This is a letter from a man named Mark Gregg.... Dear Mr. Obama, It is August 30, 2008. My name is Mark Gregg. I am a 50 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 a few simple 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 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 any person who truly needs help, help. I married a 'minority' girl 35 years ago (she is Hispanic) and have seen the evils of prejudice first hand. However, I have also seen my wife and my children and others in her family throw off the veil of self imposed prejudicial bondage and move ahead. They love our country and do not view themselves any different than 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? 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, r adical 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 her 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. 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 and raise the most money for your campaign. 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. 8. Your lack of sound judgment is my final point. How sound is your judgment when you are known for closely associating in the past several years with a boastful former terrorist (Bill Ayers), a racially divisive and anti-American pastor (Rev. Wright), and a mentor who is a card-carrying member of the Communist Party of America (Frank Davis). In closing, I just want you to know that you truly scare me. I cannot and will not vote for you. It is because I do not feel you have the best interests of this nation at heart. Respectfully, Mark A. Gregg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WNGjawtP48
PLEASE GOD! PLEASE NO osama! PLEASE ! I can't stand by and watch such a wonderful country be absolutely ruined. My one vote isn't enough so maybe I should call "acorn" and see if I can make it count a few dozen more times. lol
Brought a tear Keith...:crying:.................I saw patriotism fall to low levels back in the late 60s and 70s........then I saw that reverse in the Reagan years...people were once again proud to be American.......now I'm afraid pride in America is going to new lows.......just makes me sick.......:help:
Amen.. bee & Immo... In a perfect world Obama could follow thorough on his campaign promises.. but this is not a perfect world.. and as Viper says lets remember how we became free and who truly paid for our independence.. all of the our men and women in the service who have made the ultimate sacrifice.. so we can be free.. including the Vietnam vets as well..
That`s what`s up! Very nice Mr. Gregg! I hate to say it, but it looks like he has fooled so many people that it`s gonna be a land slide.
amen to that letter and the video. we're back on our downward slop of patriotism. unfortunately it'll take another terrorist attack for most of america to realize what type of president we need in office and then it'll be too late.
Excellent from Mr. Gregg. Please don't forget the Redistribution of Wealth and the new Bureacracies he will create plus new firearm laws. It might be tooo late. Yikes!
I`m no Republican...been a democrat my whole life and all my family, but it would be a cold day in hell befor i would vote for Obama`s PUNK ASS! As far as the gun comment goes....i`v dropped $7000.00 on weapons and ammo this summer, so i`m good on that!
Brother, You are or have been closer to this subject than I am, but I am not convinced another terrorist attack would change the sentiment here in the US. I have said this over the last couple of years, and only stole it from the Nixon era; Bush could walk on water and the news headlines would read "Bush scared of water..." If we had another event on our soil, he would be blamed. Sure there would be many of us who would see the truth and veiw matters as they are, but the media would not show it. I pray to be wrong. Way to go Mr. Gregg!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great post, and that video was touching. I've seen it a few times, wish it made it on TV. Shows what Obama is like when you see his supporters saying this content is "funny" Can't say I am fully Republican or Democrat, but sometimes you just need to think further than the (D) or (R) next to their name and see who the candidate themself is and who they associate with, and what they do (or don't) stand up for.
