10 Concerns about Barack Obama

National Review Online ^ | June 24, 2008 | William J. Bennett & Seth Leibsohn

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Unfortunately most people who will vote for Obama don’t give a damn about how much to the left of everybody he is, or whether his ideas about fighting terrorism are good or not.

Voters will see a young Obama with “hope”, and an old McCain.

McCain’s gonna have to pull a rabbit out of the hat.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

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[ChicagahAl]

“Unfortunately most people who will vote for Obama don’t give a damn about how much to the left of everybody he is”

Even more unfortunately, there are a lot of people who will vote for Obama BECAUSE he is to the left of everyone else. All of those with an entitlement mentality, those who have been brainwashed in public schools or colleges in the past couple of decades and those who mistakenly think that a nanny state will be kinder and gentler. I have actually had people who are old enough and smart enough to know better, say to me, “But isn't Socialism good because they want to take care of people”?

And you are right that a lot of other people - the US magazine crowd, will vote for Obama because they think it is a popularity contest of who they would most like to party with.

[Dominnae]

I asked my lib sister why she was voting for Obama.. to tell me ONE GOOD thing about him, just one. All she could do was point me to a planned parenthood bush/mccain bash on protecting women’s “reproductive rights”.. (and that’s another contradictory argument right there.)

She said, to paraphrase, that the old school republican/conservative guard feels threatened by his freshness and new ideas, and they’re so dug into policies that fail blah blah. So I asked..

Just one good thing about Obama?

Crickets still chirping on that one.

Great article, thanks for posting.

[JDoutrider]

Definitely worth a BUMP!

[Slings and Arrows]

Self-ping.

[WildcatClan]

LOL............He got a higher score than the Communist from Vermont. Wow, now that is what I call change, and many may believe in it, but the country may not survive it.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

He’ll be a bigger disaster than Carter, but dems will claim as they always do. “But we had the best intentions” when it comes to the problems left by even one term of Obama as president. Problems that will linger and haunt the world for decades.

[freeangel]

saving

[Tainan]

Smashing Obamabots one stomp at a time.

[gusopol3]

As for the Kennedy-Khrushchev summit of 1961, Kennedy himself said “He beat the hell out of me.” As two experts recently wrote in the New York Times: “Paul Nitze, the assistant secretary of defense, said the meeting was ‘just a disaster.’ Khrushchev’s aide, after the first day, said the American president seemed ‘very inexperienced, even immature.’ Khrushchev agreed, noting that the youthful Kennedy was ‘too intelligent and too weak.’ The Soviet leader left Vienna elated — and with a very low opinion of the leader of the free world.” So successful was the summit that the Berlin Wall was erected later that year and the Cuban Missile Crisis, with Soviets deploying nuclear missiles in Cuba, commenced the following year.

good perspective for the many Kennedy admirers among FReepers.

[gusopol3]

Such quick switches of policy may stem from mere inexperience or they may stem from a general tone-deafness on the meaning of words and policy when it comes to the Middle East. After all, earlier this year, a leading Hamas official endorsed Barack Obama stating, “I do believe [Obama] is like John Kennedy, a great man with a great principle. And he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community, but not with humiliation and arrogance.” Rather than immediately renouncing such an endorsement, Obama’s chief political strategist, David Axelrod, embraced the endorsement, saying “We all agree that John Kennedy was a great president, and it’s flattering when anybody says that Barack Obama would follow in his footsteps.”

Hamas thinks so ,too.

[Christian4Bush]

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[beaversmom]

They had some idiot woman call up Levin last night and say that two of her three reasons for voting for Obama is that he is white and black and he is handsome.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

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[Impy]

11)He’s a commie.

[kellynla]

All that we need to know about Obama is that he is an anti-American Racist Leftie.

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[Always Right]

As a state senator in Illinois, Barack Obama voted against the Induced Infant Liability Act, a law that would have protected babies if they survived an attempted abortion and were delivered alive.

I don't think this is technically correct. I believe Obama lead the effort to kill the bill in committee, so it never was voted on.

[CWWren]

From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he logged 143 days of experience in the Senate. That's how many days the Senate was actually in session and working.

After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Ronald Reagan. 143 days. I keep leftovers in my refrigerator longer than that."