Why Not Obama?

My mom is probably even more aware and involved in the political process than we are. She listed her reservations with Barack Obama for us to post:


Unfortunately, there isn’t a near perfect candidate, on either side.

No doubt Obama is smart, articulate, cool, charismatic, focused, adored, and riding high in momentum. I don’t doubt his dedication in wanting to make a difference, to elevate the living standard of the poor, to advance the cause for better education. All these are well and good. I am for all that. Who would not be?

Why do I not want to vote for him? I commend him for having chosen a path to serve rather than a financially rewarding career as a corporate lawyer. I believe that his experience and choice of work at the early period in Chicago set the foundation for him to pursue public office. He has since pursued his goal with a passion.

Notice that I did not say anything about his character? That one is for you to decide if it is important for you.

Why I am not voting for him?

I will save my main concern for the last point.

1. His association of many persons who have demonstrated acts or speeches that are anti-American, questionable, even illegal. I will be fair to accept that you do not conclude with an opinion based on guilt by association. But the troubling fact is why he continued his association for the length of time that he did. He is a smart person. There is no way he did not know Rev Wright’s thoughts and philosophy having been his member and under his mentor for 20 years.

Obama claimed innocent saying that Bill Ayers committed illegal acts while he was eight years old. But one does not need to be someone’s contemporary to know what a person had done. He knows about JFK, Hitler. Does he not read history, learn ways to check background and references, make observation from the interactions to form judgment of character? Bill Ayers said in 2001 that he wished he could bomb more. How old does Obama needs to be to be able to judge someone’s philosophy that governs one’s actions?

Just yesterday, it was uncovered that Ayers and wife wrote a book “PRAIRIE FIRE” which they dedicated the book to, of all people, Sirhan Sirhan, the one who assassinated Robert Kennedy, friends of the people. Google the book name by Bill Ayers and you will find a string of sites about it. I don’t see it reported in CNN.com, probably not in the mainstream media either. Whether it has anything to do with Obama or not, this is not news?

It is hard for one not to conjecture that Obama’s ambition to rise to a position of power to effect his ideology gave way to political expediency, the end justifies the means.

He knew. He may have agreed with Ayer’s or Wright’s philosophy or may not. But he stayed. He gained. Until.

2. I am more concerned about the changes an Obama administration will bring by his socialistic leaning policy, and all the programs that will be enhanced, advanced, and prevailed by his supporters and organizations with the same interest.

I will leave out the discussion of economic policy which has been discussed everywhere. I don’t object to helping the poor, giving everyone equal opportunity. It is just that the government leaves so many loopholes for people to abuse the system. And sometimes I don’t think the government cares as long as they are in power and they are keeping the people who put them in that position happy.

I am concerned about the social and spiritual tone of the land.

Democrats are liberals, and Obama ranks number 1 in the senate. Liberal causes will flourish. Pro-choice, gay marriages, liberal interpretation of laws by judges, state or federal, ACLU, union bosses, trial lawyers will find a friend in Obama and his administration.

The liberal use of freedom allows exploitation. The entertainment industry is the number 1 exploiters. Have you seen any movie, TV show, not to talk about porn and porn in the internet, that does not contain sexually explicit scenes, story content? Even bill board advertising is full of such displays. Rap music contains words of hate, contempt, ridicule.
I am not talking about censorship or religiosity. And people do have freedom of choice to see or not to see the movies. But the liberal attitude and approach trumps any appeal for self regulations within the industry for the sake of our teens and young children. True you cannot legislate against greed and exploitation. What transforms attitude is personal and spiritual.

For now, discern for yourself why the majority of Hollywood has always voted democrat.

Personal responsibility. Liberal Court attitude. Do you still remember a woman who spilled her hot coffee, sued McDonald, and won.

Religious antagonism, more correctly anti-Christianity. Christian doctors who referred out a same-sex couple who want artificial insemination to another doctor based on their faith are sued for discrimination and lost.
Christian symbols and holidays are going to be a thing of the past if Christians let it be. Yet there is double standard. The liberals will not touch anything re Moslems traditions and holidays. It is not religious respect, but political correctness. Many examples of liberal hypocracies.

The history of the work of ACLU against Christian belief. They vote democrat. All the bills and laws to promote homosexual agenda in elementary schools. The authors and supporters are democrats.
Liberal press. Liberal colleges. Ridiculous curricula. Bill Ayers is a respected Chicago professor, in spite of his past deeds which he has not renounced. A general acceptance of free thinking without constraints of right or wrong.
In conclusion, conservatives are not morally superior than liberals. Christian conservatives sin as others. The difference is that a professed Christian is convicted in his heart by the commission of sins by the Holy Spirit. He knows that it is wrong. He knows to ask for forgiveness. He knows to ask for strength to not repeat. There is an inner compass to his behavior as well as the Bible.

Those who shy away or antagonize Christianity do not like the constraints. We do have do’s and don’t’s. Liberalism fits their philosophy.

They are the teachers, educators, legislators, professors for our children.

The concern of the liberal impact that shapes our kids’ thinking comes before all the merits of government sponsored benevolence

On this point, I’ll just end with Joe Biden as an illustration. All the big heart to help the needy shows in his personal contributions of $200-900, while relief work were underway for the Katrina tragedy, the cyclones in India and Thailand ,or the Sechuan earthquake. Ordinary people found it compelling to donate for such needs. Joe, a bouvuiac of the democrat leaders relies on the government to help.