Why I fully support Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States

zulchzulu

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Mon Feb-18-08 12:02 AM
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Why I fully support Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States

What Bush has done is such an entangled web of so many bad things that unraveling it all and hosing the filth down will take years to repair. Obama is our best chance of being a fresh face to go about making changes accordingly and getting the country back on the correct course.

I trust Obama. I've seen his list of advisors and who is on his team and they are, for the most part, against bad free trade agreements, against "stupid" wars and know how to take the correct steps toward revitalizing our Constitutional rights. I've seen him speak in person several times and am familiar with his record on the issues and his plans for the future. They are complicated and nuanced and available for anyone to read from his web site (www.barackobama.com) and through videos where town hall meetings were recorded without "plants" or softball questions from followers that could have been authored by infomercial "experts". Contrary to the Clinton campaign's deceptive assertions, Obama's speeches do have a range of policy discussion as well as offer a positive rallying cry for change. Hope is not a dirty word. It is what this World needs more than just about anything right now.

Is Barack Obama perfect? No. Are those that want him to be President in a "cult"? Only if you're on the Clinton campaign writing cheap shot talking points and seeing if they "stick".

I simply don't trust the Clintons based on how Bill Clinton (despite all the cut and paste allocates of his presidency) with his appeasement to Republican policies like NAFTA, WTO, GATT, Defense of Marriage Act, deregulation of the media and telecom with the Telecommunications Act, disastrous free trade agreements with China, Vietnam and others as well and if Hillary is the nominee, we give the Republicans everything they wanted as well as a very divided Democratic Party... a very divisive disaster.

Without Bill, there is no Hillary. With Bill, Hillary together form the Perfect Storm of Disaster for a Democratic victory in 2008. Anyone who believes the nonsense that Hillary Clinton will not have her husband as part of the package is woefully unaware of how the Clintons have worked as a duo for their years in politics.

As for Hillary Clinton's main reason for her candidacy, her experience is a First Lady without a security clearance, not attending National Security Council meetings nor having access to the president's daily intelligence briefings makes her more a spokesperson and a bedmate to her husband than anything.

Going by years spent as an elective official, Obama's eleven years (eight as state senator with many accomplishments and three as Senator) exceeds Clinton's seven years. Add Hillary Clinton's disastrous attempts at appointing Attorney Generals that got shot down and her tragic attempt at healthcare reform and yes, you have experience...but of the bad kind. Even her attempts at wanting to take credit for SCHIP legislation is deceptive since it was mostly the bipartisan work of Ted Kennedy and Orin Hatch that made that happen. It's called lying on your resum�, which many employers would fire people for if they found out.

Months ago, all the indications were that Hillary Clinton was the nominee and there was nothing anyone could do about it. She was practically invincible. Inevitable. Nearly coronated. What has happened? In my efforts at doing grassroots efforts for Obama about a year ago, so many wanted to support Obama or fully did, but felt it was just a far-gone conclusion that she would have the nomination wrapped up by Super Tuesday on February 5, 2008. I fully disagreed...even back in April, 2007.

It turns out that no matter how much the Clinton Machine tried and how much the Clinton Machine lied and how much the Clinton Machine lied about Hillary's record and distorted Obama's again, people were NOT buying it in droves. People were wanting something else, not more of the same thing. Voters who never voted or would have just as well not vote were coming out in unprecedented numbers to voice their opinion, make records contributing to Obama, making records in appearance numbers seeing Obama and looking for a new SOLUTION to the problem. They have seen the Clinton movie before and know that the next President will face a lot of problems from the start. They've seen how Hillary Clinton voted for Bush's wars and the new one in Iran that could still happen.

What will the next President inherit from Bush? An absolute mess. What would a very divided country with the Clintons in the White House again give the American people? Years of MORE scandals and distractions that will get us nowhere. Of course, if Hillary Clinton is the nominee, it will be John McCain continuing the Bush legacy anyway.

Is it worth the rolling of the dice to have the Clintons on our Democratic Party ticket? Do we want the same tired SOLUTION to a new set of problems that Hillary Clinton is directly a part of? Do we want to lose the White House and have Clintonian negative coat tails for other Democratic races that make us lose the House and Senate as well? Do we want a very divided Democratic Party that is in the skids if Hillary Clinton scuttles off with the nomination due to her loyal super delegate subjects waiting for their piece of the Graft Pie?

And to those that think that if someone who doesn't support Hillary Clinton as a nominee is a "hater", a "exist", a "misogynist" and whatever childish rant to come from that neck of the woods, there are certainly plenty of women on the national political stage that I would fully support, such as Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Kathleen Sibilius, Tammy Baldwin and others. Gender is not in any way part of my decision. Is it Clinton "hate"? No, it's knowing that we need REAL change and REAL solutions for this new century.

Barack Obama has proven with his successful campaign that he CAN take on the powerful Clinton Machine and be winning. He also would have the best opportunity to put a huge weight on John McCain's candidacy by tying the sad state of the economy with the tragic and costly decision to go to war in Iraq with possible trillions of dollars spent and a million or more lives lost. Hillary Clinton would have to her very flawed decision to go to war in Iraq on the shelf; saying she wants troops out now would get attacked by McCain as not being able to make the right decision in the first place.

If we want to Republicans to win in November, we nominate Hillary Clinton. Game. Set. Match. They are waiting to see if we will do what they want by allowing them the perfect chance to reunite their base that is disappointed with the idea if John McCain as their nominee.

Don't give the Republicans what they want, which is a destroyed Democratic Party and the best chance to mobilize their base. Let's make the next President Barack Obama!