If you need reasons to vote for Obama
If you don't like any of the candidates, then my reasons are behind the cut.
On my top issue, I don’t agree Obama does near enough, in fact his plan for healthcare falls way below where I think we should go.
But I am not a one item woman. So here are some issues that are important to me.
Top of my list no matter what the election, the Right to Privacy. No you will not find a single sentence in the Bill of Rights about privacy. Well unless you count the entire document. It would be redundant to say Right to Privacy. But apparently redundancy is the only way to pound the concept into the head of corporate America and the Neo-con movement.
But as a top of his class legal student Obama is very aware of constitutional law. The next President will appoint more than one Supreme court Judge, and it is critically important that whoever makes those appointments be able to ask serious relevant questions to get at which side of that legal debate such a justice would take.
Obama like Clinton gets that, he understands not only how important it is, but he grasps the intricacies of the legal debate.
McCain is clueless. His making a joke of the “health of the mother”, fully illustrates how clueless he really is. His ignorance of why Obama would not vote on a bill that was redundant and would vote against another bill that was redundant but challenged the Right to Privacy, illustrates McCain’s ignorance of basic law. I am not sure that McCain is even qualified to be a Senator let alone President.
Second is the War we should never have started in the first place. How can you “win” something you lost by going in?
Where is the “Win”? Staying does not accomplish the goal of stopping terrorism, it just moves the target. The US was wrong to attack Iraq. Yes we should withdraw responsibly, and Obama has said repeatedly he will do that.
But I believe him when he says he will withdraw, perhaps slower than he would like but he will.
I do not believe “Drill Baby Drill” McCain will withdraw. He has oil in his eyes, and no amount of illegal maneuvering will make Iraq’s oil fields benefit us by staying. But he can not see that.
Getting my SIL out of harms way and all the other sons, that is an important issue to me. Iraq is not a target of interest, we serve no purpose there. If our soldiers must be used then they should be sued places where there is a righteous reason to be there.
Getting binLadin that is also a priority.
I don’t think McCain even remembers who Osama is. I think if you mention Osama, McCain just thinks that is who he running against. His supporters seem to have that focus problem.
Obama has made it clear he remembers 9/11 and he intends to more directly do something about AlQaeda.
Calm in the face of adversity is critical to a President. It may be cute in the Senate but not in the Oval Office. Just because you do not agree with someone, a President does not get to use words like idiot, c*nt, or bluster indignation. A president needs to grasp words like diplomacy. He needs to comprehend the difference between an ideological debate, and an attack. And a man who calls his wife a c*nt anywhere let alone in public within earshot of a microphone does not get my approval for anything. McCain did that in response to a joke about his thinning hair he actually replied with the c word. Any man who thinks that is a reasonable come back, I do not want in the Whitehouse.
But my biggest concern is the economy. Trickle down economics is synonymous with fascism, it is allowing the 6% of the population to control 20% of the wealth. And sorry McCain this idea of printing more money did not work for Bush, and we just can not take another trillion dollars of debt to make the rich, richer.
There are people living and dying on the street. We are not heading into a recession, we are in the middle of a depression. Only those making over 6 digits every year just can’t seem to see it very clearly. But now that it is starting to hit their retirement funds, they are almost getting the picture.
Hello upper middle class Neo-cons, the top 6% want your money too.
That is what McCain means when he says make more wealth.
What qualifies Obama:
1. Top of his class, this guy is smart. And he is smart on topics that are critically important, economics, world affairs, and law interpretation and regulation.
2. Calm under fire, a simple debate does not turn him into a spluttering cussing moron.
3. Sound judgment, he finds good advisors, and makes sound choices.
4. He took a community organization and in just a couple of years multiplied the foundation budget over 400 fold. And extended the reach of that organization to more people than Alaska has in its whole state.
5. He has many years in government at the state level as well as the Senate. And not in some Podunk town but in a large city and in a state with millions of people and many concerns.
