The Five Scariest Things About Barack Obama
July 23, 2008 / 10:35 am • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierAn evangelical, very religious conservative friend of mine wrote and asked me what scared me about Obama. Well, there’s more than a few things.
1. Elitism: Barack Obama thinks he’s better than the average American. He believes that Americans are stupid. Therefore, he will be justified in putting forth all sorts of policies that are “good” for us, but that the people don’t want.
2. Bad Judgment: He was wrong about the Surge and can’t admit it. He surrounds himself with people of questionable character. He repeatedly demonstrates faulty reasoning.
3. Increasing Taxes: The best way to control the populace is to take their money so they have fewer choices. He frames redistribution of wealth as a way to stick it to the rich man, but the rich man is already paying the lion’s share of taxes. The top 10% of earners pay 70% of taxes. The top 25% pay 86%–these are the people who make over $62,000. That would be you. He knows this. He doesn’t care. His plan will kill the economy and cripple businesses who hire the people he pretends to care so much about.
4. Ideology: Obama doesn’t not believe in American superiority. He doesn’t believe America is a country anyone would want to emulate. He believes America is a negative force for the world. Like Jimmy Carter, he will side with who he perceives as the underdog–and America is the Big World Bully. He will never side with America. A person has to think about how this ideology will drive decisions about hostage situations or terrorist attacks, etc.
5. Lack of Core Values: Does he have any? Besides Hope and Change He Can Believe In–namely himself–what does Barack hold true? Even the Left is admitting that Obama is leaving behind the ideals he campaigned on during the primary. How can anyone believe what he says? How will other world leaders believe a man who changes what he says depending on the audience. It will put America in harms way to have a president who isn’t believed. History is the best guide here. Remember Jimmy Carter. Heck, remember Bill Clinton.
Feel free to add to the list.
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Say this for Obama: he’s being very upfront about his preferences and his ambitions. If he wins, no one can say we didn’t see megalomania from, well…say this moment:
Generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal. — Barack Obama, June 2, 2008
And his wife has already promised us that if Obama wins:
Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.
Every time I read that, I think of the opening of Orwell’s 1984, when Winston Smith gets out of bed to begin his compulsory exercises and – when he’s not quite attending and not touching the floor with his hands – the inter-active drill leader (who can see him) calls out to Smith by name, admonishes him and gets him re-focused.
Smith was certainly involved and informed.
UPDATE: Rachel Lucas also adds this: He’s a big liar.
Cross-posted at Right Wing News
