The Senator Obama we see today is not the same Senator Obama we knew 18 months ago. The image of Barak Obama that Americans originally found appealing is the polar opposite of what we have seen over the last few weeks and months. He's petty and employs dirty politics. He tends to get mired in his problems rather than rise above them. What happened to hope? He looks increasingly frustrated, awkward, demeaning and incompetent.
It's tough to reconcile the image of someone who can work across the aisle and develop a constructive rapport with our enemies (which Mr. Obama tells us he can do,) with the image of someone trying to destroy the other party's veep with a lynch mob of garbage digging attorneys. He has a history of attacking the man rather than the issue, and this ad highlight that tendency. This ad invites reasonable skepticism and even cynicism about Mr. Obama’s many promises for a benevolent and prosperous future contingent upon our selecting him and only him to be the next President.
I was initially intrigued by Senator Obama, and quite hopeful about what he might bring to the table. After finding out that he was pro-abortion, however, he was no longer someone that I could support. Recently, I've seen a number of personality traits that make me believe Mr. Obama would be a very poor President, even if aboriton was taken off the table. I think this add reflects that.
Mr. Obama has a habit of trying to dismiss his problems rather than deal with them head on. His church community was initially “not particularly controversial,” Sarah Palin was initially the “former mayor of Wa-Silly,” Jill Staneck was just a disgruntled employee, and National Right to Life was lying. He has tried to ignore successes that American has enjoyed under the Bush administration, such as the surge.
When faced with difficult issues or confronted with his mistakes, he tends to toss verbal distractions and bluster. Perhaps that works in a small organization when playing power politics, but it isn't playing well over a lengthy election where people have the ability to scrutinize his verbal distractions. Mr. Obama has a habit of trying to dismiss his problems rather than deal with them head on, and part of his appeal is the promise that our problems, too, will all go away if he is elected President.
Ideally we should know why we are voting for John McCain and not simply why we are voting against Barack Obama. For me it's obvious, I understand abortion to be homicide, and after 3 decades of large scale aboriton, it's it's now clear that we can't discuss the issue and we are unable to compromise. The Pro-abortion people will never sit down to discuss abortion with us so long as they have unlimited abortion on demand. The solution to abortion as a social ill depends on a pro-life judiciary. The Supreme Court has been dominated by a liberal pro-abortion majority for decades. It is now one justice away from overturning the liberal majority. The next President will likely select two justices. McCain's will recognize an unborn child as a human being and fellow member of our species, Obama’s will act under the assumption that unborn children are material to be disposed of at will. We have never before been faced with a choice this clear. One guy has an adopted daughter and wants to abolish abortion, the other wants to broaden it's availablility and subsidize it.
But what about voters who will not make their decision based upon abortion? Well, it's hard to tell what Obama will actually do, and it's hard to determine how an Obama Presidency would impact our country and each of us individually. He says we will be much better off if he is elected, and he has previously conveyed a tremendous amount of confidence that this will be true, and the media assures us he is reliable. He appeals to our greatest virtues and most magnanimous impulses. He appeals to hope, trust, justice and compassion. Who's against those? Not you or I.
Ads like this give the lie to his assertions. Actions speak louder than words, and it's difficult to reconcile Senator's Obama’s message of hope with his digging through someone's personal life for ammunition to destroy them. He also has a back story of hanging out with a series of men who were charismatic social organizers but who are flawed by underlying traits of maleficence and arrogance that lead to poor decision making. The Reverend Wright, and William Ayers being two good examples. Those associations are more consistent with his garbage digging than with the “audacity of hope,” he has been selling, and bode very badly for us if he is elected to lead our country.
I don't know how this plays into the campaign end game strategy, but I do know that Mr. Obama's message of hope and transcendence cannot be reconciled with his history of dirty political tactics. It's hard to say you've left the Chicago machine tactics in the past when you're bloated team of attorney's is combing through someone's personal life looking for dirt.
Well said! Thank you.