| Oct. 30th, 2008 @ 09:58 pm Why I'm voting for Obama |
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Several days ago, I got an email from a girl I was friends with in high-school.
She had friended me on Myspace and we had done some catching up.
She had noticed that I was supporting Obama, and sent me a long letter telling me how only McCain can make things right and how much she hates Obama.
She started out by referring to him as Obama Binladen.
This was my response.
The Obama Binladen name is petty and childish.
I expected better from you.
Obama is the mans' name.
America at it's best is supposed to be a place where any child can grow up to be president, despite his ancestral origins.
If you want to go down that road, I wonder why the Fundamentalist Christians never noticed that McCain translates as SON OF CAIN the original killer.
I used to respect McCain til he started Kowtowing to the Religious Right.
He is no longer his own man.
Sarah Palin is a media darling for the Hardcore, Bible Thumping Right.
I like Obama because the guy has brains and compassion.
I agree with most of what he says.
Upon close scrutiny, I find his plan better then McCains.
McCain through the debates, has shown himself to be tired weary and out of touch with what America needs.
I do regret that Obama is against Gay marriage.
I look at my young African American male students, and I want them to have a role model that is not another Sports Figure, Rapper, Drug Dealer, Pimp.
A man they can see got to where he is through Education and Knowledge.
An articulate man.
I would have voted Obama no matter what, but there was a time that a McCain win wouldn't have bothered me so much.
Then his handlers chose Palin as his VP.
She, being anywhere near the red-button scares the hell out of me.
Had we gone to high school with her, she would have been one of those popular girls that made rejects like us miserable.
Shallow, Vacant and cruel to those who didn't measure up to her standards.
Add to that the fact that she belongs to the same kind of church that abused me as a child, and put me through exorcisms every month, makes me despise her even more.
I'm a bleeding heart Liberal, and always have been.
I am North American Born, and everything I think or say is as a citizen of the USA.
I love the land that I walk, stand and sleep on.
I am proud of the good things this country has done and ashamed of the bad things.
We are never going to get a politician in ANY office that does not answer to some force that is pushing for self interest.
I think Obama is a lesser of the evils in that regard.
So I choose Obama
That is where I'm at.
I respect where you are at, but do not agree.
So it's cool.
Your Friend,
Chuck |
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