Forty years ago four of America’s greatest leaders in our time were shot dead one by one: John Kennedy (1963), Malcolm X (1965), Martin Luther King, Jr (1968 ) and Robert Kennedy (1968).
Barack Obama is the first man to come along in those 40 years since then who is anything like these men. I would be a fool not to vote for him. We might not see anyone like him again for another 40 years. It is a once in a lifetime thing.
Only Obama would have kept us out of the war in Iraq. Apart from McCain all the other top candidates have shown bad judgement about Iraq – despite their greater age and experience.
Only Obama can restore our good name in the world. People overseas love to hate America, but they love to love it too. With Obama as president they can love it again and pour out their goodwill.
Only Obama understands both black and white America. That is not a once in a lifetime thing but maybe a once in history thing. His mother was white, his father was black. Whether people like to talk about it or not, race is the deepest, darkest division in this country.
Only Obama gave up a rich, comfortable life to help the poor. None of the other present candidates did. With his Harvard Law degree he could have worked for some big company and made a nice living. Instead he gave that up and went to one of the poorest parts of Chicago to help the people there. This is the sort of thing we should expect in our leaders.
Only Obama will crush the Republicans in November. He is Al Gore with black skin. Black people who have never voted in their lives will come out to vote for him. So he will carry the South in addition to the states that Al Gore won in 2000.
If Hillary Clinton runs instead, then Republicans will come out in their millions to vote against her. Many of them hate her.
Yes, some white people will vote against Obama because he is black, however they may dress it up. But most of these people would have voted Republican anyway.
Obama’s policies and positions are nothing new or surprising. He pretty much toes the Democratic party line – stuff that most Americans would agree with, like raising the minimum wage and providing universal health care, which we badly need.
The part I have the most trouble with is his strong defence of abortion and his loose view of the constitution. He will choose judges for the Supreme Court that do not read the constitution strictly. Those judges will long outlast him.
For me this is his main drawback.
But I am willing to live with it. I know I would if, say, Robert Kennedy were alive and he took the same positions. So in all fairness I must view Obama the same way.
May God go with him.
– Abagond, 2008.
See also:
- Why I am voting for Obama – for 2012
- barackobama.com
- Barack Obama
- Why a Barack Obama presidency may be more bad than good for black people
- 2008 election
- endorsements:
- other supporters:
- Robert Kennedy
- Hillary Clinton
- Democrat
- Republican
- God
I don’t see how a republican could vote for him. I am an independent and pro-choice at that yet I’m not entirely comfortable with his level of liberalism.
The Kennedy-like appeal. Kennedy improved morale for certain people in the country. If he had lived to serve out his term, the blind love for him and his family would probably not exist. Anyone who looks objectively at his 2 years in office will see mostly failures and bad decisions. I like the way he handled some of his mistakes. This and his speeches to me are his redeeming features. At the very least, I can say that Kennedy had about 12 or 13 years of experience in the U.S. Congress before becoming president.
Obama’s statement about meeting with the leaders of “enemy states” terrifies me. With this major rookie mistake, I question his ability to properly handle the Iraq war. My brother is a soldier and he’s served there twice. I want the war to end but if we pull out all our forces in 16 months, will it come back to haunt us in a few years? I’m not sure if the ill-advised current president would have gotten into this mess if he had studied Mid-East history and fully understood the the impact of such a decision.
I actually hadn’t considered the Supreme Court justices that the next president will likely replace (2 in the next 4 years is my guess).
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There are different kinds of Republicans. You see that in how Rush Limbaugh hates John McCain even though both are Republicans.
I am more of a Huckabee sort of Republican: the Democrats have gone off the rails morally on some things but sometimes there is a time and place for bigger government.
I was a liberal Democrat myself in my younger days, so Obama does not frighten me as much as it might other Republicans.
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If it comes down to McCain and Obama you can be sure that the Republicans will remind us daily about Obama’s inexperience in foreign affairs. If not too many people are thrown out of work between now and then, it could become the main issue of the election.
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McCain is babied on foreign affairs because he was a POW. I don’t really see that changing this time around.
Obama is inexperienced in foreign affairs. McCain has experience that I don’t particularly care for. Do we want a blank slate when there isn’t really time to learn the ropes or someone who knows the ropes but is far too set in his ways and too committed to a certain path to bring about much needed change? It seems like more irreparable damage for the coming years either way. I’m not thrilled with these options.
As for being far left or far right, I don’t care for either.
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I saw Colin Powell on CNN earlier today. Powell says that McCain knows what he is talking about when it comes to military matters. He said that Obama’s threat to pull out of Iraq in 16 months will not work. Hillary’s plan for Iraq he seemed to regard as pie in the sky.
Wolf Blitzer asked Powell which candidate he was for. Powell’s answer was interesting: he said he was undecided but all his language – he kept using the word “vision”, for example – sounded like he was was heavily leaning towards Obama. It seemed like his heart was for Obama but his head was for McCain.
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Also time to update this. 😛
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Reblogged this on Mbeti's Blog.
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