Why I support Barack Obama
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Why I support Barack Obama: Senator Barck Obama inspires hope for America by fundamentally changing politics, changing America, and changing the world. I attended Camp Obama in Chicago the week of June 18, 2007 with guest speaker Judge Abner Mikva, who I supported in 1972 for Congress against the odds in the district held by Donald Rumsfeld. I learned that "Getting Out The Vote (GOTV)" makes the difference in elections. I support Senator Barack Obama as the only serious, incorruptible Democratic candidate, who has the JUDGMENT to LEAD and will restore America's place in the world and faith in our government as the next President of the United States. I am a twenty-five year veteran of the United States Coast Guard and ran for Congress against Bush-Republican incumbent Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
JUDGMENT to LEAD demonstrated in the remarks of Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama Against Going to War with Iraq, October 02, 2002: . . . "I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of Al Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars. . . . So for those of us who seek a more just and secure world for our children, let us send a clear message to the President today. You want a fight, President Bush? . . . Let's finish the fight with Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, through effective, coordinated intelligence, and a shutting down of the financial networks that support terrorism, and a homeland security program that involves more than color-coded warnings. You want a fight, President Bush? . . . Let's fight to make sure our so-called allies in the Middle East, the Saudis and the Egyptians, stop oppressing their own people, and suppressing dissent, and tolerating corruption and inequality, and mismanaging their economies so that their youth grow up without education, without prospects, without hope, the ready recruits of terrorist cells. You want a fight, President Bush? . . . Let's fight to wean ourselves off Middle East oil, through an energy policy that doesn't simply serve the interests of Exxon and Mobil. Those are the battles that we need to fight. Those are the battles that we willingly join. The battles against ignorance and intolerance. Corruption and greed. Poverty and despair. . . . The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought not -- we will not -- travel down that hellish path blindly. Nor should we allow those who would march off and pay the ultimate sacrifice, who would prove the full measure of devotion with their blood, to make such an awful sacrifice in vain." . . . -Remarks of Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama Against Going to War with Iraq, October 02, 2002, demonstrating his JUDGMENT to LEAD
Why I support Barack Obama: Senator Barck Obama inspires hope for America by fundamentally changing politics, changing America, and changing the world. I attended Camp Obama in Chicago the week of June 18, 2007 with guest speaker Judge Abner Mikva, who I supported in 1972 for Congress against the odds in the district held by Donald Rumsfeld. I learned that "Getting Out The Vote (GOTV)" makes the difference in elections. I support Senator Barack Obama as the only serious, incorruptible Democratic candidate, who has the JUDGMENT to LEAD and will restore America's place in the world and faith in our government as the next President of the United States. I am a twenty-five year veteran of the United States Coast Guard and ran for Congress against Bush-Republican incumbent Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
JUDGMENT to LEAD demonstrated in the remarks of Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama Against Going to War with Iraq, October 02, 2002: . . . "I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of Al Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars. . . . So for those of us who seek a more just and secure world for our children, let us send a clear message to the President today. You want a fight, President Bush? . . . Let's finish the fight with Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, through effective, coordinated intelligence, and a shutting down of the financial networks that support terrorism, and a homeland security program that involves more than color-coded warnings. You want a fight, President Bush? . . . Let's fight to make sure our so-called allies in the Middle East, the Saudis and the Egyptians, stop oppressing their own people, and suppressing dissent, and tolerating corruption and inequality, and mismanaging their economies so that their youth grow up without education, without prospects, without hope, the ready recruits of terrorist cells. You want a fight, President Bush? . . . Let's fight to wean ourselves off Middle East oil, through an energy policy that doesn't simply serve the interests of Exxon and Mobil. Those are the battles that we need to fight. Those are the battles that we willingly join. The battles against ignorance and intolerance. Corruption and greed. Poverty and despair. . . . The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought not -- we will not -- travel down that hellish path blindly. Nor should we allow those who would march off and pay the ultimate sacrifice, who would prove the full measure of devotion with their blood, to make such an awful sacrifice in vain." . . . -Remarks of Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama Against Going to War with Iraq, October 02, 2002, demonstrating his JUDGMENT to LEAD
You're supporting Barack for the same reasons I support Dennis - they both showed the sort of vision and wisdom that a superpower requires in a leader, rather than joining the herd in its mad rush to bumper sticker land.
However as each day passes and people become more aware of what each of the candidates actually stand for ( and don't) I am convinced that one of the progressives (Kucinich, Edwards or Obama) and not one of the coporate centrists( Clinto, Biden, Dodd or Richardson) will be elected.