One Year Later: 10 Reasons Not to Elect Barack Obama

Thanks for the flashback. Articles I write prior to the election were called ignorant and fearmongering.  Most of the statements turned out to be true.  I didn't realize that transparent meant we would see right through this President.  Thanks for the retrospective

I am no big Obama fan so don't take this as me defending him. But if you're going to make a statement such as what's posted here, at least get your facts straight so you don't embarrass yourself.Also be sure to take into account that some of the reasons you have listed, are only reasopns based on your own beliefs. Case in point:6. Obama promoted a culture of death by supporting so-called “pro-choice” legislation at every turn and counting Planned Parenthood as a strong and close ally.  due take into consideration that the other half of your country (and a large portion of the world) don't see being pro-choice and a "culture of death" as the same thing. so don't throw around your opinions as matters of fact.enough. show yourself out.

Third trimester abortions are a "culture of death".

I agree . Majority does not mean morality by any means!

Oh the simple, single dimensional thinking of the religious right. Do we even want to discuss the deaths caused by delaying stem cell research for 8 long years..no let's go with a right wing hot button. How about how the security (let alone the humanistic impact) of the religious, if its a sperm its a life dogma:

A simple example is the issue of population control. Many fundamental church branches do not encourage contraception. They advocate abstinence as their primary form of birth control.  The vast majority are opposed to legal abortion. These are moral decisions, predicated on religious dogma. The religious right has unfortunately also encoded these value agendas into US foreign policy, particularly in the 8 years of the Bush Administration. The US in this period severely reduced funding for the UN Population Fund, refused fiscal support for any organization that counseled on abortion where legal, and reduced financial support for family planning services in the developing world.  While these faith-based initiatives may salve the conscience of the religious right, what it did in actuality was accelerate the birth rate in the developing world. What many in the religious fold fail to realize is the sociological factor termed by demographer, Henrick Urdal, as the Youth Bulge. A  youth bulge in a country significantly raises the likelihood of civil conflict. As an article in the Washington Post points out, “…research by Population Action International suggests that it is no simple coincidence that 80 percent of the civil conflicts that broke out in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s occurred in countries where at least 60 percent of the population was under 30, and that almost 9 of 10 such youthful countries had autocratic rulers or weak democracies.” This is a strategic threat that the military understands even if the religious right does not syet ee the consequences of its a attitudes on population control. William L. Nash, a retired Army major general who directs the Center for Preventive Action of the Council on Foreign Relations,  was quoted as saying  “You’ve got a lot of young men. You’ve got a lot of poverty. You’ve got a lot of bad governance, and often you’ve got greed with extractive industries. You put all that together, and you’ve got the makings of trouble.”

If we examine the many of the areas of the world where the US faces security threats, they correlate with young populations. In Afghanistan youth make up 37% of the population, Iraq and Somalia 34%,  and in Pakistan 35%.  This contrasts with more stable countries such as the US, Japan, and Western Europe where that same statistic is 16%. The consequences of religious views around contraception and abortion,negatively  impact US foreign policy, produce accelerated population growth in developing and economically challenged areas and result in a greater security threat for the US. It is ironic that the self-styled protectors of US freedom are in pursuit of policies that result in endangering  US security.  More of these inter-conectiveness theories are being discovered each day.  This makes the fundamentalist religious ideological sets  increasingly marginalized . We operate  in a much more complex world than was imagined a the time of the creation of such religious dogma.

I speak Farsi, actually. My Arabic is poorer. My French is sheit, but my German is okay

This is religious stupidity putting us at risk, Read the stats, not just the Bible.The more you preach and deny contraception (and abortion from rape, incest et al) the more you put me and mine at risk. I doubt anyone really wants to invade Nebraska, but here on the coasts we are more concerned about strategic policy choices as they are important

Does anyone seriously believe that Barack Obama does not know how many states are in the Union? That was clearly a blunder, and to represent it as anything else undermines the other possibly legitimate critiques that are being leveled. Of course if you are seeking only to reinforce gullible idiocy, then great job!!!!

There were at least 10 reasons not to elect Obama. Yet, what would be some good reasons to elect our only other option, John McCain and Sarah Palin?

BMC The complete article is written as tabloid bar tripe, a waste of cloud space, try a job at the local care home as a penance for having lost interest in what was a chosen career. 

Wow, you awoke the sleeping Obama-koolaid-drinkers! and their new aliases. Good stuff, Bob.