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Originally Posted by PurrrsianPussyKat
You are entitled to your opinions, but maybe go research the facts before you make up your mind. When william ayers was setting off bombs, Obama was 8 yrs old. I highly doubt they were hitting the bar for a few beers together.
If you want to talk about palling around with domestic terrorists, how about the fact that mccain was endorsed by g gordon liddy, had a fund raiser in his living room, etc etc.. oh that's right. Mccain is the republican candidate so somehow he's exempt.
Sarah palin's husband was part of a separatist group in alaska. Founded by a guy who said the fires in hell don't burn strong enough to compare for his hate for america, and good ol' sarah told them she shared their views and that they were doing a great job. Can't call her on that because.. oh yeah.. republican again.
Lets go on a $150k shopping spree and then proclaim we are the party for the little guy.
The hypocrisy astounds me.
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Personally I disagree with Obama on almost every single one of his policy positions, so I would not vote for him under any circumstances. His radical associations and history are why I would prefer a regular poll driven politician like Hillary Clinton than a hardcore "community organizer" leftist like Obama. As to Obama's positions:
Obama supports large capital gain and payroll tax increases, large cuts in military budgets, more regulations on business, gun control, opposition to domestic oil drilling, cap and trade carbon reduction taxes, socialized healthcare, amnesty for illegal immigrants, huge increases in foreign aid, reliance on international law and UN resolutions over US law, and open negotiations with hostile regimes like Iran and Syria.
Just the single act of increasing the capital gains tax to 28% (from 15%), as he proposes, will have a huge negative impact on the markets and investors. Considering the generally negative market outlook, a significant tax increase on investors is not exactly the best way to pump liquidity into the system. He is on record as saying that the negative economic impact of the tax increase does not concern him as it is a matter of "fairness."
He has co-sponsored a bill (Global Poverty Act of 2007) which would require the US to spend 0.7 percent of its gross national product on foreign aid (above what we already spend) for 13 years. That is $845 billion which will be administered through the notoriously corrupt UN.
He is on record as saying he will "cut investments in unproven missile defense systems...... slow our development of future combat systems....." These are the same missile defense systems which have been successfully tested and are being implemented in Eastern Europe right now. Barney Frank is currently proposing a 25% reduction in the defense budget. Obama would sign that into law while McCain certainly would not.
His plan for a cap and trade carbon tax system would add significantly to the already high price of gas and would represent the largest tax increase in the history of the country. It would create a huge new layer of government bureaucracy that would have an expensive impact on almost every aspect of your daily life. (Most human activities have a carbon impact). Obama has been quoted as saying that if someone built a coal fired power plant that they would be "bankrupted" under his tax plan.
Anyway these positions and many others are why I oppose him in addition to his associations with people like Ayers and Wright. There are so many reasons to be opposed to Obama is hard to know where to begin. He is easily the most left-wing candidate to be nominated by the Democrats in my lifetime.