More and more I hear from people promoting Obama that he inspires them. That is why they support him – they are inspired. Honestly I would like to be inspired. I would actually like to like Obama. He is a powerful speaker. But I want to be inspired to do good things. And there are things in Obama’s record that worry me.<\/p>\n
I think we tend to think of inspiring people as forces for good. That is what we want to believe. If a person moves us to action we want to believe that we are as moved by their ideals as by their words. We hear a speech like Dr King’s "I have a dream" speech and it moves us in a positive way. And yet words can inspire in ways that are anything but good. Hitler was inspiring. Mao was inspiring. Castro is still inspiring. Would we elect any of them president? I sure hope not.<\/p>\n
Now I am not saying that Obama is evil and I certainly would not compare him to Hitler or Mao or Castro. But there is the matter of his support for legal abortion. And his strong opposition to the Second Amendment as I understand its meaning. Here is a man who quite clearly wants to protect the guilty and punish the innocent.<\/p>\n
Abortion is simple a matter of defining certain inconvenient people as "not human" and killing them. Is that any different from the lynching of black men in the days of Jim Crow or the murder of Jews in Germany? If a man can define one group of people as not human why not another? Would you vote for a person who said "well I don’t believe that gassing Jews is right but I think we should leave that decision up to each individual?" I hope not. But you’d vote for someone who said the same thing replacing "gassing Jews" with "having an abortion?" And sleep at night knowing they were going to control atom weapons?<\/p>\n
The right to bare arms is much about the right of good and innocent people to protect themselves from evil people who would do them harm. How can someone say they care about the weak and defenseless while working tirelessly to keep them weak and defenseless? The Supreme Court is going to decide if the gun laws in Washington DC are Constitutional or not. I believe both of the main Democratic candidates have said that the Supreme Court should let those laws stand. Now perhaps they believe those laws are good for people. If so they are far too stupid to be president. I’m not sure they are that dumb. And if they are not why would they support those laws? It makes you wonder.<\/p>\n
Can I trust someone who supports people who would kill the innocent and disarm people who would protect the innocent? Can I really? I don’t think so no matter how inspired a speaker they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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