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I can probably come up with 16 dozen reasons not to vote for Obama..

Please, let us hear your 16 reasons.

(And heaven forbid, dont bring up anything to do with his upbringing or family background because we all know those things have NO INFLUENCE WHATSOEVER on a person's values or attitudes.)

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Please, let us hear your 16 reasons.

His positions on abortion, taxation, size of government, immigration, trade, education, foreign policy, military, descretionary spending priorities, his stand on the war on terror. How's that for a start?

I assume none of those mean a thing to you compared to the fact that his father was Muslim?

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And heaven forbid, dont bring up anything to do with his upbringing or family background because we all know those things have NO INFLUENCE WHATSOEVER on a person's values or attitudes.

They do, but bringing them up makes us look like a bunch of racist a-holes. Better to oppose Obama on policy grounds so that we're not open to the accusation.