Why I am not voting for Obama

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-12-2008
Why I am not voting for Obama
52
Fri, 10-24-2008 - 9:19pm

http://www.studlife.com/forum/why_i_am_not_voting_for_obama


I am one of the few people on campus who does not have “Obama ’08” plastered all over my backpack. Shocking, I know. I am not a registered Democrat. If the election were today, I’d probably vote for John McCain. Here’s the real twist though—I’ve looked into the politics and still reached this conclusion.


As one of Barack Obama’s constituents, I’ve been rather disappointed with him. Call it selfish, but I remember Illinois electing a Senator and not a full-time presidential candidate. I know plenty of people in my state couldn’t care less, but there are many, like I, who are dissatisfied.


According to The Washington Post, Barack Obama has missed 294 votes in Senate. That is 45.8 percent of all the votes while he has been in Senate. While in the Illinois State Senate, he voted “present” nearly 130 times. This is our potential president, a man who has avoided making decisions his entire political career. I’m not sure about the rest of the electorate, but I have higher standards for the most powerful person in the United States. Yes, McCain has missed a large number of votes this cycle, but he has 20 years of voting records behind him. Obama was in senate for 143 DAYS before he began his campaign.


So what, pray tell, is Obama qualified for? He is charismatic. I’ll give him that. But the President is not a talking head; he is a decision-maker. Where does Obama stand? He campaigns on change, that’s all good and well, but when has he shown that?


Don’t get me wrong. I have no problem if people look into the issues, look into the facts and find that Obama is the candidate to hang their hat upon. My biggest problem is the large number of people who have not looked into those issues but have just joined the litany of voices. It is easy to get seduced into Obama’s rally cry of change, but the electorate needs to look at the facts and then make a decision. They shouldn’t just support Obama because it’s cool or they get a free T-shirt. Politics needs to extend beyond our limited university sphere.


In Eve Samborn’s column, “R.I.P. College Republicans” (Student Life, Sept. 19) she chastises the College Republicans for not being active on campus. Perhaps the reason the lone McCain and Bob Barr supporters have not made their voices heard is the same reason I don’t feel comfortable sharing my political views on campus or in class. There are many liberals on campus who are tolerant of everything and everyone EXCEPT the other side. If you don’t like Obama it’s because you are racist, intolerant and uneducated.


I’d like to think that’s not me, but that is how I am made to feel much of the time. This campus is resoundingly liberal and it is hard to challenge that. That being said, non-Democrats were involved in the voter registration. Just because it was a non-partisan event does not mean they are sitting back this election. It is hard to do much more on this campus without being attacked, but that’s tolerance for you.


While I agree that both tickets have their strengths and weaknesses, after looking into the politics and actions of both groups, I have to back McCain/Palin over Obama/Biden. In the intolerant atmosphere on this campus, this is not an easy stance.


We need to remember that opposing views strengthen our democracy and intolerance only weakens it. I am still keeping an open mind to all sides as we go into the debates. I hope everyone else will too, because that is what we owe our country.


That is how we get real change.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
Sat, 10-25-2008 - 10:35am

"I’m not sure about the rest of the electorate, but I have higher standards for the most powerful person in the United States."

What are the higher standards? Showing up to vote is what the poster obviously means. And McCain is way behind Obama in that category during this Presidential election.

Yes here is more of what the poster actually said versus your spin:
"As one of Barack Obama’s constituents, I’ve been rather disappointed with him. Call it selfish, but I remember Illinois electing a Senator and not a full-time presidential candidate. I know plenty of people in my state couldn’t care less, but there are many, like I, who are dissatisfied.

According to The Washington Post, Barack Obama has missed 294 votes in Senate. That is 45.8 percent of all the votes while he has been in Senate. "

Apply the same standard fairly to McCain. And you know what, Obama wins. But that's just fairness. Oh well.

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-26-2008
Sat, 10-25-2008 - 10:56am

hmm - this looks eerily familiar...


Obama 08

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-26-2008
Sat, 10-25-2008 - 11:15am
Obama 08
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-13-2008
Sat, 10-25-2008 - 11:19am

I'm still for Obama 200%.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-24-2008
Sat, 10-25-2008 - 12:26pm

.


Respect for McCain? That's the least of your worries. He is the only choice.


