A question for libertarians who support Obama

I support Senator Obama for two of the main reasons that I supported and voted for Congressman Paul - the protection of civil liberties and foreign policy.

By the way, AIM is not exactly an unbiased news source.

 

Stopping the spying on innocent U.S. citizens.

 

KenH is not a libertarian. He is a liberal plain and simple. He likes to play the class-envy card, the race card, the gender card. That is not libertarian. That is liberal. I would like to hear from a real libertarian.

 

Oh, and he puts his hope in the government and who is in control of it. Another sign of a liberal. If Obama is not elected, it appears he will be devasted.

 

Oh, yeah, I'm a liberal Democrat, I'm a liberal Democrat, watch me vote. :laugh:

 

Samatha Power, one of Obama's senior foreign policy advisors has advocated -


"investing, I think, more than sacrificing — billions of dollars, not in servicing Israel’s military, but actually investing in the new state of Palestine, in investing the billions of dollars it would probably take, also, to support what will have to be a mammoth protection force, not of the old Rwanda kind, but a meaningful military presence." LINK


Would this not be another of those quagmires and foreign interventions that libertarians are so opposed to?

 

I'm a card carrying Libertarian. Ron Paul has zero chance. Rs have not much chance because the economy will be worse in Nov.

I will vote for Obama because there is a better chance he will bring the troops home and maybe he isn't yet 100% bought. Besides, it will at least amusing to hear some people arguing he isn't black enough.

 

Sounds like it to me.

 

It does, and if our troops have been targets in Iraq, just imagine how trying to impose a settlement in Israel/Palestine would stir up the Arab world.

 

An advisor advocating something does not equal a candidate advocating something. Have you heard or read of Senator Obama advocating this?

I am supporting Senator Obama, not his advisors nor his other supporters.

 

In fact he has been suitably vague on any foreign policy questions, and backs off of those that he does make. As when he said, "If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will." What became of that position? Swept under the rug.

 

Just got to know where to look:

www.foreignaffairs.org/20070701faessay86401/barack-obama/renewing-american-leadership.html?mode=print

Since foreign policy involves all of the other nations in the world one cannot anticipate all specific situations that will occur. It is one's judgment that has to be determined and since Senator Obama opposed Bush's Folly in Iraq from the start unlike Senators Clinton and McCain he wins the foreign policy debate hands down with me.

 

Yes he has covered all the bases with truisms in this essay.

You say that you're voting for the man, not his advisors. I guess you've forgotten all the criticism that fell on Bush's 'neocon advisors' who were blamed for getting us into unnecessary wars. Samantha Power has been one of Obama's closest advisors for several years. And when she advocates a mammoth protection force in Palestine, redirecting foreign aid from Israel to Palestine, we should take it seriously.

 

That's because President Bush actually implemented their misguided Iraq policy.

 

And Obama, being Obama, would never actually implement policy put forth by one his closest advisors. Got it.

 

Do you think that any U.S. president has ever implemented anywhere near 100% of the ideas of his advisors? I don't.

 

To KenH and Billwald.

I am disappointed. You are going back to the same old thing we have been fighting against. You are going to vote for, who you perceive to be, the lesser of two evils.

I will be voting for Ron Paul in our primary on March 4th. I will also be voting for Ron Paul in the general election. I will have to write his name in, but I will vote for him. I absolutely refuse to vote the same old way anymore. I see exactly what voting for the lesser got me last time.

Why on earth would you vote in favor of someone who opposes so many of the Constitutional principles you have fought for? I don't care how bad McCain might be, Obama is just as bad.

If and when Obama becomes President, and he begins implementing all of the policies of the Democratic party (with the help of both houses of Congress in the hands of his party), you are both going to be wondering why you ever supported him, and so will I. I can not and will not contribute to any one of "the Big Three" becoming the next President of this country. I am going to stand on my principle this time and, if I must go down with the Ron Paul ship Constitution, then I will go down...but, with honor.

I wish you both would reconsider voting for either of the Goliath parties.

James