top 5 reasons not to vote for obama

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inspired by some RIDICulous anti-obama attacks, here's my list of the 5 best (worst?) reasons not to vote for obama:


5) he couldn't get himself elected dog-catcher. if you look closely at his resume, you won't find a single dog-catcher position listed there. that's because he's never won a dog-catcher election. he's never won a dog-catcher primary!

4) he doesn't have enough experience. we should always vote for the person who has the most experience. until we're running against mccain, that is. THEN, too much experience is a bad thing.

3) in an earlier election, he got all his opponents disqualified. wow, that's terrib -- wait! can we clone this guy??

2) he's only good at great speeches and big rallies. wow, that's terrib -- wait! can we clone this guy??

1) he hasn't actually accomplished anything. you know, i don't really expect junior democratic senators under republican presidents to accomplish much. then again, getting fawning coverage from the republican-controlled media is an amazing achievement for any democrat these days.


the bottom line is that, in the scheme of things, there's barely a difference between the two policy-wise, and a HUGE difference between either of them and mccain. so my strongest position has always been to support the eventual democratic nominee over the republican nominee, period. when i voted for obama in the ct primary, i could have tossed a coin in the voting booth.

that said, i don't know who's been more persuasive since then in making my support for obama ever stronger -- the pro-obama people or the anti-obama people.

[NightWatcher]

1. you forgot rezko, rezko, rezko

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3. right! 6) obama once knew someone sleazy!

whereas clinton and john keating 5 mccain only speak to the canonized....

[sendero]

4. You mean..

.. he knew someone that is bad?

How many bad people did HRC know? Some of them are running her campaign.

I can't WAIT until Tuesday.

[Barack_America]

2. And terra! I mean McClurkin! I mean McClurkin = terra!

Oh, what the hell is the difference anymore anyway?

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5. mcclurkin! 7) gays will surely vote republican now!

notwithstanding that the one actual republican gay man i know is now no longer a republican....

[sandnsea]

6. Yeah, speaking at an anti-war protest

is exactly like telling Code Pink you're not going to oppose an imminent invasion.

I swear I do not understand all the hoopla around here the last 5 years if everybody now wants to say all the Democrats were all the same all along.

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7. let's just say neither would have handled iraq the way shrub did

when it comes to the upcoming presidential election, frankly i don't care much how they did or didn't do in opposing an idiotic invasion that was going to happen regardless of what either of them did. we're electing a president, not a senate majority leader.

obama would not have invaded iraq.
clinton would not have invaded iraq.
hell, MCCAIN would not have invaded iraq!

ONLY SHRUB / CHENEY would have invaded -- and did invade -- the wrong country!!

[sandnsea]

8. No, between Iraq and the Iran vote

We will not get a significant change in foreign policy with Hillary. There's a reason all the Clinton people supported the Bush line on the WMD, and it's because they supported the idea of occupying Iraq in order to create a threatening presence in the region.