Posted by
bobbiekelley on Monday, October 20, 2008 12:00:00 AM
So you’re thinking about voting for Obama? I hope you’ve given careful thought about what an Obama Presidency will bring you. Here are some things to consider before you cast your ballot. These points are based on Obama’s promises, his alliances, his voting history and his own words. All are a matter of irrefutable documentation.
Obama gleefully endorses the unfettered slaughter of little unborn human beings by abortion, including late term. Obama voted 3 times to withhold medical care to babies born alive after a botched abortion attempt; AND WE GET TO PAY FOR IT WITH OUR TAX MONEY.
Abolishment of the meaning of “family” as we’ve known it; the homosexual agenda taking precedent over God’s instructions and the wishes of the people’s majority; he endorses adoption by same sex couples.
“Sex Education” taught in schools, beginning in Kindergarten, regardless of parent’s positions on the issue; said “sex education” heralding the normalcy of homosexuality; Condoms and other birth control devices handed out to your children whether you like it or not while liberal educators convince your children they need to experience sexual fulfillment;
The government overriding parent’s rights to notification if their daughter is pregnant and considering an abortion;
The Fairness Doctrine becoming law, therefore muzzling the speech of Evangelicals and/or conservatives in Churches, Print and over the airwaves; demanding that atheistic/ secular/ liberal views be given equal time with Christian and/or conservative speakers/writers; the goal being to still the voices of Christians and conservatives while promoting a Godless Liberal agenda;
Hate Crime Laws making it a crime to think or express a viewpoint different than the homosexual point of view; making it more of a crime to speak out against, hurt or kill a homosexual than to speak out against, hurt or kill a heterosexual, as if the heterosexual would be less hurt or less dead than the homosexual. All crimes against fellow human beings bears an element of hate. To write into law that crimes against homosexuals are more hateful than crimes against anybody else is a travesty of common sense and justice;
Affirmative Action, with it’s quotas favoring minorities, especially, blacks and homosexuals, will squeeze more qualified white men out of the marketplace and make it nearly impossible to fire workers hired under Affirmative Action, regardless of their level of incompetence, laziness or other poor work habits.
Affirmative action has been an unfair, expensive disaster already; not unlike selling homes to people who can’t afford them. But none of that will matter to a ”President” Obama. He will insist on continuing the bad habit of catering to those who don’t necessarily deserve it, while trampling underfoot the concept of earning a position based on merit.
He will continue to play Class Warfare in order to perpetuate the myth that the Democrat Party is for the “poor”; the “working class”. This lie is kept alive for the sole purpose of getting votes for the democrat party. Rich people and corporations are used as dirty words by Obama and his ilk. When you play “Robin Hood” long enough, taking from the rich to give to the “poor”,( some of whom are poor due to circumstances beyond their control, but millions of whom are “poor” due to their own making), the rich cease to exist and before long everybody fits into the “poor” category. Then who will provide factories, office buildings, manufacturing, service, telecommunication and other industry we take for granted? Who, in other words, will provide jobs?
Part of Obama’s class warfare is exhibited in his determination to increase Corporate Taxes against those mean old corporations that dare to make a profit, regardless of the fact they are already saddled with the second highest Corporate tax rate on the planet. Corporations that make profit, expand business and hire more people. Corporations that are taxed to death, pass the cost on to consumers, lay off employees, sometimes move to other countries to escape tax strangulation, or in worst case scenarios, go belly up and close their doors. This is a lose-lose-lose situation for the corporation, their employees and for the country. Small business is especially hard hit by increasing Corporation Taxes and Small business is a huge part of our economic structure. Keeping Corporate Tax Rates low is not catering to the rich. I’s keeping businesses here in the states and providing jobs.
Next, Obama targets the “rich” by his plan to increase Capital Gains Taxes. The problem with that is that Capital Gains Taxes don’t affect only those people that might truly be considered rich. It affects middle class people who have been productive enough and responsible enough to accumulate equity in a house, an automobile, stocks, bond, 401K’s and other properties, that if sold, or cashed in, net them a profit. Even though they already paid taxes through the nose while acquiring some wealth, (which is supposed to be the American dream), now they must be punished and taxed for their accomplishments, so that according to Obama’s own words, their wealth can be “spread around”; spread around from taxpayers to non-taxpayers, or more aptly put, from the responsible to the irresponsible. Redistribution of wealth is nothing less than picking the pockets of the working class and giving it to the non-working class.
As if that weren’t bad enough, Obama wants to extend the Unearned Tax Benefit so that every January, those who haven’t managed to work enough to have a taxable income, will automatically get a check in the mail to reward their lack of initiative, courtesy of those who have toiled long hard hours to earn an income and pay taxes. Does that sound fair? Ever heard of Marxism? Socialism? Communism? We’ll become painfully more aware of these “isms” under a Barack Hussein Obama administration.
Obama is in favor of raising Minimum Wage to a “living wage”. This is absolutely unfair to those in our society who have taken on the responsibility of getting an education in order to better themselves. It is equally unfair to the recipients of a minimum wage that makes said recipients comfortable with less income than an education would entitle them to. It is government encouragement to maintain the status quo of limited accomplishment. Elevated Minimum Wage is murder to small business, again resulting in employee layoff, increased prices to consumers and in some instances, closure of businesses. These minimum wage recipients are the very ones who are most apt to receive their “January Bonuses” every year at our expense. Want a living wage? Go to school or learn a trade. The working public doesn’t owe it to the uninspired to make them comfortable.
Other Taxes Obama states he will raise our Social Security Tax, Death Tax, Windfall Profit Tax and more others than I can recall at the moment. He will end the Bush tax cuts, which will amount to yet another tax hike. Somebody explain to me how he will raise all these taxes then claim to cut taxes for 95% of the American People. Excuse me folks, but this is a mathematical impossibility. He knows it’s impossible, but continues to promise it anyway. We’d better wake up.
