Sioux City Journal

Obama: The potential for harm

Posted: Friday, October 17, 2008

SIOUX CITY -- If Sen. Obama gets his way and can deliver to his supporters, we’re all going to “hope” we have some “change” left in our pockets. If he had any substantial solutions or answers to the problems that face this country I would be willing to consider him as a viable candidate. With a majority of his party in the House and Senate this guy has the potential to do a lot of harm to this country, domestically and internationally.

His philosophy of what government can and should do for the people sounds like European socialism to me. It may work there (albeit not very well), but we’ve got 300 million people plus another 12 million or so that we pretend not to know about to feed in this country. The issues that Obama raised to start his campaign - Iraq, health care, the conduct of the war on terror and energy policy - have all been overtaken by events of the financial crisis caused by unsound lending practices by institutions that have House and Senate oversight by his supporters and fellow Democrats.

If he gets his way on health care that will be one mess that no one can fix. Once that is packaged as an entitlement like Social Security we’ll never be able to take that back and the funding for it will have exponential growth until we can’t pay for anything else.

If he is elected, he will be tested by some not-so-friendly countries and organizations that want to see how far our country can be pushed. -- George Koetters

Story Comments

Yikes wrote on Oct 24, 2008 12:49 PM:

" worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/24/1588467.aspx

nuff said "

Ruth wrote on Oct 24, 2008 6:46 AM:

" There are still unresolved questions about Obama's citizenry, His faith, his Patriotism, his love of Country. We know that he is a Socialist, and nothing good has ever come from Socialism. Obama is a very scary person. I can't vote for him. I think I will vote for Ralph Nader. "

JOHN POLAKA wrote on Oct 23, 2008 10:15 PM:

" bobf, it is evident that you have a serious identity crisis, chip on your shoulder and bad play book. would you like to try again at an insult or is that the best you can do? "

Charles wrote on Oct 23, 2008 8:11 PM:

" Obama is very scary. He tells people that it is good for them to have their profits taken away from them. I work 60 hours a week to get what we have, I'll be damned if I am doing to let Obama take it away and give it to so me lazy good for nothing. "

bobF wrote on Oct 23, 2008 1:45 PM:

" is that what they reach you at Cornerstone John Polaka? "