redwingfarm said:
My wife and I are supporting Obama for the following reasons:
1. He hasn't been in Washington long enough to be dirtied up by the lobbyists and the special interests that try to buy their way--in other words he doesn't OWE as many people as much as McCain does.
2. He has banned lobbyists from his campain unlike McCain who still hasn't gotten rid of Phil Gramm who was lobbying for a foreign bank for favorable bankruptcy laws for the bank which has partly spurred on the mortgage meltdown we have now. With friends like that "advising on banking and financial policies we don't need enemies"
3. Most of all Obama seems to be a positive choice, he is willing to make changes in our national structure and is unafraid to tell the truth that to fix our problems ITS GOING TO HURT. McCain just wants keep going down the path that George "NERO" Bush has led us down. We can't go on believing that nothing is wrong while our country is going down in flames. Just a note I'm a registered Republican amd am embarrassed to say, like many I voted for Bush twice. I don't agree with some of Obama's social programs but the definition of insanity is to continue to do the same things over and over and expect the results to be different.
1.Obama owes plenty of people and you can bet he knows how the system works. He is a product of the infamous Chicago political machine. There is a reason he has moved up political food chain as fast as he has.
2.Obama banning lobbyists is to give the public the perception that he is not tainted by the special interest. He may have banned lobbyists, but he embraced Jeremiah Wright and Black Liberation Theology, arguably a pretty "dangerous" special interest if you ask me.
3.Obama does want to change things, but change does not mean for the better. Obama wants to expand government spend more money to try and solve the problems. When the government tries to solves domestic problems all they do is create more and bigger problems.
I agree and that we can't keep doing the same things and expect a different result. I think Obama's policies would be a 180 from where we need to go as a country. We need less regulation, lower taxes across the board, and more personal freedom. People need to be expected to make it on their own like the preceding generations were. When someone knows the government will take care of them they lose the incentive to take care of themself. Social programs perpetuate the problems they are suppose to solve.
It is comparable to a kid in his early 20's that is unemployed and lives in his parents basement playing video games all day because mom and dad won't kick him out on his own and make him take care of himself.
The power needs to be given back to the people and let the people of this country decide it's destiny....