Those are serious concerns one should examine when weighing a candidate for Presidency.
On my top issue, I don’t agree Obama does near enough, in fact his plan for healthcare falls way below where I think we should go.
But I am not a one item woman. So here are some issues that are important to me.
Top of my list no matter what the election, the Right to Privacy. No you will not find a single sentence in the Bill of Rights about privacy. Well unless you count the entire document. It would be redundant to say Right to Privacy. But apparently redundancy is the only way to pound the concept into the head of corporate America and the Neo-con movement.
But as a top of his class legal student Obama is very aware of constitutional law. The next President will appoint more than one Supreme court Judge, and it is critically important that whoever makes those appointments be able to ask serious relevant questions to get at which side of that legal debate such a justice would take.
Obama like Clinton gets that, he understands not only how important it is, but he grasps the intricacies of the legal debate.
McCain is clueless. His making a joke of the “health of the mother”, fully illustrates how clueless he really is. His ignorance of why Obama would not vote on a bill that was redundant and would vote against another bill that was redundant but challenged the Right to Privacy, illustrates McCain’s ignorance of basic law. I am not sure that McCain is even qualified to be a Senator let alone President.
Second is the War we should never have started in the first place. How can you “win” something you lost by going in?
Where is the “Win”? Staying does not accomplish the goal of stopping terrorism, it just moves the target. The US was wrong to attack Iraq. Yes we should withdraw responsibly, and Obama has said repeatedly he will do that.
But I believe him when he says he will withdraw, perhaps slower than he would like but he will.
I do not believe “Drill Baby Drill” McCain will withdraw. He has oil in his eyes, and no amount of illegal maneuvering will make Iraq’s oil fields benefit us by staying. But he can not see that.
Getting my SIL out of harms way and all the other sons, that is an important issue to me. Iraq is not a target of interest, we serve no purpose there. If our soldiers must be used then they should be sued places where there is a righteous reason to be there.
Getting binLadin that is also a priority.
I don’t think McCain even remembers who Osama is. I think if you mention Osama, McCain just thinks that is who he running against. His supporters seem to have that focus problem.
Obama has made it clear he remembers 9/11 and he intends to more directly do something about AlQaeda.
Calm in the face of adversity is critical to a President. It may be cute in the Senate but not in the Oval Office. Just because you do not agree with someone, a President does not get to use words like idiot, c*nt, or bluster indignation. A president needs to grasp words like diplomacy. He needs to comprehend the difference between an ideological debate, and an attack. And a man who calls his wife a c*nt anywhere let alone in public within earshot of a microphone does not get my approval for anything. McCain did that in response to a joke about his thinning hair he actually replied with the c word. Any man who thinks that is a reasonable come back, I do not want in the Whitehouse.
But my biggest concern is the economy. Trickle down economics is synonymous with fascism, it is allowing the 6% of the population to control 20% of the wealth. And sorry McCain this idea of printing more money did not work for Bush, and we just can not take another trillion dollars of debt to make the rich, richer.
There are people living and dying on the street. We are not heading into a recession, we are in the middle of a depression. Only those making over 6 digits every year just can’t seem to see it very clearly. But now that it is starting to hit their retirement funds, they are almost getting the picture.
Hello upper middle class Neo-cons, the top 6% want your money too.
That is what McCain means when he says make more wealth.
What qualifies Obama:
1. Top of his class, this guy is smart. And he is smart on topics that are critically important, economics, world affairs, and law interpretation and regulation.
2. Calm under fire, a simple debate does not turn him into a spluttering cussing moron.
3. Sound judgment, he finds good advisors, and makes sound choices.
4. He took a community organization and in just a couple of years multiplied the foundation budget over 400 fold. And extended the reach of that organization to more people than Alaska has in its whole state.
5. He has many years in government at the state level as well as the Senate. And not in some Podunk town but in a large city and in a state with millions of people and many concerns.
Those are serious concerns one should examine when weighing a candidate for Presidency.