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Here’s an opinion on the presidential candidates, their world views, and their spouses.

September 14, 2008

Generational Experience: In the cesspool of Chicago politics, where Obama’s career was spawned and nurtured, Obama sought spiritual guidance from the well-known “God damn America” preacher, Rev. Wright, foremost proponent of black liberation and separatist theology. Obama also kept a close and friendly association with the infamous terrorists of the Weathermen Underground, Bill Ayres and Bernardine Dohrn and convicted clout peddler Tony Rezko. His circle of friends, acquaintances, and supporters include firebrand preachers like Rev. Jackson, Rev. Farrakhan, and Rev. Sharpton, whose rhetoric is sometimes viewed as racially hateful and divisive. Reverend though these ministers of the gospel claim to be, I have never heard any of them use the word God in the “God bless America” context in their public pronouncements. Unlike McCain, who used the word at least thrice in his RNC speech, I don’t recall hearing Obama use the word at all in his DNC acceptance speech . ! Although the “guilt by association” argument won’t stand judicial scrutiny, one can’t help wondering if there’s truth to the saying, “Birds of a feather flock together.” Each of us is a product of our culture and, within that culture, by the subculture to which we belong. Here’s a food for thought, “Tell me with whom you go, and I’ll tell you who you are.” This gnawing doubt about what makes Obama tick lingers and makes him, in my opinion, a risky choice for president.

Tax/Economic Issues: For 2009 both Obama and McCain promise not only to retain Bush’s tax cuts but also provide tax relief for the squeezed middle class. But after 2010, when Bush’s tax cuts end, nothing is said that is certain. On the issue of keeping taxes low, my gut instinct favors McCain. Obama is a committed “tax and spend liberal” who wants to legislate charity by raising taxes and redistributing them through entitlement, bailout, and pork barrel programs. Like McCain he promises a tax cut for the middle class in order to get elected but will, I fear, take much more than he has given by raising taxes after 2010. Undoing the Bush tax cuts alone will have the effect of increasing taxes on individuals and businesses. My point exactly is this: My family is anything but rich but not poor enough to qualify for the government freebies that Obama advocates. In my opinion, government-mandated charity violates a person’s right to choose his or her own favorite charity. ! The White House is the home of the president, not the taxman or gravy train operator that Obama seems to be.

Foreign Issues: In his memoir, Obama calls himself a Christian but professes pro-Muslim sympathies. His sympathies will, I suspect, translate into an appeasement policy on the war on terror. Obama wants to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq, despite the success of the surge, seemingly oblivious of the serious consequences of a unilateral surrender. Nothing in Obama’s background and experience inspires confidence in his ability to handle anti-American world leaders like Putin, Chavez, Admadinejab, and Kim Jung-il. I have an uncomfortable feeling that Obama is a latent weak-kneed, bleeding-heart liberal wimp.

Social Issues: Obama, the poster boy of the pro-choice believers, supports abortion even up to the third trimester of pregnancy. The catch phrase “right to choose” sounds like music to the ear except when you complete it with “to commit infanticide.” Can one reasonably and fairly conclude that, based on his spoken words or voting record, Obama supports, perhaps indirectly or unwittingly, a woman’s right to choose to commit infanticide? Some pro-lifers believe so. I support a woman’s right to choose to have sex and get or not get pregnant but draw the line when it comes to killing a viable fetus whether or not it is inside or outside a woman’s womb. And I most certainly agree that letting a born-alive child as a result of a botched abortion die by neglect or any other means is tantamount to legalized infanticide.

Appearance: Obama’s appeal is overblown. He is at his illusionary best when speaking with the aid of a teleprompter or answering questions from friendly and fawning journalists. But discussing issues with Clinton, Biden, or O’reilly, he looks and sounds pretty much like a community organizer on a street in the southside of Chicago. Obama’s wannabe wife Michelle looks like a Paris Hilton from the neck down but something else from the neck up. No offense is intended in this expression of preference for beauty. As a poet once said, “Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.” It will take a suspension of disbelief for me to get used to looking at the pictures of, or reading about, an American president with a terrorist-rhyming name and a First Lady with teeth that, viewed from a certain angle, look like a big squirrel’s. Put Michelle Obama’s mean-sounding words like “America is a downright mean country” in her mean-looking mouth, and you will probably understand , if not app! reciate, my preference for a different style and substance in the sounds and images that I want to hear or see in my bedroom or living room.

Appearances aside, I do not, by and large, have an affinity for Obama’s world view culturally, politically , and socially. His presidency will, I believe, corrode and erode the Judeo-Christian foundation of the United States and hasten its descent into the maelstrom of unbridled and lemming-head liberalism.

Note: This message comes from a Filipino American family who wants their voices heard and votes counted in the presidential election in November. Hopefully this message will solidify your choice and put you over the top for McCain. If not, you can make a counterpoint by voting for the other candidate in November. If all roughly 1 million registered Filipino American voters in America vote in November, they can take pleasure at the thought that they have helped hire the next President of the United States. And hopefully too Filipino Americans will get the attention and the respect that we, as the second largest Asian American voting bloc in America, deserve.

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