Posted by
Don't Tread on Me on Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:18:39 PM
"People don't vote on economic issues because
they don't expect anybody is going to help them,". This is Barack Obama's logic behind the so called "social politics," that he cannot seem to overcome, or understand, yet consistently faces. Aside from his other questionable comments made this week (which I will get to), I would like to personally refute Mr. O and say, with no no concern, that this is fundemently untrue. Did FDR get elected because people took, "refuge" in their the fact that he would take care of guns and moral concern? Not even close! Did Ronald Reagan win all but wacky Minnesota because they were afraid of Mexicans? Of course not! These and other elections were ran on platforms in which economic issues and the ability for the Government to change them were entirely significant. If, as Mr. O states, people do not vote on economic issues, why on earth is the economy the number one issue on the minds of voters, the most talked about topic in the news and from campaigns, and the issue that most analysts are saying is the issue all three candidates have to provide an answer to. Let's say, untruly, that this is the belief of the American people than Monsieur. O. Is your answer to this dilemma to give more responsibility, tax revenue, and control of medicine to the government that no one believes in? It's not just that we don't trust you to change things Herr O, it's that we DO trust you to make things much WORSE by getting your hands into those economic aspects of our lives instead of over your heart during the National Anthem . In this way, Senor O, I trust you wholeheartedly. If you promise to stay out of my economic affairs and let the beauty of capitalism and deregulation do its job, than I and others will certainly trust you.
Also, Sir, it is not Washington's hopelessness for helping that has made me bitter but the fact that, proven by your own words, you just don't seem to get it. I am bitter because you don't understand my values that you have recently called nothing more than my refuge. My faith is not simply appealing to me because it is stable and unchanging. My faith plays a great deal into the morals and values that i have. My faith dictates a great number of things that I feel are important, things that I and others wish you could see. I believe my faith is good and just and for this it is of great concern to me, not because it is unchanging. My faith and comfort in its stability comes out of the idea that I believe certain things are right and wrong and those do NOT change very often at all. I am not fed up with the lack of change in Washington, I am fed up and bitter over the fact that you and so many of your counterparts just don't seem to get it.
If I vote on things like gun control and abortion because they are fundamental liberties that I find just as important as anything else you seem to ignore. If, despite the fact that you are a so called Christian, you saw abortion as murder, would you not vote against it as something important? If a movement in congress came about to legalize murder, would you even consider to vote in favor? Is that taking refuge in stability or is it caring about something you feel is important? Don't tell me you're in touch with me sir, you quite simply are not. My view from the small basement window of my suburban home in New Jersey is incomparable to that of your beautiful top floor Chicago penthouse. Say what you will about your promises of a better land, I can deal and debate with that. Don't ever say, though, that you get it, that you are in touch with me and my values. You are many things to me sir, this is in no way one of those things.