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A letter to Mr. Obama....
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Posted on 10/10/2008 1:34:06 PM PDT by Gopher Broke

I think this says it all

Thank you, Mark Gregg, wherever and whoever you are.

Dear Mr. Obama,

It is October 2, 2008. My name is Mark Gregg. I am a 50 something conservative white male. I have followed your campaign closely, including the speeches you and others made at the democratic national convention. I am respectfully providing you with seven simple (probably shallow) reasons why I could never vote for you. I believe my opinion is shared by many people. While there may not be quite enough to prevent you from becoming president of this nation, I do think there is an awakening to the fact that you are not a (the) messiah that the media and liberal Hollywood entertainers are trying to portray you.

1.. I hear your mantra of change, change, change. Yet, you picked a long term, liberal, Washington insider (Joe Biden) to be your running mate. This is NOT change. It is a move that hypocritically refutes the very thing you supposedly stand for. Your campaign then slammed McCain for picking Sarah Palin, apparently, because she is NOT a Washington Insider. She is a maverick who cleaned-up Alaska's quagmire of political scandals. Which way is it, Barack? Is it okay for you to pick a Washington insider under the mantra of change, but not okay for John McCain to pick a smart, aggressive, reformer?

2.. You have the single most liberal voting record in the senate. This indicates to me and others like me that you may very well be an angry black man seeking to punish our country for sins of a different generation. I am not racist. I have some biases just like you and every other human alive. Unlike the Democratic Party who claims to be for the minority (but their record heavily refutes this), I will give any person who truly needs help, help. I married a minority girl 35 years ago (she is Hispanic) and have seen the evils of prejudice first hand. However, I have also seen my wife and my children and others in her family throw off the veil of self imposed prejudicial bondage and move ahead. They love our country and do not view themselves any different than I view myself as a citizen of this country.. Your lovely wife so disappointed people like me during this campaign when she stated it was the first time she had ever been proud of this country. She apparently never noticed the massive aid we give dozens of other countries. She apparently never noticed the sacrifice of literally millions of veterans who helped make this country a free nation and helped liberate other nations from brutal dictators such as Adolf Hitler. She apparently does not remember that she attended Ivy League universities with scholarship money that ultimately (at least some of it) was paid for by our taxes. This troubles me more than you know. She is an angry black woman who appears to not like her country very much. I don't want her representing me to the rest of the world.

3.. You claim Christianity but apparently do not realize that the Bible teaches that he who does not work, does not eat. The Bible does not say or even suggest that he, who CANNOT work, should not eat. Yet, your liberal policies reward people who are capable of working, but choose to not do so. This bothers me. I know that if you are elected our taxes will spiral upwards. You should heed the words of Winston Churchill: We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. If I like anything about you, it is your campaign promise to balance the federal budget. Unfortunately, we have heard this a huge number of times from a number of different politicians and we realize that when you energize the very liberal Nancy Pelosi, Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, etc, etc, and the many other Democrats like them, a balanced budget will never, ever happen on your watch.

4.. During your question and answer session with Rick Warren of Saddleback Church your answer concerning the question of where does life begin, stunned me: Above your pay grade? Does this mean when something bad happens as President of this nation that you are going to look at your salary to determine if you can respond? I am sorry, but this was the most serious gaffe I have seen you make. Frankly, it shows me that you are pandering in the most obvious manner. You will choose your words not from your heart, but from an agenda that I believe is still hidden from the American people.

5.. If anything stands out about you it is probably your appeasement mentality. In this era of rampant, radical Islamic extremism and with the latest stunt pulled by the re-energized Russian government, I am not sure appeasement is healthy. I again revert to the words of Winston Churchill: An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

6.. You and your party tacitly believe that a 13 or 14 year old girl must have the parents approval to have the school nurse provide them with a Tylenol when they have a headache at school. Yet, this same girl can become pregnant and the school can skirt her off to a clinic and abort the child in her body without the parents knowing or being notified. This scares the hell out of me. You have two little girls. Would you be upset if this happened to them and you were not informed? Then why do you stand for this? It makes no sense to me.

7.. My seventh and final point (for now) is your supporters. I have watched the Hollywood entertainers that support you, systematically embrace Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and others like him. I see the continuous smut and garbage produced by Hollywood, the very people who promote you the most vigorously. It is not a positive point to me and others like me to see these over-paid, bizarre, poor examples of human existence fawn over you and push you and your liberal agenda as hard as they do. The way that I see it; when the devil is for you, we should question whether or not we should be against you.

In closing, I just want you to know that you scare me. I cannot vote for you. It is not because of your skin color. It is because these items and many, many others like them. Do not claim that my dislike for you is race based. It is because I do not feel you have the best interests of this nation at heart.

Respectfully, Mark A. Gregg


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: Michigan; US: Nevada; US: New Mexico; US: Ohio; US: Pennsylvania; US: Virginia; US: Wisconsin; Your Opinion/Questions
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1 posted on 10/10/2008 1:34:07 PM PDT by Gopher Broke
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To: Gopher Broke

So now we have vanities about someone else’s vanity being posted?

:-}


2 posted on 10/10/2008 1:36:17 PM PDT by Bob J (For every 1000 hacking at the branches of evil, one strikes at it's root.)
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To: Gopher Broke

Dear Mr. Obama,

Beginning November 5th, we will use all of the factual information we have about you to remove you from the Senate.


