Dear Barack Obama
A friend sent me an email directing me to a letter to Barack Obama by The Stir Online Blog. [Excerpts below - Emphasis mine]
I couldn’t vote for you — but not because of your funny name or your lunatic pastor. I couldn’t vote for you because you say we should raise taxes (even on the rich, who I’m convinced already pay too much), and because you say we should abandon Iraq (which I’m convinced would be surrendering a war we must win), and because you don’t respect the Second Amendment (which I’m convinced should disqualify any politician from any office).
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First came your wife’s comment about being proud of America for the first time — conveniently, right after you started winning primaries. Then came your own words about your grandmother, who is just a “typical white person” — a racist, or at least someone with racist tendencies. (I’m a “typical white person,” I suppose, and I’m no racist. In fact, little makes me angrier than when it’s insinuated I am.)
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Last week we heard your comments about small-town America. Someone at a San Francisco fundraiser asked you why it’s so hard for Democrats to win in rural areas. You said:“You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them … So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them … ”
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Here’s a thought: Maybe gun rights voters know gun control laws kill people and steal freedom.
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And here’s my favorite thought of all: Maybe small-town folks are — really — capable of thinking. All on our own.
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We don’t vote for Democrats because we’re self-reliant so we don’t like the government trying to “solve” everything for us.
Please read the entire letter. Mr. Manly is correct in his assessment. Barack Obama is a Big Government Liberal who thinks he is smarter than the rest of us. If elected, he will trample on our freedoms faster than anything the Bush Administration has done. His policies can only be implemented at the expense of our liberties.
A friend sent me a copy of Will’s letter to Barack. All I can say to Will is “way to go.” There are a lot of us small town people that feel the same way and could not have said it better. Not all Californians are in agreement with the nuts running our state.
It’s not your money. You also didn’t earn most of it.
It seems like every time I discuss taxation, some libertarian will waltz in and say “it’s my money and I don’t see why the government should be able to take it.”
So let’s run through why, no, it isn’t your money.
http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/09/its-not-your-money/
If you want to laugh your head off go read the It’s not your money post mentioned in the comment above. People who believe that way is why we have big government advocates like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and the Clintons. They are so close to socialist doctrine it is ridiculous and will eventually destroy the greatness of this country if we continue to elect people like this to office.
What scares me the most is to have Pelosi and Obama both in power at the same time. Hide your wallets, its a return to taxation without representation. No one can promise the change the Obama is promising - though he is vague on most of it - without raising our taxes somehow. The Dems have been dying to get both the Presidency and Congress at once so they can start robbing the middle class to pay the poor.
in response to “it’s not your money” i do appologize for being born in america, however i was and i think that sarah palin is right, we can spend our money better than the government, it is good to help people in places like bangledesh (in fact the Mccains have), but what obama is suggesting has nothing to do with that, we can take our own money and send it to help whomever we wish in whichever country, we wish including this one. It’s a thing called Freedom.