With only a few days before the election I was stupid enough to open an e-mail from a co-worker with a blog from Actor/Screenwriter Larry David attached. I usually ignore ignoramus remarks from the Hollywood elite, but so close to an election, it really got under my skin.
David eluded that Obama could only lose the election if it was stolen from him (by cheating actually) or because of racism. This I cannot let slide.
To say that Obama can only lose by either of these reasons is beyond insulting, completely ridiculous, and almost ignorable, if I didn’t whole-heartedly believe he was serious in his assessment.
There are a litany of reasons, most of which I will point out, for voting against Barack Hussein Obama, neither his middle name nor his race among them.
For instance, his comment, on the Senate floor, where he said that our troops were air-raiding villages and killing innocent civilians in Iraq may have a negative effect on getting 100% percent of the vote from service members and veterans.
Racism must be involved in an Obama defeat, right?
Of course! People couldn’t possibly vote against Obama because of his constant race baiting or his wife’s obvious disdain for her country’s race-relations. People couldn’t possibly vote against Obama because of his unbelievable stance against the partial-birth abortion ban while a member of the Illinois Senate, a fact that will definitely resonate with the Catholic community and is tantamount to supporting infanticide (a word too many people are cowardly avoiding). People couldn’t possibly vote against Obama on grounds of his complete lack of executive experience, whether in the public or private sector, and his relative lack of experience in the Legislative branch.
With friends like William Aires, Rev. Wright, and acquaintances like Rashid Khalidi (a “Palestinian scholar”), it would be ridiculous to assume that some people would find that Barack Obama’s complete lack of character judgment might be a problem when picking cabinet members. (By the way, I think “lack of judgment” is a generous phrase considering I believe Obama had full knowledge of how these people think and what they say and believe, despite what he tells us). Questions about Barack Obama's feelings about Black Liberation Theology, a belief at least fostered by Rev. Wright (his proclaimed spiritual mentor), may have a few people disturbed enough to vote against him.
Obama received more money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in two years than John McCain accrued in more than twenty, so bailing out those two companies may be seen as a conflict of interests; a fact that will not escape voters on Tuesday. In an interesting coincidence, Obama voted for the huge bailout of Wall Street, members of which are big contributors to his campaign.
I don’t’ think its too extreme to assume that a multitude of people will vote against Obama because of his complete lack of understanding of economic issues either, among which is his constant assertion that the trouble in the financial markets is due to de-regulation! Ridiculous. To be sure, Obama’s economic policies deserve a blog all of their own. He repeatedly talks about the redistribution of wealth, psuedo-nationalized healthcare, and increases in spending, all while saying that he will give tax cuts to “95% of Americans.” For those of us who know that 40% of the country pays zero effective Federal Tax, it is hard for Obama to argue that his economic plan isn’t a huge expansion of the Welfare State. Larry David may find out on Tuesday that Socialism isn’t as rampant in America as it is in the Democratic Party and Hollywood.
Lastly, could it be at least possible that some voters find it a bit extreme that Barack Obama was considered the most liberal member of the United States Senate in 2007?
Because I believe the plethora of reasons above are enough to make my point that there are many reasons why Obama could lose the election, I don’t feel it at all necessary to mentioned the many, many reasons people have to vote for somebody else, whether it be The Republican Party’s John McCain, the Green Party, the Libertarian Party, or even the Constitution Party’s candidate.
Unfortunately, I think liberals like David are doing what liberals having been doing for years: assert that their candidates and ideas will lose, not because their simply wrong, but because of the corrupt, racist, sexist, homo-phobic, bigoted, redneck, un-educated, religious, and regressive United States electorate. Duh!
If Barack Obama loses this election it will be because his arguments just weren’t good enough…like it or not.