New Entitlement Programs including universal Health Care,(including illegal aliens), Giving another 90 days free rent to those who obtained mortgages they couldn’t afford, and a whole plethora of “Tax Incentives/ Rebates” to the undeserving while sticking the cost to the working class. As it stands, Obama has nearly a $ Trillion worth of new entitlement programs up his sleeve. How is he going to pay for this and cut taxes? Better get real; His promises aren’t even beginning to be possible.
Other Obama concerns include but are not limited to:
Extend welfare and Social Security benefits to illegal aliens;
weaken 2nd amendments rights: He voted to ban guns then said he supports the 2nd amendment rights. Voted in favor of law suits against gun manufacturers;
Amend drug dealing laws; he thinks they are too severe and wants to deal with drug dealers as a minimum wage affair. (There you go……….small business will foot the bill to make drug dealers more comfortable. Don’tcha just love it)?
Voted against making English the official language of our country.
He opposes the Patriot Act. (Doesn’t want to invade the privacy of Terrorists). Supports giving Habeas Corpus Rights to terrorists, releasing them from Guantanamo onto the streets of America, AND giving them Driver’s Licenses so they can get around in our country unimpeded. (Some of the 9-11 terrorist had driver’s licenses) He wants to have a chummy sit-down schmooze-fest with the likes of Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, and the Castro brothers. He apparently doesn’t get it that these are sociopaths of the highest order who hate us, want to kill us, and will laugh in his inexperienced, unaccomplished face. The only thing he could possibly do to get on their good side, is to join them. I wouldn’t put it past him.
Obama is weak on Energy Independence. He says he is now for drilling. What he’s not talking about is that the leaders in the Democrat Congress has come up with a plan that says we can drill offshore, but it has to be 50 miles from shore. #1, we don’t have drilling rigs 50 miles out. #2 the oil supply is diminished out that far. It would take years to build rigs. We need to start drilling now. #3 Obama says we need to drill on the several thousands of acres already approved for drilling. The problem with that is that drilling has been attempted to no avail since these sites have already been proven to be “dry holes”. Does it make sense that oil companies would refuse to drill on approved sites if there was oil there? No it doesn’t. They want to make money and they would be shortchanging themselves to refuse drilling if there was oil to access. #4, wind, solar, nuclear and other alternative energy sources certainly need to be taken advantage of. But again, it will take years to put them in place and in the meantime we are sitting on enough oil here at home to supply our transportation, business & domestic needs for 60 years. We’re talking about gas and natural gas. It’s insane to send $700 billion a year to countries who could cut us off at any moment and bring our whole economy to a standstill. The democrats love to claim it would take 10 years to get available oil supplies to market; actual drilling experts say it would take a year or less in many places where we’re already set up to drill.
Obama voted to cut funding Our Military Troops; Will not admit to the success of the surge, did not visit our sick and wounded troops while in Iraq; accused them of bombing villages and killing civilians and shunned them when off camera in Iraq. How can he be Commander in Chief of our troops when he so obviously holds them in disdain? How many young Americans are going to volunteer to defend our nation when serving under a president that they know has no respect for them? Without the military, who’s watching out for America?
Not insignificant , Obama’s faith certainly comes into question as does his patriotism. While he claims to be a “dedicated Christian”, he also states there is more than one pathway to Salvation; denies the existence of Hell and challenges parts of the Bible. This isn’t Christianity as laid out in God’s word. Anybody can claim to be a Christian. But you have to live it to be it. Living it requires adherence to God’s commands. ANYTHING LESS IS NOT CHRISTIANITY. So what is he? He referred to his “Muslim Faith” when speaking to George Stephanopoulos. Was that a Freudian slip? I don’t know. I just know that no real Christian would promote mass slaughter of unborn babies or celebrate the abominable practice of homosexuality and force it upon a nation of 300 million citizens. He is a strong proponent of the so called “Separation of Church and State” designed to bar Christianity from every corner of the public square; this qualifies him as a secularist; but certainly not a Christian. Christians don’t lie every time they open their mouths. Obama does.
Neither would a real Christian sit in a “church” for 20 years listening to the hate filled tirades of the “reverend” Wright and “father” Pfleger, rub elbows and do business with the home grown unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, work with and accept favors from the likes of convicted felon, Tony Rezko, choose as a mentor communist poet, Frank Marshall Davis, and give $800,000.00 of taxpayer donated campaign money to a corrupt organization such as ACORN who he has spent 10 years training in methods of fraudulent voter registration, in addition to functioning as their Lawyer. In addition, millions of the first bailout in this current financial mess were directed to ACORN; so they can commit voter registration fraud and cancel out conservative votes pursuant to Obama’s 10 years of training them.
No patriotic American would listen to the hate America speech of people like Wright, Ayers, Pfleger, Farrakhan and others. Patriotic Americans wear the replica of Old Glory on their lapel with pride.
If Obama were applying for a management position at Wall Mart, he would be hard pressed to pass a serious background check. Yet millions are going to vote to hand him the keys to our Whitehouse, Economy, Educational, Judicial and National Security Systems. How insane is this? We better realize that If he gets into the highest office in the land with a Democrat controlled congress and senate, there will be no checks and balances in place; no control whatsoever of the damage that can be done in four short years, not the least the loss of our Christian rights.
It’s way past time for Americans to sit up, stand up, speak up and salvage this wonderful God given country while there is still time. We are now 27 days away from the potential point of no return. We can either vote smart, vote morally or go down in history as the most foolish of societies since time began.
Bobbie Kelley, RN