Obama...Not So Much

Many agree that this election will come down to which candidate voters can trust to be our next President.

McCain’s solid.  Obama…not so much. 

Yes, Obama would like it to be about Palin’s experience, but the more they bring up Sarah’s experience, the more we see that Obama has even less experience. 

Obama would like it to be about the struggling economy, paint McCain as a third Bush term and claim the economy under Obama will be like Bill Clinton’s.

However, the “Booming Clinton Economy” is a myth. 

The fact is, the economy under Obama will be more like Carter than Clinton, and I’ll take Bush’s economy (low inflation, taxes, interest rates, unemployment) over Carter’s economy (high inflation, taxes, interest rates and unemployment), any day. 

Obama wants talk on climate change but Americans want to drill, baby, drill. 

So, it’s really coming down to whether voters trust Obama. Not GOP voters, of course, but millions of Independents and Democrats who are ready to vote for a Democrat this election cycle but are uneasy about Obama.  Despite a long Democratic primary, we still don’t know much about him. What exactly did he accomplishment as an unelected community organizer? Given his flip-flopping on positions he held in the primary, do voters know where he really stands? Many of his supporters struggle to name specific accomplishments of Obama.

Remember this gem of a Hardball from Chris Matthews where a supporter can't name a single Obama accomplishment.

I’ve never seen a supporter of a candidate come up with nothing, nada, zero. As remarkable as that was back in February…

What we’ve learned since then raises more questions:

1. Obama sat in a church where the Pastor can say “God Dam* America” (to thunderous applause), and return the next Sunday.
2. Obama won his first election by challenging the petitions of his Democratic primary opponents and removing all four of them from the ballot - including his mentor, fellow progressive and more popular rival, longtime incumbent Alice Palmer.
3. Obama, shamelessly, argues he was right to vote against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act (BAIPA) - a bill that would protect a baby still alive after a botched abortion.
4. Obama helped convicted felon Tony Rezco obtain $100 million in grants, loans and tax credits for 11 buildings in Obama’s district that are now boarded up.
5. Obama held an organizing meeting at the home of former terrorist Bill Ayers for Obama’s Illinois state senate bid. As alarming as that is, even more alarming is Ayer's influence on our kids education - 26 education books published…so far!.
6. Obama said publicly, during his 2004 US Senate run, that his opponent’s divorce records were “off limits”. Behind the scenes, his supporters worked aggressively to make the divorce records public for both his Democratic and GOP opponents. The result? Another easy, ill-gotten win for Obama by 70% to 29%.
7. Obama, in 2004, agrees with us he's not ready to be President.
8. Obama refused to put his hand over his heart during the Star Spangled Banner - that’s creepy.
9. Obama didn’t wear a flag pin until a vet gives him one.
10. Lastly, while campaigning in Germany, Obama declines to visit wounded troops.

Yes, I know. You’ve already heard a lot of this. However, when it comes out little by little - Obama is able to explain much of this away. Put it all together - the proper perspective - and many of us agree:

Obama doesn’t belong in the U.S. Senate, let alone the White House.

Obama can’t be trusted to be our President, it’s that simple.