7 Reasons To Vote For Barack Obama For President
Posted: Monday, August 18, 2008
by Marvin J Markus
http://www.ThePresidentialCandidates.US
I'm voting for Barack Obama this November 4th for President of the United States. What follows in this article are 7 of the many reasons I am voting for Obama and not John McCain.
1. Obama was against the Iraq war from the start. Very few politicians had the integrity and the judgment to know that the Iraq war was a mistake before it began. John McCain certainly did not. McCain was one of the many politicians who thought Iraq would be a short easy war and that American soldiers would be "greeted like liberators" in Iraq.
For 90% of Americans, Obama's plan will bring lower taxes than McCain's will. This is an important fact not only because of the lower taxes that most Americans will pay but also because it speaks to McCain's lack of integrity. McCain continues to run ads which disingenuously claim a vote for Obama is a vote for higher taxes.
3. Obama is pro choice and will nominate pro choice judges for the Supreme Court. McCain has said he will be a "pro life President." Nobody is pro-abortion. It's not the role of the government to tell a woman what she can do with her own body.
If you believe in a woman's right to choose it is essential that you support Barack Obama as it's very likely the next President will be nominating 2 to 3 Supreme Court Justices. If McCain is the one nominating those judges, it's very possible that Roe V. Wade could be reversed.
4. Foreign policy. Obama showed he had superior judgment with his stance on Iraq. The things he said about the Iraq war in 2002 before it had even begun all turned out to be the truth. We need a President who has judgment and the ability to know when and where to strike. The shoot first ask questions later cowboy mentality of the Bush/Cheney administration would be made even worse by McCain who, as Pat Buchanan put it, would make "Cheney look like Gandhi."
5. International respect. George W. Bush has been a huge embarrassment for Americans. People all over the world now think of Americans as morons. Barack Obama is already loved all over the world. He is a brilliant speaker who understands the nuance of how to converse with people from different cultures. He's preferred in Europe over McCain by enormous margins. Obama as President would instantly make America popular again.
6. Health care. While I do not believe that Barack Obama's health care plan is the universal plan that our country really needs, it is a good step towards a better plan and it will help to lower health care costs. McCain's approach would hurt more than help. There would be even more people without health care with McCain as President.
7. Energy. While McCain is harping on the ridiculous non-issue of off shore drilling because he knows it plays well to the many uneducated voters in this country, it is Obama who has a real plan for energy independence. McCain's off shore drilling plan would only help to make extremely rich oil companies even more rich. It would not lower gas prices.
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Marvin J. Markus is a big collector of election memorabilia and particularly enjoys seeking out Calvin Coolidge & Herbert Hoover memorabilia.
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More commentsif you raise the taxes on the corporations they will leave the united states for a country with a lower tax bracket. do you know why all the jobs are going overseas is because we have the second highest tax bracket for corporations. businesses are there to make money there not here to make jobs. if you raise the taxes on the corporations again even more will leave. think about it if every dollar they made 50 cents was taken out how long would you stick around. barack obama is doing a classic liberal move pitting the poor against the rich. only problem the rich usually create the jobs for the poor.
To the person that said that Obama said we have 57 states in our country, HE WAS MAKING A JOKE. Also, the comment you left was clearly full of content that is based off of ignorant statements. The man went to Columbia University, and then on to Harvard Law where he became the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. For any ignorant people out there, those are both very prestigious schools, and a person must be very intelligent to go there. He's a "song and dance man" and you can "buy watches off the street from him?" I'm sorry but that is the most idiotic thing I've ever heard. He did not come off of the streets and into the candidacy; I remember reading articles about him (positive ones) about the changes he was making in the senate over four years ago. It is absurd to think that a person is incapable of running a country because you heard some negative stereotypes about the man that are based off of pure (let's just say it) racism and ignorance.
It is ashame this person is blinded and cannot find the facts straight from the Obama website.
Good article Marvin,I think people need to vote with their heads and not heart. I disagree about the abortion issue, but I have found that I would rather have more positives then negatives. I also think that whoever is writing maliciously and anonymous should check wikipedia and other resources. Bottom line, the Bush administration has been awful.God bless,
Hey Marv, You write well but the content is proof that some people will believe anything and anyone.
Marvin, I forgot to sign the above remark.Rev Michael Bresciani.
Enough cannot be said on your point numbers 1 and 4, the prescient clearheadedness of how morally reprehensible an Iraq Invasion was, even from its very conception, and the extremely urgent need to restore foreign diplomacy as the primary solution over a military solution.
I've heard quite enough from McCain and the clueless Palin about the "insurgency worked...insurgency worked" quasi-religious mantra to know my little #2 "X" must not inadvertently decorate their selection box on the November ballot.
Indeed, a year ago Obama was a relative nobody on my horizon. Then I read his dissent on the Iraq Invasion. Then later, I heard him speak on the wisdom of engaging diplomatically, as opposed to aggressive posturing with Iran. He made abundant sense!
Economies come and go, but look at what this damned (yes, it is damned) "war" has cost America in every way conceivable, blood, moral standing, the systematic deconstruction of the U.S. Constitution, hundreds of billions of dollars to a few private no-bid contractors, and I cannot even begin to express my regret that the Iraqi citizenry has suffered the most.
Recognition of Bush's profit motivated war must not be lost in the October financial madness.
gregory, What America has lost in the last few years is cannot be counted in dollars, Barack Obama represents only more loss of the same. If you don't know what that is then its not likely anyone could tell you or skirt your argument long enough to actually get your attention.Rev M. Bresciani
Some excellent points raised in this article, great stuff!
i love it
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