My Obama Dilemma

Ever since Senator Barack Obama voted 'yes' on the FISA bill, I have been in a quandary.

I initially switched my support from Senator Hillary Clinton to Obama because, shortly after the New York primary, Obama came back to initially vote against the bill, but Clinton chose not to vote. I find a 'yes' vote on this bill to be utterly unconscionable and pandering of the worst sort.

His vote has caused me to not support his campaign financially, pending what I see in future weeks from him. I had also made a vow to stop supporting him on internet blogs and forums. But honestly, I cannot just stand by and let supporters of McCain get by with some of the horrific slander that I see get posted.

So, I am back on a myriad of sites doing my best to articulate why a John McCain presidency would be a nightmare for America.

I even came up with my own pet phrase for McCain's accusing Obama of flip-flopping.

Considering McCain's pandering to the religious right and his seemingly daily changing of positions, I refer to the charges as 'the POW calling Obama black.'

I will say this, I am angry about a lot of things. I am angry that America has allowed BushCo to take this country so far backward and nearly bankrupt and destroy it. I am angry that in some polls McCain is in a dead heat with Obama. It infuriates me that in recent polling, the country apparently is actually split on Iraq? Split?
And, in these same polls, John McCain is seen as superior on foreign policy.

Yes, the same McCain who said we would be greeted as liberators, who didn't know the difference between shia and sunni, who said one could shop in Baghdad without protection, who said Iraqi oil would finance this incursion, who predicted it would be a short war, who needed Joe Lieberman to correct him about a mis-statement on al-Qaeda in Iraq....and on and on. This is the man viewed as the expert on foreign policy???

So, out of my anger, and fear that a Republican president will destroy the impartiality of the Supreme Court for decades to come, I blog to help get Obama elected.

I just hope my candidate stops being such a disappointment to me.

An 'alert' for race baiters

Here is a version for those who are using race-baiting:

***WARNING: RNC RACE CARD ALERT***

This poster has just followed RNC orders to
spread fear and racist panic about a possible Obama
presidency. No facts or persuasive arguments
were used, just a race-dividing message designed
to appeal to your emotions and scare you.

If this had been an actual posting by a person
with reason, it would have been supported by
logic and rationale behind their racist charges.

This concludes our RNC race card alert. We now return
to our regularly scheduled discussion.

Debut of the RNC Fear Alert

As I have written, I have spent most of my blog time on various boards and forums on the Internet, trying to engage in dialogue in support of Senator Barack Obama's candidacy.

One type of poster that has truly annoyed me, but is not worth the time to individually respond to, is the one who plays the old GOP fear game when they attack Obama.

I have come up with a way to respond to these trolls. Introducing my new RNC fear alert, which can now be cut and pasted to respond to that type of unsavory attack, underscore the GOP strategy involved, and cut the teeth out of any of the charges.

Feel free to come up with your own variation of the warning for yourselves, or use mine if you'd like.

Note: (made a couple of improvements suggested by 'anonymous' poster in my comments section. The additional text appears in boldface)

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***WARNING: RNC FEAR ALERT***

This poster has just followed RNC orders to
spread fear and panic about a possible Obama
presidency. No facts or persuasive arguments
were used, just a doomsday message designed
to appeal to your emotions and scare you.

If this had been an actual posting by a person
with reason, it would have been supported by
logic and rationale behind their nebulous charges,
and a response would appear here -- supported by
facts and logical analysis.

As it is, you are invited to simply ignore it and
move on, as we have done.

This concludes our RNC fear alert. We now return
to our regularly scheduled discussion.