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Originally Posted by Trey_P-I_47

Now here's 22 reasons to vote against Mr. Obama and for McCain/Palin.

1. It's politics and they all do it. This reference is pretty vague though and therefore, difficult to discuss with any intelligence.

2. I have said repeatedly that I would have been completely in, fully in support of the federal bill that everybody supported - which was to say --that you should provide assistance to any infant that was born - even if it was as a consequence of an induced abortion. That was not the bill that was presented at the state level. What that bill also was doing was trying to undermine Roe vs. Wade. By the way, we also had a bill, a law already in place in Illinois that insured life saving treatment was given to infants.

So for people to suggest that I and the Illinois medical society, so Illinois doctors were somehow in favor of withholding life saving support from an infant born alive is ridiculous. It defies commonsense and it defies imagination and for people to keep on pushing this is offensive and it's an example of the kind of politics that we have to get beyond. It's one thing for people to disagree with me about the issue of choice, it's another thing for people to out and out misrepresent my positions repeatedly, even after they know that they're wrong. And that's what's been happening.That is a direct quote from Obama during an interview with CBS News correspondent David Brody http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/429328.aspx

3. When he first responded to Russia's invasion of Georgia, he said that aggression was wrong, but the U.S. would be in a better position if we set a good example. "I think it is important at this point for all sides to show restraint and to stop this armed conflict," Obama said. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=5552954&page=1

4. He sat in the pews of the Trinity Church in Chicago, listening to a notorious racist, bigot and anti-American, Rev. Jeremiah "God Damn America" Wright, without a peep of protest. He did not leave the church until Rev. Wright said Obama is just another politician who says what he has to say. And that move was dictated by political considerations, not any moral outrage.Hundreds of thousands of Americans sit in the pews of churches and dont agree with everything that their pastor/priest/minister is saying. As a "cafeteria Catholic", I can't condemn someone for that. My church says you can't use birth control and I think that's a bunch of hooey, but I still go to that church. Personally, I've yet to find a church that thinks exactly like I do, so I continue going to the church that I was raised in.

5. He started his political career in a fund-raiser in the home of William Ayers, an unrepentant terrorist and anti-American. He still hasn't denounced him but says Mr. Ayers is now a member of the Chicago Democratic mainstream. He still maintains a friendly relationship with him, has served on a board with him, and has participated in speaking panels with him.William Ayers was his neighbor and held an event to introduce him to the neighborhood as a candidate for the Illinois senate in 2001. He contributed $200 to his campaign in 2001. William Ayers was never convicted of anything and is now a well respected professor. The bizarre things he was involved with were many years ago, during a time of extreme civil unrest. The two of them served on a board together, hardly a strong connection. www.snopes.com

6. He refused to wear a flag on his lapel, claiming he viewed it as a symbol of false patriotism employed after 9/11. He started wearing the flag only when he was embarrassed into doing so under political pressure. At that time he suddenly started ending his speeches with the words "God Bless America." "I'm less concerned with what you're wearing on your lapel than what's in your heart," Obama said Thursday while campaigning in Independence, Iowa.

"You show your patriotism by how you treat your fellow Americans, especially those who serve. And you show your patriotism by being true to your values and ideals. And that's what we have to lead with, our values and ideals," Obama said. Obama is not alone in not wearing the Stars and Stripes pin. Most of the candidates do not wear them. The one big exception: former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who is rarely without one.

7. He got an earmark appropriation from Congress for his wife's employer, the University of Chicago Medical Center. When questioned on the appearance of conflict of interest, he said there was nothing improper about that but he should have gone to his fellow Illinois Sen. Dick Durban, to put the appropriation through. In other words, if there is an appearance of conflict of interest, you should hide it somehow instead of avoiding what creates such appearance. This is a pattern: saying one thing and doing the opposite. When he started to run for the presidency, he stopped putting in earmarks. As is his usual pattern, he started doing the right thing for election purposes only. So judge him by his record, not moves that are merely campaign calculation.So, as long as he is a Senator, the Chicago Medical Center should not have any appropriations when almost all large public hospitals who serve the indigent get them?

8. He favors increasing the capital gains tax, even though he admitted it will not raise tax revenue, but cut it instead. He justifies such an irrational move, out of what he calls a sense of fairness. That would mean less tax revenue, higher deficits and less incentive for saving, investment, capital formation, economic growth, and creation.“The top capital-gains rate for families making more than $250,000 would return to 20% -- the lowest rate that existed in the 1990s and the rate President Bush proposed in his 2001 tax cut. A 20% rate is almost a third lower than the rate President Reagan set in 1986,” wrote Obama advisors Jason Furman and Austan Goolsbee in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal. It will be eliminated for small business and entrepreneurs

9. He called for negotiations without preconditions with the Ahmadinejad of Iran, Chavez of Venzuela, and Castro of Cuba. I would be willing to initiate such talks with leaders of countries adversarial to the United States. There would be a lot of preparation. The first steps would not be to pre-judge all the items on the list.

The freedom of the Cuban people would be my top goal with President Raul Castro. As well as the release of political prisoners, democracy and the freedom of religious worship.

One of the obvious high priorities in my talks with President Hugo Chavez would be the fermentation of anti-American sentiment in Latin America, his support of FARC in Colombia and other issues he would want to talk about. It is important to understand that ignoring these countries has not led to improved behavior on their part and it has not served our national security interests.

