I'm basically stealing from something someone posted somewhere else and from my Dad. Like Keith Olbermann, they said it better than I could articulate it.
Daddy:
I have received a certain level of flack from family, friends and acquaintances about the fact that I am a strong supporter of the democrat presidential team for 2008. I do not feel that I am required to justify my choice to anyone nor do I feel that others need justify their position to me.
Having lived in America for the past 8 years in particular has led me to the following rationale for not wanting to continue with the Bushite Republicans in power. This has been an administration that will (has) lied with impunity to the American People, the World, to its own party and to itself. Even when exposed they assume the “That’s our story and we’re stickin to it” position. In fact it seems to lie to all even when the truth would have little impact on anything. It falsified documentation it used to attempt to justify the war in Iraq. Even when the manipulation of information was exposed, they stood by their bogus information, punishing those who proved the truth (e.g. Wilson-Plame) and I won’t even bring up George the lesser pardoning Scooter.
This has been an administration that has “used up” thousands of brave military lives on a “Phony” war that really had/has nothing to do with our national security. Do you feel safer now that Saddam is dead? I thought not. Mr. Mc Cain is willing to stay in Iraq for 100 years. This has been an administration that has trampled on the Constitution and the Bill of rights willfully. It has made a mockery of the Geneva convention in it’s handling of the 911 “war criminals”. In doing so it has endangered generations of military and other people who are in harms way.
The current administration has truly become “Big Brother”. This has been an administration that has “politicized” areas of government which should not be politicized. Case in Point, the Federal Prosecutors who were fired for not aggressively prosecuting democrats. I suspect in my own agency that top executives have been insidiously replaced for the same reasons. And then there’s Mr. Gonzales who really was not a skillful enough liar to be part of this administration. There is so much more, I could go on for pages, but I think that this is sufficient.
The other list:
I will vote for Obama because:
he makes me proud to be an American again.
he is young, intelligent, enlightened and progressive.
he opposed the Iraq War from day one.
I believe he will protect and defend the constitution. I also know as a former Constitutional law professor he will also understand it, which will be a nice change.
he had the brains to graduate Harvard Law School, and instead of making millions in private practice he had the compassion and selflessness to then put his education to good use by trying to help those less fortunate then himself.
I support his stand on universal health care. This is a moral obligation, not only a financial one. We are only as good as how we protect those in our society that cannot protect themselves.
he believes in equal rights for equal pay, and because he believes in equality for all races, creeds and sexual orientation.
I find him inspirational.
I love the fact that he is still married to his first wife, and she is a strong, independent, accomplished woman.
he believes in the Genenva Conventions.
he believes in global warming, and our real need to find alternative fuel sources. Not quick fixes like drilling for show.
I am tired of the economy being in the toilet. I am tired of not being able to travel anywhere because our dollar is worth nothing. I am tired of having a president invade sovereign nations based on lies. I am tired of high oil prices. I am tired of spending 10 billion dollars of our tax dollars in Iraq. Every month. I am tired of having 8 months of national job losses. I am tired of seeing people lose their houses because they cannot afford to pay their mortgages.
I am not voting for the Republicans because:
I think they are a party of old white men, and old ideas.
they preach one thing and do another.
they have allowed the honorable party of Roosevelt and Eisenhower to be hijacked by social extremists and Christian extremists. No religion or its followers beliefs should be favored more than another. I cannot vote for a party that no longer effectively believes in the separation of church and state.
they have taken away my civil rights and justified it by calling it a war on terror.
I am not voting for McCain because
he himself was tortured, but is standing by while our government practices "enhanced interrogation techniques".
I don't want another Katrina. I don't want to watch McCain and Bush eat cake and celebrate his birthday while people were drowning and dying. I don't want to watch my President praise his woefully under qualified good ol' boy cronies and say things like "Heck of a job, Brownie," while on television I see the bodies of men, woman and children floating dead in streets like garbage.
I am not voting for the GOP because I resent them telling me that if I don't subscribe to their ideology I am not a patriot, and that therefore I don't love my country as much as they do.
I am not voting for the GOP because I am sick to death of them sneering about the liberal elite, when the truth is the complete opposite.
I am not voting for John McCain because he and his wife are not even sure about how many homes they own, but they tell voters with a straight face that a black man, raised by a single white mother is an elite snob who has no idea of the difficulties working people face.
And I am not voting for McCain because he thinks one woman is as good as any other.
**edited to break up the blocks**
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