Paul

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October 27, 2008

Fifty Reasons to Vote Against Barack Obama: 50-26

There are hundreds of simple, straightforward reasons for Americans to vote against Barack Obama on November 4. Editorial necessity, however, limits the publication of a comprehensive list, and what I offer instead is a list of 50 plain reasons to oppose Obama. Below are the first 25 reasons, to be followed by another 25 tomorrow. They are presented in no particular order, as ranking them would for several reasons prove to be an unfeasible task.

50. Obama is the second highest recipient of Fannie Mae contributions in history, despite having been in the Senate for mere months, and as you might expect, took no steps to prevent the financial crisis Fannie has caused.

49. Obama has developed close and shady personal, financial and political ties with Tony Rezko, a convicted Chicago criminal.

48. Obama has developed close personal and political ties with terrorist William Ayers, even launching his political career in Ayers’s living room, despite Ayers publicly regretting not having bombed America enough while and after these ties were solidifying.

47. Obama for 20 years adopted as his closest spiritual guide Jeremiah Wright, an anti-American racist who actively fuels racial tensions.

46. Obama has said that his church, which disavowed the “Pursuit of ‘Middleclassness,’” was not “particularly controversial.”

45. Obama, in March 2008, said he could “no more disown” Wright than he could the “black community” or his “white grandmother.”

44. Obama, in April 2008, disowned Wright, apparently making the black community and his white grandmother totally disownable.

43. Obama, in May 2008, dropped his church membership out of political necessity, although the church was the same then that it had been during the years of his membership.

42. Obama has proudly volunteered his view that our troops are “just air raiding villages and killing civilians,” while it took nearly a year of brutal torture to force John McCain to say he was an “air pirate.”

41. Obama continues to lie about planning to cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans, an impossibility considering that around 40 percent of them don’t pay any taxes.

40. Obama requested a $1 million earmark for his wife’s employer, which had recently nearly tripled her salary.

39. Obama has requested around $750 million in earmarks in his months as a senator.

38. Obama’s head mentor, Joe Biden, has repeatedly declared that Obama is unqualified to be president.

37. Obama spends nearly $40,000 a year on his young daughters’ tuition at an elite school, yet opposes school choice for Americans who are not as wealthy as he is and are forced to send their children to public schools.

36. Obama, a Chicago-style politician, won his state senate election by default after disqualifying all four of his opponents from the ballot, including the heavily favored incumbent.

35. Obama won his 2004 U.S. Senate primary by having his main Democratic opponent collapse under the weight of a domestic scandal.

34. Obama won his 2004 U.S. Senate general election by having his Republican opponent collapse under the weight of his forcibly released divorce records.

33. Obama’s background and associations, according to experts, would preclude him from obtaining a security clearance for even a low-level secretarial position in a federal agency.

32. Obama vows to put up numerous regulatory obstacles for nuclear power, effectively taking it off the table.

31. Obama married a woman who by her own account was not proud of her country, and who announced she first became proud of her country within months of possibly becoming First Lady.

30. Obama has admitted that cutting capital gains taxes increases revenue, yet seeks to raise these taxes anyway for “fairness” reasons.

29. Obama continuously promotes verifiably socialist policies.

28. Obama sincerely believes that small-town Americans are “bitter” people who “cling to guns or religion” “to explain their frustrations.”

27. Obama supports aborting babies after they have been born and are fully outside the mother’s body.

26. Obama’s mentors, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, would promote a left-wing agenda that Republicans cannot stop, and Obama certainly would not dare stop.

To be continued…

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