Given my basic political attitudes, there is no way I could vote for Barry Hussein O. Or any Democrat presidential candidate.
The Democrats are the party of multiculturalism, feminism, redistributionism, internationalism, pacifism, secularism and environmentalism. Not my peeps.
I would have even preferred Hillary Clinton, which tells you how little I think of BHO. Why? There are several reasons, but this article by Roger Kimball outlines one of them. HT to Right Side of the Rainbow.
Kimball writes:
“Obama could have allied himself with all sorts of other people. But, time and again, he allied himself with people who openly expressed their hatred of America.”
That hatred, in more or less muted form, at the center of Obama’s appeal among leftists and Europeans. In their eyes, America is fundamentally an illegitimate enterprise in desperate need of redemption. Obama–the Harvard education, metrosexual, left-wing sophisticate–is just the chap to perform the exorcism. America as it is is deeply flawed; Obama will recast the country according to a vision acceptable to socialists in Europe and America.
The contrast between Obama, on the one side, and McCain and Palin on the other, could hardly be starker. One loves America for what it might be when suitably purged of greed, racism, inequality, sexism, indifference to the environment, etc., etc. The other loves America for what it is: in Abraham Lincoln’s words: the last best hope of mankind.
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