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Due to the overwhelming reaction I received to my Twitter Post yesterday that I was going to vote Obama, I thought I’d post a few thoughts on why I voted for Obama and my thoughts post-election.  

Economy

I am a firm believer that YOU are responsible for your own situation.  Especially when finances are involved.  If you are not happy with your situation, change it.  Be glad you are an American and do it.  So, no, I am not looking for Obama to “Fix” my personal financial situation.  However, I think most people will agree that the U.S. Economy is less than stellar.  I have heard countless “Joe the Plumber” rips on Obama’s plan to “Redistribute Wealth”.  Here’s the deal folks, the republicans have been redistributing your wealth to companies that ship your jobs overseas for far too long.  It is time to close these loopholes and start the flow back into the middle class.  

Health Care

I don’t know that Obama’s plan for health care will be fix we need.  However, I certainly don’t think that taxing the little health care benefit I do get and then giving that money to pharmaceuticals and insurance companies will do anything but make it worse.  

Other Deciding Issues

As you can see, those two issues, along with Education, were the major deciding points for me towards Obama.  To add to the list, I did not like the thought that Palin could’ve ended up running our country.  Yeah, Barak doesn’t have much experience either, but he does at least know Constitutional Law.  That’s my personal opinion of her that was formed mainly from watching the Katie Couric interview.  Feel free to disagree with me.

The hardest decision for me was abortion.  I am against abortion.   However, I have to look at the options.  If Mckain was president, and he happened to get the “One More Judge” that they’ve been telling me about for the last eight years, and there happened to be a case that came to the supreme court to challenge abortion, what is reasonably going to change.  The most I can see happening is stricter laws against abortion.  It will be many years before they make it illegal.  On the hand, I don’t see anything changing in the other direction with Obama.  Like I said, it was a really hard decision for me.

So now what?

I think that this is great time for our country.  I have more hope than I have every had for our country.  But, I have to step back for a moment and remind people to not put all thier bets in one jar.  I am afraid that America is going to put all their hopes into Obama fixing her.  Some news for you:  It starts with you and in your own home, not the white house. 

In Obama’s acceptance speech he put it like this “The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.”  I haven’t been around for many elections, but I share this Hope.  I have never been more optimistic and hopeful than today.  God Bless our new President!