Barack Hussein Obama II, for President of USA
I did not intend to cast a vote in this election, not two years ago, not a year ago, not 4 months ago.
I am a registered Libertarian, and generally I will vote Libertarian. But since Libertarians make up only a few percentage points of registered voters, then Libertarians are unlikely to make an impact on this election.
I am casting my vote for Obama. Not because I like Obama, but because he is the lessor of two evils.
I do not like some of the radicalism in Obama’s past.
I deeply admire McCain and his lifelong dedication to the ideals of America. McCain has the “Right Stuff”. That is, he had the right stuff until he appointed Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential running mate. I admire Sarah Palin for several reasons, but for other reasons I strongly dissent to her being a potential president of the United States. Quite simply, she is not qualified.
McCain is not going to survive eight years as president. I don’t care that his mother is still alive and close to 100 years old. She has never been diagnosed with cancer and he has been more than once. When I see McCain on the TV he looks like he’s already been made-up for his casket.
McCain is a war hero. He is probably the most outspoken Republican against the politicians of George W. Bush. He’s served exemplary well as a U.S. Senator. But his pick of Palin as his running mate shows that he is not the “right stuff”. Had he picked Condoleezza Rice as his VP, then I would have voted for McCain. Condoleezza Rice is not only an African-American, she’s also a she, a woman. The one problem with her is that she is single. You put her in as President after McCain’s sure demise, and what do you expect from here? Celibacy for 8 years?
This woman has an IQ of close to 200. Sure, she’s been tarnished by working under the Bush Administration, but who hasn’t been? She’s black, she’s female, she has presidential credentials. If McCain had picked her as VP I would have voted for McCain.
Palin believes that dinosaurs and men (humans) walked the Earth at the same time. Homo Sapiens have been around for about 100,000 years. Dinosaurs have been extinct for about 65 million years.
Let me put it another way. Do we want a president, who has the nuclear launch codes, to be a fundamentalist, a creationist? Someone who is ignorant of real science and believes the Earth is no more than 6000 years old to be President of the USA?
So, she’s a fundamentalist Christian, a creationist. Does this disqualify her from the VP position? Yes, it does. Being stupid and by choice ignorant disqualifies a person, in my mind, from being President of the USA. If a person really believes that God created the World in 6 days, less than 6000 years ago, then that person should not be President. 150 years ago that might have been okay, but not today.
Barack Obama is a 32nd degree Mason. While I am not a mason, I know many masons myself, and I know that many of the founding fathers of the USA were Masons, and that there is a code of ethics that is instilled in Masons that is endemic to those involved in it. Presidents George Washington, William Taft, James Buchanon, James Polkr, Warren Harding, William McKinley, James Monroe, James Garfield, Gerald Ford, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, Harry Truman, Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt, Admiral Byrd, Ben Franklin, Patrick Henry “Give me liberty or give me death”, Jim Bowie (Alamo), Kit Carson, William Clark, Mark Twain, Ty Cobb, Buffalo Bill Cody, General Dolittle , Henry Ford, Senator Barry Goldwater, Astronauts Virgil Grissom, John Glenn, and Buzz Aldrin, and many other Americans of impeccable character were masons.
Supposedly William Shakespeare was a mason. Filipino national hero and Jose Rizal was a mason.
I cannot vote for McCain because I do not believe he will survive for 8 years, and the thought of Sarah Palin being in charge just revolting.
If you had told me 20 years ago that I would vote for a black man who is a Democrat for president I would have laughed in your face. I think General Colin Powell was right. It is time for a generational change, and Obama represents that change.
October 26th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Just goes to show you that what you think you know now might be just as absurd 20 years from now as what you thought you knew 20 years ago. That’s the problem with the human mind, it’s unreliable as a truth detector since it can only GIGO.
October 28th, 2008 at 4:37 am
I had never heard Obama was a Freemason… so I went and looked. Turns out to be false. The only place I could find mention of the Obama/Mason thing was on far right conspiracy web sites, apparently trying to paint him as some illuminati satanist or something.
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If Obama were really a high level in the Masonic order, it certainly would be notable enough to rank up there with his community outreach work, and editing of the Harvard Law Review (not to mention his crazy church and social connections)… instead of being a totally new tidbit of information to me. (And I’m following this election closely, so that’s saying something.)
