Thursday, October 09, 2008

Against Obama

Eric Rall at Dean’s World sums up his reasons for voting against Obama.

I can’t say why I’m voting for McCain because I’m against Obama much more than I’m for McCain. McCain was a distant third choice for me in the Republican primaries, and not because I was radically in favor of my first and second choices (I had significant reservations about supporting either Thompson or Giuliani). But I consider Obama unacceptable.

 

(5) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1934 hrs
Politics + Politics - General

  1. You just summed up why Democrats lost the last election.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 10, 2008 at 0804 hrs


  2. That’s not why we lost the last election.  We lost it because you guys kept saying “terrorism, terrorism, terrorism.”  Plus, it’s nearly impossible to unseat an incumbent president during a war. Plus, your side defamed Kerry: Swiftboat veterans for (if you’ll pardon the irony) “Truth” anyone?  That’s why we lost.

    About the article.  The economic impact of raising taxes on investing is an interesting point of view.  I don’t for a minute believe that we’re anywhere near the point of taxing the wealthy out of our jobs, but it’s a legitimate issue to raise.  Likewise the “shifting burdens” of taxation.  I don’t share that view (especially when you look at all taxes for all levels of government, and when you consider the percentage of income the wealthiest have in the first place), but it’s a legitimate point to raise.

    What I don’t think is legitimate is the charge that he’s “dangerously close” to using negotiation as our “only” foreign policy tool.  There’s no evidence to support that claim whatsoever.  It’s just a right-wing fever dream. 

    In other news, the GOP didn’t get its ass handed to it last election because it had abandoned its Reganesque roots.  It got its ass handed to it because of the war.

    Posted by scott on October 10, 2008 at 1033 hrs


  3. While Republicans talk lower taxes, they are writing a trillion dollar check to incompetent fat cats in Wall Street to be paid, that’s right, with your tax dollars. Talk about welfare queens in Cadillacs! These fat cats are welfare queens in Rolls Royces with chauffeurs, smoking big cigars.  That’s more money that the Pentagon spends, and it’s doing jack squat to help our banking problem. Wake up, the Republicans have their hands in your pockets!

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 10, 2008 at 1505 hrs


  4. I’m sick of the economic mess that George Bush has given us. I am not convinced that McCain will sort it out. I’m old enough to remember the billions of dollars taxpayers had to cough up shortly after the Reagan years because of the untrammelled deregulation that he was responsible for. Maverick is (almost) my middle name. McCain is no maverick. He was cheerleading this crowd for the past 26 years.

    Furthermore I am sick of his negative campaigning, as reported here:

    I was thinking about Jefferson Davis as John McCain announced earlier this week that he would not attack Barack Obama for having met a 1960s radical in the living room of a prominent Republican supporter of McCain. The former radical had helped bomb some vacant buildings decades before, when Obama was a small child. Obama as an adult had agreed to serve on a charity set up by the McCain backer. The former radical had also been asked to serve. They had crossed paths a couple of times later doing charity work. McCain would not play dirty with this association-that-was-no-association.

    Besides, McCain had been active for years on a board with white supremecists, death squad organizers, and eugenics advocates. He had given them permission to use his name on their letterhead. If Obama was a radical, then McCain was a white supremecist and death squad sympathizer.

    But, apparently McCain did not extend his sportsmanship and honesty to his runningmate or to his wife. Both women took the lead, denouncing Obama for being pals with radicals. Palin’s rhetoric, especially, was torrid as she mouthed the script McCain had given her. She obediently railed at audiences who responded with bloodlust—“Treason!” and “KILL him!”

    This is just sick and unAmerican.  McCain/Palin are unfit for office.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 11, 2008 at 1031 hrs


  5. When I referred to the “billions of dollars that taxpayers had to cough up” I am talking about the S&L;boom/bust of the early 1990s (a legacy of Reagan).  If you are too young to remember, ask your daddy.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 11, 2008 at 1034 hrs


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