Honestly, now that Obama is the nominee........

[ajmccarrell]

Am I the only Republican Mac fan? LOL! I cannot even consider voting for Obama because of all of the gaffes he makes, though most of the mainstream media does not cover them, since they are fawning over the guy.

Example 1: "I want to raise capital gains taxes." When we are teetering on the edge of full-blown recession, doing this would push us into a depression! I cannot fathom the ignorance behind this statement.

Example 2: "We cannot drill our way out of this." I guess the first thing Obama would repeal would be supply and demand, or do the last several thousand years of economic theory cease simply because Obama would be president? Since we'd be paying $20.00 per gallon if he is elected, so I guess maybe we should be developing cars that run on hope! He also states that drilling won't take effect on prices for five years, however R & D on other fuels have gone much faster? We've been developing alternatives for years with nearly no progress. Why doesn't the five year deadline apply to that?! This is SOOO shortsighted it is utterly unbelievable.

Example 3: "I work across the isle". He has NO record of doing so and is consistently the most liberal member of the senate on what little he has done. The only three guys who have actually worked across the isle to accomplish ANYTHING in the last 10 years are McCain, Kennedy and Lieberman. I don't buy it!

Example 4: "My faith is close to my heart" In his book "The Audacity of Hope", he actually admits he joined his church to make his political career easier so that he could get a base to be a community organizer. He portrays himself as agnostic through the rest of the book.

Example 5: "Don't be fooled by middle classness, stay poor". This one speaks for itself.

Example 6: "I've been to 57 states". REAAAALLY???? This guy wants to be president but doesn't know how many states we have. If Bush had made this comment, we'd never hear the end of it. But I guess he wasn't full of "Hope & Change".

Example 7: "Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle" Illinois is right on the border of Kentucky?! Arkansas is not.

Example 8: "The perpetrators of the 93 attack were brought to justice and incapacitated." REALLY??!!!?! Perhaps he missed the four other terror attacks by this same group on American targets since that one. This one is truly stunning~!

Example 9: "Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.” I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that he’s voted on at least one defense authorization bill that addressed the “costs, schedules, and technical issues” dealing with the nation’s most contaminated nuclear waste site.

Example 10: And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us”–cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with small defense budgets can’t do us harm– and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.” Uhh Staggering stupidity!

Example 11: He wants to socialize healthcare but has no real way to pay for it. Think of it this way, one half of our federal budget is devoted to social security, which is about 16% of our population. Our social security obligation is crushing us and we won't have it when we retire. He wants to cover 100% of our population! Think of what that would really mean? Do we really want health care by the people who brought us Iraq, Walter Reed, employment security, Social Security, our national debt, and the endless stream of governmental greatest hits?

Even considering the guy is impossible.