3 posted on 10/10/2008 1:36:22 PM PDT by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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To: Gopher Broke

Why isn’t this in breaking news?

:-}


4 posted on 10/10/2008 1:36:52 PM PDT by Bob J (For every 1000 hacking at the branches of evil, one strikes at it's root.)
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To: Gopher Broke

Thank you Mr. Gregg.


5 posted on 10/10/2008 1:38:00 PM PDT by netmilsmom ( Obama And Osama both have friends who bombed the Pentagon)
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To: Gopher Broke

Great letter, I especially agree with the part about Obama’s hidden agenda.


6 posted on 10/10/2008 1:38:36 PM PDT by mrsmel
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To: Gopher Broke

Yeah that about sums it up!


7 posted on 10/10/2008 1:41:39 PM PDT by Netizen (If McCain really put 'Country First' he'd have been working on securing our borders.)
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To: word_warrior_bob

Amen brother!


8 posted on 10/10/2008 1:42:57 PM PDT by LadyPilgrim ((Lifted up was He to die; It is finished was His cry; Hallelujah what a Savior!!!!!! ))
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To: Gopher Broke

LOL Sarah Palin is the Change that Obama is preaching about. Maybe not too late for America to wake up and realize it.


9 posted on 10/10/2008 1:44:31 PM PDT by tomnbeverly (Night of the Obama Zombies (Premier 11/04/08. Coming to a neighborhood near you))
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To: Gopher Broke
Not a bad letter, but it has not been written for "that one", and you can't fool me!


I think I'll just not vote for the little zero because he's got big ears ... or because he's a Marxist, or because his skin is dark, or because he's from Chicago, or ...

I hope I don't change my mind before November.

10 posted on 10/10/2008 1:52:37 PM PDT by G.Mason (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: G.Mason

This site is ridiculous. I am amazed at the information the people on here are so sure about. You guys know everything. Even what Obama is thinking. I suppose it is just like McCain who said he knows how to get Bin Laden. It’s just a scecret to all. Haha.


11 posted on 10/10/2008 3:31:47 PM PDT by 4good
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To: Gopher Broke
Mr. Gregg makes the same sound arguments against Obama that many of us have made, both internally, in person and here on FR. Barack Obama is a cookie-cutter liberal with obvious socialist leanings, to put it mildly. He would be a disaster as U.S. president and probably make Jimmy Carter look good by comparison.

I foresee a real depression, not just media hyperbole that calls every dip in the stock market a 'recession', but an actual, global depression fueled by insane tax policies coming from a leftist Obama administration. Our military would be disrespected and starved of funds, forcing America to withdraw from contested areas and before long, we would be vulnerable and near-helpless under an Obama presidency. Using the federal bureaucracy, an Obama presidency would have us restricted in many areas of life, such as driving what we want, when we want to and where we want. This is just the beginning.

Obama's predictable promises of middle class tax cuts - Democrats love to talk about the 'middle class' all the time, as if they actually gave a rats patoot about these folks - are just 'proposals' that he can ignore once in office. Remember the 1992 election and Bill Clinton's oh-so-sincere promises of 'middle class tax cuts'? I do. He make some phony excuse about basically 'not having any choice' (please) and asked (and received) a huge tax increase that was retroactive!

Most conservatives know, without needing radio talk show hosts to tell us, that Barack Hussein Obama is a dedicated leftist that doesn't much like America and probably doesn't really consider it his country (citizen of the world and all that). Although many voters don't realize that, thanks to his media cocoon and McCain's ridiculously gentlemanly campaign, I believe that a majority of Americans sense Obama's distance from them on a visceral level and simply don't quite trust him, even if they couldn't coherently explain why they don't. It isn't racism, although when the Democrats nominated a candidate of color, race was predestined to be a factor in the campaign. Obama has used that to his advantage and if he loses, as I think he will, the Democrats will reflexively blame 'racism', which will just tick off the millions of white voters who rejected Obama out of a sense of distrust rather than his skin pigment.

Mark Gregg has it right on every count. I think he represents a majority of voters. I know some diehard Democrats, not leftists, that are voting for McCain. One, a soccer mom type, has a McCain-Palin sign on her front lawn, and her father-in-law was an elected Democrat (on a local level) for many years! She is afraid of Obama and his color is not the reason. She thinks he's phony and doesn't trust him. The fact that the Hollywood crowd adores Obama makes her suspicious, too. The Reverend Wright flap really turned her off. She is liberal and racially tolerant but was hurt by the idea that some black churches preach 'hate Whitey' garbage and that Obama must have agreed with Wright or he wouldn't have stayed in the church for 20 years. Like most Americans with a brain, she was insulted by Obama's absurd claim that he didn't know Wright was so racist.

I believe Obama will lose the election and the left will be stunned and shocked while crying racism for the next four years.

12 posted on 10/10/2008 3:35:44 PM PDT by Jim Scott (Never, never, never give up! - Winston Churchill)
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To: Gopher Broke

How about 31 reasons: http://offgridblogger.wordpress.com/.


13 posted on 10/10/2008 4:44:56 PM PDT by grumpa (VP)
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