.

[2] Did McCain go and SEEK OUT the KKK for endorsement? If so, I stand corrected.

Obama has a disturbing history of willful association seeking out shady/racist miscreants - and each time he's caught, there's the familiar multi-stage denial ("I was never in church when Wright went off his meds and got all Black Supremacist/Evil Whitey Conspiracy" to "Ok, he's a racist piece of shit. But he's like an uncle!" to "Ok ok, he's a racist and I quit his church ... you happy NOW whitey?!")

[3] Fund raising shenanigans are interesting - the deliberate disabling of address verification (which is turned ON by default - you can't buy a $10 DVD with a fake addy) is pretty disturbing and there's no way to spin it as a good-faith error. By way of comparison, neither Clinton nor McCain websites allow non-matching billing addresses of CCs to go through, as it should be. Odd, nobody in news agencies seem to care.

[cactusthesaint]

Filed under misgivings: Obama voted for retroactive immunity for the telecoms.

[pacotelic]

That too. Of Course, OMG Teh Izlm-O-Fastest Trrsts!

[agentelrond]

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