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I cannot vote for Obama, because he is too centrist. After eight yrs of Dubya, I expected the Democrats to run a more progresive candidate. If they dont now, they never will. So, I will be an Independent from now on.
I was raised in a GOP family (my father left the party when W's father invaded Iraq). I was raised middle class, but will probably never be able to live that way myself, due to health care costs. Obama's "plan" for health care is a HUGE problem for me and lot of lower income people. His "rightward" drift on the "wars", guns, death penalty, complimetns for Reagan, the tax cuts (which will "take ten yrs to implement")and his original stance on "helping pepoe involved inthe mortgage crisis" ("It would be a moral hazard"--then voting to help Bear Srearns)doesnt sit well in Ohio. I saw the mortgage "agreements"--people were robbed.
Very little mention (or a "personal responsibility" attitude toward urban poor people of any race) was a turn off for me, too. The silencing of young African American males at two of his rallies with cries of "Yes we can!" reminded me of Dubya's "U. S. A.!" crap. People do not choose their parents nor birthplace, and not everyone can be as gifted as obama. He worked very hard, but , he is also very fortunate--to be as intelligent as he is, as well as physically attractive. His "food stamp" upbringing isnt very compelling (especially in Hawaii) to inner city people who have had to receive them all of their lives.(The "small town" I grew up in doesnt exist anymore--its a Wal-Mart)
I think we need to get away from the American "individualistic self reliance" stuff. If that is the case, why not vote Ron Paul. (I think Paul is a little loony, myself) I also do not think that "the world is waiting for America to return to its moral leaderhisp" either. I think they have had quite enough of us. The "level playing field" in the uS is a joke. If we had one, Dubya and cohorts would have fallen off the edge a long time ago.
