Obama's lucky stars...

With a lot of people commenting lately about how he being black has been a major contributor to why he is not absolutely destroying John McCain in the polls, I started getting rather annoyed.

Personally, I would suggest that he start thanking his lucky stars that everyone thinks he is an African-American, instead of complaining about people voting against him because he is an African-American.
There are an awful lot more Americans would vote against him if they knew he were an Arab-American than are voting against him because he is an African-American.

It is really quite hilarious sometimes, any time someone raises a question about his ethnicity (being Arab not African), his religion (being raised by Muslims and attending a Muslim school), or his name (being Barry Soetoro and others) they are ridiculed beyond belief. It is off-limits to question him on just about anything, except for some policy issues.

Which may not be all that bad - I mean we are voting based on policies and where we want this country to go, but, the problem is - can we trust Obama?

I keep thinking back to G.W. Bush - he was supposed to be the conservative candidate - and ran as such against McCain.
In the end, though, he has not followed through on that.

There have been very few things he has actually done that he promised really.

Now we have a candidate in Barack Obama, and even if you disagree with his views and whatnot, who is claiming he can fix America.
He is promising that we will be out of Iraq ASAP, we will commit more to Afghanistan and try and gte out of there soon and that will be that.
He is promising to bring the economic crisis under control.
He is promising to increase America's standing in the world.
And he is also promising to take America down a more liberal road.

Now when you look at that list, it is an impressive goal - I may not agree with it all, but it is still an impressive goal.

How, though, do we know he truly is looking out for what is best for us?
How do we know he won't become so consumed in the Middle East that he will lose sight of those promises?

If he truly is half (or close to it) Arab, he truly went under different names, he attended Muslim schools, he was not born in the USA, or any of these other attacks, then he has lied to the American people - and we should seriously be wondering if he is looking out for us.
If none of those are factual then fine, he should be able to prove it extremely quickly - but he has not.
He should be counting his lucky stars that these things have not become big issues - that no one is asking any questions about them - because he has not been able to answer them yet, and that is one of two major problems I have with him.

There are too many questions that have been raised that he has not answered for me to feel confident about his honesty.
The other big issue for me is, he has not had even close to the experience necessary to make me feel confident in his leadership.

Leadership and Honesty - those are my biggest issues.
John McCain has not led a perfect life - but he is as honest as any national politician I have seen.
He has proven for longer than Obama has been eligible to vote that he can be and is a leader.


John McCain - the right choice if you want honesty and leadership in the Presidency again.
Barack Obama - the right choice if you want a "messiah" with no credentials...