There needs to be a shift in foreign politics and return to traditional foreign politics that were supported by both Republicans and Democrats in the past.http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/new...r-pacheco.htmlSen. Barack Obama said Friday the use of military force should not be taken off the table when dealing with Iran, which he called "a threat to all of us." www.suntimes.com

10. He opposed the surge, said it would fail, and even after it was almost universally acclaimed to be a success, he refuses to admit the surge succeed ed.OBAMA: If you listen to what I've said, and I'll repeat it right here on this show, I think that there's no doubt that the violence is down. I believe that that is a testimony to the troops that were sent and General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker. I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated, by the way, including President Bush and the other supporters. It has gone very well, partly because of the Anbar situation and the Sunni awakening, partly because of the Shia military. Look...
OBAMA: Hold on a second, Bill. If you look at the debate that was taking place, we had gone through five years of mismanagement of this war that I thought was disastrous. And the president wanted to double down and continue on an open-ended policy that did not create the kinds of pressure on the Iraqis to take responsibility and reconcile. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,417563,00.html

11. He called for withdrawal from Iraq, in effect, calling for retreat and defeat, which would have turned over the Middle East and much of the world's oil supplies to terrorists and their supporters in Iran.He has repeatedly called for a TIMELINE and a PLAN to withdraw so that the Iraqis would begin to take responsibility. I agree with that!

12. He associated with and made a land deal with convicted felon, Tony Rezko, A few months after Obama became a U.S. senator, he and Rezko's wife, Rita, bought adjacent pieces of property from a doctor in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood -- a deal that has dogged Obama the last two years. The doctor sold the mansion to Obama for $1.65 million -- $300,000 below the asking price. Rezko's wife paid full price -- $625,000 -- for the adjacent vacant lot. The deals closed in June 2005. Six months later, Obama paid Rezko's wife $104,500 for a strip of her land, so he could have a bigger yard. At the time, it had been widely reported that Tony Rezko was under federal investigation. Questioned later about the timing of the Rezko deal, Obama called it "boneheaded" because people might think the Rezkos had done him a favor

13. He claims he will bring all sides together but he has never shown any signs or symptoms of bipartisanship. His record is that of a far-left liberal, the most liberal of any member of the U.S. Senate. He goes down the party line, and never reaches across the aisle.I like that in a person, however, it's not that true.
Obama actually has worked across party lines on a couple of bills since he won his U.S. Senate seat back in 2004.

Specifically, Obama worked with Republican Sen. Dick Lugar to get the Lugar-Obama bill passed. According to Obama's Senate website, the bill "enhances U.S. efforts to destroy conventional weapons stockpiles and to detect and interdict weapons and materials of mass destruction throughout the world."

In addition, Obama worked with Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn on the Coburn-Obama bill. The bill set up a database that tracks where federal dollars are being spent and which contractors receive federal funding. http://factbeat.com/get_story.php?id=263

14. he catalogs the tired left-wing Democratic agenda, that has been regurgitated every four years for decades. He talks change but dishes up only the old liberal dishes, which have been rejected by voters many times from McGovern to Carter, and which have failed when implementation was attempted. If Mr. Obama wins the White House, he is likely to have a veto proof Congress, which mean all of his left-loony proposals would probably become law. That's good to me! I'm a liberal, I'm ready for some liberal power

15. He says he wants to bring us energy independence but refuses to drill and extract our huge reserves, greater than those of Saudi Arabia. He wants us to check our tire pressure instead of drilling. Give me a break! He also advises everyone to tune-up their cars, even though most cars no longer need tune-ups.Apparently your definition of a tune up is different than mine. New air filter, fuel filter, spark plugs, etc... all part of a tune up in my book. Sorry but I totally agree that our energy independence needs to come from alternative fuel sources not from more drilling.

16. He never sticks with a job. For example, when he became senator he started writing his book. Many politicians write books while in office, that's not a different job, it's an additional job. If you have the opportunity to move up, you have to take new jobs, this is life.

17. As talk show host Michael Medved has pointed out, the people vouching for him at the Democratic National Convention were mainly relatives, such as his wife and brother-in-law. Edward Kennedy is a relative? Susan Eisenhower is a relative?
Who says Barack Obama doesn't have what it takes to be president? Turns out, he's a distant cousin of both Dick Cheney and George Bush.
The vice president's wife, Lynne Cheney, announced her discovery yesterday while hawking her new book, "Blue Skies, No Fences," on MSNBC

18. To bolster his foreign policy credentials, he picked Sen. Joe Biden as vice president. I like Biden. I would have voted for him a primary.. oh wait, I did, a couple times in previous elections. Not a valid argument to me.

19. He promised to take public financing, something that the great reformer and change artist claimed to be committed to.Candidates who accept public financing receive $85 million but cannot accept additional contributions; Obama raised $35 million just last month, suggesting he could raise much more than McCain in the general election. I don't blame him for changing his mind on this. Sounds like sour grapes on McCain's part because he can't raise as much money?

20. Debates: McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, had originally pushed for 10 townhall meetings between June and August, an offer widely seen as an effort to counter Democrat Obama’s likely advantage in raising campaign funds. Obama’s camp has countered with an offer of two townhall meetings between now and November to go along with the three presidential debates traditionally held after the parties’ nominating conventions in August and September. http://www.youdecide2008.com/2008/06...-over-debates/


21.Present Votes: Mr. Obama’s aides and some allies dispute the characterization that a present vote is tantamount to ducking an issue. They said Mr. Obama cast 4,000 votes in the Illinois Senate and used the present vote to protest bills that he believed had been drafted unconstitutionally or as part of a broader legislative strategy. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/us...s/20obama.html

22. And since he's been in the Senate, he's been wrong on every issue related to Iraq. If the Republicans had been right, we wouldn't still be there, would we???? Had they gone in with a REAL plan to take Saddam out and restructure, we wouldn't still be there!!!!!!!! Iraq has lasted longer than our involvement in WWII for crying out loud.

Go Obama It's quite easy to copy and paste someone's web page to us without doing any real research of your own. I did it for you this time.