Letter in LA Sportsman Magazine

Dear Mr. Obama,

It is August 30, 2008. My name is Otis Joiner I am a 70 something
conservative white male. I have followed your campaign closely,
including the speeches you and others made at the democratic national
convention. I am respectfully providing you with seven simple (probably
shallow) reasons why I could never vote for you. I believe my opinion is
shared by many people. While there may not be quite enough to prevent
you from becoming president of this nation, I do think there is an
awakening to the fact that you are not a (the) messiah that the media
and liberal Hollywood entertainers are trying to portray you.

1. I hear your mantra of change, change, change. Yet, you picked a long
term, liberal, Washington insider (Joe Biden) to be your running mate.
This is NOT change. It is a move that hypocritically refutes the very
thing you supposedly stand for. Your campaign then slammed McCain for
picking Sarah Palin, apparently, because she is NOT a Washington
insider. She is for change and is a maverick who cleaned-up Alaska 's
quagmire of political scandals. Which way is it, Barack? Is it okay for
you to pick a Washington insider under the mantra of 'change', but not
okay for John McCain to pick a smart, aggressive, reformer?

2. You have the single most liberal voting record in the senate. This
indicates to me and others like me that you may very well be an angry
black man seeking to punish our country for sins of a different
generation. I am not racist. I have some biases just like you and every
other human alive. Unlike the democratic party who claims to be for the
minority (but their record heavily refutes this), I will give to any
person who truly needs help. I view myself as a citizen of this country.
Your lovely wife so disappointed people like me during this campaign
when she stated it was the first time she had ever been proud of this
country. She apparently never noticed the massive aid we give dozens of
other countries.

She apparently never noticed the sacrifice of literally millions of
veterans who helped make this country a free nation and helped liberate
other nations from brutal dictators such as Adolf Hitler.

She apparently does not remember that she attended ivy league
universities with scholarship money that ultimately (at least some of
it) was paid for by our taxes. This troubles me more than you know. She
is an angry black woman who appears to not like her country very much. I
don't want her representing me to the rest of the world.

3. You claim Christianity but apparently do not realize that the Bible
teaches that he who does not work, does not eat. The Bible does not say
or even suggest that he who CANNOT work, should not eat. Yet, your
liberal policies reward people who are capable of working, but choose to
not do so. This bothers me. I know that if you are elected our taxes
will spiral upwards. You should heed the words of Winston Churchill: 'We
contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a
man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.'
If I like anything about you, it is your campaign promise to balance the
federal budget. Unfortunately, we have heard this a huge number of times
from a number of different politicians and we realize that when you
energize the very liberal Nancy Pelosi, Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, etc,
etc, and the many other democrats like them, a balanced budget will
never, ever happen on your watch.

4. During your question and answer session with Rick Warren of
Saddleback Church your answer concerning the question of where does life
begin, stunned me: 'Above your pay grade?' Does this mean when something
bad happens as President of this nation that you are going to look at
your salary to determine if you can respond? I am sorry, but this was
the most serious gaffe I have seen you make. Frankly, it shows me that
you are pandering in the most obvious manner. You will choose your words
not from your heart, but from an agenda that I believe is still hidden
from the American people.

5. If anything stands out about you it is probably your appeasement
mentality. In this era of rampant, radical Islamic extremism and with
the latest stunt pulled by the re-energized Russian government, I am not
sure appeasement is healthy. I again revert to the words of Winston
Churchill: 'An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat
him last.'

6. You and your party tacitly believe that a 13 or 14 year old girl must
have the parents approval to have the school nurse provide them with a
Tylenol when they have a headache at school. Yet, this same girl can
become pregnant and the school can skirt her off to a clinic and abort
the child in her body without the parents knowing or being notified.
This scares the hell out of me. You have two little girls. Would you be
upset if this happened to them and you were not informed? Then why do
you stand for this? It makes no sense to me.

7. My seventh and final point (for now) is your supporters. I have
watched the Hollywood entertainers that support you, systematically
embrace Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and others like him. I see the
continuous smut and garbage produced by Hollywood , the very people who
promote you the most vigorously. It is not a positive point to me and
others like me to see these over-paid, bizarre, poor examples of human
existence fawn over you and push you and your liberal agenda as hard as
they do. The way I see it; When the devil is for you, we should question
whether or not we should be against you.,

In closing, I just want you to know that you scare me. I cannot vote for
you. It is not because of your skin color. It is because of these items
I've listed and many, many others like them. Do not claim that my
dislike for you is race based because it isn't. The Devil in any color
is totally unacceptable. It is because I do not feel you have the best
interests of this nation at heart.,

Too bad this guy couldn't confront the messiah like Joe the Plumber did.