This is Travis again and I have taken over Jamie's blog to state the reasons why I am voting for McCain in this years presidential election. While I respect everyone's political views, I don't necessarily agree with everyone's political views. Here is my top twelve list of reasons why I am voting for McCain this year!
12. I believe that the redistribution of my wealth (although it isn't much) is completely wrong. I am responsible for raising and supporting my family not yours. I tell you what Barack Obama, as soon as you start spreading the wealth that you recieved from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the last few years I will start spreading my little wealth. FYI, for all of those people who don't know, Barack Obama is the second highest recipient of money from Fannie and Freddie. Who's the first you ask? No it's not John McCain. It's another Democrat, this time it is Chris Dodd of the Senate Banking Committee, well isn't that an interesting coincedence. You won't hear that on CNN!
11. I do not believe in special rights for you if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or something weirder than that! If you choose to be that way, that's your fault. Not mine. It isn't Gods fault either so quit thinking that he made you that way. I shouldn't have to accomodate you differently. Even if you marry another woman that looks like a man, you are still gay. If you want rights to marry another person of the same sex, move somewhere else. In all fairness, Barack Obama even states that he believes marriage is between one man and one woman.
10. Speaking of God, He lives, He loves us as His children. He blesses us as a nation when we put our dependence and faith in Him. When politicians or groups (LIBERALS, ACLU, etc...) decide to take His name out of everything from the Pledge of Allegiance to our currency to our religious rights, we should not be surprised that bad things happen. How can we expect His blessings when we only rely on Him and trust in Him after something bad happens. What I wouldn't give to have the original Founding Fathers back in control of this country, they realized the importance of seeking direction from God in making laws. Maybe it is beacuse none of them were Liberals? It really makes you think.
9. I believe that it is better to take the fight to the terrorists in their lands than to fight them in OUR land. I appreciate and respect a president (Pres. Bush) that goes against popular opinion to do what's right with respect to protecting this country. He has not been right a lot of the time, but with respect to terrorism and our protection, he has been steadfast and direct. It is amazing to me that the most popular Democrats in our society all voted to go to war and are now saying they oppose it. I do not want a President that makes decisions based on being popular. What dishonors the sacrifice of our precious men and women in service more than tucking tail and abandoning the very people we committed to help? God bless the soldiers past and present that protect our freedom and liberty.
8. I do not believe that the government should be involved with our health care decisons. Government screws up everything it touches! Yes, there are a lot of people without health care, but it is not the governments responsibility to mandate to everyone who they will see for medical purposes. If you look at any society around the world that has socialized health care, you will see a country that can not provide for their citizens in a timely or efficient manner. If you polled those same citizens and offered them the type of health care we now enjoy, they would all jump ship and take it! Check into it!
7. Experience matters to me. Let's look at it. John McCain started his service to our country as a soldier and as we all know spent a lot of time as a POW. He has spent almost 30 years in Congress. Barack Obama has two years of service to this country, half of that time he has been campaigning for president. Do they really even stack up? I do believe Barack Obama when he says he will change things. Due to his lack of experience and knowledge in government, he will screw up even more than what has already been screwed up. I guess that qualifies as change.
6. Friendships! How can you be friends with so many bad people and not even realize it? Barack Obama is the worst judge of character I have ever seen. How can a man of such high moral direction be friends with William Ayers? Who is he you ask? He is a domestic terrorist who still to this day has not apologized for commiting acts of terrorism in our own country. What's worse, he teaches in a university now. Luckily, these attacks did not kill anyone. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright (Barack's personal "spiritual" leader for 20 years) is one of the most racist, hatred filled people out there. (Just look at his rants on YouTube) For 20 years Obama sat in the pews of this man's church and listened to the hatred and racism that spewed from this man's mouth. To this day, Barack Obama says he never heard Rev. Wright talk like that! Thats not BO thats BS! For sake of argument, My BFF MC (ask a teenager what this means if you have no idea) and I have been friends for almost 15 years, I probably know more about him than his wife. You get to know people really well as you hang out with them. It's utterly detestable that he has gotten away with these friendships in the media! Speaking of the media, it is reason enough to vote against someone if the media and Hollywood celebrities support him. Talk about poor moral compass'.
5. This really has nothing to do with BO personally, but it's his political party so it goes against him. I do not understand how the Democrat leadership and their respective base can look up to and exalt a man like Bill Clinton. He is their god and their king. He is the most dis-honest, dis-loyal, and utterly the biggest creep that walked the earth. I understand why Hillary would stay with him, she needed to further HER career. One Liberal might tell you, "nobody died when Clinton lied." Yes, this is true, but it doesn't excuse the fact that he upset the most sacred fabric of our culture, the devotion and promise to your wife and family. Bill Clinton committed one of the most dispicable and dishonest things you can do as a human being to another, he committed adultery more than once, then he lied about it over and over until the proof came out against him. He is a poor excuse for a man, a poor excuse for a leader, and the poorest excuse for a role model. The moral compass for the Democrat party is Bill Clinton, if that isn't disturbing, I don't know what could be. Now that Hillary's rise to the top was stopped short we will see what happens with them! I won't even go into the fact that he had Osama bin Laden in the crosshairs of a sniper rifle during his presidency and didn't authorize the shot! Look into it if you Clinton lovers don't believe me. Again, you don't hear that on CNN.
