My issues with Obama
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:29 amOkay - here is where I have an issue with him: (My comments follow)
Supports affirmative action in colleges and government. (I cannot support anyone who thinks racism against whites actually helps minorities and is in any way fair)
President must abide by international human rights treaties. (The President of the USA's most important task is keeping its citizens safe - by all means necessary)
Willing to meet with Fidel Castro, Kim Jung Il & Hugo Chavez. (Disgusting. These cruel SOB's hate us, want us to die and they shouldn't be given any time from the prez.)
Invest in our relationship with Mexico. (What have we BEEN doing???)
Meet with enemy leaders; it's a disgrace that we have not. (See above...we shouldn't negotiate we people who starve their own people. We should kill them)
Is distrusted by Israelis. (He better not hurt our relationship with one of best friends...that's all I'm gonna say about this)
Capping credit card interest rates at 30% is not enough. (Up to the individual to be responsible - bottom line)
Modify some of the fraudulent & predatory lending practices. (Ditto)
Bad idea to over-classify information. (No its not...we don't need or want to know about some of the threats this country face on a minute-by-minute basis)
Stop unscrupulous gun dealers dumping guns in cities. (So..are you blaming the gun makers for how the criminals use them? Lets focus on the criminals)
Address minority health needs by more coverage & targeting. (Lets address EVERONE's health needs Barack)
The problem with health care is about affordability. (I feel its more about choices...not that cost isn't a concern, but choices will fix cost I think)
Pressure insurance & drug companies to change. (No...lets not DICTATE to companies to change, and stop using Pharmaceuticals as an easy scapegoat. They improve people's lives dammit!)
Employers are going to have to pay or play. (WOW...commie bastard)
Need political will to accomplish universal coverage. (NO to Universal coverage..its too expensive and this isn't a small socialistic country)
Believes health care is a right, not a privilege for the few. (BASIC care is a moral right..)
Will expand health coverage & allow meds to be re-imported. (I'm not so sure - in the age of terrorism - that we want to import meds without strict guidelines)
Al Qaida is stronger now than in 2001 as Iraq distracted us. (BS. They brought down the Twin Towers and brought us to our knees in 2001...now, they are losing battles in Iraq)
No presidential power for secret surveillance. (If you aint doing anything wrong - don't worry about it)
No holding US citizens as unlawful enemy combatants. (They are what they are in this case. If you embrace Al Qaeda - then you are an enemy combatant...without a country)
If attacked, first help victims then prevent further attacks. (Huh? Can't we do both? The President's job is protect us...DO IT)
Close Guantanamo and restore the right of habeas corpus. (Guantanamo has been misrepresented by the liberal media. Anyway who investigates finds the criminals who want to kill us all and our way of life to be getting fair and decent treatment - including AC! We have extracted a lot of valuable info that has SAVED U.S. LIVES from this detention center. WE HAVE NOT BEEN ATTACKED AGAIN. If it aint broke..don't fix it!)
Voted NO on declaring English as the official language of the US government. (Adios Obama! Unify the country and don't pander to a few ingrates. Immigrants have learned English for 200 years)
Fight attacks on workers' right to organize & strike. (Unions are bad for workers and this country. Their time has come and gone)
Make the minimum wage a living wage. (Get a different job, acquire new skills, and don't have 10 babies)
Tax cuts for the rich do not create jobs. (BS. Supply Side Economics work. Poor people don't create jobs is more like it)
Obama will strengthen unions and workers' rights. (See above)
Stop any efforts to privatize Social Security. (Social Security is not sustainable and I don't want to work for 40 years and have nothing from FICA dammit. Let me invest some of it MY WAY)
Bush tax cuts help corporations but not middle class. (Cutting taxes for companies DOES help the middle class for one, and he has put more of MY money into MY hands)
Last thing we need now is a permanent tax cut. (Yeah okay...I'm looking at my property tax bills and laughing)
Iraq takes our eye off al Qaeda & Afghanistan. (Not true - but we do need to offer greater incentive to strengthen our depth in our armed forces)
Saddam did not own and was not providing WMD to terrorists. (Saddam HAD WMD's at one point, and out intelligence thought he still did..along with intelligence of many other countries. He also had plans to re-start his program and sponsored Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist acts. Lets not start sticking up for poor Saddam here Barack....COME ON)
Ok to expose 6-year-olds to gay couples; "they know already". (I'm no homophobe - but its easier for kids NOT to deal with this type of thing at an early age)
Gay rights movement is somewhat like civil rights movement. (Were gays ever slaves?)
