This was posted a few weeks ago, I thought it was pretty relevant to the topic.
Please note some of the links are dead since the post is a few weeks old. I'll dig up the articles, but for now we're going to have to stick with google.
Is there any good reason at all to vote for Obama?
He has voted "NV" (meaning "not voting") 233 times in his short career as Senator. (http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=9490) Assuming he wasn't present at all for half of them (with good reason, and this is an extremely liberal assumption), that means he voted "present" or "not voting" on 116 issues. He voted "NV" on ALL housing & property issues, voted "NV" for three out of four abortion issues, and the only one he voted "Y" ("Yes") for was for the Unintended Pregnancy Amendment, which simply grants more money towards contraceptives and other means to avoid unplanned pregnancy. He has voted "NV" six out of seven times on agricultural issues, and the one he voted "Y" on was an amendment to lower farm subsidies to a limit of $250,000 for married couples. He voted "NV" on 48 out of 92 budget spending and taxes issues, including:
Higher Education Act Amendments and Extensions
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Funding
Housing Bill with Energy Tax Credit Extensions
Funding Amendment to AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Bill
Funding to Combat AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis
He voted "N" ("no") for the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for the Department of Defense amendment, the Emergency Departmental Supplemental Appropriations Bill of 2007, the Death/EstateTax and Minimum Wage Bill of 2006, the Tax Reconciliation bill, the Debt Limit Increase Resolution, 2007 Budget Resolution, the Budget Reconciliation bill, the Tax Reconciliation bill, and others.
His voting record clearly shows that, where he actually voted, he supports higher taxes. He does not, however, vote "Y" or "N" for anything truly controversial; He has remained silent on issues like abortion, agriculture, housing and property, and plenty others, including health issues and foreign aid. Look all you want; you will never find a man with such a vague voting record running for president. Why is Obama's record so vague? Simple: He doesn't want to vote "Y" or "N" on anything too controversial. This way, he appears more moderate than he is, and he doesn't piss off anybody.
He is, quite bluntly, playing America for fools.
He supports Partial Birth Abortions as well as voting "N" on prohibiting minors crossing state lines for abortion and voted "N" on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. He opposed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, which would allow infant survivors of botched abortions to live; meaning he supports not just Partial Birth Abortions, but Live Birth Abortions, the single most horrificpolicy I have ever seen in my life.
He has voted to tax the rich "because they make too much" in order to instate a socialist health care plan where the rich, who already pay over half of the country's taxes, pay for the medical care of those who cannot afford it. He has also voted on taxing the rich for education, the environment, and foreign aid. My opinion: It is a violation of the rights of working citizens to take their earned money and give it to somebody else, especially if the somebody else has not earned it himself, which is what will inevitably happen under a socialist economy.
Obama has flip-flopped on drug policy, supporting the decriminalisation of drugs like marijuana one day and then opposing it the next. My personal opinion: Making pot legal for medicine is fine, and I'm open to decriminalisation, but I do not support full-blown legalisation.
Obama supports de-prioritizing the military and lowering military spending.
Obama supports giving illegal immigrants jobs and driver's licences, and opposes fence policy to keep illegal immigrants out of the country. Basically he's saying "come on in! The water's great!" to anyone in Mexico who would like to enter but doesn't feel like meeting the requirements, such as speaking English or paying American taxes.
Obama stated that Iran "doesn't pose a threat to us," then he flip-flopped the very next day, saying that he has always said that Iran poses a very grave threat.
One issue that I will agree with Obama on is his gun control policy. I do not think that allowing some random person (who could have schizophrenia for all anyone knows) to buy a gun at the nearest Wal-Mart is a good thing, so I do view this policy as a positive in Obama's campaign.
Don't even get me started on his social idiocy. Obama has attended an incredibly racist and anti-American pastor's church for over 20 years, referring to him as an uncle and very influential spiritual advisor. Under this pastor he married his wife and baptised his young children. Not until his beloved pastor became a political roadblock did Obama dump him, contradicting earlier claims that he would never do such a thing.
Barack Obama refused to wear a flag pin, but then later stated that he had never done such a thing.
Barack Obama has been known to have connections with known terrorists, including William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.
Obama has referred to his own grandmother, who is white and a racist, as a "typical white person." Original quote:
"... .. The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, uh, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know there's a reaction that's been been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way and that's just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it..."
Barack Obama stated in his primaries that rural Americans were "bitter, clinging to guns and religion."
Obama stated that he had visited 57 states during his trip to Beaverton, OR. There are only 50 states in the Union.
Obama forgot what city he was visiting during a trip to South Dakota.
Obama stated that a Kansas tornado killed 10,000 people. The actual death toll was 12.
Obama stated that Arkansas is closer to Kentucky than Illinois.
Obama claimed that the March on Selma resulted in his conception. The March on Selma was in 1965. Obama was born in 1961.
Obama stated that Arabic translators are needed in Afghanistan. Afghans don't speak Arabic.
Obama pleaded ignorance on the Hanford Nuclear Waste Cleanup, despite it being the nations most contaminated nuclear site. He was also applauded by his supporters for his ignorance.
Obama, in a statement about his racial awakening at 9 in his book, Dreams From my Father, said that a graphic photo in a Life article motivated him. Such an article does not exist, as confirmed by Life magazine.
I see two good aspects about Obama: He has worked hard his whole life and has come a very long way in the face of much adversity, and he has a good gun control policy.
However, I do not view these as good reasons to vote for him as our President. He has done nothing, NOTHING, but preach empty hope and change promises that sound good, maybe even euphoric, in comparison to the time we have been through in the past eight years, but I need more than promises and vague voting records.
Both Obama and McCain morally oppose homosexual marriage and both support a 16-month withdrawal from Iraq.
So GameSpot, without turning this into a McCain-bashing topic (as many Obama supporters do when asked this question), why should I, a concerned voter, vote for Barack Obama in the upcoming November election? Why should I support ridiculously high taxes, partial birth abortions , vague voting records and shady backgrounds?Theokhoth
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