Why I am not voting for Obama
Will someone please explain to me the cult of Barack Obama? It makes absolutely no sense to anyone with more half a functioning brain cell. When Obamites start speaking of their Messiah candidate, they get this look on their faces that is as vacant and rapturous as the looks on those who undulate in orgasmic self-deception at Charismatic Christian churches. Unlike the Charismatics who speak in tongues, the Obamites’ mantras are “Hope” and “Change”.
However, for those of us not enraptured by Barack Obama’s supposed charisma, all the hopenchangetudeness that surrounds him does little to assuage some very important and lingering questions about Obama’s character and judgment. Obama is obviously a very smart man; one does not get to be head of the Harvard Law Review by being an idiot. But one would imagine that someone with Obama’s intelligence would be more, well, discriminating in those with whom he associates.
One, maybe two questionable associates could be understandable. Everybody has friends or associates that may have questionable moral character, but seldom are these questionable characters in a position of influence. For example, one does not sit in a church for 20 years, get married and have one’s children baptized at that church, or donate more than $20,000 to the church unless one agrees – for the most part – with what is taught from the pulpit. Obama’s church has shown to have racism and divisiveness preached from its pulpit by several different pastors, yet Obama appears to have sat in the pews and bobbed his head in agreement with the message that was being conveyed. Only after repeated glimpses into the rhetoric being issued forth at the church came into public view did Obama choose to disassociate himself with that church.
Then we have Tony Rezko, a known slum-lord with mafia ties. Rezko has been on trial for corruption charges, and was convicted this week on multiple counts. Only after the verdict was handed down did Obama disassociate himself with Rezko, stating “This is not the Tony Rezko I knew”.
So the question is this: if Obama is incapable of judging the character of those close to him, how can we – the American people – reply upon judgment that has proven to be faulty, at best? Or are we to assume that Obama knew the about his associates’ flaws, and simply chose to ignore them, or even worse, exploit them for his own political advantage?
If the latter is true, then it calls into question Obama’s commitment to “Hope” and “Change”, as Washington already has enough people who are willing to exploit others (even their own families) in exchange for some scrap of political power. Where is the “Change we can believe in” when Obama appears to be doing the same thing that every other politician in Washington is doing?
There is an old saying, “Never attribute to malice when incompetence is sufficient explanation.” Regardless of whether Obama is doing all this out of either incompetence or malice, he has proven that he cannot be trusted to make decisions that are in America’s best interests.
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