Barack Obama, President
September 10, 2008 by koko chassid
For months I have been mulling a Bob Barr endorsement. But after some consideration, I will reluctantly support Barack Obama.
In the first months of the primaries, I supported libertarian Ron Paul, since I am a libertarian. If Ron Paul would have won the Republican nomination, I am confident he would win in a landslide. But once it was inevitable that Paul had lost the nomination after loses in Iowa and New Hampshire he did fairly well in Nevada and won in Louisiana - people will tell you McCain won it, but Paul did - I endorsed Bill Richardson.
Shortly after that Richardson dropped out, and I endorsed the last good candidate left in the race, Hillary Clinton. I felt Hillary had the executive experience, and that Senator Obama’s only executive experience was on the board of Chicago’s Annenberg challenge, which is not presidential.
Obama was a state Senator, only active in the US Senate for 146 days, whoever supported him in the primaries (nearly 18 million voters) must have been high on something! But Hillary Clinton (a little over 18 million votes) had the experience to be president. But once Joe Biden was picked, I knew Barack Obama was walking away from just saying “change” and “hope” to focusing on the issues like Hillary Clinton.
Bob Barr seems like a good candidate with seven percent of responders in today’s Rasmussen tracking poll choosing someone besides Obama or McCain. But he still seems like a waste of a vote.
And so I reluctantly support Senator Barack Obama for president.
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”
- John Quincy Adams
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Ron Paul urges third-party vote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7608500.stm
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I’m not sure I like Bob Barr or not, but the reason that he only has such a small % of support is because he isn’t in the debates and getting coverage from the mainstream media. If the mainstream media gave him a shot as a serious candidate, then maybe he could be one.
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Look, would you rather have someone who has very little experience in anything, or would you rather have someone who stands for his country, loves his country, and will cross party lines for the betterment of his country? If you care about your country (or even your family) more than yourself, you will realize that Barack Obama will not do much good for this nation. I’m not saying that you have to vote for McCain, all I’m saying is that you look at the policies, ideals, and actions of the people who are running. I came to the conclusion that McCain, although not the first person I would want as the Republican Candidate for President, was better than I thought. You being a libertarian should consider McCain a more reasonable man that Obama.
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I was considering McCain until he picked the evangelical rights dream of a VP Sarah Palin. IF he would have picked someone like Tim Pawlenty, I would still be undecided. But I probably would take Barr over McCain.
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why don’t you like Sarah Palin?
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Here are a few reasons.
1) She wants creationism taught in classes (for the record I don’t believe neither evolution or creationism should be taught in classes)
2) Doesn’t believe global warming is man made.
3) Tried to ban books from a local library in Achronage (that’s the reason why Ed Koch endorsed Obama)
I don’t have much against McCain. But Palin is too much
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