Posted by
Rich from NW Indiana on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:55:32 PM
In a lot of ways this election has been very disappointing. In spite of the fact that the majority of American's are conservative, the far left candidate has a good chance of winning the presidency next week. I just don't get the reasons why people want to vote for Obama. Many of those reasons are so lame!
We need change!
That seems to be the biggest reason why folks are voting for Obama. How Obama represents change, I don't know. His small record sure doesn't show that he represents change. In fact it indicates the opposite. He has stood by corruption every time. He has never challenged the corrupt in Illinois. Never!
The policies that he has even put out in the open (and those he is still hiding) indicate that wants to go back to the policies of the "Great Society" and FDR. He talks about the failures of the last eight years but never talks about the failure of liberalism for the last eighty! He wants to bring those failed policies BACK! I have never heard any other reason besides that he isn't George Bush, so if you can give me a reason why Obama represents change I would love to hear it.
Obama has been dogged by lies about his character by Republicans.
This one is really annoying to me. Why would that make you want to vote for someone? Its one of the reasons that Colin Powell used to say he would be voting for the anointed one. The reality is that many of the "lies" are in fact true. Sure some of the stories out there aren't true, but many of them are! Obama not answering questions about those things don't inspire confidence, so in my book that is a reason for NOT voting for someone, not one for voting FOR someone.
The past eight years have been a complete failure.
How has the last eight years been a complete failure? The economy has been good, terrorists haven't returned to our soil since 9/11. Nobody notes that most of the financial problems have cropped up in the last two years, the time the congress has been controlled by Democrats! It's poll numbers are lower then the last Republican congress and President Bush. So why is the congress likely to become more Democrat? Its has been the Republican Party that has allowed the economy to boom for the last twenty or so years in spite of Democrats!
Back in 1972, the "mainstream" media was hoping for a McGovern win. They hated Nixon as much as they hate President Bush today. Back then, there wasn't much in the way of conservative media, even less then today. Yet McGovern never got more then twenty or so percent in polls before the election. What did the general population know that kept them from voting for McGovern that voters don't seem to know about Obama today? Nixon had one of the largest majorities ever. Why isn't McCain (or any Republican presidential candidate for that matter) have a huge majority of the vote? Obama is so far from the majority of voters nearly nobody should be voting for him.
But yet they are!
Even if Republicans weren't so "unpopular" with the media, why isn't Obama doing the opposite and putting McCain away? In spite of all the media basically campaigning for him, huge amounts of money from who know where, and Republicans made to look like the devil it stays close! Is the silent majority out there? It seems to be. I hope it is so!
The Polls are Wrong!