July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Obama on wrong side of issues (10/11/2008)
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To the editor:
I am afraid I have to disagree with Thursday's letter to the editor saying that Obama is "change we can believe in." Based on his record and/or rhetoric he is on the wrong side of virtually every major issue.
While the Republicans deserved to loose control of congress, the Democrats took over two years ago promising change for the better and gave us change for the worse with a 9 percent approval rating. As a Democrat Senator Obama has voted the left wing party line almost 100 percent of the time. That is real change he participated in.
While in the Illinois Senate he voted to kill babies that survived a botched abortion.
On taxes he wants to repeal the Bush tax cuts and increase taxes on business, capital gains, oil profits, and social security. All of these would hurt the larger small businesses that provide most of the jobs. We have known that we are headed for a recession for over six months and only a fool would increase taxes going into a recession.
Our economy is hurting because of gross over spending by Congress, high energy prices, high food prices, and the sub-prime mortgage mess.
We have high food prices because of high gas prices and ethanol production using feed grain. Obama voted for the ethanol production. Change?
We have high gas prices because the Democrats blocked offshore drilling, ANWR drilling, mining oil shale, building refineries, converting coal to oil, and new nuclear power plants before, during, and after the twelve years that the Republicans controlled Congress. Obama supported these policies as senator. Change?
Obama said high gas prices are good. They just went up too fast. Change?
Obama wants to increase taxes on oil companies who would pass the cost on to us in higher gas prices. That would be change.
And did I mention that Obama voted for the Bush energy policy and McCain voted against it?
McCain has a record of fighting his own party and the Democrats on overspending and earmarks. Obama and Biden have a record of just voting for them. Change?
As for the sub-prime mess that the Dems blame on Bush lets check the record. The problem started before Bush when the Democrats started pressuring lenders to give risky loans and the Republicans went along with it to avoid being blamed for keeping the poor from buying homes.
Since then both parties have gotten so much money from the industry that they have ignored the warnings. Five years ago Bush's treasury secretary warned about it, four years ago Bush warned about it, three years ago McCain sponsored legislation to try to fix the problem, and in the last two years Obama was the second biggest recipient of money from the sub-prime lenders. Change?
Obama's recent health care commercial sounds great until you realize he wants to require heath insurance companies to provide more expensive coverage for a lower price, without doing anything to address the real causes of the problem. The last thing we need right now is to bankrupt heath insurance companies.
Obama would have surrendered Iraq to al-Quaeda almost two years ago.
Obama says he is for "reasonable gun control" but I have heard him express support of the Washington DC total handgun ban that literally bans self defense in your own home.
His Illinois Senate campaign called for a total ban on semi-auto firearms and, when the Illinois Senate voted to exempt people in Chicago from prosecution if they used a handgun for self defense, Obama was one of only a handful who voted to send them to jail.
Biden has been the Senate spokesman for the anti-gun movement for 35 years. He wrote the infamous assault weapons ban and is currently sponsoring new legislation to ban semi-auto firearms.
Both would add extreme left wing activist justices like Ginsberg to the Supreme Court. Her wing recently came one vote short of ruling that the Second Amendment only applies to active members of the National Guard.
I have disagreed with McCain on many issues over the years but he has a record of keeping his word and bucking the establishment. Obama has a record of voting the party line and giving excellent speeches.
McCain isn't calling for quite as much change, but it is change I can believe in based on his record.
Stephen Erwin
Portland[[In-content Ad]]
I am afraid I have to disagree with Thursday's letter to the editor saying that Obama is "change we can believe in." Based on his record and/or rhetoric he is on the wrong side of virtually every major issue.
While the Republicans deserved to loose control of congress, the Democrats took over two years ago promising change for the better and gave us change for the worse with a 9 percent approval rating. As a Democrat Senator Obama has voted the left wing party line almost 100 percent of the time. That is real change he participated in.
While in the Illinois Senate he voted to kill babies that survived a botched abortion.
On taxes he wants to repeal the Bush tax cuts and increase taxes on business, capital gains, oil profits, and social security. All of these would hurt the larger small businesses that provide most of the jobs. We have known that we are headed for a recession for over six months and only a fool would increase taxes going into a recession.
Our economy is hurting because of gross over spending by Congress, high energy prices, high food prices, and the sub-prime mortgage mess.
We have high food prices because of high gas prices and ethanol production using feed grain. Obama voted for the ethanol production. Change?
We have high gas prices because the Democrats blocked offshore drilling, ANWR drilling, mining oil shale, building refineries, converting coal to oil, and new nuclear power plants before, during, and after the twelve years that the Republicans controlled Congress. Obama supported these policies as senator. Change?
Obama said high gas prices are good. They just went up too fast. Change?
Obama wants to increase taxes on oil companies who would pass the cost on to us in higher gas prices. That would be change.
And did I mention that Obama voted for the Bush energy policy and McCain voted against it?
McCain has a record of fighting his own party and the Democrats on overspending and earmarks. Obama and Biden have a record of just voting for them. Change?
As for the sub-prime mess that the Dems blame on Bush lets check the record. The problem started before Bush when the Democrats started pressuring lenders to give risky loans and the Republicans went along with it to avoid being blamed for keeping the poor from buying homes.
Since then both parties have gotten so much money from the industry that they have ignored the warnings. Five years ago Bush's treasury secretary warned about it, four years ago Bush warned about it, three years ago McCain sponsored legislation to try to fix the problem, and in the last two years Obama was the second biggest recipient of money from the sub-prime lenders. Change?
Obama's recent health care commercial sounds great until you realize he wants to require heath insurance companies to provide more expensive coverage for a lower price, without doing anything to address the real causes of the problem. The last thing we need right now is to bankrupt heath insurance companies.
Obama would have surrendered Iraq to al-Quaeda almost two years ago.
Obama says he is for "reasonable gun control" but I have heard him express support of the Washington DC total handgun ban that literally bans self defense in your own home.
His Illinois Senate campaign called for a total ban on semi-auto firearms and, when the Illinois Senate voted to exempt people in Chicago from prosecution if they used a handgun for self defense, Obama was one of only a handful who voted to send them to jail.
Biden has been the Senate spokesman for the anti-gun movement for 35 years. He wrote the infamous assault weapons ban and is currently sponsoring new legislation to ban semi-auto firearms.
Both would add extreme left wing activist justices like Ginsberg to the Supreme Court. Her wing recently came one vote short of ruling that the Second Amendment only applies to active members of the National Guard.
I have disagreed with McCain on many issues over the years but he has a record of keeping his word and bucking the establishment. Obama has a record of voting the party line and giving excellent speeches.
McCain isn't calling for quite as much change, but it is change I can believe in based on his record.
Stephen Erwin
Portland[[In-content Ad]]
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