Why Barack Obama Scares Me
It’s not his more-liberal-than-most political outlook or the fact that his middle name (Hussein) is a common one all over Africa and the Midest that happens to be shared by a now-deceased dictator we Americans officially hated while he was alive. What really scares me about Obama is that he quit smoking!
We’ve already seen what it’s like to have an alcoholic in the White House who screws up all the time because he’s dying for a drink but doesn’t dare have one. We don’t need a president who might nuke Mexico over a bad burrito because he’s having a nicotine fit.
Even worse, note that Obama dodged the draft by — and don’t think for a second that this wasn’t planned — delaying his birth until the draft ended. Even Dick Cheney, the only American nationally-elected official in this century who’s actually shot a lawyer instead of just talking about it like the rest of us, was man enough to be born when we still had a draft, and had to grovel in front of his draft board multiple times to keep from being shipped out.
I don’t really expect Obama to win. He talks about a new kind of politics but hires the some old political consultants as the rest of the candidates, then boasts about how many millions of dollars he’s raised, as if getting people to cough up cash was the main measure of a potential president’s worth.
Maybe he should grow a beard — a tactic that helped at least one elected official from Illinois become president.
(This thought started out as a reply — by me — to a post on a blog about Political Whores Loafing Creatively. Now, suddenly, I’m thinking about doing a whole series of candidate profiles. Obama isn’t the only one who scares me. They all do!)
July 13th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
Amusing. There are plenty of other reasons why I don’t like Barrack… mostly his politics. I do like the idea of some young blood in the Whitehouse, but not if it means moving one step closer to socialism.
July 14th, 2007 at 12:31 am
July 13th, ‘07
Senator Barack Obama shouldn’t scare anyone! There’s nothing scary about this presidential candidate.
The candidate to fear is Hillary Clinton, for many reasons. First Hillary Clinton represents the status quo ante–which means the way things were previously–in other words Hillary wants things to be as they were before George Bush which was her husband’s presidency. She said herself, Hillary did, she’ll re-instate her husband’s policies if elected.
This means among other things Hillary Clinton essentially would give her husband a third term, as president, the same way she does everything else which is furtively and underhandedly. She’s very sneaky, Hillary is, and no less corrupt than any of her male counterparts.
Second Hillary Clinton FAILED to implement the health care reform changes in her husband’s administration when she was the head of these national health care initiatives in the 1990s. When she couldn’t handle the demands and pressures of this job she sneakily called on her husband to bail her out of that trouble.
And the third reason not to support Hillary, as my last point herein, is that Hillary Clinton does NOT advocate women’s rights. Womens’ continued struggles to gain equality–in may facets of life including family matters such as single motherhood, adoptive child inequities, natural mother disenfranchisement relative to adoption matters, credit inequity, comparable pay and the like–have not disappeared. They’re still with us. No one however including Hillary Clinton, even though she’d have us believe otherwise, addresses the nagging inequities suffered by women and more often than not their children. Hillary Clinton doesn’t care about these.
She herself never has had to endure such strife. Her life has been easy. Those women who do support Hillary Clinton do so because she’s promising them jobs, in her cabinet if elected, not because she champion’s women’s rights.
Thank you.
Kathy Caudle
Salt Lake City, UT
July 14th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Wow. I mean, I agree about Hillary. I’m glad bleeding heart liberals and us libertarians can agree on something. I’m still just as surprised as you are that so many women are in the “vote for Hillary just because she isn’t endowed with male genitalia” camp. No intelligent person is fooled by her.
As for Barrack… I can’t say he’s much better. I guess he isn’t corrupt, but he is a raging socialist, which disqualifies him in my book.
July 16th, 2007 at 2:30 am
Hillary scares me the most, but she does not scare me as much as Al Queda. Whoever wins the election based on how well they deal with the War on Terror. It is not a bumper sticker. It is a battle for civilization.
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July 17th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Gregory Morris: I am a little-l libertarian, and yes, Barack scares me. I think he is further to the left than Hillary (though not as far as Edwards appears to be … though frankly, I can’t trust a thing Edwards says: maybe he is really conservative!). But, I like Barack a lot more. He’s a nicer guy with a better grasp of what it takes to bring people together.
I won’t vote for him though. Or Hillary.
July 17th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Robin: yeah, all the candidates scare you, but the Republicans ACTUALLY scare you!
July 21st, 2007 at 3:25 am
But with Barack, you know where he stands even if you don’t agree with him. This was one attribute of Reagan that even his opponents respected - you know where you stood at all times.
With Hillary, her positions sway with the lobbyist winds and corporate sponsors. Not to mention all the political baggage from hubby. Yes, people “love him” but there’s still a lot of political baggage that will surface. There are some Whitewater cases that are still pending… Clintons want you to believe Whitewater was a result of vast right-wing conspiracy but if you look at the facts there was corruption in every corner. Whitewater makes Libby’s obstruction of justice charges seem trivial… but that’s not what the dems spin at you.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:33 am
I don’t have any problem with Barack being young andonly having two years in the Senate. John Kerry was in the same position when I tried to get him to run by starting a draft committee in 1986. Barack was editor of the Harvard Law Review, and intellectually, the presidency is several steps down from that. I want a young, idealistic President who can energize and inpire this country - that matters more to me than his credentials at this point. I don’t find him one bit scary.
August 3rd, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Yeah. All the presidential candidates are political machine chumps.
Voting is treason, when they’ll say whatever they need to say to Get Elected, then turn around and let the lobbyists lead them by the nose.
“None of the Above” for President! Government’s a myth, that we go along with.
January 6th, 2008 at 5:46 am
Obama scares me for one reason only.
We don’t really know a single thing he’ll do when he takes office. His website, and his campaign appearances, say the word “new” a lot,” as in “a new kind of politics. that’s nice, but…. What’s your policy on Iraq and how to get out of there? What’s your policy on aghanistan or iran? What to you plan to do for our shrinking middle class. How do you plan to restore faith in America around the world. how will you move us from a fossil-fuel based energy system to one that provides power from other sources?
And finally, if you’re a new kind of politician, why are you engaged in the old tactics of negative campaigning?
January 23rd, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Your article is a few months old… does Obama still scare you? It’s going to be interesting with the big primaries coming up!
May 16th, 2008 at 3:07 am
I don’t really expect Obama to win. He talks about a new kind of politics but hires the some old political consultants as the rest of the candidates, then boasts about how many millions of dollars he’s raised, as if getting people to cough up cash was the main measure of a potential president’s worth.
June 21st, 2008 at 1:41 pm
People are often scared by the unfamiliar even when there is nothing to be scared about. The best way of knowing someone is by their actions. However, sometimes this is not possible. The next best thing is to listen to their views, see them, determine their convictions and arrive at an opinion. When it comes to opinions, check out whether they change with time for expediency i.e. to gain favor regardless of their inner convictions. If they are consistent at the risk of being unpopular, they can be trusted. You can check out videos on what Barack Obama is saying at
http://barack-obama-news.info/videos to have a better opinion.
November 13th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Time will tell, just let him work and let us see the outcome :).