Those who think election is about race are probably Democrats
Andrew Greeley thinks this falls election is going to be about race. I don't read him that often, but my speculation is that he supports Obama. He writes for the Chicago Sun-Times. I think the column is a reflection of the arrogance of the Obama backers anyway. It seems to imply that the only real reason that anyone opposes Obama is because of his race.
If you are a regular reader of this blog you know that has never been mentioned as a cause for voting against him, because I don't think it is or should be. Besides there are too many valid reasons for opposing him.
Let start by pointing out he was dead wrong about the war last year and still is not paying attention to the progress made and what a disaster he would have created if his policies had been followed. The man is willfully blind to the facts on the ground and has no comprehension of counterinsurgency warfare. Unfortunately, that is a foreign concept to most of the people in his party and is another reason to never vote for a Democrat.
Obama is wrong on taxes. He thinks the rich are not paying enough even though their share of the income tax burden actually went up under the Bush tax cuts. He will probably never say what percent of taxes should be paid by the top five or ten percent, and if he had to guess, I am betting he would be off by a large factor. He wants to raise the capital gains tax even though it will reduce revenue to the government to do so. That is not very smart, and it is unfair to those who will have to make up the difference because of his warped sense of fairness.
Obama is wrong on energy. He is in with the Democrats who continue to strangle almost all sources of energy production. They refuse to permit expansion of domestic production of oil and gas. They oppose nuclear energy. They oppose the use of coal. They even oppose the use of wind energy if its where they can see it. They want higher prices so we will have to drill for conservation, ignoring the fact that the rest of the world is going to continue to grow their use of energy.
Obama is a Democrat so he will push for ever greater dependency on the government.
He is a guy who thinks he can talk our enemies out of their religious bigotry, but will not talk to the commander of US forces in Iraq about what is really going on. He has made his mind up to lose this war and is determine to do things to make that happen.
Greely if you find anything racist in these remarks you are making it up.
If you are a regular reader of this blog you know that has never been mentioned as a cause for voting against him, because I don't think it is or should be. Besides there are too many valid reasons for opposing him.
Let start by pointing out he was dead wrong about the war last year and still is not paying attention to the progress made and what a disaster he would have created if his policies had been followed. The man is willfully blind to the facts on the ground and has no comprehension of counterinsurgency warfare. Unfortunately, that is a foreign concept to most of the people in his party and is another reason to never vote for a Democrat.
Obama is wrong on taxes. He thinks the rich are not paying enough even though their share of the income tax burden actually went up under the Bush tax cuts. He will probably never say what percent of taxes should be paid by the top five or ten percent, and if he had to guess, I am betting he would be off by a large factor. He wants to raise the capital gains tax even though it will reduce revenue to the government to do so. That is not very smart, and it is unfair to those who will have to make up the difference because of his warped sense of fairness.
Obama is wrong on energy. He is in with the Democrats who continue to strangle almost all sources of energy production. They refuse to permit expansion of domestic production of oil and gas. They oppose nuclear energy. They oppose the use of coal. They even oppose the use of wind energy if its where they can see it. They want higher prices so we will have to drill for conservation, ignoring the fact that the rest of the world is going to continue to grow their use of energy.
Obama is a Democrat so he will push for ever greater dependency on the government.
He is a guy who thinks he can talk our enemies out of their religious bigotry, but will not talk to the commander of US forces in Iraq about what is really going on. He has made his mind up to lose this war and is determine to do things to make that happen.
Greely if you find anything racist in these remarks you are making it up.
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