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Watching Senator Obama gives me good feelings.  I like him.  He is a can do type of guy.  He speaks to our hopes not our fears as well as anyone.  He is the best the Democrat Party had to offer this year.  Some people have asked me why I don’t support him.

My problem is their best may not be good enough.  While the Democrats were out of power, they completely devolved into a cabal of interest groups trying to capture the government.  When I look at the real proposals, I don’t see change unless going back to failure counts.  Most Americans don’t disagree with President Bush on his values and basic principles (that is why they elected him twice or according to Democrats accepted him once then elected him once).  Most Americans believe in marriage traditionally defined, family values, free markets, a strong offense against terrorists, increasing our energy supplies both fossil and alternative, judicial restraint, fighting the global aids crisis, and prefer victory in Iraq.   They just don’t have faith in his administration to achieve these values.  Katrina ended America’s love affair with President Bush.  He has never recovered especially with the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan draining American will, blood, and treasure. 

Alas, that is the problem Democrats will run into when they try to say that because Senator McCain agrees with President Bush on some issues that he is not qualified to be President.  Most Americans fall in that boat.  We don’t want to throw the baby out with the bath water; we just want clean bath water.

What concerns me about Senator Obama is that he wants change whether or not it makes sense.  He wants higher capital gains taxes even though it would hurt the economy because it is fairer in his mind.  He wants high corporate taxes to fund his expansive government.  He wants a massive tax increase on every wage earner making above 90 some thousand in the form of a payroll tax hike. 

While Senator McCain admires Chief Justice Roberts, he admires liberal icon Lawrence Tribe.  I can’t imagine the lasting damage done by 2 to 4 more ACLU attorneys on the Supreme Court joining Justice Ginsberg.  This country would not look the same; it would be nightmare on main street.  I guess we would have a lot more to bitter about as our values would no longer be determined by the democratic process, but by dictators in black robes.

Senator Obama favors the Global tax.  We would have a lot more of our wealth distributed to dictatorial backwaters without demanding reform.  Senator Obama seems less willing to negotiate with our Military commanders than he is with Iran’s extremist leadership.  Senator Obama has little experience and seems to lack the humility to listen to those with it.  The situation in Iraq has changed, but he hasn’t.  He seems bent on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Senator Obama hasn’t found an abortion he doesn’t like.  He is mum on traditional marriage.  He votes with the extreme left of his party like Boxer, Durbin, and Kerry.  He seems to be a creature of every interest group running the Democrat party.

His energy policy borders on delusion.  He opposes every effort to increase oil and gas supply.  Offshore or onshore he is sure oil is a disease that must be limited.  He favors even higher prices for gas.  His problem is that they went up too quickly.  He has no plan for increasing energy supply.  He is lukewarm on nuclear.  He talks about alternative energy, but knows that we can’t develop it soon enough so he suggests we are wrong to want room temperature environs.  It makes the rest of the world jealous he says. It is back to wear a sweater in the winter and sweat in the summer.  His world is one in which we go back to the 50’s before air conditioning.  It is one in which seniors live the last years of their lives in discomfort.  It is one in which babies miss out on early motor skills because they are bundled in their own homes.  It is a senseless tribute to the ecofascists who want to ruin our lifestyle and control our lives.

His cap and trade and windfall profit taxes will combind to rob us of new sources of oil and gas and make us suffer even more at the pump.  His blind refusal to open up more supplies or even reopen existing marginal wells, borders on political malpractice.

He wants to go arrest terrorists.  That is ok if they are caught by law enforcement, but troops should not be in the business of gathering evidence on the battlefield.  He is a lawyer who never served.  He doesn’t understand the difference between a war and a crime problem.  The terrorists have weapons of war.  Ask the Iraqi police.  It took the Iraqi and American armies to do the job.  These people are serious when they say death to America.  They are even willing to kill themselves to achieve those ends.  Law enforcement doesn’t work in that scenario.  That is why we had 9/11.  Can we play “Have We forgotten” for the Senator?

He has no problem lying to the people when the truth would work just as well.  The campaign finance fiasco showed me that fact.  I didn’t believe it until then.  He said with a straight face that he was abandoning his pledge to take public financing because his private financing really was public financing because it came from the public.  Ok.  Up is down and black is white.   He also said that he was concerned about the 527’s even though Democrats have held advantages in those for years and have a 3 to 1 advantage this year.  So he wouldn’t agree to terms with John McCain because McCain wouldn’t agree to control free individuals that he couldn’t control anyway–even though Democrats have a big advantage which they would maintain either way.  That is convoluted. 

Other than that, I don’t have a problem.