[quote]forlife wrote:
I seriously don’t understand why some people are so vitriolic towards Obama. Yes, I agree he doesn’t have as much experience as would be ideal. But I still think he has the leadership ability and vision to take our country in a positive direction.
Anyway, here’s my question. If you were to choose ONE single reason that you believe Obama will destroy our country, what would that reason be? What is the one biggest beef you have with him?[/quote]
First thing I take issue with your assertion that those of us who have not bought into the Obama cult of personality are motivated by hatred. It is insulting and it is denigrating.
It seems to me that you are very closed minded and bigoted since you have to denigrate our considered opinions as hatred rather than understand that we have a difference of opinion that is the result of a different point of view.
I have several issues with Obama, several of which cause me to consider him very dangerous.
Obama is a serious threat to freedom and democracy. If you look around the world at our various friends, allies and here at home there is a very alarming trend of societies moving towards police states.
Where modern technology gives governments powers of monitoring the people that are way beyond the wildest dreams of this countries founding fathers. As technology advances it is going to get worse.
Faced with an ever increasing police state the right to keep and bear arms becomes ever more important. Take away that right first and all the other rights can easily evaporate. This is what happened in Britain. If you didn’t like the patriot act consider where we would be if it had included a firearms ban.
Obama’s sudden change of heart on the matter wreaks of insincerity motivated purely by political considerations. Or in other words he is telling us what we want to hear figuring we will be dumb enough to trust him and elect him.
Then when he no longer has to play political game of supporting this important right he will be free to have another radical change of belief.
So the problem is a matter of trust, I don’t trust his flip flops.
Here’s another example of his flip flopping. All his adult life he has advocated for worldwide nuclear disarmament. It’s in his election manifesto and his college thesis was on Russian nuclear disarmament.
But when he wanted to sound tough during the Democratic debate he said he would use nuclear weapons in Afghanistan and in the Pashtun tribal areas of Pakistan. Now what are we to believe, that he wants to do away with all nukes or he is willing to be the first president since Truman to use them?
Besides the whole concept of worldwide nuclear disarmament is childish and naive. It is a radical ideology that has no basis in common sense.
I do not trust his changing his stance from being opposed to various types of weaponry to all of a sudden finding that they have a legitimate purpose. Especially when he has espoused a certain point of view all his life then in a matter of months he has completely reversed himself.
He has changed his point of view so quickly that I have no doubt that once he is President he would have another epiphany that would revert him back to his original set of beliefs.
Obama is just another dishonest politician who happens to be much smoother at lying than most. But once we get him off of the teleprompter his bullshit becomes obvious.
Then there is his foreign policy beliefs. Obama will be risk averse and unwilling to use American power unless it will cost him politically not to do something and then it will only be a half hearted display of force.
ie Bill Clinton using a couple of cruise missiles to blow up sand dunes as a response to AlQaeda blowing up our embassies and causing hundreds of casualties.
When it comes to killing someone who needs killing Obama will find an excuse not to do it, just like Clinton.
Then there are his economic policies like redistribution of wealth. I have seen what decades of this has done to ruin Britain. In fact much of what Obama wants to do has been tried in Britain with disastrous results. If you want to see how things will go wrong read the British newspapers.
I have much more but I don’t want to turn this into a rant.