I'm Not Voting for Obama.

This is in response to an email I received from the Obama campaign, seeking my support.

I’m not supporting President Obama. He has not supported what I and a lot of other Americans want, so I’m not supporting him.

First, Mr. Obama, while making some progress in health care reform that actually helps people, he sold us out on “Single Payer” and even the “Public option.” In the process, he’s given 30-40 million forced new customers to the big insurance companies. We’re the only industrialized nation without “Single payer.”

Next, I’ve seen nothing from the Administration in support of the Employee Free Choice Act. Yes, he has thrown a few small bones to Labor by rebuilding the NLRB, but I didn’t hear much out of the Administration during this past Spring’s labor battles.

Rather than forcing the rich to bear their fair share of the tax burden in this country, he pussy-footed around and showed no particular backbone in stopping action that maintains the burden on the middle class.

I haven’t seen a whole lot of initiative on the part of the White House to bring the bankers and investors to justice for their part in causing the economic crisis we’re still in.

Guantanamo Bay is still open for business with no end in sight. We still have troops in Iraq and Afghanistan still costs us a Billion dollars a week and continues to put our soldiers at risk.

Then Mr. Obama not only turns his back on medical Marijuana, but has the audacity to laugh at those working for reform. He claims to have ordered the Justice Department to leave state medical Marijuana programs alone, then allows that department to continue the raids and District Attorneys to unlawfully threaten state officials with prosecution if they cooperate in relegalizing.

In short, Mr. Obama is the best Republican President we’ve ever had. I want a President with the brass to stand up to the Republicans and to protect our freedoms, not someone who is going to appease those who would take our freedoms and rights away. So please remove me from this email list. Unless he turns the above things around, I’ll be voting Green.

Yours,

Neal Smith
Indianapolis, IN.