Ban racial profiling & eliminate disparities in sentencing. (Racial profiling is effective...bottom line. We're at war with Islamic Fascists, and they are likely to look and act a certain way)
Battles legislatively against the death penalty. (WHY??????)
Supports alternative sentencing and rehabilitation. (Depends...you can't be coddling criminals)
No extra penalty for gang association. (This is loony)
Wants videotaping of all capital punishment interrogations. (Sometimes we need to do what we have to do and we don't need everyone to hear about it)
Questions harsh penalties for drug dealing. (Huh????)
Do not lower drinking age from 21 to 18. (I'm a hippy here...but if they can die in war..they should be able to grab a cold one at a bar - they're gonna drink anyway)
"Supreme Court was wrong on school anti-integration ruling". (Making blacks and white mingle aint good if it leads to violence and ruins neighborhood schools)
Incentives to hire a million teachers over next decade. (This number is absurd)
Wants to pay teachers more money & treat them like professionals. (They get paid plenty, especially for the hours they work)
Supports Free public college for any student with B-average (This is just a stupid thing to say or support. Higher Education ought not become a right...and a B average???)
"We cannot drill our way out of our addiction to oil." (We can buy ourselves some time though!)
Voted YES on banning drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (We have oil and we should use it)
Voted YES on reducing oil usage by 40% by 2025 (instead of 5%). (Silly number again)
Voted YES on factoring global warming into federal project planning. (MAN-made global warming is a fairy tale)
Voted YES on disallowing an oil leasing program in Alaska's ANWR. (See above)
"Give Katrina contracts to locals, not to Halliburton." (If Halliburton is the best at it...then so be it)
Three months working on minority students recycling. (I don't even know what this means, but I don't like focus on one race)
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/ ... -Obama.php
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/aim-says- ... -tax-bill/
Supports affirmative action in colleges and government. (I cannot support anyone who thinks racism against whites actually helps minorities and is in any way fair)
President must abide by international human rights treaties. (The President of the USA's most important task is keeping its citizens safe - by all means necessary)
Willing to meet with Fidel Castro, Kim Jung Il & Hugo Chavez. (Disgusting. These cruel SOB's hate us, want us to die and they shouldn't be given any time from the prez.)
Invest in our relationship with Mexico. (What have we BEEN doing???)
Meet with enemy leaders; it's a disgrace that we have not. (See above...we shouldn't negotiate we people who starve their own people. We should kill them)
Is distrusted by Israelis. (He better not hurt our relationship with one of best friends...that's all I'm gonna say about this)
Capping credit card interest rates at 30% is not enough. (Up to the individual to be responsible - bottom line)
Modify some of the fraudulent & predatory lending practices. (Ditto)
Bad idea to over-classify information. (No its not...we don't need or want to know about some of the threats this country face on a minute-by-minute basis)
Stop unscrupulous gun dealers dumping guns in cities. (So..are you blaming the gun makers for how the criminals use them? Lets focus on the criminals)
Address minority health needs by more coverage & targeting. (Lets address EVERONE's health needs Barack)
The problem with health care is about affordability. (I feel its more about choices...not that cost isn't a concern, but choices will fix cost I think)
Pressure insurance & drug companies to change. (No...lets not DICTATE to companies to change, and stop using Pharmaceuticals as an easy scapegoat. They improve people's lives dammit!)
Employers are going to have to pay or play. (WOW...commie bastard)
Need political will to accomplish universal coverage. (NO to Universal coverage..its too expensive and this isn't a small socialistic country)
Believes health care is a right, not a privilege for the few. (BASIC care is a moral right..)
