NObama in 2008!

Well, I am going to start off on this again, but I feel I need to.

In the last few weeks, everyone has been talking about the 'do-nothing' senator from Illinois, Barack Obama.

Everyone wants him to be President. Why? Well, it really beats the hell out of them. Yes, not out of me, but out of them! Most people have no clue why they want him to be President, yet they support him.

Oh yeah, I forgot, a speech. He gave a great speech. That is why he sould be elected. But if you ask any German in the 1930s, they thought Adolf Hitler was a great speaker as well.

Now before you go off and start saying what I KNOW you are going to say, I am not saying that Barack Obama is Adolf Hitler. I am just saying that people who are good speakers are not always good leaders.

Yes, it takes more than words to be a good President.

I think that it is great to see the anti-Obama movements starting to spread around the net. "NObama" mania is starting to take the spotlight.

Do I think Obama could be a good President? I have no friggen idea. I like to see what a guy has done before I vote for him. As Nick Nolte said in the movie 48 Hours "I belive in the Merrit System, and you haven't built up any points."

There are a lot of candidates out there that are electable, like John Edwards, Evan Bayh, Tom Vilsack and others. Yet everyone thinks that Obama is the man! Why?

Besides the fact that he has only been a Senator for a little less than two years, he has never held executive office. True, neither has John Edwards, but the other two I have mentioned have.

Oh, and lets look at this one as well:

On November 1st, 2006 the Chicago Tribune reported that Obama's home in the South Side neighborhood of Chicago was purchased the same day as an adjoining vacant lot owned by the wife of Antoin Rezko an Illinois businessman charged with political influenced peddling and a past contributor to Obama's election campaigns (Wikipedia).

Interesting.....

But, of course, since everyone is talking about him, he must be a big shot in Washington, right? Well, no!

As far as ranking on the committees, Obama is dead last among Democrats on the Foreign Relations and Environment and Public Works Committees. Oh wait, he is second to last on the Veterans Affairs Committee. So, I guess he is moving up.

So, why the hype? One speech. Big deal.

Though I do think there is something deeper.

I feel that a lot of white voters are supporting Obama because he is "more like a white guy than a black guy." They don't want to look racist, yet I feel that the reason many are supporting him is quite racist itself. Basically, he is "a black guy I can live with." Why didn't any of these people support Carol Mosley Brawn (a Democratic Senator from Illinois that, to many voters, made a lot of sense and had 'great speeches', and is, i'm sure, very close to Obama on the issues)? If Mosley-Braun made the "Blue State-Red State" speech, we would have forgotten about it a week later.

Hopefully this Obama hype will start to die down. I think that people are support this guy for ALL the WRONG reasons! They don't really have any good reasons to support him. What has he done in his two years in the Senate that you like? What votes did he cast that you supported? What makes him different from the other Democrats on the issues?

If Obama gets the nomination, I will vote for him, but reluctantly. Maybe I just won't vote.

I know I am not on the popular end of this argument, but please, sit down with your thoughts for an hour or two and really ask yourself "why do I support this guy?"

Oh, and in 2008, he won't be running against Alan Keyes either!

We say that Hillary doesn't stand for anything. At least she tried to pass a universal health care plan under President Clinton.

What has Obama done?