48 Days Until Election--Barak Obama

It will come as no surprise to any that know me that I have serious problems with the junior Senator from Illinois. My main problem has everything to do with his liberal worldview and his seeming naivete.

First let me say that I doubt that any person elected to the office of President can damage our country beyond repair in four years, so I do not share the near despair about a possible election of The One that some of my conservative brethren seem to have. An Obama presidency will significantly damage our military, our ability to respond to real threats, push our economy over the brink, damage industry, increase unemployment, and move us too close to socialism; however, these things can be overcome with time. I also have the view that it took a Carter to get a Reagan, so Carter II (which The One's administration is likely to be) may have the unintended consequence of giving the conservative movement a needed boost and finally strengthen the Regan Revolution to ascend to power for a much longer period.

I worry about the lack of experience that The One has. He has not had any executive experience and he has held high elected office (US Senate) for only two years before he decided to begin a run for president. During his tenure he has not written any major legislation--not that I am complaining, his politics would make just about anything he would write dreadful. His record in the Illinois State House is spotty, as he would often not vote at all. But my main concern is his belief system--his liberal worldview is very much in line with the socialism of Europe.

He will raise taxes on businesses (by the way, businesses do NOT pay taxes, they pass them on as a cost of doing business--who do you think ends up paying these taxes?) putting strain on them in an economy that is barely hanging on...this will cause less employment and likely increase unemployment. He calls it taxing the "rich"-remember, many small businessmen report their taxes on their personal tax returns...the "rich" are the ones that employ people.

He will continue to oppose offshore drilling, drilling in ANWR, clean coal technology, and nuclear energy. All this will do is increase our dependence on foreign sources of oil. Let's be clear here, there are no viable alternatives to oil for our transportation infrastructure in the near future. There are areas where we can improve and should, but to ignore the reality that we MUST develop our own sources of crude production outside of the Gulf of Mexico--having 25% of our production concentrated in one area is a national security issue.

He wants to sieze the "excessive" profits of the oil companies. Does anyone believe that this will do anything but INCREASE the cost of this product to the consumer? Besides, making 9 to 10 cents of profit on every dollar of revenue is hardly "excessive". Coke, Pepsi, Anhieser Busch, Google, GE, etc., etc. all make MUCH MUCH more. How about siezing the "excessive" profits of trial lawyers, entertainers, movie studios, media outlets?

Abortion...he is wrong on this issue and I will leave it at that. His appointments to the Supreme Court would also be absolutely wrong, but since the most likely appointements will be to replace the liberals on the bench...it would be status quo. I would prefer more conservatives, but at least we will not lose there.

And finally, health care for all...can we trust the government, who cannot handle its duties that are already at its feet, to handle something as important as this??? Your new health care plan--brought to you by the same government who has bankrupted social security and could not handle Katrina.

There are so many other areas, but this is enough for now.