Top 5 List

Ok, so anybody that reads this blog with any regularity (all two of you) should know my stance on the upcoming election. I don't see this as an election choice that I would prefer in my ideal world, even though I am ardently supporting John McCain in his bid for the White House. McCain's campaign rhetoric has left a lot to be desired by us in the conservative end of the Republican Party, but our choice is critical to the direction of this nation. I. like many of you, will be watching the debate tonight, and in honor of the occasion, I am laying out my top five reasons to oppose Barack Obama for Prez. And guess what, none of them have to do with race. Unbelievable isn't it, that I oppose him and don't care that he is black??? Its apparently an impossible feat, but I assure you I have accomplished it. And it is that argument that Obama supporters keep making that made me want to create this list: To legitimize my opposition and fear of his presidency, based on facts and logic, not emotion and hate.

5. Obama has done nothing to bring the coutry together and unite our divided parties. In his illustrious 143-day US Senate career, Barack Obama's voting record shows that he voted along party lines 97% of the time. And he accuses John McCain of being 90% with GW. Side note: GW doesn't vote in the Senate, but I digress. "Change we can believe in"??? That's not change, that is Washington as usual. Nothing about Obama seems any different that any other leftist idealogue serving (I using the term 'serving' very loosely here).

4. Foreign policy experience and knowledge. Obama requested from our Iraqi government to hold out on any troop withdrawal plans until after the election, presumably to get the credit for doing so. Despicable if you ask me. And he accuses our troops of atrocities and killing civilians, then says he would make a strong commander in chief? He scares the crap out of me in charge of the most important piece of our federal budget: the military.

3. Higher taxes on the rich does not stimulate the economy. Studies conducted over the past ten years have shown conclusively that our economy is best stimulated through business growth, not government growth. High-income earners create jobs, and job creation keeps things moving forward. The government does not create jobs, unless you count the thousands of desk jockeys that collect a federal paycheck to do nothing that effectively promotes economic growth.

2. Universal health care is not the answer. Our health care system is amiss, to be sure. But making all things health care under the care of our lovely federal government will lead to a catastrophic change in our system. I don't know about you, but I don't want to wait 5 months on an x-ray for a broken bone, or have to take certain medicine b/c that is what Congress says I have to take. Critical difference b/w the two candidates: McCain says health care is a responsibility of the citizen, Obama says it is a right. If it is a right, then the government has to back it and enforce it. Obama can say what he wants about choice of coverage, etc., but bottom line is that the gov't will enforce it and do with it as they see fit.

1. America is great because of its government, not its people. Or at least that is what Obama would have you think (Refer to earlier post about Obama's visit to Letterman). The US is great in spite of its government at this point. Our federal government needs to relinquish power back to the states and to the people, and only step in when absolutely necessary. Free market activity promotes competition, whether that be a furniture store choice or school choice with a voucher system. Survival of the fittest makes us all work harder and smarter, and that is exactly what this country needs right now.

If you want less choice in how to run your life, if you want to give more liberties away to our federal government, if you want more redistribution of your wealth given away to those who haven't earned it, if you want to lose any choice in which doctors you see, if you want our foreign enemies to be renewed in their sense of victory over us, if you want weakened sovereignty, then by all means, vote for Obama.