4. What heartless fool would take the life of an unborn baby? For all of you liberals out there reading this, that means ABORTION. Barack Obama voted to support a law in Chicago that would prevent medical staff from performing life saving treatment on a newborn where the abortion procedure was done incorrectly, this would allow the baby to survive. (Let me give you a visual: the baby goes through an unsuccessful abortion procedure, it is born alive and is left to die w/o recieving treatment, the nurses cannot help the defenseless child because of this law.) I don't even know how a person could even get to the conclusion that that is okay. I believe abortion should only be admissable when it affects the life of the mother or if the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest. Abortion is murder and that is fact.
3. Are you tired of high gas prices? I know I am. We Republican's have a great idea, lets drill for our own oil seeing that we have just as much available to us here in our own country as the Middle East has in theirs. It's about time we started investing in ourselves and started creating jobs HERE, generating money HERE, and lowering the cost of living HERE. The liberals have blocked measures every time we have tried to create oil refineries. We could drill HERE and keep our money HERE instead of sending it over seas where surely some of it goes to terrorist organizations. We are literally funding operations and groups that want to destroy us and our country. We are involved in the largest transfer of wealth ever. If you don't believe me, look at Dubai and the wealth those people have from selling oil to the world. I would hate to think what we could do with that wealth HERE. Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, help the sick! I can only imagine! Of course, if we were to do that the Democrats couldn't blame anything on the Republicans. Speaking of gas! You remember how it was Pres. Bush's and the Republican's fault that we had high gas prices a couple of years ago? For you ignorant and uninformed Demo's out there, Congress has been under your (Democrat) control for the past two years and we have seen the highest gas prices ever during this time. It is funny Bush never gets blamed for it anymore. You are lucky the press is on your side and won't report the truth! Another thing, Bush has the third lowest approval rating of any president, that's bad I know, but, the current Democrat controlled Congress has the worst approval rating ever for a Congress, now that's un-excusable. They should all be fired! Interesting huh? You won't hear that on CNN.
2. My personal belief is that Barack Obama has more skeleton's in his closet than the Halloween Superstore on the corner. The guy creeps me out. I don't get a warm fuzzy feeling from him. I don't trust him. For all of you race baters out there, it has nothing to do with him being black. I have friends that I consider family that are black and I love them. It does have something to do with him being raised by a Muslim or that he attended Muslim schools as a kid. Has it come out that he is or was a Muslim, I don't think so, but there are enough questions to make me concerned about it. Even in an interview with George Stephanopolous (spelled wrong I am sure), he acknowledged "his Muslim faith", did he mispeak? I don't know for sure, George S. had to correct him, he didn't do it himself. I am not convinced by that religion or that he isn't a Muslim, I am not convinced it is a religion of peace, they surely haven't proved that they are. I realize that the Muslim faith does have an extreme element to it that not all Muslim's take part in. I don't know which side of that line Obama is on, hell, I don't even know where that line is drawn. This next thing may be racist to say, but at least I am honest. Who would have thought that 7 years after 9/11 we would be on the doorstep of electing a man named Barack Hussein Obama to run the United States? I want a President that seeks advice and council from my Heavenly Father, the creator of Heaven and Earth, the One in whose image we are all created. I want a man that wakes up in the morning in prayer desiring to know what God wants for His children. A man that go's to bed thanking Him for His direction and blessing. I believe that if God leads our politcal leaders and if those same political leaders seek and follow His council (with exactness), we have nothing to fear. We will be blessed beyond measure, we will prosper beyond what we think is attainable. I want a man that will do everything is his power to protect my wife and my children. Only my God can offer that protection. Any person that listens to a "spiritual" leader like Rev. Wright does not know who God is, my God does not inspire such hatred and belief. For that reason alone I know that Barack Obama does not know my God. My God is full of love, equality, peace, and ready to bless all of us immensly if we seek Him. I do not trust that Barack Obama will seek that divine council, he has no idea where to find it. Therefore, Barack Obama is not that man as I see it.
1. Sarah Palin is better looking than Joe Biden!
Garner's first words were daddy, mama, and Candy (not joking!) they made their cruise around to all the trunks and he climbed up into the car and helped himself to his and Caden's candy bags!
This is our new friend "Mantis"... the boys named him and he's been literally "hanging out" on the patio for the last week! ....go Mantis!...eat those bugs!
