Why I Don’t Like Obama.
Jason Zito recently wrote a couple of blogs about why he liked Obama. After arguing about it for a couple months, we ran out of things to say. I’ve decided to put my reasons on the proverbial paper.
Jeremiah Wright
I don’t know about you, but I’ve gone to the same church for about 12 years. In those 12 years, I’ve gotten some idea of what my pastor is like. He’s kind, friendly, always ready to help. Those are somewhat superficial traits, to be sure, but they illustrate my point. You can’t associate with someone for a single year, let alone twenty, without gaining some inkling of his or her political or social beliefs and traits. To say that Barack Obama sat in Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 years and at no point had any inkling of his pastor’s radical anti-American beliefs is absurd. Obama’s camp can dodge all they like, claim he wasn’t in church on a particular sunday when a particular comment was made, but could he truly have missed half a lifetime of anti-American sermons in a church he attended regularly?
So, now that we have established that he was almost certainly aware of his pastor’s views, we have to discuss why he stayed in the church. In my view, there are 3 possibilities. 1, he didn’t think it was a big deal. 2, He saw a political motivation for staying in the largest black church in Chicago. 3, he agreed with Wright.
I’m going to go with three as the most likely solution. Being a member of a large, black church certainly helped gain influence with black voters. This claim is further supported by his bolting as soon as his membership and Wright’s comments became controversial.
Why isn’t his wife proud of America?
Michelle Malkin says it better than I ever could.
He has ties to corrupt businessmen and domestic terrorists
Barack Obama has ties to corrupt businessman Tony Rezko and Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers.
Rezko contributed money to Barack Obama’s political campaigns. Obama worked for a law firm representing Rezko’s company after turning down a job offer to work for Rezko directly. Since 2003, Rezko has been on Obama’s U.S. Senate campaign finance committee, which raised more than $14 million. Obama purchased a house in Chicago for $300k below value on the same day Rezko’s wife purchased the adjacent lot for the asking price, raising allegations of unethical coordination of offers. Obama later purchased a ten foot strip of land adjoining the two properties from Mrs. Rezko for $100,000 . Rezko has since been indicted and is on trial for corruption.
I don’t agree with him on a single issue.
I think this speaks for itself.
He’s an elitist masquerading as a populist
Obama said, because of the economic downturn (which has evidently been plaguing us as long as guns and religion have been with us) middle-class Americans “get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
So in other words, we’re bitter because we don’t have jobs, so we turn to religion and guns and hating immigrants. Real inspiring words from “one of us.”
He has no solutions, only platitudes.
Hope is useless. Hope does nothing. Hope makes you feel better about a situation over which you have no control. When something bad happens, you hope for the best, but you can’t do anything to change it. Hope typifies Obama’s campaign. He hopes for a better America. He hopes we can come together across racial, social, political boundaries. How inspiring. How useless.
Obama’s solution for Iraq? Leave. His answer to al Qaeda taking over Iraq? Go back in.
I’ll probably add more later.
Dennis on April 16, 2008
That’s a pretty nice summary of why Obama is out of touch with the American public. His ideas have no pragmatic approach… other than… let’s broadcast it on CSPAN..
I would disagree in general that “hope is useless.” While I agree that it’s an impractical platform from which to run a country, hope is one of the most critical elements of humanity. It is also one of the easiest ways to appeal to the public–Obama knows this, and that is why he is popular.
And, as the mechanic says, “Well there’s your problem” (only picture it in a drawl). The American electoral process isn’t about who has the most sensible campaign, who can run the country better, or even who loves America more. In an ideal world, voting should be rational and governed by informed decisions. Unfortunately, in the real world, a candidate is just as likely to win because he or she has good hair.
I used to think that the devolution of politics into mudslinging was a bad thing. I realize now that I was horribly wrong in one way. While I still dislike the fact that the process has devolved to this point, I realize now that I was wrong to insist that candidates should rise above such practices. In fact, they should embrace these practices. Any candidate who tries to campaign based on rational policies and platforms is an idiot or an idealist (or both). Since clearly the American people key into mudslinging more than they do the issues, if a candidate truly thinks he or she is the best person for the job of President, then he or she needs to do whatever it takes to get into office–and this means using the system to his or her advantage.
We don’t want an American president who blusters forth on idealism, blindly insisting that he or she would succeed “if all things were equal”. The world doesn’t work that way–such a person would be useless in office. We want an American president who is able to adapt to a situation and bend a system’s rules in order to win.
So would Obama be a good president? I have no clue. Is he being a good candidate? Let’s check the scoreboard: scandals? Yep. Quotations out of context? Yep. Scrutiny of his moral character, background, and haircut? Check. Sounds like he’s doing fine.
Thank you for posting this.
thank you for posting this..
i dont like obama and i dont know why so many americans are soo awed by him..he’s like a mistake waiting to happen.