Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Republican dirty tricks

We're still seven months away from the 2008 General/Presidential Election and Barack Obama has not yet secured the Democratic Party nomination, yet already so-called Progressives are screeching and whining about how the election could or might be lost because of racist Republican dirty tricks: http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=conservatives_hate_based_campaign_against_obama. Yup, if Obama loses, it could only be because he is Black. It could never be because, say:

1) People realize just how far to the left he is;
2) He is soft on terror;
3) Americans don't want their taxes hiked;
4) He would effectively surrender in Iraq, something that would be very bad in the long run for the United States;
5) He is in favour of socialized medicine, something most Americans do not want (though they certainly do want health care reform);
6) His views on abortion are out of touch with the views of even most abortion supporters;
7) His ambivalence (and I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt by using the term "ambivalent") towards the State of Israel, the only true American ally in the Middle East, is out of touchwith the views of most people in this country, as they actually seem to like Israel (which poll after poll shows);
8) Americans are rightfully leery of someone who would talk without preconditions to the likes of Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Basher Assad, something even Hillary Clinton won't do;
9) His threat to essentially tear up the NAFTA agreement would hurt the United States in the long run.

Those nine reasons came to me immediately. No doubt, if I gave it some more thought, many more would come to mind. But, that would go against the self-hating rhetoric of the left in the country, which has already decided that this is a horrible, racist country, no matter what anyone may say.

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