October 28th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Apparently, you are right, Jungle Jil. Now why couldn’t I find your Yahoo Answer,Reference 1
, before posting that? I did not post that without searching for information first, but it looks like I did not search long enough. The oldest reference to this I can find is: http://www.sarajevo-x.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36907
I honestly admire McCain. He’s been rode hard and put up wet, and he just keeps going and going like the Energizer bunny. I agree with his positions more than I do with Obama’s. However, Sarah Palin is a poor choice for Vice President, the poorest of choices. Vote for McCain and you vote for Sarah to be the president. I just couldn’t do it.
Condoleezza Rice would have been the ideal VP for either party. The problem is she is not a politician. Other than that, her credentials are better than anyone else in the field. She says she will never seek an elected position. I would say that right there makes her a professional at politics and the most qualified to do the job. Actually, come to think of it…her refusal to accept an elected position, like VP of the USA is a violation of her her civic duty. How can I say that? She’s been flying all over the World on behalf of the USA since 1986. I suppose one could easily say she has served her country already.
November 1st, 2008 at 8:57 am
Obama is also a 32nd degree Prince Hall Freemason loyal to the Craft and devoted to his principles (http://www.rense.com/general80/obmw.htm)
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:53 am
That site has a mile-long disclaimer stating they cannot attest to the veracity of anything on it and wouldn’t correct inaccurate information even if they knew it existed. http://www.rense.com/disclaimer.htm
If Obama was a Mason, it would be much bigger news than it is. It was common knowledge that Gerald Ford was a Mason when he was nominated for VP under Nixon.
That’s not the case here, so don’t believe it.
November 5th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
I’ve heard that the incoming grand master of the Philippines (mason) congratulate President elect Barak Obama. Does this means that he is really a mason?
November 6th, 2008 at 5:11 am
Obama is probably not a US citizen. He refuses to show his birth certificate. Seems rather simple.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:10 am
If the incoming Grand Master congratulated Obama, then the incoming Grand Master is very likely a Mason, otherwise, he wouldn’t be incoming Grand Master.
If I kiss a lesbian does that make me a lesbian? If the Pope congratulates Obama, does that make him a Catholic?
As for Obama’s birth certificate, an image can be found here, http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn227/Polarik/BO_Birth_Certificate.jpg, and relevant discussion can be found here, http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp. The official stamps on the birth certificate on on the back, that’s why they do not show on the front.
Finally, I’m pretty sure that Bush, as commander-in-chief very likely ordered an investigation into Obama’s background a long time ago. I do not believe it would be easy for someone to become the President of the United States by faking a birth certificate.
Indeed, the unbelievable has happened and Obama is now the incoming President of the United
States. Obviously, America was ready for a change, and I would say that while change is coming, I do not believe that Obama has anything but America’s best interests at heart, and he will shock many Republicans by promptly demonstrating direct command of the U.S. Military. He is no more of a sissy than John F. Kennedy was a sissy. I was only 2 years old when Kennedy faced down Russia and the World stood on the brink of mutual assured destruction.
Congratulations, Barack!
November 8th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Obama said about increasing tax to rich people. What could this possibly mean?
November 8th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
I never heard he intended on focusing on taxing the rich. Taxes are the means by which a government supports itself. Most taxes are paid by corporations. Republicans generally stick to a “supply side” tax theory and Democrats to a “consumer side” tax theory. The former means that you cut taxes to those that produce the goods, thereby increasing production and goods and jobs, by making them less expensive. Consumer side theory means you tax the consumers less so that they have more money to buy the goods that are produced by the more heavily taxed manufacturers. While I tend to favor Republican theory fiscally and militarily, I tend to favor Democrats on social issues. That’s why I am a registered Libertarian, which is at times a confusing thing to be because of the wide and sometimes conflicting ideals of professed libertarians.
While you did not express the question, I expect that Obama, once sworn into office will take the first opportunity that he has to flex his military muscle despite that fact that he has run his platform on the diplomacy first ideal. He’s going to blow some people up and then say, yeah, I favor diplomacy, but remember I have the biggest gun, and if diplomacy does not work, watch out. Obama says and is going to continue to say that he is different than what came before him, but the difference is mainly “spin”.