The case against Barack Obama

Barack Obama will likely be the next POTUS. Congratulations to him and Joe Biden, I hope we only have to deal with them for four years.

Part of the reason why Obama will win is because President Bush and other Republican congressmen let Washington change them. Instead of advocating true conservative principles like smaller government, we've seen the federal government grow exponentially over the past eight years. Even so, I think Americans are giving Obama a free pass on too many issues.

First, Barack Obama will raise our taxes. His claims that he will provide tax cuts for 95% of working families is mularkey, but people believe it. Even if true, the top 5% of wage-earners who will see a tax increase under the Obama administration already pay 60% of the nation's federal income tax. Putting more of a tax burden on these individuals will not help the economy, but will rather slow job creation. Aside from the federal income tax, Obama will raise capital gains rates from 15% to somewhere between 20-28%, despite the fact that government revenues historically go up when the capital gains rate is lowered. He will raise payroll taxes and the business tax as well, despite the fact that our business tax rate is the second-highest in the world. Unfortunately for Americans, businesses don't pay taxes. Instead of paying taxes, these businesses will increase the costs of their products, effectively passing the increased tax to the consumer.

Barack Obama is also wildly inexperienced. Despite not having one significant achievement to his name (per a supporter, he did win the Democratic nomination, that must count for something, right?), Obama will be the leader of the greatest country on earth.

People forget that he voted "present" instead of "yea" or "nay" over 100 times in the Illinois state legislature, or that he proposed that we seek a UN resolution after Russia invaded Georgia (oops, turns out Russia can veto any resolution that goes before the UN), or that his running mate, who supposedly bolsters the foreign policy aspect of the ticket, proposed we partition Iraq into sections based on religion and ethnicity.

People also buy Obama's explanation ("I never heard any of those things said") for his twenty years of sitting in the pews of an America-hating church, listening to Jeremiah Wright say things like "God d*mn the USA" or "its the US of KKK," despite the fact that this same man married Obama and his wife and baptized their two children. People will overlook the fact that Bill Ayers, his next door neighbor and fellow Woods Foundation boardmember, bombed American buildings as part of the "Weather Underground," later saying he wished he would have done more. People will also give him a free pass on his dealings with Tony Rezko, a felon who gave Obama a sweetheart-deal on the lot next to Obama's house (but, but, but... Obama is a different kind of politician!).

Obama also is for meeting with our "enemies" without preconditions. Sounds like Jimmy Carter, to me. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, would probably see this as a sign of weakness and would welcome these meetings because it would legitimize him on the world stage.

If Obama signifies change, then I want nothing of it.