A dad's advice to himself and his kids.

I am a libertarian.  I stand in opposed to many or most of Obama’s policies.  But, only marginally less than the rhetoric of McCain.   And much less than the reality of Bush.  Whodda thunk that Bush would initiate the Patriot Act, Department of Homeland Security

I don’t stand in contempt of the man, he has proven to be a good organizer.  I don’t like the idea that wealth is to be redistributed, and I am fearful of some of the people that he might get.  But I know that Bush and his NeoCronies are the Devil, National Socialists hungry for power at all costs, with a curious coopting of the Christians among us.   Marc Andersen gave me a rundown of Obama, and Marc thinks like me, albeit on a higher level and with about 40 extra IQ points.

I digress.  I’m voting Obama for a lot of reasons:

1. Obama can’t owe a lifetime of favors to people.   He’s not been around, and people don’t have their hooks into him.  I want less competent and less beholden administrators.
2. Through His Campaign, And Resume, O has proven he’s competent: Bush never proved this, Bush proved Rove was competent.  Bush didn’t do much, was wheeled out of texas and got to be president.   In the Al Gore Debate, he was way better than vs. John Kerry.  But he was never good.   He didn’t have the ability to synthesize information quickly enough.
   
3. He’s heroic and fearless. I believe he will be assassinated.  I believe he knows this.  I believe we will likely see Biden as president.   I’m not happy about this, though I believe it to be true.  I know he’s thought of it, and I don’t see him surviving.   He’s doing it anyway.
4. Might put racism to rest: Black folks have GOT to know that a black man really CAN be president.  The race baiting pieces of junk that are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson will have one less thing to point to, and one less way of victimizing their people.  (Note to new readers: Jesse and Al are the worst people on the planet, convincing a race of people that they can’t do it without them.)
5. It’s a vote against the Rovian Misuse of Christianity: The ‘bitterly clinging to guns and religion’ was a stupid thing to say.  No doubt.  And, Obama’s gun control preference sucks:  the reason we bear arms of all types is to have a defense against our government, period.  His anti gun stance is his worst policy.    But I digress.  The real reason is that the NeoCons misused the Christians.  Abortion?  Biggest issue?  No.  Strawman.   We kill more people with less overt means.  For the Catholics to say “vote life,” if that institution (you know, the one that covers up the widespread rape of children) has the audacity to try and take a moral stance, how much worse can they be.
6. The war Might End: We proved a point.  We can topple a dictator.  Let’s put our toys away and go home.  We can effectively saber rattle, ok?  Now, what we have to do is end this stupid war….and start spending that part of the budget on fixing stuff and not imperialism. (Oh, and Japan, Germany?  You are big and healthy, we’ll go ahead and leave now).
7. NCLB, Bailout, Prescription Drug Act, Patriot ACT, Check 21, Online Gambling, Cronyism. There has been no bigger gain of power by the government at the expense of the people in this administration.  FA HAYEK was right: economic freedom is freedom.  But there’s the other kind, too, you know, freedom freedom.  The GOP has proven worse than anything imagined out of a Gore/Kerry presidency from a libertarian perspective.  A big wet kiss to the banking industry (of which I’m a part) was not what I had in mind when I think of Libertarians.  It’s the worst possible outcome, and if the GOP doesn’t support us, then we’d be insane to patronize them anymore.   It’s not a close part, despite the fact that Dr. Paul caucuses with them.

McCain is not a better alternative.  Bush demonstrated through The PATRIOT act and the Bank Bailout that we can’t trust the Republican Party.   I was set to vote for the Baldwin or Barr, and stand up to be counted with the Libertarians.   And, I still think that might happen in the pole (I voted Libertarian in 2004, but came inches away from voting for Bush because Kerry was such a douchebag), but I’d srrongly prefer O to Mc.   The War is the biggest issue.  What does staying mean?  It means that we can’t get the chance we need and start healing our nation.   The troops were misused, and the noble grunts that fill the front lines should be working with their families right now, and home.

Now, because I’m voting O doesn’t mean that I intend to stand with him everywhere he goes.  It doesn’t mean I’m voting for Ayers and for his Pastor-that-won’t-be-named.   It means I’m voting against REAL socialism, that was brought to us by the Bush administration.

Any socialist moves O makes will be more fiercely opposed because of the mistrust of him that he’ll be experiencing.  He’s no different.  Change is good, kids.

Let’s try to:

1. Heal Racisim and show that this is the land of opportunity.
2. Restore Our Image of the Nation that Kicked the Nazis apart 60 short years ago.
3. Have competently admiistrated government instead of corrupt cronies.
4. Keep Hilary away from the government.