As I write this the United States is about to swear in our most historic president since Lincoln; Barack Hussein Obama is the first black president. Not too many years ago this would have been considered impossible. Until this last campaign the only serious black presidential candidate was Jesse Jackson, and anyone familiar with him knows the word serious is used in the narrowest sense. He may have been seriously considered but few could have voted for him with a straight face. Our current president is a different story. He managed to give people something to vote for, while John McCain floundered. In honor of this notable day I wanted to share the reasons I could never vote for Barack Obama.

When liberals hear that I could never vote for Obama they whip out the usual epithets, “Racist!” and “Bigot!” Of course they use this same tactic with other candidates. When it looked like Hillary was to be the anointed of the Democratic Party, I told a liberal friend that I could never vote for her. All hopes of a reasonable discussion of issues evaporated when my friend spewed, “You’re just afraid of a strong woman.” Liberals, seeing themselves as reasonable people (even when unreasonable), assume anyone disagreeing is unreasonable. They just can’t understand opposition to Barack Obama on matters of policy. After all Obama wants us to hope and to change; to hope for change; to change for hope. After four years of him, we’ll be luck to still have change in our pockets.

I oppose Obama because he is a liberal elitist. By this I mean that he believes the hope for our nation is to be found in government; that the needs of every American can be met if we just create and fund the right program. When he told Joe the plumber that he wanted to share the wealth, he meant share the wealth of Joe other productive Americans with those who did not earn it. His appeasement foreign policies are those of Chamberlain and Carter—both discovered that you can’t talk to lunatics. His economic plans are as unworkable as Jimmy Carter’s and we should expect the same results. His views on the constitution and Judicial nominees will doom us to another generation of activist judges confusing liberty and license; substituting the founder’s words for their own. These are just a few of the reasons I could never vote for Barack Obama. There is one reason that trumps all of these. I could never vote for Obama because I am not a racist!
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Black or white, if you disagreed with Barack but voted for him because he is black, then you are a racist. I know it’s hard, but admitting you have a problem is the first step to getting help. If you are white and felt that voting for a black man would make up for the sins of your own race then your vote was racist. If you are black and felt it was just high time one of your own sat in the Oval Office, then your vote was racist. If your vote for Obama was, for any reason, based on color of skin then you are a racist, and voted as one. Racist votes today are just as wrong for America as racist votes of the past.

I celebrate the fact that we have the first black president, but I mourn that Barack Hussein Obama is that man.