There can be no argument that the Democrats have fully embraced Stalinism.


They are eager for it and chomping at the bit to impose it. First they will silence us through their nefarious “Fairness Doctrine”


Next target will be your weapons following the famous National Socialist Hitler’s template to disarm the populace.


When Joe The Plumber dared to question The One with a perfectly legitimate question, The One’s mask slipped and he revealed the true Marxist. The Democrat Operatives immediately went to work illegally using government data bases to develop a profile on him and attempted to take him down.


Once they seize power this rounding up information on the opposition will be done on a massive scale to pinpoint anyone who doesn’t tow the party line.


Every Totalitarian Communist society works on a network of informers and Secret Police. Uber-Left Teachers Unions will play a central role in this effort gathering information from your children. When they impose forced Unionization in every workplace in America - the Union bosses become the other component working in concert with Teachers Unions.


Anyone think this information is not going to be used later to maintain an iron grip on power?


AYERS ORGANIZATION PLANS FOR ELIMINATING MORE THAN 25 MILLION CONSERVATIVES


William Ayers and those who associate with him were deadly serious when they started long ago developing plans to turn the nation Communist. Back in the 70’s they started to plan on how to eliminate 25 million Conservatives.


Now, in 2008, they wouldn’t stop at 25 million, they would simply start eliminating until all opposition was gone. How else are they going to create the Communist Utopian dream of William Ayers?


Its not an Obama - Biden administration at all.


Its an Obama - Ayers administration.


To those who laugh it off - Just remember - prior to the rise of every despotic ruler in history there were multitudes of those who sniffed at the notion it was coming and simply didn’t believe it could happen. Even more so in America, we’re asleep at the switch. The majority simply doesn’t believe that this type of horror could happen here. “I never saw it coming” is the lament of those who refuse to recognize all the warning signs and patterns.


Ask yourself - how is it that your beloved land is about to elect a core cadre Marxist who’s top adviser is Ayers, a devote Communist who has spent decades planning on how to eliminate all Conservatives from America?


WAKE UP.


The only thing keeping our side safe at the moment is the military. When Obama - Ayers get control they will change the power structure to fit their Marxist agenda - then we’re screwed.


All this won’t happen overnight, but over the next 16 years or so. We will never again retake control of America, that is their sworn agenda and they will do whatever it takes.


This is their final push. The final push of the Fifth Column.


iVillage Member
Registered: 09-26-2008
Sat, 10-25-2008 - 12:30pm

I've been awake for the last 8 years!!!


Obama 08

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-03-2008
Sat, 10-25-2008 - 12:32pm
So have I been awake, and that's why I am voting for OBAMA.
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-24-2008
Sat, 10-25-2008 - 12:54pm
This is a Communist coup. Don't you get it??
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-03-2008
Sat, 10-25-2008 - 12:59pm
RIIGHT my aunties pajamas.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
Sat, 10-25-2008 - 1:24pm

Are you voting for John McCain? Do you respect him? Do you listen to him?

You know why I asked? Because people at McCain's rallies spout hateful dumb lies about Obama all the time - and you know what? McCain corrected them. That's right. McCain said you don't have to be scared of Senator Obama. McCain said Obama is not a Muslim.

Here is some examples of what Senator McCain says about Senator Obama:

"Each time he tried to cool the crowd, he was rewarded with a round of boos.

"I have to tell you. Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don’t have to be scared of as president of the United States," McCain told a supporter at a town hall meeting in Minnesota who said he was “scared” of the prospect of an Obama presidency and of who the Democrat would appoint to the Supreme Court.

“Come on, John!” one audience member yelled out as the Republican crowd expressed dismay at their nominee. Others yelled "liar," and "terrorist," referring to Obama.

McCain passed his wireless microphone to one woman who said, "I can't trust Obama. I have read about him and he's not, he's not uh — he's an Arab. He's not — " before McCain retook the microphone and replied:

"No, ma'am. He's a decent family man citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that's what this campaign's all about. He's not ." "

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14479.html

So let me ask you a question friend. Why don't you give up spreading the fear and lies and talk about real issues that everyday Americans care about, like the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression? Have you noticed the economy? Why do you think this has happened. I'd like to hear your view on a real issue.