Will expand health coverage & allow meds to be re-imported. (I'm not so sure - in the age of terrorism - that we want to import meds without strict guidelines)
Al Qaida is stronger now than in 2001 as Iraq distracted us. (BS. They brought down the Twin Towers and brought us to our knees in 2001...now, they are losing battles in Iraq)
No presidential power for secret surveillance. (If you aint doing anything wrong - don't worry about it)
No holding US citizens as unlawful enemy combatants. (They are what they are in this case. If you embrace Al Qaeda - then you are an enemy combatant...without a country)
If attacked, first help victims then prevent further attacks. (Huh? Can't we do both? The President's job is protect us...DO IT)
Close Guantanamo and restore the right of habeas corpus. (Guantanamo has been misrepresented by the liberal media. Anyway who investigates finds the criminals who want to kill us all and our way of life to be getting fair and decent treatment - including AC! We have extracted a lot of valuable info that has SAVED U.S. LIVES from this detention center. WE HAVE NOT BEEN ATTACKED AGAIN. If it aint broke..don't fix it!)
Voted NO on declaring English as the official language of the US government. (Adios Obama! Unify the country and don't pander to a few ingrates. Immigrants have learned English for 200 years)
Fight attacks on workers' right to organize & strike. (Unions are bad for workers and this country. Their time has come and gone)
Make the minimum wage a living wage. (Get a different job, acquire new skills, and don't have 10 babies)
Tax cuts for the rich do not create jobs. (BS. Supply Side Economics work. Poor people don't create jobs is more like it)
Obama will strengthen unions and workers' rights. (See above)
Stop any efforts to privatize Social Security. (Social Security is not sustainable and I don't want to work for 40 years and have nothing from FICA dammit. Let me invest some of it MY WAY)
Bush tax cuts help corporations but not middle class. (Cutting taxes for companies DOES help the middle class for one, and he has put more of MY money into MY hands)
Last thing we need now is a permanent tax cut. (Yeah okay...I'm looking at my property tax bills and laughing)
Iraq takes our eye off al Qaeda & Afghanistan. (Not true - but we do need to offer greater incentive to strengthen our depth in our armed forces)
Saddam did not own and was not providing WMD to terrorists. (Saddam HAD WMD's at one point, and out intelligence thought he still did..along with intelligence of many other countries. He also had plans to re-start his program and sponsored Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist acts. Lets not start sticking up for poor Saddam here Barack....COME ON)
Ok to expose 6-year-olds to gay couples; "they know already". (I'm no homophobe - but its easier for kids NOT to deal with this type of thing at an early age)
Gay rights movement is somewhat like civil rights movement. (Were gays ever slaves?)
Ban racial profiling & eliminate disparities in sentencing. (Racial profiling is effective...bottom line. We're at war with Islamic Fascists, and they are likely to look and act a certain way)
Battles legislatively against the death penalty. (WHY??????)
Supports alternative sentencing and rehabilitation. (Depends...you can't be coddling criminals)
No extra penalty for gang association. (This is loony)
Wants videotaping of all capital punishment interrogations. (Sometimes we need to do what we have to do and we don't need everyone to hear about it)
Questions harsh penalties for drug dealing. (Huh????)
Do not lower drinking age from 21 to 18. (I'm a hippy here...but if they can die in war..they should be able to grab a cold one at a bar - they're gonna drink anyway)
"Supreme Court was wrong on school anti-integration ruling". (Making blacks and white mingle aint good if it leads to violence and ruins neighborhood schools)
Incentives to hire a million teachers over next decade. (This number is absurd)
Wants to pay teachers more money & treat them like professionals. (They get paid plenty, especially for the hours they work)
Supports Free public college for any student with B-average (This is just a stupid thing to say or support. Higher Education ought not become a right...and a B average???)
"We cannot drill our way out of our addiction to oil." (We can buy ourselves some time though!)
Voted YES on banning drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (We have oil and we should use it)
Voted YES on reducing oil usage by 40% by 2025 (instead of 5%). (Silly number again)
Voted YES on factoring global warming into federal project planning. (MAN-made global warming is a fairy tale)
Voted YES on disallowing an oil leasing program in Alaska's ANWR. (See above)
"Give Katrina contracts to locals, not to Halliburton." (If Halliburton is the best at it...then so be it)
Three months working on minority students recycling. (I don't even know what this means, but I don't like focus on one race)
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/ ... -Obama.php
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/aim-says- ... -tax-bill/
