If you are a Democrat or Independent, please consider voting for Barack Obama.

This is not a case of Obama’s judgment versus Hillary’s experience. It’s judgment versus weaker judgment AND weaker experience. Hillary Clinton has run a nasty low blow campaign. Her latest fearmongering “red phone call” ad really takes the cake. When her thug in chief Marc Penn was asked to name one “red phone call” moment he couldn’t. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/opinio n/02dowd.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

But Obama did. Her Iraq war vote. That was her test. She failed with flying colors. And she has the nerve to fearmonger on Obama about his experience! She can’t win on the merits so she’ll try anything, including winning by scaring people. She said that Obama is like Bush, and once again it’s the pot calling the kettle black.

Contrary to her claims, America doesn’t need experience like Hillary Clinton’s. Everything big Hillary Clinton has done has been a failure (except covering for Bill’s indiscretions, that is):

1. Health care non-reform in the early 1990s. Funny how she claims to be such an expert at this when she failed at it so badly that the crisis is still snowballing 15 years later!

2. Her support of Bush’s war in Iraq was a huge mistake. She picked up the red phone and said sure Mr. Bush, you can take us to war before the inspections process finished and before we finish our business in Afghanistan. Her mistake on Iraq extended way past her vote in her ongoing support for the war until November 2005, long after most Democratic politicians who voted for the war woke up to what was going on. Now she says Bush duped her. Nice spin. Last Fall, once again she voted for another warmongering Bush bill, this time against Iran. Is that the experience we need? Heck no!

3. Hillary Clinton’s current campaign is another example of her underperformance. The Clintons were the clear favorites. Yet they ran out of money. They had no plan B after not winning on Super Tuesday (reminds me of Iraq). She has had to fire a string of people for low blows and poor performance. They change their message every two weeks.

Obama, in contrast, has been level headed and steady in his positive message of bringing people together. He knows that the fight fight fight attitude will work no better than last time Hillary tried it at health care reform. Obama is tough, but knows how to use his toughness to lead rather than divide. He has fought and passed ethics reform in Washington, as well as transparency in government. He exposed the atrocities in health care for our veterans and passed laws to address it. Obama is the steady performer with better judgment who can get things done.

If you are such a nationalist and supported democracy, then you ought to support diversifying power, not concentrating it to a few individuals. If you respect sovereignty so greatly, then why do you not respect another country’s? The US is not the dictator of the world. It should set an example of why liberal democracy has been so successful, instead of forcing it on people, then justifying unlimited wiretaps - a measure that should have died out with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

You say voters should not be emotional, yet you judge Obama by a few photos and his racial color.

You say voters should be resistant to propaganda, yet you believe that Obama is a Muslim despite evidence to the contrary (he’s been a practising Christian for the last 20 years+) (he never practised Islam at any point in his life).

You say voters should not be sucked in by ideology or those with “tunnel vision” yet you are persuading readers based on just two Obama bills which you have strong reservations against.

You say that voters should test claims with evidence yet you are still saying Obama is Muslim despite evidence to the contrary.

You say that we should beware of “false patriotism” yet you think that anybody who doesn’t support America’s defiance or dominance to the global community (e.g. by the UNCLOS treaty) is really beneficial for America in the long-run.

Those are only based on your first six “commandments”. Need I continue further?

Thanks for pointing out those two bills. I was a strong Obama supporter before reading them, and now I’m twice as strong a supporter. Do you really believe that we can continue to live in a world fueled by nationalism? The same nationalism that lead to both world wars? The prevalence of high-speed global communications systems is rapidly bringing us to a new era in human social organization. Whether we like it or not, nationalism is on it’s way out and globalism is on it’s way in. The United Nations is a vessel designed to promote this. There are certainly many problems with the way the UN is run, but unless you have an alternate approach that is easier to implement than fixing what we have now, I suggest you support someone who will help us to improve what we already have. You might think we of the United States are strong enough not to need to band together with other countries, but look to the EU and the rise of the Euro against the dollar. The African Union is also beginning to work in a cohesive manner. Please, let’s skip Regionalism and help expedite the process of developing an effective global government. (I’m not advocating a loss of the right of a country to pass it’s own laws, but merely advocating a system in which a global government functions the way the federal government does in relation to the states of the US). If Sen. Obama supports the United Nations then I support him.

He is also sponsoring a bill that pertains to the Law of the Sea Treaty which will strip our sovereignty on the high seas and will also give the United Nations authority to tax American citizens. Google “Law of the Sea Treaty” and Senate Bill-S 2243 so you will be well informed as a voter.

This is not my idea of helping “We the People” aka American citizens.

While you are at it, I suggest you google “World Net Daily” for two articles written by Aaron Klein pertaining to “Muslim Photos and “Obama Worked With Terrorist.

For all of you especially young voters out there I have a few voter commandments you should follow before your step in the voter’s booth to vote on all levels of government. It can make a difference.
1. Beware of emotions-they can get in the way of rational judgement.
2. Beware of charisma: all successful “con artists” are charismatic.
3. Beware of propagandists and learn their tricks.
4. Beware of ideologues with “blinders”, “tunnel vision” or “closed minds”.
5. Know for yourself. Test the validity of the claims made by, for, and against the candidate.
6. Beware of the candidate who parades his “false
patriotism”. Dr. Samuel Johnson quote,”Patriotism
is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
7. Beware of a candidate that parades his piety, for religion may be his first refuge.
8. Evaluate the candidate on the achievability of his promises.
9. Beware of the candidate who has all the solutions before the problems arise.
10. Refrain from single issue voting. Instead give top priority to the major purposes and responsibilities of government.
11. Poll yourself on these questions: Is that which is good for me good for my country? Does my party loyalty deny me freedom of choice?
12. Lord Acton warned that “power tends to corrupt and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely.