I have strong opinions. Those of you who know me well are very aware of this, as I don't hesitate to say what I feel. You've heard me talk about it, read my pointed emails, even seen the quotes in my email signature. Now, I am not fond of forcing my opinions on someone who is in disagreement with me, and try to never do that, however I do try my hardest to make that person see my reasoning behind my choice of opinion. I want them to fully comprehend what I feel is the common sense behind my choice. It is very important to me to do that. That said, please do not take offense to the thoughts that I'm about to present on the election results.
I'm utterly disappointed. Big surprise. My emotions are a whirlwind right now: I want to cry, yell, and denounce anyone I know that voted for a Democrat, but at the same time I'm desperate to find SOMETHING positive about it, anything at all. Here are the three positive things I've come up with so far:
1) He's not President until January 20th, 2009. Whoopee.
2) John Cornyn won his race for the Senate. Thank you, God. I really really like him, and I'm glad he'll be in DC fighting for us.
3) California passed the ban on same-sex marriages. I know a lot of gay people, and they're wonderful, nice, awesome human beings but man, I can't in my right mind condone something that is so against what I believe in. Marriage is between a man and a woman, period. When the law comes into play with that, it makes me mad, so I'm glad to see that the ruling in May allowing the marriages has been overturned by the people of California. Way to go.
Unfortunately, the negatives are far outweighing the positives at the moment. In addition to Obama being elected President, and Democrats taking control of everything else (*shudder*), here is a soup of sad proposals that were passed last night:
1) Colorado voted against specifying life beginning at conception. Abortion supporters successfully made everyone think that this would affect some forms of birth control, and while it would, how can that justify taking a life?
2) South Dakota voted against a ban on all abortions except in cases of rape, incest and serious health threat to the mother. Just sad to me.
3) Washington joined Oregon in offering terminally ill patients the option of physician-assisted suicide. I want to know how this was worded on the ballot that would not make this sound so morally wrong to a voter. They call it the "Die with Dignity" Law. Wow, I don't see anything dignified about taking my own life. I don't think it's my decision to make. There is a reason that suicide is wrong, whether you're depressed or just terminally ill, it's wrong. I hope Washington and Oregon physicians aren't forced to offer this option, that they can make their own moral decision to grant their patient this option or not. I can see this being horribly abused by families of these patients. I hope that life insurance policies won't grant anything to families of patients who exercise this option.
4) The cherry on top is Massachusetts decriminalizing marijuana possession under one ounce. Really? Okay, an ounce is an ounce, but do you really think that is the only ounce that has ever been in possession? This just baffles me as to why one ounce is any different from a pound of the stuff. It's a drug. What's next, cocaine? Heroin? Just... wow.
The country in which I get to raise my daughter for the next four years is not looking very appealing. Thank God I'm in Texas, where we're mostly Republicans with common sense (just need to stay out of the city centers). I feel like I'm going to have the taste of vomit in my mouth for a very long time. I just can't understand how the following stands by Obama appealed to anyone. I can't understand the common sense behind them; I don't think there is any:
1) "Share the wealth": Levy very high taxes on anyone making a lot of money, and "share" it with the middle and lower class. How does this help anyone? Tim works his butt off in high school to get into a good college, works his butt off there to learn as much as he can and graduate with a technical or bachelor's degree, then kicks off his career in the corporate world or in an inherited business or even starts his own business. He works his butt off there to move up and build and puts in hours of time and sweat and just plain hard work and determination to finally reach a point where he is making a great amount of money to keep him and his family comfortable. A well-deserved earning. His high school classmate Tom, meanwhile, is having trouble finding a job after he decided to drop out of college or not even go at all. He sits on his couch watching TV, playing video games while his girlfriend takes care of their child, maybe he even has a part-time job somewhere. They get to a point where they can't make ends meet, but they don't really want to get out there and work multiple jobs, go back to school, work themselves up to a greater amount of income, don't really want to work, period, so they apply for government assistance. The government says, "Sure, you know, Tim over here is making a ton of money, we'll just take some from him and hand it over to you." HOW IS THAT FAIRNESS? Obama is mis-using the word "equality" to make this appeal to the lower and middle class. This isn't India, we aren't stuck in these classes forever. I know that I didn't finish college, that David and I got married and had a kid too early, that neither one of us makes the money we want to, but when things get tight financially I certainly don't look to someone else to give me handouts. I know I have the ability to go back to school, to get a better job. I can make more money! But now, why should I throw my hard work and determination into increasing my income when I know that I could reach a certain point that it would just be taken away again and given to the lazy person who didn't put forth the extra effort? Why should I provide for them? This share the wealth thing is just about making lazy people lazier, and taking motivation away from the hard-worker. It's very very sad to me that people actually think this is a good idea. This is just the way of the Democrat, though. Ugh.
You know what? I'm done here. There are a TON more reasons why I didn't vote for Obama, but they are just a lot of common sense, and I associate with some pretty intelligent people, so I'm sure that if you disagree with something, I do too.
My final thought is how sad and disappointing this is for our country. The question I want to face to the majority of Obama voters is this: Would you have voted for him if he wasn't black? Or if both candidates were black, would you have voted for him, being forced to compare the issues? I'm just crushed that the main reason you hear all over TV as to why these people voted Obama is that they want to see the first black president. I don't care what he looks like, I care about the issues. I did my research. If he had been the Republican and McCain the Democrat, I would have voted for him. But he wasn't. He was the Democrat, with radical ideas and full of ever-changing opinions. Unstable stances on issues, pushing the wrong ideas for our country, issues that I just flat didn't agree with. The issues between the two candidates were incredibly different. I just wish he wasn't black. I believe that would have saved America from this downfall.
We have our first black president. I could care less.
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